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BP Totty – There is nothing that I wrote in the post you cite that should have been taken seriously; it was written with sarcasm to make a point.
I hope others got it.
Telegrok – Thank you for providing the facinating link to: “The Music of the Yamim Noraim” by Sherwood Goffin; it’s a must read and it dispels some myths about the mesorah of the nusach.
Littleeema – How do you know what Rav Schwab actually said concerning the tune of “ledovid boruch”?
yitayningwut – Deciphering and reproducing are two different things.
It’s just sooooooooooo slooooooooooow.
All the other critiques are just as valid.
The improvements, especially the graphics, are good; but can or will you go back home?
Chesedname – “i don’t think hashem would promise wealth, and go as far as saying you can even test me, and then say well really the reward is i’ll make yoiu happy with what you have”
The Rambam says that Strength and Wealth are not meant to be taken literally. Azehu Gibor? Hakovesh es Yitzro; not necessarily Charles Atlas. Just as Azehu Chochem? is someone who learns from everyone; and not necessarily someone with a high IQ.
enlightenedjew – “I think I can argue somewhat plausibly that certain services and payments that are one’s communal “obligations” should be treated as progressive taxes and not commodities.”
Yes, however, the obligation and responsibility to educate your children in Torah study falls on you, not society. So if you can’t educate your children in Torah, you need to hire someone to do it. I’ve never seen anyone become poor because he paid too much tuition.
chesedname – Most wealthy people are not satisfied with what they have and have never said that they have enough.
So the promise that you reference is allegorical: If you give Tzedaka, you will get back more than you give. So the more you give, the more you get since Hashem sees that you are a good repository for His money to be dispensed to the poor. We are in essence Hashem bank tellers; He deposits with us and the poor withdraw.
yitayningwut – Yes, but however very unlikely, even if some type of music notes existed and they were found, they would be meaningless in terms of recreating the sound.
It’s interesting; most frum people who sing in choirs cannot read music. They rehearse, practice, memorize and produce wonderful sound.
yitayningwut-“It would make sense that they had music sheets. They probably just got lost, that’s all.”
That’s all? You’re just proving our point. If the music sheets got lost, then the tunes got lost over the past 2000 years.
By the way, did your family preserve the tunes that your great great grand father sang a hundred and fifty years ago? Most tunes get lost over relatively few years. Many zmiros from the 50’s and 60’s aren’t around today, and that’s the way it’s been; the old makes way for the new.
I’ve seen many nigunim and wedding music change and conform to the times. A drei here and a drei there, and after a while you’ve got a new and changed tune. So it’s highly unlikely that Jews being the creative people that we are, that we allow anything to remain the same unless mandated by halacha.
WolfishMusings is absolutely correct: Without a recording device and without musical notes, it’s vitally impossible to definitively state that a “tune” goes back thousands of years. This is why the oral law had to be written down, and even then chazal disagreed on the rulings.
BP Totty – “while my Rov / Rebbe is the person whom I and my famlily turn to for life’s complicated choices, he has very little impact on the person on the vaad, if that person is not from my kehilla. “.
You’re missing out on the essence of a Rav. A Rav has one major responsibility, and that is to do Chesed; everything else is extra. In addition, there can be no greater shaila to a Rav than in which Yeshiva to educate your child, and don’t sell your Rav short; he will very much become involved if he feels a particular yeshiva is the best for your child.
BP Totty – “That way the folks making a ton of money would help offset the working class and everyone feels like a mentch.”
Why stop at yeshiva tuitions? Rich people should also pay for my other family expenses and necessities, such as: clothing, food, car, camp, bungalow, simchas, etc.
Now you know why everyone must have a Rav. Your Rav is not just someone who answers your shailos or guides your life in hashkafa matters; your Rav is with you in all of life’s complications and decisions. Your Rav is your advocate when it comes to matters beyond your capacity; such as dealing with yeshivas and all matters relating to chinuch.
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Dallas has every reason to be proud of their top drawer Vaad Hakashrus which is second to none anywhere on the globe.
“anyone know why it doesn’t seem to work?”
Chesedname – Aizehu asher? Hasameach bechelko.
Are you starving? Do you have a roof over your head?
Don’t assume that if you had it, you’re still going to have it. What you have now is a new gift from Hashem, not an old one.
So if you show your appreciation for the gift, and give more Tzedaka, Hashem will continue to provide.
“Let me ask you- what is worse, holding a cell phone in your hand, or having a dog on your lap while driving?!? Dogs can be much more distracting, they walk all over the car, why is that allowed while holding a phone is not?”
Boredstiff, you should give people the benefit of the doubt, be “dun l’caf z’chus”; the driver may be holding a Seeing Eye Dog.
“We have good days and bad days.”
Actually, we only have good days; however, the Emunah is weak. Now doubt Hashem provides us the challenges which makes life interesting and sometimes bitter, but it’s ultimately and always good.
seeallsides – “we are all here because of BMG and we should all kiss their toes for giving us such a beautiful torahdige seviva, yeshiva, growth opportunities,etc.”
And let’s also give well deserved hakaras hatov to the vibrant frum community of Lakewood and their Rabbonim and yesivas who welcomed Rav Aharon into Lakewood and provided support and opportunity for BMG’s growth.
RThereJewsThere – While sitting Shiva for my father a”h, about five years ago, this man comes in while we’re engaged in talking to those around us, and hands one of us a pen and walks out. There was no opportunity to dwell on what had just occurred, we just continued in the Shiva banter. Two years later, while sitting for my mother a”h, the exact same thing happens and as yourself, we have no clue.
This thread sounds like a radio ad. Yiden, shem zich.
And you guys were worried about the Japanese judicial system. American courts have always judged and sentenced Yiden with an iron hand and are now seeking a life term for Rubashkin. As far as Yiden are concerned, plea bargains were made to be broken, ask Jonathan.
Health – Ask the wife of a gambler or drug addict if given the choice, would she trade her husband’s addiction to smoking instead. We all know the answer.
Health – “bim, I don’t understand how you can say – “Whatever the damages are, I’m sure smoking causes more damage.”
Addictions to, i.e., gambling and drugs are not only harmful to the addict but destroy families as well and the effects are felt for many generations after the damage has been done.
There is no simple way to stop smoking, just as there is no simple way to stop any addiction. And everyone has weaknesses unique to themselves, so let’s correct our own weakness before giving musser to others. There were Rabbonim and Admorim who could not give up the tobacco and paid with sickness and early death. So while smoking may be a harmful and dirty habit, it pales to the damage caused by gambling and other additions which have crept into the frum world.
cantoresq – “Although the Gemara concludes that wet matzah is allowed on Pesach and Rashi confirms that p’sak, there are those who wish to be machmir based on those Talmudic opinions that asser the practice. Kitniyot however is much different. This was not a rabbinic injunction of any sort. Rather it was the invention of the foolishly pious. “
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avigoldstein “Nowhere on the tin does it state that these are hand matzos. Indeed, a flyer that hung from the display case states, “Looks like hand made.”
This is very misleading…”
How is this misleading?
I’d like to buy some handmade shmura square matzos; seen any?
Boruch Hashem, I’ve been giving a pint of blood, via Bikor Cholim, every eight weeks for the past fifteen years. People used to pay to let their blood, now you can refreash your blood for free and help others at the same time.
plaid – I asked your shaila and the p’sak was that you need not worry since in all likelihood the mouse that hangs out near your keyboard has already eaten any chametz that you can’t see.
hereorthere: I already did libun gamur and it’s been reconstituted.
Computers are so full of shmutz, the only way to clean them is by libun; heat it in a self clean oven until it glows.
Cantoresq – Sorry, but there is no regular Shabbos; every Shabbos is special, awesome, delightful and wonderful. By the way, I too wore colored shirts on Shabbos back in the sixties. We yeshivish young people also wore turtlenecks and dickeys, and Nehru and Beatle jackets. But then again, my ties were psychedelic and about five inches wide, as was my sideburns and the lapels of my plaid suits. Ah, youth.
cantoresq – “I do have one particular Shabbat practice though it’s not a hard and fast rule. I prefer wearing colored shirts on Shabbat. I think they are nicer than plain white. Thus I save them for Shabbat or Yom Tov.”
I too have a minhag to save my better suits for Shabbat or Yom Tov and colored shirts would just not due them justice. My colored shirts do go well with my work suits.
How about a discussion about the real reason the old timers no longer have interest in the CR; it’s because the CR has become so heavily censored and politically correct…what’s the use? More of my posts were getting deleted than shown. So you reap what you sow and now you have a blah…yawn…CR.
Yes deleting many of your posts has resulted in a more boring CR. Moderating this forum, in general, has led to a more boring CR. Less nivul pe, less lashon hara, less machlokis, less insults, less sinus chinam, less anti-Jewish values. It indeed would be a much more lively and exciting forum if there were no moderation.
And there were quite a few “old-timers” who told us that they left because they felt the moderation was too lenient. Everyone wants a forum to be moderated just in their own way.
volvie – “If you’ve never seen LITVISH Roshei Yeshiva good and shikur on Purim, I’m not sure which planet your living on.”
Name one. Are you referring to Rav Aaron, or Rav Moshe, or Rav Hutner, or Rav Ruderman, or Rav Shmuel, or Rav Jafin, or Rav Soloveichik, or Rav Elya; which one?
This is really insane, and that is the plea that should have allowed Grossman to live.
njs3215 – “With incentives”? Why do they need incentives?
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It’s amazing that we have not heard from our ultra liberal brothers in the American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, ADL of B’nai B’rith, NJCRC, United Jewish Communities, movements of the Reform or Conservative or Reconstructionists, or the organized Florida Jewish agencies. When Crist doesn’t hear the protests from these entities, he figures that this is not a big issue to the Jewish voters or Jewish big bucks in Florida so why bother.
Historically, there is no rachamim in the American justice system for Yidden.
So what does the card accomplish, nothing but antagonism and ill feeling. If you want to give Tzedaka, go ahead, but not this way.
nameless – Before discussing why the Rav holds that its assur, think about what all mitzvos would look like if they would be incorporated into a theme and what is the message we are sending to Hashem, that His mitzvos need a theme that He did not require of us.
Does a theme enhance the mitzvos, or does it take away from the identifying kedusha?
There is one ides of “zeh keili v’anveihu”, but that doesn’t disassociate the mitzva from its essence.
Can you imagine walking into a sukkah or a shul which is decorated with a circus theme? How about an esrog box or menorah with cartoon characters? Or a Pesach Seder with a picnic theme?
and that’s why Rav Soloveitchik said that themed m’shalach manos are assur.
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One of the greatest Torah giants of our times had stated that Themed shalach manos are assur.
A600KiloBear: Dos iz emes. Idish iz a heileger shprach un es iz nit dah kein shum nivel peh verter in dem shprach; ahber m’ken gut unshelten (curse) mit Idish.
Actually, I didn’t touch your post, but thank you for the kind words.
Forget restaurants or vacations or fancy cars or jewelry; he would like to make his wife happy once in a while but these items are out of the question.
Looking for a volunteer to work on a chesed or tzedaka project? Here he is. Collectors are never disappointed with this fellow.
People laugh at him because he is nodding off during learning and davening; yet very few burn the candle at both ends, as he does.
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The Jew of the decade?
No question: Joseph
Yitzchok’s shidduch with Rifka didn’t turn out that bad though.
A600KiloBear – “No one else is trying to impose their weakness as a lifestyle or to demand rights because of it.”
Oh, really?! What about talkers in shul, as an example? Or kiddish-clubbers? Or computer bloggers?
YW Moderator-42: leave anyone out?…hmmm..
Oomis1105 – Every Isur stated in the Torah, and more, is a problem in the frum world. As BP Totty said, everyone has their own unique weakness, but we look down publically at someone else’s weakness, not our own.
And we are always “don l’caf z’cus” ourselves and find teirutzim for ourselves, not others.
Let the yeshivas and frum institutions stop taking money from those who support the gays; until then let’s stop the hierocracy and let’s stop criticizing YU.
“the reference is to a live Pinchik davening on R”H”
cantoresq, why do you think there’s almost no mention or availability of this recording on the internet?