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n0mesorah: Rav Sherer zt’l excoriated Tendler for having falsified Rav Moshe zt’l’s position on brain death.
The Tosfos Yom Tov identified talking in shul as the cause of the terrible tragedies during Tach V’Tat. And many other Gedolim have identified other reasons for other tragedies.
Milhouse: What’s your hourly rate? (I’m just the shadchan.)
Mistykins: Did you miss the earlier comment suggesting people stop having more children?
If the poskim or gedolim disagree with the doctors, the gedolim/poskim prevail and we absolutely follow our Rabbonim rather than our doctors.
Obviously the gedolim/rabbonim should be made aware of the doctor’s opinion before he issues a final psak that we must follow.
“….and [with these older 2G and 3G phones] you canhave data blocked as well as text blocked at the carrier level?”
Yes, you can have data blocked. Or have data and text blocked, allowing voice only.
And with companies like Tello, Twigby, Ting and others there’s no additional charge to block the data or the data and text.
Yes. It’s obvious there’s a left-wing agenda. What else is news?
Milhouse: The YWN development team at Duvy’s Media would like to hire you.
The Gedolim do know why.
Actually, Tello’s price for unlimited mobile calling is $8/month.
Presumably before they have children themselves?
You can get unlimited voice calling for $10 a month on any old Sprint phone, including Sprint flip phones, for $10 per month from Tello.
How’s a kosher phone better than a 2G or 3G flip phone that you can order service on for $10 month with resellers (MVNOs) and have data blocked as well as text blocked at the carrier level?
What gave you the idea to experiment adding a question mark at the end of the URL?
Milhouse: Are you arguing that ostentatiousness is a good thing or that the concept of ostentatious doesn’t exist or that nothing on the list can be defined as ostentatious?
Milhouse: How are all of those things good for people who can afford them?
How’d you figure that out, Milhouse?
Reb Eliezer, you’re making the same point as I, in your most recent comment.
lot112: Of course it is relevant. It clearly demonstrates that Pesach getaway hotels can be done without. Just as before they existed or before they become a thing so many people did.
fb: Why would a rebbe be preparing games? Unless you mean for little children.
CTL: The $600 extra is only for 13 weeks.
Reb Eliezer, in Eretz Yisroel they already permit having minyanim now.
Yseribus: Ubiquitin not only acknowledged the existence of the letter from Rav Moshe Sherer ztl that describes Hagaon HaRav Moshe’s position on brain death that he explicitly stated is the opposite of Tendler’ position, but ubiquitin also correctly noted the date of Rav Sherer’s letter demonstrating he well knew the referenced letter.
I’ve responded more than once. I’d rather not be repetitive. If someone doesn’t like the response that’s their issue.
And in the future you’d do yourself well to not falsely quote someone with quotation marks stating something he didn’t say.
n0mesorah: Go argue with the Gedolei Rabbonim shlit”a of Lakewood.
I think everyone should rely on their local Rov, as Yair Hoffman suggested in his editorial on YWN’s main page today. In Lakewood they should have porch minyanim whereas in the Five Towns they should not.
Yseribus: What happened to your vote about ignoring me? I would have thought you’d have waited at least 24 hours before forgetting. 🤣
Regarding Rav Moshe’s Psak on brain death, the letter from Rav Sherer that I submitted to this thread (see the above discussion and acknowledgement from ubiquitin) discussed Rav Moshe’s Psak on brain death.
P.S. The “one or two I made up based on stuff I’ve heard”, as you put it, are made up indeed.
WM: How many unique people visit an idiot’s blog?
“IF more frum Jews followed it, I think the yeshiva and kollel populations would be cut in half. I leave it to the Torah experts to tell us whether that would be a good or a bad thing.
IF more frum Jews would assassinate family members they cannot afford, I think the yeshiva and kollel populations would be cut in half. I leave it to the Torah experts to tell us whether that would be a good or a bad thing.
Ubiq; I wasn’t paid to teach you elementary school English nor am I responsible for those lacking minimum language skills who misread a very basic posting. I don’t intend to spend time explaining what the plain text makes obvious to any literate reader. Nevertheless, as your’e quite persistent on this I’ll very briefly assume the role of your sixth grade English teacher to explain some rather obvious points.
The title of the post merely explains the topic it intends to discuss. It isn’t a statement nor does it take any position on said topic. As such, “Coronavirus versus the Seasonal Flu” merely clarifies it intends to discuss the differences and/or similarities between the two. It does not mean anything more than that. My title did not imply whatsoever “that the flu was worse than coronovirus”, as you absurdly claim above. (Now do you better understand my frustration and aversion to replying to ridiculous assertions? Not replying to ludicrous misinterpretations in no way signifies any admission.)
“Here is another opportunity to clarify.
what were you trying to accomplish with your post”Simply, as a non-medical professional, to understand the severity of the novel coronavirus. As the name implies, the virus is new; and as is known, it isn’t yet well understood even by virusologists. I was simply hoping for a discussion to better understand it, especially its severity.
Capish? (I could repost this in Yiddish if you think that might help you. 🙂
Rav Moshe absolutely did not defer to him on this. In fact, Tendler disputed Rav Moshe’s decision on brain death and tried to get New York State to legislate against the Orthodox definition of death. When Rav Moshe Sherrer informed Rav Moshe about this, Rav Moshe forced his SIL to retract his letter to the New York State Assemblyman.
lot112: How do you suppose people managed without Pesach getaway hotels before they existed?
A real Kiddush Hashem is doing a mitzvah in front of ten Yidden. Like learning Torah in a Beis Medrash.
This whole business of looking good by the Goyim is completely secondary, if even that much.
$20 a month for unlimited calling, which many of the Yeshivos and Beis Yaakovs started offering, is hardly “overpriced”.
Which sites are slow, tedious or exclusive in what they permit to be published?
Ubiq: Regarding Rav Moshe’s Psak on brain death, last evening I posted a letter from Rav Moshe Sherer ztl on that, here on this thread. As of yet the mods haven’t approved it. (Possibly due to its length.)
Or not
Ubiq: You need to vastly improve on your reading comprehension (I won’t make an issue over your writing, spelling, sentence structure and logical abilities.) There was never any “implication” whatsoever; merely questions. Nothing more and nothing less.
Mesira.
Many of the Yeshivos and Beis Yaakovs recently started offering parents flip phones with unlimited voice (calling only) for $20 each.
Dating has been done mostly through “beshows” during this time, due to the restrictions of having the dates elsewhere.
Ubiq: Education 101 for you — a question is not a statement. Not even close.
Not specific to these examples, but speaking generally what constitutes a Kiddush Hashem or not is not determined by what is published in Yated, Hamodia, Yeshiva World, the New York Times or any other publication.
Excellent list, coomonsechel. On target and absolutely correct.
Gadol: My recollection seems to have been off. It is the State of New York, Department of Financial Services, that instituted regulatory relief to insurance policyholders; apparently not federal legislation. It’s likely a number of other states acted likewise. In New York people or small businesses experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19 (likely based on self-declaration) may defer paying insurance premiums on health, life, property and casualty insurance policies. As of now the relief ranges between 60 and 90 days, depending on the policy type.
One of the few good things about the current situation is that Yom Hashmutz is essentially cancelled.
Yseribus: You’re a liar. I never said what you put in quotes attributing to me. In fact, I said nothing of that sort.
Gadol: The CARES act recently passed mandates that insurance companies permit late payments without interruption in coverage during this pandemic.
Yseribus: Factually incorrect. Rav Moshe famously issued a Psak against using brain death to determine death. His son in law did not agree with Rav Moshe.
marbehshalom: Not everyone in Monroe is Dr. Z’s patient.
If the gedolei rabbonim issue an edict on how to behave in a medical situation or, for that matter, on how handle the water pipes in your home, you’re required to follow their decision. End of discussion. The gedolei rabbonim themselves know what is and what is not within their purview to rule upon for the klan and for the yochid. If in fact they rule upon any given situation, be it kashrus, be it medical or be it the piping system in your home, you must follow through and carry out their decision.
CA, in the long run it was almost exactly even. The Level Term policies obviously charged the same amount every year for the term of the policy. The ART increased most years (some years were the same premium as the previous year.) The Level Term policies cost more in the first number of years in the policy but cost less in last few years of the policy. But if you counted all the premiums cumulatively for all the years of the Level Term policy it equalled about the same for the same number of years with the ART policy.
CA: I’ve found Annual Renewable Term policies that were, in fact, less expensive than the popular standard Level Term (10, 20 years) policies.
The insurance companies use the same underwriting policies to offer ART as LT. If you can get one you can get the other.