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Some gentiles also have a grace after meals so you can just tell them the truth. The same goes for other berachot. However, one should be loud about, even in one’s home. People who do that imply that they think that Hashem is hard of hearing c”v (Berachot 24b).
Maybe we should just go back into caves a make fires by rubbing two sticks with a flint in between. The problem isn’t the technology it is how some people use it. In some ways it improves things. Before cell phones (including “kosher phones”) became common people talked in shul. Now at least they go outside. Some even put theirs on silent ringtone. Of course, a shull board can block reception (legally) with devices like Faraday cages. Fighting technology vs. technology.
Joseph, the question is not could Trump fire Comey but should he have fired him. That is to say, was it a wise decision? I think that it definitely was not as it at least gives the appearance that he was fired because of his investigation of connections to Russia. The fact that Trump called him in violation of DOJ protocols only makes it worse.
It must be aging. It has been slower than molasses today.
On the other hand, today we pasken that a deaf-mute is not in the same category as a minor and a mental incompetent. The Chazon Ish says (YD 155:4) that today there is no assumption that a seven month baby will die. See “Halachic Responses To Scientific Developments”.
Ready now, while it is not technically prohibited to say LH about a non-Jew the Chafetz Chaim says that it is better not to get in the habit. Tanna d’bei Eliahu says that one who wrongs gentiles will come to wrong Jews. The Be’er HaGolah in Hichot Geneiva says that someone who takes advantage of halachic technicalities in his dealings with gentiles will be punished by Hashem.According to . Rav YY Weinberg, Rav SR Hirsch, , Tiferet Yisroel to Baba Kamma Chapter 4, Meiri in many places, Rema Responsa 10 and Chatam Sofer Collected Responsa 90) these laws no longer apply in todayโs moral western societies where all property is protected by law. In addition, if it is discovered it is a chillul Hashem.
Winnie,
1. You are correct. I read an article that said that it is two days.
2. What is the logic in having a day off at all?LU, who said it’s allowed to speed? This is a public safety law and everyone agrees that one must obey it. As for your question about Sun, here it is a regular work day. It is not, as one rav derisively said, Shabbat shenia shel galuyot. However (@Winnie) the schools get a two-day holiday. One for the actual Lag b’Omer and one for the next day in deference to the Rabbanut. Actually there is an additional logic in this as Sepharadim do not get haircuts until Lad b’Omer as they require the full 33 days.
TITB,
1. According to the Chatam Sofer (Sukka 36a) yishuv EY pushes off talmud Torah.
2, The gematria of ืืื ืืขืฆืืืืช is 668. This is also the gematria of ืืืืจืืช and ืืฆืืช ื’ ืืืืื (using the tetragrammaton). BTW, in gematria ืืื ืื ืืจืืืค is ืืฉืื ืื ืืื. So much for gematriot.HaLevi, the date of the declaration is the proper day to celebrate as that was when the British left and we became independent. It was also a great kiddush Hashem as the British and Americans both warned BG against it. He thumbed his nose at them saying that in order to be realistic a Jew must believe in miracles. He also said about the UN “Oom (the Hebrew acronym) shmoom”.
Joseph, maybe they should be sued for trademark infringement.
As for “ืฆืื ืงื” I would have said “ืฆืื ืืฉืืขืืชื” – he should do teshuva for anti-Zionism and then fast again for fasting on Yom HaAtzmaut . The funniest part is that all of the hilarious posters observe the Rabbanut’s day
Winnie, a baal berit does not mourn during to Sefira. On Yom HaAtzmaut were are all baalei berit.
LU, the point about chillul Shabbat on Lag b’Omer is that <b>celebrants</b> would be mechallel Shabbat to get to Meron. As for lighitng bonfires being “a very real part of their religious practices”, are stealing wood and making the engihbors sick form smoke inhalation also religious practices?
Simcha, as a matter of fact, the Chatam Sofer says (Sukka 36a) that all work in EY, especially agricultural, is part of the mitzva of building the Land and pushes off talmud Torah (he asks rhetorically if a man would refrain from putting on tefillin in order to continue learning).
According to Rambam (at the end of Hilchot Melachim) we will concentrate on learning and the other nations will do the work. All will have knowledge of Hashem and want to do His will. This seems like a pluralistic nationalism (note that Rambam uses the word “nations” which seems to imply that there will still be various nations) whereby each nation maintains its separateness in its own land and thus contributes to the world according to its unique characteristics. We will be the lawgivers and (while not all agree the Rema says in Tesuva 10 that their obligation in dinim is to adopt all of Choshen Mishpat).
Winnie, Chazal did not initiate the observance of Lag b’Omer. In fact, the entire partial mourning of the Sefira is a minhag. The Chatam Sofer, in fact, objected to it (http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14664&st=&pgnum=193 continuing to the next page) as no miracle happened and onme davka should mourn Rashbi’s death (although, actually there is no evidence for this – see “A Printing Mistake and the Mysterious Origins of Rashbiโs Yahrzeit” by Eliezer Brodt). However, there is an obligation to establish a day a simcha and hoda’ah for deliverence of Am Yisrael (http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=794&st=&pgnum=146) – such as Yom HaAtzmaut.
As for notchanging, Chazal did make Purim Meshulash when Shushan Purim falls on Shabbat. In fact, in their time there were several days on which the Megilla could be read (Mishna Megillah 1:1).
Actually every year posters go up in Meah Shearim with the nusach “x years, how much more can we take?” Whenever I pass by I read a few to get a good laugh., especially those signed “The Rabbanim, Shelita”.
Joseph, that might actually be a good idea. The Shoah was the greatest chillul Hashem in modern times and Yom HaZicharon and Yom HaAtzmaut represent he greatest kiddush Hashem. This will show that
1. Hashem’s salvation comes in the blink of an eye.
2. Kiddush Hashem erases Chillul Hashem.Hpwever, to answer ZD’s question, one who wants to mourn should recite the parsha of the spies followed by explanations of why they did what they did. So dfar as kinot are concerned, ask the NY Slimes to forward a question to Barghouti.
Mlk, Rav Kasher refuted it in “HaTekufa HaGedola”.
147, as a matter of fact, Rav Goren wanted to make a Yoim HaAtzmaut Meshulash. In my community, we commemorate Yom HaZicharon but we did not say Tachanun this morning.
Joseph, do you commemorate Nakba Day and Land Day? Do you have a Spies’ and Erev Rav Day?
LU, who says? Missionaries have arguments from the Tanach which those with little or no background (and even those with background) do not know how to refute. Moreover, as happened with the Midianite women peritzut often leads to a”z.
Joseph, what’s wrong with nationalism?
SR, the three oaths are a halachic non-starter.
1. The pasukim cited refer th the kelei hamikdash, not the people.
2. They are aggadata. Aggadata cannot be understood literally (Rambam, Intro. to Perek Chelek).
3. They are not brought down in any of the codes.
4. According to Rav Chaim Vital they were only for 1,000 years (Inro. to Sefer Etz Chaim 8).
5. According to Rav Meir Simcha the San Remo conference repealed them as the other nations agreed.
6. According to Rav Soloveichik (Kol Dodi Dofek) Hashemn has called.
7. The other nations violated their oath not to persecute us too much on several occasions (Crusades, Chmielnitzky massacres, pogroms, Petlura massacres, Holocaust). Thus, the deal is off (Sotah 10a with Rashi dโh huchal shevuato shel Avimelech and Shulchan Aruch YD 236,6).ZD, as a mater of fact the Tzitz Eliezer wrote a series of books called “Hilchot Medina” and Rav Herzog wrote called “Techuka l’Yisrael. There have also been numerous articles in Techumin. However, you are correct that more must be done before Hashem will let us form the government. There must also be a will to run the country and not be an armchair PM (I will now give credit to Trump for admitting that one does not really know until he enters the job). This si called in Kabbala an awakening below that causes an awakening Above.
Is it permitted for a man and a woman to be the sole posters on on CR thread? BTW, theSepharadim have separate “mi sheberach”s for the cholim and cholot, or as some put it, the mitrapim and mitrapot (OK, the nusachot are different. The women are called “hanashim hakevodot”. I told them to be careful it does not come out “hanashim hakevedot”).
There is no obligation for them to convert but if they can handle it they will get a better place in Olam HaBa. Those who already identify a Jews because their fathers are Jewish should especially consider this (and according to Kabbala there is a special inyan to bring back zera Yisrael). There was a non-Jewish woman who periodically asked Rav Ruderman questions about the sheva mitzvot. When he asked her if she had considered converting she said “Rabbi. I have enough trouble with seven. I don’t need 613”.
Reb Yidd, if he is only a shtickle you should object.
LU, to where does a shitickle send his kids? Do they go to a Chariedi school until a certain age and then to a Zionistic school or vice versa. Do they go to a Charieidi school and have an after-school Zionist group or vice versa?
In any case, she does not have to listen. Rav Moshe Soloveichik objected to Rav Joseph Ber’s choice (her parents were maskilim – and they also objected). The latter wrote him a very respectful halachic teshuva proving this. RMS told his friend that his son was right.
I doubt that he gave you any thought. As you write, he was engrossed in whatever. IMOHO you woud have been justified in honking. He was over on gezel zeman. If there were cars behind you also of them.
ZD, in fact, RMZ financed the rebellion (they had to buy weapons from the Polish underground).
LU, I also wrote that his statement was related third-hand and thus should be taken with several grains of salt. I find it very hard to believe that he would oppose a Jew doing a Torah mitzva.
DY, I am. However, in general Jews should make aliya. Similarly, Jews should keep other mitzvot. Others should not.
ZD, I hate to burst your bubble but Rav Shteinamn is not the only gadol. Rav Ovadia and Rav Mordechai Eliahu supported aliya and Rav Avtaham Shapira, when speaking in the US, looked out and asked “What are you doing here?”
Besides, the statement was related by Rabbi Yitzhak Katz in the name of his talmidim who asked Rav Shteinman. In other words, third hand info. On that, Rav Scheinberg, when told that he had been misquoted, said “If I had nickel for every time I was misquoted I would be a rich man”. Once an avereich who was writing a sefer on hilchot tefillin asked Rav Elaishiv a question regarding chatzitza. When RE said that it was no problem the avereich argued with him until finally he said “If you think it’s assur then let it be assur for you”. The avereich wrote “RE said that it is good to be machmir”. Once some people advertised a tiul to Chutz laARetz “withthe advice of Rav Mordechai Eliahu”. Rav Aviner asked RME who said “They asked. I said it’s assur. So they wrote that I advised them”.
CTL, I presume that she does not wear a kippa, a kappota or a streimel. However, a magen David around her neck would also be a problem. As for Trump &Co., what about the anti-Semitic left that was so despondent over Crooked Hillary’s loss that exams were made optional?
Akuperma, on the contrary, anti-Zionism is against Torah. Anti-Zionism is Spyism and Erev Ravism. The reason the Holocaust is deemed special is because it happened relatively recently and was methodical, as opposed to mob violence such as the Crusades and the pogroms, and ideological, as opposed to past slaughters, which accompanied wars of conquest or putting down of rebellions.
Jews should make aliya. Period.
This is an Anti-Zionist fraud. There was not much that the Zionists in EY could do. They had almost no money and were stymied by British and American obstructionism. In a few cases they were able to smuggle fighters into Europe and they did manage to save some Jews. There were even Zionist spies disguised as SS men (they had grown up in Germany and Austria and thus spoken fluent German).
As for the Nazi attitude, Himmler’s letter to the Mufti has recently been uncovered. You can see it on-line.
Lakewhut, if LePen is elected no more kippot, streimels and kappotot in public places. On the other hand, the wave of aliya from France will pick up steam, starting with all those who have “insurance apartments” in Israel.
It depends. BTW, Rav Ovadia was against calling someone “Rav [last name]” because Rav Adaa bar Ahava said that he had a long life because he avoided this (Taanit 20b and Mishna Gittin 9:8 with Bartenura).
Joseph, I do not think that any Yemenite would refer to himself as a Yid. That is almost as silly as one author who had the Ten Tribes living on an island, wearing streimels and saying “Good Shabbos”.
Yekke, I looked up the “Nefesh HaChaim” and I have no idea what you mean. In any case, Klein overlooked the fact that Israel Harel is a columnist for HaAretz so I guess that we are also taking over that venue. There is a joke about a Jew who sees a friend of his reading an anti-Semitic newspaper. When he asks about it his friend says “I used to read a Jewish newspaper but it made me very depressed. Neo-Nazis, skinheads, terrorists, Iran. Now that I read this wonderful newspaper I see that we own all of the banks. We control the Congress. WE RULE THE WORLD”.
No one is Israel, where I live, does this. The minhag is so strong that visitors are very strongly advised to put them on in private. The Mechaber rules that Chol HaMoed is an ืืืช and the Gra agrees with him (also about only saying one beracha on the tefillin).
Smoking is assur on weekdays also.
Yekke, why is it muttar to mimic non-talmidei chachamim in a derogatory manner.
NeutiquamErro, Rav Ovadia very strongly opposed those Purim shpiels (Yehvaeh Deah 5,50) as is Rav Shteinman. Some say that Rav Shimon Sofer waqs so hurt by the disgrace that he died (he was niftar on 17 Adar). You are correct that many copy their rabbanim but that is because they think that they have to do and be everything he isืฅ IMHO this is also a sign of a poor self-image. The person does not want to be himself but someone else.
Yekke, it my be a cultural thing. However, I interpret mimicking as a snide way of saying that the person does not speak properly. This may be true but LR is davka true.
Yekke, my experience is that protesting has no effect, even with talmidei chachamim. Once a certain rabbi claimed that he heard negative info about the talmidim in a certain yeshiva form their barman. When I told him that that is LR he angrily told me that he knows the halacha. On other occasions (regarding learning during Chazarat HaShatz – see Mishna Berura 124:7) they made excuses (each was chozer b’teshuva that “proved” that they were right LOL). For that matter I know a talmid chacham who mimics the accents of gedolim. From various things he has said I gather that he has a poor self-image (he also enjoys making racist comments about various Jewish and nonJewish groups) so I try to ignore these actions.
MW, all the residents of Yitzhar did was stand around with signs and shout a bit. While they did block Arab drivers according to polls the Arabs in Yehuda v’Shomron overwhelmingly support terror attacks.
Dear Yerushalmi Faction member:
Let’s understand each other before you read any further.
I am considered haredi, my children are considered haredi and so are my grandchildren. As such, no one is in a better position to look carefully at who you are, what you represent, what your goal is and what you are really accomplishing.
Basically speaking, let’s face it: you are a hooligan, a law-breaker and a wretched model of what a Yeshiva Bochur (yeshiva student, ed.) should not be. How dare you! Your wild and reckless rioting will never result in the army rescinding its draft guidelines. Your ugly shenanigans perpetrated against the rest of the innocent public will only cause the full extent of the law to come crashing down around your ears.
And so it should be. And the sooner the better.
I always tried to compare ‘our’ children to those who live in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority-administered territories. I always marveled at the wide schism of normal and human behavior exhibited by ‘our’ children in comparison to the youth across the border. Ours were taught manners, respect, decency, kindness and the relationship between man and G-D. We were taught that as human beings, our lives need to emulate that of the One Above. They, on the other hand, are taught that life has no value, decency is non existent, politeness is a waste of time and their Allah is an angry, blood thirsty deity.
And then you came along, exposing yourself to the world as a spoiled, useless piece of work who doesn’t care about the rest of society. Just who do you think you are? Your name in Hebrew, Peleg Yerushalmi, using the word peleg, says it all. Peleg means to divide, to split up, to shatter. Shame on you.
I’ve been watching you all these weeks. ย I noticed that you and your fellow hoods truly believe that the world is yours. You’ve been blocking traffic, threatening, pushing, kicking and rioting in order to accomplish… what?
I watched you and your little brothers, the 8,10,12, and 14 year-olds, harass drivers and innocent by-standers only because you don’t agree with their attire. You insulted, cursed and physically mauled a woman who happened to walk by while you were displaying your ugliness on the streets of Jerusalem. You disgust me. Shame on you!
You are a disgrace. As a haredi, I am telling you that you are an unworthy imitation of a frum [religious] Jew who needs to be taught a swift, harsh lesson. I strongly believe that the army and police are treating you with too much compassion, with kid gloves. I believe the time has come for the authorities to engage you as the terrorist you are. Because you are.
It’s only a matter of time until the frustration you are creating for drivers by blocking and delaying them will explode in your face. It will only be a matter of time until a frustrated driver runs you down. That anger was demonstrated already in the city of Bnei Brak as a furious driver came out swinging with a stick. How much longer before someone cracks your head?
In addition to your grotesque behavior, you are a total hypocrite. You are demonstrating against the draft because the Torah is what you are concerned about. Right? Not so fast.
What you really want is to be left alone to continue on your merry way of doing absolutely nothing with your life. Because you are obviously not learning. Seeing the hundreds of hours you’ve wasted, learning is the last thing on your mind. How many precious hours, days, weeks have you already squandered in this manner? How many enemies to the Torah way of life have you created during that wasteful time? Can’t count, can you?
The audacity and ugliness which you portray, have no limits. In your audacious chutzpa you have no qualms about calling our soldiers and police officers the vilest of names. How dare you spit the word Nazi and hurl it at a Jewish son, my nephew, your neighbor? These are the same ‘Nazis’ โ you moron – who’d sacrifice their lives to protect your worthless one. These are the same ‘Nazis’ who will not hesitate for a second to save you, the one who vilifies them with vile epithets. When you need them, you appreciate their presence and sacrifice, don’t you? Shameless ingrate.
Were I in a position to do so, I would treat you quite differently, my young idiot. I would give you an hour ultimatum, sixty minutes exactly, to cease and desist and if you don’t, I would then follow up with riot-control methods you haven’t yet experienced. Believe me, your eagerness to riot and damage and sit in front of cars will quickly dissipate as you and your colleagues disappear like smoke in the wind.
And then….I would send my ‘Nazis’ to knock on your door and your friend’s and his buddy………every single, rioting young man. There will be no more extensions or postponements for you and the rest of your gang. You will be drafted immediately and sent for training, not to be furloughed for the next number of years. You will be cured of your sickness, believe me.
And your brother, when he reaches the draft age, will meekly, politely and precisely sign the registration papers without a whimper.
That time is coming.
Isaac Kohn is SVP of HealthPoint Acquisitions.
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Nisht, the comment was only about Rav Moshe’s teshuva. One can also add Rav Chaim Ozer and the Chok Yaakov (453:9). Of course, if you want to be a big machmir you can refrain from consuming potatoes, coffee, tea, garlic, nuts, radishes and olives (see Shaโarei Teshuvah 453:1; Chayei Adam 127:7). You can even refrain from talking to a Sephardi as he might have kitniyot on his breath.