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LC, if you don’t advocate giving only the bare minimum to public schools, should you be accused of not caring about Jewish kids?
ZD, it can be whatever is legal and decided by the democratically elected board.
LC, of course the district’s are partially state funded. The problem is a faulty formula which doesn’t allocate enough to districts such as East Ramapo which have unique demographics.
The law also doesn’t mandate small class sizes in public schools or art and sports.
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Each district pays their own taxes.
No, it’s shared.
How far away do you have live to get free bussing?
How far would you feel comfortable allowing your first-grader to walk to and from school?
Raise the property taxes. Why should I or any other NY tXpater pay for their bussing.
They are already paying a lot more than the cost of their own children’s busing. Why should they pay for other children’s public school education more than other NYS taxpayers?
You’re welcome.
I was simply pointing out that what is a “Universal Fit” for Nochrish’e toilets are not necessarily so for Yiddish’e toilets.
FTFY
I was trolling; mw13’s first attempt http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/ywn-gedolim-backed-nachal-chareidi-at-the-onset-albeit-quietly turned into a DT thread.
Avi K, it depends if she needs to get to the other side.
To help her cross the street.
Really, Sam? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to just have a policy not to shake anyone’s (female) hand?
If a woman puts out her hand to me, I tell her that the only women I’ll touch are my mother, sisters, wife, and daughters.
I’ll leave it to the legal experts, who say it’s illegal.
You need to know the background, historical and legal, to know how to read and interpret. What you think is explicit is not.
Jewish toilet? Motto: we put the “oy” in “toilet”
Sam, that’s the p’sak I follow. It’s frequently awkward explaining to a woman why I’m willing to shake her hand, but that’s the price we pay for following halachah.
Joseph, that is your interpretation of the statute, but that’s not what most legal experts (online or otherwise) say.
I guess you missed: (one of many sources saying the same thing)
I think MO don’t want to believe in daas Torah because they don’t want to feel like they’re being told what to do.
From legalzoom: (one of many sources saying the same thing)
Personal Use
Copying music, even copyrighted music, is not always illegal. Federal copyright laws allow one who purchases a song to copy the song for his own personal use. For instance, you can copy an album in order to have one copy at home, and one copy in your car. However, this does not mean you can copy a song and give it to a family member or friend.
I’m not dismissing those piskei halachah, I’m dismissing your trumpeting them. Especially as you dismiss legitimate piskei halachah on handshaking.
The only legal copying is for the one who purchased an original.
According to all opinions, unauthorized downloads and copying are assur for one reason or another (at least in the US). The only shailah is why.
OTOH, handshaking is a machlokes muttar assur (or even yv”y).
The why the twisted logic? Lots of stuff you’d have to pay for from previous decades?
In a twisted sort of way.
Kind of like giving yourself a life threatening ulcer so you can eat at McDonald’s.
I don’t it’s any clearer than copying.
What’s clear is your negiyus.
The majority of poskim asser copying, but the majority are mattir A/C.
What about handshaking?
But the gedolei haposkim disagree.
Which ??? ?????
Perhaps, but it would still be assur according to both R’ Elyashiv and R’ Moshe, and we know that R’ Moshe called it gezel.
I don’t know of anyone of the stature of either who was mattir.
Why is that person “pseudo” Da’as Torah, vs. an expert on the subject matter?
Which person?
???? ????? ?????? ????? doesn’t give capabilities to someone who doesn’t have them. If not, we would be discussing Nevuah, not Da’as Torah. All ???? ????? ?????? ????? means is that the Sanhedrin is law, no matter the qualifications, not that Yiftach, Rava, or Rabbi Amital is a Navi (or has Ruach HaKodesh, or Da’as Torah, or other capabilities) like Shmuel was.
If daas Torah means extending what you ask a talmid chochom into areas beyond Torah, then the same way, despite not having a R’ Akiva Eiger or R’ Moshe Feinstein today, we still find someone who is a talmid chochom to ask our shailas in Torah to, we would also find a talmid chochom to ask our non Torah shailas.
I’m almost sure not.
Someone who repairs computers must at time erase the entire drive and reload the programs one by one. What happens when the customer did not legally purchase these programs. Is it permissible to restore what the customer had originally?
Rav Elyashiv: It is absolutely forbidden and even if he will lose his customers he must search for a new manner in which to make a living.
Also, U.S. copyright law (probably most other countries as well) prohibit copying, even for personal use (except for fair use exceptions, which does not allow copying what you didn’t buy).
Not true. In fact, I know of one rav who used to be mattir, until, after speaking to several of the gedolei haposkim, retracted.
It’s not all or none, and ???? ????? ?????? ?????.
Your “valid” rejoinder means that there’s nobody more capable of making klal (or even prat) decisions more than you?
1) That has nothing to do with nuance.
2) According to many (if not most) poskim, including published psak, copying is gezel which is quite chamur (we say ???? ???? ????? ?????? at the climax of Yom Kippur).
I will reiterate that I don’t want to discuss specific people.
A few posts (I’m sure there are more) demonstrating that mw13 is not a Joseph loyalist:
So it’s like a Yogi (not Berra) or Bhikkhu (or Bhikkhuni)
I suppose to someone who doesn’t believe in the Torah, yes.
Whom to vote for can fall into either category.
One of the most humorous aspects of the Open Orthodoxy wars is the heresy hunters citing HaGaon Shaul Lieberman in opposition to Rabbi Avi Weiss on semicha for women when they would never cite Rabbi Lieberman on anything else, ever.
It wasn’t addressed by anyone else because it is a Conservative shailah, not an Orthodox one.
“We Modern Orthodox don’t believe in Daas Torah because Rav Soloveitchik told us not to.”
So this is something upon which we can all agree – that Rav Sokoveichik did not possess daas Torah.
That is what it has become to mean.
Infallibility, or advice in mili d’alma (mundane matters)? Those are two different things.
You also left out an extremely important middle area – questions which may not technically be halachah shailos, but are important to Yiddishkeit.
What is Da’as Torah?
It’s a combination of things which result in the words of talmidei chachomim having more import than those of a hedyot. It exists on different levels.
If someone learns properly, it should refine his thinking and emotions so that he can answer a question with seichel and objectivity. A true gadol does not allow bias to inform his decision, and has insight (to varying levels, depending on the level of gadlus) that a hedyot doesn’t.
I am not going to get involved in discussing who is or isn’t a gadol.
Nu, popa, any more for us?
ZD, daas Torah isn’t about stories.
When you claim that daas Torah means infallibility, you’ve created a straw man, easy enough to tear down by showing situations in which the outcome didn’t reflect the advice given. That’s not what the typical yeshivish definition of daas Torah is, though.
Popa, I thought you just graduated?
Sorry I didn’t pick up on the sarcasm.
OK. You were still way off on the other thread (you comparison here, as you admit, wasn’t too great either).
I’m referring to: Lol american_yerushalmi
that is exactly what Moshe Rabbeinu replied when told “…???-???? ???????? ?????? ?????? ??????”
So you’re comparing his post to what Moshe Rabbeinu did not respond?
If you aren’t makpid on cholov Yisroel, it’s not a chashash at all, but that’s not who this new initiative is trying to serve.
THe OP was asking for mareh mekomos and I provided, what I believe to be a relevant one.
That’s a woefully inadequate mareh makom for that halachic discussion, and you know that.
As I see it, you’re comparing a-y’s post, which you are blasting, to Moshe Rabbeinu’s response to Yisro? I will give you the opportunity to clarify.
Who said anything about non cows milk or Hershey’s or Breyers? That’s a different discussion. We’re talking about CY in Starbucks in unsealed containers.
You mean like Enron, Volkswagen, Lehman Brothers, etc.?
Ubiquitin, no, not exactly. In fact, not even close.
You seen to be developing a nasty habit of quoting p’sukim out of context to bolster opinions which are k’neged halachah.
I don’t like black coffee, but that’s beside the point.
I don’t think an establishment which makes overtures to the kosher consumer, which is nice, takes precedence over one which actually has a hechsher.