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Because it’s ben acher ben from the Chasam Sofer but not from Rav Akiva Eiger.
For all you folks wondering what I’m really like irl, with what you know and filling in the blanks to the best of your ability, what would you now assume I’m like irl?
SIDI: It is virtually impossible to meet both ZK and LF.
We should arrange a get-together at a milichigs restaurant.
Not exactly double, since there’s a lot of crossover yichus with the same people being your grandparents multiple times through different lines.
It is prohibited for a male to compliment a female, who is not his immediate family, on what she’s wearing.
huju: Rashi was fluent in Yiddish.
I continue to be appalled at the armchair paskening of mesira shailos.
Agreed, TLIK. One must always ask a shaila As you said, don’t pasken such a critical matter yourself, being a non-expert on this Halachic question.
APY, you’re practically a Chosid.
Yekke2, where was it that you bumped into that CR discussion of you?
I could do a meet & greet at a specific time in a specified place (Jerusalem II?).
How come no one wants to meet the mods?
Besides the links bring broken (messing up pages), as seen above, the page count, page numbers, link to last post and last poster are all messed up with them being inaccurate with the number count and not always properly linking to the last page when clicking the last comment link.
squeak. He promised to split a black and white cookie with me. He’s taking the black and I the white. And I email him Shana Tova every year.
Is the store owner a yehudi? Do you think the answer to that has no halachic relevance to your question?
Why the need for fun / boat rides in Eretz HaKodesh. That isn’t what Eretz Yisroel is about. You can do all that in Chutz La’aretz.
Teaching children additional useful languages is always a great educational initiative. No one complains when public schools teach additional languages. Being multilingual is an asset. Especially with Yiddish being so important a language for Torah Jewry, as Yekke ably pointed out.
The Divrei Yoel’s shitta on Zionism was no different than the Chofetz Chaim, Rav Elchonon Wasserman, Rav Aharon Kotler, the Brisker Rov, the Chazon Ish and the rest of Gedolei Yisroel. The only difference with some of them was how to deal with the State in the aftermath of its unfortunate inception.
And if TLIK doesn’t agree with the Divrei Yoel and Satmar’s choices in chinuch, he can send his children to other yeshivos instead of eating his heart out that they follow the Rebbe’s shitta in chinuch.
“Teaching Yiddish does nothing to help students who don’t already speak it”
Of course it helps students who don’t already speak it:
1) It helps them learn Yiddish.
2) It enables them to learn Torah in Yiddish.
3) It enables them to communicate with Jews around the world in a common language.
“It just means 3 languages to learn instead of two”
The more the merrier.
Yiddish is an international spoken language among Jews. (Ivrit is not.)
iac: Which Yeshiva?
Personally, I’ve found the best way to help is by sending generous checks to the various Satmar mosdos and Chesed organizations for the vital work they do on behalf of Klal Yisroel.
CTL, I don’t recall your expressing great concern about black welfare queens having eight children with eight different fathers and living off welfare.
WB squeak.
You must do what your husband tells you to.
In 1990 Satmar had a bit more than 100,000 Chasidim. קינאַהאָראַ that has more well more than doubled.
Yekke: Who said otherwise. We pride ourselves on both.
Correction: I meant to write that the shaila to HaRav Elyashiv zt’l was posed by HaRav Feivel Cohen shlita (not HaRav Dovid Cohen shlita.)
See you after the apocalypse.
“Private institutions do not have to give any rights.”
Avi, so can my golf course restrict which races/nationalities are permitted access to the grounds? Otherwise, how’s that different than my previous comment above?
ubiq: Rav Elyashiv’s Psak was issued as a guidance for before a situation occurs so that you know how to react when it does occur. The guidance states that when there’s shrieking (i.e. shrieking “YOU’RE AN IDIOT! I HATE YOU!! DON’T EVER TALK TO ME AGAIN!!!, not shrieking “PUT DOWN THE GUN!! THE KNIFE IS HURTING MY NECK!!, which is a different scenario) that you don’t know is accompanied by violence, it is required to first get a psak as to whether the Halachic criteria of raglayim ladavar has been met or not.
Rsv Elyashiv’s Psak is *specifically* about allegations and/or suspicions of abuse.
What I stated in the name of the Posek Hador HaRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv zt’l can be verified by HaRav Nochom Eisenstein shlita, Rov in Yerushalayim (and previously Chicago) who was a Talmid Muvhak of Rav Elyashiv and his Gabbai, and has previously publicly stated this Psak, as well as by HaRav Dovid Cohen shlita, who asked this shaila to HaRav Elyashiv and received the aforementioned Psak, and by Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zweibel, who has also multiple times publicly related this Psak in HaRav Elyashiv’s name.
Yekke2:
Posek HaDor Rav Elyashiv zt’l paskened, and affirmed by the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, that one is prohibited to report to the authorities unless a competent Posek/Rov first rule the situation is raglayim l’davar. And the only exception he ruled is if the person actually witnessing the abuse himself/has first-hand certainty it’s occurring, that he may call the authorities without asking a shaila first.
Should Bungalow Colonies be forced to accept goyim? Should the frum Baseball League be forced to accept pubic school students? Should Tomchei Shabbos be forced to deliver to poor Pakistani families? Should Yeshivos be forced to accept atheist students?
“You were trying to illustrate that with the new law and the lack of proper training calling the police could indeed damage this family even if nobody is guilty.”
That is absolutely, potentially, correct. And that point is factually accurate.
Syag versus the Psak Halacha of the Rov of the shul both the OP and the neighbor with the raised voice (that the OP clearly stated in multiple comments that he’s unsure if anything untoward is occurring.)
Who do you choose? Syag or the Psak of the mutual Rov of both the neighbor and the OP?
I’m giving potential examples that, in the quoted comment, are clearly not specifically referring to the case at hand in the OP — as evidenced by the fact that the comment refers to a situation where 911 was called, which Baruch Hashem did NOT occur in the OP’s case — and she rants about making up facts completely. Hello, examples are just that — intended to illustrate a point.
Reading comprehension, indeed.
Your lack of reading comprehension precludes you from even understanding the simple comments you quote. The issue with police officers is that they can make arrests of innocent people based on their mistaken non-expert suspicion of domestic violence that’s based on a call by a nosy neighbor to 911. The nosy neighbor who, indeed, is guilty of mesira following a Shalom Bayis issue some couples unfortunately regularly have that’s non-violent. Just as this Rov determined in this case, for example.
Clearly the OP was absolutely correct in first asking a shaila and NOT calling the secular authorities, as evidenced by the Psak Halacha he received in response to the shaila that he must NOT call the authorities.
Police Officers are NOT experts in determining whether there was domestic violence. If they THINK, in their non-expert opinion which can easily be wrong, they will make an arrest in mandatory arrest states such at New York. Therefore calling the police unjustifiable can absolutely wreck havoc in an innocent family’s life.
It is unfortunate that you believe that Halachas that you don’t like and disagree with — such as Mesira — should be disregarded and ignored.
The OP davens with this neighbor and called their mutual Rov. The Rov paskened.
Move on.
You can always choose to ignore whether facts disagree with your mistaken beliefs.
ubiq: The majority of states have adopted preferred arrest policies that require police to either arrest one or both parties at the scene, or to write a report justifying why an arrest is not made, and some states — including New York, Wisconsin, and Minnesota — went further and have even adopted mandatory arrest policies requiring that an officer make an arrest during a situation where the officers suspect domestic violence even if no one presses charges or even tells the officers there was no violence.
In states with mandatory arrest policies, police are encouraged not to leave the scene without making an arrest. This results in many innocent arrests and unwarranted court and civil and crimson authorities interfering in families lives.