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Eliezer, the Kohen Gadol, as well as the other Kohanim and everyday Jews, wore more than what just a yarmulka would cover.
It’s 4:57. Where are you?
“LB, you may hear my accent in my words. It probably sounds like London”
Different parts of London have different accents.
Isn’t “Herr Rabbiner” a bit German, rather than English?
I’m not sure this is the right forum for this information.
You think Jews davened bareheaded in the Beis HaMikdash times?
I’m more concerned about the cream of the BMG crop and the opinions of their roshei yeshivos. YU is much too problematic to seriously consider their views.
Jews have uninterruptedly customarily worn a hat or other near full head covering since ancient times. You, too, should follow the kehila’s custom.
No idea what you’re talking about, Syag. You are confused, despite your usual retort that is sure to follow that you’re not confused (which I won’t address a second time as it typically parrots what you said previously). I’ve barely spoken about them. Maybe one out of ten thousand of my posts mentioned either of them. Many months easily pass between my ever mentioning them, and even then it is usually in response to someone else bringing them up (like in this very thread.)
The claim that RHS or the BDA/GPS did the conversion is nothing more than an internet rumor. The secret three have always, and remain, a closely guarded secret. The only known actor is R. Haskel Lookstein.
Avi, it was the first Shabbos in January after the inauguration, in the early afternoon when Mr. Kushner was observed in public on a White House porch snapping photographs.
Health, do you violate issurim when saying conservative conversions are invalid? How do you feel about the beis din in Eretz Yisroel that ruled that thousands of Russian conversions were invalid? What makes you think this one is different? If a conservative beis din calls itself Orthodox that makes it kosher? If an Orthodox acts no differently than a Conservative, is it any more kosher?
LB, it’s a very vague term that can mean anything to anybody. Many effectively non-frum people call themselves that. And the fact the OP stated he attended a sterile gashmius co-ed high school, which itself is assur, lends credibility to that understanding.
Look at it this way, Orthodox Jews do not date or marry non-Jews. Yet he very much indesputably dated a non-Jew for years. Put aside the public photos and news reports of him eating with her in non-kosher restaurants long before her father ran for president (those photo stories are still online from the early 2010s). And let’s not kid ourselves that he brought his own kosher food to the super fancy non-kosher joints he was taking her to. Why would he go to that restaurant on his date with her if he was bringing his own food? Do you really kid yourself into thinking that while he was dating a non-Jew he was keeping kosher and living an Orthodox/halachic life?
So clearly he was not observant long before marriage. Does anyone actually believe that when she underwent the process she intended to become observant when her fiance was not?
ubiq, you realize surely that someone who isn’t Orthodox can’t convert a non-Jew to be able to marry her if she doesn’t plan to keep Orthodox Judaism. So on top of everything else you can add the transgression of marrying a non-Jewess.
mentsch, if the converting rabbi incorrectly informs a potential convert that she needn’t keep certain fundamental Jewish laws and as a result she undergoes the conversion intending to not keep those certain laws, the conversion has no validity. A beis din in Eretz Yisroel years ago declared invalid thousands of Russian “conversions” for this exact reason.
By the way, that same rabbi who did her conversion himself went to church for Christian services in honor of Obama’s first inauguration. And even the RCA, which he is a member of, publicly condemned him for doing so. Chief Rabbi Lord Jacobovitz also declined attending Charles and Diana’s wedding (by telling them not to invite him so he shouldn’t have to formally decline) since he know her couldn’t attend church even for the Queen’s honor.
mentsch, he’s been driven many times on Shabbos. These are far from emergencies. He’s also flown on Shabbos to Saudi Arabia. And eaten treif meals, in public, served by Saudi Arabia, the Vatican, etc. As well as treif served in the White House. And went to treif restaurants with his wife for their anniversary long before Trump even ran for President. This has all been on camera.
Maybe the guy in your neighbourhood who works on Shabbos and eats chazer also asked a shaila and got a heter for all his aveiros brabim bfarhesya.
mentsch, is repeatedly and openly driving on Shabbos, going to church for Christian services and eating many treif meals in public not proof of open transgressions?
The Chofetz Chaim disagrees with R. Pruzansky. He’s incorrect about the Halacha regarding the first group. Mr. Kushner (her personal status is at best uncertain) has no right to violate rabbinical commandments, let alone the biblical commandments the couple routinely and publicly transgress with their chazer eating, church attending, Shabbos violating ways. There was no outstanding need for him to take a job requiring such transgressions. The Chofetz Chaim rules we are to condemn such repeated willful public violations of these serious transgressions.
What’s even more shocking is this rabbis statement that he could understand if Mr. Kushner became, officially, a fully non-observant transgressor of all of Halacha rather than the, supposedly, only limited violations he currently transgresses.
โHigh crimes and misdemeanorsโ has no standard altogether or legal definition. It only has a political definition. It is whatever the sitting members of Congress decide or want or vote it to be. Or not to be.
Absolutely not. Everyone can do a teshuva shleima and you start your slate as a complete tzaddik. You are entitled to the best shidduch with a true bas talmid chochom.
How does a blind deaf person get married?
Use whatever terminology floats your boat. The bottom line is that the point here based on the discussion of the president’s action is that he has the legal right under US law to order the FBI to open or close investigations. And even to order US Attorneys to prosecute or not prosecute.
The legislative branch of our government stands with the executive branch of our government on this matter despite the pipe dreams and posturing of the minority opposition party.
me:13: The source is the Constitution and Federal law. If you have doubts, read the transcripts of Comey’s testimony today. In response to a Senator’s question he responded that the President has the legal right to order him to close an investigation.
Nowhere have I done so. Do you believe childbirth is not a pikuach nefesh category? I haven’t suggested Hatzalah be called for a toothache.
Do you believe a woman is prohibited to use a male doctor for non-pekuach nefesh situations?
CTL, the Judicial Branch is NOT part of the Executive Branch, and contrary to your comment I said nothing about the President ordering any Judicial Branch member to do anything. The Executive, Judicial and Congressional branches are the three independent, of each other, branches of the United States government.
And the President legally CAN directly order the FBI chief and the FBI to open or close any investigation. He can also order a US Attorney to prosecute or not prosecute a case.
CTL, the President, as head of the Executive Branch, can directly order any Executive Branch employee, i.e. cabinet member, FBI chief, prosecutor or office worker, how and what to do in his job. Including investigating or not investigating anyone or thing.
DaMoshe: In that case they surely shouldn’t be MO, CJ or RJ.
There are plenty of yeshiva bochorim who were born in and/or live and stay in Jerusalem and other parts of Eretz Yisroel.
There are virtually no more misnagdim.
How did Bill Clinton dodge the draft?
Smiley, shmiley. I wanted to stress Rav David shlita’s point.
๐ (This is a real smiley.)
“There is no toeles to that angle being discussed.”
If it is true, the toeles is to forewarn the public. And if it is true, it is toeles that the public be forewarned in the most public and widespread manner possible until every kosher consumer in the world who encounters that symbol knows not to use it.
Rav David shlita didn’t mean they don’t have dogs because they’re poor.
How about my giving you New York weather for receiving San Francisco weather?
APY, Hatzalah sending out a non-neighborhood member due to the expressed concern you enumerated about a neighbor responding beats establishing a redundant second organization with far less experience.
APY, Hatzalah has non-neighborhood members too.
It is legal for the President to order the FBI to open or to close any investigation. The President is legally America’s chief law enforcement officer and chief prosecutor. And there’s about as much likelihood of impeachment as there is of Canada’s 10 provinces becoming US states.
TL1: Men make halachic determinations for women, and there’s no reason their input is any less vital here.
Satmar is large in Boro Park. And they’ve outgrown Williamsburg and have moved into the surrounding neighborhoods (Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, etc.) and they’re large in Lakewood too, as well as in Canada, Belgium, the UK and Israel.
lesschumras: I’ll fix Wikipedia to the above current info. Give me a few minutes.
isaacmalul: Read the comments above from “Toi”, as will as “a mirrer” and “kasher”.
โDo women only go to women doctors?โ
a. Many do
b. Even those who dont, often do for โsensitiveโ areas
c. Even if not insistent many prefer women doctors especially for โsensitive areasโa. Less than 1% of women will refuse all medical care by male medical professionals.
b. And even those will accept, to take an example, a male surgeon that needs to cut into her body.
c. Is surgery a sensitive area?โDo women only go to women doctors?โ
a. Many do
b. Even those who dont, often do for โsensitiveโ areas
c. Even if not insistent many prefer women doctors especially for โsensitive areasโa. Less than 1% of women will refuse all medical care by male medical professionals.
b. And even those will accept, to take an example, a male surgeon that needs to cut into her body.
c. If surgery a sensitive area?Midwifery is a tiny subset of what emergency medical care covers.
RY, most women usually don’t try to show off their manhood.
Hatzalah’s call center dispatches the call before hanging up, usually within seconds of getting the address.