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The problem in northern Alaska in the summer is that Shabbat begins and ends extremely late. I have a friend who is from Anchorage and when he went back for a visit he was told to keep it according to Seattle, which is the nearest organized Jewish community.
Yekke,
If they are Israelis it is not surprising that they speak Hebrew. Even those who speak Yiddish at home speak Hebrew as very few people outside Chassidic communities have any knowledge of Yiddish (Litvish rabbanim use Hebrew although sometimes they use the Litvish pronunciation). I personally was in a shiur given by an Israeli who learned in Kol Torah (Rav Shlomo Zalman’s yeshiva) and he odes not know Yiddish at all. Kol Torah was, in fact, the first Chareidi yeshiva (Rav Kook started his yeshiva beforehand) to go over to Hebrew (eighty years ago) and the Chazon Ish said that the language of instruction should be Hebrew because so few understood Yiddish (not to mention Sepharadim and bnei Eidot HaMizrach).
BTW, the Raavad is quoted by the Sheeta Mekubetzet as saying that it is doubtful if someone who does not learn in Hebrew fulfills the mitzva. One of the reasons why the Bnei Yisrael merited leaving Egypt was that they spoke Hebrew and not “Judeo-Egyptian”.
Mammele,
Even if they did know Yiddish they probably would have preferred English as they would have trouble expressing themselves in Yiddish. This is a common phenomena among children of olim.
Yekke, why do they refuse to speak English? What is so holy about pidgin German?
Joseph,
1. Where did you find that one about Yiddish being an “international language spoken by Jews”? Most Jews are Sephardic and DO NOT speak Yiddish. Most Ashkenazim also do not speak Yiddish except for words that crept int other languages.
2. What benefit does someone receive from knowing Yiddish? In fact, a case can even be made (@CTl) that it impedes learning German, which is an important language in international business (while most Germans, especially business people, can speak English there are imporatnt newspapers and magazines written in German. A person who starts with Yiddish must unlearn pronunciation differences. Moreover, much of Yiddish comes from Russian, Polish and Hebrew. One who does not believe that there are signicificant differences should watch a video on YouTube where two men translate English phrases into German and Yiddish respectively. In fact, when the Japanese Interior Minister interviewed a rosh yeshiva during WW2 he needed an interpreter despite being fluent in Yiddish.
Akuperma, how much are you paid to shill for our enemies? Rav Herzog paskened that the Third Commonwealth will not be destroyed – when Rommel ym”s seemed to be on the verge of conquering the entire Middle East. My prediction is that the PA will not survive Abbas. In fact, his new repressive measures might even implode it in his lifetime. The vast majority of Arabs want to leave. All that is necessary is to set up an international relocation fund that wil pay them to emigrate to countries that need immigrants. Canada, Australia, NZ, Brazil and Germany (despite all the refugees it has already accepted) are all up there. Thanks to the internet young Arabs can develop skill sets needed in these countries and even take professional exams by computer.
Health, while you are at it why would you call them for a host of other suspected crimes? Moreover, did you ever stop to think that maybe the neighbors are all victims? Did you ever hear of home invasions?
Satmar is irrelevant. A group in denial.
LU, there is also no time if you hear screams. If not for the prohibition of derisha el hameitim I would suggest that you ask Kitty Genovese.
LU, safek pikuach nefesh is also pikuach nefesh. In the case of the smoke you do not go to the house and investigate. You call the FD. Screams are another matter. Some people are simply screamers. They may be very nice people but they have a nervous problem and need to let it out. In fact, the who kill their whole families are often quiet types who never argue. Then one day they explode.
Joseph, you need a remedial English course. RY wrote that they SHOULD accept them. Once when I bought something in a supermarket the checkout lady asked if I wanted to join their customers’ club. I was tempted to say that I would not join a club that would accept me but I figured that she would not get it.
In any case, the subject of this thread is civil rights. Private institutions do not have to give any rights.
Gavriel, “shituf” means associating another being with Hashem. For example, the Notzrim (other than Unitarians and similar denominations) think that Yushki was a manifestation of Hashem (thus they refer to him as their Lord, capitalizing the “L”). In general, their theologians contend that there is only one Gd but that He has three different parts.
1. Where there is a תועלת not stating the facts would be a violation of
אל תעמוד על דם רעך. However, the listener must inform the person as to how he came by the info.2. Being מכשיל someone is not necessarily לפני עיוור. If someone else can tell him it is מסעיה לדבר עבירה. As this is a rabbinic prohibition the rules are easier.
Sam, some words are ambiguous. There is a discussion about this at the beginning of Kiddushin.
Joseph, there are guards.
ZD, even without vouchers the state can remove accreditation. So far, however, there are exceptions for religious institutions. Of course, no one knows what will happen in the future but it is very doubtful that with Trump remaking the judiciary attempts will pass muster.
Mazal tov.
Yekke, criminalizing drugs has worked as well as Prohibition. Recently the Israeli Anti-Drug Agency recommended following the Portuguese system where substance abuse is treated as a public health problem. However, one really must ask how far the nanny state can go. What about Blomberg banning large cokes in NYC. Those in the US who support federalism should also oppose laws that punish states for not setting the age Nanny Sam wants. As for the army, halachically it should be 20-60 although one rav suggested that 18 is a horaat shaah.
Poster, how do you define “ultimately”? Suppose Hashem decided that if Reuven will write a decent resume, dress presentably and speak well at the interviews he will get a certain job. If Reuven does not fulfill any of those conditions who “ultimately” lost the job for him?
Yekke, I doubt the exactness of your story (but then I often doubt the exactness of stories). If Hashem decided that a person should do X amount of hishtadlut and he does not could it be said that he did not get the parnassa because Hashem was displeased with his laziness (on this see Mishlei 6:6-11).
Joseph, the Torah assumes that a normal person will fight for what is his. That is why there is the din of haba b’machteret.
Really the best solution all around is to establish an international resettlement fund to help Arabs emigrate to countries that need immigrants (Germany, for example, still has nearly 700K unfilled jobs). Polls have consistently shown that most as many as 68% in
Judea- Samaria and 80% in Gaza would leave if they could (BTW, one can now take various American exams world-wide by computer – and there is a center in Ramallah). However, it would probably take a major upheaval to get the international community to do it – although some Israeli pols are starting to talk about it..Why does every problem require a solution, at least for the time being? This attitude cost Eisav his birthright. He wanted lentil soup NOW. The ability to delay gratification is a mark of a mature person.
Akuperma, actually Trump has a good chance of adding another three judges to SCOTUS. Kennedy will probably retire soon. Breyer is 79 and Ginsburg are both over 84.
As for the UK, it will be interesting to see what will happen when they try to force it on Moslem schools. It serves them right for betraying their mandate. The Jews should get out while the getting is good.
1. All of the above. Hashem works through nature. He also wants us to do as much as we can. In fact, Chazal call a miracle “troubling” Hashem.
2. Same.
3. Same.
I meant make a great deal of money.
Mod, it depends. The lives of many lottery winners were destroyed because they could not handle their new wealth. If that would be the case with you you will win by not winning. As for becoming wealthy, one who is happy with his portion is wealthy.
In any case, there is a sure-fire way to get rich – sell segulot.
After the terror attack in Har Nof Rav Asher Weiss ruled that anyone who has a gun license should bring it to shul. In my community those who have licenses were told by the rav to carry them and those who do not should carry some other form of defense (I personally carry pepper spray which I bought after a couple of confrontations with unfriendly dogs). I also heard that today’s cell phones are only uvda d’chol (I do not know the technical reasons) but so far as I have seen only paramedics carry them (at least openly).
In Fisher v. University of Texas I SCOTUS remanded a private suit to the lower courts with instructions to apply strict scrutiny. The result is now pending (Fisher II). I would think that the DOJ would wait for the decision.
Analyst, I heard that the day’s broadcasts will start with the Korban Tamid followed by Mashiach’s shiur.
Anon, Chazal fault Doeg for saying LH and Shaul for believing it (Vayikra Rabba 25,7 and Tanhuma Metzora 14,1). I cannot understand how the cohanim of Nove were mordim b’malchut. Shaul was pursuing David unjustly. Shaul may have thought that but he was wrong (and thus David allowed the Givonim, who lost their parnassa, to name their revenge). Please cite the exact place in the sefer where the Chida discusses this.
ZD, actually there were two communities in Greece and the surrounding area. The pre-Expulsion Judeo-Greek-speaking Romaniote community and the Ladino-speaking Sephardic community.
Joseph, defendants who go the pro se route are aided by staff lawyers who work for the court.
CTl, Itamar Ben-Gvir did such a good job of representing himself that a judge suggested that he become a lawyer. Now he is one of israel’s top lawyers. However, the enormous cost of law school in the US screams for reform. Here in Israel (and not only Israel) Law is a BA like any other BA and it only takes 3-1/2 years. I think that there should also be a return to the apprenticeship system. Lincoln did not even do that but taught himself.
Yael and Devora did their bits.
According to Halacha, a doctor who is licensed, and certainly one who is board certified, is only liable of a gross violation of professional standards. The same goes for any מומחה לרבים.
CTl, you are correct. In fact, Rav Ovadia used that argument to assert that the Sephardic pronunciation is more correct than the Ashkenazic.
I don’t remember the title as I read it many years ago but Agnon has a story about a Jew who went to Germany for medical treatment. Every time he spoke in Yiddish he was corrected but he would not budge. Finally they showed him a dictionary and he said “Just because some gentile writes something does not mean that I have to believe it”.
Ubitquin, no. I would not the meaning of either word if I had not been told.
CTl, apparently Ladino is closer to Spanish than Yiddish is to German. My grandmother on my mother’s side a”h was from Turkey and spoke Ladino, which she called Spanish (apparently because a variant name is Spaniolit). She could converse with people from Latin America but when the Japanese Interior Minister interviewed a rosh yeshiva during WW2 he needed an interpreter despite being fluent in German (however, I have a friend whose wife is from Switzerland and she says that Yiddish is similar enough to Swiss-German for her to understand if the person speaks slowly).
BTW, just as there are differences between the British and American English there are differences between French and Canadian French and the Spanish of Spain and Latin America.Anon that is not a source. That is your personal opinion. In fact, David had professional soldiers (the Gibborim) and Yoav was a relative of his. When he was running away from Shaul he definitely had a private army. See
“מבנה צבא דוד” by נסים מזוז on the website “דעת”.Ubitquin, suppose they were going to some Catholic event? I personally do not know why any Jew would want to go to Europe unless he had to. As for japan, you then get into the safek about when is Shabbat – and maybe even Yom Kippur.
There are two versions of Rambam at the end of Hilchot Melachim (12:5). One says
ובאותו הזמן, לא יהיה שם לא רעב ולא מלחמה ולא קנאה ותחרות–שהטובה תהיה מושפעת הרבה, וכל המעדנים מצויין כעפר. ולא יהיה עסק כל העולם, אלא לדעת את ה’ בלבד. ולפיכך יהיו חכמים גדולים, ויודעים דברים הסתומים העמוקים; וישיגו דעת בוראם כפי כוח האדם, שנאמר “כי מלאה הארץ, דעה את ה’, כמים, לים מכסים” (ישעיהו יא,ט).Another says יהיו ישראל חכמים גדולים.
So it seems that there will not be sin as such. It could be that some will not fulfill mitzvot in the absolute best possible way.
In Hungarian “exit” is “kijárat”.
Ubitquin, you can read a place name but what about instructions? Would you know that “wyjście” means “exit” (in French it is “sortie”, which requires a bit of thought but can be connected to English)? FYI, in Israel street signs are written in both Hebrew and English. In some places they are also written in Arabic.
Time,
1.Rav Shlomo Aviner disagrees strongly with rav Melamed on this. With all due respect to REM (and he deserves a great deal), it is impossible for every soldier to have a personal rav who decides whether or not he should obey an order.
2. Since that article was written rabbis did indeed “rise up” and the order was changed to exempt any soldier who does not want to serve in a mixed unit.
Mdd, please cite your source and define what you mean by a “private army”. A kingship is by definition the rule of an individual. Thus, his army is the people’s army (Rav Kook, in fact, says that a king is, or at least should be, the embodiment of Am yisrael in an individual)
The practice might be revived, at least in the US. There is a case before the courts that seeks to overturn Reynolds vs. United States on First Amendment grounds.
Akuperma, actually three ministers (Bennett, Shaked and Elkin) opposed removal. The Police Commissioner also opposed it in the beginning (the Shabak supported it) and then agreed to a compromise whereby “smart detectors” will be used. A representative of the Waqf claimed that they are worse as they see through clothes so apparently the fat lady has not yet sung,
In any case, those who made the decision are those who have the requisite info. The opinion of some kid who does not even know what he wants to study in college is not an opinion.
ZD, Latin letters have different pronunciations in different languages. You were able to get around the Paris Metro because French and English vocabulary are very similar although sometimes you have to think a bit (for example, “hide” is “cacher” as in “cache”). Have you ever tried making out a Polish or Hungarian word?
Time,
1. What about Yael and Devora? Rav Arye Levine spoke about them when he went to visit the Lehi women imprisoned in Bet Lehem by the British (BTW, Geula Cohen, was technically imprisoned for carrying a gun but she commented that her real weapon was her radio transmitter).
2. I posted the title of a sefer on military ethics at the beginning of this thread.
LU,
2. Who is a Chareidi?
3. He posted on this thread that he stands by his views.AY, the fact of the matter is that more and more Chareidim are joining the IDF and even becoming officers. This is the reason why the extremists are rioting and assaulting Chareidi soldiers. They realize that they are becoming irrelevant.
Mentsch,
1. In fact, relying on miracles was one of BG’s sins. He famously said that a Jew must believe in them in order to be realistic. Thus, he declared the State and enacted the Law of Return against the advice of the Americans and British who said that the Arabs would overrun it in a few days and the advice of his advisors who said that Israel was too poor to take in all Jewish comers. However, the terutz is that sheluchei mitzva are not endangered and anyway, that applies to individuals not the klal. Moreover, one only has to take reasonable precautions, as did Smuel when he anointed David.
2. Who says that the world is black and white.
Why learn pidgin German when you can learn the real thing? If you want a dialect, learn Swiss-German as it is important in finance.
MDG, in that time all teachers used corporal punishment. MY father z”l told me that when he was in public school his teacher would hit students on the hands with a ruler. There was even a ditty, which was still around in my time, that started “Glory, glory hallalu-h. The teacher hit me with a ruler”. However, in those times it was accepted. Today poskim agree that a child should not be hit unless he is endangering himself or someone else.