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  • in reply to: Proper etiquette for bochor speaking to girl’s parents #1401032
    Joseph
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    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?

    in reply to: Natural-Hair Sheitels Are Assur #1401021
    Joseph
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    Gaon, 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.

    in reply to: Beard #1401018
    Joseph
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    in reply to: Well Done Brooklyn Response #1400977
    Joseph
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    “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.

    in reply to: Well Done Brooklyn Response #1400922
    Joseph
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    BarDor, 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.

    in reply to: Photography #1400916
    Joseph
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    B&H offers some.

    in reply to: English speaking countries are safest for Jews #1400888
    Joseph
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    Ironically, 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.)

    in reply to: Why didn’t YWN report on the girls’ asifa today? #1400792
    Joseph
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    iac: What is your source for that assertion?

    in reply to: Exercising in a kosher way #1400794
    Joseph
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    I’m quite sure it’s a him.

    in reply to: Chalav Yisrael and Imposing on Others #1400746
    Joseph
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    Lilmod, what kind of kula on tznius are you referring to?

    in reply to: Why didn’t YWN report on the girls’ asifa today? #1400744
    Joseph
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    The 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.

    in reply to: Exercising in a kosher way #1400724
    Joseph
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    Lilmod, 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.

    in reply to: Natural-Hair Sheitels Are Assur #1400669
    Joseph
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    Gaon, you’re cherry-picking psaks you like and disregarding/dismissing all the others.

    in reply to: Should Your Spouse Be Your Best Friend? #1400567
    Joseph
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    I answered it implicitly. See my subsequent post.

    in reply to: Natural-Hair Sheitels Are Assur #1400560
    Joseph
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    Gaon, are you referring to the Halacha for Ashkenazim or for Sephardim?

    in reply to: Tznius: a woman’s issue #1400520
    Joseph
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    Here is the full original thread (that this is a bug of):

    Tznius: a woman’s issue

    in reply to: Moderation Memo Re: Post Length #1400393
    Joseph
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    How 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.

    in reply to: English speaking countries are safest for Jews #1400387
    Joseph
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    ZD: England had a higher survival rate during WWII.

    in reply to: Chalav Yisrael and Imposing on Others #1400128
    Joseph
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    Winnie, does Reuven hold that the other hechsheirim that he doesn’t use have an unreliable kashrus standard or oversight?

    in reply to: Natural-Hair Sheitels Are Assur #1399951
    Joseph
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    Nu, 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.

    in reply to: Natural-Hair Sheitels Are Assur #1399684
    Joseph
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    encourage 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.

    in reply to: Natural-Hair Sheitels Are Assur #1399688
    Joseph
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    And 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.

    in reply to: Natural-Hair Sheitels Are Assur #1399656
    Joseph
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    I 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?

    in reply to: Why didn’t YWN report on the girls’ asifa today? #1399332
    Joseph
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    Perhaps I was involved in organizing it?

    in reply to: Pesach #1399331
    Joseph
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    We start Pesach cleaning around Chanukah time.

    in reply to: Why didn’t YWN report on the girls’ asifa today? #1399319
    Joseph
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    It would be bad for business, the more the message spreads.

    in reply to: Exercising in a kosher way #1399233
    Joseph
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    Lilmod, the person who said that isn’t frum so it isn’t surprising enough to be commented on.

    in reply to: Should your spouse eat the last cookie? #1399218
    Joseph
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    He’s always buying her more dough.

    Joseph
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    There is a level of kedusha in the (ancient) Greek language that exceeds all other languages other than Loshon Kodesh.

    Joseph
    Participant

    Rabbi Steven Robert Hoover III Jr., shlita

    in reply to: Chalav Yisrael and Imposing on Others #1398855
    Joseph
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    “what exactly is a Baal nefesh?”

    Anyone who cares about their neshoma.

    in reply to: Natural-Hair Sheitels Are Assur #1398857
    Joseph
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    “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.

    in reply to: Chalav Yisrael and Imposing on Others #1397696
    Joseph
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    Ice cream is never a shas hadchak.

    in reply to: The Next Lakewood #1397492
    Joseph
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    You mean for 2 months of the year.

    Joseph
    Participant

    Probably as much as Jews anywhere speak and read the local goyishe language as their second (or third) language. Why would you doubt that?

    in reply to: The Library – Eating Apples From the Toilet Bowl #1397335
    Joseph
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    Syag, 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

    in reply to: Chalav Yisrael and Imposing on Others #1397334
    Joseph
    Participant

    DY:

    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.

    in reply to: Chalav Yisrael and Imposing on Others #1397296
    Joseph
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    Even 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.

    in reply to: Chalav Yisrael and Imposing on Others #1397279
    Joseph
    Participant

    “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.

    in reply to: Chalav Yisrael and Imposing on Others #1397247
    Joseph
    Participant

    Huh?

    Eating Cholov Stam is forbidden. It is Cholov Akum.

    Same with using keilim that were used with Cholov Stam.

    in reply to: Brooklyn vs. Queens #1397227
    Joseph
    Participant

    LB: When’s the visit?

    in reply to: Why are sheitels so expensive #1397226
    Joseph
    Participant

    YY?

    in reply to: The Library – Eating Apples From the Toilet Bowl #1397229
    Joseph
    Participant

    Would anyone like an apple? A library book, perhaps?

    in reply to: Vote Yeager! #1397215
    Joseph
    Participant

    1. 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.

    in reply to: Chalav Yisrael and Imposing on Others #1397216
    Joseph
    Participant

    The 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.

    in reply to: Is A Jew Permitted To Celebrate Halloween? #1397130
    Joseph
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    That applies no differently between Halloween and Christmas. You are inventing imaginary distinctions on how the goyim practice these holidays.

    in reply to: Vote for ME… #1397097
    Joseph
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    We’ll write you in.

    Joseph
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    The images on the stickers are public domain property.

    in reply to: Is A Jew Permitted To Celebrate Halloween? #1397016
    Joseph
    Participant

    Gaon, 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.

    in reply to: Lakewood vs. Flatbush #1396710
    Joseph
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    A 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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