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RIETS is no more qualified than BMG or any Yeshiva that issues a BTL.
Tzaddikim have ruach hakodesh. Including when writing their seforim hakedoshim.
Golfer, just because you’re “uncomfortable” with a Minhag Yisroel what gives you the right to voice your discomfort regarding the minhag? Can I publicly declare myself uncomfortable with the correctness of people beating aravos in shul on Hoshana Rabba?
There’s always a trade off between limudei kodesh and limudei chol. An improvement in one necessitates at least a somewhat lower quality in the other.
At least a subset of objectively unambiguously offensive speech can be an agreed definition by all.
“Do you think a country, as a whole, would be a better place to live if speech that offends or disturbs anyone were outlawed?”
I think objectively unambiguously offensive speech should be outlawed.
Did you check the Yated News and World Report yeshiva rankings?
I read it as a child.
You end up in Oz. Crushing the Wicked Witch.
You can ask as many questions as desired. 😉
If your Plan A, for whatever reason, doesn’t pan out, what’s your preferred Plan B?
Golfer, if someone logically and convincingly explained and proved to you in an online discussion that a certain view of yours was mistaken, you’d be too stubborn to change your line of thinking?
Yekke — no relevance.
To the view/understanding I expressed/explained.
For some, Rabbi G is their only rabbi/posek.
Yekke, what is your best guess or expectation (or hope if you can’t answer guess or expectation) as to what your vocation will be in 10 years from now?
I’ve had people tell me my online comments changed their mind/position.
Why would you pick comfort over better tefila?? A bigger minyan means you’re tefilos are more likely to be accepted.
Its economic output. Lost employers, stalled economy, lost jobs. It used to be a manafacturing powerhouse.
Too bad you weren’t around to set Chazal, and the Tosfos Yom Tov, straight when they came up with their “mistaken theories”, ghd.
Which is why I said “probably”.
Like blaming talking in Shul for Tach V’Tat? Or blaming sinas chinam for the churban?
With Tropical Storm Ophelia’s transition to Hurricane Ophelia on Wednesday, 2017 became the first year in 124 years — and only the fourth on record — in which 10 Atlantic storms in a row reached hurricane strength. Franklin. Gert. Harvey. Irma. Jose. Katia. Lee. Maria. Nate. Ophelia. The last time 10 consecutive Atlantic storms became hurricanes was in 1893. Since modern records began in 1851, there has never been an 11-hurricane stretch.
This year the Atlantic has experienced 18.75 major hurricane days: the total number of days logged by Category 3, 4 and 5 storms. This is nearly five times the full-season average of 3.9 days.
And with major urban areas of California still burning down over a week after large wildfires broke out, with dozens dead, hundreds missing and complete large urban neighborhoods burnt to the ground along with thousands of homes in the largest state in the United States — is anyone still in denial about all this being a message from Hashem to Klal Yisroel?!?
Glass probably isn’t tznius since we have to sleep in the Succah.
Yerushalayim or Chutz La’aretz?
Because it is a bigger inyan to daven in a larger minyan.
Nu, ubiq, did you find it necessary to shove anyone over again on Simchas Torah, in order to keep the hakafos moving smoothly? 😉
Yseribus, Buffalo has lost its economic and, to an extent, its population over the last four+ decades.
Alright, RY. So until what age or time should parents maintain discipline of their children?
What about glass Succahs for people who live in glass houses.
GHD: Which part of it did you not “concur” with? The Rabbeinu Tam, the Rishonim, the Gemorah, the Mordechai, the Beis Yosef, the Yaavetz or the Chasam Sofer?
Yekke: It was minimally a partial refutation of the quote of his you bolded “Women can build a sucah…”
If the guy is quickly fixing his Talis, turning his page or picking up a fallen Esrog, that is a reasonable delay. What else is he expected to do — continue walking while leaving his Esrog on the floor, his Machzor on the wrong page or his Talis falling half off??
ubiq, how’d you (gently) nudge him?
Yekke, GHD isn’t exactly interested in Torah sources to refute his views. Citing modern western philosophy is more up his alley.
You have to know how to nudge without upsetting people. If the guy in front of you becomes stationary, very very slightly bumping into him, as if you were simply continuing to walk — as expected, since the circle should be continuously moving — should not set off any fire bells.
If the shul is big enough, you can make multiple rings of circles. If the shul is not very big, those walking in a circle directly around the Bima slows down the other circle(s), and so usually such a circle (or even individuals) directly around the Bima should not be occurring in a non-large shul.
Till what age does Chazal expect parents to discipline or have any “reins” on one’s children? Till Bar Mitzvah? Till wed (i.e. age 22)? Even when the child’s age 50?
Buffalo is a dying city.