Comments on: Increasing Battle Against Jerusalem Mehadrin Lines

By: shimen

shimen — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:33:42 +0000

#46 how did he embarress you, nobody knows who you are

By: bastar86

bastar86 — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:08:07 +0000

If Reb Moshe had a leinceny and you hold by him, then fine. But Reb Moshe is/was not everyones rav. He ruled for the american community and thus had to be more leinent. Is Cholov akum allowed if in a place with abundant cholov Yisroel products? Of crouse not. On community issues like this Reb Moshe was leinent. If he isn’t your rav- ask your own sheila.
Mehadrin lines are possible and as such should be used- there is a halahick basis for them.

By: bastar86

bastar86 — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:00:24 +0000

If a man is not allowed to walk between two women or look at a women, and it can be avoided by a mehadrin line, then do we not as Torah true yidden have the obligation to use a mehadrin line?

By: Yonni

Yonni — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:54:12 +0000

# 58 – Please explain why sitting next to one’s spouse is considered a taivo. I am not away of any Psak saying that sitting next to one’s wife is erva.

Adraba a healthy and strong marriage is built on good communication between husband and wife . How can we raise children with Yirat Shamayim and the tools to face the numerous challanges that face our generation without the strong support and assistance of our spouses . This partnership can only be built by a strong bond between the spouses.

By: mw13

mw13 — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:54:00 +0000

yissi – Reb Moshe also paskened your not allowed to listen to music. As you may have noticed, not everyone holds like him. So please do not call those who hold a diffrent shita “Those people who make a scene on a plane or a bus, are in my eyes “Crazy”. Don;t go spewing rhetoric! Rav Moshe’s Halacha stands. if you want to sit seperately, take a cab!”

And if chaverim lost of all of his olam haba for calling you reform, don’t you also lose yours for calling people “Crazy”?!

By: the lady next door

the lady next door — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:55:20 +0000

to chaverim: in israel in general and in yerushalyaim especially, which is know as the palace of the king we are expected to live on a higher plane than in chutz learetz. that means no mixed buses expecially during peak hours.

to yissi: just the opposite, if you feel that you cannot go on a bus wihtout being next to your spouse then please take a taxi cab, (pay for your taivos just as you would for that delicious pizza)

By: chaverim

chaverim — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:44:28 +0000

Oops. Looks like Israeli #55 found a loophole way to weasel out of his previous “to no longer respond to your posts.”

Whose fault is it that you find fault with the words and actions of the gedolim? I submit it is your own.

By: TheReader

TheReader — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:43:32 +0000

#12, Yissi-

I guess good middos was not a prerequisite for your semicha.

By: chaverim

chaverim — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:32:25 +0000

#53: If I need your advice I’d have solicited it. In the interim you are confused. Rav Eliyashev and the rest of the Gedolim are very intelligent, much more than you and I, and are no ones puppets – intentionally OR unintentionally.

Please give the Gedolim shlitta more credit than you acknowledge.

And btw, “litvish” people (like myself) and “chasidish” people follow the same laws and stringencies in these matters.

By: In Israel

In Israel — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:10:49 +0000

Chaverim- you have a lot to do teshuva for, and I will do as Yissi did and send an email to YWN that you should be banned.
For all of those of you who love to quote the “gedolim”; unfortunately, they are not the ones saying these things. They are requested, and harassed by askanim with an agenda to say things that can then be quoted out of context. To prove: Wish I could find the link, but there is some charedi website that posted an interview with Rav Elyashiv (sent to me by a DL co-worker) where it was obvious that they were just trying to get R’ Elyashiv to say things to take them out of context. After getting sick to my stomach, and stopping to watch it in middle, I saw a poster with pictures and quotes from that interview a few weeks later. Needless to say, R’ Elyashiv did not say that shaitels were assur, he said- in answer to a question- that yes, the shaitels a hundred years ago were better. This was taken out of context (naturally) by the anti-shaitel people. I would love to be able to get an audience with R’ Elyashiv myself and tell him all about what goes on on the mehadrin bus lines, and see if he would still endorse it. He would not, but unfortunately, I am not an “askan” with nothing else to do all day but promote my agendas, so I don’t have access to get an audience with him. Woe is to the Jewish nation that our “frummest” people are THESE! (Oh, and the ones who beat up women who walk down the street with a male, or sit in the wrong section of a bus)
And Sam Rose- the litvish men sit with their wives- we have no chumra prohibiting it. Or alternatively, they find another man to sit next to…