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Third Party sellers on Amazon contractually agree in advance to accept any return in accordance with Amazon’s liberal return policy. That contract between the customer and seller can halachicly be utilized.
Rav Brudny says in that 4 minute clip you referenced at What We Say that “Agudas Yisroel was founded to lchatchila fight the Zionists”. And as such Agudah does not in any official capacity encourage participation in the World Zionist Congress elections.
Amazon offers at least a 30 day return policy on almost every item that permits returns for any reason. So you can use it for any reason. But that doesn’t include if you purchased it with the advance certain intention of returning it.
Rav Chaim Kanievsky, the Gerrer Rebbe and some others.
You’re looking at the wrong crowds. The Lakewood type tzibburs barely know who that was, if they even ever heard his name before. The websites and social media crowd hardly represents the real frum community.
Rav Brudny has NOT encouraged people to vote. I doubt the others have either.
Is it any different than going to Muslim Turkey?
Some do and some don’t. Some stop at ninth grade.
Smash them.
AJ: The United States has accepted conscientious objectors during the time of draft. Unlike Israel.
funnybone: Ask any mesader gittin.
Chassidish boys often get married at 18. Sometimes even younger. 20 is already almost a late age for a Chasidish boy to get married.
The Chasidish 18-21 year olds aren’t more mature than the Litvish 18-21 years old. And the Chasidim have a lower divorce rate despite getting married younger. Or, more likely, because of it. Once people gets older unmarried they each start getting into more meshugasim that they bring into marriage that a couple that married younger doesn’t have since they grew with each other together.
If one can do it, both can do it.
It’s like letting her have a loaded gun so long as you place a trigger lock filter.
Mistykins: Driving faster will only save a couple of minutes, ifeven that. Not worth it.
Take it away from her.
Abe: No. But the Chinese pack three or four families into one apartment and split the cost, so they can afford to outbid the frum in buying homes (usually from the frum) in the lower avenues of Boro Park.
I heard that Detroit (Southfield/Oak Park) has very inexpensive homes.
Reb Eliezer, virtually no candidate supports what you describe. And it is no excuse to vote for a mishkav zochor supporter.
Reb Eliezer:
Have the heimish pirates been fined by the FCC?
Reb Eliezer, so why are you voting for the candidates who are much bigger supporters of mishkav zochor?
The Asians are moving into the low avenues of Boro Park, displacing the frum community there.
The average Sefardim are generally wealthier than the average Askenazim, permitting them to afford the increasing cost of housing in Brooklyn.
The hippies and other secular people are increasingly purchasing homes in Williamsburg and all other Brooklyn neighborhoods, causing continued increase in housing costs. They want to live near Manhattan, since they can’t afford Manhattan itself.
The young Askenazim are increasingly moving from everywhere, not just Brooklyn but Brooklyn as well as even almost every other out of town community to Lakewood. Chassidim are also moving to the Monsey area. This is causing Brooklyn and out of town areas to lose growth in their young communities, which as a result is increasingly shrinking.
I have a set of luggage ready and all packed with everything I need that I will grab when Moshiach comes so I can greet him and go with him to Eretz Yisroel.
Parts of Lebanon and Jordan are as much Eretz Yisroel and our land as Tel Aviv.
Mobico: America has more Jews that Israel. But in any event, the number of Jews killed or maimed in war and terrorism in Israel far exceeded the number of Jews killed or maimed in America.
Reb Eliezer, would you vote for a candidate who wants to permit public nudity or incest since you don’t have to engage in such behavior even if it’s legal?
toast: I don’t disagree with most of your last comment. As you said the Chofetz Chaim was a town rabbi, a leader of a Yeshiva, and most importantly a major Torah scholar and as such was clearly, unambiguously and indisputably a rabbi despite having no smicha. My only point being that smicha isn’t required to be a rabbi (or Rov) today.
Also note that any person with smicha can, at will, issue smicha to any other individual. Even a newly minted rabbi who just received his own smicha can immediately give smicha to others. Such is a core feature of smicha.
I did not say that I “don’t view smichah with any legitimacy.” If you got smicha from, say, the Chazon Ish it certainly has a lot of legitimacy and confers rabbinical status on said individual.
I will certainly say that some smichas today don’t have any legitimacy.
A convert doesn’t have adopted parents. Indeed Judaism has no concept of adopted parents. In fact, a convert has no parents other then Avrohom and Sarah, as his birth parents have no relationship to him following his conversion. (Technically under pure Torah law he could even marry his biological mother if she also converts.)
toast: Wikipedia is an am haaretz. Assume anything they say about Yidden as likely false. Your example is another proof. They know little about the Chofetz Chaim, who had no smicha until he was in his 80s.
Reb Eliezer, so what? Since when does some gelt allow us to support a supporter of mishkav zochor, abortion, suicide, etc?
“Joseph – whatever do you mean?”
More Jews, both in percentages (proportion) and in hard numbers, are killed and maimed for being Jewish in Israel than in the US. In war, terrorism and physical assaults.
If you want to run away to somewhere safer, Australia and Canada have less attacks on Jews than in America. Israel has more than America.
Mr. Kahana definitely did not have the support of the gedolim. Indeed a number of the gedolim specifically spoke against his activities. His Jewish Defense League, Zionism and vocalness were counterproductive to the Jewish community. Quite a number of his JDL colleagues ended up with long prison terms for committing violence. And they helped virtually no one.
Btw, Kahana said a few times that he was safer in the States than in Israel. Yet look at how he left the world.
Cuomo received a very small percent of the fum vote in the general election. Check the voting results in majority Orthodox voting districts.
Israel has more antisemitism than the US. If you think you need to leave, moving to Israel on that basis is less safe. I’d suggest Australia or Canada is where to move.
Reb Eliezer: Very few rabbis or even general poskim are truly very knowledgeable in gittin, halacha l’maaisa.
What’s so important that yeshivos need to make a special issue about the antisemitism today? Antisemitism has existed for 2000+ years.
Billywee: Which area in NY outside of NYC and Monsey is a nice safe community that has a yeshivish and chasidish community?
toast: Was the Chofetz Chaim simply a Mr. until he was 85 when he finally got smicha only as a result of needing to communicate with the Polish government, who insisted on only dealing with a rabbi?
There’s no such thing as real smicha anymore.
Also, the Chofetz Chaim didn’t have smicha (until he was an old man and got it for a technical governmental need.) Was the Chofetz Chaim therefore not a rabbi?
Reb Eliezer, what does he consider to be an older age for such women?
Why are you asking that of me? It is Chazal that warn that she’ll engage in tiflus.
She gets rewarded for Tefillin too. And Tefillin doesn’t say she risks tiflus. So anyone encouraging women to learn Torah Shebal Peh, despite the huge problem of tiflus, should surely first encourage even more strongly that women should wear Tefillin, Talis and Tzitzis, which doesn’t have tiflus associated with it.