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FYI for all those comparisons to Ever Min HaChai, most slaughterhouses electrocute the animal and cut it up immediately. Often when the animal is still alive. The Noahide groups prefer to eat kosher and halal meats for those reasons.
I have a CD with a shmuez by Rav Moshe Heineman in which he quotes the Brisker Rav in order to say that there is no problem of yichud in an elevator.
It is never appropriate to make a Nazi comparison (except maybe in describing Soviet Russia or Pol Pot and other mass murders).
The standard Sysco cardboard buckets are lined with a bacon grease extract in order to add a slight taste of freshness to popcorn that was otherwise sitting on the shelf for a few days.
<quote>Not the same as it used to be</quote>
Err…. It was like that 20 years ago when I first went. It later became even more learning oriented by having the oldest bunks (Prishus and Tzidkus) as kind of a quasi mechina where learning is in place of first activity.
It’s still a rather Yeshivish camp. I don’t think that they have an all-white shirt policy, but it’s pretty much what most counselors and campers will be wearing during davening and learning.
edited four years later upon request
I remember the days when I used to look forward to Summer vacation. Now it just means that it’s more work on my wife entertaining the lil uns.
It’s not about college degrees, it’s about secular education in high school. It’s become a fad in some frum communities for high schools to forgo secular studies altogether. The ironic thing is, it’s not at the behest of the Rabbonim, it’s in order to attract more talmidim as many parents will refuse to send their children to a school that teaches math and sciences. Oddly enough, no Rabbonim have enough of an objection to the practice to stand against it, so it continues.
There is a huge number of talmidim in a this generation who are not fit for kollel life, but even less fit for finding a decent paying job. Yaffed feels that it’s the klals responsibility to see that this doesn’t continue. That is all.
Can someone please explain to me why this is in all objectional?
Me. I’ve posted on here more than once. I’ve been quoted in responses.
That’s already too much.
I see no reason why people are objecting to Yaffed. Do they think that America can raise a generation of poor people solely dependant on the government and outside sponsors like they do in Israel?
You should seek a qualified professional and not take advice from an internet forum.
But yes, having an illness that is taken care of via medication does not make you uncapable of caring for a family.
A massive skull and crossbones across my dorsal region is meant to beautify.
Y. Elchonon/Avi Yishai lives in Monsey which is part of the reason why he makes a huge effort to keep all mention of Monsey out of the Yated.
Proposal to change all references to goyisheh acronyms to more appropriate Yiddishe acronyms. In this way we shall separate ourselves from the tumadickeh outside world and the chukas hagoyim:
- OMG = RSO (Ribono Shel Oilom)
- LOL = Nothing. There is nothing funny about the Internet. Its only use should be for serious business.
- WT(LAST LETTER CENSORED) = OG (Oy Gevalt!)
- IMO = IG (Ich Gedensk)
According to the Yated, Monsey doesn’t exist. Ergo, it doesn’t exist.
popa_bar_abba:
You mean like letting people work without having gone to the army?
Yes, in a sense. Not once do I recall the Chareidim ever asking for something similar to this. It seems to me like the whole issue is a “tofasta meruba” problem, with the Chareidi oilom demanding full support for Yeshivas and kollels and demanding everyone sit in kollel. Every proposal by the Zionists is always a demand for elimination of the draft deferment. If instead, the Chareidim would propose something similar to, oh I don’t know, allowing a certain number of Chareidim to leave Yeshiva without having to join the army, perhaps the Zionists will accept that and perhaps we wouldn’t have this ridiculous self-made quagmire of ein kemach ein Torah.
Satmar, Vizhnitz, Belz and Ger are organizations. As an organization, they can be criticized. People who happen to shtam from Stamar, Vizhnitz etc. blood are simply chassidim and cannot be criticized based on who they are.
The criticisms I have on Satmar and Vizhnitz in particular have nothing to do with how they treat halacha, mesora and Yiddishkeit in general. It has to do with how the organizations are run and their official policies and reactions regarding certain things. The fact that I disagree with many of these policies, many of which are quite dangerous in both ruchniyus and gashmiyus, (some of which I have personally witnessed) and find little value in the good that they do, makes me an anti-Satmar and anti-Vizhnitzer.
Perhaps, just perhaps, there can be a way to compromise. Perhaps the Chareidishe oilom can come up with a middle-ground that will not “drag Talmidei Chachomim from their Batei Limud” but will also not force everyone wanting to live a Chareidishe lifestyle to be a “economical parasite on society”.
Why does everything in Israel have to be so polarized?
In KAJ Monsey there was a story one year where the cops call the president at home one night after 2am. They tell him that the shul alarm went off and they are going to check it out. He comes in to shul to find that one of the more insane members had went in to change all of the clocks for daylight savings time.
I personally know both parties involved and can vouch for the story’s accuracy.
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I share a last name with a ginormous Hendon/Stamford Hill family. They are distant cousins.
Both are dangerous, drinking in the short-run and smoking in the long run. I know very few true alcoholics, people who simply get antsy and agitated when they haven’t had a drink in a few hours. I know many smoke-holics and few smokers who are not addicted to smoking in some form or other.
There’s no problem in having a few drinks (or even a few more) every now and then, there is very little danger of becoming addicted if it’s limited to once a week or less. Most drinkers know to keep out of dangerous situations if they are about to partake in a few brewskies.
Smoking, on the other hand, can become addicting very quickly and it’s a quick step from the occasional cig to not being able to sit through an entire Yom Tov teffilah without taking a break in the auxiliary sukkah.
I’m anti-Satmar and anti-Viszhnitz, but my thoughts here in no way represent the views and opinions of Yeshiva World News Coffee Room.
Yes.
Not particularly a halachic issue, although there are shittas that say it is (don’t recall who off hand, but it’s from the early Acharonim) but minhag ha’olom is that pants are not considered tznius which is enough.
One friend dated for about six months do to a ridiculous amount of time needed to co-ordinate both family schedules and her law school schedule.
Drug culture, b’derech klall, is very verbotten in Yeshivas. Smoking and drinking are completely different stories. In some Yeshivas (especially in Eretz Yisroel), bachurim are peer pressured into smoking, some just the opposite.
There are several Yeshivas which are open to former drug addicts, but they are not made up exclusively of that crowd. There are also several Yeshivas/Rehab centers open for current drug users. The top guys from the latter type places end up in the former type of place.
Drug smuggling and subsequent abuse are also major problems in certain Yeshivas (again, mostly in Eretz Yisroel). In general the boys have no idea what drugs are or what is in the package that someone just paid them $1000 to deliver to Antwerp. It happens a lot more often than people like to admit, and often the predators who enlist these boys go unpunished if the boys aren’t caught by the Japanese police. It’s not unheard of for these boys to end up addicted themselves once they’ve become “experts” at smuggling.
I am davening that the Chareidi politicians come to their senses and adopt an approach that doesn’t force anyone learning in Kollel to join the army, but will give the option of allowing people to work and study limudei chol without having to join the army either.
I am also davening that the people will understand that the concept of Kollel For Life is not kodesh kodoshim and it’s OK to work and study.
I have been davening for this for over a decade, hopefully soon Hashem will bring change.
LG something or other. If I had a data plan I would basically lose what little human interaction I have, not to mention a lot of money every month.
Some quotes by me (very Litvish) Roshei Yeshivas on brachos:
- I saw people lining up in front of R’ Chaim Kanievsky’s house. I thought to myself, “Ah! They all want to appreciate to gadlus of his Torah!” but then I spoke with some of them and realized that they are getting brachos. Brachos? Do they think that the Gaon has some sort of magic potion that he gives them to make their lives better?
- “A beracha doesn’t really work because of the Rovs d’veikus and gadlus, it works because a person feels like it will work and therefore davens harder.” “Like a placebo, Rebbi?” “Sorry I don’t speak Latin.”
2scents: Sitting out, “official” Kiddush club, does it make a difference? Fact of the matter is a lot of people come to shul to socialize and drink during davening. In most shuls it’s not tolerated and all the food and drink is locked up until davening is over. In some old fashioned Modern Orthodox shuls, Chassidishe shteibels and Rebbishe batei k’nessiois it’s not only not discouraged, but there is a large enough and kavuah enough chevra to say that it’s almost encouraged.
I’m not talking about smaller shuls (although shtieblech definitely have that issue) I’m talking about the main shuls for various very big Chassiduses. I guess I can be dan l’kaf zchus and assume that those people davened at earlier minyanim, but in most of the Rebbish shuls I’ve seen, you are guaranteed to find at least two rooms where there is a minyan or more sitting around eating and drinking while the main davening is going on.
It’s simply inconceivable that a Chassidus where thousands are davening at their Rebbe that there *aren’t* a few dozen who sit it out. Combine that with the openness that Rebbish shuls usually have, being more of a community center than a shul/beis medrash.
I would post the ultimate proof to Fermats Theorem, but there isn’t enough room in this comment box.
That’s like how a pizza shop in Monsey stopped opening on Motzei Shabbos after they were told that they’d lose their hechsher since it was a hangout.
Video Games. Which I still think are cool. Also space ships.
2scents: Really? Nobody standing by the coffee and cake when the chazzan is saying brachos? Nobody walking out early to get a bit of kugel? Nobody (on Yom Tov) sneaking into the smoking sukkah for a quick puff?
Torah613Torah: I use LibreOffice Calc as my primary spreadsheet at home. There are tons of tutorials online. Once you get the hang of it, it’s fairly simple to learn. Google Docs is another great option as it saves all your data online so you always have it backed up and can access it wherever you have internets.
crazybrit: The reason I reccomend OpenOffice and LibreOffice over Excel is that they are free while Excel costs a lot of money. For these purposes, they do everything you need and more.
I would say just the opposite, Chassidishe shuls are much more of a community center than Misnagdish shuls. Mispallelim feel very at home and I could say with absolute certainty that the vast majority of Chassidishe shuls I walked into on Shabbos had a large group of people eating and drinking in a separate room while davening was going on.
Many Chassidish shuls have kiddush clubs, it’s not something exclusive for Modern Orthodox shuls. There are several shuls near my parents which are known for being basically hangouts for tuna beigels and other near-off the derech Chassidim. They all have unofficial kiddush clubs.
Funniest story was once when my brother overslept and ended up at the 9:30 shteibel minyan. Halfway through Chazaras Ha’Shatz Mussaf he realizes that there’s barely a minyan in shul. The rov stops the chazzan for a second, goes to a nondescript door in the back and bangs on it going “Nu? Nu?”. Door opens to a room packed with men, kugel, cholent and whiskey.
I had a troll that lasted a good four months before it was overwritten. I’m not even sure the overwriter knew I was trolling. It was in the article for Edah, an “orthodox” organization committed to finding heterim for everything. I simply quoted my Rosh HaYeshiva in the article, “The organization derives their name from the passage in Exodus Ad matai ha’Edah ha’ra’ah ha’zot”
Spreadsheets are greats tool for that, try Excel, OpenOffice or LibreOffice. But you need to learn how to do it. If you don’t think that you have the patience to learn spreadsheets, try GNUCash, a personal finance management software.
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I don’t know enough about your son to make that decision for you. Like I said, they are both very good Yeshivas. It would be a good idea to send him to either Yeshiva.
I’m not sure what the whole deal is with Shomer Enayim as this is the first I’m hearing of it, but it sounds like something that is a personal decision that could change over time (he is after all only 13). Both Yeshivas are good places if you want him to keep to that decision. But then again, in both places there are guys who would do the opposite. It’s his choice who he hangs out with.
My high school had a yearbook. There were three boys in the committee. At least one near Din Torah resulted and two refuse to speak with each other, 13 years later.
What is shomer enayim? I would hardly call Ner Yisroel “modern”, I think “less Yeshivish” is a better term. Both NIRC and Schlangers (Beis Medrash and Mesivta of Baltimore) are very good Yeshivas but they are also very different type of places and what is good for the goose may not also be good for the gander.
Both Yeshivas require hats during davening, on Shabbos and during the week. Schlangers requires only white shirts. But if you’re picking a Yeshiva for your son based on what the dress code is, may I suggest, well, not doing that?
NIRC is a big place. First year beis medrash has something like forty bachurim and two rebbeim. And the numbers are similar for all the other years up until sixth where everyone starts getting married and moving to kollel. First thing you should know is that there are several different Ner Yisroels in the same building. There are the guys who came straight from the Mechina (high school) and generally stay for a year or two before going to Eretz Yisroel and then a different American Yeshiva. There are the Persians and Latinos who often come with no Yeshiva experience and group together in some of the “easier” shiurim for the first few years. There are the guys who come when they are 21 just because they want a Yeshiva that allows college and they don’t want to go to Touro or YU. And so on.
Schlangers is a lot smaller. I believe that there are only about 80 to a hundred bachurim there. The bachurim are a lot more integrated and close with each other. Most of them were there for Mesivta (high school. Seriously, can Yeshivas just decide on one word to use for high school and stick with it?) and decided to stay on. It’s much more Yeshivish in the sense that there is an enforced dress code and no college allowed.
frumnotyeshivish: You have issues with Pratchett’s kfira, yet you have none with Martins blatant pritzuskeit? I got one chapter into A Game of Thrones (after a good decade and a half of hearing recommendations from my fantasy loving friends) and put it down. Especially when I heard that there are scenes like that nearly every chapter!
Confession: The Second Amendment is a little out of date and should be taken out of the Constitution altogether.
I am not the volcano in an obscure MMORPG from the 90s.
What’s more disruptive, 2 men shmuezing in the main shul or 12 in the ezras nashim?
Well, you left out the most well known thing in infinite numbers that everyone reading this knows it’s main definition. I’m talking of course about ?. Or, specifically, the ?? series from ???all the way through.
- Vicious infinite regress: You know the vicious cycle? Meet its cousin
- Dreadful and modern divergent series: Yeridos HaDoros
- Vicious circle: Definitely not a vicious cycle. Oh no. Don’t even know the guy
- Apodictic hygiene: How miniature African deer keep themselves clean
- Creduda: A type clothing meant for elbow covering for women, popular in Eastern European countries
- Vermiculate: A well spoken rodent
- Horriplatively: Portmanteau of “horrid” and “plaintive”. Meant to convey a persons dying wishes when being torn to pieces by Lovecraftian monstrosities.
- Hankie of Death: Foreign term for the beliefs of the Jatravartids of Viltvodle VI.
- Mutatis mutandis: The scientific classification for the juke I found in my dira.
- surd: Type of strong drink made from apples. Well, mostly apples. Well, some apples. Well, an applish kind of flavor. Well, more of an aftertaste.
How is your ruchniyus suffering? Do you think that the problems in ruchniyus now are worse than the problems in ruchniyus you may face down the line when you have several mouths to feed and possibly very little income?
Perhaps you should look into a part time college or night courses, where you won’t have as much exposure to the atmosphere. As for the amount of homework and the pressure, what sort of “no life” does it leave you with? Are you missing out on all of your sedarim? If so, you definitely need to cut back on your course schedule. There is absolutely no reason why an undergraduate cannot learn at least four hours a day without interruption.
Jumping the Road by Jack Dann. Thank you so much yichusdik! I spend 20 minutes googling and turning up nothing!
iluvbeingjewish: And I also read recently a short scifi story about a Rav that goes to a planet where people said that some of the aliens practice Yiddishkeit. For the life of me I can’t remember what it was called, but it was the cover story for Asimovs some time in the 90s and it shows a yarmulka wearing alien standing in front of an old Rav.