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Joseph, I think you might be misunderstanding the Chasam Sofer.
Bottom line is that Yiddish is not holy at all.
Flatbush27,
They may not be doing that the first 5 minutes, but they most certainly are doing that in the first 5 seconds.
On paper being tall, skinny and whatnot is not the same as looking at the person and seeing if you are physically attracted to that person.
Why is a pizza store inappropriate? If anything, not only do I find a lounge inappropriate, I think it’s assur. A lounge has treif food, people dancing, drinking, etc. It is not the place for a Jew to spend his time, let alone when meeting a potential mate. If you still MUST do the lounge bit, go to the airport. It’s more fun, and it’s much cheaper.
Jothar,
That’s why we light 18-40 minutes early.
PM,
You mean halacha changes?
The kabbalists of the past would support the legalization of marijuana.
Contrary to popular belief, marijuana is dangerous by itself and not just as a gateway drug.
I actually don’t like that the shul I daven in has mincha at candlelighting time. Most shuls have it 5 minutes later.
A bigger question is why a rav needs to shlep out Seuda Shlishis when people are waiting to daven Maariv.
Notpashut, R’ Wasserman was offered several times visas for himself and his talmidim to stay in the US, and not just in YU, Torah Vodas offered visas as well. He refused and he, and his talmidim died. The same can be said for many other rebbes and roshei yeshivahs who told their talmidim to stay. Let’s not rewrite history and place all the blame on the Zionists.
BTW, I can see why some people would not want to pay $250. IIRC, there are actual halachic shailas with this.
1) The Agudah voted for the Peel Commission.
2) R’ Elyashiv served on the Rabbanut. Will that be edited out from his hagiography?
What is interesting is that many of the people here are the first to scream Daas Torah. I don’t think your Daas Torah allows internet usage for the sake of the CR. This is not business. I guess it boils down to Daas Torah for thee, but not for me.
That doesn’t mean the halacha applies to rabbanim. While we can make up chumras every week, we don’t make up halachas here. The halacha you mentioned applies specifically to the Sanhedrin. You can’t extend it to all rabbanim.
Joseph, what does families paying taxes have to do with anything? The Israeli government gives a subsidy to yeshivas and kollels for each student, even foreign ones (who don’t pay taxes). Does the US do that? No.
Joseph,
That is talking about the Sanhedrin, not rabbanim.
Joseph, is that why the Israeli government gives money to Yeshivas and Kollels for each student enrolled? Your extremism shouldn’t cloud your judgment.
Actually scientists have managed to slow down the speed of light, so there is progress being made.
I already replied to you tomorrow. You should have read it last week. (That is if the mods approved the post yesterday.)
Smoking has ZERO benefits, the internet has lots of benefits. It is naive of people to think they can just shut out the internet. Guess what, the internet is here to stay and you better learn how to live with it properly because soon EVERYTHING will be done via the internet. Personally, if I knew that a rav smoked, I would not follow him at all. There are lots of addictiions out there, yet you’d be hard pressed to find a heter for them, same with smoking. Smoking is known to kill. If you smoke, you are an idiot.
Save your money, you’re going to get lots and lots of glossy advertisments about poor families with 23 children a dead mother and a talmid chacham who can’t make ends meet.
I used to give a bottle of Coke and an orange. We should go back to those olden times and perhaps just give to a few people. Our money is better spent elsewhere.
Flatbush,
You are wrong. There is an increase in chumras that the world did not see ever before. Like I wrote before, it could be the BT syndrome. Then again it could also be that with so many people sitting in learning, nobody knows halacha (after all they just learn gemarah 90% of the time) so they have to be machmir.
They had pictures in Europe, are we frummer than the Jews in Europe? (That is the Yeshivish trump card. I win.)
Perhaps, but perhaps the reason people go off is because people make things up and “it’s OK to be overprotective and it won’t kill anyone” and if they are questioned, they reply “it’s your own fault for going off.”
If you want to be machmir, then be machmir on being machmir.
I just read somewhere that society today is suffering from a very strong case of BT syndrome. We have to check it before it’s too late.
Also, R’ Falk’s sefer is NOT the source for halacha. I know many people who think that it’s a terrible thing to bring into a Jewish home.
flatbush27, the main reason why the yeshivish papers don’t post pictures is because the vocal minority tells them to. They don’t want to have a pashkavil against them.
I saw a famous picture with the Chafetz Chaim at a train station. This picture had a lady in it. In the biography, the lady was removed. It is stupid things like that that makes no sense and it really turns people off.
Flatbush27, where do you get that a picture is not tzniuys? If the person is tzanuah, then it’s not not tznius. B”H we have enough halachas and chumrahs, we don’t need to make up any.
Squeak, thanks, I think.
I can’t fathom how it would be assur to say Good Shabbos to someone. We’re not talking about stopping and chapping a shmooze. In most cases we’re talking about the Jewish hello, you nod, say GS and keep walking. That has nothing to do with tznius, it’s just basic mentchlichkeit.
Maybe if more people said “Good Shabbos” we wouldn’t have a big shidduch crisis. After all, who knows what two words can lead to.
(Of course I am joking.)
SJSinNYC, that’s why you have to keep davening. You can’t give up. That’s how davening is.
(The same can be said for lots of things we daven for, which is why you still have to daven, even if it didn’t happen yet in X years. That’s not neccesarily the point of davening.)
Squeak,
Asking Hashem to let the Mets win is most certainly davening. It should of course not be the main point of your davening, but asking Hashem for ANYTHING is davening. It shows that you realize that Hashem controls the world. According to the Rambam (IIRC), davening is simply asking Hashem for something. If a person feels disconnected to Hashem, or to davening, then even getting a person to talk to Hashem even for something as stupid as a sports game is still something. It’s a “conversation” starter.
ames, Aldrich Ames was one of the biggest (if not the) traitors in the US Intelligence Community.
Joseph, according to R’ SZA you are incorrect.
Furthermore, R’ Elyashiv says you can call the police on a child abuser. Does that mean once the police have him, you now have pidyun sh’vuyim?
Obviously there are exceptions.
moish,
One way to daven is just to open your heart and talk. I mean really talk to Hashem. In English, for whatever you need.
“Hi Hashem, it’s me moish again. I know I’m trying to do X but I could really use your help so what do you say? Also, please let the Mets win the world series. Thanks!”
That is called davening. Joseph and Squeak might not approve, but if you talk from the heart and just ask/say what is on your mind you might find it easier to daven.
If you’re female, you can daven with your hair uncovered, even if you’re married, as long as no males are present. It’s not erva for you, it’s erva for men.
feivel,
You state that you have to be dressed with respect to daven. Who disagrees?
Is davening with your jacket over your shoulders with your hat up and to the back respect?
If even the gadol hador President Bush didn’t pardon him, perhaps there is more to the case.
BTW, Pollard himself ruined his chance. He violated his plea agreement all the way in the beginning, by doing an interview (I think with 60 minutes).
moderators,
Why are you not posting a note by Joseph’s post that people should consult their own rabbi and not rely on Joseph? Where is squeak? Or do only certain people get those edits?
Smoking is 100% assur. The claim that is muttar because of Shomer Pisaim doesn’t fly, because we are not pesaim with regards to smoking. It is NOT the same as driving a car.
We don’t pasken from the Pirkei Avos.(At least that is what I’ve been told every time I start quoting a mishnah from there.)
Besides, it also says 15 for Talmud (which I might agree with, 5th grade is way too early for gemerah).
Squeak, Why would you put me down? The rav in question is very right wing, and very much respected by the establishment. You really have some nerve, and I am surprised that YWN the site that is so much against lashan harah and motzei shem ra would post your post.
Which part of my statement don’t you agree with?
1 is pure factual history. That’s the reason why many people have problems with the Blumenkrantz book, it’s the fad for Pesach, when 100 years ago this would never have been allowed to enter most YESHIVISH homes.
2 is basic halacha.
Just because you never heard of something, or you don’t agree with something, doesn’t make it modernish.
1) Regarding chametz, unless you are chassidishe or yekkish you don’t have to worry about it. Before the Blumenkrantz book came along, (ie, in Europe) the Litvaks never worried about things like perfume and the like. Playdough is not an issue either (and I heard this from my Rav). (BTW, the whole issue of Litvish vs. Chassidishe can be seen when the CRC (Chicago) comes out with their Pesach list and it’s two pages and the Blumenkrantz book is hundreds of pages.)
2) You don’t need to worry about your kids eating it, it’s not food. If you do worry about it, then you should also worry about glue and most other things kids touch.
Please see note by squeak a few posts down – YWMod
Joseph,
I am not sure if this was his kulah, but his brother R’ Aharon (IIRC) held that a mechitzah has to be only 39?? inches (for it to be technically at the lowest level, kosher). (The difference is not that you can’t see women, but you have to be separate.)
abcd, they don’t know to ask. If they would ask a reputable Rav, the rav would be able to work with them.
“Perhaps they shouldn’t get married if they cannot afford it.”
That is why there was a year separating the kiddushin from nissuin. You need to have a house and a parnassah before you get married.
Of course, that was the halacha then, I guess halacha changed.
BTW, many of the issues regarding birth control is sociological and not halachic. After the Holocaust, many people feel that to even mention birth control is assur. But like we saw what R’ Feinstein said (and others), it’s not 100% assur and people should realize that having 10-15 kids is not necessarily the best thing.
Keep in mind that even only 100 years ago, the odds of a kid reaching one year old was very slim. People had kids to replace kids that were lost. Today, with the advances of medicine, perhaps we should rethink this.
squeak, IIRC, he believes that the Torah is of divine origin, just not everything is 100% historical. That is a far cry from what you are saying.
It is the only time the “gedolim” let people have fun, so they go all out.
A bar mitzvah is the same as a bas mitzvah, it’s a glorified birthday party to celebrate a child becoming an adult. Celebrate however you feel like it.
Joseph of course will find fault with anything not allowed in his fundamentalist handbook.
BTW, just to throw out something which I think was mentioned here. R’ Nosson Slifkin in one of his books (which wasn’t banned) talks about going to the zoo. Going to a zoo in today’s world is not as much of a problem as it was in the olden days. However, if the animals are treated poorly then it might be an issue.
Joseph,
The Tiferes Yisroel, IIRC, wrote that as well.
“Where do you put Rabbi Avi Weiss and his yeshiva? He came out of YU, after all. “
So did R’ Miller.
Just because someone is a student doesn’t mean they represent the school. Just like David Shick and Mondrowitz, etc. are “students” of Yeshivish/Chassidish, it doesn’t mean they represent. The same is true of MO, even though it is very hard for some people to realize that.
brooklyn19, actually you can and should act upon your thoughts and ideas IF you are qualified. If you know the answer you don’t need to ask a rav. We are “people of the book.” If we study and know something, then we don’t need to ask for guidance. We never did until less than 100 years ago or so.
Joseph,
Wasn’t it R’ Aharon who compromised halacha when he set up a kollel system in Lakewood?
David Shick was Yeshivish. The Reiss boys were Yeshivish, the Spinka Rebbe is Chassidish, Kolko is Yeshivish, Mondrowitz is Chassidish. Am I now safe to say that Yeshivishism and Chassidishism condones molestation and thievery?
Mods,
So Bogen is allowed a free pass to insult because he is defending a “yeshivish” person?
A bit of advice, if you want to start being taken seriously, you have to stop with the double standard of modding.
Joseph, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but his following is extremely small.