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Did you ever meet the Yekke who is habitually late?
Or a driverless car.
The Aibeshter, HKB”H, the RBS”O, Hashem Yisborach,
Why would a wife be anymore jealous that her husband has another wife than a person would be jealous that he shares one father with seven other siblings?
I said nothing of the sort. But what’s inherently wrong with claiming that, say, race a is biologically more intelligent than race b?
I’m #1.
No one has explained what’s inherently wrong with racism. As Jews, throughout biblical and rabbinic literature, we claim superiority.
Always a pleasure to make my point while being respectful. 😎 (Really my point was that, depending on the issue, they could be correct in that it symbolizes Jewish culture and contains elements of kedusha.)
The gedolim have not come out against it. Some sporadic rabbis may have individually spoken against it, but not The Gedolim.
There are Sefardic halacha seforim from Sefardic poskim of previous generations ruling that women in their communities are obligated to cover their head, hair and part of their face.
What’s wrong with racism?
In the great Yekkishe tradition, the letter J is used for pronouncing the letter Yud, in transliteration.
Yet it was the right thing for Yaakov Avinu to have married multiple wives.
Country Yossi makes these determinations.
assurnet, how do you think Klal Yisroel managed with polygamy for thousands of years? And other than Ashkenazim, who stopped it after they moved to Europe, the rest of Klal Yisroel (Sefardim, Teimanim, etc.) continued it into modern times.
Lady Fingers is a food product that comes from the general food market and precedes its becoming a Jewish food item for Pesach.
Would you consider naming your future child, at his bris, Peter?
I’ve met many Teimanim in KJ happy to call themselves a Yid.
Would a very choshuve Rov go by a non-Jewish name? Could you imagine Rav Moshe Feinstein being known as Rabbi Moses?
So it’s equally not batampte.
The answers are all here:
CEOs are typically better paid than salesmen. So are members of the Board of Directors. And the CTO and CFO.
Benny doesn’t sound to batampte.
Lilmod, I’m surprised you understood the context of that joke given you didn’t understand some jokes passed around here referencing Christian concepts.
Teimani Yidden can marry multiple wives.
If you’re speaking to the rabbi, you refer to him as Rabbi Ginsburg even addressing him.
If you’re speaking about him to someone else you can call him Rabbi Ginsburg, or if there is more than one rabbi with that name you can refer to him as Rabbi Eliyahu Ginsburg.
Minhagim aren’t pick-n-choose. And a man cannot change his minhagim because he wants to.
WADR, Why should what you personally feel/think have any bearing on what the reality is?
Why would a public figure be different than an average citizen?
I can hear a chilik between an act (by anyone) in the public arena versus a private act.
What is the minhag of Teimanim?
Why would you expect more from an anti-semitic rag like Haaretz?
95% don’t wear tefilin.
WB Sam and Gut Yom Tov!
Yekke, your updated input is noted. (My question to DY still applies.)
The question is whether, as Yekke said there is, there’s an equal halachic obligation for us as a klal to make the former super-rich family who has fallen to become only upper middle class whole again to bring them back to their very high standard of living that they’ve been accustomed to for many years, as much as we are obligated to make a real pauper have enough tzedaka to keep a roof over his head.
(Obviously anyone would be praiseworthy to forgo tzedaka. Whether the guy who can’t keep up with the finance payments on his oldish Ford Grand Caravan that he carpools the kids with [maybe he can arrange alternative carpool arrangements] or the guy who can no longer keep up with the maintenance costs of the Rolls Royce he’s been accustomed to driving for the last 30 years.)
DaasYochid, do you disagree (as a practical matter) with Yekke’s point in the other thread regarding די מחסורו אשר יחסר לו?
Yekke: There are people who can’t afford it. While they once lived life in a lap of luxury, they have unfortunately fallen upon hard times, and money is tighter than it was. So when they struggle to continue living the luxuries they always had, you get upset. They don’t need this, why can’t they live like the rest of us?
If you look at Hilchos Tzdakah, you’ll find an interesting thing. The obligation of Tzdakah is די מחסורו אשר יחסר לו. If you look here, you’ll find that you are equally obligated to provide basic necessities to a pauper as you are to provide luxuries to a man who was once rich. You must provide a horse for him to ride upon, and a slave to run in front honouring him. Surely he doesn’t need a horse? The slave running in front is just his own Ga’avah; it doesn’t make his journey any more comfortable? Why don’t we tell him to tone down his lifestyle now, he’s living off tzdakah – he doesn’t need such a fancy car!
The Halachah is not like that. The luxuries of a man who once could affort these things are necessities. Just because you don’t need it, and just because he once upon a time didn’t need it – suddenly, when he doesn’t have the money any more, the upperclass lifestyle is something he desperately needs.
The Torah doesn’t tell him that such an upperclass lifestyle is assur when there are others struggling to put food on the table. The VERY SAME chiyuv you have to feed those struggling with food obligates you to support his extravagantly luxurious lifestyle.
Yekke, do you see a difference between stam going to a hotel for Pesach… and flying the extended family to a hotel halfway around the world during Pesach, spending $80,000 for those 10 days lined up with entertainers, babysitting, swimming, sightseeing, shows and luxurious wine tasting on yom tov?
Spending about $25-30,000 port family for Pesach at a 10 day hotel/airfare is pretty typical for these folks.
Chag Kosher V’sameach.
Blocking traffic is a common form of civil protest in all democracies, including the US.
Let’s not get carried away in describing it as any more than that.
Civil disobedience is an acceptable form of protest in democracies, even when it entails disobeying civil law.
Blazes, Yekke, I’m disappointed to hear you might be less extreme than presented!
“Many boys stop being Frum in the army.”
Tragically, many become not frum and have never been within 100 miles of an army base.
A hugely larger portion of frum people joining the army become not frum R”L, than those who were frum and never within 100 miles of an army base who became not frum R”L.