Always_Ask_Questions

Rbzs, you are the lucky one. Most of is here not just dissecting, but butchering sentences daily

Were previous ggeneration continuously arguing who is or is not Moshe of that generation? Any Rashis about his generation? Well, maybe those generations were not as connected as ours, so if MoMoshe was Teimani, Rashi may not have known him .
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Maybe Rambam eventually was called equal to Moshe, but I do not recall him hinting to that in his writings.

Many people discuss lofty passages from Zohar or Tanya, but how do we know they know what they are talking about?
Maybe demonstrate your abilities by publishing a sefer of chidushim in nigle, or invent something, or at Least publish a paper explaining problems in einsteinian physics. If you didn’t do any of these yet, how can I trust your opinion on the important issues thrown around in this thread

Financial literacy is indeed important, but is hardly achievable without basic English and math 🧮 skills. And a job that provides finances to manage.
My suggestion would be to first test a kid or adult for their level using assessment sites, such as IXL, and possibly remedy using khan academy

Every art was modern at some point. It didn’t change since.

Some goal posts:
Teachers I know charge the amount that will fit parents budget so that the kid will learn.
You might also consider paying more than going rate from your tzedoka money.
3-5 times more per hour than reasonable yeshiva
tuition divided by number of hours

Avira, my kids are not at yu at all, so they are not seeing goyim there, my information is second hand. In this case, just responding to theoretical ideas.

As to that, a couple of my kids took online religion class from a goyishe college, with my running 🏃‍♂️ commentary and, I think, benefited from that. I have a psak for this before I am told that this is worse than having a TV 📺.

Will these guys assault some yu kids? I presume someone is monitoring the situation, and that’s why it is a pilot

I think both sides are losing the debate here. Just by making such issues the focus of your relationship to Hashem or by trying to bring up every little idiocy your slightly meshugene neighbor have done in his life. Can we all just get along?

So conclusion on the TV seems to be that it may be OK for some. I would just quibble with the rationale: it is not like matiring drugs to an addict, but simply acknowledging that a mature person who watched it for 60 years and maybe even knows how to extract information from it l, can continue watching it. Same in this generation, an yid who works in politics or stock market may get a eter to watch Bloomberg terminal and wsj …

I think some gemoras put down Aramaic as an impure mixture v pure languages like Greek. Maybe in discussion on what language are kosher for megilah reading

Concerns about evangelical love are justified, and historically many Philo semites turned into anti when we didn’t play along, from Hadrian to Luther.. still it is way more comfortable to complain from your current position than from catholic Spain or from soviet Russia. We need to acknowledge the positives while staying vigilant.

Lots of interesting opinions but underlying facts are still unclear.
Could someone find a syllabus for these classes at least? Fluffy articles about the program may just be writer’s opinions

I believe that women follow their mother’s minhag in women specific mitzvos such as candles 🕯. But overall an kind of difference is a potential source of irritation, so it may be a good idea to be more accepting, doing it during shiduchim may be too late if a person was taught at school that chasidim sleep late and working boys don’t learn …

Moses Mendessohn lead first response to an extraordinary challenge of the modern world. I don’t think we had similar challenges from the time of Rome and beginning of Xianity. A typical view is that Moses lead jews into reform and conversion…but do we really think that his German Bible made all Yiddish speakers proficient in high German? Jews assimilated in other countries too. Maybe we can admit that he was looking for a right response, whatever the results are. And from current hindsight, unfair of course, the rest of the community didn’t respond either. Even later, when Chofetz Chaim in 1920s laments about polish jews assimilation, he is not proposing a lot of solutions… for one obvious example, Sara S proposed BY school, not any of the leaders… those were extraordinary challenges and many people tried to address them in a different ways, and no reason to denigrate those who earnestly tried

There is nothing modern in modern… Avraham Avinu dealt with people and norms of his time, Moshe Rabeinu went to Pharoah,
Tannaim addressed Greek influences, Ramban disputed apikoirosim of his time… As r Soloveitchik wrote, quoting from memory, we are not going to fulfill our mission in the world by hiding in caves. We can have legitimate debate on specific positions, and many issues are complicated, but a tradition of being modern is pretty old.

sechel, yes – generally things written by Moshe Rabbeinu are accepted.

And this Litvishe approach is well documented, starting w/ Mishna that meticulously documents multiple opinions. Somehow tannaim and amoraim did not follow one rebbe.

And as if “chasidishe” velt has such a sefer. Each of the groups have their own Rebbe.

common,
(1) sounds like your answer is “no”, please explain why
(2) I do not understand what is the taava of motzi shem ra about an anonymous opponent? during our discussions, I quoted a number of responses to my shailos.

ujm, and on a positive side, you are engaged in a bunch of mitzvos while employing your plumber – chesed, tzedoka, kavod/love of talmidei chachamim. I hope you pay extra, but not so much that he notices that this is tzedoka. Maybe throw napkins into the bowl on purpose to increase his income.

Avira > This was before the internet; information traveled slowly.

This is questionable. You are suggesting that gedolim were making judgments about major current movements lead by other gedolim without investigating the matter properly? We had a question whether one should trust a gadol in stock picking, but surely evaluating hashkofos _is_ what a Rav is a boke in!

Simcha > But so many aspects of our life are not directly and explicitly dictated by halacha

There is a difference between halochos towards Hashem and towards a person (havero or oneself). In the latter case, you still have a halakha, but it may depend on the personalities of people involved. What is an appropriate challenge for one person, might ruin another. So, if you are asking for an advice, you should preferably ask someone who knows people involved or provide such information.

I once witnessed an earnest BT asking a chabad shaliach a shaila – where to go to grad school for a CS degree. His choices were agonizingly difficult – Ivy League or MIT. I was very interested how the Rav will handle that .. He did pretty well. He walked the guy through possible considerations and suggested making a list of pros and contras and then look at it. I heard this guy ended up being successful both in Torah and parnosa.

We do have sources though for going into business with a talmid chacham. Then, you do the hard part and you also benefit from the talmid chacham’s advice!

Just be careful how you run the business. In Gittin in the discussion of darchei sholom that someone comes to Abaye and asks him to teach him, Abaye has no time because he learns during the day and works his field at night, so the student suggests that he works the field – and he does it by telling people at the bottom of the river that halakha is that top goes first to fill in cisterns, and to the people at the top that bottom goes first, and proceeds to fill in Abaye’s cisterns in the middle.
Abaye did not teat his fruit that year and, I presume, did not teach the student either.

Avraham was indeed “Ivri”, Hebrew. Mordechai seems to be the first person to be called “Yehudi” and yamini at the same time, that is yehudi being used as a “Jew”, not as a tribe. Are there earlier references during 1st BM?

huju > “Jew” has been pejorative among gentiles since we left HarSinai.

it is somewhat cultural. For example, Zhid (Yid) in Polish and Lithuanian is not pejorative per se (although some might use it), but it is in Russian.