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Is this about Scott Yanklowitz?
Who are the Conservative gedolim?
What was the story about?
No other mesorah?
Doesn’t your family have its own mesorah?
Do you think it would be okay for you to ask a shaila to his rebbe?
If it costs 6k/month just for a basic home there, only wealthy folks can live there.
Who guides him when *he* has a shaila?
How unpurim like…
There certainly are a number of gedolei hador in America.
The difference, rob, is that Borokovski was always a shomrei Torah uMitzvos, despite the sheker about him Goren invented to accomplish his political promise of changing mamzeirim into non-mamzeirim, whereas R. Druckman’s “converts” would eat chazir and violate Shabbos as soon as they dried the water off from their mikva dunk.
Some gedolim are universally known by their first name. Take Rav Chaim, for example. Everyone knows when you simply refer to Rav Chaim you’re referring to Rav Chaim Kanievsky.
And you were 12-13 yo then?
Did you mention names or were the names of the particular rabbis understood by those hearing your comment?
LB, how long ago did you get that address?
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are friends.
Dress up as a police officer and they’ll open their door.
What benefits apply to living out of town?
I would hope the goyim’s “spiritual” ideas are not influencing any Yidden.
Check for a mezuza.
rabbiofberlin.
In chutz laaretz, the NY metro area tends to have some of the most temimusdik kehilos.
Aish dropped Slifkin’s books after the gedolei yisroel denounced his views.
In any event, Aish publishes some secular sources. What they publish nowadays is no raya that it is permissible.
In chutz laaretz the most ruchniyos neighborhoods tend to be in the New York metro area.
So they’re not too happy. Not everyone’s always happy anyways. Life goes on and you go to the next random Yid’s door.
The streets the rich people live on.
Rabbi Kaplan took a shitah in a kabbalah sefer that he admits the Arizal said was a base error, and decided that for the sake of Kiruv he can (a) decide that it’s correct, and (b) interpret it in a way that fits in with what some people who cannot accept the Torah believe. He based this strange methodology on his erroneous interpretation of a Rambam which he believed allowed him to basically say anything is correct if he finds it somewhere in a sefer, even if we know its a mistake, simply because it’s a hashkafa issue. I know that doesnt sound coherent, and its not, but thats basically the position.
But at the end of the day, his conclusion in that essay – that the world is billions of years old – has been declared by Rav Elyashev, Rav Chaim Kanievsky, as well as the rest of the Gedolei HaDor to be simple kefirah. He meant well, and Hashem yislach lo.
Torah, Avoda, Gemilas Chasodim.
Skulener Rebbe, Rav Aharon Schechter, Rav Elya Ber, Rav Shmuel, Rav Dovid are a few of the names that come to mind. There are a handful.
Kovetz Teshuvos has been published for many years during Rav Elyashiv’s lifetime.
benig, what Rav Elyashiv paskened was that dayanim who believed the world older than 6000, are pasul l’dayanus and any conversions they conduct are invalid.
For further clarification, Rav Elyashiv’s talmid muvik Rav Eisenstein is a phone call away for first hand information.
Avi, your “facts” about Borokovsky are complete fictions invented by Mr. Goren when he was seeking to fulfill his political campaign promises (when running for office of chief rabbi) to make the two mamzeirim ois-mamzer. Borokovsky went through a completely kosher geirus, never went to church thereafter, had a Jewish wedding, and not only knew how to daven well but he was a regular shul attendee.
Rav Eisenstein shlita was was Rav Elyashiv ztl’s talmid muvak and gabbai for many years. Very few other people can speak as authoritatively on Rav Elyashiv’s positions as Rav Eisenstein. Especially on an issue such as this where he spoke to Rav Elyashiv directly and is relating what he stated.
Rav Reuven Feinstein shlita also supported the EJF and was the chairman of its halachic committee.
yytz, it was not related by the person you reference. Rav Nochom Eisenstein shlita, a talmid muvak of Rav Elyashiv and his gabbai for many years directly spoke to Rav Elyashiv and publicly related that Rav Elyashiv said that anyone believing the world is over 6000 years old is an apikorus. You can call Rav Eisenstein (he speaks English) to confirm.
ZD: Me too. He’s only a little better than this charlatan.
Mr. Yanklowitz has openly and publicly expressed apikorsus’ opinions. Even if he had converted with a real frum beis din (who obviously was unaware that he was an apikorus), his purported conversion would be invalid as no conversion can be valid on a person who holds heretical views.
Rav Elyashiv went as far as saying that if at the time of conversion a person believed the world is older than 6000 years, he remains a goy despite converting in the mikva. Even if someone disagrees about the 6000 years point being an invalidating view, clearly an open apikorus cannot validly convert.
Given all that on top of “converting” with a non-frum “beit din” of the heretical OO movement, Yanklowitz is a gentile.
An Open “Orthodox” conversion has the same validity as a Reform and Conservative “conversion”.
Xerox?
You cannot celebrate during the sefira.
Lilmod: Here’s an excerpt from Rav Hutnet ztl’s Jewish Observer article:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/modern-orthodox-judaism/page/4#post-106892
Even the largest shitta for afikomen is relatively a small amount of food.
Anything wrong with having a halachic discussion in the CR about an issue that needs to be asked as a shaila IRL?
I think not.
Have a chametz eating contest the week before Pesach.
No. Fressing like a chazir isn’t muttar in the name of a contest.
IRL my last name is Duck. My first name I share with the President. I know you don’t believe me just because I’m claiming it here (you probably think I just want an affinity with the POTUS), but once you’re a mod you’ll realize it’s true since you’ll see it in the official name fields for the CR profile.