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If the goy you rent your storefront bases the rent on a percentage of sales, and the rental terms demand the store be open seven days a week, you’ll keep the store open on Shabbos by hiring a non-Jewish worker for Saturday?
If the psak is you can’t keep your Amazon store open on Shabbos, how’s that different than the storefront with the non-Jewish Saturday worker?
Google can.
Sam2: The easiest example (of many) is when the wife requests a divorce due to a desire to marry someone else she became acquainted with. This is clearly spelled out; no idea how you missed it. But there’s “one case” for your education. This is mentioned in the Mishna in Nedarim 90b, if I recall the maare makom, as well as in Shulchan Aruch.
I said comparably. The Obama Administration supported and encouraged a coup d’etat in Ukraine against the sovereign democratically elected government that precipitated their civil war. As far as Crimea, it had been part of Russia for hundreds of years until a Soviet dictator decided to unilaterally give it to Ukraine as part of a “birthday gift” to himself. It is very clear, even if you don’t accept the referendum, that the vast majority of Crimeans want to be part of Russia, as they have been for hundreds of years. It was never part of Ukraine prior to that “birthday gift”.
As far as Syria, the Obama administration allowed the civil war there to fester for years and years with hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly civilians, without helping the rebels overthrow Assad when they had the chance and the US could and should have assisted them. This was even after Assad used chemical weapons and Obama then backed down from his “red line” to bomb Assad, making a mockery of America and letting the civil war to kill hundreds of thousands more. Russian intervention appears now to bringing an end to the civil war and probably the further killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians if the war simply continued on for years and years more.
I don’t think career politicians necessarily make better cabinet members than businessmen. The reverse is likely closer to the truth.
As far as the Russia issue, it is a contrived issue by the President-elect’s political opponents. It has no merit. As an aside, Russia behaved better, and acted in a more morally justified position, in both Ukraine and Syria compared to the Obama Administration’s activities and policies regarding the affairs in those two countries. (Again, in *comparison*.)
What gives you the idea that Pru U’rvu is of a lower level or has more heteirim than Kibud Av Veim?
They’re both commanded to us in the same Torah.
I would stick to Encyclopedia Britannica if wiki cost money.
I hadn’t intended to give mussar. I intended to discuss various points of this topic in a general discussion.
There’s a chiyuv for a man to be married by 20. Any later requires a heter. And the heter is only till his 24th birthday. Beis Din is supposed to force him to marry if he isn’t by 20 (or 24 with a heter for Limud Torah), per S”A.
There are also circumstances where there are heteirim to stop honoring one’s parent.
benig: Is a Kohen on a higher spiritual level, by default, than a Yisroel? Why, by default, do we save the life of a Kohen before a Yisroel and a man before a woman?
It looks like John Bolton will be appointed to the Number 2 spot in the State Department. An excellent choice indeed. The head of Exxon Mobil is likely the next Secretary of State.
Pres. elect Trump has been making excellent cabinet appointments overall. Far better than anticipated.
Comlink, after honoring your parents can you stop honoring them since you were “yotzei” the mitzvah of Kibud Av Veim?
You can’t stop people from eating treif either. But if someone suggests the possibility of eating a Big Mac you ought to object. Same idea about suggesting the possibility of interfering with Pru U’rvu.
What’s this business of deciding how many kids to have. That is Hashem’s business, not yours.
Other authorities that either explicitly or implicitly contradict the notion of generally higher spirituality in women include Rambam, Mishnah Horarios 3:7; Tur, Orach Chaim 46; Akeidas Yitzchak, Bereishis 6; Bartenura, Mishnah Horarios 3:7; Taz, Orach Chaim 46; Zies Ra’anan (Magen Avraham), Yalkut Shemoni, Shmuel 1:1; Vilna Gaon, Even Shelaima 1:8; Baal Shevet Musar, Midrash Talpiyos, Ohs Aleph, Anaf Isha; Rav Tzadock Rabinowitz, Dover Tzedeck, p. 119; R’ Avraham Yitzchak Kook, Olas Re’iah, Birchos Hashachar; R’ Moshe Feinstein, Igoros Moshe, Orach Chaim IV, 49; R’ Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Man of Faith in the Modern World, (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1989), p. 84; Lubavitcher Rebbe, Sichos in English, Iyar-Tammuz 5744, Vol. 21, pp. 69-72; R’ Avigdor Miller, Rabbi Avigdor Miller Speaks, (Brooklyn, NY: Mesorah), pp. 245-246.
The Maharal in Tiferes Yisroel 4 and 28 states that men have chochma yesayrah. He also says men are more ruchniyus in general.
Among gedolim who lost their rebbetzin when they were at an older age, many have remarried to a second, younger, rebbetzin capable of child bearing. Not too long ago it wasn’t even too uncommon for older men among the hamon hoam who lost their wife to do the same, to fulfill the mitzvah of Pru U’rvu. I know many folks whose zeida (or elter-zeida) lost their wife in their 60s or so and remarried to their bubbe when she was in her 20s or 30s and had more children.
Eat another food with the same bracha beforehand and you’ll avoid the shaila.
Many gedolim and rabbonim, even having already reached older years when they lost their rebbetzin, remarried to a younger woman capable of child bearing in order so they could fulfill the mitzvah of Pru U’rvu.
Baruch Hashem. It’s a waste of yiddishe gelt to give them even a penny.
To change your YWN/Coffee Room password to whatever you like (instead of using the long randomly generated password issued at the time you established your account):
On top of the Coffee Room page:
At “Welcome, MyScreenName” – click on your screen name
click “Edit”
enter the new password you would like
click “Update Profile”
You can use the above instructions to change the e-mail address (which can be used for password recovery) your account is registered with as well.
I think you’re making a mistake. Which beis din is used is far more important than you imagine. The second rov I mentioned above, aside from being a shalom bayis expert advice giver, is also an expert on butei dinim that will be more invaluable to you than you imagine. At least call him.
Was Rebbetzin Kanievsky doing the shopping in the first place?
Petraeus is military/war hero.
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