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This article posits that even close cutting electric shavers
The article says no such thing. It goes into depth about different types of electric shavers and what the potential issues are. It very clearly states that there is a problem with most shavers, since they are sharp enough to cut the hair to a point where it drops below the skin.
Honestly, on issues of technology there are some Rabbonim I will trust over even gedolei hador. Rav Heineman is one such rav. He does not paskin unless he delves into the technology himself, experiments with it, and speaks with experts in the field. With all do respect to Rav Chaim Kanievsky SHLITA, I simply cannot fathom that he personally built a rig to see if a lift-and-cut shaver actually does what it says it does.
As for electric shavers in general, it’s a machlokes. But the majority of non-Chassidish American Rabbonim (and a significant percentage of Israeli rabbonim) hold that it’s fine and no different than scissors.
@zahavasdad Completely false. Some law schools that are frequented by frum men may take issue with a BTL because they’ve seen so many of them, but for the most part it’s an excellent way to skip a huge chunk of undergrad requirements. Many graduate schools will accept a student with a BTL and a few required courses.
The old mashkiach of Ner Yisroel, Rav Moshe Eiseman SHLITA, used to make a huge fuss that any bachur who gets married, or staff who marries off a kid, should do so in the Yeshiva dining room like he himself did with all of his daughters (including Rebbetzin Esther Baila Schwarz). He still sadly laughs about how no one listened to him.
Are you makpid on differentiating between ג and גּ? What about תּ and ט?
What’s a government phone?
Excuse me! But according the yesterdays Scripps National Spelling Bee, it’s spelled YiddishKEIT.
Is this an anti-Chabad thread?
Excuse me? The Force not a religion? Please allow me to quote from the canonical Fourth Movie in which Admiral Tarkin speaks with Darth Vader and refers to said Force as (and I quote) “hokey religions”.
@neville-chaimberlin The Monsey-Bnei Brak split was a famous and terrible machlokes over 30 years ago, similar to Satmar Williamsburg and Satmar Kiryas Yoel today. They’ve since made shalom, but they are as separate as Ger and Belz.
It’s my right as a member of a just society to fire my AK-47 in the air everytime I liberate a land of infidels. That’s protected by the 1st amendment, no?
@Joseph is the personification of Poe’s law. Most people here can’t tell that he’s trolling in 99% of his comments.
@NevilleChaimBerlin So they share a mesora (sort of)! So what? My point was that Yated Israel and Yated US are different unaffiliated publications just like Vizhnitz Monsey and Vizhnitz Bnei Brak are different unaffiliated organizations.
As much as any secular non-educational book is.
@Joseph Vizhnitz Monsey and Vizhnitz Bnei Brak are not officially affiliated and never were. Several other branches, like Seret Vizhnitz, are similarly unaffiliated to either. It’s similar with Satmar Williamsburg and Satmar Kiryas Yoel.
There are no affiliations between Ner Yisroel Toronto, (the former) Ner Yisroel LA, and Ner Yisroel Baltimore either.
We are all Joseph. We are naught but ephemeral flickers of neurons in the Collective Joseph Hive Mind. Join us and we can be Joseph together.
<quote>I am discovering many people that are “frum-b’di’eved” -thay keep all b’di’eved muttar halachos, and many others are “frum-light” – a watered down frum-lifestyle, like the foods that are “kosher-style”. </quote>
That’s been going on for as long as Sinai. I like to refer to them as “Orthodox but not frum”.
<quote>Why do they share names unless there’s a shaychus between the American and Israeli Yateds?</quote>
Vizhnitz Monsey, Vizhnitz Bnei Brak, Vizhnitz Monsey d’Bnei Brak, Vizhnitz Bnei Brak Yerushalayim, Vizhnitz Monsey Montreal….
This sounds like real sensationalizing. I’ve said in another thread, the only things Rav Chaim can say that will have an impact on my life would be if he personally wrote it and had it published. Everything else is just his legion of fans getting access and asking loaded questions that they know what his answer will be.
What does it mean that he “left” the Yated and the new paper is under his “auspices”? He is a pure tzaddik who cares about nothing that doesn’t involve the Torah. Politics is basically meaningless to him so his alleged political positions should be meaningless to everyone else.
A combination of people who only comment on things that interest them and people who troll.
Non-binary assigned apachehelicopterkin. Pronouns xplpf/xplpfself.
The belief that the current State of Israel has religious significance and isn’t just another government that happens to be good to the Jews.
I would comment, but I think Professor Quirrel summed it up quite well when he charged into the Great Hall and fainted.
Following all of אורכת צדיקים until you’ve reached the final level.
Perhaps women could count as 3/5ths of a man in regards to Congressional representation? It’s a good compromise.
Shows how short-sighted and historically ignorant you are that Grant isn’t even on the list. He’s clearly the most anti-Semitic president in US history. He expelled the Jews from Tennessee. What did Obama do for comparison? Spoke nicely about Palestinians? What did Carter do already as a president? Brokered peace with Egypt?
What do you mean “becoming”?
Rav Breuer ZT”L had a nephew who was raised by Chassidim after the war and moved to New Square where he B”H raised a wonderful family who are still very respected in Skver today. But whever there was a Skver Breuer simcha confusion would reign. Half the crowd would show up exactly when the invitation said things would start, and they would mill around in increasing irritation wondering why nobody was there.
Sadly, because money.
Only if they say kinnos on Yom HaShoah.
No.
I have heard of exactly two types of people talk about discrimination against white men: those that post in Stormfront.org and @Joseph. Make of that fact what you will.
I think we need to amend Poe’s Law. Sometimes I can’t tell if something is satire, trolling (well, it’s @Joseph, so I know it’s trolling, but many here don’t realize that), extremist views, or white supremacy.
Let me put it to you this way: Let’s say this forum was full of Open “Orthodox” Jews who look and sound like regular frum Jews, but honestly believe in things such as intermarriage, toevah marriage, and shechita as a tzar ba’alei chayim issue, there would be no end of posts of Torah Jews arguing that they are mistaken and their beliefs are not what frum Yiddishkeit is about, in fact quite the opposite. We wouldn’t hate them. We would just be upset that they were raised to believe in things that are contrary to the Torah and believe that following those things still makes them frum’eh Yidden.
That’s how the overwhelming vast majority of the frum oilom views Chabad-Lubavitch.
Say hi to all the Horowitz’s (if there’s any left living there). You probably know a few, pretty much any nussach sefard Horowitz who is a Levi can trace their lineage back to Scranton.
Correlation/Causation misconception.
Largest states with largest Jewish populations.
Yes, I suppose he was. Eretz Yisroel under the Romans would be called Palestine in revenge for Bar Kochba’s zealots only a few decades after that man supposedly lived and died.
I suppose then all music is OK, since most Jewish music is neither.
What Chassidim send their daughters to is a Bais Yaakov, it’s just not part of the Bais Yaakov organization. It runs using the system popularized by Reb. Sara Schenirer ZT”L therefore it’s a Bais Yaakov.
I agree but like all solutions it’s impracticable until the shadchanim get aboard.
At one point, there was a crisis with girls not finding guys with a plan to make a living. Our esteemed shadchanim rectified this by insisting that any guy not in full time kollel isn’t worth your time.
Originally, the crisis was thought to be guys looking for Barbie instead of Bais Yaakov. During this time period, our holy shadchanim encouraged girls to doll themselves up and send a glamour shot to the potential boy so he can drool over it.
Then it was determined that it was the age gap. Those bastions of our kedusha kept up the tradition of insisting that 19 is old enough for a girl to know what she wants in life, but a boy has to be 22.
So yes. Your idea would work. But we’re just yelling into the void over here.
Shopping for a chumra has been the Yeshivishe way for a while. Someone I know was at a matza baking chabura and the head of the chabura insisted on a Chazon Ish chumra, an Aruch HaShulchan chumra, and at least one from the Ben Ish Chai.
Bump to re-open the discussion due to recent anti-vaxx things in the news.
There is a blood test you can take to see if you need it, but I’ve been told that the test will come up negative (meaning you need to re-vaccinate) for 90% of adults between the ages of 30 and 60. I’ve also been told by a doctor that a negative result doesn’t necessarily mean that the person isn’t immune, just that their measles antibodies is less than a certain percentage.
Derech agav, there’s a video going around of the crowd outside Bill DeBlasio’s announcement for a fine for un-immunized children. One repeats “Show me a double-blind study” several times which is the exact same thing one of the users in the thread below kept saying. I wonder if it’s the same person or this is a standard anti-vaxx soundbite.
Do not rely on something being a “top place” as being a good fit for your son. Speak with his rebbeim and rebbeim from both Yeshivos. Also speak with current talmidim at both places.
You mean like Rav Hutner ZT”L?
Those without nicotine are “relatively” safe, but still highly untested. Those with nicotine are only marginally less likely to give a person cancer or emphysema.
Do you want to see the remains of a Mikdash or a living Mikdash?
Fellas, please don’t respond to @Joseph. As CR veterans know, he’s just a troll who states the most oiber-krum fake “Yeshivish” shittos to get a rise out of everyone and start an argument.
@Health Lakewoord Cheder, obviously, or whatever the official name of their Mesivta is called. I don’t know any other Lakewood Mesivta older than 15 years that goes by that name.
@DaasYochid Rav Moshe ZT”L seems to be referring to unaltered songs or recordings by an עכו׳ם. He’s certainly not assuring the music itself, but the song and lyrics which are sung for the purpose of Avoda Zora. And if you read the rest of the teshuva, it sounds like he was against pretty much all Jewish pop music, as a lot of Rabbonim were and still are.
And @YeshivishRockstar, how did you even find this song? It took me a full ten minutes of searching on YouTube to find a single remix, and that’s with the name of the song, singer, and band! I couldn’t even find an original recording or a mention on Google of the lyrics.
It’s not a new trend. Lakewood mesivtas that aren’t the Cheder only started popping up in the last 15 years or so. The first ones to start emulated the Cheder and followed vague apocryphal out-of-context sayings of Rav Aharon Kotler ZT”L so they didn’t have English. Every subsequent mesivta to open up was too afraid of being “der modernische platz” that no one would dare send their kids to, so they didn’t open English departments either.
Everyone wants their son to be a gadol in limud and sit in klei kodesh for life. But if you understand that the world isn’t perfect and your child may need to actually have a parnossa for himself, and still not be ostracized from the community, you’ve got to send to an out of L’Wood mesivta, like Brooklyn, Cleveland, or Philly.