Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Intermarriage for the last decade plus amongst the non-Orthodox has been at about 75%. 3 out of 4 non-Orthodox marriages are to a gentile.
And it didn’t go to 3/4 rapidly. It worked is way up to that dismal figure over a long period of time.
And even where the mother is Jewish and the father non-Jewish, those children are raised as non-Jews in the vast majority of cases.
Why wouldn’t it become unfiltered if the subscriber discontinued paying the subscription? If it remained filtered someone could pay for only one month and continue using it indefinitely.
and in fact, not even the majority of Shomrei Torah uMitzvos in the world are Chareidi.
Actually a majority of Shomrei Torah uMitzvos in the world are Chareidi. In the U.S., 2/3 of Orthodox Jews are Chareidi (Pew Research, 2013). In Israel it is about the same number of Chareidim and Daati, with Chareidim increasing at a much higher rate. (Pew released a detailed demographic study on Israel a few months ago.) And the rest of the world’s Orthodox Jews combined don’t outweigh these demographics from the U.S. and Israel, which account for a large majority of Orthodox Jewry.
$0 for profit; the entire cost was for the filter. The filter has a monthly fee of about $5, the entirety of which goes to the filtering company. She must be annualizing the cost.
NK was formed by the Tamidei HaGra from the old yishuv (Rav Amram Blau zt’l, etc.) and they continue following the minhagim of the Vilna Gaon. The NK was a breakoff from the Agudah; while Rav Amram led the NK, his brother Rav Moshe Blau led the Agudah.
What is the maare makom that Aruch Hashulchan? What reason does he give to read the news?
Is this about news junkies?
Sam: So I propose we get rid of all labels whatsoever. There is no such thing as Chareidi, no such thing as MO, etc. There is just Jew. (I’m in favor of getting rid of the term Orthodox, Reform, etc. as well.)
Agreed?
Even if Wolf’s mistaken assumption had been correct his comparison is still off. If NK were Chasidic then they’re Chasidic; and if someone had said otherwise they’d be wrong. My comment regarding OO wasn’t about ascribing faults. It was simply one of identification in response to a comment implying OO wasn’t MO. And OO has identified as MO both before they organized under the OO banner (i.e. Avi Weiss, HIR, being long-time RCA members self-identifying as MO etc.) and since.
And NK identifies as chassidic.
No they don’t. NK’s origins are from the Talmidei HaGra. Litvish through and through. And they’ve never identified as Chasidic even if a subset of their members are chasidic. In NK shuls they daven Nusach Ashkenaz.
Avi Weiss was a member of the RCA for many decades until last year (long after he established OO and YCT) when he, at his own choosing, decided not to renew his membership even though the RCA itself was fine all along with keeping him as a member.
What will that word be?
OO identifies as MO. (A subset thereof.) MO isn’t only RWMO. LWMO is also MO.
Why should there be a difference? Fishing with the intent to discard the fish unused would be wrong.
Phil, read the Rambam carefully and slowly. Notice the plural language. A husband is singular. A beis din is plural. And you can also read the many meforshim on the Rambam who confirm exactly this point.
And that is the answer, mate. It is against halacha according to the Rambam, the Mechaber and everyone else, to strike a spouse.
Phil, actually Rambam very much does say only beis din has that right and not the spouse.
Phil, please don’t invent halachas and then attribute them to the heilige Rambam. Rambam, nowhere no how, permits beating a spouse with a stick or otherwise. If you can’t understand a Rambam ask someone. Rambam says only a beis din can use a stick to enforce people carry out their duties.
There *are* synagogues that call themselves orthodox that use the Tzomet sound system on Shabat.
ftfy
Sam: Do you consider to be MO those who are openly toeiva, go to YU (where Cardoza and Einstein have YU funded and sanctioned toeiva clubs that are listed on the YU website and even REITS held a public toeiva symposium with an overflow attendance that was presided over by R. Blau) and self-identify as MO?
ZD: Sam doesn’t consider them chareidi since they don’t keep halacha properly. Same idea of him not considering MO those who don’t keep halacha properly.
Though, a notable difference between the two is that a self-identified chareidi who is a tax cheat when asked why he cheats on his taxes doesn’t answer “because I’m chareidi and chareidim hold its okay to under-report owed taxes”; otoh, a self-identified MO when asked why they wear pants, shirt skirts or aren’t shomer negiah often will answer that it is because they are MO and they hold b’shitta that it is okay to do that.
A parents duty in parenting is to regulate their children. A child cannot regulate himself nor can a child be unregulated. Rambam and the SA clearly and directly state that it is the husband’s duty to regulate his wife and daughters modesty obligations, including saying so regarding the aforementioned halacha that a woman’s place is at home. Do you have any complaints against the Rambam and the Mechaber in this regard or do you consider their published halachic rulings to be 15th century artifacts?
A home built on TV consumption is no home and parents who permit their children to go where they can consume TV or even consume the values of other children who have been influenced by TV, put their children’s spiritual welfare at great risk.
Don’t be a nitwit, Phil. I asked for a source for an assertion of permissible stealing to prevent starvation. The poster happened to lump that quote together with learning. And all I did was cite the S”A and Rambam and ask why the Mechaber and Rambam paskened as such, above. If you have a problem with that, take it up with the Rambam. If you want to let your children go to homes with TVs, I don’t stand in your way. Perhaps your children are the ones with the TVs and unfiltered internet.
Rambam says a woman shouldn’t go outside more than once or twice a month. Shulchan Aruch paskens women shouldn’t go outside too much.
Why do Rambam and the Mechaber say that?
I certainly would support outlawing movies depicting cruel behavior. I don’t think it realistically has much chance of being enacted in legislation, but it would be ideal if it were.
TAG does not charge one penny for their services. Most of the available filters that are most effective are commercial products that charge for their software. Those filters are not owned by TAG. And TAG does not make anything if you purchase those filters. They will install it for you at no charge.
The free filters are not as effective in being able to identify what is inappropriate for frum people and families, and block what to a goy is a normal picture of women or discussions of topics that are normal for an average goy (even child) to read, but inappropriate for a Jew.
I think those charges were dismissed once it was ascertained they indeed filed the correct paperwork for the hunt. (It was likely filed in the first place in response to the overseas public reaction. Domestically the people didn’t care since they have too many lions roaming around [the reason the country actually invites foreigners to hunt] and were happy to have one less. Overseas they reacted as they did since this was a popular tourist animal with a name that many folks got attached to almost like a pet. In Africa they are a lot more concerned with feeding people and maintaining the public health than protecting wild lions.) In any event, that wasn’t an infraction by the dentist.
Almost half of oil used in the U.S. is domestically produced. The United States is the largest producer of oil in the world, larger than #2 Saudi Arabia. And the majority of oil the U.S. imports comes from Canada and Latin America, not the Middle East.
National election results.
Land for peace initiatives.
Avram, although I believe hunting for sport ought to be a crime, the reality is the dentist was within the law in his African hunting endeavor.
Sam, mw13 makes an excellent point. If you’re going to eject Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer from being MO because you claim he is too much on the right-side of the religious spectrum for the true MO, surely you should banish from rightfully claiming to be MO those who are so much on the left of the spectrum (and I’m not only referring to the Open Orthodox) that they actually (unlike RAM) openly violate halacha b’shitta. Like some of the examples mw13 gave, those MO (who you should categorize are really between MO and Conservative) that wear miniskirts, pants, don’t cover their hair, wear short sleeve shirts, aren’t shomer negiah, eat in non-certified vegetable or dairy restaurants, keep “half Shabbos” r’l, etc.
Charlie, at what point do you drum someone out of Modern Orthodoxy? When he isn’t as far to the left as you deem acceptable?
Memorial Day should be celebrated as a matter of patriotism. Yom Hazikoron should not, as it represents a state created in defiance of the Torah and Halacha.
Anytime a thread is closed someone will get the last word. If your grant each request for an “additional word”, you won’t close the thread.
I think we are pretty capable of handling it
Ronald, Rabbi Gordimer *is* Modern Orthodox. Traditional Orthodoxy isn’t focusing on MO. MO itself is self-focused on its shortcomings.
Why should you get the final word, Sam?
” The fact is – if one of the couple wants the divorce, even if they are pushed into it, no one can stop it!
I didn’t want to get divorced, but there was no choice!”
According to Halacha, either spouse (among Ashkenazim, and the husband by Sephardim) can unilaterally elect to not get divorced if he/she doesn’t want to get divorced and there is no cause in the case that is recognized by halacha permitting one spouse to unilaterally insist on divorce.
Little Froggie: Well said. Yasher Koach.
Halevay.
“In my decades of experience, I have found that professional marriage counseling almost always leads to divorce, not saving the marriage.”
That is a sad testament about marriage therapists.
“Seriously?”
Half your statement isn’t blatantly obvious.
“I believe its safe to say that ANYONE (Rabbi or not) who told people in the community to STAY IN NAZI GERMANY while they could have escaped to America was wrong in retrospect to give such advise. Does anyone disagree with this?”
HaGaon HaRav Elchonon Wasserman ztvk’l hy’d disagrees with you, if the circumstances would have put one’s spiritual life at risk, as he stated being rescued by YU would do. (And as the majority of frum Jews who came to America in the many decades before WWII became non-frum in America.)
Yehuda, there’s a yiddishe minhag among many not to even call their own wife by her name when non-immediate family members are present.
GIR, kapusta indicated she’s done conversing here about five times already. Go ahead with your step by step explanation.
But you had an agenda no?
No.
Joseph, are you seriously advocating that it is best to be gassed to death in Nazi Germany than send your kids to Brooklyn?
Rabbi Breuer never permitted handshaking between men and women after davening.
Rav Elchonon Wasserman hy’d wrote a letter during the war that is was better not to escape the war into a place where one’s spiritual being is at risk even if that means one remains at physical risk.