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and therefore illegal for any and all purposes in all fifty states and all five territories.
It is legal on state level in over thirty states, and although technically illegal on the federal level, that statute has no teeth because the DOJ has been banned from accessing federal funds to prosecute.
Also, how are you defining the shidduch crisis?
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/defining-the-shidduch-crisis
If the young people are too immature, to unintelligent, too busy to be bothered with speaking to people about a proposed shidduch on their own, without Mommy making their decisions for them, they are not ready to be dating, much less get married.
This is categorically untrue. Just take chassidim as an example. The parents make the decision who they meet, and a very high percentage marry the first. Are they not ready to marry?
Your description of Daas Torah is inaccurate.
She told me that her mother had a stack of resumes ad hashamayim, and every few days she’d look into another girl. She could kind of decide to say no for any random reason, until she found the “perfect” girl.
This kind of mentality is the reason that so much of what is wrong with shidduchim is blamed on the boy’s mother.
Is that her fault? What should she do if she has a stack of resumes? Pick the worst one? Do eeny meeny miny mo?
According to the company’s CEO, the hechsher is for vaporization cartridges, oils and capsules. Sounds medical to me.
I’m all for anyone becoming a doctor if they can learn like the Rambam.
The Rambam learned exclusively for years before he became a doctor.
I thought this is what you were saying in this post
(That a. There are many variables and b. Why does it matter)
I was and am saying that.
The “all things being equal” qualification when “ranking” people is silly because all things are not equal, and more importantly, the tone of these threads is one of class warfare and debasing others (particularly this one:
But the implication of some of these posts that learning full time or not makes no difference is wrong. As you pointed out, generally, people who are in kollel learn and know more, and denying that this is a positive in a person’s overall ruchniyus is ridiculous.
Not everyone has that opportunity, and only Hashem knows the full picture and can make the ultimate judgement, but to simply say that everything and everyone is equal is to potentially dismiss values which should be important to all of us.
I don’t know where you see that the OP was comparing a “talmid chochom” who is mevazeh the Torah to a balabus who learns every minute he can. He made no such qualification, or I would have surely agreed that the balabus is better (and yes I just ranked them – is that offensive?).
Wow. With all the dumb comments in this thread, still nothing beats the OP.
That has been asserted, not proven.
If ch”v I did, why would I use a treatment which was tested and not shown to work?
From the American Cancer Society:
There have been some early clinical trials of cannabinoids in treating cancer in humans and more studies are planned. While the studies so far have shown that cannabinoids can be safe in treating cancer, they do not show that they help control or cure the disease.
Relying on marijuana alone as treatment while avoiding or delaying conventional medical care for cancer may have serious health consequences.
I will note that they do consider it useful in relieving some of the horrible side effects of chemo.
Oh, the company producing the snake oil sent a letter boasting how it works.
That should convince everyone.
Whats the difference between being ranked higher and being considered “better”?
The flaw would be if someone would hold himself higher, but not in setting our priorities.
Randomex, Are you not going to argue aagainst the claimed connection
between kollel and the shidduch crisis, DaasYochid?
First let someone define the shidduch crisis and state how kollel causes it, then we’ll talk.
Newbee,
?”? ????? ????? ??? ?? ?? ??? ?? ???? ?? ?”? ????? ??? ??”?
Is a nice aggadic message stressing the importance of learning Torah but its not taken literally or taken to say a talmid chacham is a better person than a woman or a man who has a learning disability. Or person A should marry person B.
You made that up. You don’t like what Chaza”l say, so you decide that they didn’t mean it. But these things are nogeia l’halacha, regarding priority in aliyos, for example.
Im not sure what question I didn’t answer that you are referring to.
Whether learning Torah leads to more ruchniyus.
I asked, “Do you think there is absolutely no correlation between Torah learning and middos and/or ruchniyus (spirituality)?”
To which you responded, “There is no connection between middos and being an inherently better person.”, which did not answer my question (and was very wrong itself).
The premise that people are measured against each other and ranked.
Are you saying that it shouldn’t be done, or that it isn’t done?
What was the premise?
Apushatayid, just a few posts up, someone claims it.
(Then, when I pointed out how flawed his “evidence” is, he says I made choizek of it. Which I did, because it deserved to be made choizek of.)
You wrote here, “I get the impression that there are people out there who seem to suggest that somehow people who are in kollel are better than Jews than the rest of us frum people.”
Based on that post, you would seem to be one of those people.
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Interesting how here, flatbusher does expect learners to be on a higher level:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/boycotting-borsalino#post-554817
Which people?
Kollel is a siman, not the sibah.
How so?
I don’t think Chassidim are much different in terms of divorce rate, perhaps even a bit worse, and you can’t take a control group from a different era, because there are too many other factors, mostly the overall moral decline of society.
Point is, your assertion that there’s some type of correlation between kollel and marriage issues is an invention of your own with no basis in reality.
You can’t bring rayos from individual stories. Most people can’t work half a day.
Besides, if you think that’s ideal, why do you look to have him retire young and learn full time? Let him work half a day as long as he’s physically able. You obviously do recognize the chashivus of learning (full time).
Ela mai, financial necessity? I never disagreed with the idea that at some point, the vast majority of kollel guys must (and do) go to work (I’m referring to chu”l where military duties don’t factor in).
I also think that if one were to be faced with the option to dedicate younger years to learning or plan to retire young and dedicate later years, he should choose the former (for a number of reasons).
I think it’s a real stretch to say that shidduch and divorce problems are a result of kollel. Do you have any sort of control group to compare to, which is relatively free of these problems?
Ubiquitin and gavra, I’m curious as to how you understand the story.
You googled that? 😉
It does! I wonder which toppings work best.
Really, you need a better standard then googling and seeing what you get.
You can google “Healing cancer with Cannabis” or “Rick Simpson” and see for yourself.
You can entertain yourself by googling lots of things. You can Google “cannibis does not cure cancer”. You can Google “tomato juice cures cancer”. In fact, I tried a few random things, and they all had hits. Now I’m going to try “pizza cures cancer” and see what I get.
Yes
Explanation: clothing is seasonal and quickly goes out of style. In order to attract the (too) discriminating frum market, they need to carry a very wide selection. Unless they do a very high volume, they need to mark up their in season styles high enough to make up for the fact that they will be left with dead merchandise.
Advice: wait for the closeouts and pay 50%.
?”? ????? ????? ??? ?? ?? ??? ?? ???? ?? ?”? ????? ??? ??”?
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Here is the ??? about placement of ??????:
http://beta.hebrewbooks.org/tursa.aspx?a=oc_x97
http://beta.hebrewbooks.org/tursa.aspx?a=oc_x98 (particularly ?)
and here is ??”?:
Zb, do you mean this?
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14170&st=&pgnum=80&hilite=
It’s referring to writing, the machlokes Rashi/Rabeinu Tam is about placement.
What I’m saying is that it was not a set halachah.
How that ever came to be is an excellent question, to which I don’t have an answer, but your question is on Rabeinu Tam himself.
ROB, the two shittos were around long before Rashi and Rabeinu Tam.
R”T learned the sugya, and came out like the other shittah. I don’t know what’s so shver. (Also, he had another grandfather as well.)
So this answer is functionally meaningless.
Wait a minute, you mean to tell me that there are people out there who justify their own life choices by insinuating that they are better? I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you!
It is functionaly meaningless (or worse) if used to justify life choices, and especially if to be haughty.
It is not functionally meaningless if the values and prioritization of values are used to make life choices.
Avi K says everyone needs to do their job. Okay, but what if someone has the ability to do either? Should he choose to spend most of his day learning Torah or computer programming?
Should a girl want to marry a talmid chochom? If a boy wants to devote a number of years to learning, does this give him a better chance than if he doesn’t?
Do we show more respect to talmidei chachomim than to non talmidei chachomim? Halachah says we do. Perhaps political correctness says we don’t?
Personally, I would show more respect to Rav Chaim Kanievsky than to an erliche balabus who is koveia ittim. Is there anyone here who disagrees?
None of this says that a kollel guy is automatically better, but let’s be honest – Yiddishkeit puts tremendous value on Torah learning, on many levels, and even though we value every Yid’s contributions, let’s not forget that Talmud Torah k’neged kulom.
Newbee, you didn’t answer the question.
And certainly shouldn’t tell people that they have no duty to anyone who doesn’t keep their newsletters in their pockets 24-6 to look it up before eating anything
That’s horrible. You should start a thread on the CR denouncing them.
Ask better: is it possible for the OU to sign a contract which forces the company to recall a mislabeled product?
Do you think there is absolutely no correlation between Torah learning and middos and/or ruchniyus (spirituality)?
3 – they should recall the product.
How about a balabus who learns eight hours a day vs. one who never cracks open a sefer?
How about about a balabus who never cracks open a sefer vs. one who learns five minutes between Mincha/Maariv?
How about a guy who works but learns eight hours a day vs. a guy in kollel who learns two?
How about a kollel guy who learns fourteen hours a day vs. one who learns ten?
How about a kollel guy who learns ten hours a day vs. one who learns ten minutes?
How about a guy who works in the kollel store vs. someone who eats cholov stam but is makpid on a sticker on his Twizzlers?
How about a guy who cheats on his taxes vs. a guy who smokes pot?
How about the Jets vs. the Patriots? With or without a deflated ball.
The ‘?? in :????? ?? says the order is ????.
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??? and ??”? in ?”? pasken this way (it’s a little clearer in the ???).
Is that the halacha?
No, and I would agree with your implication that this disproves that theory.
LC, they might very well be breaking the law even it does ease the effects of chemo. You could argue that it is proper in this instance to break the law.
It isn’t. It just only illegal under the laws of one. Same as murder which is only illegal under state law. And same as paying U.S. tax which is only required under federal law.
That is fascinating.
Highly unlikely. What motivation could they have? Who would care if they said it had medical benefit just like half the other drugs that are abused?
They’re afraid legalizing it for medical purposes will lead to it being legalized for recreational purposes, like in Colorado.