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November 10, 2017 12:15 pm at 12:15 pm in reply to: Proper etiquette for bochor speaking to girl’s parents #1401032JosephParticipant
Shtika, have you ever heard of the parents acting inappropriately while the bochor is there, before going out with the girl?
And how should the girl vet the bochor’s parents before agreeing to get engaged?
JosephParticipantGaon, just as you acknowledge that for a certain period in our history there were Chareidi married women who r”l went out without covering their hair and we B”H raised our level of observance to where such a thing is now very rare, so too many rabbonim today are striving to further raise our level of kedusha to the point where women wear a tichel instead of a sheitel.
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JosephParticipant“Did you miss writing, “No wonder so many OOTers make their home in Brooklyn!”
It’s been over a year and a half. I gotta remember everything forever?
“Have you ever even been out of Brooklyn?”
I’ve made many tours out. And seen missing sidewalks forcing pedestrians to cower walking on the side of the road.
JosephParticipantBarDor, where you ever able to find those wonderful New Yorkers?
New York Yidden tend to prefer to do their Chesed anonymously, and seek no reward or recognition.
JosephParticipantB&H offers some.
November 9, 2017 9:33 pm at 9:33 pm in reply to: English speaking countries are safest for Jews #1400888JosephParticipantIronically, the Zionists turned Israel into a state that among places with a significant Jewish population, has the distinction of having one of the highest — if not the highest — rates of violence that target Jews specifically.
And this from a state that is supposed to be the place Jews will run to in case other places become dangerous. What they ignore is that the Jews in Israel might have to seek refuge elsewhere if Israel becomes too dangerous. It’s no wonder that so many Israelis seek a second passport. And there are so many tens or hundreds of thousands of Israeli expats now living in New York and other places in the US, North America, Europe and Asia.
(Now we can expect a torrent of indignant replies from the in-house Zionists saying, in effect, “but our state’s rate of violence is less than that of the inner cities with large minority populations and few Jews, that are infested with drug crimes and minority-on-minority violence”, that is almost irrelevant to Jews.)
November 9, 2017 7:33 pm at 7:33 pm in reply to: Why didn’t YWN report on the girls’ asifa today? #1400792JosephParticipantiac: What is your source for that assertion?
JosephParticipantI’m quite sure it’s a him.
JosephParticipantLilmod, what kind of kula on tznius are you referring to?
November 9, 2017 5:19 pm at 5:19 pm in reply to: Why didn’t YWN report on the girls’ asifa today? #1400744JosephParticipantThe Asifa at Citifield was a huge resounding success that has positive effects among the hamon hoam ad hoyom hazeh.
As an aside, TAG itself is a direct offshoot of the Citifield Asifa.
JosephParticipantLilmod, it is his cumulative history of comments here that leads me to so categorize him, not merely this comment in isolation. That history of dismissing and disagreeing with Torah law makes that categorization abundantly clear.
JosephParticipantGaon, you’re cherry-picking psaks you like and disregarding/dismissing all the others.
JosephParticipantI answered it implicitly. See my subsequent post.
JosephParticipantGaon, are you referring to the Halacha for Ashkenazim or for Sephardim?
JosephParticipantHere is the full original thread (that this is a bug of):
JosephParticipantHow is breaking up a long post into three separate posts helpful? The moderator needs to read the same material whether it is in one post or three.
Additionally, if you break it up and the mod approves them in a different order than submitted, the separate posts will appear in incorrect order.
November 9, 2017 3:20 pm at 3:20 pm in reply to: English speaking countries are safest for Jews #1400387JosephParticipantZD: England had a higher survival rate during WWII.
JosephParticipantWinnie, does Reuven hold that the other hechsheirim that he doesn’t use have an unreliable kashrus standard or oversight?
JosephParticipantNu, based on your point, just as we changed Das Yehudis to a lower standard as currently practiced, if the rabbonim shlita convince the oilem to cover the hair of unmarried girls or for married women to only wear a tichel and not a sheitel, then that will become the new mandatory requirements for Klal Yisroel – just as it previously changed.
JosephParticipantencourage you to do whatever you feel you must do for yourself (along with healthy input from your rav and spouse, not necessarily in that order).
Why should anyone do what they “feel” they must? It shouldn’t be based on feelings. And why are you uncertain that a Rov’s input should come before one’s spouse’s desire? This is a halachic issue that a halachic personality should certainly take precedence.
JosephParticipantAnd yet, as Rashi says, they wore it “linoy”, to beautifuy themselves. Does it make sense they wore something “short, stiff, and wiggy-looking.” to beautify themselves?
Sure. Compared to a bald head or even compared to plain cloth head covering, a short, stiff, and wiggy-looking covering is a beautification.
Besides, the standards for beautification within the confines of one’s home is different than what is permissible in the streets outside one’s home.
JosephParticipantI think you need to understand what you quoted earlier – “It is a new breach of the boundaries of mesorah” – was true perhaps when it was uncommon. It’s clearly not a breach in any boundaries today when probably a majority of frum women wear natural hair shaitels.
How does the Mesorah change just because most people changed from following their Mesorah?
November 8, 2017 8:06 pm at 8:06 pm in reply to: Why didn’t YWN report on the girls’ asifa today? #1399332JosephParticipantPerhaps I was involved in organizing it?
JosephParticipantWe start Pesach cleaning around Chanukah time.
November 8, 2017 7:57 pm at 7:57 pm in reply to: Why didn’t YWN report on the girls’ asifa today? #1399319JosephParticipantIt would be bad for business, the more the message spreads.
JosephParticipantLilmod, the person who said that isn’t frum so it isn’t surprising enough to be commented on.
JosephParticipantHe’s always buying her more dough.
November 8, 2017 1:38 pm at 1:38 pm in reply to: Are that any well known rabbis that assert that English is a holy language #1399103JosephParticipantThere is a level of kedusha in the (ancient) Greek language that exceeds all other languages other than Loshon Kodesh.
November 8, 2017 9:15 am at 9:15 am in reply to: Are that any well known rabbis that assert that English is a holy language #1398913JosephParticipantRabbi Steven Robert Hoover III Jr., shlita
JosephParticipant“what exactly is a Baal nefesh?”
Anyone who cares about their neshoma.
JosephParticipant“is there an issur for a married woman to look “unmarried”? Alternatively, is there some inyan for a married woman to look married?”
The Sefer HaChinuch writes that, while according to Halacha Kiddushin can be performed with any marginally valuable item, the custom is to utilize a ring. The reason he gives is that it serves as a “constant reminder” to her status.
JosephParticipantIce cream is never a shas hadchak.
JosephParticipantYou mean for 2 months of the year.
November 7, 2017 9:46 am at 9:46 am in reply to: Did Jews Living In Medieval England Speak And Read And Write In English #1397336JosephParticipantProbably as much as Jews anywhere speak and read the local goyishe language as their second (or third) language. Why would you doubt that?
November 7, 2017 9:46 am at 9:46 am in reply to: The Library – Eating Apples From the Toilet Bowl #1397335JosephParticipantSyag, to understand your point better can you clarify how you see a filtered internet (assuming good filters) is worse or the same as an unfiltered library with the worst kinds of books, videos, and unfiltered online content?
Yasher Koach
JosephParticipantDY:
1. There’s no reason to think that Reuven might not be someone who holds from the very widespread shitta that Cholov Stam is Cholov Akum mamish, and hence completely prohibited to consume.
2. There’s nothing twisted about the point of a baal nefesh.
3. Rav Moshe’s shitta is even stronger since he is only mattir bshas hadchak, and there’s nothing indicting Reuven is having a shas hadchak.
JosephParticipantEven those who hold by Rav Moshe’s shitta, Rav Moshe paskens that a Baal Nefesh should only eat Cholov Yisroel. He doesn’t pasken that a Baal Nefesh should only eat CY when home. So a Baal Nefesh should only eat CY anywhere, even when a guest, according to Rav Moshe.
JosephParticipant“Are you really going to pretend that that’s the only shittah?”
No. But if it’s the shitta held by Reuven in our OP, that’s why Shimon is buying him Cholov Yisroel, davka.
JosephParticipantHuh?
Eating Cholov Stam is forbidden. It is Cholov Akum.
Same with using keilim that were used with Cholov Stam.
JosephParticipantLB: When’s the visit?
JosephParticipantYY?
November 6, 2017 11:03 pm at 11:03 pm in reply to: The Library – Eating Apples From the Toilet Bowl #1397229JosephParticipantWould anyone like an apple? A library book, perhaps?
JosephParticipant1. No one claims Chaim Deutch has done a poor job. (Even if he has, he still is protected from someone directly seeking to take or have him lose his job. But you point is moot regardless.)
2. Non-frum people aren’t subject to the aforementioned protection of it being impermissable to take his job.
JosephParticipantThe Psak to eat Cholov Yisroel only is based on the Psak that non-CY (what is usually called Cholov Stam) is completely forbidden to consume according to the poskim who insist on CY-only.
Even keilim that are non-CY are assur according to these poskim.
November 6, 2017 8:37 pm at 8:37 pm in reply to: Is A Jew Permitted To Celebrate Halloween? #1397130JosephParticipantThat applies no differently between Halloween and Christmas. You are inventing imaginary distinctions on how the goyim practice these holidays.
JosephParticipantWe’ll write you in.
November 6, 2017 6:59 pm at 6:59 pm in reply to: Is it illegal to walk around wearing a counterfeit “I Voted” sticker? #1397098JosephParticipantThe images on the stickers are public domain property.
November 6, 2017 5:19 pm at 5:19 pm in reply to: Is A Jew Permitted To Celebrate Halloween? #1397016JosephParticipantGaon, your giving over your own dreikup deios differentiating between Halloween and Christmas. Nothing in Avoda Zora or the Rambam differentiate between Halloween and Christmas. These so-called halachic differences between Halloween and Christmas you are describing are boich svaras only imagined and interpreted by Mr. Gaon and no one else.
JosephParticipantA lot of the Boro Park overflow, mixed with the Flatbush overflow, expanded into Kensington.
I believe Bensonhurst also picked up a lot of Bnei Torah.
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