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would 2 out of 3 suffiuce?

You don’t need a posek involved. Simply train AI using his teshuvos and test on other ones so you know the quality.

There is a letter from Rambam to a Yemenite ger who asked whether he can recite that Avraham is his father, as he is not. Rambam says – you yourself are at Avraham’s level, so “yes you can” (way before O-, so Rambam has the copyright). Similar sentiment applies to BTs.

> “but the sheer hypocrisy of chanting “Lock her up! Lock her up!” then doing nearly the exact same thing.“

There is a subtle difference here. Multiple media outlets bombard us daily with accusations of T. Most of them do not say
similar things about Democratic players until they fall of the cliff in a debate. After that, they attacked the fallen lion like lowly hyenas.

So, T has to make those accusations himself in order for them to be heard. I blame Republican leaders for not creating enough media presence …

Governor Romney tried to be nice and was accused of all kind of crimes – and that is why he became “Senator Romney”, not “President Romney”. Majority of Republicans accepted that they need a Yiftach-type fighter, even with imperfect middos.

Gadol, thanx 4 scaring me, I was just on the way to NYC … Should I return my ticket? I still think I’ll breath better than those 44,000 musketeers. The rest 76,956,000 are the innocent victims of propaganda, tinokos sheb nishba.

A religious owner?! B’H!

Who is the current posek in Israel who gets shailohs about how one can price a service when competition is weak and demand is high? Especially during the war? What did the posek answer? Is the answer posted on El Al website or reported in quarterly earnings reports?

Gadol, all democrats are in Chicago this week, I heard, so can I enjoy the rest of the USA?

coffee, thanks

The story goes that when young R Kamenetsky lit a cigarette in doctor’s office, the latter informed him that recent medical thought is that it is dangerous for lungs. Rav suggested the shomer pesaim defense. Then the doctor mentioned that it also dangerous for memory. Rav replied: I can not afford forgetting the Torah I learned, extinguished the cigarette and never smoke again.

We can have a CR zabla beis din – take one leftwing and one rightwing poster and let them choose the third and they can vote on whether a post qualifies as LH.

Anyone who really cares about the election should move to PA and register to vote. Nothing new here. I was reading about elections in Latvia in 1920s-30s, and there were trains of Jewish voters from several parties going from one district to another to maximize their chances against each other. I am not sure that was legal though.

Very astute. You are channeling a philosopher Karl Popper who defines a “theory” as something that can be conceivably proven to be false under some circumstances. That is, gravitation theory predicts where planets are supposed to be in the future – if they are not, either the theory is wrong or there is another planet to be discovered.

Well, bringing your _own_ beach chair is better than sitting on a milk crate that has written “do not take outside of the store” across it.

Interesting, R Yochanan seems to be assigning blame for BHM2 destruction twice – once to Bar Kamtza (it is not clear to me whether it is him continuing this sentence from before or stam Gemorah) and then to Rabbi Zekharya ben Avkolas who was too humble to let his chaverim speak.

Why two possible explanations? Both are allegories to certain behaviors in that generation, and it seems to me that both are actually the same – Rabbi Zekharya ben Avkolas shows similar attitude to Kamtza story: people talk past each other and are not able to hear other opinions.

qwerty > These are Russian Jews who didn’t know Aleph Bes ten years ago. The Rabbis never mention Hashem.

Right. I went also to some yeshivish and modernish shuls with tremendous amount of torah flowing like an ocean – to interview these proverbial Russian Jews who didn’t know Aleph Bes ten years ago. I could not talk to them, though, as they left ten years ago after hanging around for a couple of days and getting no contact… they left together with their children and einekels. Whether they left for Chabad or for baseball field, I do not know.

To paraphrase B Shammai/Hillel discussion about being born – was it better for them to end up in Chabad or lost forever. Probably, at Chabad, but they should review their deeds … I hope that not all of them ended up with Meshichistim, so at least some benefited. So, the blame that you mention should be balanced by benefits.

Moshe > I do question whether Oct 7 events qualifiy but as I heard on one program, all bad events that occur to klal Yisroel stem from the destruction of the Batei Mikdash,

This is separate from the music. I heard it from multiple Rabbis that all tragic events are included, especially for a specific community. I am not sure it has to be necessarily linked as “stem from”, although it might be. Commemoration is a straight-forward issue not requiring theological justifications, I think.
I am a little surprised that when you were listening about Oct 7 events, your thoughts go to “do they qualify”

you-all should stop reading headlines and look at the data.

As an example of misleading headline: McCarthy tells T to stop talking about crowd size ^. Actual quote – stop talking about crowd size, and focus on her vulnerabilities – no platform, etc. If the actual quote would be in headlines 24-7, you would stop thinking the way you do,

Actual data from a reliable survey: 15% of voters are undecided, and 2/3 of them are open to T’s arguments with 1/3 – to K. Do the math.

Also, she is popular because people think that she has their position. She is trying to make both Jews and pro-Israel voters and pro-Palis happy at the same time, It ain’t working.

Lostspark, learning to earning a living is more problematic than possible A’Z?

qwerty > So according to you when there’s a pressing need one is allowed to change the Torah.

this is not what I said. Maybe you need to explain what Gemorah contradictions you mean. And I would presume R Feinstein and people of his stature would have pointed it out. What I do mean is that often new circumstances require different actions. Gemora itself brings enough examples – such as writing down Torah ShebAlpe, changing how to organize schools based on whether the approach worked out, etc. I imagine every time someone suggested to change how school worked, someone else said – this is against what chachamim said. L Rebbe definitely cared about Am Yisroel and tried to do something about it. Was he always right and were there negative side effects? This is a separate question that may take some time to answer.

well, bar kamtza obviously was for cooperation with Romans, as this is where he went. But I never heard of tzduki connection. Anyone sees it in Maharsha? Should be in either Gittin or Yoma gemoras, I presume

qwerty > Yes the Rebbe was a gaon in Torah, but he rejected open Gemaras that didn’t jibe with his agenda.

L Rebbe tried to address important issues of his generation, some of these new issues that did not exist before and with innovations that did not exist before. It is always easy to criticize those who try to do something. Those who disregarded Jews who were assimilating; Israelis; Russians behind Iron Curtain did not do controversial things, so nothing to criticize for.

fandango, Rav Twersky writes that educated and smart alcoholics (or any addicts) are the worse to treat – they can always twist the facts to explain themselves away: I can quit any time, so I am not an addict, so I do not have to quit. Thanks for providing an illustration.

skripka > Trump keeps taking the Dems bait and gets triggered the way he has

It may not be that simple. T made a number of “questionable” and risky statements – and a number of them worked out well. Starting from his in-his-face attack on Jeb Bush during a debate that demolished Jeb! and made T the lead candidate; his seemingly offhand “what do you have to lose” to Black voters that is now acknowledged that he is picking up some Black and Latino votes. Note that Kamala tried a similar approach with her wild accusation against Biden for throwing her under the bus – and despite the plunge in popularity and hate from Jill – that made her VP and the candidate. Who laughs last … with an apology to her laugh

sechel > it is very important to know that the Agudas Harabbonim, of which Rav Moshe was President in his later years, had a Lubavitcher secretary, by the name of Avrohom Shmuel Lewin,

Maybe I was not clear – this Rav called _Lubavitcher Rebbe_ secretariate when _Lubavitcher Rebbe_ was incapacitated, and they responded that they do not support people running around calling Rebbe maschiach and ask that Rav to publicize this message, and that is what he did.

I hear you, I also would not join kids for a job interview, but have no problem calling someone to arrange it! Also, nobody ever came with a parent to the interview, even the one whose parent was my colleague. Maybe engineers are more mature than lawyers.

Still, we supervise more aspects of our kids than our parents ever did – and our parents do not object. I once asked my mother why she did not suggest me to do what I am now suggesting to a kid (and she agreed with the idea) – and she said “we simply did not think about it”.