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Longarekel: “2)Tallis and Tefillin should be worn by mincha, Tallis by maariv. 3)all boys should wear talleisim and cover their head with it. 4)ben shmone esrei l’chupa. 5)One should not live in eretz yisrael today. 6)the yemenite havara is accurate. 7)it is not necessary mai’ikar hadin to wear a yarmulka. 8)there is no mitzva to do kiruv unless the non-religious person is a child or a tinok shenishba. 9)shaving the beard is in most cases an issur d’oraisa many times over. 10)the kashrus industry is (for the most part) treif. being so involved in gashmius is not kosher(like having 35 flavors of potato chips,45 flavors of ice cream etc.) 11)yeshivos should learn tanach and shma’atsa aliba d’hilchisa. I have other opinions which I’ll save for another time.”
I’ll address some of these because I’m not sure where you get them from.
2) The only thing I can disagree with is Tefillin. It’s enough to wear it when the Shulchan Aruch limited it to. If Chazal decided that we are only capable of wearing Tefillin for that little each day, then that’s all we can do.
3) Why? The Mishnah Brurah 91:2? That’s a Zohar that most people who wear Taleisim aren’t even Yotzei anyway.
4) Hal’vei that we can all find the right person by then.
5) I saw your earlier comment on that. It was ridiculous and deserves to response. You created an Aveira to call it a Mitzvah Haba’ah B’aveira.
6) True but irrelevant. We have our Mesorah.
7) You mean because the Nosei Keilim in Siman 2 call it only a Midas Chassidus? See Taz 8:2. And K’lal Yisrael has accepted it as a Minhag. And Orach Chayim 91:3 says that while Davening (and probably learning too) or in a Beis Medrash you need to wear one.
8) I’d be interested to see a source for that. All the Poskim and Gedolim now seem to assume that anyone capable of doing it can. 9) How so? An electric shaver should be Mispara’im K’ein Ta’ar and Muttar (I think, I haven’t learned that Sugya in a very long time).