WolfishMusings

but it’s silly to

If only that was the standard for some posts in the CR. 😀

The Wolf

If you find 11 pieces, do you assume that the 11th piece is from last year’s bedikas chometz and therefore chmometz she’ovar olav ha’pessach – so you can’t eat it?

Were you planning on eating year old bread?

The Wolf

How come Rav Shach must be called r shach otherwise your a lubavithcher hater, but shach in shulchan aruch shach goes by shach (the shach says)

For the same reason we don’t refer to Rav Chofetz Chaim.

When we refer to a name of a Rav, we use an honorific. If we refer to a person by his magnum opus (as in the example you brought), we just refer to the work without adding any titles.

The Wolf

שפתיו דובבות בקבר is a chazal that you are unaware of. It applies talmidei chachomim that are בקבר yet their lips are MOVING! If someone’s lips are moving – is that person dead? Define dead?!

Rebbetzin,

Is it your contention then that the widow of a talmid chochom cannot re-marry because her husband’s lips move in the kever, proving that he is, in fact, still alive?

The Wolf

I also try to learn Mishnayos whenever I can. I prefer learning it with the Rav (R’ Ovadiah MiBartenura) and the Kehati, which I find very helpful in explaining things.

The Wolf

Everyone jumps to extremes. If i dont drink i must be a rasha.
What sheer utter nonsense. What lunacy. What a clown show. Everything is kill me if dont do a certain mitzvah.

I never said to kill me for this. Please don’t put words in my mouth.

The Wolf

Of course, this only applies to civil matters. If I walk into bais din and say that I was mechallel Shabbos, they will not execute me, even if no other witnesses come to contradict what I am stating.

The Wolf

We stopped taking Small pox Vaccine – and NOBODY is dying of smallpox!

Yes, and that’s because the disease was eradicated. It’s only because it was eradicated that we stopped taking the vaccine. If the disease was still out there, we’d still be vaccinating for it.

But I’m sure you already knew that…

The Wolf

I don’t need any studies (though studies were done). I see it by my extended family & friends.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

The Wolf

I used to teach a Bar Mitzvah student there.

The Wolf

Wolfish

Can’t find it. Can you post link?

If you go tot the search bar above and search “public school wolf” (without the quotation marks) you’ll find a bunch of the threads. Nonetheless, I’ll summarize the gist of it here.

It has been proposed before that frum Jews should all enroll their kids in public school at the same time. The idea is that the public schools would not be able to handle the influx of so many kids at once and, as a result, the board of Ed will be forced to fund at least the secular portion (if not the entire day) of yeshiva.

There are several problems with this idea:

1. There is a portion of the New York State Constitution (Article XI) which reads (in part):

§3. Neither the state nor any subdivision thereof, shall use its property or credit or any public money, or authorize or permit either to be used, directly or indirectly, in aid or maintenance, other than for examination or inspection, of any school or institution of learning wholly or in part under the control or direction of any religious denomination, or in which any denominational tenet or doctrine is taught, but the legislature may provide for the transportation of children to and from any school or institution of learning.

This is the major obstacle to having state funds used for yeshiva education in New York State. Under the state constitution, no state funding (aside from a few specified services) can be used for schools that teach religion or are under the control of a religious organization.

So, that being said, if everyone were to show up at the doors of their public schools tomorrow with their kids, the state won’t just throw up its hands in surrender and send everyone back to yeshiva because, by law, they can’t. Perhaps they won’t find everyone seats on day one, but in time, they’ll make the necessary adjustments.

2. So, you might say, let’s change the State Constitution and get rid of the Blaine Amendment. Well, that is possible, but it’s a process that takes two years at minimum. In other words, if you’re going to try to force the issue by having everyone attend public schools, they’re going to be there for two years. I bet that within two years, the BoE will *easily* be able to absorb everyone.

There is also the fact that NYC only encompasses about 1/3 of the population of the state. Even if you could convince everyone in NYC to vote for this, you still have to deal with upstate, where the vast majority of the state doesn’t live anywhere near a yeshiva and doesn’t care at all about yeshivos. Convincing voters in the mostly yeshiva-less areas of upstate New York, where the majority of the state population lives, to fund yeshiva education from their tax dollars is going to be a *very* hard sell.

That’s the legal side of things. You also have problems with the very nature of the frum Jewish community in New York that will not make this work. Specifically:

3. The exclusive nature of yeshivos in New York. My family is a shomer Shabbos family. We keep kashrus. We learn. I am a ba’al kriah in shul. But there are families in this city who would never, ever consider a yeshiva where my kids would sit next to theirs because my kids watched TV and read Harry Potter and the like. If these parents don’t want their kids sitting next to mine, you can bet dollars to donuts that they don’t want them sitting next to a non-Jewish kid celebrating Christmas, coming to school with non-kosher snacks and singing the latest pop and rap tunes. Good luck convincing those parents to send their kids to public school for a week, let alone two years.

That, more or less, is the gist of the situation.

The Wolf

We’ve had this discussion before. It would not work. Search the archives for it.

The Wolf

If the chips merely represent points, why would it be different than playing Scrabble or any other point based game?

The Wolf

How about being meticulous with the spelling of “meticulous?”

The Wolf

the doctors are saying that vaccines are 100% safe is based on false assumptions.

No one says vaccines are 100% safe. There is always a risk. However, the risk is so small and the reward (in terms of public good) is so large that the benefits far outweigh the risks.

No one lives their lives doing only things that are 100% safe.

The Wolf

Rabbi Dovid Lichtenstein’s “Headlines” podcast deals with this issue this week.

Sadly, there was one Rav he had on who is convinced that the pharmaceutical companies have bought off every doctor, every medical journal, every member of the CDC, every member of Congress, etc. Any evidence you showed him was tainted in his eyes and there was literally nothing that he would accept.

This Rav also was also convinced that 9/11 was not conducted by 19 terrorists with box cutters taking over airplanes.

The Wolf

Once again, I’ll make the point that everyone should have an index card in their tallis and/or tefillin bag with their contact information. It would make posts like this unnecessary and allow for the lost items to returned to its owner much more quickly.

The Wolf

Don’t be silly. You’re only chayev misa if you knew the alarm owner was a jew. I’m assuming you knew otherwise. If, on the other hand, you knew it was a jew and you called the cops anyway, then you’re out of luck. )-:

I can’t say for certain that the car belonged to a Jew, but the odds are well in favor that it was a Jew’s car, since the majority of people on my block are Jews.

And, besides, I’d do the same thing again in a heartbeat (call the cops at 3 am, and not call a Bais Din). I understand that that not only makes me a moser, but an unrepentant one who is a menace to the community.

The Wolf

So, why was I created?

The Wolf

Tipping is totally optional.

So is saying “excuse me” after burping.

The Wolf

If all that was being asked was about a valid marriage, they wouldn’t need a singer, flowers, or a wedding hall either.

You obviously missed (or ignored) the point.

The Wolf

Or don’t get a watch at all. I didn’t get a watch in the yichud room and, according to most poskim, my marriage is still valid despite that.

The Wolf

I believe there are historical cases of children growing up in situations isolated from human language. They did not end up speaking LhK or any other language on their own.

The Wolf