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Learn choshen mishpat if you plan to do business with yidden.
Was in williamsburg last night, street was teeming with people. someone should quickly tell the neighborhood poskim that females of all ages were walking outside on bedford avenue. tell them quickly, so they can hang the kol korehs before shabbos.
with trolls, the din is syag lachochma shtika.
at least with a female, you know you wont be manhandled.
“As far as I know I was and still am the youngest user in the CR.”
Wow, you must be very young. I’m 3 months shy of my 4th birthday. How young are you?
Rashi on the daf, menachos (29b) is clear that the rasha has a choice, and is free to “leave”, it isnt open so that people should fall out. Why are you discouraged that you have a choice? I find that rather encouraging.
“Hashem’s “thoughts” as he created this world were about gehenom”
Actually, it was about teshuva. Rashi clearly states, several times, Hashem mixed in the attribute of rachamim into the creation. Hashem is not out to get you.
” Does that sound like a benevolent world rather than a harsh world?”
Neither.
“Is that not discouraging?”
Taken out of context, it surely is.
Why not ask Rav Veiner or Rav Weiss.
The mahrsha suggests that the woed “muatin” doesnt refer to quantity, rather it refers to “makubg thenselves small” (humble) in which case nothing discouraging at all about Rashi or the gemara its based on (although Mahrsha agrees the simple meaning is “few”.
The peh (final) and samech are the letters that were miraculously “suspended” in luchos.
Clearly, bitterness, cynicism and jealousy are not only for the rich.
Why are you discouraged. Kul Yisroel Yesh Lahem chelek Liolam Habah.
Instead of being discouraged, you should endeavor to understand exactly what the gemara in Menachos that is alluded to means.
Perhaps people are beginning to realize the real word is so much more exciting, and way more meaningful a place than cyberspace.
” What issue do you guys have with just admitting that only MO people hold of the eruv?”
Because it is patently false.
Unless large groups of chassidim are suddenly classified as MO that is.
“Manhattans population has not grown 10 fold, I n fact its gotten smaller”
Is permanent population the determining factor, or how many people traverse through an area the determining factor?
The Nitei Gavriel in perek beis, halacha tes (hilchos chanuka) brings down a psak regarding an almana who is supported from nicsei yesomim, that the yesomim must provide her with funds for neiros chanuka and enough for her to light according to the mehadrin opinion if she chooses. His sources are brought down.
Why do some people bother.
Rav menashe klein zl, among others permitted the eruv 50 years ago. If you dpnt wiah to rely on his psak, dont.
Is halacha determined by who is greater? If it is, then why dont we determine who was greater, the mechaber or rma, and we would have a unified psak amongst all klal yisroel. In fact, shas would be way shorter if that the criteria for determining halacha.
Lastly, rav moshe zl acknowledged that competent poskim disagreed with him.
What about the cost of travel from the west to east coast? How many people are traveling? Where are they slerping, eating? That might offset some of your savings.
I know, lets bicker, name call, make up things rav moshe said, or didnt say, make up things those who argued with him did or didnt say and not rely on ones own rav for halachic guidance, and certaily dont fargin someone else to do the same.
Rav Dovid Feinstein is B’H alive and well. Why doesnt someone ask him if over the last 40 years anything has changed that would change the psak his father gave.
The OP would probably be ecstatic to learn that 132 high end Mercedes Benz cars were destroyed in an arson fire in Brooklyn, yesterday.
how did this get ressurrected?
me
Incredible. To kvetch about the perhaps 1000 “heimishe” who buy cars manufactured by german corporations assembled in us , made of parts manufactured all over the world and then rant about their lack of middos, THIS bothers the op. Thats thousands and thousands of jews over the years employed, or continue to employee people from countries soaked in yiddishe blood as cleaning help, office help or in other ways bring them into their home, not a sound. That it has become an “it thing” for tens of thousands of hidden to go every year for 2 weeks and pump who known how many hundreds of thousands (millions) of dollars into the Yiddishe blood soaked Ukrainian hands, not a peep.
Sounds like someone is jealous of the Mercedes and BMW car owners. How childish
I’m still waiting for “Pizza is not a yiddish meichel you deserve to get sick eating fascist food” comment that is par for the course in the CR.
I’m more concerned with the roll of tape from the hashgacha that the non jewish workers seem to be in control of. In one local pizza shop, the roll sits a foot from the door, and anyone could simply walk off with it.
The operative word in the subject is frolicking. Unless you plan to plead insanity, discoesque atmosphere is not appropriate for selichos.
“People simply don’t have the patience nowadays to say the whole thing.”
Actually, people have a desire to know what they are reading and saying to add meaning to their time in shul. Its why people opt to attend a minyan that says perhaps 20 kinnos, with someone explaining the kinna, including who wrote, it, in what conext, what midrashim it references to make saying it meaningful.
those who have no patience, should just stay home and “daven it up” there.
“So the only innovation, if it is one, is the use of instruments,”
Yeah, thats the ONLY issue here.
teshuva me-ahava?!! thats one of the funniest descriptions i have ever heard for these selichos concerts.
@singlemom. i dont know you, i dont know your child(ren), the school they go to, the teachers or the administration. in the school my kids attend, every teacher/rebbe, every year has called in advance of the school year, or reached out at the beginning of the year orientation to ask about any “situations” he/she should be aware of as it pertains to our child. we dont wait for that call, we preempt it by calling first and describing anything that we feel the teacher should know. does the teacher know, for example, that you may not always be available to assist with homework and your child either needs extra time, or to be excused from some percentage of it? the teacher might know your child is from a divorced home, but chooses not to discuss it with you, because you didnt discuss it with her (if it isnt important, or an issue to you, why should the teacher make it into one – and be accused of stereotyping kids from divorced home in the process). im not saying you are wrong, they are right, or any permutation of these options, all im saying is, have you ever considered where the other side is coming from? more importantly, have you ever addressed your concerns with the other side of the coin?
“Teachers and administrators do see who is the child of divorce, who is a scholarship or free lunch student,”
I dont know why this has to be the case. In my sons yeshiva, the academic office does not have access to the business office information and vice versa. the principal and teachers have no idea who is on a full scholarship, or who pays full tuition. I think the situation as you describe it, is a problem and it should be rectified.
Still waiting for examples. Since I send my kids to only 1 yeshiva and one beis yackov in all of brooklyn, I cant speak for “all yeshivos”, but, I will say this. the OP would be very happy in the schools my kids attend.
It can. Doesn’t mean I’m right . My point was, If one has a valid point to make, don’t taint it with inaccurate citations.
I dont know. I dont look downward.
“The Seforim say that a man should look at the ground whenever he is walking in public.”
Actually the seforim would never advocate doing something stupid. (then again, “the seforim” could mean anything found on the shelf of a judaica shop published by anyone who has the means to do so). walking while looking at the ground is like walking with a blindfold. what the seforim advocate is looking downward and not all around you to limit your line of site.
why doesnt he daven and be inspired by the 60,000 near the kever?
“callousness is a disease of the soul”
so is a self centered view of the word. when one understands the inherent dangers on standing on the side of a road trying to hitch a ride, or, the inherent dangers to other cars on the road, when one suddenly stops, or only partially pulls off the road poses to others, at the very least, wouldnt so enthusiasticly support hitching. At the very least, promote the inherent dangers involved and the precautions necessary both for those looking for a ride, and those who wish to offer the ride.
“hitching doesn’t. ”
It can, and has.
“When was the last time a bochur hitching in lakewood had got hurt or kidnapped?”
Typical, looking at it from the side of the hitcher, only. There is another component, cars on the road.
Unless all involved are made aware of the potential danger to themselves and everyone else who shares the road with them, hitching is a stupid thing to do. If the yeshivos insist the bachurim get out at 10:30 at night, and parents agree to send their kids to such a yeshiva, by all means figure out how to get them home.
Walking at night, on a dark road, wearing dark clothing, it stupid. Standing at or near the passing traffic looking for a hitch, is even dumber. You can get hit. Drivers might not see you until it is too late. They may have to swerve, or stop short and endanger other pedestrians or cars. The driver may stop suddenly to pick someone up. May not pull completely off the road, and pose a danger to those who might get into the car on the street side, or to other passing drivers who may not see the open door or those passengers.
I witnessed many near misses many times over the past summer on route 42 in Fallsburg. All scenarios mentioned above, I saw myself, more than once, in fact several dozen times. Until all involved understand the inherent dangers of hitching, I wouldnt advocate it. It is not a question of IF, it is a matter of WHEN someone gets seriously hurt.
Is he going back this year?
It is the responsibility of the parents and yeshivos (in that order) to get the bachurim home at night.
Before advocating hitching as a valid mode of transportation, please be sure to educate everyone involved how to do so in a manner that ensures their safety as well as those on the road which includes those who would stop and pick them up, and drop them off, as well as the other vehicles on the road.
Robin Hood also thought he was doing a chessed.
Kefira? I’ll settle on silliness.
Woodstock festival drew way more people, the music was probably a lot better and the amenities were more along the lines of “roughing it” than the accomodations in uman.
Be that as it may, the OP did not ask if he should go because he anticipates a sublime spiritual experience. He asked is he should go for the hock.
“it certainly looks more appealing and lively than other places”
So do many nightclubs. doesnt mean you should go.
Who wants to be busy with “hock” on the yom had in.
Ctlawyer. In your profession, how would a judge feel if a defendant in his courtroom was preoccupied with “hock”.