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A large percentage of Klal Yisroel, Bnei Torah, Orthodox Jews, speak Yiddish as their first language. Even if English is their second language since they live in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, etc.
Certainly and indesputatably such a large percentage of Frum Yidden need to be accommodated by the Siyum HaShas. Especially given that they are a huge percentage of those who learn a daf a day and complete Shas on the seven year cycle. And that a large percentage of the Daf Yomi shiurim are given in Yiddish.
Not to even mention that the Daf Yomi was founded in Yiddish by Yiddish-speaking rabbonim.
Since when are there only 10 shevatim?
Yiddish is the language of Ashkenazic Jewry.
There are those who speak Yiddish that don’t know English well (or even at all.)
Yiddish is a unifying language for Jews from different countries and national languages (i.e. English, French, Ivrit, German, etc.)
Yiddish is our historical common tongue.
Without Yiddish, how could you even consider this to be a Yiddishe event?
CA: What’s the alternative to renting a car?
And a good GPS should keep you out of the Arabs area.
YO: You probably know the famous Halacha where the Sefardim hold like the Rema whereas the Ashkenazim hold like the Mechaber.
The ideal number for both would be 50%.
What if you don’t pay; or dispute the credit card charge if they wrongfully bill you?
Clearly not as the A community is dominant in Klal Yisroel not only numerically but in strength of Torah Yiddishkeit, halachic observance and certainly in Limud Torah with by far the most successful yeshivos in creating the most talmidei chachomim.
Relatively very few people even check what kind of plane they’ll be riding in before purchasing a ticket.
Did Sephardim ever discontinue permitting having multiple wives (other than when moving to countries where secular law prevented it)? If so, which and when?
Might be spam detection gone awry. Some valid posts get marked as spam.
tcanter: It is not c”v done out of excitement. That would be derech chiba in public and therefore assur. According to the shittas that this must be done, it is done strictly to accomplish a halachic requirement and no more.
Geirim were at Har Sinai and they had a neshoma already before birth (or rather rebirth occurring at time of geirus.)
There’s no reason to think that geirim didn’t have a bashert before birth any more than a born Jew. And a Ger’s and a born Jew may have been bashert for each other.
Don’t be a patsy and a stooge. Put your foot down. Yes, you can do it. Just say no. You’re not paying more than a very basic sum.
Charlie: Compared to a great Oheiv Yisroel like The Donald, de Blasio (by comparison only) is virtually an Arabist.
Yabia: People who give a hoot about Halacha and Torah think of these things. Unfortunately many in your community have gotten very secular.
DY: What then is the halachic reason it is done by those who hold it must be done?
Of course it is. Only Zionists think the galus ended in their State of Israel.
Who can people speak to to sign up for this deal?
Chabad doesn’t do it but most Chasidim do it. Most Litvish do not do this but Chaim Berlin does.
“And, we posken that way, except at weddings.”
Neville: Even those shittas that pasken to hold hands between the Chupa and Yichud room, they only narrowly make an exception for that singular walk to the aforementioned Halacha not permitting public displays of affection. For the rest of the wedding that Halacha applies.
Where do I sign up?
This was before it was named Schottenstein, so it doesn’t have that name on it.
Neville, that congregation, the oldest in the U.S., used to be Sephardic as it was started by them in the 1600s.
Being friends with a mod.
“I’ve never hear of an Orthodox Jewish school having school in July or August.”
Lakewood yeshivos are open and in session for 11 months, including July.
I don’t see how anything is wrong with the change. If the employee(s) doesn’t agree or like the change, he can quit the job.
CA: It wasn’t a dream. It was a while ago now, but when we met (it was a random coincidence that we even figured out that we know each other from here) you told me that meeting me is like a dream for you.
But me an jdb go back a long way.
ubiq: I’m y’all’s inner Pintele Yid.
Lightbrite: I believe government should fund any school of every parent’s choice. Regardless of religion or lack thereof, public or private.
ZeesKite: Am I Mishne L’Melech of said Medina?
People who say Israel (instead of the proper Eretz Yisroel) do so to wear their Zionism on their sleeves and in order to prove they’re not a frummy.
Yes.
Yes. Not as frequently as daily (oil fluctuates in price every millisecond), but they did fluctuate in price over time due to the factors you cited.
1. Wherever he lives, he might be somewhere else at any given time.
2. Timestamps in the CR are when the mod approved the post, not when the post was submitted. (Until about 4 years ago it was based on when it was submitted, but that has since changed.) Whatever timestamps you object to only show when the mod was active, not when the poster was active. So your question might be is the mod in EY.
3. In any event, not sure what you’re talking about altogether. Everything falls outside yuntif on the East Coast.
Last pre-yuntif timestamp:
June 7, 2019 7:18 pm at 7:18 pm
First post-yuntif timestamp:
June 11, 2019 6:05 am at 6:05 am4. As to your original question, I live in a total state of ruchniyos with no regard to physical location. (This point I’m sure will provide plenty of fodder to those lacking a sense of humor.)
Yabia: You keep repeating your same repudiated and discredited points like a parrot, that I’ve already disproven with sources to your sourcless contentions. Keeping to repeat the same lie doesn’t magically make it true. I’ve demonstrated that the Khazars melted into the Sephardic population; that Ashkenazim have demonstrably have far greater and far more numerous Gedolei Achronim over the last 500 years; that even the laymen have been far more Torah knowledgeable and Torah observant among the Ashkenazim; and that Ashkenazic mesora is far stronger and more lengthy.
Following your krumme logic that Rashi, as an Ashkenazi, must’ve come from the Khazars, you retorted (direct quote of you:) “I wouldn’t respect Rashi less if he were a descendant of converts.” Thus implying that the Khazar converts were kosher geirim, not your new tune of today that they (and implicitly Rashi and the Baalei Tosfos too) are a “scourge”.
P.S. The Rabad, Rav Avraham ibn Daud (a Sephardic godol), mentions encountering rabbinical students descended from Khazars in Toledo, Spain in the 1160s. Here’s a Sephardic source that clearly the Khazars merged into the Sephardic world. Hence you have no and can produce no evidence that they melted into the Ashkenazic world; only strong evidence that the Khazars melted into the Sephardic world.
The Rabad, Rav Avraham ibn Daud, mentions encountering rabbinical students descended from Khazars in Toledo, Spain in the 1160s. Here’s a source that clearly the Khazars merged into the Sephardic world.
Yabia: Ari is 100% correct. It is an undisputed fact that the average Orthodox Ashkenazi was more stringently Torah observant and knowledgeable than the average Sephardi. This resulted in a post-WWII situation where the average Sephardi wasn’t very Torah knowledgeable or very observant. And most considered themselves “traditional” rather than religious. Just look at how may numerous Gedolim the Ashkenazic world has produced over the last 500 years, whereas the Sephardic world has produced a pittance in comparison since the passing of the generation that survived the Spanish and Portugese Expulsions.
The Ashkenazic Torah world led by the Chazon Ish, Rav Shach and other Ashkenazic Gedolim worked hard to rebuild the Yeshiva and Torah system in the Sephardic world after the WWII. The vast majority of today’s greatest Sephardic rabbonim (including Chacham Ovadia Yosef zt’l who learnt in the Yeshiva of HaGaon HaRav Tzvi Pesach Frank zt’l, Litvishe Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim and Dayan of the Ashkenazic Badatz Eidah HaChareidus) leaent in Ashkenazic yeshivos since the Sephardic ones couldn’t remotely compare.
The Ashkenazic mesora goes back to Eretz Yisroel pre-churban and remains unbroken at least since the times of Rabbeinu Gershom, Rashi and the Baalei Tosfos; that’s 1,000+ years of Ashkenazic mesora. Whereas the Sephardic mesora was broken by the Inquisiton when 50% of Sephardim converted to Christianity and the other 50% were forced to leave their home of centuries and move thousands of miles away where their mesora was mixed into the mesora of the local Eidah Hamizrach, resulting in a new mixed practice.
1. The Khazars melted into the Sephardic population. They also lived in a geographically Sephardic region of the world. Today’s Sephardim are a mix of the original Sephardim, the Khazars and the Eidah Hamizrach.
2. On Isru Chag you call the Khazars a “scourge”. Yet on Erev Yom Tov you called them kosher geirim. How did you end up changing your mind over the last three days?
laskern: Like traditional Oberlanders, you use the Chasidishe havara and daven Nusach Ashkenaz?
Referring to it as “Israel” is the same as pre-’48 referring to it as “Palestine”. Yidden before ’48 called it Eretz Yisroel — in their everyday speech — and they continue to do so today. They tended not to call it Palestine then or Israel now.
The State of Israel to Eretz Yisroel is no different than other countries, such as Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria that — like the State of Israel — is also partially in Eretz Yisroel.
YY: Generally when the Torah or Halacha doesn’t specify, it is referring to Jews and not gentiles.
1: Where do they go to?
Nu, the only taaina you mention is the shmoozing. Everyone knows that’s wrong.
Yasher Koach
“It’s not coincidental. It’s because of Khazar Meshugas.”
The Sephardic descendents of the Khazars don’t uniformly wear the same kippa.
Almond milk.
19, 38, 57, 76, etc.
Are you suggesting that the fact that 99% of folks in Teaneck wear a much different yarmulka than folks in Kiryas Yoel is merely highly coincidental? Is it warmer in NY than in NJ?