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Oh, Abaye and Rava will certainly come dressed differently, being from a different climate, geography and period. But they’d certainly get right down to learning in the Lakewood Beis Medrash and giving the shiurim they left off in Sura and Pumbedisa, with no less vigor and love for their Lakewood talmidim.
Dr. E:. The Beis Yaakov girls today are not dating for shorter periods or getting married younger than the Beis Yaakov girls of 10 or 20 years ago have. In fact, if there’s been any changes in recent years compared to their mothers or older sisters, it is that they’re dating longer and getting married later.
So if the divorce rate is up currently, it clearly is not a result of them dating shorter than before or getting married younger than better. Indeed the opposite might be the case.
So we might do well considering to have the couples date shorter and marry even younger.
Further proof to this is that the Modern Orthodox community, which dates notably longer and gets married notably later, has a significantly higher divorce rate than the Yeshivish and Chasidic communities.
Do you focus more of your energies on stopping the drug dealers or on stopping their customers?
Dr. E: The divorce crisis is much less in communities that have quick and early marriages than in communities that have longer dating and later marriages.
The same source that a serial killer isn’t a tzaddik. What’s the source for that?
Lilmod: Which neighborhoods are more Chareidi and which are more Yeshivish?
GH: Men are created by design from our Creator to go outside in the world whereas women are created by our Creator to mostly be at home and not outside in the wide world.
In what way have we mythologized our history? Every yingele in cheder is extensively taught about Eved Ivri and Eved Knani.
Lilmod:
1. Are you talking about EY, America or both? What age are you defining as older? And what leads you to believe most older never married girls marry divorced/widowed men?
2. I don’t think there’s a significant number of twice divorced people for that to be a notable factor.
3. What leads you to believe most divorces are initiated by women?
4. What you call an “unfair assumption”, many gedolei rabbonim have asserted.
RY23, you need to learn at the feet of the masters.
Someone who isn’t Shomer Shabbos can’t be a tzaddik. Period.
1) Going to college reduces a girl’s ruchniyos outlook on life.
2) Even without going to college, the longer a girl waits to get married after Beis Yaakov her level of ruchniyos deteriorates.
Does anyone remember the famous story of the Chofetz Chaim when he found out his rebbetzin bought a lottery ticket, not having known he was opposed to purchase them, promised if he win he’d donate the entire winnings to tzedaka (or the yeshiva?)
Winnie: It is unquestionable that girls who choose to delay their shidduch process in order to complete a higher education (or for any reason, for that matter), face a graver risk of being left without a chair when the shidduch music stops, considering the real phenomenon of their being more girls than boys in the shidduch parsha. Girls who choose to marry younger (18-21) clearly reduce their risk of getting caught up in the shidduch crisis.
Mammele:
In the very Chasidish communities, are today’s couples having, on average, notably less children than their parents?
Orthodox Jewish population growth is very robust.
Au contraire. Orthodox Jewish girls putting off marriage and instead going to college is the shidduch crisis.
I don’t know much about this store or dispute, but speaking generally a) there are numerous rallies on Shabbos promoting Shmiras Shabbos attended by Gedolei Rabbonim and b) publicly protesting in America is a very widely recognized, honored and accepted fundamental right in American constitutional law.
RY23: The Torah is. I’m pro-Torah.
R4: What are you doing to see them? Could I have made my last comment otherwise?
The Hava Nagila song was created by secular zionists at Hebrew University in the late 1910s.
Many of those who won and went crazy were a result of in-family fighting with their spouse or other family members.
Many of the MO, especially their children, became yeshivish themselves. This should be appreciated.
R4nd0m3x, you have a good memory. From the brief time the nine year old (single post) thread was bumped to the front page seven days ago (subsequently to be deleted again*) you remember the exact title, parenthesis and quotation marks included.
(*It was never approved when it was submitted nine years ago but had a resurrection when the CR software was upgraded four months ago until RY23 demanded its removal seven days ago.)
No. Too many winners ended up as suicide victims, murder victims and insane asylum victims.
Mazal Tov!
Sorry, you have the wrong address. I don’t have a break in my family yichus between Har Sinai and today in what is today called Chareidi/Ultra-Orthodox. And I know my genealogy back to Rashi.
A Yid can only be a tzaddik by being a Shomer Shabbos (among other requirements.) Lacking Shmiras Shabbos it isn’t possible he’s a tzaddik.
A goy can only be a “tzaddik” by fully and intentionally maintaining all Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach.
Also, the Halacha of Dina D’Malchusa Dina is specifically limited by Halacha as to its applicability. It doesn’t cover every national law. The Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 369:6 and the Rambam Hilchos Gezelos 5:11 codify this principle as Halacha regarding the taxes of the government.
Mauritania, Sudan, Yemen and Nigeria still have slavery. Until the 1990s many more countries had legal slavery. And contemporary Psak Halacha, according to some shittas, permitted an Eved Knani in the context of a mechanism to allow a mamzer to marry without the resulting children being mamzerim. Some of those psaks seem to consider Dina D’Malchusa inapplicable when purchasing an Eved Knani. Other poskim do consider DDD applicable to this and only permit it in countries that have legalized slavery.
The Shulchan Aruch paskens, Halacha l’maaisa, even today you can purchase an Eved Knani.
To borrow the immortal request of my dear friend, that I cannot better verbalize:
I request mechila from anyone and everyone who I have hurt or wronged. This includes both those who post and those who only read posts. Whether I have been too harsh, angry, insulting, flippant, dismissive, thoughtless, wrongly suspicious, misleading, not helpful where I could have been, or guilty of any other action (or lack thereof) that caused pain, I ask for your forgiveness.
Nobody on this site needs to ask for my mechila, because any offense toward me was minimal and I am mochel it.
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Thank you.
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Wishing a ksiva vachasima tova to all the fine people here and all Klal Yisroel.
I Can Only Try
Ayin Hora.
Congregation Sons of Israel has been in Lakewood for about 100 years.
Er, akuperma, the 10 shvatim crossing the Sambation isn’t an internet legend.
akuperma: We know that the Ten Lost Tribes went across the Sambation river.
My clairvoyant pearls of wisdom:
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/users/clairvoyant
It seems to me that a mechallel Shabbos and drug addicts are given more respect by internet posters and the modern crowd than those who steal from the government.
And I’ll dare say that mechallel Shabbos is a bigger aveira than stealing from the government.
I might be at one of the chasunas.
“How was the eclipse?”
It went exactly as expected.
It’s Erev Rosh Chodesh Elul, Rabbosai. They say that in Elul even the fish give zich ah tzitter. What’s pshat? There are two kinds of animals. Warm blooded animals and cold blooded animals. And the fish, in the cold sea, are the coldest blooded animals. And even they tzitter from Elul.
Can we do any less?