Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
I know otherwise, but I would definitively call his father zl Rabbi Lookstein.
YOU want to call him Rav Haskel? Take a look and kvell:
“he is Rabbi Haskel Lookstein… And he was backed up by Dayan Michael Broyde who cited the Tzitz Eliezer.”
charliehall – Are you telling us that Haskel asked a shaila of Dayan Broyde whether he could attend the Church service?
Take a pill.
Maris Ayin is even “b’chadre chadarim”, you can be locked away where it is imposable for anyone to see or know who you are there; but Maris Ayin applies, as if someone did see you.
When someone sees me in a treif restaurant, they may say, “If that frum fellow with a yarmalke can eat there, then it’s ok to eat”. They don’t know that I’m only using the telephone or the bathroom. However, if someone sees me without a yarmalke in the treif restaurant, he will know something is not right and is not likely to be mistaken.
You know what the most popular hechsher is? It’s: Everyone Eats There.
gavra – of course you can, cap or even bloizen kop, but wearing a yarmalke is like giving a hechsher to a treif environment.
“as far as inviting a goy for yom tov meal, wolf is that heter your own, you didn’t see it in a sefer, or did you ask someone?”
I asked a Rav/Posek if it was permissible to invite a goyish in-law into a sukkah for a meal with the family. The answer was that it was a Kiddush Hashem. I don’t know how he would have paskined concerning any stam goy.
Sanitation is government and when they do it, it’s legal; like a fine.
But when homeowners put in the illegal driveways, it done in a way that there is no possibility of parking in the street without blocking the driveway. So you virtually have entire blocks where parking is not available to the public.
One city regulation is that you can’t have a driveway cut within a certain distance of a tree, so my new neighbor had his workers burn down my tree.
And once he put in the driveway, the rain water source for the huge oak in his yard was cut off. So whose house do you think his tree fell on; mine?!
There are rules for a reason and they should be followed.
In my opinion, a shabbos seuda should be fun and enjoyable for the youngsters with an integration of good food, conversation, laughter, singing, some light divre torah/halacha, hachnosas orchim with a cheshbon, and let the kids do all the serving (within reason).
While homeowners don’t own the street and have no right to mar any car for blocking their driveway; you have every halachic right to call the police if you think a medical emergency may ensue.
There are numerous illegal driveways in Boro Park; i.e. 40th Street between 12 Ave. and 13th Ave. I’ll bet you won’t have any homeowners calling the police if their driveways are blocked. These driveways use up all available parking spots, so I wouldn’t care much if these driveways were blocked.
amichai – You are so wrong. Cold to nearly freezing is the best for grating, cutting, and grinding of meat or liver.
Tip: When you’re all through grinding, add one ice cube and grind…watch all the left behind ingredients come right out. Also, if liver is well done, add a little water to mixture to remoisten.
“The pieces aren’t that large and are slippery”
Broiled liver is not slippery and smaller pieces of chicken liver can still be held in place by the pressure involved. If you mean the chicken liver is not firm enough, hold grater with gentle pressure and turn.
Grinder is the only way.
“Siyanara! Bon Voyage! Adios!”
Been there, done that.
Only one way: Grinder.
Absolutely, never miss.
labubby – you are obviously no herring mavin; but abee g’ret.
The reason you mavinim give accolades to Schwartz matyas herring is because you’ve never had the real deal. Actually, these kosher herrings are just ok but you can do much better yourself. The repackers just take herring that’s been processed and add a little oil and onions and charge whatever you suckers will pay.
The same for shtiglitz (which is a made up word), and you can hardly find the micro bits of herring in the sauce.
For fresh, cheap, delicious shtiglitz: buy some pickled herring (in wine sauce) in a jar, add some of the liquid from the jar to mayo and mix to a thick consistency, add a minced Bermuda onion and some sugar to taste, add the drained herring pieces, put in fridge overnight and you’ve got a delight you can’t buy anywhere.
The color of matyas herring should be naturally dark rusty looking from the spices in the brine, not reddish from beet juice used by the imposters who label any herring with beet juice as matyas, and you guys fall for it.
You can find minimally processed matyas and experiment on your own.
Enjoy!
myfriend – don’t put words into a posek’s mouth; there is a huge difference between suggesting the use of what is considered CY, and forbidding CS.
And the vast majority of poskim follow Rav Moshe and hold that CS in America is 100% kosher; anything else is optional.
Perceptions and shalom bais aside, milk with any hashgacha is the same in kashrus; be it Yankel, or the OU, or the ChafK, or the StarK, or the USDA.
Here is the problem list; some of my favorites are on it too:
1792 Ridgemont
99 Schnapps
A. Smith Bowman
Ancient Age
Antique Collection
Barton
Blantons
Bowman
Buffalo Trace
California Deluxe
Canadian Host
Canadian Hunter
Canadian LTD
Canadian Supreme
Colonel Lee
Eagle Rare
Elmer T Lee
Experimental Collection
Fireball
George T. Stagg
Herbsaint
Highland Mist
House of Stuart
Imperial
James Foxe
Kentucky Gentleman
Kentucky Tavern
Mr. Boston
Northern Light
Old Charter
Old Rip Van Winkle
Old Thompson
Old Weller
Pappy Van Winkle
Rich & Rare
Rock Hill Farms
Royal Canadian
Sazerac Rye
Ten High
Thomas H. Handy
Tom Moore
Van Winkle
Very Old Barton
Virginia Gentleman
W L Weller
lkwdfellow, I like your list and I would add Rock Hill Farms to it. I lost Old Weller to the Kol Korei.
Ok, anytime and anyplace but it’s gotta be on Shabbos. And I’ll arrange for the herring. I also have a mesorah and that’s not to have a l’chaim alone, or just one.
Arc, Basil Hayden…feh!, it tastes more like scotch than bourbon; but I’d love to have a l’chaim with you with the others.
Reagan was a president that made you proud to be an AMERICAN and confident that the right man was in the White House. He was beloved by the vast majority, whether they agreed with him or not.
whatrutalkingabt – “Blantons and George Stagg!”
Both of your favorites are on the problematic list, see:
“Innocent until proven guilty (both a Jewish and American concept) means we dont convict based on the press reports, hearsay, or he said/she said claims and ruin a persons life and reputation prior to proof has been fully made and a conviction obtained.”
I agree. There are also sites on the internet where you can accuse anyone you want of pedophilia and other perversions and it will be posted, no questions asked. Life and shiduchen are ruined forever; and virtually impossible to have it removed. However, where accusations can be proven, hang ’em high…no rachmanos.
“HaRav Yitzchok Glick shlita is the director of the Kashrus division of the CRC.”
Who?
“Sure they alert when theres a problem.”
Name one; never heard or read of a CRC NY alert; the OU is constantly keeping people current and aware of product error or fraud.
“But due to their very high standards”.
Please educate us about their high standards and how they differ from the OU.
I was once at the OU and talking to an officer and I mentioned that certain heimishe hashgachos do not rely on the OU, especially OU oil.
It turns out that the heimishe oil was actually produced by an OU hashgacha company and labeled with the heimishe brand and heimishe hashgacha.
“Everyone relies on OU for at least some basic staples.”
Even hashgachos with very high standards; oh my?
And remember when the little boy got deathly sick when he ate a heimishe pareve cookie. It turned out that the cookie was milachic and the lad was allergic to dairy. Where was the heimish mashgiach? So much for heimish hashgacha having highest standards.
so right – “The NY CRC is widely known for their high standards of Kashrus”
CRC NY is not one of the top five kashrus agencies; CRC Chicago is.
Since you sat that the NY CRC is widely known for their high standards of Kashrus and is widely accepted and is familiar, who is the director of CRC NY and how do you know which products and establishments they give a hechsher to?
Are they makpid on Yashan flour? NO
Do they alert the public when there is a problem in a hechsher like the other kashrus agencies do? NO
And do they need to rely on the OU for any of their hechsherim on product/ingredients? YES
CRC from Chicago is extremely professional and reliable, and they have a wonderful website.
From Wikipedia:
The Chicago Rabbinical Council (or cRc) is the largest regional Orthodox rabbinical organization in America, located in Chicago, Illinois. The cRc is a not-for-profit offering a wide variety of Jewish services including kosher product supervision and kosher certification. Kosher certification is available around the world and throughout the year, including Passover supervision.
The cRc is also involved in community relations, funeral standards legislative issues, singles programming, youth education, and other activities benefiting the Jewish and general communities.
The cRc provides a beth din, a court of rabbis who are experts in Jewish law. In addition to dealing in the area of Jewish divorce, the Jewish court deals with Jewish adoption, conversion, certification of Jewish status, cases of mediation, and legal disputes
CRC website: http://www.crcweb.org
You can’t get this type of info from the NY CRC. In fact, you can’t get any info from NY CRC, website or not.
It’s really no one’s business when anyone takes off their t’filin or leaves before the end of davining. The SA allows the taking off of t’filin after “Uvah L’tzion” so don’t be frummer than the SA.
And m’ikor hadin one does not have to say everything written in the sidder if you don’t have the time, but find out what you can omit.
I think it’s great that yiden can come to minyan at all so if they need to leave early, that’s ok with me. Personally, I’m there in the morning an hour before shachris and don’t hurry home after maariv, but to each his own.
Everyone knows the g’mara about the fellow who had an older wife and a younger wife. The older wife would pull out her husband’s dark hair so that he would appear older to the young wife and the younger wife would pull out her husband’s white hair so that he would appear younger to her. And of course, between the two of them he was left with no hair. So BP Totty, not so strange.
From Wikipedia on Saul Lieberman:
Personal Paradox – Although deeply involved in the Seminary, Lieberman often seemed to be on the very right wing of Conservative Judaism. Personally fully observant of Halacha, he would not pray in a synagogue which did not have separate seating for men and women. Lieberman insisted that all services at the Seminary have a mechitzah even though the great majority of Conservative synagogues did not. He also frowned upon egalitarian participation by women in the Seminary synagogue services even though the Conservative movement at large was moving towards that goal.
Biography – Born in Motal, near Pinsk, Belarus (then Russian empire), he studied at the Orthodox Yeshivot of Malch and Slobodka. While studying at the Slobodka Yeshiva, he befriended Rabbi Yitzchak Ruderman and Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner, both of whom would become leaders of great Rabbinical seminaries in America. In the 1920s he attended the University of Kiev, and, following a short stay in Palestine, continued his studies in France. In 1928 he settled in Jerusalem. He studied talmudic philology and Greek language and literature at the Hebrew University, where he was appointed lecturer in Talmud in 1931. He also taught at the Mizrachi Teachers Seminary and from 1935 was dean of the Harry Fischel Institute for Talmudic Research in Jerusalem.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Lieberman for the rest of an interesting bio on Saul Lieberman.
Ben Torah, I wish you were right but I’m not no sure. Enough said ’cause anymore will be censored.
mw13 – “If it’s assur, its assur regardless. If it’s muttar, there’s no need for these reasons.”
Chazal have made special considerations for women in many areas knowing that women’s biological and emotional realities are different and more sensitive than the male’s.
minyan gal – “…the main difference between this Chabad shul’s viewpoint and that of my Conservative shul, is the fact that the Conservative parking lot is always open.”
You are correct, considering this viewpoint and many other Chabad beliefs of today, Chabad has moved outside mainstream Orthodox halachik and hashkafic consensus.
oomis, if a girl is turned off at the sight or feel of chest hair, and asked her husband to shave it off, it may not fall within the criteria of beged isha. Again, I would think under these circumstances, a Rav would matir.
cynical – My error concerning Roth; I haven’t looked at the t’shuva for many years so all names escape me now. I have the t’shuva buried in my files and I can get it if your interested. I have a feeling though that you could probably guess the names of the five or six JTS professors who asked the shaila of professor Lieberman.
If a man’s chest hair is mee’es to his wife, and it’s a real problem, a posek will probably matir to shave. The main problem for a man concerning cosmetics is to make himself look younger.
“Are men allowed…?”
It depends on the reason for doing so.
Rabbi Saul Lieberman, who was a talmud of Slabodke and the top Talmud professor at JTS, had a six page serious t’shuva on why women rabbis were assur. JTS followed his ruling until his death; after which, their policy changed. As a result, there were many defections and a new movement and seminar was created by those who left, i.e., Halivne Weiss and Roth.
“But considering the intermarriage rates in the reform and conservative communities, and the acceptance of paternal descent as “Jewish”, the question remains what percent of their communities are actual Jews.”
You’re so right,and consider that conservative geyrus is worthless as well.
By the way, the method of how Jewish population is tallied in the U.S.A. is that a sampling of people are called by phone and if the head of the household is claimed to be Jewish, the demographers consider and count the entire household as Jewish.
So halachically, there are far less Jews in the United States as officially stated and this would bring the true Orthodox proportion of the actual total of American Jews much higher than the secularists state.
GIVEN: Some (many) people are uncaring rude slobs who don’t put back s’farim; and they leave their dirty cups and tissues on the table; and they look at a sefer during the Rav’s drasha (this is literally r’tzicha).
OUR RESPONCE: Be responsible for your own table when you arrive and leave. Put away the s’farim; put their dirty tissues in the trash using a clean tissue; and do give musser to the rotzeach no matter how frum looking he is.
WellInformedYid – “Mamer Mordechai: He says the reason for this issur is because you are mevatil his kavanah. This fits well with the view of the Magen Avraham.”
So there are other things that may mevatil someone’s kavanah during the amidah. My pet peeve that disturbs my kavanah is when I’m davining shmoneh esrei and the fellow next to me davins loud enough for me to hear him, or insists on learning aloud while others are davining shmoneh esrei. They want to enhance their kavanah on the backs of others and this is assur.
Minhag of eating chicken soup friday night?
Very poshit.
How else would you get three courses in one pot: soup; chicken and vegetables?
And you could take the pot off the fire before Shabbos, wrap it, and still have piping hot food at the meal.
And the bonus is that you only needed one bowl for all.
That’s the way it was, and still is for many of us.
WolfishMusings – and you can add Bald to the list of men’s changing appearance after marriage.
I can only try – Grow, Mrs Goldfarb is sung to what tune?
The fact is women were not created to take on men’s worries and jobs, or to be outside in the sun. I believe is these things are the types of things responsible for many women aging before their time, especially in Israel.
CHAIMBERLIN702 – “Jackets are optional.”
A very definitive statement, however, it’s minhag hamakom. In most shuls you won’t get an aliya or lead services unless you are wearing a jacket.
mosherose – “Just like Avrohom never looked at Sorah and certinly never socialized with her, so too we should strive to reach this goal with our own wifes.”
I guess Sorah became pregnant, exactly how?
charliehall – lighten up.
minyan gal – “Those that are going to work afterward are generally more dressed up but on a Sunday morning it isn’t uncommon to see jeans, bermuda shorts in the summer, and T shirts or sports shirts. It is more important that the people come – Hashem doesn’t mind what you wear.”
Don’t you think that going to the Boss of all bosses in His Office warrants the utmost respect and that you dress at least as formal for Him as for when you go to work? Otherwise, what is the message that you send to Hashem; that He is not worthy? Do you think Hashem plays golf on Sundays?