Yabia Omer

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  • in reply to: “Torah World” = Nonexistent #2133360
    Yabia Omer
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    My point is that there is a Jewish world. Not a Torah world. It’s not an elite club among Yidden. Everyone has a chelek. There’s no us vs them. Tangentially, the Israeli Chariedi parties are making a mockery of Yiddishkeit.

    in reply to: “Torah World” = Nonexistent #2133184
    Yabia Omer
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    You just gave me a an “8 minute Daf” of this whole thread. Shkoyach.

    in reply to: “Torah World” = Nonexistent #2133132
    Yabia Omer
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    What does all this have to do with my OP?

    in reply to: “Torah World” = Nonexistent #2132646
    Yabia Omer
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    Correct DaMoshe.

    My comment has nothing to do with YU or other institutional issues. It’s an general comment. Every Jew, even an unaffiliated Jew who isn’t observant has a chelek in the Torah. The Torah does not belong to any specific “world”. But I do think that the Haskalah was a major traumatizing even which caused european Jewry to divide people into camps, such as those in the “Torah world” and those outside of it. However there has never been a “Torah world” and there never will be. The Torah is Morasha to all of Kehilas Yaakov. What I am saying is first grade level stuff. Not a chiddush

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115407
    Yabia Omer
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    Is this what is important for the Jewish people in 2022?

    in reply to: Mesorah and Levush #2115289
    Yabia Omer
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    So should Sfardim wear Fez hats and white robes?

    in reply to: Roshei Hayeshiva #2113125
    Yabia Omer
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    R Elya Brudny

    in reply to: Roshei Hayeshiva #2112980
    Yabia Omer
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    The rav of the Troll Yeshiva is #1

    in reply to: Brooklyn Sephardi Shuls Non-SY #2109339
    Yabia Omer
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    Ahava veachva is Egyptian. Netivot is Moroccan. SLC is Lebanese. Etc

    in reply to: Panama (country) #2105381
    Yabia Omer
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    I think it has a significant SY community

    in reply to: A Generational Change in Jewish Naming Conventions #2104748
    Yabia Omer
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    I would actually say that a big generational trend is the ascendency of Israel names.

    in reply to: Neo Orthodoxy #2103237
    Yabia Omer
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    Neo Orthodoxy (according to your definition) is a VERY bad thing. Did you know that up until maybe 60 years ago only a few groups kept Rabbeinu Tam? It’s a fact.

    Anyway conventional wisdom would say that the way to protect Yiddishkeit is to be more strict but it’s quite the opposite. The middle of the road was the conventional Yiddishkeit for most Yidden .

    in reply to: Renting in Postvile IA? #2103051
    Yabia Omer
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    Work remotely from EY!

    in reply to: Time Machine #2101530
    Yabia Omer
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    I would probably go to the time when the Mishnah and Beis Hamikdash overlapped. Like Hillel and Shammai.

    in reply to: Chaveirim, Yidden, and Lomdei Toirah, be malveh me your Oznayim #2101055
    Yabia Omer
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    His mother tongue was Arabic!

    Not sure what you mean by my critiques.

    Also we should all “idolize” (ie. look up to) the Rambam. He was Gadol haGedolim.

    in reply to: Chaveirim, Yidden, and Lomdei Toirah, be malveh me your Oznayim #2100146
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    I think Briskers should speak the native tongue of their esteemed Rambam.

    in reply to: Chaveirim, Yidden, and Lomdei Toirah, be malveh me your Oznayim #2099912
    Yabia Omer
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    At this point just speak Hebrew. For example, instead of lachen i am not maskim, just say lachen ani lo maskim. You’re half way there!

    in reply to: Israeli Parenting style vs the US. #2099536
    Yabia Omer
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    Israeli style: breeds independent, resourceful, happy kids.
    American: breeds fearful, entitled, dependent kids. Plus American parents are too over protective, anxious etc.

    in reply to: Gedolim #2098491
    Yabia Omer
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    Isn’t it Gaiva to think that one knows who is and isn’t a Gadol? Who are we to assess? Who is anybody?

    in reply to: Gedolim #2098314
    Yabia Omer
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    Who decides who is and isn’t s Gadol?

    in reply to: Gedolim #2098210
    Yabia Omer
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    UJM is my Gadol.

    in reply to: is Yeshiva system making talmiday chachamim? or stifling them? #2097937
    Yabia Omer
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    Who says that the Lithuanian approach is appropriate bichlal? I think it’s appropriate for Yechidim but as a mass system, not at all. But the Litvish derech got a lot of branding and marketing and that’s why it’s popular. It’s a fact and it’s time to call a spade a spade.

    in reply to: is Yeshiva system making talmiday chachamim? or stifling them? #2097821
    Yabia Omer
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    I believe the original bracha was “Al divrei Torah”

    in reply to: is Yeshiva system making talmiday chachamim? or stifling them? #2097527
    Yabia Omer
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    I agree with OP. No excuse. The entire Shas should be completed WITH Poskim.

    in reply to: Issues 2022 #2096770
    Yabia Omer
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    Seriously it would be Gun Control, inflation and, honestly, infrastructure. This country is crumbling.

    in reply to: Issues 2022 #2096557
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    1. Wearing velvet on Bekeshe/Frock etc.
    2. Beshow vs. Dating
    3. Plastic vs. china plates

    in reply to: Kesuba vs Kollel #2096193
    Yabia Omer
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    Want or not, these thousands of men are in dereliction of duty. They are not standing by their Kesuba obligation.

    in reply to: Gut Shabbos vs. Shabbat Shalom #2094198
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Is this the most important issue facing Klal Yisroel in 2022?

    But as an aside, I always liked the candlelighting announcement on the radio in NYC. They would end with Good Shabbos and Shabbat Shalom.

    in reply to: Hashem #2093364
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    So why do I hear so many people saying Hashem in FULL pesukim??

    in reply to: Hashem #2093249
    Yabia Omer
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    Who is Avira to say that this Teshuva doesn’t hold water? Besides it wasn’t written in relation to Chilonim at all but rather how shiros/zemiros are considered dvarim shebakedusha so there is room to be matir saying Elo.. and Ado. Even if you say Ado…runs the world, is that “lashav”? You are mamlich Hashem, you are praising him.

    in reply to: Hashem #2092847
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Yes Baruch Hu uvaruch shmo is not Dina degemora. It’s a relatively recent thing.

    in reply to: Hashem #2092802
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Some Sefardim refer to Hashem as Allah.

    Also, I once read a teshuva that said that it is unnecessary to say thinks like Elokim (with a K) etc. because when people say it, it is usually a form of praise, so it isn’t Lashav. Like Tzur Mishelo, we say “Kidvar Hashem” but the whole song is a type of praise/Tefila.

    in reply to: What’s with Velvet Collar Kapotes?! #2091627
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    The little I know is 100% right. And the most authentic is probably Teimanim no?

    in reply to: Every rebbe, every gabbai – get a pistol #2091032
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    The real solution is to find out why 18 year olds are shooting up schools

    in reply to: Jewish Brooklyn: End of an Era? #2090448
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Yes it is the beginning of decline.

    in reply to: WHY DO LITVOCKS ALWAYS SAY TACHNUN?? #2090330
    Yabia Omer
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    Tachnun is a reshus, not a complete chiyuv.

    in reply to: Real Learners #2089990
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    nOm: go ahead, test it out.

    in reply to: Real Learners #2089963
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Eliezer shkoyach for your heilige pilpulim but what I’m saying is that most people would’ve even be able to tell me the simplest answer.

    in reply to: Real Learners #2089909
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    A simple “until the 4th hour of the day” would be more than enough!

    in reply to: Real Learners #2089870
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Here’s a test: ask the guy next to you at shul or at your kids’ yeshiva “what’s the latest time one can daven shachris?”. A very basic question.

    in reply to: Real Learners #2089598
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Also, the Rosh says and the Shulchan Aruch (C.M. 243) rule that a person who works for a living but dedicates time to Torah has the status of a Ben Torah

    in reply to: Real Learners #2089568
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    nOm: I agree overall with what you’re saying but there is an inyan to be Gores the Zohar even if you do not understand a word.

    ujm: A Yeshiva or a Kollel is better off with a Talmid who spends 2 hours a day seriously learning, but he fully understands inside out 5 Blatts every 2 hours (without the schmoozing). Such a person exists.

    in reply to: Real Learners #2089288
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    First off, my OP jade absolutely ZERO to do with Ashkenaz vs Sefardi. I meant it across the board, all Yidden.

    UJM: I disagree with you. I think the latter guy is Adif.

    I think historically Sephardim were great codifiers, Halachists etc whereas Ashkenazim were more into pilpul and “lomdus”. But we know that Sinai is adif over Oker Harim.
    I actually think it’s a negative for a Sephardim to engage in Lomdus because that is not their style. I don’t think there is a maala of Lomdus over, say, learning th pshat and the practical Halacha.

    in reply to: Real Learners #2089161
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Yabia Omer is Sephardi?

    On another note, we should not underestimate bekius on Mikra.

    in reply to: Real Learners #2089122
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Avira. Of course a yeshiva guy might know ruba vechazakah ruba adif,. But I’m talking about the average frum yid. Most learn very little and know even less. From my experience of MANY communities.

    in reply to: Real Learners #2089064
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    I just think real learning is for yechidei segula. Everyone has an obligation to learn but the high quality stuff is only a very few.

    in reply to: Glorify Learning on Lag Bomer Night #2088982
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Lakewhut: lechol zman va’eis.

    Everything has its time and place. Lah Baomer is a time of bonfires, dancing etc. That’s newsworthy at that time.

    in reply to: Good Used Seforim #2088505
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    No one asked CAD why he was depressed

    in reply to: Cotton Tzitzis #2088444
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    Cotton is miderabanan

    in reply to: Good Used Seforim #2088093
    Yabia Omer
    Participant

    I would love them.

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