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Esteemed Mod > Did you seriously think we were going to approve that?
Exactly! For your convenience, I sometimes divide posts in several posts so that you can easily accept or reject some of them without wasting your time editing. Usually, one is obvious red flag, while the other contains the real offensive stuff written in atbash.
Better it should be about your character than my editing. Thanks for the thought though.
> Did you seriously think we were going to approve that?
I would apologize, but it looks like an idea of apologizing for your acts is verbotten.
I don’t know where you got that idea. Other posters seem to have no problem with it.
> Divrei Chaim paskens ..Igros Moshe paskens
so, to respect all opinions, keep your family minhag.
Go hundred years back and think whether people could have predicted current events. Go 200 years back and think whether people could have predicted events 100 years ago.
> When is the last time that you did something good,
Took the garbage out recently. Did not shake a hand with a rashah. Helped feed and cloth several hungry kids today who nobody else would help. Already tired.
You are saying that you deal with these Jewish patients and you have some ideas that lead to frustration only and no action. I am trying to help you figure out a positive way to channel your research.
Yserbius, a minor correction – RR Kaminetsky, Feinstein, Soloveichik came to US before the war. And by looking at current communities, it is hard to appreciate how manhy shuls and schools operated in 1930-50s working with Yidden many of whom lost a lot of tradition. What is true, many of these communities with time became more insular and less interested in reaching those who were not. And also true, that assimilated Jews are moving further away, so Chabad is indeed working with different types of people (Berdichever talking to a guy smoking on shabbos – this is maybe 2nd son from Hagada, intellectuals attracted to early YU – third, and students that Chabad finds now is 5th or 6th …). Also, Chabad was able to sustain this energy over time via their organizational focus. On the other hand, as mentioned, some less-educated Chabadnikim are not aware what else happened in the world and behave accordingly.
Avira > ishah keshereh osah ratzon baalah, not the other way around.
so, you are saying even ish kosher still does not listen. Sounds true….
A little more seriously, if you do not express your ratzon too much, then you will be easily zoche isha kesherah! The way I learned it that the husband should lead in ruchniyus, but not in gashmiyus, so in most daily issues, there is not much reason to express your ratzon, or even to have it (why have it, if you are not planning to express it). To finish the circle, isha kesherah knows ratzon baalah to begin with (see Bina, above), so there is no need to even bother.> Get a wooden beam, make a pear-shaped hole,
you missed one step – your beam should be within running distance from where gorillas live!
>> “So why would someone post sheker? ”
> Because the OP is a Demoncrat.Still does not answer the question. Either a person does not have facts or maybe he feels it is a mitzva to convince others? I wish people here explain what their sources are, it will help us understand what is going on.
> why are most Ethiopians claiming to be Jews and emigrating to Israel practicing Christians?
And when did you stop hacking your spouse?
in addition, you should not publicly daven something different from what others do. If you were told about it, maybe you were too public about it.
There are several groups, like mentioned above, that support multiple nusachim with a BUT that their nusach is available for everyone … I like more Rabbonim who advise a person from a different Nusach to follow the their own nusach rather than Rav’s.
These are separate issues – whether they are halachik Jews and whether they are descendants of Jews following some remnants of Judaism. In regards to the second, there is a remarkable number of opinions here claiming “without evidence” that these people are Christians, Karaims, etc. This would be remarkable if similar opinions would not have been here regarding multiple other groups that are not like a group you are coming from.
Health, I don’t think you are getting the musar:
I am saying certain behaviors by some yidden is questionable and you should somehow let them know. You are saying – I know, but other people behave badly also. How is that a Jewish attitude?you spend a couple of thousand yeas in a jungle and we will see what you will remember. Some people I met are pretty dedicated to what they do. for example, they would not let those relatives who convered to another religion into their dwellings, treating them as tumah.
Yaakov was honest in his dealing with Lavan, despite the deceipt by the latter. Surely, an example not to find a way to cheat.
From personal (Jewish) perspective, it would be an equal aveira to indulge in any other unhealthy behavios and then expect society to pay for your costs. Specifically, to your claims:
ACA allows for insurance companies to charge smokers up to 50% more
Starting in November, Delta Airlines will charge unvaccinated employees an extra $200 a month for the company health plan, citing the high cost of COVID hospitalizations…self-insured companies can more easily increase premiums for unvaccinated employees.
Also, I think currently, ort recently, full costs were covered. Copays can be high:
Still, patients won’t be responsible for the full cost of treatment, which can reach up to $50,000 for a severe case. Fully insured patients hospitalized with pneumonia — which involves similar treatment as for people with COVID-19 — typically end up owing around $1,300, for example.Chess was already mentioned. R Feinstein played as a kid, but stopped at age 9 as he felt e is wasting time from learning. chess has extra benefit comparing with other games: if you all devote about same time to the game, then it is a fair measure of how smart each of you are. In our time of everyone being above average, it is healthy to know how good you are at thinking.
> its always according to party lines!
indeed, when Agudah was forming after numerous other Jewish parties were formed, Chofetz Chaim was skeptical: even if party consists of only Talmidei Chochamim, the power will anyway belong to the Party Secretary.
We try to give Jewish names that are reasonably normal for American ear (ie yes Jacob and Leah, but not Berl or Feiga). In one case, we used a mamash name the way it is spelled in English Tanach, but turns out 99% of the public can’t figure it out. Maybe the kid will need to live among more religious general population. Second names come handy in case first ones do not work out well, but so far nobody is opting for that. Second names also work handy in case of similar names in the same class (unless it is Chaya Mushka).
I recall pennies became popular when Chicago Tribute publisher decided to sell papers by a cent, but nobody had them. So, he convinced merchants to sell things for $0.99 instead of $1.00, and then you would have a penny for the paper. If this is not an urban legend, interesting how papers not only had genivas daas inside but also corrupted the marketplace (as people think for a second hat something is $5 when they see $5.99)
Next topic: ashkenazi Jews have suspiciously similar noses, probably correlated to a small number of Jewish men they come from, while larger variety of non-Jewish women they married. I am pretty sure if Ethiopean Yidden would be the first to settle in EY recently, this would the question they’d raise.
Did you seriously think we were going to approve that?
Look into exercise routines that might help. I saw one UK report from National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, journal Chronic Respiratory Disease may 2021, I am sure there are others
> I never understood why Sleeping in a Sukkah was pinned?
this seem like an only genuine question in this whole thread.
why don’t you organize a group of 20 families and move to such smaller city and settle there as a group?
at Weimar speed – a penny at the beginning of a thread is worth a dime at the end
Is it wrong encouraging kids to put pennies in tzedokah? are they now less than a perutah?
Chabad Eliyahu Touger translated Mishne Torah about 30 years ago. It is in print.
> chasidim chose not to follow Mishna berura?
this is a murkier case to defend, as Chasidim started as a group disregarding traditions of their communities. If you accept this shita, then they should be the only ones to actually need a Mishna Berurah.
Vaccines reduce person’s chance of needing an expensive medicine. Thus, if someone chooses not to, then he imposes costs on the tzibur. Dina d’malchusa does not limit your personal obligations. You are still obligated to put up a fence to protect privacy of your neighbor even if building code does not require it. I am talking specifically about your Jewish patients who should think about such things. Ask them.
I think some insurances start charging non-vaxxed people more. This make sense instead of charging everyone for that. There is a downside here that these people will be even more reluctant to seek appropriate cate. Also, this is a long cycle – it takes a year to implement, then a year for new rates to come up, too slow and indirect.
> translating it into a goyish language is a good thing?
Rambam. He used to write in a goyishe language.
> lubavitcher rebbe’s shift on an important issue – zionism – as an example of how he changed the mesorah,
This is somewhat different from Shabsai Tzvi. While I realize this is an important nekudah to you, there are millions of shomer-shabbos Yidden and T’Ch who hold same position or even more radical.
> whether as a wife one is required to carry out the requests and instructions her husband gave her.
One guy asked that, and was told in no uncertain terms: listen to everything Sarah told you.
Some of this discussions remind of the hypothetical asked by an orphan in Gemora – what if both my Father and my Mother ask a cup of water at the same time. They should not. Question dismissed.
Avira, it is simple to measure shalom, see whether your words and actions increase it or not. Peshat.
Syag, agree. There are many saying about Talmidei Chachamim that can be used as the definition of the term.
For example, if you see a T’Ch doing an aveirah at night, then you don’t have to tell him next morning because he surely did teshuva already. That is, an aveirah does not disqualify, but a lack of introspection does.
Similarly, T’Ch-im merabim shalom b’olam. So those who do not, do not qualify.
Rambam accepts truth regardless of where it comes from.
Avira, you are employing circular logic: using your dislike of one group to impute another. What is common here that you dwell on fine theoretical points of mesora to fully disregard reality: Zionists creating a vibrant state with both parnosa and Torah and saving Jews from multiple countries; chabad saving multitudes that nobody else thought of finding. For each of these, you have an explanation why what looks good is bad. I am perusing my Chumash for a mitzvah to judge the world like that, but didn’t find anything yet.
Based on a quick search: It seems that risk is based on the first pregnancy: it is slightly elevated for ten years after and lower after that. Additional pregnancies give additional benefit
Health, do your patients have access to insurance or Medicaid? I presume these drugs will be well covered. I don’t know what the halacha is when someone ends up consuming 1000s of dollars of medicine instead of using $40 of vaccine. Should such person refuse insurance payment or at least make a donation to, say, cover others like him?
Social security and residential records are available in US. Plus genealogical sites. You can probably automatically collect an initial draft for the family tree and then review unclear items
Maybe the understanding of the situation is different? Girls feel pressure to start shiduchim earlier because they would rather be early than late, they have a larger selection of hatanim of different ages, and they have more time to find the right one. That is, they are investing themselves in the process instead of relying on the nes.
If you push boys to go earlier, you take away most of the above opportunities from the girls.
First, we should stop assigning people positions and names based on the group they belong to. There is a halachik literature on that, whether gemora forbids offensive kinuim, or any as I think rambam recasts it. This is especially hard online and double in an anonymous group, where everyone has a kinui lehathila.
This is an interesting case: inflation was higher than income growth, so real wages went down 0.5 percent. So why would someone post sheker? I doubt that someone would do this on purpose, as there seems to be no hanaah here. Maybe he actually read it in some partisan source, then he needs to review where he is getting his info. Would love to understand how this happened
Germany in 19th century probably had a list. You were supposed to pay taxes to one of the official religions. So, their IRS was probably keeping tabs. Or any other country with a similar system.
> rambam or a mishnah berurah? I should hope it’s the latter.
My limited understanding is that MB is trying to develop a comprehensive halakha harmonizing multiple sources, including some old less known ones. As such, it is not really representative of possible specific traditions. This makes a lot of sense in the modern world when people are exposed to multiple approaches, but if you do have a specific tradition, you do not have to look MB at all.
> The point is that almost no hospital or Group Doctors are allowing Ivermectin for Covid 19.
i agree on this point. A lot of medical personnel follow safe instructions, unfortunately. I am still repeating that most of the complaints seemingly come from hardcore antivaxxers and antimaskers. In my opinion, they are pasul l’edut. And, practically speaking, we seem now to have drugs that are both easy to use, proven by normative trials, and almost accepted by the establishment, so please start giving them out in addition to whatever possible other drugs you advocate.
Actually, with many drugs available, you can ethically conduct your own study – randomize your patients and give some Pfizer and Ivermectin, others – Pfizer and placebo.
Avira > pitfalls of batalah mayviah lidei znus/shigaon are worse than the chisaron of being “out” a lot.
These issues may be related. A lady out shmoozing or browsing instagram is probably at higher risk than the one doing brain surgeries. I am not saying that the latter are fully protected, but a combination of being busy and self-esteem gives some protection. So, those communities where women are not going into professions, are probably more insisting on them staying inside.
It would not be a violation of kesuba if both sides agree, but you need to be concerned about informed agreement. If a girl is taught that the husbands not working is a mitzva and then she would need to be poretz geder to expect husband to do that, then it might be questionable whether she is freely agreeing. Maybe kollels should have an annual anonymous survey of wives to hear what they desires and needs really are. Rosh kollel’s wife could be a good source. One of baalei musar, sorry do not remember the name, was giving a shiur after shabbos maariv until his wife whispered to him “they have wives”. He broke the schmooze in the middle of the sentence and sent them home. Not clear to me whether he was completely unaware about that, and whether the wife included herself in that list 😉
2scents, thanks. makes sense. So, hope these 2 drugs, and other upcoming I hear, will become popular with people like Health’s patients. These are finally tools that can be easily used by the stubborn population. Maybe it would make sense for the confirmed anti-everythings to get them exposed to the virus under controlled environment (say, 15 minutes at a time) and then observe them for a week and give them both Ivermectin and new Pfizer drug with any symptoms, quickly moving to full immunity.
Finally, an answer to the old Carroll’s question: how is the orev like a shtender?
They are both bad.
Let me know if you get this.2scents, I think UK already approved Merck drug, is it for everyone?
Health, I see that there is a real political fight about it, with both sides looking for political advantage. Sad. The only factual reference there is that there is indeed increase in reported Ivermectin poison cases, 2000 in 2021, or 400 per month recently, but only 1% of those had serious consequences.
Still, I have to presume that most of these cases come from unvaxed and also uncareful people. I understand your position as a doctor trying to help them, but the guy in the story who is blaming medical establishment for his father’s death can only claim this if he did his hishtadlus – vaccine, mask, SD. I presume if he was vaxxed, it would have been mentioned in the story. So, if majority of this public showed this lack of judgment already, I am not giving a lot of weight to their opinions or even claims of facts.