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Bob the Builder.
From House Report No. 102-873(I), September 17, 1992: “In the case of home taping, the [Section 1008] exemption protects all noncommercial copying by consumers of digital and analog musical recordings” .
[i.e. non-computer/standalone CD burners] and 3% for media [i.e. blank CDs]
So according to the poskim who use dina d’malchusa as a halachic basis for this issue, the above would be permitted. (This is current U.S. law.)
No, it was legal to make personal non-commercial single copies of tapes even without purchase. Hence the tax/fee, by law, built into the price of every blank tape and CD that legally was given to the music industry.
And I’m not trumpeting them. For the most part I only brought up these halachic points when the conversation was about this topic. And, as noted, I haven’t utilized these piskei halacha. How do you reconcile being dismissive of the piskei halacha that permit copying, that you disagree with? And whilst you finally, but grudgingly, characterize that it is “assur for one reason or another”, what the reason is makes a difference as to when it is assur, according to which reason a specific posek holds as the basis (which differs in numerous ways between poskim.) And unlike your assertion otherwise, I heard from one of the (Litvish) American gedolei poskim of today that copying isn’t an issur other than, when applicable, hasagas gvul.
And which piskei halacha can you now cite approving of handshaking?
You’re simply being dismissive of legitimate piskei halacha that you don’t agree with and illegitimately dismiss such piskei halacha as having negiyus. I specifically know I haven’t copied in at least that long. If I copied decades ago it was as a child and it was extremely infrequent. It was also, if it occurred, grounded in legitimate piskei halacha. Certainly a young child without money wouldn’t have purchased (hasagas gvul) if it weren’t copied.
BTW, US fair use law, at least until fairly recently, permitted personal non-commercial copying of music tapes that weren’t redistributed. In fact, there was (and may still be) a tax on every blank CD purchased that is given to the music industry under the basis that there will be legitimate copying for personal use of music by the general public, which is (or was until recently) permitted by law – and that fee is the compensation for the industry.
I have no more negiyus than anyone else in the world. (It happens to be I listen to very little music and haven’t copied any IP products in, at least, well over a decade.)
Clearly the vast majority of gedolei poskim assur handshaking. In fact, Rav Moshe himself says you should not rely on a heter for this that was given by rov long ago in America. But I don’t agree with your majority assessment on copying. Additionally, following a legitimate minority psak on a contemporary issue is certainly legitimate.
Rav Yitzchak Schmelkes of Lemberg.
Rav Moshe paskened it prohibited to put an air conditioner on a timer for Shabbos. Do you follow that? Rav Moshe also writes in the Igros other poskim may disagree with him (speaking generally). Can no one follow other poskim when Rav Moshe disagrees? The issue of copying doesn’t have a strong consensus among all the gedolei poskim.
See Beis Yitzchak Y.D. 2:75 about intangible items not having any status as property and Pischei Choshen, Geneivah, p. 287, where he is lenient about copying tapes for personal use.
What you quoted doesn’t address if the underlying reason is dina d’malchusa (which would make it prohibited) or gezel.
I’m almost sure Rav Elyashev paskened intangibles don’t fall under gezel (but are covered under dinei d’malchusa).
According to many (likely the vast majority of) poskim, non-tangibles don’t fall under gezel.
The issue of copying CDs is intrinsically less complex and nuanced than the issue in this thread.
Au contraire. The issue in this thread is, according to some poskim including the Chazon Ish, literally yehareg ve’al ya’avor. The personal copying is, according to some (including published psak), muttar.
“what siddur/nusach does bobov use”
Nusach Sfard.
“where are the biggest communities”
Boro Park, Brooklyn, NY.
“what differentiates it from other chassidish sects?”
Who said they’re different?
Avram: So if, say, Rav Belsky has a public psak halacha where he holds it assur to copy a friend’s music CDs, should a cautionary note be made when publicly relating said psak that the nuance may be lost, the information is hearsay and a private psak from him may differ?
Charlie: Weren’t UNSC veto-bearing Britain and France on Israel’s side in that conflict?
Yet, dear aIY, you above commented that “I’m happy to share general Halachic discussions and “public” Piskei Halacha.” Surely you cannot fault others for, too, sharing public Piskei Halacha.
fairlyintrigued, state your questions.
mw13: To demonstrate your non-loyalty, you’re hereby commanded to, within the next 30 days, find a topic to publicly disagree with me on.
If the wording of the resolution itself states it is to be carried out, it is binding. If it is a recommendation, then obviously the resolution itself makes itself non-binding. But that power of making it binding under the relevant chapter of the UN charter lies in the hands of the UNSC itself.
In any event all this is besides the point. We all agree the UNSC can make legally binding resolutions. Therefore they are, by definition, relevant.
We’re all Bobovers. This place is a Bobover haunt.
UNSC resolutions are legally binding. UNSC “presidential statements” are not.
ubiq: UN Security Council resolutions are legally binding under international law. And Israel has accepted that binding nature by ratifying its membership in the United Nations.
allusernamestaken, if the UN had voted down approval of the State in ’47, it isn’t likely they’d have been a State.
The UN recognized the State of Israel. If it is irrelevant, then there is no State.
Who was talking about you in the last comment? It was referencing a public psak by Rav Belsky. The world doesn’t revolve around aIY. You said you’d be happy to share “public” Piskei Halacha, and I did the same.
I know someone with a private psak to violate clear out-and-out halacha due to individual circumstances. I’m not sharing that either.
According to Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits in his recent sefer Halachically Speaking 3 (YWN has many excerpts on this site of the earlier parts of the series), Rav Belsky was very stringently opposed to shaking a woman’s hand.
He also cites poskim who forbid accepting (or giving) change directly from a woman (i.e. a cashier) since there is a concern of touching, and say the change should rather be placed on the table.
We all celebrated it with a l’chaim, and were too drunk to post about it.
Are you worried someone will read your psak in the CR, if you post it, and use it as his own?
That doesn’t address the contradiction between your two earlier comments that I pointed out.
So then what’s the difference that Trump’s plan wouldn’t have stopped him because he was born here, that you pointed out? Even if he had been a Muslim born in Afghanistan Trump’s plan wouldn’t have stopped him — because Trump’s plan wouldn’t go back in time.
mw13: It would have stopped his parents from coming and his birth taking place here.
Mamzeirus.
Yet.
Give the liberal Nazis a little more time. They aren’t yet aware of the Y’s policy.
Calling the Aseres Hadibros the “Ten Commandments” is a term coined by the non-Jews.
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Torah iz der beste sechora.
Cheese cake definitely needs no reason.
Is it a yiddishe minhag for women to wear a mogen dovid necklace? Many have been doing so for centuries. Is a roite bindele a minhag? Is it a minhag to sing oy chanukah oy chanukah a yontif a sheiner every Chanukah?
How do you know that playing checkers isn’t a yiddishe minhag? Yidden have been playing checkers for centuries.
Chanuka presents isn’t a minhag. There may be, at best, a small number of legitimate post-WWII halachic sources that justify it as okay to do (and say it isn’t assur whereas other halachic sources assert it is assur), just as playing checkers is okay to do (and many yidden play checkers) even though it isn’t a minhag. No halachic source says “it is our minhag to give Chanuka presents, and make sure you do so every Chanuka”. OTOH, there clearly are centuries of Torah sources saying an upsherin is a yiddishe minhag and state that members of the kehilos that follow these halachic sources should follow and do the minhag.
Do they dance in Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim (RSA) on Shavuos?
And those stores equipment used non-CY until now.
LC: The entirety of the quoted portion here, including what he attributes to “my research”, is one egregious example.
Yserbius123: The Ari Hakadosh’s minhagim are in no way, shape or form equivalent to a Ukrainian folk dance.
reb.yaakov: While Rabbi Manuel M. Poliakoff was an Orthodox U.S. Army Chaplain, his book Minhagei Lita is in no way authoritative and contains numerous inaccuracies.
Dallas, TX.
As true as George Washington chopping down his father’s cherry tree.
Don’t fret. To me you will always be HaTzaddik HaReb Wolf.
(And don’t dredge up the ‘don’t call me rabbi’ gibberish. Reb is the common Yid’s title, not rabbinical.)
“I was not aware that other people saw me as bad.”
You’ve been publicly proclaiming how bad you are for years. Why are you surprised it rubbed off on some people?
Rav Kook was also against women voting. But the people today who profess to follow him really just pick and choose what fancies them and discard the rest.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1996, in United States v. Virginia, that the government may offer single gender public schools.