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Why do you think that the medical profession is unusual for frum people?
American concepts of abortion has no comparison in halacha. It doesn’t recognize instances where the baby can be considered a rotzeach for putting the mother’s life in danger. It also doesn’t differentiate between stillborns and ben kayamas, so that under some laws woman may have to carry a dead fetus until labor instead of getting a DNC. Rav Moshe ZT”L said in his teshuvos that we should not fight RvW because if it were overturned, woman may be denied access to life saving medical care.
The first result we would see is people performing the action under cloak and dagger leading to killing more women. Just like people like to say that lack of access to guns doesn’t prevent criminals from getting guns, so too lack of access to abortions doesn’t prevent women from getting them.
Yes we should. But it’s a very difficult thing to do. Many Mashichists and Elokists (and by here, I’m using the definition of a person who believes the following: “Rav Menachem Mendel Schneerson is or can be Moshiach and he can hear and fulfill our teffilos so we pray to him”) are very set in their ways and surrounded by many people who look like Erliche Yidden and are similarly convinced that this is how to follow Hashem’s Torah.
I think the best we can do is be open and inviting to Chabadskers and show them how we daven (with only Hashem in mind) how we learn (from many Rishonim and Acharonim) how we listen to Da’as Torah (not every cough or sneeze from a Rov is something that needs to be written down and treated like Torahs Moshe m’Sinai C”V) and how most of the frum and even Chassidish world just lives and believes very differently than they are used to.
Because each time someone lights a fire, it draws a huge crowd. They are trying to limit crowds by limiting the fires.
I read something once by the guy who ran the anti-cult organization “Jews for Judaism”. He said that a religion allows you to choose to what extent you want to be part of it. You can be frum, but no one is forcing you to be frum, and if you choose to no longer follow certain mitzvos, you can do so with little consequence (at least in Olam HaZeh). A cult on the other hand, is ruled by an enigmatic leader or leaders. You cannot choose your level of involvement. You are either all in, completely following the Dear Leader’s every word, or out.
I know a family where the father was a “full time bachur” and the mother was getting her MD when they got married. He learns in kollel and she supports the family financially.
For all these people saying “trust in Hashem!”. What do you do when you break your arm? Daven extra hard?
Machlokes Rav Belsky and Rav Heineman l’havdil. I do believe that one of Rav Belsky’s main concerns was that it’s grown near grain. The Star-K puts a hechsher on some quinoa and I think the majority now paskens like Rav Heineman.
Corn is different because we have a near unanimous consensus by early acharonim that it should be considered kitniyos. So we (Ashkenazim) don’t eat it because of mesorah.
@moishekapoieh The Tiferes Yisroel (who wrote Yochin U’Boaz on Mishnayos) has a sefer at the end of Mishnayos Sanhedrin called “Or HaChaim” that answers some of your questions.
Hunter Biden tried to use his father’s influence to close business deals with Ukraine. Biden covered it up for him. This has been news for months and only now NYT is begrudgingly admitting that it was true. You know what this proves regarding the 2020 election? Absolutely bupkes. Politicians are all corrupt and lie all the time. But the fake news that the 2020 election was fixed requires so many leaps of logic, a conspiracy of millions keeping their mouths shut, and other near-impossible things to pull off.
Rav Chaim’s stories aren’t about moifsim. They are about Torah. For the last decade of his life, knew more than (probably) any individual alive. People would come to him with shaylos about rare situations and he would immediately answer by pointing out where in poskim this was discussed before. There wasn’t a piece of Shas he couldn’t immediately recall. And he was pashut in that regard.
Everything to him was about Torah and Avodah. When people would ask for eitzas his answer was always to daven and learn. He never worried about the future because he always had full bitachon that Moshiach is just around the corner. He was simply baffled sometimes when people didn’t grasp that “Why does it matter who to vote for? Moshiach is coming!”
Once after an anti-Semitic attack in a Yeshiva, the Lakewood Rosh Yeshivos asked him what they Yeshiva can do to protect themselves. He said that they don’t need protection because everyone is learning. They were forced to admit that perhaps not everyone is learning all the time, and people sometimes take phone calls from their seats in the Batei Midrashim. This upset him greatly and he said that it made a hole in the protective barrier so the Yeshiva may need physical protection.
I was zoche to meet R’ Scheiner ZT”L once with some friends. He gave us a short shiur and talked about his life growing up in the USA and getting sent to Europe to learn Torah. As American bochurim, it somehow felt more real and personal to have a great Rosh Yeshiva who spoke perfect English with a heavy Pennsylvanian accent.
He caught COVID after getting vaccinated. Unfortunately he was very old, so even with the vaccine the virus was too strong.
In the 1960s there was this growing fear of a “population bomb”. With medical advances ensuring that almost all children live to adulthood, the population exploded. Which was a great thing. Until people realized that there all these extra mouths to feed and just as much arable land as there was before. Panic set in and charts predicted that it will be twenty years until we can no longer feed everyone and be forced to resort to drastic measures.
Enter Norman Borlaug.
By genetically engineering food crops, like corn and wheat, Borlaug invented a way to produce far more food on just as much farmland as before. The crisis was solved and this unassuming Norwegian-American scientist quietly saved the world.
@ujm Melaleuca’s entire business model relies on swindling people as Multi-Level Marketing (AKA MLM AKA Pyramid Scheme). Unfortunately a lot of their victims are frum Jews who buy in as a low level “associate”.
Let me summarize the following massive thread about the fraud that Trump alleged took place during the 2020 elections. Nothing was found showing that there was fraud. That is all.
@ujm Would you buy the best product in the world if you know that the company that produces it makes money by fooling and swindling frum Jews?
If we are taking CDC data as something we can learn from, CDC data also shows that people with three COVID vaccine shots are not only far far less likely to get hospitalized and/or R”L die from COVID but also far far less likely to pass COVID on to someone else.
NPR used to find every way to turn any story to race or some other minority issue, if they couldn’t blame Israel. Since COVID it’s gotten way worse. Some 95% of their stories are just these opinion pieces on race.
Legality aside, why the big fuss? If someone tells you to put a mask on, put up a mask, get your nose swabbed, and stop crying over it. It’s really not such a big deal that we have to involve lawyers.
I would like to know what people feel the endgame is over here. Having millions of Arabs living in the West Bank without citizenship is unethical and unsustainable in the long run. Absorbing them all as Israeli citizens would mean that the Knesset would change its name to the Majlis within the year. Murdering them all for some reason is still an option to some people.
So what do?
Chalopshitz
I don’t know about you, but I prefer that Biden focus on meaningless external things like gender and race when choosing a nominee rather than picking the one who he feels would be the most opposed to the conservative justices and most “progressive”.
Can we at very least agree that for the amount of money seminary costs, the sem should at very least supply three full meals a day and a full Shabbos? I know this was the case in 2021 when sems were forced to make girls stay in all the time, but did it continue?
That’s if you’re paying full tuition as an out-of-state student. Try Queensborough as a New York City resident.
Don’t quote me on this, but I believe that the Ben Ish Hai held that electricity as a general rule can be used on Shabbos (provided it doesn’t heat up, like a lightbulb or oven) and that bikes can be ridden. Sefardim are much more meikel on electricity because of this.
The mythical Second Avenue Subway is considered m’Toiras 1940 considering it’s long history.
Anyhoo, staying home every time you don’t feel well isn’t an option. Sure I’d stay home if I were running a fever, but most “not feel well” is much more mild. There are winter months where I can barely go a full week without developing a cough or sneeze.
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I understand the logical reasons parents send their girls to sem, but let’s talk real world over here. For many many people it’s simply unaffordable. And for those that can afford it, shidduchim factor in way more than they probably should in choosing the “right” seminary.
And seminary costs are significantly more than college. You can go to a local college and sleep at home, pay in-state tuition costs, and get a full 4 year degree for less than half of one year in seminary.
It’s currently culturally acceptable to wear a mask. I hope that continues. It’s crazy to think that if we just had a bit of a fever, or a little sneeze, we would walk into crowded supermarkets and shuls with no difference.
It’s very difficult to weigh the increasingly outlandish costs of seminaries in Eretz Yisroel against the need for the best shidduch.
Do we really want a world split between those who can afford to spend $30,000 on their daughters to go to sem and those who send somewhere in America?
We do not discuss the Thing That We Do Not Discuss on this place where it is not discussed.
@rightwriter Sorry, my memory isn’t great. But weren’t you 100% in support of Trump during his presidency?
@ bored_teen (AKA @trump-2024) To be fair, I said that this should be a topic decided on only by women and girls.
@moishekapoieh I like the Tiferes Yisroel/Yachin U’Boaz’s pshat on dinosaurs mentioned in his sefer on Mishnayos Sanhedrin, “Orech Chaim”.
@always_ask_questions I never liked the Turing Test. The current biggest candidate being hyped all around is a piece of software called GPT-3. Even though it has a massive vocabulary, rarely repeats itself, and writes in clear English, it only takes about 2 paragraphs before devolving into pure narischkeit.
@torahvaluesoverparty I do believe that the current Democrat and Trump narrative is much closer to what I suggested than the hard-right Republicans, even if it isn’t 100%. They ask their doctors and listen to their advice.
What did your doctor tell you?
@always_ask_questions I like the idea of asking multiple experts for their opinion, but I’m afraid it’s just going to lead to shopping around for a good answer. Like how some not so erliche Yidden will ask every Rov until they find one who is meikel. But if you’re going to ask around, it has to be done right. You can’t start emailing some doctor in Jamaica because you watched his videos or whatever. You have to go to the doctors you know and trust.I remember Yeshiva World posting about Mendel’s petira. I was embarrassed because it was the first time I learned his last name.
I am not unconvinced that most of the posters on CR are not robots to begin with.
We should listen to Rav Yaakov Horowitz and all the other Rabbonim trying to educate the frum oilom on the very real dangers of abuse. There’s literally nothing more to add.
Forget mandates, VAERS, transmission rates, death rates, co-morbidity, Democrats, Republicans, and all the other buzzwords being thrown at us. There’s a simple solution to all of this: as your doctor.
Most of you have a primary care doctor. One that you’re had since before COVID that you go to when you’re sick. Or even a pediatrician when your kids are sick. Or even a specialist who you go to for some specific thing. Ask him or her if you should get yourself, and/or your kids, vaccinated. That’s all!
When was the last time you paid cash for anything besides a babysitter?
Zoom use during lockdown varied wildly. Some Rosh Yeshivos embraced it. Some discouraged it. Some switched “sides” in the middle. Many places worked really hard to make sure there was some form of video conferencing available to talmidim/talmidos that didn’t require a household internet connection.
You can get email services through a kosher provider without full internet access that allow people to send you audio and video. So there’s no excuse for a Yeshiva to shut down teachers sending videos specifically “because internet” while still relying on email for everything else.
Some Yeshiva systems did amazing, some… not so much. One place I’m familiar with set up an awful phone conferencing system after a few weeks with zero guidance or help to Rebbeim and teachers on the best way to use it then said “good enough” and that’s what they used for the months of lockdown (and the following year when lots of kids and teachers were out for days or even weeks). The administration cared more about avoiding the Internet by all means necessary than they did about having a functional distance chinuch system in place. Like teachers were emailing videos out, but the hanhallah shut them down. To their credit, they did listen to parent complaints (which there were a LOT of) and did change things a little here and a little there to make things more tolerable.
Yes but also no.
In a perfect world, everyone would only be speaking Lashon HaKodesh, getting all their education from frum teachers in Yeshivos and Bais Yaakovs, and working with only frum people. But despite our best efforts, we cannot be completely secluded from outside influences. Even these Jewish magazines that decry goyishe “culture” so much are heavily based on similar secular publications.
So while I absolutely applaud anyone who chooses not to have non-Jewish literature in the house, I will not approve of people who criticize those that do.
Just because most of the real world isn’t screaming about their mental illnesses (both real and “self-diagnosed”) 24/7 like Twitter doesn’t mean that “Orthodox aren’t open about their diagnosis”.
Last I checked most of those looters broke and stole less than $900 which, in Los Angeles, is not a crime.
Two points:
A. We need Congress to stop holding by that 1980s fear of nuclear power and build more nuclear power plants. They are cleaner to run and produce far more electricity than coal or oil. But since the big anti-nuclear campaigns of the last century (most of which are unfounded) caused the US to all but stop building and improving on them.
B. What’s the worst that can happen? Electric cars become cheaper? I would absolutely buy an electric car, presuming it can fit my needs and is a comparable price to a non-electric one. How often are you driving more than 300 miles a day anyway? Just a decade ago people were saying the same about hybrids and now look! Almost every car on the market (including vans) is a hybrid!
@commonsaychel No I don’t know what @syag-lchochma means and since neither of you posted any examples at all I’m further confused by this whole conversation. What sort of nonchalant take on frumkeit do these certain posters have? And what sort of approach towards masks do they have that makes it a matter of pure faith?
Health “Your posts are getting more and more incoherent”
Also Health “Preload to Communism” “Marshal Law Rule”
Anyhoo where was I? Oh yeah! Raitzing on and trolling by getting in the mud and wrestling a chazer!
You DemocRATS are all the Same!
“He wanted to demand an investigation”. Yes by Protesting that the Man from Delaware Is In the White House!
The End of Democracy Happened When People Like You Liberals Made Sure that the President who was Mandated by HEaven to be Precedent Wouldn’t Be Prezident!
You WANTED Biden To Rule!
You People Dont Like Trump!