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You’ve been to both Lakewood and Monsey and determined that the Catskills has good air whereas both L and M have bad air?
Did you measure air quality with your nose only?
Where have you been and what do you disagree about it?
Lakewood and Monsey have great air too.
Chaver, what are those side effects?
Uber drivers aren’t institutionally precluded, as a practical matter, from following those stated conditions to remain a Ben Torah.
And the JSWA doesn’t have statistics. They proffered their own biased guestimates about the frum community.
ubiq: That answers for ER doctors, but not all other doctors. And non-yehudim is more relevant for doctors on Shabbos than Hatzalah since Hatzalah is mostly responding to Yidden, even granting there are exceptions, where doctors are mostly, by far, not. So it is a different shailos on this issue for doctors than Hatzalah.
Furthermore, many specialities mostly deal with NON-life threatening issues, including on Shabbos. And even specialities that have pekuach nefesh situations on Shabbos, the Jewish doctor will often go/drive to work on Shabbos and have many Saturdays at work where he gets no pikuach nefesh patients. Yet he went/drove to work that Shabbos without having a single situation justifying chillul Shabbos.
The Clinton News Network is a Democrat Party house organ.
A large percentage of people in general society live together before marriage, meet in the pizza shop, are boyfriend/girlfriend for a few years and if they’re lucky get married before getting divorced a few years later when realizing being infatuated with each other even meeting in the pizza shop doesn’t make an appropriate match.
Tuition and kosher food and other Jewish expenses costs more out of town than in NY/NJ, ghadorah. And jobs are far more and higher paying in NY than OOT.
There are exceptions to every rule, apy.
How’s the Catskills different than Lakewood, Jacob?
Outlets such as the NYTIimes, WPost, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS and NPR are, effectively, Democrat Party house organs and mouthpieces. Every story and article they publish is throughly designed to cast the Democrats as saviors and heroes and cast Republicans as villans and scrooges. They each use outright falsehoods many times every day to accomplish this goal.
Call it whatever you want. But that is what’s happening.
I don’t see a parallel between Hatzalah and doctors, at all.
Hatzalah is specifically designed for pekuach nefesh situations. Especially so on Shabbos, when Yidden are even more reluctant to call Hatzalah if it isn’t a possible real emergency (even slightly). Additionally, Hatzalah is designed for Yidden. It is true that some non-emergency use of Hatzalah is made, incorrectly. But Hatzalah isn’t advertising itself for non-emergencies or for non-yehudim. Those outside-its-scope uses take their use of Hatzalah on their own head/achrayis. Obviously Hatzalah can’t make a determination everytime a call comes in whether it is an appropriate use of Hatzalah, since they risk making a wrong call if they deny service and it turns out it really was a true emergency.
On the other hand, doctors are specifically there to provide medical assistance even when it is clearly not an emergency or life threatening situation. I don’t think an intern or resident expects to not provide medical assistance on Shabbos for people who come to his medical facility on Saturday even though they could wait until Sunday or Monday, without any real problem, to get their issue looked at. Additionally, most interns, residents and doctors are mostly dealing with non-yehudim. And, furthermore, unlike Hatzalah members who only respond on Shabbos after an emergency call comes in, the doctors are going (driving) to their place of work on Shabbos before any emergency occurs. Many Saturdays they might not even have any pikuach nefesh situation that whole day at their facility.
Why would you not just aggressively try to be mekarev non-frum young women of marriageable age? Are Jewish girls who aren’t frum to be ignored and not be — just as aggressively — helped in becoming Torah and Mitzvos observant?
That’s an obscene idea.
To narrow the issue down, if I understand it correctly, the chillul Shabbos-doctor problem is mostly limited to their training in residency for about three years. Correct? Once they get their medical license and become a full fledged doctor, frum doctors can generally control their schedule.
If they hang their own shingle out and open their own practice, they surely can set their own hours and days. If they’re a specialist in a hospital, specialists can choose not to work weekends. (Other non-Jewish specialist can be the Saturday specialist.) An Emergency Room doctor will probably have problems taking off on Shabbos. But is it correct that it’s mainly only an issue for residents?
Follow their directives.
Boro Park Hatzalah uses a goy to drive home the Hatzalah members, and their car, who went on a call on Shabbos.
It’s never too late to follow Daas Torah.
TLIK, My question to you was whether smoking carries the same severity as an aveira as chillul Shabbos.
Lakewood families don’t go to bungalow colonies since Lakewood is itself is like the country.
What if Daas Torah disagrees?
Then do as Daas Torah directs you to act.
So now smoking is as bad as being mechallel Shabbos?
Meno, should it be asked if the girl is normal?
Avi, Forshayer was stuck between his wife and his neighbors. (That’s analogous to being stuck between a rock and a hard place.) Who do you think he should have chosen?!
AY: No one said anything about turning back the clock. The OP’s question was how to kasher the army. That’s like asking how to kasher a mamzer. Neither can be kashered. And with a mamzer you can also not turn back the clock and avoid his creation. But that doesn’t negate that the answer on how to kasher him is that it is impossible.
Additionally, regarding your other comment, the Satmar Rebbe zt’l lived over 30 years after the creation of the state. And his magnum opus referenced above was indeed written afterwards in direct response to the State’s creation. So it is certainly most relevant to the discussion of the post-state situation.
Avi: R. Kasher was exposed for his notorious forgeries in support of Zionism during his lifetime and he had no response to that expose. See earlier threads for the discussion about this.
The Maharal discusses the Three Oaths in Netzach Yisrael, Ch. 24. He writes that even if the Goyim try to force us to take Eretz Yisroel for ourselves during Golus, we must allow ourselves to be killed rather than violate the Oaths. The Maharal says that these oaths represent absolute prohibitions that one must sacrifice one’s life before violating. In technical terms, these oaths are yehareg ve’al ya’avor. It is better to be martyred than to violate these oaths.
It’s Kneged Torah and Halacha for Jews to have a national army prior to the arrival of Moshiach. There’s no right way to do it before then.
There are many seforim on this. The Maharal discusses it. A more contemporary sefer, one of many, is V’Yoel Moshe.
spiral, you’re a great-grandparent and have a child engaged to be married? How old is your youngest who is still unmarried?
Chazal tell us how old is old.
Men were created to work outside the home, whereas women were not. So the women are simply returning full time to their natural habitat at home. This, in itself, is not an indication of age.
That said, women tend to age quicker as a matter of perception (more than reality) and may possibly feel as such quicker as well.
Do doctors have time to go on vacation or go swimming, sightseeing or do any leisurely activities?
CTL, so find a better word for unjust and cruel laws if corrupt doesn’t meet Webster’s definition. I don’t care much for the semantics here, which is far from the point.
How about unjust or cruel?
“There are lots of jobs in which the employer expects his employees to be available seven days a week.”
And do frum Jews, in those professions, actually work on Shabbos Kodesh?
Forshayer: You have a smart wife and daughter.
The issue of how Hatzalah is mechallel Shabbos for non-yehudim/non-frum is a different halachic issue of how a doctor can be mechallel Shabbos for the same reason when going to work as a physician on Shabbos without their being an immediate pekuach nefesh situation requiring it (especially in an area that lacks a community of Shomer Shabbos people that utilize that medical facility where he works on Shabbos.)
Mr. Nat, what about working on Shabbos for non-yehudim? Or working on Shabbos in areas or hospitals that see few or no frum yidden?
My question regarding the Gemorah wasn’t related to Shmiras Shabbos (even though TLIK’s question was.) It was a side question.
Additionally, the conditions and roadblocks for contemporary physicians in being able to keep Shabbos correctly and appropriately, likely didn’t exist prior to what is known as the era of modern medicine.
It isn’t just the Judicial system that is corrupt, the laws themselves are corrupt. Poorly written, unevenly enforced, unfair and unjust.
Laws frequently, hastily, written reactively in response to pubic and media outrage to some newsworthy event. Draconian sentences for light crimes while other more serious crimes carry much lighter sentences. Sentences are imposed on the whims of a judge. The same crime can result in vastly different punishments (or no punishment) depending which judge you get (even in the same courthouse) or which jurisdiction you’re in. Judges who are frequently highly unqualified and/or biased to judge.
And all this is even before discussing the perversion of Justice based on who one’s legal counsel is. Is it real justice that in order to obtain true justice one needs the ability to afford very costly legal representation? How can you call it a justice system when an accused guilty rich man with a top lawyer can get away with a crime whereas an innocent poor man who cannot afford counsel can get convicted due to lack of decent legal representation?
TLIK, how do you deal with the Gemorah regarding doctors?
Not that the Gemorah surely doesn’t at least equally apply to lawyers.
There’s a small part of it that isn’t corrupt?
Perhaps.
CTL, with your description of CT’s system, you indict the other states (i.e NY) with all the problems inherent in those states system that effectively corrupt justice.
My experience matches the experience yitzchokm described above with the system.