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Where does this leave someone who uses a black toothbrush but relies on the heter to brush during the 3 weeks and sefira?
What about those who soak their dentures instead of brushing? Does it depend on the brand of cleanser used for soaking?
If this Rav had something to say to the klal, do you think he would say it in such a manner?
Do you think moshiach has a twitter account or a facebook page and he will simply tweet or post his arrival to all those who friend him?
“no gadol assured wearing shorts to kol nidrei.”
I’m not a posek, but a gadol by the name of the Chofets Chaim speaks about wearing shorts during tefilla. See siman tsadi aleph sif kattan heh (and the relevent comments of the mishna berurah). Like the other items discussed in the sif, it depends on the minhag hamakom and what is done when standing in front of “anashim chashuvim”. It may be permitted, it may be prohibited. Draw your own conclusions based on the place you find yourself when it is time to recite Kol Nidre,.
Is it tznius to use such big words?
Is isnt tznius to correct other people.
“but wearing sunglasses does draw attention to oneself.”
So does coughing and sneezing publicly. So does a person with Downs Syndrome or any physical deformity or handicap. Are very short or very obese people allowed outside? (this is a rhetorical question).
“I know that my family has had people (more than one) not trust our Kashrus before because my father doesn’t wear a hat.”
I wasnt accepted into a mesivta because my father was wearing a straw hat (this was in 1983). (this was confirmed when we asked an uncle of mine who had three sons in the yeshiva to ask….he asked why his neighbors son wasnt accepted into the yeshiva and they told him that they were able to tell by the fathers hat that we werent their kind of people – they officially told us that they didnt have enough beds in the dorm!).
As for the hat, some regiments in the army of hashem include a black felt fedora as part of their uniform, while others do not. Within these regiments, the styles vary by unit. Some units have pinches in their hat, some dont, others choose the wide brimmed style, while others the small, some go brim down and some brim up, some perched way back on their head and others pulled down over their eyes in the front.
You should act the same way. If he is sitting at the table waiting for the next course to magically appear in front of him, open up a good book and start reading, eventually he will have to communicate. You have not indicated that he is such a boor that he would be absorbed in his own world, only to join the conversation long enough to say, wheres the food. If it bothers him that when he wants to communicate others are engrossed in their own things, he might figure out all by himself that he is engaged in the same type of rude behavior.
I dont know what type of sense of humor your son in law has, or your relationship with him, but why not try the humorous approach? Why not call his phone, or send him a text asking him if he is ready for the next course, or what he might want for the next course. If he is connected to your facebook or twitter account, perhaps tweet the news that the next course is ready to be served. He might get the hint, or he might ask why you did it which gives you the opening you want to explain how his behavior is rude and boorish.
“Maybe she’s the more modern type.”
If there was a contest for most foolish post of the year, this gets my nomination.
If I was in shidduchim, I would be nervous. People are already accusing some faceless, anonymous blogger of being mechalel shabbos and it isn’t for the purposes of shidduchim. Who knows what gets said about you, behind your back, the accusations and innuendo, when it comes to shidduchim. Maybe it is taking a long time because theyare trying to sort fact from fiction. On meeting the other person, be yourself. You don’t want to “act” any other way. It might be awakward at first, you grew up being separated from the opposite gender and are suddenly thrust into a situation where you are being asked to spend some time (an evening?) alone conversing with this person.
At the end of the day, you have to do what is best for you.
Chewing on the box will almost certainly cause heads to turn.
Seems to me like some people are confusing “chumra” with “syag”.
Shermans in S. Fallsburg is now the home of a wonderful family.
Rocks are hard. Communicating, can be hard. If english is your spouses first language, you will have a hard time communicating. That will make daily life, hard. Ken you kigel cooken kitchen? I’m practicing the kegels, I can’t look in the kitchen. See what I mean?
Why not ask the OU what type of hechsher they give on Oreo cookies?
I agree 100%. From now on Rabbonim must insist that all camps be co-ed. Way to many problems with these same gender camps.
Good questions all. Is why the mishna in avos says “asay licha rav”.
Given a choice, I’d rather share the sidewalk with a female who chewed gum than a male who smoked.
How many yidden make money from say, a bottle of heimishe ketchup? The non jewish factory owner that made the ketchup? His non jewish workers The non jewish shipping company that delivers it to the heimishe area for distribution? The non jews who deliver it to the stores? The non jews who stock the shelves of the heimishe store? The only yidden in the equation making money are the rav hamachshir, the marketing/distribution company selling to the store and the heimishe store owner. Nu, the same 3 are also involved in selling Heinz or Hunts.
Re: Satmar English curriculum. Read the book “Teacha (stories from a yeshiva)” by Gerry Albarelli.
It recounts the years Mr. Albarelli spent teaching English at the Satmar cheder in Williamsburg during the early 80s.
You can check the book out of the Brooklyn Public Library.
The shor should learn to be shomer negiah.
Are they chewing gum, or their cud?
I walk the same Ave J, Ave M, 13th Ave, 16th Ave like many posters here. How is it that I don’t notice these things and everyone else does?
The punctuation in this title leads had me a little confused at first.
“Teenage girls and older chewing gum on the street” . I was confused what someone might mean by older chewing gum on the street, especially as it related to teenaged girls.
My point about the churban was not related to the NT. My point was, we say in kinnos that all our troubles in golus, all find their roots in the churban. This theme is found in a number of kinnos, and is why (at least one of the reasons why) we say kinnos about tragedies that occurred throughout the golus on tisha bav.
This fellow and the trouble he stirred up for us is rooted in the fact that there is a churban.
You might want to read A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson. Christian Anti Torah Judaism (wont call it anti semitism, because many of these gospel writers were themselves jewish) was found among the early gospel writers, including john, matthew and luke.
The romans were fanatically hostile to the jews before the emperor converted the empire to christianity,(remember the churban? beitar? massada?) the hatred merely took on a new flavor once christianity was adopted.
I don’t know what most guys do or did. When we learned kiddushin, my chavrusa and I did 4 blatt a week in the last 2 perakim. At any rate, at 2 blatt a week one will cover substantially more that 20 blatt a year. To the OP, I still think he should look into CC. He will learn how to learn 2 blatt a week.
What does it mean “doing shabbos”?
Mexipal. 2 blatt a week in eizehu neshech, sure. Depending on the massechta, perek and sugyos, 4 blatt a week is also very doable, even “1st time 2nd time”. Of course, the ones doing the learning are also taken into account. There are those who will always be a little better and those a little worse.
This is not the time or place, but whoever authored the book you recently read likely took his cue from the pages of the christian bible (they call it the new testament). Their bible refers to jews in flattering terms such “children of the devil” a “synagogue of satan” and it ascribes to the jews blame for the death of their savior. Ever wonder where the term good samaritan comes from? A not so flattering story about a pharisee found in the nt. Whatever the authors inspiration, quite a number of anti semites never even read the book, or even heard of it.
We said in the kinnos last week that all our troubles are rooted in the churban.
What daf in megilla is this statement found?
In CC, you will learn how to learn 75 blatt in a zman. That is what bekius seder is for. You think they just “daven up” daf after daf to cover ground? Look into it.
I just started reading this thread and scrolled through all messages until I finally saw it. Did the OP in all his research look into “Choftez Chaim” or any of its branches? Despite all the jokes about getting out of the box, the answers to why one lion is smiling and one not, in bekius seder they cover quite a lot of ground. In my 1st year in the beis medrash when the yeshiva was learning Baba Basra, the “quota” for my chavrusa and I was 1 blatt a week when we started in Elul and was was up to 2 blatt a week by the time the zman finished end of tammuz. 3 years later we were up to 4 blatt a week. The “quota” as we called it was based on the level of the chavrusas, the perek/daf being learned with input from one of the Rabbeim. Depending on the massechta you could cover 75-100 blatt a year, easily.
There are those who once upon a time were able to afford all those carats set in platinum but now need the SNAP program to feed their kids. I don’t believe the government asks you to hock every last asset prior to becoming eligible for benefits.
Let’s try not to assume the worst about everyone all the time. Yesh din, vyesh dayan. It isn’t you or I.
What daf in megilla?
This paranoia exists in a lot of people. I used to work for a company where at least 50% of the employees spoke Mandarin (Chineese) as their 1st language. It got to the point where HR had to establish an oficial company policy that all speaking in public areas, business or personal, had to be in English. The official reason that accompanied the memo was “we have received numerous concerms from employees, that their fellow employees are speaking negatively about them in a foreigh language”.
I don’t use WIC. I don’t know the rules. I would suggest reading the fine print to find out what the government is really makpid. I don’t know the Rav, but how can he say so unequivically that as long as you buy these staples, that’s all the government cares about. Did he ask? If every 5 years these companies bid a price, then you can be sure the govt. is makpid (as are the winning bidders) that you only take the approved brands. I sold things to the government for almost 10 years, am familiar with the RFP process and under what terms and expectations companies bid and awards made. In the case of OJ, let’s say for example that Tropicana came in with a price of $2 for a container, it is based on assumptions (which is based on govt data) of how many containers will move off the shelves. The more people that take another brand instead doesn’t allow them to charge more. The RFP surely contains language and assurances that the govt will take steps to ensure Tropicana (or whoever is the winning bidder) that those who use WIC will take their brand.
Everything else aside, what ever happened to “hin tzedek”?
Let’s daven real hard for the days when we will have arei miklat (but never a need for them) and return of the sanhedrin. We’ll be able to get a clear cut psak.
I did not mention 3 cases. You did. I mentioned 3 possible verdicts (and then cited the words of the gemara that say the same).
The 3 verdicts are possible as follows.
Chayiv misa. Someone killed with eidim and hasra.
Completly pattur. (This you didn’t mention) I guess, the killing was pure onnes.
One who is chayiv galus. This is one who kills “bishogeg” which is not the same as “ones”.
Again, from this braisa i do not see “if beis din can’t convict they hand him over to family”. If you do, which part of the braisa teaches it.
Thats not what the Braisa says. Not how I understand Rashi. The way I understand the opinion of R’ Yosi (see Rashi) is that all rotzchim go to ir miklat. Beis Din then brings him from there to court. The one who is chayev (misa) is given to the goel hadam and is killed. The one who is pattur is sent home (the drasha on vihitzilu haeda) and one who is chayev galus is sent back. That is a far cry from, someone who cant be convicted in beis din the family has free reign.
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I am looking for the tape, to get the title of the song. Is a song about shabbos. Perhaps if you heard the Andrew Lloyd Weber song from Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat . Search on youtube for close every door to me – donnie osmond (skip donnie osmond and you will get results for many singers who have performed the song – maybe even MBD 🙂
ajewfrommonsey. on what do you base your comment?
Reb Yontel may have written the lyrics, but he definitely didnt write the music to the song I have in mind.
I think you can find the details in an Artscroll siddur. I dont remember specifics, will leave that for someone else.
Would it be proper for me to walk into TOI’s store and when he/she wasn’t looking, take $50 from the cash register? Would it make a difference if TOI would never find out about it? Would it make a difference if I claimed Daas Torah allowed me to take it?
Then along comes Andrew Lloyd Weber and writes a musical about his life. The “joseph song” (search for it on youtube – especially the version sung by donnie osmond) goes on to become a smash, so much so, that MBD borrows the tune for this song for his shabbos song on his album ich hub gevart that came out in the 70 (maybe very early 80s).
Indoor plumbing, you no longer churn your own butter, you embrace and make use of technology such as the horseless carriage and electricity, definitely modern. You live your life according to the shulchan aruch, definitely orthodox. You do both simultaneously, you are a modern orthodox jew.
They certainly guarantee the right to speeelling and grandmer eras.
My mistake. It is page 34 of the book, (page 51 of the PDF document available from the site seforimonline.org).
The exact quote from the book which is an english translation of the original is.
“Thence it is 2 days to El-Anbar which is Pumbedisa in Neharda. Here reside 3000 Jews and amongst them are learned men, at their head being the chief Rabbi, R’ Chen….”
The way I understand it, Pumbedisa is a city in Neharda (perhaps Neharda is a larger district made up of several cities?). It goes on to describe that the kevorim of Shmuel and R’ Yehuda are there as are the “synagogues which they built in their lifetime” (exact quote of the translation, did not see the original hebrew).
Whether it is the SAME yeshiva as existed in the gemara, I have no idea. Torah was being learned in the city if that answers your question.
You can read “The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela” in English online at seforimonline.org
On pg. 37 in the book, he writes that when he got to Pumbedisa/Neharda, he found a community of 3000 Jews. He reports that Baghdad had 40,000 Jews and 10 yeshivos.