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Mazel Tov to bld613 on her engagement! You should be zoche to build a Bayis Neeman B’Yisroel!
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The only thing that came up from the ny post when I googled it was an article from a year ago that chassidishe schools put a ban on bike riding to school. That article put yidden in a very bad light. If that’s what you’re talking about, I would say that it could be it was banned because of sakana. Maybe the schools were afraid of someone getting hurt on their bike on the way to or from school. That happened to me once. I was riding home from school when I was in elementary school and I lost control of the bike and I rode into traffic. Baruch Hashem I was fine. A week later the principal went to every classroom and said that everyone who leaves school must be supervised. “We had an incident a week ago where a kid got hurt and I don’t want to be responsible for accidents like that.” I hadn’t realized someone had told the principal on me.
Gamanit-If she wears a wide skirt, that will prevent the skirt from picking up. zahavasdad-where did you hear this from?
The only thing that I can think of what’s going on is that bike riding was banned for females in some communities because that it’s not tznius, and even if they’re dressed tznius, “es pas nisht” for a frum girl to ride her bike.
Who said it was banned?
WIY Thanks.
Here’s this week’s dvar Torah
This also explains the Gemara that says the importance of the minim are based on their positioning in the pasuk. You are required to make a bracha first on the minim closer to the word Eretz since they are more important.
from revach.net
Let’s say a bochur would have come up and held out his hand to help her up. She would think he’s meshuga! She would think this is a yeshiva bochur?! Bochurim in these situations probably are confused. Some might want to help her but they have no idea how to help. That’s why I said before, like feminist02, that they should have at least helped her by moving the suitcases around her so she have gotten up easier.
If you go to dinonline.org there’s a shailah on there about someone who wants to become a physical therapist and is he allowed to touch women for it. This was cut and pasted from there.
A student of mine (22 y/o male) would like to become a physical therapist. However, this may entail touching women both during school and while practicing as one. Is this permitted?
Answer:
It is fine to become a physical therapist. There is a preference not to treat women, but where there is a need it is permitted.
Sources:
Based on the same principles, it would be permitted to practice medical techniques, including physical therapy (which is a recognized technique) on women. A further reason for leniency is that the Gemara (Avodah Zarah 20) teaches that a person at work does is not inclined to have forbidden thoughts, though some question the application of this principle to scenarios of directly touching women.
Yet, there is a difference between physical therapy and taking a pulse, and there is more room for concern concerning prolonged treatments than for short checks. Therefore, although it is permitted, it is better to avoid the situation, where possible.
There’s a story written in the book A sun and its shield. It happened right before the holocaust, in Hungary. There was a girl who visited her cousins who had a child, a baby. The girl was staying at their house and during the day a babysitter came. One day the babysitter bundled up the baby and told the girl that they were going for a walk. They went on a walk and came to a dark building. They went inside. The girl had no idea what the building was, she was a little girl, but she sensed something wrong and she didn’t like the looks of it and asked the babysitter if they could go home. The babysitter didn’t want to but after pleading and begging the babysitter didn’t want to make a scene, so they went home. That night the girl told the parents, her cousins what had happened. They realized that the babysitter had gone to church and had probably done before with the baby who knows how many times. They told the girl if you see anything else out of the ordinary, then let us know.
This happened many years ago, but it technically could still happen today.
Coming from personal experience, I once had a non jewish babysitter who wasn’t very nice and for some reason, my mother’s necklace was missing after the first day she babysat. After that first day she was fired.
In my opinion, from the story that the OP said, this had nothing to do with Pikuach Nefesh, but i agree with jewishfeminist02 that the bochurim could have moved her bags, making it easier for her to get up.
DerechErets What are you talking about? All of these bookstores have a lot of seforim.
ZBerman books- there are 2 locations one in westgate and one on squankum. Torah Treasures- 2nd and Clifton. Judaica Plaza-Shoprite Plaza
I think some clarification is needed here. It is muttar to drink water before HAVDALAH. It is assur to drink water before Kiddush. Before davening Shabbos morning, there is no chiyuv kiddush. The chiyuv kiddush onlky starts when you start davening. However it is assur to eat before davening. (If you need to eat and can’t hold out, then ask your LOCR.) But it’s muttar to drink water before davening without Kiddush.
gefen that’s a machlokes achronim whether you’re allowed to say it in a beis Medrash. I think it’s between the Shach and the Taz.
It’s his real name. In one of his books, (which was taken from his articles), he debates whether it’s his real name or a pen name. I happen to know for a fact that it’s his real name. I know one of his family members and that person’s last name is Schmutter.
The reason why there would be an electrical button is to make the water go smoother when it comes out. The water comes out in a perfect stream as opposed to the water going all over the place.
check out this thread http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/fasting
sam2 thanks.
From what I knew 5 years ago, it had a dorm and was open to out of towners but the dowm was full and someone I knew wasn’t able to stay in the dowm and had to stay with relatives in Baltimore instead. This was 5 years ago, anything could have happened since then. From what I knew 5 years ago, it was a yeshivish place and there was a lot of very yeshivish guys who were there, but they really were targeting yeshivish guys but not ultra yeshivish.
Sam2 I have seen a water fountain where the button is electric. I know it exists. It looks mechanical but sometimes it’s electric.
Shopping613, FYI it was called the bubonic plague/black death. Ring around the rosies-the victim’s face would turn red. A pocket full of posies-The victims would smell bad, so they put flowers in their pockets to smell bad. Ashes ashes we all fall down-the victims died.
When you use a water fountain for a little while, the motor starts to run to keep the water cool. So when you press the button, the motor starts to run. I heard that it’s like a refrigerator door. When you open it, the warm air comes in and thermostastat causes the motor to start running. Most Poskim are maikel in the case of a refrigerator. However in a water fountain sometimes there’s another factor. The button to press for the water is an electronic button. In that case it would be assur to use the water fountain.
According To wikipedia, he was R’ Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sulikov (wherever that is) and was the Baal Shem Tov’s grandson
If I remember correctly and I’m not confusing this with something else, Mishpacha had an feature on this several years ago. They asked him what makes his cholent so good. He said that he doesn’t give away secrets but he uses a different type of beans (lima, maybe, I don’t remember).
This thread has not been updated for awhile so I decided to put in a Dvar Torah
The Seforim HaKedoshim tell us that the we have 248 limbs which draw life from Krias Shema which has 248 words in it. However, if you count up the words in the three parshiyos of Shema you will find only 247 words. Where is the 248th word? The answer is, the word “Emes” that we say after Ani Hashem Elokeichem.
The Degel Machenei Ephraim says we find a Remez for this in the Pasuk (VaEschanan 4:4), “V’Atem HaDveikim B’Hashem Elokeichem Chaim Kulchem HaYom; And you who attach yourself to Hashem are all living today.” The word Atem is the same letters as Emes . If you attach it at the end of Shema to Hashem Elokeichem, then Chaim Kulchem HaYom, all 248 of your limbs will be alive with the Shefa infused by the holy words of Shema.
from revach.net
The Mishna Berura says in simun Reish Lamed Seif Katan Zayin “If someone sneezes and his friend tells him Asusa, and he should answer back Baruch Tihyeh Leshuascha Kivisi Hashem.” Asusa is aramaic for Good Health, which is Gezundheit or Labriyut. The Mishna Berura goes on to say that In the original times nobody got sick before they died, they just sneezed and died. So when they sneezed people said Asusa until Yaakov Avinu came and davened to Hashem to take it away. It sounds like from this Mishna Berura that you could say it.
musser zoger, there was a story on here that there was a poster who started a thread that I’m new and i want to welcome myself to the cr and in the end the poster admitted that their old screenname wasn’t working so that poster started a new screenname under a new email address. But as far as I know, most people here are honest and wouldn’t do something like that. In any case you do have a point all the posters here are anonymous and will stay anonymous unless they want to reveal themselves (or if someone else says). I believe Shopping613 was asking out of curiosity how many users can you name off the top of your head, not how many do you know.
PBA, Mark Levin, WIY, The Goq, WolfishMusings, writersoul,feminist02, shopping613, apashutayid, haifagirl, gefen,torah613613 (it think that’s what’s it is, this is without looking),crazybrit, TheChassidisheGatesheader,not from ny, Lemony Snicket, midwesterner, The list goes on and on
It’s funny that you bring this up because yesterday I was looking at an Igros Moshe and I came across a tshuva where someone asked R’ Moshe zatzal if it’s it’s muttar to go to a doctor to be healed through hypnotism. R’ Moshe answered that there’s no issur involved, it’s not an act of kishuf. However if the doctor isn’t a shomer Torah U’mitzvos, then you would be choshed him on an aveira and you shouldn’t go to him. If he’s a shomer Torah U’mitzvos then it’s muttar to go to him. It sounds like that there is such a concept that hypnotism exists.
The Biur Halacha (in ?”? ???)gives a reason why the olam isn’t noheg to be careful nowadays. I think he’s saying that this din is only where he doesn’t eat from the foods that the ??? ???? gives him. But where the ??? ???? gives him to eat then you don’t have to give him first. I think anyways WIY is right. He’s not eating with you. He has his own food from the restaurant and he’s not eating with you. He’s just serving you. By a servant he eats with you and you’re responsible for feeding him. By a restaurant you’re not
Where does it say where you go to a restaurant? It says shamash. A shamash usually means a servant where you pay him to serve you, like he lives in your house or something to that effect. I don’t think we have this nowadays.
This was pasted from 8th day’s website
Use a match and light a piece of paper in the sink. Let it burn out
Sam2 Does this have anything to do with Moshiach? I think I heard somewhere that Tisha B’Av will be a Yom Tov when Mashiach comes.
There’s a chassidishe maaseh that there were two rebbes that were bothered by the question why isn’t Mashiach here yet? One Rebbe thought it was because due to lack of tznius and he went went traveling from community to community giving drashos on tznius. The other Rebbe thought that if People would be careful to answer Amein nad Amein Yehe Shmei Rabba with kavana and and not talk in middle of davening, then Mashiach would come. He went traveling from community to community giving drashos on this inyun. One day they met at an inn and each tried to persuade the other that he was right. Neither could pesuade the other so they decided to do a Goral Hagra. They did it and it fell on the pasuk ?????? ???? ?? ??????? which is in ?????? ?? ??. The Targum Yehonasan translates this as It’s not proper that it should be said in a Jewish gathering. According to one meaning it means tznius, according to Targum Yonasan, it meant that People don’t talk properly in a jewish place which means Amein and Yehei Shmei Raba. So both Rebbes were right and they both continued to travel to different communities to darshan on these topics.
yoyo56, it that’s the recipe you’re looking for, then I found it online from imamother. if you google kosher corned beef recipe from kosher palette then you’ll get a thread from imamother discussing recipes from that cookbook and in that thread there’s that recipe.
rebdoniel, the way it was explained to me by someone in the kashrus field is as follows. There are many different types of doctors out there. For some types of doctors if you tell him you’re sick, they’ll tell you “take two aspirin and call me in the morning.” Those types of doctors aren’t really doctors. They have no idea what they’re talking about. The person next to you could have told you the same thing. However there are other doctors that you could go to and tell them you’re sick and they’ll look at your symptoms and see how sick you are and they’ll diagnose you and offer treatment. Those doctors know what they’re doing. This is the same thing with kashrus. Some people call themselves mashgichim and say “I know kashrus, it’s easy.” In reality, however, they have no idea what to look for. There are other people that learn Hilchos Kashrus, know all the Chumras and kulas, and they are reliable Mashgichim.
I noticed it last night, I figured it was a mistake. I guess the mods fixed it that whichever thread you click on, it goes to the same one.
Mark Levin, what’s the difference between “recommended” and “acceptable?”
Kasher- in a way you’re right but here you at least get a picture if it’s a good hechsher.
Toi- thanks.
This is in yalkut shemoni Yeshaya Tuf Tzaddik Tes, Samech. There was a thread on this several years ago. I was once looking for the mekor to this. So I googled Where are the words to anovim and I got this thread. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/source-for-anovim-anovim
Does anyone know if the hashgacha KF from London is considered a reliable hashgacha? I’ve heard that it’s not the best and it’s only good for some things. I’ve seen it on candy (Vidal’s) and on american cereal in EY.
apashatayid, are you making assumptions? The star-k has a cereal list and they trust other organizations on the kashrus. The crc has a list of reliable organizations, they worked with the star-k on the quinoa issue, they work with the other organizations when it comes to posting kashrus alerts on their websites. There are other examples as well. My point is that kashrus organizations that are reliable want to be known as reliable. They want people to use their hashgacha.
apushatayid, calm down. No need to yell at me.
FYI- Who mentioned anything about kosherquest? I didn’t. In any case, I don’t think that’s a reliable list anyways. There are several unreliable hechsherim on there.
Rabbi Belsky and Rabbi Heineman are credentials already. You don’t need credentials for the credentials. They’re chashuva well known Rabbonim.
And that goes with all the other reliable kashrus agencies. They work with one another and they all respect each other.
If you look at other reliable kashrus agencies, they usually say why their reliable, either they have a beis din, or a rav, a posek etc. who tells them what to do.
apushatayid, a kashrus agency that’s reliable that’s under strict rabbinical supervision would want to make sure that everyone knows that they’re reliable. They want to have connections with the frum world. They would want to work with other kashrus agencies. If they want to do that, they would want to have (and need) to have credentials listed for everyone to know that they’re reliable. If they wouldn’t want that listed, then nobody would think they’re reliable. If they don’t want to work with other agencies in one way or another, (although they may disagree but they’ll respect other agencies) then they’re not reliable.
Actually after I did some researching online, I think it’s made in Holland.
You can google torah lectures and get the website done by the Yehuda Mond Foundation, they have shiurim there by Rabbi Avigdor Miller. Addidtionally you can google Simchas Hachaim Foundation and buy an ipod loaded with his shiurim on their website.
Ruchi I didn’t say anything about Rabbi Silver.I said that I don’t think the hechsher is reliable. I think you should direct your comment at rebdoniel.