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According to whose definition of spiritual/moral? If it’s according to your own, that’s not Yiddishkeit and not your purpose in this world, and if it’s according to Hashem’s, then you do need to take very seriously (obsessing is unhealthy, though) whether something is assur or muttar and whether it’s right or wrong.
So how do you view things, and how do make sure not to do things which are assur/wrong?
I didn’t really – I’m sure you aren’t mechallel Shabbos. I’m just not getting how not viewing things in terms of muttar/assur or right/wrong is possible for a frum Jew.
So you would drive on Shabbos if it felt okay to you?
I also like popa’s juvenile attempts at humor. It makes me feel mature in comparison.
What is “fair”, and who decided that He is “fair”?
It’s not a game.
We are not entitled to anything – not to schar, and not even to the opportunity to earn it.
All that we have, including our opportunities, is a gift from Hashem. We have no more right to mitzvos than does a blade of grass have a right to be a human being.
So a blade of grass can earn as much schar as you or I can?
If it’s important, why can’t you accept that there’s schar for it?
Do you think all of Hashem’s creations have equal opportunity?
Sandy wasn’t a hurricane either when it hit here.
because he can “understand torah better” is a ridiculous reason to think someone will get schar.
Why? Isn’t understanding Torah better an important accomplishment?
What does “fair” mean?
Why?
Jerk
It starts with an “r”.
I don’t believe ou
Then I didn’t really condone use of an iPhone, so I’m not passul l’eidus.
That’s why it was so surprising to see you use it.
Well it starts with your calling on people to be more respectful, and devolves into your use of the “r” word.
So this morning, I made a big klop on the bimah and announced that nobody is allowed to go to the center unless they have an iPhone.
The rabbi stoned me with his esrog.
This year I have a very large and heavy lulav. Very hard to walk around for hoshanos with it.
But great for whacking the guy in front of you.
Mets fans are chnyuks?
Thank you, you too, and amein!
Source?
That wasn’t your question, though.
Unless your friends are also chnyuks.
Just wondering altz shiur for brochoh achroinoh.
Me
Part of being open-minded is the ability to be open-minded to those who your perceive as close-minded.
Excellent point.
I never in this thread was defending watching dirty movies.
Of course not. Our point of contention was about movies which are not considered “dirty” by society’s standards, but are inappropriate by the Torah’s much stricter standards, whether for reasons of pritzus or otherwise.
You ate the coffee?
You can’t compare one person’s awareness to an awareness which will fill the entire world.
You have to know who is listening. Here, anybody could be.
Honestly, to many people, whats the difference between davening for moshiach and davening to die?
Does dying bring giluy k’vod haShechinah? Rabi Akiva was m’tzapeh (which is not the same as davening, because you’re probably not allowed to daven) to die al kiddush Hashem, but stam dying?
Also, we want to do mitzvos. We can still do mitzvos after Moshiach arrives.
Who says money is perfectly acceptable? The minhag is with a chicken.
And being a bleeding heart liberal is the least of the problems if you think you have more compassion than the Torah.
Because I think eating tarfus is bad?
Oh, were you expecting me to change my mind to say that movies are okay because you wrote in all caps?
There are probably also a lot of Jews who eat tarfus and care more about halacha than I do.
JT, not paskening, but giving people a (fallacious) way to be moreh heter. I’m wondering why you keep saying to ask a Rav before smoking, but not before watching movies.
gogogo. you are joking, right?
I assume so.
How are you differentiating nusach from melodies?
Would you call the nusach for Shabbos chazaras hashatz (for example) a song? I would not, although I’m not familiar enough with musical lexicon to articulate precisely why.
A common (not necessarily exclusive) characteristic of a melody (song) as opposed to nusach is that it generally is imported from a different context (tish, kumzitz, recording) whereas nusach is exclusive to tefilla.
Also, nusach generally stays constant from tefilla to tefilla (of the same type), while melodies are more interchangeable. I’m sure there are others.
By listening.
I never posted anything that allowed smoking.
Maybe they’re talking about movies.
people who watch and care about halacha
I think that’s an oxymoron.
2:17 in the edition I saw.
Anyhow, a couple of possible explanations:
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2) Hashem did not create everyone equally. In one way, two people could be equal in that they fulfilled the same percentage of their potential. From a different perspective, the one who accomplished more is l’maaseh greater, and gets more schar.
What would you say in a comparison between two people; one was given 613 commandments and one 7, both did so to the same degree. Do they get equal schar? Same here. To further add, the one with more potential stands not only to potentially gain more schar if he fulfills his potential, he also stands to lose more (receive a bigger onesh) if he doesn’t.
I think the whole idea of putting parts of davening to melodies (as opposed to nusach) is relatively new, and some yeshivos have tried to resist or at least minimize adopting it.
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This has nothing to do with rescinding a minhag Yisroel. It has to do with making sure you’re m’kayem it in a way which doesn’t violate tzaar baalei chaim.
What do the first two things have to do with schar?
Also, where precisely is this Rabbeinu Yonah?
Ubiquitin, you’re correct that those could be tzaar baalei chaim (I don’t know to what extent that happens. Several people have commented that they have not observed any cruelty, but I don’t think it never goes on).
I was responding to Flatbusher’s comment, “Without going inside a chicken’s head, how can anyone know whether the chicken has tzaar or not from the process of kapporos?”.
Tzaar baalei chaim is not about guessing what might be going through a chicken’s head.
One year, we sat in huts a few days after Yom Kippur, so in case there was a gezeirah of golus, that should be it.
I don’t know, aren’t we davening that Hashem should cast away our aveiros?
Flatbusher:
Nobody but you said it supplants davening.
The fact that you feel it’s okay to attack a minhag Yisroel on baseless grounds, when you admit that you’re not an expert, should perhaps require a chicken farm.