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I just had Simcha, I had it at a restaurant. Costed me $20 a Kid and $25 an adult and I did not have to pay any room rental fees , cleanup fees, tips (It was included in price).
Had it smorgasbord style which most people like better anyway since they can choose what they want to eat
Maybe greatest is correct
We can beat up abusers, we can beat up those who who dont pay taxes or pay their workers off the books
We can beat up those Kollel guys who go outside for a ciggarette or spend 30 mins fooling around with other guys while taking Tazdekah for the Averiah of Bittul Torah
We can beat up some of the Askans for Genevas Daas
Isnt Rav Elyshiv 101 and Rav Shtenman also near 100?
Some need to lighten up, A little levity can be a good thing
They were not Chassidic, they were Lubavich
Some hechshers already remove themselves for issues not directly related to kashruth.
Most famously with the Glatt yacht
(I don’t care if you have a right to go. I don’t believe in rights–that is americanishe stupidity. And if we are talking about rights, they have a right to harass you–first amendment buddy.)
Actually there is no first amendment rights to harass anyone. Harassment is NOT a right. Ask any lawyer
Kiryat Joel has a first amendment right to put up a tzniut sign and people even right that right to put one up in Williamsburg as long as its not on public property (like a Stop sign) or a Tree (It damages the trees so no signs are allowed)
People mistake what the first amendment rights are.
ICOT you said Live and Let live is not a jewish concept
So if you see a jew doing wrong, you are supposed to give chizuk
This woman feels that Satmar is doing wrong and she is giving chizuk to the Satmar communinty.
When Satmars have Tzniut signs in Kiryat Joel and Williamsburg they are giving Chizuk to those who did not ask and might now want.
Whether you agree with her chizuk or not is not the point. People here seem to be freely in giving chizuk to things they feel are wrong (even if they arent)
How many times have you heard a tzedeka plea for a family of 6 that the father passed away at a young age?
And even if you answer this plea, how much money do you really think is collected $10,000?
If this father of 6 had bought a Term Life insurance policy of $250,000 for cheap (they really are cheap) the family would not need to ask for Tzdeka
Ask any Godol if the internet is OK
The only one that I know of that permits it is Rav Shecter and then ONLY if someone else is in the room.
The only point I am making is sometimes people do pick and choose .
And I doubt he did ask his Posek about organ donation. I dont think anyone here actually asked and asked for a specific situation (as opposed to a general Shaila)
She doesnt have a Irish Boyfriend, She isnt dating anyone. If you read closely, she said she met an Irish Catholic from New Orleans that understood her, but his life was in New Orleans and hers was here. She is not dating him.
Eating a crabcake does not make you a Shiksa
@Hello99 MOST Poskim also ban the internet, only some permit it and only under limited conditions
Putting ashes on forheads before a wedding to rember the Bais Hamigdosh
Only Some poskim hold its murder and its mainly for heart transplant.
I just read an interview with her in the Forward
She keeps a Kosher home, when her son is at her house, She keeps a full Shabbos
She said her son likes Judiasm and wants him to explore that.
She also wants to visit Israel this summer
The truth is it seems she wants to be jewish and maybe conservodox, just not be Satmar
College degrees are not only about education, Many white collar jobs will not hire you or at least give you a chance without a college degree.
Its no gurantee to riches, but it does increase the possibility of making a decent living
White collar jobs generally pay more than blue collar jobs
FYI there are plenty of frum people with college degrees.
Baking your own Matza?
I dont know anyone who does that, everyone buys that in the store
I said MANY not every
Frankly I dont know any Satmar anymore (I used to work for Satmars a while ago) , I know Yeshivish people and in their schools they consider secular studies a joke. I asked my nephew about his secular studies and he told me, they have 1/2 hour of Physics every other week and its optional
You never know if you asked them a personal Shailia if they would give a different opinion.
I do know sometimes poseks will give different psaks to different people.
It very could be they have a public general opinion, but if there is a specific Shalia they might hold differently.
And I give the example again if you have a family member C’V who is brain dead and there is a mother of 8 who needs the heart and the heart is given to that woman.
Msseeker
to say every OTD is “DUMB” and a blue collar worker does a diservice to your entire argument.
First all of all, she has a college degree, whatever you think of college, it is not THAT easy to get a degree. You have to be smart to get one and earn it.
In fact many FRUM people are forced to be Blue collar workers because they are uneducated in the frum world. many can barely speak english. many are barely literate in english.
None of us (I am making an assumption here) asked any posek if we could be a donor
Since none of us asked we do not have to follow an opinion , just because a certain rav has an opinion.
The Satmar Rav holds that the state of Israel is traif, I do not have to follow his opinion.
There are plenty of poseks who hold the internet is traif, there are plenty who hold speaking English is assur (or should be minimized)
Since I assume you never asked the Shaila you can speak english and use the internet.
PBA
That is not exactly true
Ive even heard that Rav Shlomo Auerbach when it came to giving poskim on occasion did “shop for Kula’s” when he knew a certain answer was needed
What that means is, When he felt he needed a Kula , he asked someone whom he thought would poskin that way. He did not ask someone whom he felt gave a chumra answer because if he did he would have to follow it.
I accept there are more than one opinions on this.
Given the reprocussions of taking the more stringent opinions like other countries refusing to give organs to Israelis and maybe that mother of 8 would die without the organ, I choose to accept more lenient opinions and do feel the stringent opinions are wrong (You can certainly disagree with this statement) I am willing to live with the reprocussions if I followed a Kula.
PBA.
Will you accept there is more than one opinion on the issue?
And the opinions are opposite of each other
I find it amazing that everyone is putting the hate and saying she is mentally unstable.
There is things that you enjoy, but is it possible others can hate or feel humiliated by it?
Can she feel humiliated by the Zip Lock bag. from what Ive read this was not conveyed to her properly and what many here might consider a beautiful thing, other dont feel that way.
You cant control feelings.
There are plenty of Poskim who hold it was OK.
I will say this much
If Ch”V someone came to you personally while your close family member was brain dead and said that you could save their mother of 8 kids who was very very sick. I would certainly save that mother of 8
I know I would take the Kula and if I did the wrong thing, I will live with it
the book is a Best seller
Its in the Top 50 books on Amazon
@ 000646
This has been legally fought
If a woman walks past a construction site wearing stilletoes, mini skirt and tank top and the construction workers act innapropriately
She has every right to persue every legal action against them
If you walk into harlem wearing a white sheet shouting FROM THE STREET general racial slurs (Not aimed at a particular individual) and you are beat up, the perps are legally responsible for any damage they incur.
Now if you go to harlem, walk up someone step wearing a white robe and yell racial slurs at the owner of the house by name and then you get beat up, then it is your fault.
The people of New Square and Kiryat Joel have no LEGAL right to tell anyone to OBEY their standards.
If a woman wishes to go into the middle of Kiryat Joel wearing a tank top and shorts there is nothing they can do.
They can ASK people to respect, but nobody is required to listen.
There are different laws appying to Mear Sharim and Bnei Brak and I dont know the exact laws of that country so I wont comment on them
yeshivish is the decendent of Misnagdish or Litvak
Charedim who do not follow a Chassidic Rebbe
The real issue with Chumras is for some people it draws them closer to hashem and other it pushes them away.
Among many Chumras are becoming “Halacha”
Maybe some of the Chasdic women here like riding the back of the bus and dont want to drive and maybe for them it brings them closer to hashem.
But for other riding the back of the bus pushes them AWAY from hashem
Would you accept a Heart?
There is a Halachic opinion that you are not dead unless your heart stops beating (as opposed to Brain death) and if a Heart is removed from someone you are actually killing someone .
You see Bikur Cholim, the secular see Back of the Bus and the Zip Lock bag
What was Adam HaRishons real Aveirah
Hashem told him not to EAT of the Etz hadaas.
Adom told Chava not to TOUCH the tree. Adom thought it was a great chumrah and added this “Mitzvah”
You should be happy the article was posted yesterday
Most people in NY were not interested in reading such an article as other events were going on in the city
Saying Hashem can heal is nonsense
Should one not take Medicine, because HASHEM CAN HEAL?
What if someone says, I dont want Chemo because only hashem can heal….
Surgery should be prohinited because “HASEHM CAN HEAL”
It is very bad for animals if they are not spayed or neutered. Unwanted animals are destroyed all the time.
If you want a pet, its best to get them already spayed or netured so there wont be any unwanted litters.
As far as I know there is nothing halachically wrong with getting an animals already fixed
The whole Bittul Torah argument is irrelvent. Everything is Bittul Torah unless its Torah
Even Eating, Sleeping and going to the Bathroom is Bittul Torah .
How many stories have we heard of great Rabbanim who slept only a few hours a night so they could get every last minute of learning in.
If you are able to spent every moment you have learning, Kov HaKavod. Most of us cant and need breaks.
Healthy Breaks can actually make one learn better as you get refreshed.
In Krakow one year there was a poor orphan girl who was getting married on a Friday, Her brother owned some seat in the shul and this seat was supposed to be some sort of dowry for her new husband.
On the Friday of the wedding, a dispute arouse over the dowery and it got late in the day into Shabbos. The dispute finally went to the Rema.
The Rema made his decsion, but it was Shabbos. The Rema poskined that the wedding should occur on SHABBOS and he perfomed the ceremony himself to make it clear it was ok. He did not want a poor orphan girl to feel her wedding was any less than anyone else.
However this decsion was not popular among other. Since the Rema himself performed the wedding they allowed this one to happen, but to prevent this from happening in the future they said no more Friday weddings
yeshivas had eating days.
Meaning if you learned in a yeshiva you only ate maybe 4 days a week
Weddings were usually done on Friday (except famously in Krakow) and the seduah went into shabbos to save money and combine seudos
How about telling Archduke Franz Ferdinand not to go to Sarajevo
Pogroms and Starvation had a bigger negative effect than many are willing to admit
Why do you think many jews emigrated to the “Traif Medina” against every Rav’s wishes. They went because they were starving and scared of pogroms.
You need to study history a little better, Charedi Judaism as practiced today comes from the 1700’s between the followers of the Baal Shem Tov and the Followers of Vilna Gaon
The isolationsim of the chraedi world somewhat came from the Haskalla movement, rather than right the Haskalla movement head it, it walled itself from it (Chatam Sofer)
Id like to go back and meet either Hitler’s mother or father and convience them to a life of celibacy
Its funny when a letter is written that you dont agree with its a “Forgery”
Kook, Shmook, Book
Works great in English, but it doesnt work as well in Yiddish which the Chofetz Chaim spoke
IMO it does not give kavod to the Torah when people come up with excuses about the physicallity of the moon (Moon Landings never occured) , Dinosaurs or that bats lay eggs.
Intelligent people understand that science knowledge has changed especially over the last 150 years and still respect.
There is an feeling among some that the moon landing was fake because it refutes the Rambam.
Its like the Gemra that says the Atalef lays eggs and nurses its young which many say is a Bat. Since only mammals nurse their young (The only Animal that lays eggs and nurses its young is a Duck Billed Platypus)
There is a Rav in Far Rockaway that holds that Bats give birth to live young in the physical world and lay eggs in the Spritual world.
Its amazing to me that the one time that the concept of a Daas Torah was needed it was “Lost”.