Joseph

LB: You seriously think Hashem bringing plagues on a country is comparable to people rioting and burning a city down?!

No, there’s nothing wrong with that at all. The African Americans have the right to strive for equality. There’s no question that everyone has the right to better himself and his place in society. Our claim is only that you must make this attempt for equality by legal means – not by power and not by force. We Jews – whatever we gained was not gained by forcing. It was not gained by burning down cities.

And we also did not request any privileges. The most we wanted was equality. But that we should be offered privileges above the rest of the population never entered our minds. Affirmative action?! Affirmative action – that’s one of the euphemistic names of a policy that is used to camouflage a movement that is intended to give privileges to them more than to others. Affirmative action means to give jobs and other privileges only to them – even when it means discriminating against more qualified people. And open admission to schools means to allow anyone to enter, even though that person is not qualified. And the qualified fellow loses out. Such things are absolutely unfair. And that is what is wrong in the present struggle for control of public office. The politicians who support these unfair and wrong policies, in order to placate the vandals who are burning down cities, are a danger to all of us.

Right, JO. So you love them in a way they hate us, as you stated in your comment. How much sleep did FDR lose over Hitler slaughtering the Jews?

I’ll respond once my computer comes back up.

RY, people who commit suicide also lose their free will after that act.

Big surprise here—this is an online forum. People bring up scenarios and other people discuss them. We rarely have “all” the information

Ah, so we pasken pekuach nefesh shailos here by telling someone to engage in mesira and call the cops based on what you say “We rarely have “all” the information” because “this is an online forum”.

Got it. Do you also prescribe medication over this public online forum using this same criteria? Even if the doctor already told him not to take medication?

So we don’t know whether the OP heard two teenagers shrieking at one another or an 85 year old couple yelling at his spouse or a mother shrieking at her child or a father raising his voice at his son.

Yet we have posters here telling him to call the cops even they don’t know 10% of the story. Whereas the Rov shlita who he consulted with and described who the persons are, and the Rov knows what their relationship to each other is and what kind of raised voices were involved said not to call the cops or anyone else.

And those here who don’t know a fraction of the story are telling him to disregard the Rov who has far more information than you, me and the other posters here?

You don’t call 911 if a neighboring couple has Shalom Bayis problems where they get into a shouting match every 3 weeks, as the OP described. As others mentioned, some couples are like that (which obviously isn’t ideal but it isn’t rare).

His Rov is correct.

You liberals are missing the fact that the OP *already asked his Rov* and his Rov said **don’t be a Moser**.

His shaila about “lot of raised voices” that the OP — after hearing those sounds — is still uncertain “if nothing is going on” was already given a psak.

Is anyone advocating not only violating Hilchos Mesira based on a 10 sentence online posting above but also completely ignoring and disregarding the Psak Halacha that has already been rendered **on this very specific situation** by the Rov who heard all the details first-hand from the conversation he had with the OP?

Next case.

The title says everything.

A very large majority (80%+) of those in the so-called Nachal Chareidi (Netzach Yehuda) are non-Chareidim/Daati Leumi. The IDF isn’t attracting many Chareidim to enlist or be drafted.

Agreed with HaLeiVi. The guy saved from the WTC experienced a miracle. Hands down.

“but then how many comments do you think there would be here? Controversy is what keeps people interested.”

You’re telling me?

The Yekkes also had peyos. If you look at the pictures from Germany from the period of when photography was new, you’ll find completely Yekkishe Rabbonim with long twirly peyos like the Chasidim. And the Litvish wore shtreimals once upon a time in Lita itself along with a long jacket. The short jackets came about under Russian government pressure to look less Jewish and more Russian. Before that Litvaks and Chasidim didn’t dress differently.

The Chasidim simply never gave up the traditional Jewish dress. So if the Litvaks are now going back to what had been their traditional levush, all the more power to them. Beards were also universally found among Yidden of all persuasions, rabbinical and laymen. Going back to before we were forced to modernize is a positive for everybody.

There’s a huge middle ground of Klal Yisroel that’s of mixed heritage/approach between Litvish and Chasidish. They probably represent a majority of the frum world.

Od yishama be’arei yehudah. Uvechutzos Yerushalaim: Kol sason vekol simchah, Kol chasan vekol kalah.

Daas, I’d say upper 30s, lower 40s.

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RY, cheaper than Zenni Optical’s $6.95 frames and lenses?