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@waterbury – I heard good things about it from graduates and read a short book by Rosh Yeshiva, he sounds like very much a mench.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipanthealth > So how could you even think that it is possible that we have anything to do with their Observance of Judaism?!?
I can resort to R Salanter who said that the person who is not learning well in Lita affects non-observant professor in Paris … What I mean is that in US, people often do not meet. In Israel, non-observant people can observe observant one closely. There was just in the news – that several haverim knesset, including an Arab one, praised R Gafni’s performance as a finance minister, who apparently worked not just “for his sector” but everyone. This affects people, and there are many other cases like that. Specifically, Russian olim came from their own tsoros, they were not part of Ben Gurion’s government. If you speak Yiddish, you could go and try to talk to those who do.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantphilospher> Why do you think one side is more knowledgeable than the other side,
> you can decide who and how people can come to conclusionsI hear your concerns about government, and I agree with them. Every politician’s judgment is suspect, and every gov administrator is a politician, working and keeping his way up. I am all for skepticism, but it does not mean that we just need to weight equally everything you can google.
I personally have expertise and training in data analysis and that is what I am trying to judge.
>> “controlled studies” of medication takes years before it is allowed on the market while these so-called uncontrolled “studies” (they are certainly NOT controlled studies- the average Joe is the studied specimen) are merely months old
again, good questions that I am also concerned about. I reviewed history of multi-year vaccine controlled studies and follow-ups after that. Most of side effects are discovered early.
Uncontrolled studies seem to be strong, I read several. They work the following way – you match every vaccinated person to a similar unvaccinated one and do pairwise comparison on million of pairs. It is good technology. It is not as good as controlled study to get one single answer – 94% or 80%, but it is very good at fishing out multiple potential correlations and problems. This approach is more likely to generate false predictions that have to be later validated by controlled studies than to miss one. Note also that there are studies from different countries now – Israel, UK, EU. They all have governments, but still there is some diversity of views here, and many published as preprints before they get reviewed.
Most important, there are cases of caution and there are of trade-offs. For example, mask wearing, SD, online learning, outdoor minyanim are no-brainer from public health prospective – even when the government says – don’t worry, spend money, I want to be re-elected, we now can handle number of patients, you can be a little more cautious not to be one of those patients.
But, with vaccine, you have a trade-off: you risk either a vaccine or a virus. One is made in Western countries trying to save people, another – wild or made in China trying to hurt people. I am more worrying about the second. So, you need to weigh your exposure risk: if you have high chance of being exposed, I would choose vaccine any time. If you are not exposed and a teenager, the numbers are not so clear to me.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantParticipant, I am saying that Rambam’s approach, being focused on rational, can be studied accordingly as a way of thinking. (I may be re-using Maharal’s paradigm that Bavli creates a method and that is why it is useful for future generations)/ I did not say anything about “conclusions”, I am not a Teimani.
Avira> Learning superficially, in many cases, is a form of chutzpah – it makes Torah out to be simple, robbing it of the divine wisdom that is gained from learning Torah be’iyun.
I think you are right. On one hand, it is wonderful that so many people have access to learning, on the other hand, it does indeed create attitude that we are all now Torah mavens, and then teachers, and then teach students for whom this will be full Torah.
Do we have any way to measure quality of Torah learning, outside of being a full baki yourself? Torah SAT and GRE? Rich people used to be able to hire a talmid chacham to go examine a potential hatan, but now whom do you trust to be an examiner?
I had this discussion with the person and the son I mentioned about davening mincha. The father raised the question what Rav I should be learning with back at home. The son gave a great suggestion: ask his yeshiva Rav whom he is asking shailot in Israel, then go up to the top, then ask this top Israeli posek who is his counterpart in Western hemisphere, and then go down – ask that guy to recommend whom he knows in my country, then in the city. My counter-suggestion was (and still is) – ask the Rav (or listen him discuss) the sugya I know well (I do not mean ust Shulchan Aruch, could be historical, etc) and select based on that.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantJews were allowed in Russian Empire inside the “Pale of Settlement” – former Polish and other territories – Belorussia, Baltics, Ukraine. True, they understood where they are. During Napoleon wars, most Jews were pro-French, while “Alter Rebbe” bet on the Czar, not just because he did not like modernity”, but presumably he understood that his territory will still be part of Russia. He died while running away from Napoleon, I recall… Jews were allowed fully inside Russia proper after Czar.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantI suggest focus first at what you are good at and use your talent to contribute to your family/community/world. But maintain your negatives at minimal level so that they do not stop your progress or find way to avoid the problems. for example, if you are great coming up with new ideas but do not know how to write well, then you can send your ideas to a lot of place and never get a response to your wonderful ideas. Your choice would be to either study writing a little, or get a partner who can write.
Later on, when you succeed in things you are good at, you can challenge yourself to things that are hard. Hashem’s tested Avraham to behave against his hesed nature, but only in the last tests.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantRabban Gamliel’s yeshiva. Tough entrance requirements that are impossible to fake: your outside = inside. Not sure whether this requirement was both for the Hebrew and Greek departments.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantRebE > You know that the Ravad used a very strong language against the Rambam by discouraging people from just learning it as they used to before the SA.
So, who won the argument historically? is SA a compromise: it is a systematic work but with references that Rambam omitted and paying more attention to practice? Would Raavad be happy with SA or still argue against?
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantAm I following well Rambam/Aristotle’s “middle path” – as one person seems to attack me for disregarding authority and another for not allowing independent thinking?!
there is no one answer here:
> People are followers or independent thinkers.
you can’t be a thinker if you do not have information and do not know how to process it.> Covid-19 has a 99% survival rate while we are getting no numbers on the supposed “vaccinations”.
There is a lot of research on vaccines, both Phase 3s and now uncontrolled studies. These numbers seem to be more reliable than COVID analysis: we know exactly whether and when someone got a vaccine, while we often do not know whether and when someone got COVID. I recently posted an estimate of vaccine side effects and compared them with COVID side effects. Decision may depend on how old you are, and whether you actively mix with other people, esp unvaccinated.> it’s important to trust Rabbonim, doctors, and community organizers over doing the research yourself.
As I said, it depends on your capabilities and of those you are asking. I can make a professional judgment in some aspects, I can then ask those in other areas, in some areas I use my professional contacts to get information from researchers rather than “community organizers”. One of them walked me thru difference in technologies of different vaccine types and I indeed “trusted” her – because the explanation way beyond my knowledge. And nobody is perfect when you are asking, it is just a nature of things… I was on one mass zoom call where the person went through sanitary measures and I had to chat him privately, as he forgot to mention a couple of important things …
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantphilosopher, we are talking about areas that changed hands a lot…
Moldova is more or less Romania, Western Ukraine (ie Lviv) used to be Poland or Austro-Hungary, they are Russian-speaking as much as Soviets moved population there. I don’t think there is “Russian” Yiddish as much as Russia proper did not allow Jews into the country. After Russia and others divided Poland at the end og 18th century, there was a Pale … You got to be a merchant, a doctor, or a Rabbi to be allowed in.Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantcoffee, a good question. First, Europeans have different voters.
2nd – their life is more homogeneous and less eventful. If you can have a machloket in N dimensions (economy, religion, Arabs, etc), then you get a chance to create 2^N + 1 parties (one in the center) ..
3rd – who said European system works? Weimar republic fell, French are already on Fifth republic, Italians are having same balagan as Israelis. Brits seem to figure out parliamentary system.Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantcommon, you are just looking for a fight for no reason. I did not use Fauci as information source. Let me know if you caught me doing it! you are attacking a strawman.
Can’t speak for Gadol though, maybe you are talking to him.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipant> shomayim, they will demand a din vecheshnon on bitul torah be’kamus and b”eichus
I thought you first need to pass the question on whether you were honest in business?
Maybe you know of a separate gate.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantHealth > Maybe he feels betrayed?!?
> They don’t know about Torah, Mitzvos & Olam Haboh.
well, it’s mostly our fault, not theirs. Maybe less in US where people can disappear, but surely in Israel.
In truth, what is demographics of Russians in Israel now? Are there more non-religious among them than among sabras? haver knesset Zeev Elkin is Russian, Ithink, and in a kippah. Maybe you are already used to Tel Aviv Israelis and recognize them as Jews, but not with the ways Russians behave.R Steinsaltz Z’L writes that Israel is always on edge because people feel annoyed by the mannerism they are not used to (Chasidim coming late, Yekkies coming on time …) and in Israel you are daily confronted with multitudes of other cultures.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantHealth > They took a pole of the Voters that went for Yamima, and 2/3s wouldn’t vote for them again, because of his actions to join Lapid.
Agree. I don’t think he is crazy (for power). I think he plans to earn his voters back, acting accordingly. Thus, I presume that his future actions will represents his community. I am not sure of that, we will see.
> [Lieberman] hates the Frumme, because his Son became a BT.
I don’t think so. He joined Israeli politics a while ago, his son was probably a kid. What is the back story – how did his kid do teshuva? did he let him go somewhere? did they argue? did something in the family values helped him?
L seems to be an example of a politician changing voter base – I think he was first a Likudnik, then started representing Russians in general, mostly economically, and later turned more to opposing Haredim. Maybe because Russians who were assimilating either into religious or secular cultures were switcing to other parties, and he ended up with the “core” un-assimilated group and also added other anti-religious? I wonder whether he can sit down with his son and develop a positive program for Charedim – focusing on literacy, work, doing it gradually without oppression, and less on “hot” issues for his supporters – shabbat, kashrut.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantujm, you are right – Lieberman probably does not represent all olim from Russia. It looks like Rusim are 15-20% of voters, that would mean 18-24 seats, or say 15 seats as they probably vote less than others. So, L gets not more than 50% of the Rusim votes and maybe less as probably at least some of his current voters are anti-religious sabras. So, it makes sense that he would represent the more anti-religious and non-Jewish Russian population. Still, not all Russians are like the gentleman I described in another thread. It may be that you are looking at these people and you just can not imagine a Jew behaving like that and you conclude that they are not Jewish. I can see a lot of Jewish Russians being non-religious or anti-religious – they spent 70 years in anti-religious environment. And I don’t think they even intermarried more than American Jews through the same time period. I admit I do not have hard numbers on all of this, if you have different numbers to support that his voters are all non-Jews – please post.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantSyag, look at what a “metaphor” is. I am just thinking for myself.
As an analogy, I was driving on a road where my car was kicking stones to the side, and there is a sidewalk below the highway that I can not see. So, I don’t know whether I killed anyone, but newspapers say that there are people killed by those stones every day, and I can compute probability of my stones killing someone. I would not be able to sleep at night, or continue driving that road, or say “funny, I do not know anyone hit”. And if other people can, I do not understand why.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantgood question. I presume extra piutim were said by those who finished early, while they are waiting for the rest – otherwise, there is no purpose. People should not leave even without piyutim, it is an aveira to leave someone daven by himself and expose him to dangerous (or improper) travel. Piyutim just help ensure compliance according to my imperfect understanding. For a similar reason, there are mirrors near elevators in high-rise buildings. Waiting for an elevator is a tircha, and people notice it less if they can spend it checking themselves in the mirror. This may be outdated in the time of cellphones.
Kiddush will be after everyone is finished, unless you are suggesting doing Kiddush while others are finishing.
Also, I think, your family will feel differntly waiting for you engaging in davening and a mitzva of securing walk for the friends, rather than in drinking and eating while they are waiting, even as you are engaged in a mitzva (that they are waiting for). Not sure about halakhic category here, but it just does not sound right.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantbk613 > You should read up on the topic a bit mor
people often make sincere arguments without knowing that they are not right. There are 2 issues here:
1) need to know basics of sciences. R Avraham Twersky Z’L suggests learning physiology to appreciate the beauty of Hashem’s creation
2) how do we operate in the environment where our knowledge is incomplete:
how do we evaluate our (lack of) chochma; what authority we trust and how do we evaluate quality and biases; how do we treat cases of safek; how do we make sure not to create danger to others and hillul Hashem by our incomplete knowledge.In theory, Gemora and halakha education should prepare people to answer such questions. I once attempted to repeat one of the Kanneman/Twersky experiments on biases due to anchoring (one questions leads person to think a certain way, and this affects an answer to a second question which has a totally objective measure). From a small sample, it looked like people who learned Gemora had smaller bias than professors, software engineers, and undergrads. But I realized later, those learners were pre-selected from a group I interacted with, not average learners.
And as we see in some cases, the result might be opposite: we feel that after resolving macholkes bein Abaye and Rava, we can decide medical and public health issues without Biology 101 or bothering to look up statistical sources. See Maharal Netivos Olam on Bavli as we discussed some time ago for explanation of this unfortunate phenomenon.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipant> they should have learned mussar.
They did learn mussar.
When pointing a particular mussar lesson during Daf Yomi, the Rav referred to a story of someone asking a shailah of R Salanter and getting an unusual Mussar response.The person wondered – Kavod HaRav, where is this psak come from?
– From Gemora
– from Gemora? I did not see that [that is, person asking question knew whole SH’S – AAQ]
– It does say so in MY GemoraSo, you just need to learn with a particular eye
Specifically, in Shabbos Maariv, we have extra piyutim to make sure that the late-daveners (or long-daveners?) can finish and walk back home together with others.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantSyag > Or a retraction of calling people murderers
According to all statistical information I have so far, people who were not careful lead to extra deaths. I acknowledge that I owe you a more specific analysis.
I also did not see any scientific argument that proves that it was safe to behave that way except anecdotal references that nobody died on this or that shul. Most of the proponents of this theory usually resort to “your argument is incomplete”, “why do we trust XXX”, etc.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantAdhd, indeed, you are supposed to be excited about your marriage, learning, davening. And doing new things is a good thing, just direct this drive to appropriate and non destructive goals
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantA chareidi Rav I know, when asked by married people, recommends to go first on a solo trip, arrange for parnasa and place to learn, and only then move the family
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipant3 yo…. Teach letters using 3d toys or just pointing in the text. Build something from sand or papers. Point to things and name them. Speak a different language on different day.. get him a little sibling, this will entertain everyone. enjoy that the kid is still listening to you rather than texting his friends, it will pass fast.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantSyag, the Rav made a logical argument, not a halacha miMoshe mSinai, so I can try to use logic to further his statement. This is a normal thing to do. I clearly give a source and, separately, my thoughts. Everyone here can point that my logic is faulty, I will listen with interest. I suggest you ask your halakhic authority whether it is preferable to rebuke people from discussing rabbinical statements. None of the rabbis I know get offended if I suggest a collolary to their statement.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipant>> let’s see what happens now that the idf hit Hamas,
interesting indeed. But BEnnett can not go to elections until he has some tangible achievements. He burned the bridges, he will get 0 votes.
Abbas showed himself fully assimilated into Israeli culture – he out-bargained Bibi. So, he also will not quit until he gets shekels for his community and increase his share of arab votes.
this could be a good multi-player chess-like strategy game. Is there a kness-election game on the market?
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantGreater Lita, if you wish – from Latvia – Riga (more Yakkish) and Zhagori on Lithuanian border, as well as Minsk gubernia.
That elderly gentleman was, I think, either from Moldova or from Western Ukraine. You tell me which dialect it is, but he did say “buru”. I can’t forget this moment.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipant> Kiddush at night is part of the service.
How is it helping people who are waiting at home?
There is a story about one of the baalei mussar, who started a complicated class after maariv, until his wife told him “they have wives”. He stopped in the middle of the sentence and dismissed the class.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipant>> is that they all hate the Frumme.
Health,
while there are some groups in the government that it is right to oppose, there is something wrong with the picture that you feel opposed by Bennett, who represents shomer-shabbat Jews who are riskign their lives for Eretz Israel, and Liberman, who represents survivors of Soviet and Nazi occupations that were miraculously saved at the last step before total annihilation and assimilation. If Hashem had your attitude, he would end up leaving us in Mitzraim with all the despicable habits we picked up there, and just started a new nation with Moshe.Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantADHD, try engaging kids on shabbos. Then, you can play some simple non-computer games with words, numbers, books, and things.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantphilosopher, DNA/RNA/ARR – we clearly do not know what we are talking about. Let’s just acknowledge a legit fear of unknown. There is a lot to feat – there is a plot of COVID R0 rate – gradually growing from < 2 for the original Wuhan, to 2_ for Alpha and 4+ for Delta and would be expected to grow while there are billions of untreated people available for experiments. Plus, what if some lab will decide to experiment further. It is much easier to improve existing thing than create a new one.
I agree w/ kollelman on despicable delay of reporting vaccine trials. There were already a lot of indications that things are going well, but nobody could believe that it will that successful. I don’t know whether Phizer CEO is (completely) at fault. Maybe FDA insiders forced him or changed the rules. Hard to argue with the government.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantGadol +1. hashem even asked an elderly man to climba (small) mountain for a long Torah lecture. This week, Moshe was trying to give a dvar Torah in between some stones! There are also Navvim, such as Eliahu, davening outside even in bad weather! And Avraham was meeting Hashem outside the tent. And Rivka fell of the camel seeing Yitzhak davening outside. And Yaakov did not stay at King David.
In fairness, there was a tent and a cloud above. And we don’t know that Jews davened outside. Maybe they had shtible tents.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantby 99. I mean people who passed away, unfortunately. I know I owe you a detailed analysis. Sorry, end of an online school year is tough on parents.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantSyag, I quoted him and then added my considerations for your review. I am guessing you disagree. Please, don’t just give me an F, but present your position directly. Please note that I am asking you, repeatedly, to explain yourself because I am a noce person despite disagreeing with you. Usually, people would not reply to someone who is not presenting any arguments.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantkollelman has some interesting ideas, but he can not be 100% right because he is mis-interpreting 1-2% numbers in Lancet article paragraph 2. Paragraph 3 explains that ARR = 1% means that vaccinating 100 people will prevent one case of COVID _during_ the study period. ARR for the same vaccine is higher when virus is prevalent and lower when it is not, and real benefits continue well past the time of the study. When you understand these numbers, you just need to weigh risks of COVID v. risk of vaccine. Both are approximately known, not precisely, but to the order of magnitude. I did this analysis on this site several weeks ago. I would welcome your comments.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantAvi K, please be more tolerant of our diversity – I was trying to reproduce his Galicianish .. And it is well known that Moshe Rabienu was Galician because the Torah starts with “buru”. Local Hungarians please correct me if I am wrong here
philosopher – it does sound like a sad story, but then also as a great story. this old man was earning for loshon kodesh all his life, and you should see how happy he was. Can you imagine keeping a dream alive for 60 years through Stalin/Hitler/etc.
I am just inconsistent speller, mostly a Litvak with some Ganzaic/Yakkish and also a Cantonist ..
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantADHD, I admit that chess is addictive! I was .. then, I grew up, and used skills that I developed there for other things. I understand what you are saying how computer games work for you. You just need to pre-plan your divergence so that it is doing something productive for yourself and others. for example, chess worked for me as a kid – it develops logical thinking, teaches you to evaluate your capabilities objectively (if you don’t, your opponents will, and it is hard). So, if catching monsters or flipping geometric figures is useful for you in some way, then play those. Or, find a game that will be help to you and kids. there are, for example, typing games with letters falling off the ceiling, use it to teach yourself and kids to type with 10 fingers blind. Then, same in Hebrew. Make up problem for kids – Find all cities that start with A in atlas, or count all “es” in the Humash until”yere es Elokim” … One of my kids took a test in response to school chachamim’ “concerns” – he first was asked to repeat numbers and he did below average, then he was asked to repeat numbers backwards – and he was at 98% range … so challenge yourself and kids the right way and enjoy it
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantNechomah – gets the prize! Yes, this is Soviet Yiddish where they on purpose spelled words phonetically to disconnect from Yiddish. I just wanted to highlight the point that there are many Yiddishes, this one being somewhat extreme.
Parenthetically, one elderly Jews who just left USSR told me, sadly, that Soviets closed his heder and he only learned how to read Yiddish, and he is sad his whole life that he did not learn Hebrew. I gave him a Humash and, playing a Navi, order him – read. He cried when he read “Bereshis buru” … Like a person who has a treasure under his house, but does not know it. Is he rich?
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantjust as a factual reference: Israeli GDP per person was 100% of OECD during Bibi’s first term – 1996-99. Then, went into a free fall in 2000-2008 to 80%, and started increasing back when Bibi became prime-minister again in 2009 at average rate of 1% per year, now being at 91% of OECD.
Unemployment rate was 9%, 2% over OECD in 2005, reached OECD in 2008, and is by 1.5% better than OECD from 2010 till now (3.8% in 2019).
In 2009, 20% of Israeli and OECD unemployed were “long term”. In 2019, it is 6% in Israel, 26% in OECD. 40% in France. 57% in Italy. 19% in US (after reaching 30% in 2010). So, Israel does not have long-term unemployment. At least according to official stats …
Average wages, though, are lower and again correlate strongly with Bibi’s reign:
increasing from 82 (or 77, a suspicious number in OECD stats) to 86% of OECD from 1996 to 2001, falling to 76% in 2004, up to 78% in 2007, down to 73% in 2010, then almost straight up to 81% in 2019, 1% per year increase.To summarize, Israelis work as Americans and live like Italians.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantcommon, you dont have 100%, you unfortunately have 99 left … you may think it is worth the price, the question is, of course, what Hashem thinks about it.
Of course, it was a very difficult decision for every Rav and teacher to close a shul or a school. Both spiritually and financially. Maybe it was an akeida-type test.
In the other aspect I agree – pandemic caused a lot of re-evaluations – WFH, online schools, relationship with family whom people used to see only for a couple of hours. Every depression does, but this one was unusual and abrupt. Many re-evaluations are to the good. So, it is possible that some people figured out that they were not getting much from a shul. Hopefully, this will be a signal for shuls to work on their spiritual value. It would have been worse if things would continue downhill without everyone noticing – until it is too late. Still, it is early to conclude whether people stopped going to shul or switched to shtibles. Currently, a lot of MO members WFH and many continue being careful, so it is not surprising they are not in shuls. Maybe membership payments will show soon (could it be the reason for some to be vocal now?!).
>> Who are we to judge what is a good reason or a bad reason
Rav’s point was conditional to someone’s judgment on being careful, on which he did not opine: if you are not careful and go to other places, then you should be in shul. This makes sense and is also a very humble psak: he is decomposing the problem into public health and shul, and judges only the second one where he is a baki. In this way, we are both right – if people in your shul are not careful in other places, then they got to be in shul. So, everyone is consistent.
June 14, 2021 10:16 pm at 10:16 pm in reply to: Women Entering the Workforce and the Calamitous Declining Fertility Rate Effect #1983160Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipant>> So our productivity and ability to connect is through the roof, but it also has created a generation of very mentally stressed out people.
this is indeed true. So, we now have a potential, so it is silly to complaint to Hashem that there is no water in the desert – just open waze and see directions to the store. If we can’t reach that potential, it is our problem. Maybe, when we daven, we need to focus more on “honen hadaas” to be able to use what we have than on asking for parnasa and other things directly.
a technical note on software: my father O”H, a chemical engineer, said that it will take time for computer tech to become easy to use – it took chemists several centuries to figure out most convenient vessels for each type of chemicals. So, wait a little (or help make it better). But software does illustrate what is happening with society in general: for now, most are using extra resources not always to do more, but to do it cheaper or to extract more money from customers.
Many tools take 1000x time more spaces than they did 20 years ago and do basic functions worse.June 14, 2021 10:15 pm at 10:15 pm in reply to: Women Entering the Workforce and the Calamitous Declining Fertility Rate Effect #1983144Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantAvram: The rav wanted to ensure that the kid davened mincha.. May I ask how the shaila was worded?
Father worded the shaila as a binary choice: should the kid play soccer or go with the father to shul. Father did not see any other option except “the rioht way”.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantakuperma, I am not sure whether current coalition agreement would allow Bennett to change his coalition unilaterally without Lapid’s agreement. Anyone read thru the fine print.
but we know one bet: it is reported that Bibi is staying in his residency for a couple of weeks. Probably, this is how long he thinks the coalition will last, and does not want to bother going back and forth!
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantPerusing what people think of Rambam, there are complimentary (or more particular) arguments to my previous statement that he is a consistent rationalist:
1) he is summarizing Gemorah without necessarily trying to reconcile it with specific local customs, as some later ones do.
2) he is focused on what he thinks is the most logical conclusion, rather than resorting to voting. Voting would give you a statistically better result, but with less internal logical consistency.This just supports further my thesis that learning Rambam helps learning a method. You can probably learn from him how to stay on topic and summarize information in easily accessible way (I did not succeed here, maybe I should take on Rambam yomi …).
I would add that comparing with the middle ages, humanity – through trials and a lot of errors – made a lot of progress in developing rational approach, so Rambam helps us guide in how to use rational method. For example, if we look at halakhot of health and learning, we can easily expand and develop newer ways using Rabmam’s ideas.
Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantIYK > So please tell me, how was I to learn the necessary life skills to control my own emotions?
R Pliskin gives the following suggestion to exactly this question askeb by someone whose parents did not show a good example.
He asks back – did you ever see good behavior that you could emulate?
– Yes, but only several days year, when visiting someone, and the rest of the time – only bad
– If you play good examples in your head many times [rather than bad ones AAQ] , it would be equivalent to seeing it many times, and it will help you train yourselfAlways_Ask_QuestionsParticipantphilosopher, >> A newspaper named Der Emes would be spelled in Yiddish דער אמת
FOUR mistakes in the word “emes” from the actual paper … Should shock you into how much we know of language and, in this case, history …
>> was surprised that they did not mention the third reason, loshen, that they spoke their own language was the third reason Hashem took the Jews out of Egypt
this is a good point, sad when Torah is presented in a convenient way to conform with the hashkafah .. also, note that Yiddish obviously originated as a mixture of Hebrew and the local German language. If Jews in Mitzrayim spoke something like a mixture of Hebrew and Mitzri, not sure the Midrash would say that they spoke their own language. Possibly true, that at some point Jewish groups adopted old-style levush and loshon to resist modernity, but not to say that either of them originated as distinct.
In regards to the midrash, possibly a case can be made that these are last-resort measures that were necessarily in the presence of slavery and the absence of any other ways to unite between Jews and separate from Mitzrim. One would think that Torah might be a sufficient way to separate.
By this logic, those who learn may not need levush, those who do not – do.Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantADHD, do not try to be like the others. It will depress you … One possible explanation of ADHD is that neural signals fire at multiple places instead of one. That non-ADHD people will be happy doing an assigned task, whether it makes sense or not, an ADHD person will insist on doing something more interesting. There are (unfortunately?) enough people who will do dull routine activities, memories pages by heart. You don’t have to do the same. Contribute what your personality gives. As mentioned above, find what is stimulating in learning, family, just direct it towards the good things. Say, instead of video games, play something more educational or good for their brain, play with alefbeis, chess, bring challenging questions, not sure how old your kids are. You don’t have to do “kamatz-alef” with them, just do what is exciting to you and kids.
In your learning, take a topic that connects multiple issues together and try to resolve them, instead of going systematically through all items. Look at books by Edward Hallowell, I think latest is ADHD 2.0, I found his approach very reasonable.Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantphilosopher, thanks for the reference. SSeems like this gefilte fish line is really a recent innovation started in Poland due to growth of beet sugar industry .. How could people insisting on “ein hadash” and wearing 18th century hats agree to change _the_ gefilte fish is not clear to me!
As to Yiddish, there was a newspaper “Der Emes”. How would you spell it?
June 13, 2021 9:27 pm at 9:27 pm in reply to: Women Entering the Workforce and the Calamitous Declining Fertility Rate Effect #1982638Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantIYK, I am not sure why you think a professional job does not pay expenses for a family. In my experience it did, And you do not have to be a slave. Get some experience or an experience partner/advisor and start your own business. I did.
I understand that we all can find reasons to complain and worry about future –
but note that each of us is richer than the King of England two hundreds years ago in terms of ability to travel, communicate remotely, access information, even eat exotic food from far away locations. We all have millions of slaves, literal who pack the food for us, and golems that keep lights and heat on. when you do work, you have computers, internet, Amazon Marketplace all designed to make you ore efficient. We are even for now far away from tyrannical regimes of the past – Crusaders, Tzars, Nazis, Commies. If this generation complains …Always_Ask_QuestionsParticipantGadol > Likud and the religious parties had years to rid the country of Netanyahu
I am sure you can list reasons to not like bib or his policies, but to suggest that all parties, including those n the coalition, should have a goal of get rid of a prime-minister with so many successes sounds absurd.
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