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I don’t know what the problem is.
Is there anyone here who goes to a shul where there is absolutely no singing on Yom Kippur?
And if singling is okay on Yom Kippur, why should it be not okay for slichos?
The Wolf
Why do you hate yourself so much when you’re such a great person?
Your question contains a fatal error.
The Wolf
The Gemorah quotes an Amora who testified that he personally stood at the grave of a ben sorer umoreh.
Actually, it was the Tanna, R. Yonasan.
In any event, there is also an opinion that it never happened. Then there’s also the point that R. Yonasan was a Kohen.
Kill him by stoning
Ben sorer umoreh styleThat’s what they should have done to me when I was thirteen… ah well, missed opportunities.
The Wolf
Joseph, once again you are over on hotzaat shem ra and sinat chinam. You must obtain forgiveness from every MO in the next two weeks.
I believe that was Haimy, not Joseph.
The Wolf
Once again I’m hearing a derision of the opinion of Rav Yehoshuah Leib based on scant historica data. This smells of a modern orthodox approach to the opinions of gedolei hador. You’re posing legitimate questions
Well, if it’s a legitimate question and asked in a non-derisive manner, then how is it a derision? Or is raising an objection altogether forbidden?
Also, you don’t have to be coy. If you have a problem with something I’m saying, feel free to call me out by name. Trust me, nothing you say will hurt me — I’m already a rasha.
(Oh, and for the record, I don’t identify as Modern Orthodox).
The Wolf
Wolf: Who told you that you weren’t welcome and/or that you could not befriend?
Classmates and acquaintances passed the word along from their parents. A rescinded invitation, etc.
The Wolf
Approved as a science experiment.
You do realize, of course, that by saying that, you’ve contaminated the experiment.
The Wolf
Do we have a control group?
The seed of Amaleikites may have gotten mixed into the German population.
By the same logic, they could have gotten mixed in with every nation, making the connection between Germany and Amalek meaningless.
The Wolf
None. I don’t drink beer.
(Yes, I’m sure someone will come through here shortly to advise me to check my yichus, as someone who doesn’t like beer certainly isn’t Jewish… :: rolling my eyes :: )
The Wolf
Approved as a science experiment. Let’s see if the posters on the CR are as bad as you seem to think. But known trolls are spurious.
for the sake of stabilized communities
yes, we must treat those who walk out of marriages as less than those who stay
and in the long term it will be better for everyone even the divorcees
to have such stable communitiesSometimes there are very good reasons for a person to leave a marriage.
In any event, when I was younger, I was told that there were homes that I was not welcome in and kids I could not befriend because my parents were divorced… as if somehow, at the age of ten or so, I was going to “infect” their children and cause them to have failed marriages.
The Wolf
“Love” can have more than one meaning.
Or do you think the second amendment to the constitution is about going sleeveless?
The Wolf
Even in a long drop hanging, there is the second or so between when the person loses the support that they are standing on and when the rope goes taught.
The Wolf
Can someone please explain to me WHY do so many people go to Uman? What is to see there?
The Kever of R’ Nachman of Breslov.
The Wolf (who has never been to Uman and has no intention of ever going).
Hanging is considered immediate.
Perhaps a long drop hanging (where death is due to the breaking of the neck) is intimidate, but not short-drop or suspension hanging, where death can take several minutes, is surely not immediate. And, I will add, the vast majority of suicides by hanging are not long-drop.
The Wolf
Redleg, it is prohibited to do anything thàt’ll result in romantic feelings.
You mean that every romantic thing I’ve been doing in my marriage over the last quarter century is forbidden?
The Wolf
כָּל אַהֲבָה שֶׁהִיא תְלוּיָה בְדָבָר, בָּטֵל דָּבָר, בְּטֵלָה אַהֲבָה. וְשֶׁאֵינָהּ תְּלוּיָה בְדָבָר, אֵינָהּ בְּטֵלָה לְעוֹלָם.
The Wolf
If I remember after Shabbos, I’ll post the recipe we use in our household. My wife, myself and my son have all made it multiple times.
The Wolf
Halevai all the Gedolim got the kovod given to this godol from Eretz Yisroel during his visit to New York.
I fail to see how traveling with lights and sirens is a sign of kavod. The Torah tells us what the signs of kavod are. Lights and sirens are not among them.
The Wolf
Your mistake is machnisim oso l’kippah is Divine intervention, not something punisable by Jews, such as Bais Din!
No. Either you misunderstood me, or (more likely) I was unclear.
My point was that machnisin oso l’kippah was not used simply as a way to get around the technicalities of a proper execution being illegal under the circumstances, since, if it were an option, Shimon ben Shetach would not have been so pained about the murderer potentially getting away.
The Wolf
When the Sanhedrin was in power, if someone intentionally killed someone but there was no advance warning to him, how did Beis Din punish him?
I’m certain that someone will pop up and say something along the lines of “machnisim oso l’kippah.” But I’ve always wondered about the parameters of how such a thing was carried out.
First of all, IIRC correctly, when discussed in the Gemara, it was not in the context of using it to punish people who could not, for technical reasons, be executed by the courts, but rather as a punishment for recidivist sinners — people who would commit the same (malkus-level) sins over and over again. But I don’t think there is discussion of using it for one-time cases where, for absence of the required criteria, a standard capital punishment could not be carried out.
For example, there is the case of Shimon ben Shetach, who saw a man chase another man into an alley while holding a knife. When he finally arrived there, he saw the persued laying on the ground bleeding from a knife wound and the other man standing over him holding the bloody knife.
There was pretty much no doubt that the man had committed the murder. And yet, SbS was pained over the matter that he could not bring the murderer to justice since he alone witnessed it (and presumably did not issue a warning beforehand as well). Ultimately, the matter was handled by the True Judge, who caused the murder to die from (IIRC) a snake bite.
But the point is this: if machnisim oso l’kippah was an option, by would SbS have been so pained? The obvious answer is that it was not an option and that, absent the Divine intervention that ultimately happened, the man would have gotten away with the deed.
The Wolf
Hello so I’m a candid photographer.
Isn’t there some Frum organization that helps find the right class?I don’t know if there is any such organization focused on photography.
The reason I asked is because I tend to do landscape/cityscape shots. It’s not quite the same thing you’re interested in, but the basics of photography are still the same. If you want, I’d be more than happy to spend a few hours one late afternoon in NYC, showing you the basics of exposure (shutter speed, aperture, ISO), composition, etc. — and probably for a lot less than an organization would charge you (read: free) -and, of course, it’s not mixed.
The Wolf
Are there any places that rent out cameras for a few day?
Yes. Most of the major lens rental companies (Lensrental.com, BorrowLenses.com, etc.) will also rent cameras.
Is there a reason you haven’t responded to my question in the other photography thread?
The Wolf
Wolf, do you publish those pictures?
Yes, I do. I have a website. If you know my name (it’s only a semi-secret now), you can easily find it.
The Wolf
Wolf, may you be zoche to find your zivug hagun b’karov, Amen! 😉
Already found. Over thirty years ago.
The Wolf
He transcribed all his seforim by hand? With a quill? On parchment?
Who decides at what point the technology is no longer “new” and can be used? After all, at one time, even quill and parchment were new technologies. Perhaps he should have had seforim pressed into clay tablets.
The Wolf
Didn;t we once have a thread a while back on photography?
I believe we did.
As for me, well, I’m still taking pictures. 🙂
The Wolf
Glad to see this thread come around again. I’m always on the lookout for new spots for dates.
The Wolf
BMG Guy,
I ask you again the same question I asked back in November. What about photography do you want to learn?
The Wolf
Plus, if Hasheim made the weather hot, what right do we have to change that?
If HaShem made meat raw, what right do we have to change that through cooking it?
The Wolf
Not me. I pity any world in which I am Moshiach.
The Wolf
How can you eat chometz after shvi’i shel pesach which “was sold to the non-Jew according to Halacha” It still belongs to the non-jew.
What if he tells you, “It’s OK, go ahead and eat?”
(And don’t tell me that you can’t because you can’t make a kinyan on Shabbos. You don’t need to make a kinyan to eat someone else’s food with their permission. When you’re a guest at a Shabbos table and they make hamotzi, I’m sure you don’t make a formal kinyan on your challah before you eat it.)
There is no lack of them, unfortunately, in today’s world.
And yet, you can’t see them when they’re right in front of your face.
The Wolf
So let’s start doing it more often!
I’ve been trying, but every time I do so, you shout me down and (in effect) call me a liar.
The Wolf
Isn’t it a false testimony?
No, because it’s not actually testimony — and the lav is on testifying falsely.
The Chasam Sofer held that a person who does not follow shamita should not be עולה when it is being leined on Yom Tov.
And I’m sure a thief should not be called up when we lain “Lo Tignovu.” But so what? What does that have to do with anything? Laining isn’t testimony either.
We have a minhag according to the Chok Yaakov for those who wear Tefillin to keep it on the first day of Chol Hamoed when leining kadesh.
And? So what? It’s a nice minhag, but I fail to see how that has any relevance here. If your ba’al kriah doesn’t have the custom to wear tefillin on Chol HaMoed, he can still lain, no?
The Wolf
because it is an עדות שקר and be a מצוה הבאה בעבירה?
The problem with that, of course, is that it’s not *really* testimony. Do you only put on tefillin if another non-relative is present?
The Wolf
Wolf, Even though they are unrelated, it still encourages to put on tefilin every day, when we don’t have another os, to be able to say krias shma with tefilin as this thread questions. Mechaber O”CH 25:4 and MB there.
My apologies, then. I misunderstood your post. I thought you were trying to make the point that Sh’ma cannot be said without Tefillin (or vice-versa).
The Wolf
Yekke2, What about כל הקורא קריאת שמע בלא תפילין כאילו מעיד עדות שקר?
What about it?
The fact remains that the two mitzvos are still unrelated. If you don’t have tefillin (for whatever reason) you still say Krias Sh’ma. Even if you aren’t putting them on by choice, there is *still* a mitzvah to say Krias Sh’ma.
Likewise, tefillin doesn’t depend on saying Krias Sh’ma. If you put on tefillin during the day and don’t say Krias Sh’ma, you are still mekayem the mitzvah of tefillin.
The Wolf
Well, for those of us who can’t have potato kugel, there are obviously better foods.
The Wolf
Of course, what’s most interesting about Joseph’s post is that he takes an incident that should be a wonderful lesson on the power and importance of Emes (that, to preserve his statement as truthful, he voluntarily avoided gebrokts the rest of his life) and, by leaving out the most important part of the story, he gives the impression that R. Yaakov held the exact opposite of what he did, he perverts that powerful message. He lies by omission about a wonderful story highlighting the importance of Emes.
The Wolf
Bottom line: I plan to eat gebrokts this Pesach and every subsequent one. If you think that means that I’m eating chometz on Pesach… well, so be it.
The Wolf
Wolf: His family minhag was and is to eat gebrokts. He personally did not as he one time did not want to eat in someone’s house and stated he did not eat gebrokts.
Yes, I know. That was my point. He wasn’t avoiding gebrokts for the fear of uncooked flour. His opinion was that there is nothing wrong with eating gebrokts, as his family ate it. Joseph’s leaving that fact out makes it sound like he held that gebrokts is a problem, when, in fact, his opinion was the exact opposite.
The Wolf
Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky didn’t eat gebroks.
And you know full well that that actually had nothing to do with the concerns upon with the minhag was founded.
The Wolf
The wife’s salary belongs to the husband.
Only if she wants. She is also able to say that she will feed herself in exchange for her salary.
The Wolf
Chofeitz Chayim predicted that 25 Years after WW1 there will be WW2.
Furthermore, he predicted that 75 Years later there will be a WW3 and then Moshiach will come.What do you think about this?
Nothing.
Seriously, enough predictions have been made about when Moshiach will arrive that have passed without his arrival that, for practical purposes, I don’t pay attention to any of them anymore.
I simply await the day of his arrival. If he arrives on the day someone predicted him, then good and well. And if he doesn’t arrive then, then I will await the day he does arrive without worrying about anyone’s “predictions.”
The Wolf
Why is that a silly argument?
It wasn’t an argument at all. It was a question asking for evidence.
The Wolf