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Are we positively impacted by having the “Ari Halberstam” ramp in Manhattan?
Why is it different than keeping your wall clock plugged in over Shabbos?
Hope that it’s a nice ring.
13th was the missed turn, but 18th is where he was last and 16th is closest to his home.
Why not 18th Avenue or 16th Avenue instead of 13th Avenue?
One of the best ways to stay alive is to never retire. Retirement boredom is one of the biggest killers around.
apushatayid: There is no point in reversing who gets the name first if it will only result in reversing the problem of who doesn’t have dates, as you indicated. Additionally, if you want to reverse it, you can in your work as a shadchan. You can’t make some kind of binding rule imposing your idea on all other shadchanim. Also, in my experience acting as a shadchan I’ve often found more good boys than girls.
HayyimOvadya: It seems to me that the older girls often are the ones who delayed shidduchim in order to obtain a higher education. Unfortunately they become highly educated but unmarried.
bortezomib: You definitely did the right thing. You are truly an inspiration for keeping and following your psak!
Why was it changed from “who goes to who?” to “whom goes to who?”? They are both equally wrong.
He obviously agrees that people can go out.
Looking at each other ==>is a different story<==.
Dr. Pepper: The post you linked to from him seems to indicate he feels it is okay to look. (He is bemoaning that she didn’t want him to look.)
All i know is that its the same people that say the boy should go OOT to the girl, that complain that boys don’t want to go out with OOT girls.
That’s pretty much the reason for what DaasYochid pointed out above (third comment in this thread.)
They say,” A Conservative is a Liberal who’s been mugged.” Well, A Liberal is a Conservative who’s been arrested.
Then Aron must be a liberal.
ZeesKite: What are the disadvantages?
MiddlePath:
The people who had opposite gender friends their whole life generally have a lot more problems (read: issurim) then the people who never had opposite gender friends.
ItcheSrulik: A woman is patur from formally davening.
No plea deal will be less than life without parole. So why would he plea.
Dr. Pepper: If it’s reported to the IRS or state tax department, how can it be stealing from the shareholders?
Frum Yekki’s don’t wear yarmulka’s?
In Europe people would wear a yarmulka or head-covering despite any threat.
BoR: The moderators are volunteers, not paid.
We can’t let our children continue to be molested because we are afraid we are reporting the wrong person.
The Torah mandates us to not masser the wrong person. Halacha is that we rather free a guilty person than risk punishing an innocent one.
In Yiddishkeit a Zokein is someone to look up to. It is in the goyish culture that we need to distance ourselves from, that looks at their elders as old fogies to distance themselves from.
Wow, bortezomib. I got so much chizuk from your submitting to Daas Torah!
Can you summarize?
Chazal say, “Derech eretz kadma LaTorah.” This is not to say that we should all abandon our Yeshivos and study halls and enrol in finishing schools. But if our Torah study and observance is not accompanied by, and proceeded by, proper attention to our character and the way we deal with others, then it calls our study and our motives into question.
Rabbi Chaim Vital asks: If derech eretz is so important, why doesn’t the Torah address it by making it a mitzvah (one of the 613 mitzvos) to have good manners and work on one’s character? He answers: Were derech eretz to be a mitzvah, it would imply that it’s a mitzvah just like all the other mitzvos. In truth, it’s much more. It’s a precondition to observing the Torah – a person lacking in basic mentschlichkeit can’t even begin to study and connect with the Torah!
charliehall: Would it not be maris ayin to actually eat in a treif restaurant?
If you are a mandated reporter, your job could be in jeopardy and you could be sued if you do not follow the law.
If you are a Jew, your neshoma could be in jeopardy and you could be punished if you do not follow halacha.
Therefore, I believe, that any ROV would allow you to report, and not put your job at risk.
And instead put your neshama at risk so you can keep your job?
If that is the case, what is the point of asking a ROV?
To stop yourself from breaking halacha and to save your neshama.
Would he Pasken against the law?
Rather than pasken against halacha?
And can I get a new one (anything reasonable).
Don’t worry popa_bar_abba. If it is too difficult for you to carry out the stoning of the mechallel Shabbos, I’ll cover for you.
I think Joseph is adorable.
Englishman got reversed capitals in his second post above.
I thought Oberland refers to areas like Prague (Czech) and Slovakia, areas that were Chareidi but not really Chasidish, i.e. the Vien kehilla (Adas Yereim).
Mesirah means reporting to a goy. Not a rebbi or parent, which is not only permissible but often required, and has nothing to do with mesirah.
Call in sick.
Wall Street Journal 4/30/04:
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Today he leaves prison, after serving 18 years on phony charges.
At 10 o’clock this morning, Gerald Amirault will walk out of his Massachusetts jail, a free man.
It is a joyous day for this prisoner, behind bars for 18 years after his 1986 conviction on charges of child sex abuse based on fantastical testimony dragged from pre-schoolers. Gerald’s mother Violet and his sister Cheryl served eight years before their convictions were overturned in 1995.
Our system isn’t always immune to destructive pressures, and the child-abuse prosecutions of the 1980s were one such instance. Mr. Amirault’s prosecution was driven by the passions of the times — in this case, the belief that child predators lurked everywhere and that the child “victims” must be believed at all costs.
Along the way, the law was stood on its head. The rules of evidence were changed to accommodate the prosecution; the burden of proof was put on the accused. Four- and five-year-olds were coached to say what adults wanted to hear. All this was done in the name of virtue, with the result being the kind of catastrophic miscarriage of justice we saw in Mr. Amirault’s case. There never was any truth to the charges brought against him. Nor was there anything that would, in saner times, have passed for evidence in an American courtroom.
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Wall Street Journal 10/20/03:
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By now, too, the recognition that this prosecution — and other child abuse cases like it around the country — was built on concocted testimony has become widespread. So widespread that it is now the sort of thing studied in colleges and universities. The 49-year-old Mr. Amirault is about to finish his liberal arts degree in prison. Not long ago he had the surprising experience of opening a sociology textbook, and finding there — in a list of hysteria-driven prosecutions — the Amirault case. Things have certainly come far since the day he was carted off to do 30-40 years, a despised cast-off from society.
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You should look-up “induced memories”. Also, look at the following articles from the Wall Street Journal:
Wall Street Journal 8/24/99:
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That the Amiraults’ trials were held amid a wave of child-abuse prosecutions — a time when it would have taken a rare juror to resist the reigning imperative to “believe the children,” the children who had so bravely stepped up to the witness stand, and “children don’t lie” — evidently did not enter into the justices’ concerns. Neither, apparently, did all the available evidence that the investigative tactics employed in the Amiraults’ prosecution drove the children to extremes of fantasy, charges of marauding robots, murdered squirrels, attack by butcher knife — none of which seem to have raised any questions about the credibility of the child witnesses. For it was understood, thanks to the strange new legal standards in evidence in American courtrooms during the great mass-abuse trials pitting toddlers against the accused — most of them nursery school teachers — that the jury should feel free to disregard any parts of the witnesses’ testimony that were clearly incredible, the witnesses being children.
In such a time and atmosphere, in courtrooms where such standards for witness credibility prevailed and jurors were repeatedly reminded by the prosecutors of how much courage it had taken for these children to come forward, jurors voted to believe the children. In such ways did the false facts delivered by child witnesses result in convictions of the innocent, a matter with which the justices — engaged with their higher duty to the doctrine of finality — were not disposed to concern themselves.+
Across the nation courts have taken account of these matters. Kelly Michaels was freed from prison in New Jersey after serving five years, her conviction reversed. A federal courts freed Grant Snowden, the target of State Attorney Janet Reno prosecutions, after he served 11 years. And in Massachusetts, lower ourts freed Cheryl Amirault and her mother, Violet (who died after release).
id much rather it be an issue of self esteem.
Why would you much rather it be low self-esteem? Bad middos can be fixed easier than fixing low self-esteem.
How about reading and posting to Yeshiva World (from your phone) during davening?
Can I get the full “Sheker Ha’chein V’hevel Ha’yofee” as my blurb, or preferably a nicer one entirely? The current abbreviated version is a bit disagreeable.
nfgo: The words you are attributing as non-English, are in fact English words, as they have entered our lexicon and dictionary.
Can I get a blurb too?