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El Rusbo: Kosher food costs more than its non-kosher equivalent food.
Winnie: How do you suggest visiting the site of the 1964 World’s Fair but then, in the same breath, knock visiting Brooklyn because you “can’t go back in time”? That’s just a minor quibble, by the way. Brooklyn has far far more Jewishly to offer than Queens.
“it makes you look cheap & you don’t have money to go to a meat meat restaurant”
What if the guy isn’t look for a gold digger?
ubiq, please be moichel if my shprach came across as too shtark. Of course I love you, my dear yiddishe brieder, as always. And if you ever are my guest for Shabbos I will offer you (per your preference) either shlishi, shishi or maftir in the shul I’m gabbai.
So it’s racist to point out an increasing crime rate when neighborhoods become more black but it isn’t Anti-Semitic to say Jews commit “zoning violations”.
Makes a load of sense.
In New York City, Monsey and Lakewood the price of Cholov Yisroel milk is only a few cents more than non-CY milk.
iac: There’s nothing disparaging about not knowing every goyishe holiday’s origins. Do you think the rabbonim who disagreed with Rav Elyashiv about sheitels disparaged him when they claimed he misunderstood the origin of Indian hair?
ubiq: That quote is from apy, not akuperma. (And apy is wrong; he doesn’t even want to ask a shaila.) Furthermore, giving Christmas presents on Christmas is wrong. Are you okay with putting the Christmas gifts in red stockings too? After all, that isn’t the “ikkur” of celebrating Christmas either. Are you okay with giving your own kids Christmas presents? Or attending a corporate Christmas party? Putting up a Christmas tree? All that, too, have little to do with “celebrating Christmas”, as you put it. So start decorating your house with cute colorful blinking lights. You’ll make a “Kiddush Hashem” (sic) showing the non-Jewish neighbors how much you respect other’s holidays in our multi-cultural environment.
Just use reputable ATMs at major banks and known retailers.
Baltimore has more minorities and crime.
I know precious little about TV networks other than what information is online and passes the filter. Most of them have news sites available off the air.
So if a community doesn’t want blacks moving in (due to an increased crime rate they might bring), and the municipality takes steps to discourage blacks from buying or renting homes in “their” community, I take your logic to mean you wouldn’t deem that to be racist.
GAON:
You wrote: “No one asked if you can “celebrate’ Halloween”; Note that the very title of this thread is “Is A Jew Permitted To Celebrate Halloween?”
As to the rest of your comment, you continue to peddle an ignorance as to what Halloween is, represents, its history and its very significance to avoda zora and Christianity.
Once you educate yourself on what Halloween is and represents, you’ll see the comparison between giving gifts on December 25 and giving candy on October 31. Do you give gifts on December 25 to people celebrating Christmas that aren’t religious or even Christian?
IOW, Brooklyn is for the living Torah and Queens is where people go to bury??
If you live in Queens you can spend many many wonderful Shabbosim in Brooklyn and still not anywhere near complete visiting all the many and varied beautiful frum communities in town.
“I once went to a restaurant that was milchigs”
Was it a pizza restaurant?
Did the girl dump you for taking her to a pizza store?
“You don’t spend much if you bring your date to a pizza shop.”
You can use the money saved for the Chasuna.
Joseph, before your “back in the day” besserer mentchen moved from the Lower East Side to the Bronx. Neither of which is Brooklyn or Queens.
Yeah, but that was in the age of the dinosaurs.
OOTY: If you’re going to be homeless, better to go to Lakewood and be homeless there than in the goyish hick town you’re in. Once in Lakewood people will make sure you’re not homeless. You will be put up, if necessary.
CY: Your OP is about 25% correct and 75% incorrect.
Is there a good location for a dairy farm in Willy or BP?
Willy and BP used to have farms.
I’ve never heard of any one assuring…
You do whatever you want if you’ve “never heard of any one assuring”, without asking a shaila? You are a buki on every issur in halacha?
…other than on the actual day Dec 25 (when there’s no mail anyway). Is there any source that says there’s an issur during the “holiday season”?
Do you also put up a Christmas tree before or after Dec. 25, so long as it isn’t up on Dec. 25 bo b’yom? Do you do the easter eggs thing so long as it isn’t on Easter bo b’yom? Can you mark Palm Sunday so long as you don’t do so on the actual Sunday?
Why are you afraid of asking a shaila??
iacisrmma: You ignored the first paragraph of my comment that you responded to.
Are you not aware of legitimate shitos that allow it?
No. Unless you accept anecdotal stories that were never written or spoken, and are only related second-hand by third-parties, as both factual and as constituting a psak halacha. And even if you do accept all that, as I explained above, there are so many more gedolei yisroel with the opposite opinion (based on the logic used to ascertain these apparent opinions.)
Are preferred stock safe from going down?
BubbyLKWD: Are you kidding? If you want something “safe from going down”, you should be buying U.S. Treasuries. Because you aren’t going to get better returns than that with that criteria.
Very low risk with high returns simply doesn’t exist.
Did you?
Yes. And it was paskened to not give candies on Halloween and to not give Christmas presents anytime during the “season”.
knows halachas better than Rav Pam or Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky
Even assuming the stories were true, which is an assumption, it could well be they weren’t aware of the origins or history of All Hollows Day and Halloween. They never issued a psak on this and we don’t pasken from stories. When Rav Elyashev paskened sheitels are assur due to A”Z, many argued against that saying Rav Elyashev wasn’t familiar with the actual history of how the original hair was compiled. Does your family use sheitels that contain human hair?
Have you considered the fact that Reb Moshe didn’t hand out candies on Halloween? And that Rav Aharon didn’t either? Nor did the Satmar Rebbe, Rav Gifter, Rav Hutner, Rav Ruderman, Rav Schorr, Rav Birnbaum or Rav Svei. And today candies aren’t distributed on Halloween from the homes of the Novominsker Rebbe, Rav Dovid Feinstein, Rav Shmuel or Rav Aharon Schechter.
So if one is to pasken based on anecdotes, then we can pasken from the vast majority of Gedolei Yisroel who did not, and do not, partake in Halloween in this manner that we may not do so.
“What do you think?”
If I knew I wouldn’t ask. You asked a shaila if you can give Christmas gifts to non-Jews and were told you may?
Would (or do) you attend a Christmas Party at your workplace, since that keeps a friendly relationship with colleagues? (As is, presumably, the reason you give the bus driver and mailman a Christmas present.)
The besserer mentchen used to move from Brooklyn to Queens, back in the day. Now the besserer mentchen move to the Five Towns or Teaneck.
GAON: Halloween in America came over here from America’s parent country, Great Britain, as well as from Ireland (where many immigrated from to the U.S.) And Halloween most certainly came about as a religious holiday recognized by the Church. There is absolutely no doubt about this. As well as that the Church adopted it from its original pagan roots.
apy: Did you ask a shaila before doing all that for Christmas or did you decide to do so based on your own personal daas?
Why should the price of Cholov Yisroel compared to national brand milk be different than the cost of kosher meat compared to national brand meat?
All kosher food costs more than its non-kosher equivalent food.
The relevance is, those who observe the american “holiday” halloween are not observing the pagan holiday or its version borrowed by the rc church. they are using its name.
You could say the same about Christmas. Most treat it as a secular holiday, a day off to go shopping, get discounts and put out a cute Christmas tree and lovingly give family members presents. Do you give Christmas gifts? (You can always choose to call it a “Chanuka” present.) Despite the constitutional laws separating Church and State, even the United States recognizes Christmas as a secular legal holiday.
GAON: Again, the Roman Catholic Church has long ago Christianized All Hallows Day. It is no longer just pagan.
Connecticut Rebbe: You sound like a Brooklynite.
Queens was once considered more upscale than Brooklyn, as far as frum neighborhoods.
Kalman Yager originally was running against Chaim Deutch. (When Greenfield retired, Yaeger switched to Greenfield’s district as he figured it was easier to not run against an incumbent.)
Lakewood has cheap rentals and less expensive housing whereas Flatbush has expensive rentals and prohibitive housing.
Brooklyn is Kings County whereas Queens is only Queens County. And we all know how Kings stack up to Queens. (Remember Anne Boleyn?)
What relevance is what the average American kid thinks? The indesputable fact is that Halloween originates as a pagan (i.e. A”Z) holiday and was adopted from the pagans by the Roman Catholic Church as All Hollows Day.
Theoretically they can propose a new Constitution, but in every past constitutional convention since the 20th century that occurred in New York they’ve only proposed amendments to the existing Constitution. (In the 19th century they’ve replaced the previous Constitution.)
The Federal Constitution also has a process to call a constitutional convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It has never yet occurred but can be done.
What colors are the eggs you give the kids?
You don’t learn or speak about the Beis HaMikdash or other halachic and Talmudical topics that we aren’t fortunate enough to be able to engage in today?
OOTY: Moving to Lakewood beats becoming homeless in a hick town like the Yehupitsville you’re in. What resources do you need to move? If the alternative is becoming homeless simply take a bus to Lakewood with nothing more than the shirt on your back. Instead of paying rent where you are, use the remaining unemployment benefits you have to pay a couple hundred dollars for a shared apartment or a basement in Lakewood.
Then look for a job delivering newspapers or being a cashier in Lakewood.
But its one thing to discuss things with adults and its quite another with children. All the kid wants is some eggs if some little kid dressed as an Easter Bunny comes to your house are you really going to tell him about Avodah Zarah (The kid is 6 and just wants some colorful eggs)
FTFY
Avram, I’ve read horror stories from people who telemarketing crooks spoofed their number and they got dozens or hundreds of angry callers calling them back; people he obviously never called. Eventually they sometimes change their number, with no other alternative.
“They have a private person’s name come up.”
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“He’s wrong. I’ve gotten it from telemarketers collecting for mosdos.”The “private person’s name” that the mosdos fundraisers are displaying on your caller ID is in all likelihood the caller’s actual home phone number that he’s calling you from (on behalf of the mosod.) As such it makes sense that you’d see a private person’s name. And that is above board.
The newest trick from the secular telemarketers is to spoof a local number in your exchange. So if your number is 718-376-2250, they might spoof 718-376-2945. This confuses many people into thinking it’s a local caller.
Again, I’ve only seen this with secular organizations.