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Joseh, it should be “Haifa girl” not “haifagirl”. BTW, when I was in school “ain’t” was considered very poor English and”a lot” was a parcel of land.
Huju, it should be “mistakes in English”. An English mistake is a mistake made by people from England. However, to my great consternation there are very common mistakes in spoken English. Two examples are using “less” to refer to something whose individuals are important (e.g. “less people”) and “there’s” (= there is) when referring to a plural. There is also a certain maggid shiur who constantly uses “a” before a word beginning with a vowel (e.g. “a onion”).
While we are on the subject, I also find it annoying that people constantly say “you know” and use Yiddish words in the middle of English for no apparent reason (e.g. “fregt Rabbi Akiva”). Sometimes it is downright ridiculous. A certain writer wrote about someone finding the Ten Lost Tribes. They wore caftans and streimels and said “Gut Shabbos”.
Anyway, don’t feel bad. Israelis make mistakes in Hebrew. One very common mistake is to use feminine numbers for masculine nouns (e.g. “שלוש עשרה שקל”). They also very often say “כמות של אנשים” instead of “מספר אנשים”. I don’t know who picked it up from whom (not “who” – another common mistake).
Zelenko has not published anything. He is simply making unsubstantiated claims.
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Garlic also keeps vampires away. People too. However, in general it’s very healthy.
The gedolim in EY half changed their minds. Now only small groups (up to 10) are allowed and they must keep a distance of two meters from each other. There is no heter to endanger oneself or the public unnecessarily. Why can’t two chevrutas or even a chabura of ten meet in a large private home and sit two meters apart?
Tax policies that benefit the affluent trickle down due to increased investment. This, in fact, was what JFK proposed although it took LBJ to get it through.
A vote for Red Bernie is a vote fora Yevsektzia.
Funnybone and Reb Eliezer, please do not feed the troll.
Syag, if she speaks the way you do I would not want anyone’s son to marry her.
PuhLease, the are treating the guys like dogs, looking into their pedigrees. Would you encourage your daughter to marry Moshe Rabbenu’s grandson or Rabbenu Gershom’s son? What about Shemaya, Avtalyon, Rabbi Akiva, Onkelos, Rabbi Meir, etc. for that matter, Rav Ovadia’s father was a simple Jew.
Syag, you need a remedial reading course. The O.P. dos have a similar hashkafa to the girls in question. If you would not be a baal gaava about your minhagim you would not hear a rant. Chumrot are supposed to be kept to yourself. In fact, Rav Abramsky ceased to hear the Megilla read on the 15th (in deference to Rav Tukachinsky’s opinion regardiing samuch v’nireh in the New City of Jerusalem) when someone told an acquaintance outside the immediate family.
CA,
1. Who say that she will have to watch TV in their home?
2. Maybe they will. However, who says that her chumrot trump honoring in-laws or getting married (women are obligated in shevet)? Maybe a man who is looking for good middot and common sense will not be interested in them. They can then keep company with their mirrors. “Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the frummest of them all?”
3. What about people who are makpid on bein adam l’chaveiro but not on chalav Yisrael or glatt (BTW, some say that the there is too much “glatt” on the market for all of it to be what was once considered glatt_) vs. those who are the opposite? What about the kashrut status of their money?CTL, you are a literalist? Do you believe that “an eye for an eye” means lex talionis? What about Common Law terms such as “effective” and “constructive” (I had a professor who called them “weasel words”). BTW, Aharon Barak ruled that a contract should be interpreted according to its “soul” (= what he considered to be its goal). This caused a great stir and apparently it has been overruled. See also “Literal or Contextual? What is the Correct Approach to Contractual Interpretation?” on the Oxford Business Law blog.
In Halacha a precedent requires three instances. As for whether or not a grandparent should pay, it sepends on local custom as well as the parents’ means. I know someone who pays his grandchildren’s day school tuitions. He is a retired college professor and his wife is a retired teacher plus they own rental property in NYS while their kids are just getting by.
With their fighting spirit they should be in IDF combat units.
Recognizing Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Supporting annexation of settlements. Getting tough with the Fakestinians. Appointing conservative judges.
Even if you support some Democrat you will be hated. The Jews in the Civil Rights Movement were booted out as whiteys. Then came the NYC school dispute where Jewish teachers and administrators were fired from a black school and a violently antisemitic poem was read on a black radio station (interestingly, the reader, Julius Lester, converted to Judaism after discovering that he had a Jewish grandfather and now sang in a shul).
Yaapchik, maybe they on their way to fast for their sins. They remind me of the cohen who stabbed another cohen so that he could do terumat hadeshen (Yoma 23a).
Rav Eliezer Melamed recently wrote an essay on serving in the IDF. It appears on Arutz 7 English site under the title “Claims against IDF service”.
Saying that Hashem is mitlabesh in the Rebbe sounds very much like another religion. you then bring it down and seem to just say that Hashem inspires the Rebbe. Do I understand you correctly?
Chossid,
1. The fact is that right in Crown Heights there are Yechis. There is also a group in Tzefat that davens to his picture.
2. I ran the quote through a Google translator. If the translation is accurate he only said that the Rebbe is the spiritual leader of the Chassidim. This is a far cry from those who say that he is the embodiment of Gd in this world. Even saying that he is Mashiach and will have a second coming is extremely problematic for obvious reasons. In fact, after he died the Jews for Yushki put a full-page ad in the NY Times with his picture and the caption “Right Idea. Wrong Person”. To be fair, chabad.org talks about Mashiach as coming in the future.Chossid, while one learns the Troah of the greats of previous times (and thus we say “says”) they are not here to give guidance to the generation. Rather we go by the judges in our times. As no living person is at the helm there is no captain and anyone can claim to be a Chabadnik or Breslover. In contrast, when the Rebbe was alive he pushed out at least one person who crossed the line. Of course, if you hold seances …
The problem with Chabad (and Breslov) is that it is a chassidut without a rebbe. That is like a ship without a captain. Anyone can claim to be Chabad or Breslov or both (yes, there are such people). The “official” Chabadniks never talk like this. they even say “the Rebbe zatsal”.
Ten times nine lives equal a ninety year commitment.
RE, that what a few hundred years ago. Even one hundred years ago the situation began to change. Thus, bot the Chafetz Chaim and the Imrei Emmet approved of Bet Yaakov. As I previously posted, Rav Soloveichik approved. Rav Shimshon Rafael Hirsch wrote “The fact is that while women are not to be exposed to specialized Torah study or theoretical knowledge of the Law, which are reserved for the Jewish man, such understanding of our sacred literature as can teach the fear of the Lord and the conscientious fulfillment of our duty, and all such knowledge as is essential to the adequate execution of our tasks should indeed form part of the mental and spiritual training not only of our sons, but of our daughters as well. (The Hirsch Siddur, 122)”. In our day, this might certainly include wider areas than he envisioned. In fat, there have always been talmidot chachamim. Beruria bested her husband Rabbi Meir (Berachot 10a). The Maharshal’s grandmother was a rosh yeshiva and poseket. Rav Mordechai Eliahu’s grandmother bested the Kaf haChaim in Halacha.
RE, it doesn’t say not.
Is a Sephardi a Yid?
Milhouse, so what do you think id the reason? Suppose there is a gathering to which anyone can come but for whatever reason it is clear that only as few will actually come. Now suppose that someone sends invitations to everyone in the phone book with a Jewish-sounding name. Would the former require a mechitza but the latter not? BTW, as I posted, he only says that there should be a mechitza lechatchila but adds that if people will not come otherwise it need not be cancelled.
Milhouse, actually he wrote that if one or two women come to a shiva house the men can daven there without a mechiutza. He did say what you said about a derasha but only lechatchila (OC 8:11). I still don;t undertstand what difference an invitation made. Maybe he thought that since the derasha was meant for kiruv purposes the women might not dress properly. One could say that כלל הציבור means that the general public would come.
BTW, I asked a rav who is a talmid of Rav Soloveichik and he said that RS’s motzaei Shabbat shiurim in Boston had mixed seating. He did say that when Rav Schachter came to speak at his shul he said that he “preferred” separate seating but did not say that there should be a mechitza.
Milhouse, I read his teshuva on weddings and he does not say that there. If you cannot come up with a quote I will assume that it does not exist. In fact, there is no reason why an invitation should make a difference. Here is the quote from his teshuva on weddings. BTW, the Levush says in the Likutim that in his day they already had mixed seating and says that they were used to being around women in business so it was no big deal.
Milhouse, where does he say that an invitation is required? BMG, he only says that regarding tefilla and at a מקום קיבוץ, which he does not define (he explicitly says that weddings do not even require separate seating and all of his children had mixed-seating weddings).
Rav Soloveichik not only allowed women to learn Gemara but inaugurated the bet midrash at Stern College. He reasoned that today women have high-level secular educations so they need similar Torah education. This was really just a continuation of Bet Yaakov, which was also a big chiddush when it started. Whether it is permissible or not to have a mixed shiur is a question for a posek. Most of the shiurim at the OU Israel Center are mixed so I presume that there are those who allow it. In some communities there is separate seating with or without a mechitza.
It beats breaking the window, releasing the emergency brake and pushing it out. Once someone blocked the main path *there was a roundabout way) from my apartment to the main road. I wrote in large letters בור ברשות הרבים ע’ בבא קמא דף כח עמ’ א and put the paper under his windshield wipers. End of problem.
RR44,
1. Are you saying that German Jews should not have opposed Hitler ym”s in the last few elections in Weimar Germany? As for leaving the country, polls already stated that. They also said that Hitler would not do everything he said once he was a leader as happens with many politicians.
2. Actually, Rav Chaim Ozer and the Brisker Rav lived in what was then eastern Poland. At first it was under Soviet occupation. The former died before the German attack (which was actually Hitler’s first unbelievable mistake, the second being declaring war on the US). The fact that many gedolim were tragically wrong about not leaving is another discussion.
3. I can think of several past and present leaders who are not outspoken antisemites or even closet antisemites. Trump. Reagan. LBJ. JFK. Macron. Thatcher.Joseph, what about trolls?
CTRebbe, am I correct in assuming that the last half percent understand neither English nor Yiddish?
The Meshech Chochma says that if Jews think that Berlin (or NY or Monsey or Lakewood) is their Jerusalem a great storm will come to uproot them.
Rambam says explicitly in his introduction to Shemoneh Perakim that he learned from non-Jewish writings. There is wisdom among the other nations. Sometimes they even say more or lessthe same as rabbinic sources. For example, John Adams said that the US Constitution is only appropriate for a religious and moral people, The Netziv says in He’emek Devar that the mitzva to appoint a king was conditioned on the people asking for one because some generations need a king and some need a republican form of government. Great minds really do think alike.
L’havdil
The reason for the minhag was that Jews were too poor to have many sefarim in their homes and it was dangerous to be outside at night. The first part no longer applies. The second applies every night in Brooklyn.
CS, what are Torah values? What about a book that accepts the scientific theory of the age the universe and resolves the apparent conflict with Torah? As for novels, their interpretation is up for grabs. Once Agnon (what about his books or Shalom Aleichem’s?) was asked what he meant by something he wrote. He referred the questioner to a well-known literary critic. What about a non-Jewish book about someone overcoming obstacles?
Lakewhut, on the contrary, a very large percentage of Israelis are “traditional” which often means kiddush and hamotzi on Shabbat followed by TV/going to a soccer game, keeping kosher and even taharat hamishpacha. As for measuring OTD, in the RZ sector, in particular on settlements, many young people stay in the community and play by the rules in public while doing what they want in private. Do they count as OTDs?
How about coming home to Israel or at least starting to plan? That is the biggest avodat Hashem and includes everything else. According to Ramban all your avoda in Chul is onky practice.
Joseph, it’s referring to someone whose objects are blocking your property. In any case, there is no issue of mesira in a democracy. It is a partnership of all of the citizens, both Jews and non-Jews. Even in authoritarian regimes t is permitted to turn over someone who is a public nuisance.
RD, even you know that he is Jewish you can do anything legal to clear away his car. According to Halacha you can break his window, release the brake and push it away. The Gemara discusses this on Baba Kama 28a (daf koach).
RE,
1. Shaul did not prohibit it. Hashem prohibited it – and Shaul violated orders.
2. The order to Shaul was a one-time mitzva.
2. Who says that that was the reason?
4. Not all of the enemies were Amalekites. Many were opportunists.SpiderJerusalem, you have it backwards. Dogs and cats are honest. Pigs are hypocrits. They put their feet forward in a pretence that they are kosher. In fact, there is a Yiddish expression for a hypocrit “pigs have kosher feet”.
K, you are correct. Only a gadol like Rav Kook can say it – and part of being a gadol is being an original thinker. Chazal say it regarding the אשת יפת תואר. We also see at the end of Megillat Esther it is noted that the Jews did not take booty. Yet in the Chumash it is clear that it was permitted.
K, as a matter of fact, Rav Kook says that many things the Torah permitted were only meant to be temporary measures to ameliorate conditions which were too ingrained to be prohibited immediately or for emergency situations. Chazal, in fact, say that a man should not marry off his minor daughter. Tosafot explains that it was done in their time because of special conditions. Among these were the אשת יפת תואר and slavery. Similarly, in the time before the social safety net selling one’s daughter was a way to get her out of poverty where the father could not support her. Thus, whether or not it is wrong is subjective.