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Galut (exile) is the situation of living outside of one’s land. Thus, by definition a Jew living in Eretz Yisrael is not in galut, at least not physically. Those chareidim and leftists who do not understand the meaning of having a state are in spiritual galut. There are, however, level of geula as the Yerushalmi (Berachot 1:1) states. First we have to have a king (or any leader elected by the people as stated by Rav Kook in Mishpatei Cohen 144 and see also He’emek Devar on Devarim 17:14). Then he has to wipe out Amalek (according to Rav Chaim Soloveichik antisemitism) and then he has to build the Beit haMikdash (Rambam, Hilchot Melachim 1:1).
Charlie, how is being a strong supporter of Israel a qualification for mayor?
Crime rates have been plummeting since Giuliani cleaned up the city. Now that DeBlasio is reversing course they will eventually go back up. Not to mention his fiscal irresponsibility and war against the specialized schools.The main consideration for law schools is the LSAT score. A BTL could mean that the person has superior analytic ability. It could also be a factor in a school that wants a diverse student body so far as majors are concerned. Firms mainly look at the law school and the person’s record there.
RY, why don’t you apply two years down the road?
Israel is by definition not part of the galut. Of course, there are some people whose souls are in galut even though their bodies are in Israel. Those who do not want to be part of the IDF, for example. If they get bad enough the Land expels them.
RY, if sports teams can why not schools?
Unommin, don’t give up your day job.
Anyone who is not makpid on the ע in keriat shema says apikorsut. He says השם נשבה לאבותינו, which means that He was captured c”v. Similarly, those who pronounce the chaf like the kaf say that Hashem destroys the world out of chesed c”v. On the other hand. those who overcompensate say that געל ישראל instead of גאל ישראל, which is also very bad.
As for the צ, it is clear that at one time it was similar to the “s” sound as the word for stadium in אצטדיון (the א was due to the fact that they could not pronounce a sheva nach at the beginning of a word (Arabs also often do this). Apparently Ashkenazim did not change their pronunciation until later as one of the Baalei Tosafot is
רבי אליעזר ממץ. In French the name of the city is pronounced with a long “s” (you can hear it by going into the Wikipedia article on the city).Regarding picking up sounds from other languages, it is clear that pronouncing the cholem “oy” or a long “o” (e.g. kosher) comes from Slavic influences. Pronouncing it like an “i” comes from the German ü.
KJ,
1. David haMelech disagrees with you. When he ran away to Gatt he said that he was expelled from Hashem’s inheritance (Shmuel Alef 26:19). Chazal also disagree with you. The first mishna in Gittin gives the northern border as Acco. The former was because Gatt was not part of Shaul’s kingdom and the latter because it was the border of Jewish settlement. Rabbi Menachem Leibtag has an online analysis entitled Masei: The Borders of the Land of Israel/
2. The Golan is part of Ever haYarden. Eilat is near Etzion Geber, which was conquered by Shlomo haMelech and again by the IDF. Both were kibbushei rabbim.
3. It is not correct to call a state as the Land of ——. One does not, for example, call France the Land of the French. The term Medinat Yisrael was chosen to signify that the state belongs to all Jews.
Klugeryid, on June 5, 2019 9:06 am at 9:06 am you asked “Do the thousands of unmarried girls have basherts? How about the thousands of unmarried boys?”
They rejected their basherts. The Steipler, in fact, told this to someone who asked where his was.
Klugeryid, people have free choice. That includes rejecting one’s bashert.
Get it while you can. It’s having trouble competing with good, old-fashioned seltzer.
A true ger was born with a Jewish neshama. The fact that he is legally a new person (for most things – he still has to repay his creditors and his debtors still have to pay him) does not necessarily come into effect. It could also be that he loses his zivug rishon (who says that non-Jews do not have zivugim?) and gets a zivug sheni.
The trauma over the Churban and mass destruction of the Jewish communities in Judea caused people to forget many details. This si why in the end Rebbe had to write down the mishnayot.
Are you referring to the French Catholic newspaper or a brand of sparkling water?
Klugeryid, the Jews who lived in England before the expulsion came with William the Conqueror. Thus they almost certainly spoke Norman French, which was also the language of the aristocracy (William wiped out the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy so that the common people would have no leadership) and the law courts until after the time that the Jews were expelled.
OOPs. I confused him with Engel.
Charlie, are you sure it is Orthodox. The non-resident of the district married a non-Jew (OK so she had a deformed “conversion”).
Is YiddishKite something you fly?
Neville, actually it is 3.25%. the idea is to give minorities a say and the possibility of defending their interests. This is also a form of democracy and exists in some European countries. There are also some countries where one house of the legislature is elected by proportional representation and one by the winner-take-all method (which means that 49.9% of the voters might be disenfranchised and encourages gerrymandering).
CTL, you are correct. The GOP has consistently been against slavery. It doesn’t matter if they masters are plantation owners or leftist bureaucrats.
CTL,
1. Andrew Johnson was elected VP in 1864. Lincoln’s first VP was Hannibal Hamlin of Maine.
2. The GOP did not spend Johnson’s entire term trying to impeach him. He was not impeached until 1868. After that there were no more moves to impeach him. Giving him trouble is another matter. That is part of the system of checks and balances.The American government was supposed to represent the Aristotelian ideal of a combination of democracy (the House), oligarchy (the Senate – which was originally chosen by the state legislatures) and monarchy (POTUS). It has the advantage of stability but the disadvantage of a very unpopular POTUS staying until the end of his term (although the Congress can thwart him by refusing to pass his legislation and overriding his vetoes).
CTL, you should go back. Lincoln’s first VP was Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. AJ was his running mate when he run for re-election. Moreover, back then the GOP was the more liberal party and those who wanted impeachment (as well as a hard line towards the South) were called radical Republicans. At that time the VP was not considered to be an assistant POTUS but mainly the person who presided over the Senate. In fact, it was not clear who would succeed William Henry Harrison. John Tyler decided by himself although some thought that he should be called “Acting President”.
Lucy, please learn proper English. It is “than”.
CTL, in some parliamentary systems there is no President. There is a monarch who serves as head of state. In France the President (currently Macron) has much more power than the PM – whom he appoints.
C A, DV was a talmid who delved to deeply into the Force and was trapped by the Dark (Other) Side. It would be interesting to know if there was others. Perhaps one died and another went insane.
Yserbius, Obi-Wan Kenobi describes the Force as “an energy field created by all living things” in Star Wars. In The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon Jinn says microscopic lifeforms called midi-chlorians, which exist inside all living cells, allow some characters to be Force-sensitive; characters must have a high enough midi-chlorian count to feel and use the Force [Wikipedia]. This sounds like a scientific principle to me.
Mod, why did you delete my comment about Elisha ben Abuya? Is not discussing him a new chumra?
Every Democrat in the US will enter the primaries and all the dirt from kindergarten will be aired (e.g. Ploni threw a crayon at a girl – incipient misogyny). They will also play “Can You Top This” a.k.a. “Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the biggest leftist of them all?”. Trump will win in a landslide, the DP will disintegrate and Pence/Haley will win in 2024.
CTL,
1. Maybe your committee agreed but nobody else did – including the candidates who will probably multiply in the coming year.
2. I just saw an article in The Hill predicting that more leftist Dems in the House will push for impeachment. This will create a media circus with a boomerang effect.
3. You have not responded to my contention that the candidates will be goaded into staking out positions further and further to the left. This will scare moderate voters into Trump’s camp. The same thing happened in 2016. Hillary was ahead by ten points in the polls until she made a speech in which she declared war on religious freedom. This was even too much for The Washington PostRY, what would you say is a smart insult? I heard from one of his talmidim that Rav Gustman said that in Grodno one could hurl any insult on one’s chevruta except “baal bayit”.
CTL,
1. Refua sheleima.
2. I predict that each Democrat will find something wrong another did in elementary school and/or so much try to stake out an even more Leftist position (now that Fake Pocahontas is calling for reparations for blacks someone will have to offer the country back to descendants of the original inhabitants) that Trump will win in landslide and the DP will go the way of the Whig Party.LOTR, a Zionist is someone who subscribes to Jewish Nationalism. He supports the State of Israel while disagreeing, sometimes strongly, with some government policies. He should also at least want to make aliya as soon as possible. He does not fight with Chareidim. Some of them fight but they are just proving how much they should enlist in the IDF.
Laskern, he was a descendant of the Tzanzer Rebbe. Rabbi Abahu says (Chulin 63b) that the ראה (a type of hawk) is called that because he sits in Bavel and sees a נבלה in EY. The Tzanzer says that there is nothing more unclean than that.
Sam, Hashem wants us to be His partner. That is why He made wheat grow and not bread.
Klugeryid, your screen name must be sage nahor. First of all, a screen name has nothing to do with context. Do you think that Joseph, for example, always writes about people named Joseph? I presume that RG is the wife of a rabbi named Golden (or considers him to be a rabbi).
RY, why not? In high school I took a course called the History and Development of Science. Several books have been written about famous scientists and mathematicians. Einstein’s letters are sold at auction for millions.
There is no RGP. She is RG and she is looking for a better screen name, Apparently I have to post this four hundred times.
Neville,
1. Actually she is RG. “Pick a better screen name” is an addition.
2. I was referring to Chazal’s dictum כל הפוסל במומו פוסל.Neville, if you read her screen name carefully you will see that she is Rebbetzin Golden. She also challenges us (or herself) to pick a better screen name. Now you tell us. Is this thread trolling?
Rav Kahane said that the big test of emuna was going to a double header at Yankee Stadium and knowing that you can’t eat the franks. Now it is not true. I even saw a picture of the bassari stand with a sign “Chassidishe shechita”.
I cannot answer better than Rav Nota Schiller. Pook chazi.
At one time the Jews were so dominant in Solonika that the port was closed on Shabbat. It was also the temporary home of Rav Yosef Caro before he made aliya. Almost the entire community was murdered in Auschwitz.
Charlie,
RO’s pesak was only for those Sephardim who don’t say a beracha when it’s a minhag (some say לקרוא את ההלל and לגמור את ההלל on the הלל שלם). RG, on the other hand, considered it a combination of Torah and rabbinic obligation in accordance with the Chatam Sofer (Orach Chaim 208) who writes:
“Commemorating the miracles which saved us from death which occurred on Purim, Chanuka, and the days enumerated in the Megillat Ta’anit is certainly mi-de’oraita… However, the quality and amount of commemoration is mi-derabbanan.”For a general discussion see Yom Ha-Atzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim by Rav David Brofsky on the website of Yeshivat Har Etzion (from which the above quote was taken).
CTL,
1. Liberals want to tax. Socialists want to take away but still have free elections. It does not matter how they do it. As Daniel Webster and John Marshall said in McCulloch v. Maryland</em? the unlimited power to tax is the power to destroy.
2. Actually there are several like her. They are the future (or end) of the Democratic Party. Joe Biden is the Great Moderate Hope and he will be a couple of weeks short of 78 on Election Day 2020. Nancy Pelosi is 78 and Dianne Feinstein is just short of 76.Apushatayid, the CS and others I cited seem to not like buying sturdy homes in shmutz la’aretz in general. From what I know of Jewish history I would imagine though that luxurious homes for them (and certainly in Radin – the CC also condemns luxurious living and says that it leads to cheating in business and worse to keep up when times turn tough) were not very big. I know someone whose parents made aliya from the Carpathian region (I think that he was also born there but came a small child), He described their description of the town as “a hole”.
Apushatayid and Funnybone, I thought that expressing disapproval of other people’s actions is the purpose of the CR. As for tzarut ayin, would you say that the Chatam Sofer had that characteristic? I still have not found the exact location of the teshuva but I did find that The Shela Hakadosh, writes (at the end of Masechet Sukkah): “I willThe Shela Hakadosh, writes (at the end of Masechet Sukkah) “The Shela Hakadosh, writes (at the end of Masechet Sukkah): “I will
disclose something that has always troubled me greatly. I have seen Jews building homes like the fortresses of princes, making themselves permanent, these worldly dwellings in impure lands. (I have observed that) it is their intention to leave these homes as an inheritance to their children after them! This appears to be, Gd forbid, an abandonment of the idea of geula. Therefore, even if Gd gives you wealth, build simple houses, to accommodate your bare worldly dwellings in impure lands.”
The Keli Yakar, as well, says on Bereishis 47: “Many are the ignorant Jews who settle in the lands of other nations. They build themselves splendid, secure houses – homes built of stone, buildings meant to
endure. For this reason, they never turn to Hashem with all their hearts to ask that He return them to their Land. Therefore, the Almighty leaves them there.”Anyway, I’m the conservative Republican who believes in property rights. Democrats like AOC would take away CTL’s house and give it to seventeen illegal immigrant families.
CTL, on the contrary, it is good for kids to learn to be considerate of others. When they grow up they will have to be considerate of neighbors, coworkers, etc. My parents, for example, only allowed us to play board games in the apartment and when my father z”l took me to the park on Sun mornings I could not talk until we were out of the building out of consideration for neighbors who wanted to sleep late. For an example of what consideration will do (other than the obligation itself) click <a href=”https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/1711100/mailbag-kiddush-hashem-in-jackson.html
“>here.Funnybone, I cannot find the teshuva right now (b”n I will look later when I have more time) but it is quoted in To Dwell in the Palace p. 82, which you can access on Google (it is now a Google book).
Joseph, the Chatam Sofer adds that someone who builds such a house in Chul shows that that he does not believe that we will go back to EY (or does not want to).
CTL, what’s wrong with sharing a room? I shared a room with my brother until I was 20 and he was 17. Then our grandmother passed away and he moved into her room.
Joseph, if he is definitely a Jew then the chametz is definitely prohibited. If he is only a safek Jew it is permitted as it is a safek d’rabbanan.
Joseph, Rambam, Hilchot Nachalot 6,9.
העכו”ם יורש את אביו דבר תורה, אבל שאר ירושותיהן מניחין אותו לפי מנהגם.Joseph, a goy’s son inherits him mi d’Oraita so if he has a son it is now his. If not, it goes according to secular law (Rambam, Hilchot Nachalot 6,9).
Rebbetzin, you may have a problem. Even if there is a clause requiring him to pay by a certain time it might be an oness that stops the clock. This is a sugiya regarding a conditional gett (Gittin 30a). Ask your LOR.
Rebbetzin, regarding the halacha, the Business Halacha Institute wrote:
“Shomrim / Guardians #12
Q: What are the responsibilities of a guardian for chametz on Pesach?A: The owner of the chametz violates the prohibition of possessing chametz, even if it is entrusted to another. In addition, the guardian also violates the prohibition of possessing chametz if he accepted responsibility for it, even if it belongs to a gentile (O.C. 440:1; Mishnah Berurah 443:14).
If neither the owner nor the guardian sold the chametz, it becomes prohibited and has to be destroyed. Therefore, if the owner hasn’t sold the chametz, the guardian should sell it in time, both to avoid the prohibition and to prevent the loss (C.M. 292:17-18; O.C. 443:2).
There is a dispute whether the guardian carries legal liability if he neglected to sell the chametz. Some say that the guardian is considered negligent, so even a shomer chinam is liable; some say that only a shomer sachar is liable, since he has a greater responsibility to protect the item. Many maintain that the guardian is not liable, because he accepted responsibility only to guard the chametz, not to sell it. [It is questionable whether this logic would apply nowadays, when it is customary to sell the chametz before Pesach and buy it back afterwards.]
(See Mishnah Berurah 443:12; Pischei Choshen, Pikadon 2:[103].)”
On the other hand, Dinonline wrote:
“שאלה זו כבר נידונה בפוסקים. ראה במגן אברהם ובחק יעקב (סי’ רמג) שדנו בשומר שקיבל חמץ לשמור, ופשע ולא מכר את המחץ בזמן. וכתבו לחלק שאם שרפו את החמץ כדין חמץ בפסח, א”כ לאחר הפסח כבר אין חמץ שהשומר יוכל להחזיר לבעל הבית בטענה “הרי שלך לפניך” א”כ השומר חייב לשלם כדין שומר שהיה לו אפשרות לקדם ברועים ובמקלות כדי הבריח את הזאבים מהעדר, ולא עשה כן שהוא חייב, כך גם השומר שיכל למכור את החמץ ולא מכר, הוא חייב לשלם. אולם אם החמץ עדיין קיים, כתבו הפוסקים הנ”ל שהוא יכול לומר לבעל הבית “הרי שלך לפניך.אולם הנצי”ב בשו”ת משיב דבר (ח”ג סי’ יח) חולק עליהם (הנידון שעליו נשאל הוא בענין אתרוגים שהשומר לא הקפיד למכור אותם לצרכנים לפני סוכות, וממילא נוצר הפסד גדול). ודעתו שבכל מקרה השומר פטור לשלם, משום שהראשונים חולקים האם שומר חייב לשלם על היזק שאינו ניכר. וכיון שההיזק במקרה זה אינו ניכר, לדעת הרבה ראשונים בכל מקרה השומר פטור. אולם גם אם נאמר ששומר חייב בהיזק שאינו ניכר, זה רק אם הוא היה מקבל על עצמו לשמור את ממונו של הבעלים. אבל כאן הוא קיבל על עצמו רק שמירה של חמץ, וההיזק על החמץ נעשה ע”י הוראת התורה ולא ע”י השומר, ולכן בכל מקרה יש לפטור את השמור מאחריות.”
Being that it is a machloket the rav would not have to pay in law although a bet din might require him to at least make a partial payment in equity.