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mentsch: That’s a great comment. Can you explain how/why recent events cured you from paying attention to the news?
Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 240:17): Both men and women are equal in being required to honor and fear their parents. However, the woman does not have the ability to fulfill this Mitzvah because she is subservient to her husband. Therefore, she is exempt from the Mitzvah of honoring her father and mother while she is married. If she gets divorced or widowed she is obligated.
I retract the blanket term “prohibited” and replace it with my aforementioned paraphrasing of Rav Moshe.
Rav Moshe writes (EH 4:32) that a Yirei Shamayim man shouldn’t wear a ring.
Why can women wear skirts but not men?
Sidney is WASPy?
Or Paul.
Is Peter a name a religious Jew would use as a secular name?
Men are forbidden to wear a ring.
A men’s watch isn’t jewelry.
nisht, what kind of family health insurance costs $40,000 or $60,000 a year, per family?
It is forbidden for men to wear jewelry.
So genocide could be legal and thus not murderous?
We didn’t change our names to Egyptian ones in Mitzrayim.
Welfare recipients aren’t highly motivated in actually voting. Reducing welfare doesn’t cause a net loss of votes. There are more non-entitlement recipients voting than entitlement recipients.
Lately there’s been an upsurge in successful tzedaka fundraising via internet campaigns on these special fundraising websites.
How about a CCTV that’s activated by a motion detector?
A mechitza isn’t a chumra; it is Halacha.
A Ger doesn’t have parents (or siblings). They are Bnei Avrohom. Once converted their relationship to their former family is halachicly severed.
“Technically not murder if itโs legal.”
Was the German government liquidation of German Jewry not murder?
Is your opinion the Halacha?
Health insurance doesn’t cost $40,000, even if purchased by the consumer directly. Family health insurance costs the same whether it’s a two parent family with one child or a two parent family with ten children.
Everything you said in your most recent comment as well as in your first comment is riddled with inaccuracies and fabrications attributing things to the Gedolei Yisroel zt’l that are complete fictions.
Meanwhile Satmar is 250,000 Bnei and Bas Torah strong and growing rapidly, spread out across Eretz Yisroel, the US, Canada, Australia, England, Belgium and elsewhere, whereas the MO even in America are now down to about only a quarter of Orthodox American Jews whereas a few decades ago they were a majority of the American Orthodox.
iac, why are you distinguishing between a shaila already asked by calling to a posek directly versus a shaila already asked by calling a posek on a hotline?
No, you just mischaracterized the SR, Rav Yaakov, the PR and Rav Schorr.
Winnie, let’s make it a bit more inaccessible and difficult to reach, eh? ๐ค
Divrei Yoel, Behaloscha (page 304):
Would you even imagine that there would be empty headed fools that while they call themselves religious but the smell of heresy wafts from their mouths and they fool the whole world with their announcements about miracles [during the Six Day War] โ Gโd save us. If in fact these were miracles it would have been much worse. That is because there is bitter retribution to the Jewish people when G-d does miracles from the aspect of evil as the Maharal mentioned before stated. However in truth there were no miracles here at all [concerning the Six Day War]. It was simply a natural occurrence as can readily be seen from the discussions in the newspapers that it was assumed that [Israel] would be victorious. I have already stated that I am fearful โ Gโd forbid โ for the time when actual miracles are done for them. If at this time when in truth there were no miracles and yet this great evil befell them, then surely if there had been miracles done for them that it would have brought about severe suffering as we mentioned above. From this we see the extreme degree of their cruelty and evil. That even though it was reasonable that [Israel] was going to win the war, nevertheless the Jewish people were in great danger. Nevertheless they placed the Jewish people in this danger for the sake of their glory and for the sake of their governing. Because it was obvious to those with understanding that [Israel] had the ability to completely prevent the war. There were a number of alternatives and circumstances regarding preventing the war, but this is not the place to go into detail. Nevertheless someone who has eyes will see that there is no doubt about this. In fact it was the filth of heresy that blinded their eyes and made them act in an irresponsible and irrational manner…
Ahl HaGeula vโahl HaTemura #86:
It is one of the kindnesses of Gโd that He hasnโt tested us with tests that are so severe because there have not yet been open miracles. All their publicity and stories about their miracles are only false illusions that blind the eyes. Satan has been satisfied with that which the religious Jews who are attracted to Zionism have described as miracles. This has been enough to blind the eyes of a generation as weak and lowly generation as ours. However I am still afraid of what will happen in the future. I hope that it wonโt come to this and that we wonโt be tested from Heaven with different and powerful testsโฆ In general a person needs to know that he should not be excited and impressed with any miracle or sign and wonder or success of the wicked or their ilk. That is because all of them are only tests from Satanโฆ
Eli, I guess I’m a bit dated. The last time I called Rav Dovid I reached him on the Yeshiva payphone, which was the easiest way to reach him for a long time.
Conservatives/Republicans do not advocate eliminating entitlement benefits/safety net programs. The only debate is over what is the appropriate level of benefits.
Is whoever proposes the highest amount correct? Absurd.
The halacha is that if you give tochacha one person will stop sinning while a thousand others will laugh at you and continue sinning, you must give the tochacha.
POTUS is NOT proposing to eliminate Medicaid, Food Stamps and welfare. He’s proposing to change the benefit levels to an amount below the current spending.
Who said the current benefits amount is most ideal? If previous administrations raised the benefits to higher amounts, no future Congress can every lower it? That’s absurd.
Should be a lesson for those silly enough to push off marriage.
Yes, in ASL.
Did you know that in sign language the sign for “Jew” is stroking a beard.
There are no free Google Voice equivalents anywhere, afaik. There are paid services that have that functionality, though.
Every language has a different sign language?
Winnie “Elsewhere on these boards people have pretty much come to the conclusion that tochacha can only be given if the person knows that his words will be heard and not do more damage. On an anonymous fourm when one does not know the poster or how he will take tochacha, can one give tochacha? ”
The Halacha is the opposite. One must give tochacha unless he’s sure he’ll be ignored and the sinner will continue sinning. If he’s unsure how it’ll be taken, he must give tochacha.
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Rav Shmuel is easily reachable. He answers his own phone at home. And he is easily approachable and spoken to. No Ivory Tower.
Same with Rav Dovid Cohen.
Rav Dovid Feinstein is also easily reachable very approachable. You can reach him on the yeshiva payphone.
“Hope you can put 2 and 2 together”
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RY, if you’d have gone to public school you’d probably be eating treif and driving on Shabbos, by now.
How do you know whether those girls are great?
Can the SMS you need to receive be sent to a non-Israel phone number?
That should likely work. But you need to signup in the US or using a US IP address.
In many in town areas, a child could never leave a frum environment.
Ontario, Quebec and Yukon Territory.