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Argue with the approach to halachah. Don’t be so dismissive of some great people whose approach was not one we follow, and bear in mind that they did have halachic justification.
I suppose if something comes up and you urgently need $2000, guilt him into giving it back?
So a guy meets Moshe Reichmann z”l at a chasunah and asks him for a $50,000 loan. Before he gets a chance to respond, the guy adds, “Don’t worry, as soon as you need it, let me know, and I’ll pay you back”.
Old man, I’m sorry you had to deal with that, but even if some people take it (way) overboard, it doesn’t change the fact that a jacket (and for many) a hat is a more respectable mode of attire than not wearing them.
He is saying he cant go to a doctor even or buy enough food because he needs all the money for business. I feel really guilty.
I do not like the sound of it. You should not feel guilty. It sounds like his priorities are wrong, or he’s scamming you.
I don’t think cufflinks are silly, I think expecting people (and especially expecting davka yeshiva guys) to dress Shabbos’dik during the week with the brainstorm that adding cufflinks on Shabbos will take care of the special malbush for Shabbos issue is silly.
Do you have this standard for anyone else, to dress as for a date for a weekday davening?. Nobody actually wears (or probably ever did wear) Shabbos clothing for a regular weekday davening. There are still levels of respectability of weekday clothing; it’s not all or nothing, and just saying to add cufflinks for Shabbos is silly.
We did not make an halachic time he has to pay me back, so I dont know if I can even demand it.
I don’t know if we apply “stam halva’ah shloshim yom”, but certainly he can’t push it off indefinitely. In fact, you wrote that it’s six months since he said he’d pay it back.
I agree with Goq. Get it while he has it, unless your intention was to take on a big risk. From the little you’ve written, this doesn’t pass the smell test.
ZD, bais din can allow going to court to enforce its psak.
There were indeed great people who didn’t keep zmanin for tefillah. There is actually a halachic explanation for it, albeit not one that the litvaks would go for.
But to say that certain great tzaddikim weren’t great is small minded, because they had a cheshbon, even if we don’t understand/agree.
As R’ Moshe famously said about one tzaddik, “He deserves petch, but there’s nobody in this generation wortht of giving it to him”.
Ummm… call an exterminator before Shabbos?
Joseph, see my new thread.
y’all agree that a skicap, football helmet, or baseball cap is sufficient
Or, just use a brown paper bag, or drape a towel over your head.
Old man, are you OCD, or do you think we should wear Shabbos clothing during the week? I’ve been in most of those places, and for the most part, yeshivaleit dress pretty cleanly from my perspective.
Sure, there’s the occasional shlump, but it’s nowhere near a majority.
Avram, I don’t think anyone has said that a hat needs to be a fedora or black l’halachah. That is constantly used as a straw man (straw hat?) argument.
DaMoshe, the “Daas Torah” debate has nothing to do with discussing halachah even if taking a theoretical opposing position to a gadol.
Miritchka: Tzeidah.
Avram, I hope the ingredients are all under Badatz (or at least blessed by a Rabbit).
New form of strawman daas Torah, DaMoshe?
I don’t know what the question is. They won’t print her picture, as they didn’t when she ran for president and when she was Secretary of State.
Are you saying that in halacha we have to understand them, but in hanhaga/hashkafa we don’t have to understand them?
No, I’m just pointing out that your question is misapplied. As you well know, we do follow poskim even if we don’t understand. So, as midwesterner has done, learn the rishonim on the sugya, but don’t extrapolate falsehoods from your boich teirutz to a kashya.
It’s a dumb question and this is a dumb thread.
And those of you making fun of people who try to maintain a certain standard of kedushah should be ashamed of yourselves.
I wasn’t trying to say that they’re the same.
Usually, the term Daas Torah is used for ideas not directly in the realm of halachah. Your kasha is on halachah.
No, you were trying to create guilt by association.
No, I wasn’t. I personally have no issue with someone sending a card or flowers, or making a visit or phone call with good wishes, to a parent who finds it meaningful.
the Klansman doesn’t profit at all by anyone observing Mother’s Day.
Neither do the Nazis if I buy a Volkswagen. At this point in history, it’s an emotional issue.
First of all, Wolf, I was speaking factually. Tegardless, if the origin doesn’t bother you, fine, but I can see how someone would find it distasteful to celebrate a day popularized by a violent white supremacist. Many people find it distasteful to drive a Volkswagen, although on the car’s merits alone, it might be a good, reliable, economic vehicle.
Oomis, actually, from what I read, Anna Jarvis was quite dismayed that her invention was commercialized and actually tried to cancel it.
147, halachah does not need to conform to the rules of the English language.
The chosson and kallah usually don’t eat, so appointing shlichim would cost an extra two meals.
Wolf, Heflin didn’t invent it, but he was instrumental in getting it to become a national holiday.
All I can say about mothers’ and fathers’ days, is that if it were a chassidish’e minhag, we’d have a bunch of people claiming it’s chukas akum.
I have access to a copy.
Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (amongst others) held that mechitzos are required at weddings.
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46247&st=&pgnum=192
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46247&st=&pgnum=193
Thanks. Are you taking me out to dinner?
From FJJ:
Rabbi Avrohom Lefkowitz
Rav & Rosh Kollel, Kollel Bnai Torah Lakewood, NJ
“SHABBOS AND THE AMERICAN PHAROAH”
own a horse that races on Shabbos. There are four Halachic issues that one must consider when discussing this question.
1) Shvisas Behemto – the requirement that ones animal should rest on Shabbos
2) Mechamer Achar Behemto – leading or following an animal on Shabbos
3) TheIssur of riding a horse on Shabbos
4) Sechar Shabbos – earning money on Shabbos
Let us review these issues and see if they apply to the case of the horse American Pharoah.
1) Shvisas Behemto:
2) Mechamer Achar Behemto:
3): The Issur of riding a horse on Shabbos
The Mishnah in Beitza 36b says: One is not permitted to ride an animal on Shabbos and Yom Tov. The Gemorah explains that riding an animal on Shabbos and Yom Tov is prohibited because of a Gezerah, one riding an animal may lead to cutting off a branch, (a Melocha of Kotzer) to use as a whip to move the animal along.
4) Sechar Shabbos:
If wetting a fabric is assur- how about drying hands on a towel?
That’s muttar. If you want to be machmir, you can first shake off the excess water from your hands, but the minhag is to be meikil.
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14171&st=&pgnum=179
Catch yourself, two points should be added:
1) In a case where the rebbe could find a different source of income, the reason of schar batalah would not apply, but R’ Moshe still assers because he’s causing bittul Torah.
2) The concept of eis la’asos could be used under limited circumstances to allow a brief stoppage, if it will result in a long term benefit, meaning it will spur the board to raise the required funds to prevent the rebbeim from leaving altogether. R’ Moshe considers this option to only apply in dire circumstances and with great consideration.
This weeks FJJ had a halachic analysis of the issues of owning a horse which runs on Shabbos.
FWIW, my opinion is like that of Rav Lefkowitz, not the letter writers who talked about shvisas behemto.
I noticed a trend recently of people who don’t wear hats and jackets to Minchah and Maariv still sporting beards and black velvet yarmulkas. In the past, it seemed that only those who came attired to davening in jacket and hat would have beards. Anybody else notice this? Thoughts?
No. That’s talking about a d’rabbonon, and it’s still assur (some are mattir because of an additional factor which doesn’t seem relevant to our case). Take a look; I linked it.
(In my earlier post, I neglected to say that those poskim who asser are in addition to the Rema.)
Sam, correct that ???? ?????? is okay, but ???? ???? ??? ???? ??? is a ?????? ???????, and we are ?????.
??’ ???? ????? ??”? ?”? ?”? ??? ??”? ????? ??? ???”? ????”?
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14171&st=&pgnum=241
Aino Miskaven V’lo Nicha Lei
That would still be a problem if a ???? ????.
??? ?????, though.
Hey, ItcheSrulik, nice to see you.
That’s a bit simplistic. I don’t think it can generally be said that “the rabbaim have straight up said not to own” a filtered (or certainly a “schechted”) smartphone when it’s required for work.
For those who don’t know what a “schechted” phone is, it’s a smartphone (Android, AFAIK) which has had the browsers and app stores removed so that the only use of the internet is for email, banking, and GPS apps and the like.
I hope that’s not the case in most actual yeshivos. I was referring to the fictitional one of the OP.
This is the first time I’ve seen money referred to as “hashkafos”.
Which one?
I hate to be cynical
Could’ve fooled me.
Sam, you don’t think it’s wrong to post pictures against the will of the ba’alei simchah?
What I was referring to above is the likelihood that some people will view the pictures in a less than 100% innocent way, and the ba’alei simchah have every right to be sensitive about this, and it is therefore wrong to post pictures against their will.
Wolf, there’s another side as well, namely, that the chosson and kallah get there own web page with their picture and names and location. For someone who is sensitive to modesty, this is far worse than being in the background of a picture, or even the subject of one of your carnival shots (especially since there are people who enjoy looking up the latest simchas).
I think you are you’re sensitive to your subjects, and I don’t think either of the types of shots you take are what generally makes people such as the OP irate.
ZD, I have issues with how you view certain groups, not with how you treat individuals.
Sam, see my parenthetical point above to Wolf. Although the intent is surely more innocent, do you really doubt that there’s something often mixed in which doesn’t come from a good place?
Zahavasdad, we can debate whether there’s a lack of tznius involved, but you’ve got the main point correctly, which is respecting the wishes (even if unspoken) of the ba’alei simchah.
Wolf (and others), there’s a big distinction to be made between someone showing up in the background of a picture, and a picture where the subject in question is the focus of the picture, especially when named in the caption.
Flatbusher: improper/inappropriate interaction between chosson and kallah.
I totally agree.