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Rav Bender is no Zionist, unlike you and Feif.
Rav Shapiro is not friends with Israeli Jew Gilad Atzmon. Oh my, the same radio host interviewed both the Israeli Mr. Atzmon and Rav Shapiro in NY and the Jewish Mr. Atzmon said he liked what the Rav was saying? That isn’t what makes one friends.
He only did certain ones, not all. And he never put in cherem those born after he made it. So it certainly never applied to anyone after his time. Furthermore, his talmid later removed it from those he did apply it to.
See Shu”t Nishmas Chaim #7.
And the Reform and Conservatives broke off from Judaism and started their own religions. They’re to us like the Mormons are to Catholicism.
Read again, Syag. I’ve provided dozens of proofs over various comments and theads demonstrating that the left-wing critics hate him and the Halacha/Hashkafa website because he’s unabashedly Chareidi and promotes Daas Torah as espoused by our Gedolim shlita today and our Gedolei Yisroel zt’l of yesteryear. But what really galls many of these MO blogging critics of his, is his clear opposition to Zionism. That’s why Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein’s review is especially powerful and poignant, that I’ve pointed it out more frequently perhaps than the many other points I’ve enumerated and referenced positively supporting him. But you are certainly incorrect in asserting that there aren’t so many other, even greater, points in Rav Shapiro’s lifetime of Hatzalas Nefoshos and other holy work on behalf of Klal Yisroel saving so many young Jewish lives both in ruchniyos and in gashmiyus.
And it certainly isn’t only me. Just look, as a quick example, at Imanonov’s comment right above in this thread.
When in business correspondence you address an unknown party as “Dear Sir”, or a known party as “Dear Mr. Buffett”, are you implying the potential business relationship is also very personal and precious?
The Torah is judgemental. Not all hashkafas are equal or acceptable. You may not pick and choose. Torah Judaism implores us all to have a Rov. Having a “Virtual Rav” is, at best, like having a Virtual Spouse. We need to adhere to our Rabbonim’s Torah hashkafa, based on our Torah given to us by Hashem at Har Sinai over 3,000 years ago, and not “decide for themselves how they want to live a torah-based life in the 21st century.”
M29, DY point is correct once you take into consideration the reason Avi chose to be deliberately (and obviously) “wrong” in his comment.
The mere fact that Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, who does not shy away on his cross currents from heavily criticizing Chareidim and Chareidi positions — and he’s a Zionist himself, in a feature article in OU’s magazine effusively praised to the hilts both frumteens and Rav Shapiro shlita as literally saving the lives and neshomas of so many troubled young Jewish boys and girls through his work on frumteens (and through his shul where he’s Rov), speaks huge volumes against anyone who would criticize Rav Shapiro.
Syag, one thing anyone who knows Rav Shapiro shlita’s writings, responses and talks can absolutely verify for you, he is the last person in the world to tell people what they want to hear. He famously will give the full Torah position in whatever issue is being discussed, even if that might make Torah Judaism seem very strict to someone secular or modern orthodox. Whether he’ll tell teens and tweens that have a boyfriend/girlfriend the absolute prohibition of having even a “platonic” friend of the opposite gender or someone enamoured with the State of Israel the Torah violations of Zionism, he certainly will not hide the Torah position to anyone who might not like what they hear.
LOL. It was actually exactly folks like DaMoshe and his very good friend and neighbor Feif Un — who in fact ran a hugely negative blog that literally every single post attacked Chareidim and strict Torah adherence. Indeed the name of the blog itself (which after being up for years suddenly disappeared within an hour after on this forum I identified its owner as Feif) was named “OrthoWatch”, as if we Orthodox are bad people needing to be exposed.
It was exactly these type of folks that hated the Rov shlita, who is the Mara D’asra of a Litvish Kehila in New York and has absolutely no affiliation with Neteurei Karta. And if you search his comments on his site regarding NK you’ll see he was not supportive of them. But since the Rov frequently critiqued Zionism, bitter Zionists having no real basis to attack him invented stuff just as you saw DM falsely claim his affiliation with NK.
WB, Shopping613.
Rav Yaakov Shapiro shlita was and is Chareidi. I think he didn’t post his name because even though he was (I think) the main mod, he wasn’t the only mod who posted and answered shailos and haskafa questions. He also had haskamas from other rabbonim but I don’t remember who they were.
Regarding why the bloggers bashed him, well, that’s what bloggers do. They were basically a set of Chareidi haters who hated anything Chareidi and anything that strictly followed the Torah without regard to modern 21st century Western norms.
The truth is he didn’t have enough time to be responsive full-time to the large number of posts to the site, which is which there was often delays in posting and responding, and sometimes not everything would get addressed so other volunteers would try to kick in when they could. The site started in the late ’90s and was still going strong for over ten years. Eventually it got replaced by the newer site, which was slightly more active when new but doesn’t seem to currently have enough volunteers with time to be very active.
You should know that Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, a Modern Orthodox rabbi, wrote a multi-page cover story in the Orthodox Union’s flagship publication Jewish Action effusively praising Rabbi Shapiro and the work he conducted on the website for, as he described it, literally saving the spiritual and physical lives of dozens and dozens of Jewish teenagers at-risk. Through the site all kinds of troubled teens got in the touch with the rabbi and he would help them and put them in touch with people and communities that could guide them to a proper Jewish life.
The Kosel isn’t public property.
The public schools spend more per kid than yeshiva tuition costs in the non-MO world.
YY, do you think by 18 years old (if they even complete high school, given the NYC pubic school dropout rate) that the average pubic school kid in the Bronx or Queens knows math and English better than the average NYC Yeshiva student at 18?
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Should we celebrate July 4th?A:
Well, that depends on what you mean by celebrate. Should you stop your learning to make a barbecue? I don’t think that you should celebrate that way. No; there’s no reason for that. But we hang out the American flag from this Shul on July 4th. Walk down Ocean Parkway; no flags. But here, we hang out the flag.Today, when so many meshuga’im are trying to desecrate the American flag, and when the wicked courts and the wicked Supreme Court, have sanctioned the desecration of the flag by ruling that burning the flag is not a crime anymore; so we have to show that we appreciate Hashem’s gift to us. America is a great gift, and I say that every Jew today should hang out a flag on the 4th of July. Even if it’s just להכעיס, just to show the liberals, to show the רשעים, that we do appreciate America.
The foolish liberals are always trying to tell us that everywhere else is better; Only here in America it’s no good. In Kent, Ohio, the National Guard shot down four students some years back when they were protesting. What a terrible fuss the liberals made here in America. But in Beijing, in China, when the Communists shot dead two hundred students, they didn’t say a word about it. What’s done by Communists is perfectly alright. In America, these liberal bums were ruining the campuses. They were bums and they deserved to be shot; no question about it! I sent a letter to the government congratulating them.
You have to know that the liberals and the leftists are ruining America. They are wicked people and wickedness has no calculations. They do things only because of wickedness, and therefore we should do the opposite. They want to destroy the moral fabric of America and the least we can do is show that we appreciate the great gift of America. I say that we should hang out the flag; no question about it.
(Rav Avigdor Miller)Nu, so lobby Congress.
That’s wonderful, lightbrite. Thanks for sharing.
There’s a poster on these boards, jf02, who posts for a few years then disappears for a few years and then comes back, who never drank coffee. I advised her here about seven years ago, when she was in her low 20s and still never had a sip, to try a cup. After a several years hiatus she returned here and confirmed she’s a coffee drinker.
Sure it can change. Lobby your state legislature to change the law.
Do you also ask patients for their marriage license when you sign people in at your health clinic?
Government benefits are the same whether the mother is married or not. Benefit calculations depends only on household size. Whether the mother is married or unmarried living with her boyfriend or unmarried living with her best friend from school, the benefit amount is the same. Marriage license or not makes no difference and there’s no benefit to not having one.
The NJ prosecutor told the media b’feirush why he went after the Yidden. 1) He wanted to make an example out of Yidden since the local goyim were yelling for years that “The Jews” unfairly get too much welfare. (Of course that’s a lie. For example, the black and Hispanic communities collect far more welfare than the Jewish community.) 2) So in response he went digging specifically into the files of Jewish welfare recepients. 3) He’s making quite a number of blatant assumptions regarding businesses owned by family members of the charged in claiming that they’re really owned by those being charged. 4) He claims he warned the community in 2015 against welfare fraud and is thus saying it’s coming to them since he warned them in advance. Yet all the charges are for activity between 2009 and 2014, all before his warning that he’s tying into these cases. 5) Notice that all 14 charged are Orthodox Jews. Is he seriously claiming there’s no welfare fraud to be found among non-Jews? Of course not; they’re simply specifically targeting Jews. 6) Did you notice that the prosecutor illegally tipped off the media before the arrests to go to the specific personal home addresses to take pictures of the arrests? Is he a public servant/prosecutor seeking justice or is he a publicity seeker seeking the limelight in embarrassing people who are legally considered innocent prior to any conviction?
RebYidd23, well said. Someone can be of poor income and 100% legally qualify for SNAP, WIC, Section 8, etcetera, while family members provide them nice decent clothing and pay for them to travel to Eretz Yisroel for a simcha or whatever.
This false idea that to qualify for government assistance you need to wear rags, or even that you cannot wear very nice clothing, or that family members cannot pay for your travel, is just that… flat out false and with no legal basis.
I’m also wondering how Eliezer8687 is valuing women’s sheitels every time he signs in a patient to the healthcare provider he’s a secretary at. Is he a sheitel appraiser too? Does he asks his customers where they’ll be for yom tov and summers everytime a Medicaid patient comes to his sign-in desk?
The bottom line is that these charges are שקר וכזב. Completely and utterly false. They are innocent people.
cherrybim, they spread it themselves by regularly and very publicly travelling on Shabbos in cars and airplanes. And publicly attending church services for avoda zora. And eating treif in very public settings.
CTL, there are still exactly such food co-ops in NYC.
APY, it is neither halachicly acceptable to 1) believe this happened in the first place nor 2) to have a discussion off the backs of your innocent brethren who were falsely accused for you to base your “discussion” on.
If someone is falsely accused what are you going to do to prevent others in the future from being falsely accused?
A real shomrei Torah V mitzvoh wouldnt be stealing
Of course not. And 1) that has nothing to do with the comment you quoted. 2) Nor does it have anything to do with those families who were recently falsely accused.
LC: The Halachas of loshon hara and dan lechaf zechus only apply a) to Yidden and b) even among Yidden they only apply to a Shomer Shabbos.
He last posted 10 months ago:
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/users/charliehall/replies
He has had similar lengths of silence in the past where he posted after a long such a long pause.
Okay, you don’t like the Halachas of loshon hara and dan lechaf zechus. Got it.
Besides, you “don’t think” they would apply even if you did like them. Got that too. We’ll pasken Halachas how you “think”, and condemn anyone you “think” we should.
Because, after all, the FBI never arrests innocent people after an investigation. Why even the need for a trial? If the FBI has an investigation and makes an arrest, guilty! Lock ’em up and throw away the key! Court is a waste of time.
I mean, all those stories you hear of innocent people who were falsely convicted and years or decades later, after they spent years or decades in jail, and then were retroactively exonerated? Those are all bubbe maaisas! So what there’s another such innocent wrongly convicted story breaking almost every day. So what that for every falsely convicted that comes to light there’s probably another ten that are still rotting in prison despite being falsely convicted and not exonerated.
That these families weren’t even tried yet? Guilty. Throw away the key.