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Avram

by your ID you live in MD, its very possible the frum jews in NY have very different attitudes than frum jews Out of town. I do think there is more commuity and less division out of town.

I dont think for example you have in MD the plague of restaurants with 3 Hashghcas (None of the are anything less than Hemish)

I think you might need to have a heart to heart talk with your son without Judgements about his living arrangements unfortunalty R’L even people from hemish homes might have such issues

Maybe it got lost in the post, but THAT was a subsitite for a negative reason not to go to a shul or not to eat from a hashghafa.

As far as eating in my house, the people whom I know are frummer, arent eating in my house anyway,

if you want to eat, Ill tell you what store I am going to and you can like it or lump it. I am not going to Borough park to some chassidish shechtah place when there is a pefectly fine store right near my house (Actually more than 1 perfectly fine store, like 5 or 6 of them). I live in a very frum neighborhood

If you want to be mechazek your kids, put the sign on the INSIDE of the door so the whole family sees it, A sign OUTSIDE the door is a broadcast to the whole world, you can uphold higher standards without telling anyone who didnt even ask, and if you only eat THAT Hashghca, you dont need to tell someone who eats from a difference hashcha that most eat from (I am talking about generally accepted hashghcas, not ones most dont hold from) why you dont eat from THAT hashghca

Even among the posters here there is ittle digs toward chumros,

I cant speak for everyone, but I think many peoples’s negatively towards chumros is not the chumra, but rather the person keeping the chumra, many times they use it as some sort of holier than thou weapon.

There is a difference between quiletly going to the store and only buying chalav yisroel products, that basically only your family knows about and it, Telling the whole world what a Helig yid you are because Chalav Stam never touched your lips

The people whom I know go to Uman have the blessings of their families. Im sure not everyone has their family blessings, but you can pretty much say the same thing about almost any aspect of Yiddishkeit, I know people who went into Kollel with their family blessings and other without

One can buy on Alibaba without using Kabbage. Alibaba is just an ecommerce site like eBay or Amazon. It just concentrates on Chinese based wholesellers. It has nothing to do with Kabbage.

All people are using Kabbage for is to borrow money for Alibaba, if they get the money elsewhere they are not using Kabbage

They are not a loan orginator, they are a peer to peer lender. Meaning they get private people who are willing to loan money to those who want the loan

The also do credit check and help service the loan, however they do not make the loan

part of Chassidus is to make things more lively, again its not for me, but it does appeal to some people

I have spoken to my neighbor about the dark side and they are very frum and they answered that you sort of have to look for it, if you are not looking for the dark side, you wont find it

If you want to go, then go it isnt that big a deal if you go, you will still be davening B’Tzibur as long as you dont get up with the partying crowd, you might get something out of it. Go and enjoy and if you have a bad time, then dont go again

Joseph, be realistic. Don’t compare those times with current times. It says
הכהן אשר יהי’ בימים ההם the kohen who serves in that time. The Haflah says in sefer Panim Yafos that you cannot question from one time to another.
We currently compete with the Joneses.

Actually many have to compete with the hipsters of Williamsburg who can afford to pay more and drive up the rents. Soon they will move to Borough park and Flatbush

The Rambam writes that a typical Baal Habayis works 3 hours a day and learns 8. This is what a “working person” is. Three hours a day. 8 hours learning.

Unless you are a doctor, who can afford to live in Brooklyn working 3 hours a day, 18 hours a week, the rents are astronomical

Unless you are flying a direct flight to Israel, you most likely would miss a minyan (especially in the winter) even going on vacation to Israel, there are usually not enough religious jews on flights between the US and Europe on Normal Airlines (Like Air France or KLM)

It depends who you ask, there are opinions both ways, I personally have asked the shala and have been told it was ok , but I also know of plenty of opinions that forbid it

If you want to go somewhere tzniut, go to San Francisco. Nobody is dressing untzniut there, Its really cold there, I needed to buy a sweatshirt in the middle of August

The reason more people get hurt Bein Hazamin is that they are out of the house, you are more likley to get hurt outside walking or driving than sitting in the Beis Medrash

One might ask why would the Ebeshter have created these locations if his yidden were foreclosed from seeing the wonders of his creations?

That line of argument could easily be used to rationalize transgressions.

I think its a Mitzvah to see a Natural Wonder and say a Bracha, I am pretty sure you at least say a Bracha on an eclipse

If the vacation (and I am discussing a vacation, a trip for pleasure, NOT the need to go somewhere for medical help or other pressing matter) to location X is desired because of specific amenities (eg, spa, roller coaster, hotel suite) not available elsewhere, it shows that amenity X is more important than tefilla bitzibur. to that I say, how sad, that someone doesnt understand the importance of tefila bitzibur, or assigns it a lower priority than that amenity

One might want to go on vacation to see a wonder of Hashem, many of these places do not have Minyanim, Like if you want to see the Aurora Borelalis , A Solar Eclipse or the Geysers of Yellowstone for example

Stephen Wise was actually in a position to actually do something (He was one of the few jews who had access to Roosevelt) , unlike most people who really were powerless, even among the Reform his legacy was tainted for his inaction.

Hertzel is not the same as someone who tried to get Rav Shach to leave the Beis Medrash. Its unlikley there would be much torah learning in Israel without him (Even if he didnt intend it to be that way), While todays Israel is not what he probably intended he did plant the seed and put it on the political map (Getting it on the required help from Foreign governments)

Understanding Mental Illness is a relatively new thing (And we still dont totally understand it)

R’L for anyone who suffers from it

There was an uprising at Chelmno and about 300 jews managed to escape and live. Chelmno was not like Auschwitz, pretty much everyone was killed upon arrival except for a small amount to sort the victims stuff.

Chemlno was shut down after the uprising

Less jews survived in Warsaw than anywhere else, because in August 1944 the Poles had their own uprising against the Nazis and the Nazis basically leveled Warsaw to the ground (The city was rebuilt after the war) There were probably thousands of jews in hiding and they were killed when the city was destroyed

The head of the Judenraat in Lodz was a Rasha named Mordechai Rumankowski who was a Nazi collaborator, he did manage to stall the deportations from Lodz until august 1944 and 750 jews were left behind to clean the ghetto. They were liberated when Lodz was liberated in January 1945.

More jews actually survived in Berlin than in Warsaw

Ask your LOR

Its one thing to give the $12 Million as some sort of bonus to our troops, its another for a parade

If you really support the troops let them get a bonus of some sort with the money. Many are struggling financially and in debt. It might be a drop in the bucket, but you never know