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A C/Section would cause no pidyon haben where otherwise there would be one. There is a shitta that after a Cesarian on a first born child if the second child is a boy born naturally (irregardless whether the first child was a boy), you make a pidyon haben on the second child. I don’t think, though, that’s a widely held shitta.

yichusdik, your “statistics” is wishful thinking in your longtime anti-Chareidi agenda that has no basis in reality. The number of chareidim leaving is at an all-time low, the number of new BTs is high, the Chareidi birthrate is still k’h very high while the secular rate is low (even though it is slightly higher than the historical lows the seculars reached a few decades ago) and the Chareidi financial state is currently better than it has ever been in the post-WWII era.

An the Chareidi populace still adheres to the holy words and commandments of their gedolim and manhigim as much as they have in the past.

Most Conservative and Reform laymen don’t know the Torah forbids homosexuality? Do most of the average laymen reject that mitzvah? (Irregardless whether they don’t violate it themselves; they reject it’s binding applicability. That makes them an apikorus. And that’s just one example.)

Mazal Tov! Many more simchas. It’s always a major simcha to have a male child (or grandchild), but especially when the firstborn is male.

I simply wanted to bring the OP to the realization that smoking is not “off the derech” and that a person’s life, in totality, needs to be considered.

I agree, Wolf. I think this same principle applies to a smoker not only regarding being OTD or not, but whether he/she is a nice person or a worthwhile shidduch prospect. The person’s life, in totality, needs to be considered.

I think Wolf’s dear mother was a wonderful spouse and parent. Smoking notwithstanding. And I think we can apply the lesson’s from Wolf’s mother to shidduch prospects who smoke.

(You aren’t really as humorless as you’re pretending to be, right?)

Okay, Health. Once there are only smokers left to marry in their age category those 25 year old girls will have to choose between a young smoker or a 50+ year old.

I’ll also fill you in on all the new members from the past five years and my full dossier on them. When’s a good time to visit – could I crash with you during the last two weeks of August?

Some jobs are specifically meant to be done by men, and some meant for women.

Let’s not forget one of the ways the Egyptians tortured us was to make men do women’s work and women do men’s work.

Chasidish garb is simply more or less the same garb Jews wore 200 and more years ago. Non-Chasidim wore those garbs too but over time, often due to force by the non-Jewish governments, stopped dressing as such.

You can find photos of Yekkes with long curly payos like the Chasidim. Shtreimels were worn by misnagdim. And long rekels were the norm in Lita until the Russian government passed a law against it and starting beating Jews who continued wearing it.

Incidentally, it’s the man’s responsibility not to “gaze at the women”. Not the women’s responsibility to accept extra tznius chumras for the sake of the men’s neshamos.

It is explicit in the halachas that the reason women need to dress tzniusdik is in order that men not overly look at her.

To England, to visit the famous noitallmr.

WB!

(Can’t believe you remembered your login credentials after being gone for so long from here…)

I was never there. You don’t need to be somewhere to have heard the horrible reputation that precedes it.

I’ve never been to Las Vegas either but one would need to be pretty sheltered to not know of the terrible pritzus that is the norm there.

It is wise to know where to avoid so you don’t “innocently” end up in the wrong places.

RY23, Men are slaves too. Are we not all an Eved Hashem?

How is it possible to go to the Bahamas and avoid the rampant pritzus?

It isn’t true. Women typically took more time off for family and personal reasons, both child birth and other reasons like raising children etc., so the women in the workforce typically have less experience than men even if both joined the workforce at the same time. This factual reality is not taken into account, and is virtually entirely ignored, when the feminists keep griping that they’re not paid fairly. Even the statistics they keep pumping out to “prove” this misnomer, doesn’t take the above fact into account and simply pretends that those women who spent months or years out of the workforce were actually employed all that time, when they’re comparing pay to experience between men and women.

They certainly do try to push people away from frumkeit. You clearly haven’t heard quite a number of their speakers at their meetings. And their current members frequently try to recruit friends of theirs to join.

The New York metro area, Brooklyn, Monsey and Lakewood, is the epicenter of Torah life in chutz l’aaretz.

By far a majority of frum Americans live in those areas alone.

What did you make of the Rav Nissim Karelitz shlit”a and Rav Moshe Shternbuch shlit”a that I linked above from Hebrewbooks on this Rambam/SA?

Sam, you’re regurgitating the same inaccurate point we’ve previously discussed. You’re stressing precisely the opposite of what the Rambam and Mechaber are stressing. And he doesn’t say it is an “Eitzah Tovah”, he explicitly paskens that the husband should prevent and not allow his wife to go out more frequently.

If not critically needed, should ones wait until after chatzos to use the facilities?

I can pretty much assure you that over 90% of frum Americans today do not know this Rambam and Shulchan Aruch. 2010s, not just 1950s.

And the principal that women should avoid unnecessary public exposure and being on the streets unnecessarily can be found in many sh”ut seforim of fairly recent vintage.

Yes, it is a problem. Speak to a Rov immediately.