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Actually, Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg mentioned היתר מאה רבנים as a solution in to the Shiduch Crises in absence of another option.
I’d imagine it be limited to very special situations.
A few points:
⬤ Every single major medical agency supports this vaccine.
⬤ You really think that the most advanced medical experts at FDA, EU, UK NHIS and every Western health agency are all conspiring to damage the health of their own peoples, their relatives and friends? Does it make sense that they will damage their own professional reputations?
⬤ Pfizer’s stock is barely affected by the vaccine. Are they motivated to lie, cause widespread infertility etc and kill every other portfolio they’re advancing?Smoking reduces 14 years of life, on average.
However, vaping is not in the same equation here. It is an alternative to smoking.
According to the National Academies of Science:
“Laboratory tests of e-cigarette ingredients, in vitro toxicological tests, and short-term human studies suggest that e-cigarettes are likely to be far less harmful than combustible tobacco cigarettes.”
People think that nicotine causes cancer. Nicotine is addictive, but it’s the other chemicals in the smoke that kills. Without the cancerogenic cocktail in tobacco smoke, nicotine is not much different than caffeine.
Yes, there can be some other contaminants in vapor, but for nationally known brands (eg, Juul), they are subject to regulation and litigation and must be very careful. And even for lesser known manufacturers, the existing research indicates that they are far less toxic than cigarettes.
1. It’s the best metric for comparing different neighborhoods and pandemic phases with different testing rates.
3. Herd immunity is not static. If the social behavior of a population changes, so would the % needed for herd immunity. Weather may also play a role.
The following is a partial list of poskim who Asur smoking,
[sources were posted already at http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/smoking-why-should-it-be-muttar
R’ Ahron Kotler,
R’ Yaakov Kaminetsky,
R’ Elyashiv,
R’ Chaim Kanievsky,
R’ Dovid Feinstein,
the Be’er Moshe,
the Tzitz Eliezer,
R’ Moshe Shternbuch,
R’ Osher Veis,
the Rivvos Ephraim,
R’ Nissim Karelitz,
R’ Ovadia Yosef,
R’ Bentzion Aba Shaul,
R’ Shlomo Zalman Aurbach
and Rav Shmuel Aurbach
among many others.
You cannot do any act that allows or encourages a Sakana, even if the other person thinks it’s Mutar. In fact, one is obligated to be Mechalel Shabbos to save someone from danger, even if it’s against that persons will, and even if the risk is only small, and even if it’s only a long term risk!
In reality what this Baal Hamachsir is (unintentionally) doing is helping cause families of Almanos and Yesomim. And he’d never even know who.
“its funny ur name is tzvei dinim amd u cant keep these 2 issues separated
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Missed the boat. Just because Chametz & suicide are 2 dinim doesn’t mean Hechsher should be given. That is why the analogy to salmon beef sandwich.
It may be constructive to contact those responsible for the hechsehr directly:
050-5280002 08-9228463 ???????? ????? ????
052654474???? ??????
european kosher +972.2.9547161
“L’maaseh there will be people smoking on pesach/chol hamoed. Do you want them being over on two aveiros, or rather only one?”
1) Many simply don’t smoke on Pesach and some even quit as a result – ????? ????? ???????.
2) It certainly created legitimacy for smoking, especially when they advertise in some of the religious newspapers here in Israel bragging about their Hehsher,
3) At the very least there should be a disclaimer regarding general Halachik permissibly. Would anyone give a Hechser to a salmon & beef sandwich?
4) And then you of course have the issue of Chilul Hashem. Last year when they advertised the Hechsher it generated some horrible Facebook posts among secular Israelis.
sh0wj0e “i know plenty of non smokers who use esigs”
Are they ever-smokers? Are you talking about experimentation or continious use?
My source is study titled “Use of electronic cigarettes in Great Britain”
and review titled “Electronic cigarettes: review of use, content, safety, effects …”
The Goq “even if i was a smoker i would wait awhile to see what the health affects turn out to be”
If you were a smoker (& not quitting), you should switch to something with a significantly lower toxicological profile asap. You’re taking a definite risk by waiting. There’s no chance that these things are worse than real cigs with 5,000 known chems, 40-80 known carcinogens and >200 known cardiovascular & pulmonary toxicants.
As someone who did much research on the topic (even though I’m not a smoker)
1) They work by evaporating the solvents propylene glycol and/or glycerin. Being that these have a high boiling point, they quickly condense into an ultra-fine aerosol. These solvents also are widely used in the food industry as flavoring carriers. They are also widely used in medicinal inhalers (which work differently).
2) They’re orders of magnitude less dangerous than is smoking, based on toxicological studies and some tests for acute cardiac and pulmonary clinical effects. There are no major known side effects for those switching. Though, some may experience dry-throat.
Two cases of lipoid pneumonia were reported – due to someone putting oil into the liquid.
The most important toxicological review on the topic is titled “Peering Through the Mist..”
3) You can get EC w/o nicotine, however there’s a significant difference in cessation levels among EC with nic and w/o.
4) There’s almost no level of continuous use among youth who never smoked. Experimenting among never-smokers is rare (~0.5%).
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I sure do
blazingkanoey
“as a side note going on electric may not be worthwhile as it may be harder to get off from than real ciggarettes (since you get used to puffing the whole day and you don’t have an incentive to quit)”
Blazingkanoey, did it help you get off real “blazing” cigarettes, however?
Try “Drop-Smoke,” in BMG it’s extremely popular and it’s Kosher too. I asked people and they all seem to like it. They have a website.
Also, I have friends who used e-cigs and claim they enjoy them, but then a year later they’re smoking again (some of them). It seems the best strategy with e-cigs, are to use different levels of nicotine juice, slowly weaning yourself off. But then keep it in case of a craving
My Rebbe HaRav Asher Arieli once came back from the Kosel friday night, his new father in law, Rav Nachum Partzovitz, asked him how it was, and he mentioned there was dancing. Rav Nachum asked if it was appropriate to dance in front of a dead body of a relative, i.e. the Churban.
What a ridiculousness and utterly unintelligent letter.
You must take the other side’s legitimate concerns into account – only then can you be successful.
“But not neccesarily in their final form. For example, one of the scrolls has Tehillim 145 (Ashrei), but it has a “nun” passuk (whereas, by the time of the Gemara, it was well established that there the “nun” passuk was omitted).”
That’s not a proof. In many scrolls this group tried amending the variations between Kri and Ksiv – to make them “grammatically correct,” similarly they would’ve tried amending what would seem to them “the missing Nun” of Ashrei – as they were a group which seemingly were Tzedukim and beleive in Torah Shebal Peh
“is it better to not do something cause your a good prson, or cause hashem said so. killing for example”
I take “not do something cause your a good prson” as the other (human) party’s interests being an END in the decision. The question being when being Mekayem a B”O lachaveiro Mitzvah, should the other person or Hashem be the end of your decision.
After thought, this great question is fundamentally flawed: G-d is not only plain “the Creator,” but the Ultimate Good. Thus, you cannot separate the two sides of the question, and doing the mitzvah for Hashem’s sake, is doing it for morality’s sake and for the Mitzvah’s sake at once.
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People don’t realise how creative they are, think of some solutions, follow out on the best one — even if it takes perseverance, you’ll be happier, that will make your husband happier, and that will make both of you even more happier and productive.
Worse is that CR censored out a long response I wrote to the Kefira.
Despite what YFL said, archeology, for the most part, doesn’t “directly” anything.
Furthermore, for anyone with questions regarding archeology, R’ Gil Student did a great job in his articles at Aishdas dot org slash toratemet. Of note, Kenneth Kitchen — a leading scholar of the ancient Near-East, and probably today’s leading egyptologist — wrote a veritable telephone-book sized volume to counter biblical minimalists — who in his words “didn’t do their homework.”
Also see with comments, the recent guest series on Torah Musings by Dr Joshua Berman – a Lecturer in the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University. He claims that those studying treaty forms are highly convinced of a strong biblical parallel with the Hittite vassal treaties of the 13th century BCE and do not share consensuses that exist in other fields of bible study.
Also, you can refer to my previous comment if you don’t consider the remaining puzzle-work inevitable for a subject this kind.
Moshe Rabeinu your approach is not one of Moshe Rabeinu. He explicitly says (Devarim 13:2-4) explicitly says G-d would test us with suggestions arising from empirical evidence:
See also Sifre ad loc.
It seems pretty explicit; according to R. Yose HaGlili G-d may actually test us by changing the laws of science! Whereas R. Akiva holds G-d would only do so having formerly reliable sources send us false information.
Bottom line, according to Moshe Rabeinu G-d will likely test us from science. All the more so according to a plethora of our own sources showing that before Moshiach will be a time of great ???? ????.
“If you google “Pope miracle saint”, you will get some nice miracles performed by the pope.”
It’s different when you live in a close-knit community and you can get a good sense of things. I personally come from Chasidishe family and I heard a few 1st and 2ndhand stories of Mofsim in my own family. Still I personally remain a misnagid, and think Chasidus is a perversion of Judaism (folowing Reb Chaim following Ramabam that Mofsim can’t prove derech in Yideshkait ?? ????? ???).
I don’t mean to convince you… ??? ???? …
TorahUmadda-731-MelechYavanHarasha: re Rav Elyashiv, Rav Elyahu Zilberman Shlit”a R”Y Aderes Eliyahu told me his Teshuvah was about janthina not murex (as is clear from the fact he refers to 3rd definite opinion for Tcheiles) — Saul Kaplan from Rechovot claims he found a process to dye blue from janthina but refuses to reveal the process.
If Lakewood001 would have simply realised that sinning to an Infinite King is morally different than sinning against a finite one, he wouldn’t have came to the conclusion of his above post, nor would he have written his other ones.
???”? says it;s not a ????? to the ?????? ?????, it’s jusi a kind of ??? ???.
“Prof. Marc Shapiro wrote an entire sefer full of examples of such, from the time of Rambam to the present.”
Gil Student has a series of critiques on that book. One of them linking to a speech-notes from the one and only Dr. Sid (Shneyer Zalman) Leiman
Benignuman-
Can you please clarify: Patterns are unlikely to exist without laws of nature. We experience patterns, thus it’s likely there are laws of nature.
benignuman U missed my answer
“All of science is based on the inductive application of the observed to the unobserved”
Our knowledge of the outside world is based statistical extrapolation of patterns in our minds sense impressions. The patterns may be random, but probability rules out (yes, I know U dont like the phrase “probability rules out” and that “Ur almost sure about that”) a pattern forming from pure randomness.
The statistical extrapolation of our sense impressions are representative of a reality what we refer to as the co-ordinates of space-time. The statistical extrapolations of the patterns of space-time coordinates is known as physical science. Barring extrapolation from observed to unobserved, would require that observation is a causative factor in the observed phenomenon – something which is complex in a specific way, and thus mathematically unlikely. Furthermore, even if observation is a causative factor, then “physical science” would still be the science of observed phenomena and you can still make inductions to the observed phenomenon.
?????????? ??? ????????? ???????? ????????? ??? ????????? ???????? ??? ????? ????????.
It should be noted that Rav Moshe’s Teshuvah was about relying on a manager of the company, where the information was given meant for a Choleh not Kasharus, and there was liability (it may not be that not all these were criteria for the Heter).
In the new Rav Moshe book it brings that he told Rav Avrohom Blumenkrantz he can/should pasken even “SHVEREH” Shailos,( ???? ???? ??? ??? look up Rabbi Blumenkrantz in the index).
On the other hand Rav Belsky has told a Talmid to do the opposite of whatever it says in the Pesach Book.
I’d apreciate anyone w more info.
“She then looked in her purse and looked at the items and mumbled that Rabbi Blumenkratz said not to buy the Bounty and buy the Hemish Brand . She then got the more expensive Hemish brand of Paper Towels and removed FOOD from her order because she could not afford both.”
Reminds me of Korach’s story.
Anyways last time I checked Rabbi Blumenkrantz doesn’t say it’s assur, but that it’s worth to be Machmir.
I heard Rav Belsky criticize the method of calling up a company or writing to them asking if their product contains xyz, saying that any info a company would give would generally be in a way that won’t cause them any liability and that companies are careful about that, and many times the one responding to the inquiry doesn’t even have full access to the info necessary.
I think he was referring to Rabbi Blumenkrantz’s method, though i’m not 100% sure. I’d apreciate if anyone has more info.
“This guy isn’t doing anything wrong. These people will smoke on Pesach anyway. All he’s doing is making a quick buck on some Machmirim that think everything is a Chashash Chometz. It’s Muttar M’Ikar Hadin for a few reasons on Pesach.”
Rav Elyashiv, Rav Moshe Shternbuch, Rav Nisim Karelitz and Rav Yisroel Belsky and many others hold that cigarettes are Asur on Pesach. In the Litvishe Velt (at least in E.Y.) almost no one smokes Pesach.
Dear Kanoi Next Door,
The following is a partial list of poskim who Asur smoking,
[sources were posted already at http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/smoking-why-should-it-be-muttar%5D
R’ Ahron Kotler,
R’ Yaakov Kaminetsky,
R’ Elyashiv,
R’ Chaim Kanievsky,
R’ Dovid Feinstein,
the Be’er Moshe,
the Tzitz Eliezer,
R’ Moshe Shternbuch,
R’ Osher Veis,
the Rivvos Ephraim,
R’ Nissim Karelitz,
R’ Ovadia Yosef,
R’ Bentzion Aba Shaul,
R’ Shlomo Zalman Aurbach
and Rav Shmuel Aurbach
among many others.
You cannot do any act that allows or encourages a Sakana, even if the other person holds it’s Mutar. In fact one is obligated to be Mechalel Shabbos to save someone from danger, and even if it’s against that persons will, and even if the risk is only small, and even if it’s only a long term risk!
In reality what this Baal Hamachsir is (unintentionally) doing is aiding Retzicha, and helping cause families of Almanos and Yesomim.
He’ll never even know who.
????? ??: ?”? ?????? note there were many baalei Tosfos from diferent times countries (Tzarfas/Ashkenaz) most didn’t have/bring the Rambam.
“1. Log onto Bar Ilan
2. Select tosfos
3. Search for ??????, and for ????
4. View results.”
He can also be called ???? ???
popa_bar_abba True, Dayan Fisher died from COPD and said it wasn’t from smoking. Rav Moshe Shternbuch scram at him saying it was from smoking.
The Hechsher is from kashrus expert R’ Yosef Zaritzky, can everyone ask him to remove it, he answers all questions and his number is 054-848-4044. Yichusdik Rav Dovid Feinstein is quoted in ???? ??? ?????? ???”? ??’ ??”? saying that according to Rav Moshe now it’s surely assur to smoke, as ????? ??? ??”? ?”? ??’ ?”? based the heter on a “??? ????”.
“How is it any different than the Choson holding the Kallah’s hand when walking away from the Chupa (as some Litvaks do)?”
I’ve seen someone write that’s assur too, but it can be argued that that is only utilitarian – so as not to be ????? bet chupa & Yichud – and isn’t being ???? ???? or anything to do with ????.
A similar argument would have to be made by proponents of ???? ????, but I haven’t seen it written.
The ????? ????? only mentions dancing and singing around the Chosson and the Kalla sitting together, it doesn’t say anything about anyone dancing with the Kalla in any way.
These are the sources for ????? ?????:
hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8901&st=&pgnum=206&hilite= and hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8901&st=&pgnum=193&hilite=
SAM2 wrote “I once tried to prove from the Gemara in Kesuvos 17a that there is nothing not-Tznius about dancing with your wife at the wedding”. SAM2 Where’s the proof? rav ??? dancing with your wife is ??? ???? which the Remah in ??”? ?”? brings would be assur.
So far I haven’t found any early ???? for ??? ??? dancing together, and as far as reasons go, can someone even show me a ???? in a ??????? ??? for that part of the ???? ????, and why it has to be done in public?
That’s not a philosophical Q, it’s asking “what is the definition of noise?”.
Zvei Dinim
???? ????? in Hakdama says on something the Gemara Paskens l’halacha
??? ????? ?? ?????? ????? ???? ?? ??? ???’ ???? ???? ???? ?????? “??????? ???? ???? ??????? ?? ?????? ???? ??? ?????? ???? ???? ????? ????? ???????”
So being the Torah is the blue print a ???? ???? of the blueprint implies a ???? ???? of the actual ?????. No one argues on this as it is in the ?”? ?????? in ????”? that ???? is
????? ???? ??? ????? ??? ??
and no one after ??? ????? can grasp it’s entirety.
Rema in Toras HaOlah, doesn’t say anything about being infallible, he writes Chazal knew what the Chachmei Haumos knew plus. The same i think for the rest. See ??? ????? ?????? says the Ramban argues with the Rambam re the moon not being physical. Rav Yoshe Ber in Thinking Aloud said there’s no raya from what the Rambam says about stars and moon being a ??? ??? that their not physical, ther’s no scientific reason our physical brains be ???? ???.
I don’t think anyone (carrying real weight) says they had a perfect knowledge of science. That would mean there’s nothing you don’t know even the price of tea in China.
The answer would be that either they didn’t state what they didn’t know in science, even if their knowledge on their great level was in some way limited. Or it’s only what was ruled in ????? ???? that had special Siyata Dishmaya.
Regardless Reb Shlomo Zalman Aurbach (in ???? ??’ ????? ???? ?????) held the other view is valid.
Interesting they learnt together almost fifty years ago for one winter zman and it was fireworks! Ask Reb Aaron Zukerman of lakewood he was learning there at the time and will have loads of stories to tell you.
??????????’ ???????, ??”? ??? ?? ?????? brings ??”? that the ????? of the ??’ is really the ??”?. So there’s no ???? from Rav Aaron as the Rambam in Hakdama to Yad says to disregard ?????? when they contradict ?????, and this contradicted what it says in Reb aharon’s Gemara.