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Seems like you don’t like editorial boards.
Maybe the question mark is because not one of the definitions in Wiktionary is “happy”.
Anyhow, nice piece.
Are you allowed to post your letters here, or is there a copyright issue?
What species are you?
My precise species wasn’t listed either. I’m probably closest to “Maritus Ascribo Machinatio Morologus”, though.
The difference is, I’m reading the list off of a text message. And running all over the store in a random, repetitive way because the list is arranged according to whatever order each item popped into my wife’s head, not in aisle order. Probably called “Maritus Ascribo Machinatio Moronogus”.
Rocky’s species, “Caelebs Elatus”, would be the most likely to notice all of the other species.
Arba Avos? What do you mean Arba Avos? There were only three?! Avraham, Yiztchak and Yaakov!!!
At least you’re thinking outside the box.
Okay, bekius vs. havanah.
Obviously, some degree of each is required, each complements the other, and neither is complete without the other.
The various mesoros differ as to where the focus should be, but not whether or not they’re both important. There are also different mesoros as to what is considered proper havanah and how to achieve proper havanah.
I didn’t read this week’s (yet?).
What did you write about?
Still looking for someone to be Mechalek between and Eved and an Isha.
I don’t think I understand the question.
Okay, to follow Goq’s formula, I will explain that popa is not ch’v advocating degrading a sefer Torah. Aderaba, he is protesting thr bizayon haTorah involved in treating Krias Hamegillah as a cartoon.
Most of what is called “learning” is really nothing more than rote memory.
That is a gross misstatement. Did you ever hear the word “lomdus”?
Since learning Torah is not a mitzvah shehazman grama, why wouldn’t a woman be just as mechuyiv in it as a man?
You should look up the sugya in Kiddushin. The fact that women are p’turos from MAS”G is actually derived from Talmud Torah.
Popa, look what I dug up:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/taking-food-home-from-a-bris#post-193001
I’m gonna dress up like popa. I’m gonna drive a green Civic with Tennessee plates, with a bumper sticker with a rude slogan on it.
I’ll wear Crocs hiking boots, and a backpack, and carry a snowboard, a blackberry, a cup of Starbucks coffee, and a Megillas Esther with the last 20 blatt of Daf Yomi on the other side.
What am I missing?
Oh, pizza, beer and sufganiyois. I’ll need more hands.
The first part yes, the second part, no.
I don’t think women seeking intellectual advancement is inherently a bad thing, quite the contrary. There is most definitely historical precedent for ???? ???????.
The Ramba”m clearly says the problem is with ??? ????, clearly implying not all. (It’s quite possible that the filter for deciding which women are in the minority and which are in the majority is whether or not they are self motivated.)
Yes, there is a horoas sha’ah that we need to teach girls more than in previous generations. One of the negative consequences is that women who are in the Ramba”m’s majority (whatever he may mean) are overreaching their capabilities with the results as described by the Ramba”m.
In which case we should not be saying, as someone earlier did (and you agreed) that their thought process inherently lacks logic.
That’s not what I thought the statement (to which I agreed) was asserting.
There are many things which can cause faulty logic besides from “a thought process [that] inherently lacks logic”.
If the thing is really a fish, it’ll like the water.
No, people can be trained, or influenced, to desire more than their nature requires them to have, and this is often to their detriment.
You are correct, but your reading is still untenable.
So what you are saying is that you don’t understand the Ramba”m.
“Their minds are not lend themselves to education” is how I’m understanding you’re reading.
If you want to be very m’dayek, he doesn’t say “education”, he says “to be educated”. Your entire kasha then falls off.
If you don’t want to be so m’dayek, you can say that the Ramba”m is referring to a certain skill set required for Gemara, not necessarily specifically what we refer to as logical thought.
Will it be an ibber yohr then?
Also, there’s no kuntz to going to a bris in Adar Rishon. The kuntz is to go to a bar mitzvah.
If you really want to “miftar” (?) es hayeshiva guys, go get yourself a real job, and then take off for a bris.
Leftover bagels and lox from the bris.
Are you sponsoring my trip?
Gavra, facts vs. lomdus.
A chilluk between what and what?
How did you read it?
Logician, you read the Ramba”m (which, incidentally is actually in 1:13) incorrectly.
The word is ??????, not ???????? and it’s an adjective for ????, not a verb of the subject ?????.
I think it’s fair to say that Hakatan distanced himself from the implication of his earlier statement that all Zionists are ovdei a”z.
I agree with golfer (but I was waiting for a female to post that, lest I be called a chauvenist for pointing out how this Ramba”m is a good source for where the OP over there went wrong).
I’m sure we’ve all eaten two of them as a snack, at some point.
It might very well require Hamotzi just from the sheer (pun intended) volume.
Anyhow, I thought the point popa was getting at was that the nutritional value posted on the box is not the kovea for kvius seudah.
I’m not completely following the discussion any more (to be honest, the acrimony bothers me, especially since I probably contributed), but I want to point out what I seecasxan inconsistency in Just Emes’ post.
JE quotes Hapardes as saying (implying, to be fair) that the majority held that it would be “possible to agree, according to the laws of the Torah, to the establishment of a Jewish State in a portion of the Eretz Yisael”, “if it were established as a religious state” (my juxtaposition of quotes).
However, JE’s conclusion is a huge stretch: “there were many gedolim who held it would be ok according to the torah–but we should try to make it frum-“.
Established as frum is completely different than established as not frum with the frum on the sidelines trying to make it frum.
Last year, we sent out post cards that said, “in lieu of mishloach manos, here’s a piece of paper”.
Wait – was the question when SHOULD you, or when DO you?
This year, we want to give out a cracker and a sour belt on a paper plate. The theme is, “flat out of ideas”.
We gave out hamantashen and wine. The theme was “Purim”.
so what did rav moshe say
Not ouch.
(That is a true story, btw.)
What’s even worse is when they block your driveway before a snowstorm, then when they shovel their way out afterwards, they think they have the right to the spot in front of your driveway for the rest of the winter.
That’s was not my observation. What do people whose cars were snowed in do to get them out?
Not a good point.
Not good grammar either.
To your point: I guess I haven’t lived where there’s a “Law of Return”, so I haven’t seen beautifully shoveled spots, but they’re usable anyhow.
I can’t imagine driving around the block five times not being able to park because all of the open spots have lawn furniture in them.
Besalel, while your point that someone can accomplish outside of learning is true, your statement that “a person who sits and learns but never teaches torah or good middos to anyone else is valueless” is apikorsus and is obviously unsupported by the gemaras you referenced.
DaMoshe, can you accept that there are legitimate shittos that it’s kefirah?
Sam, he is wrong about the cab driver. As in, Sanhedrin 99 wrong. (Popa, how far behind does that make me?)
By accurately “predicting” the content of your letter.
There may be a distinction between “being a kofer” and believing in kefira,Well then, say so. Not maybe.
so please don’t claim I said something that I did not say.
What did I claim you said that you didn’t? Again, your very own words:
“So, according to Rav Elchonon, if you are a proud Zionist (which, according to their theology, includes “MO”) then that makes you a proud oveid A”Z.”
Then, showing utter lack of understanding of human nature, you clumsily add, “I fail to see the reason for anyone taking offense to this.”
And don’t give me your slippery, “ask your posek”. Answer directly, please, do you or don’t you drink a MO/DL’s wine?
Hakatan, you wrote unequivocally that based on R’ Elchonon, a person who believes in Zionism is a kofer and oveid a”z. The halacha is, unequivocally that an oveid a”z or kofer’s wine is assur. That’s not a question you need to ask your LOR.
So you need to either retract (or at least somehow clarify) your unequivocal assertion that any Zionist is an oveid a”z and kofer, or admit that you contradict yourself.
Besalel is absolutely wrong.
?? ??? ?? ????? ????? ???? ??? ??????? ???? ???? ?????? ???? ???? ???? ????? ???? ????? ?? ???? ?? ???? ???? ???”? ????? ?????? ???? ?? ??????? ???? ???? ????? ?? ?? ????? ???? ????? ???? ???? ???? ?? ???? ?????? ?? ???? ????? ????? ?????’ ?? ????
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Crisis, you left out some more quotes:
“Compared to most other European folk music styles, little is known about the history of klezmer music, and much of what is said about it must be seen as conjecture.[2]”
“Klezmer is easily identifiable by its characteristic expressive melodies, reminiscent of the human voice, complete with laughing and weeping. This is not a coincidence; the style is meant to imitate khazone and paraliturgical singing. A number of dreydlekh (a Yiddish word for musical ornaments), such as krekhts (“sobs”) are used to produce this style.”
So sure, the klezmorim fused other types of music into the traditional style, but at its heart, it’s Jewish.
Compare that to today’s popular “Jewish” music, which is 90% derivative.
You’re also unfairly comparing older European non Jewish styles to rock, although they’re very different.
“klezmerish” which was the rock music of the goyim back in de alter heim.
I’m not that old to have first hand knowledge, but a klezmer musician tells me that the klezmer instrumental style from Eastern Europe was uniquely Jewish.
Yeah, but she didn’t make my joke.
Hashtorani,
1) To their own followers, yes, but I don’t think directed at others.
2) In the past, I recall him taking pains to disassociate the beliefs from the believers, but then this: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/hakaras-hatov-for-israeli-soldiers-idf/page/2#post-512273
The only point I want to make here is that the general position HaKatan is espousing is not a minority view but rather the majority view of gedolei yisroel. I’m not speaking the oaths specifically but rather of the overall impermissibility of the state, its formation and its subsequent actions.
Yes, but the tone is not mainstream, nor the kfiyas tovah towards individuals who risk their lives to protect Yidden, nor the referring to MO/DL as kofrim/ovdei a”z. The hashkafah is wrong, and is on the spectrum, but not to the extent that those who believe in it are classified that way. We do drink their wine and trust their eidus.
There seems to be some obliviousness as to what goes on in frum communities.
ZD, do you really think that large numbers of frum people didn’t know of the impending storms?
Mazel Tov!
Squeak, the fathers wear colored shirts.
Use Bacitracin, it’s OTC and it’s cheaper than Silvadene
Wow, you’re basically accusing the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA of perpetrating a fraud on the consumer.
I would sooner assume that Silvadene is formulated to do a better job killing the bacteria likely to be found in a burn area than is any OTC antibiotic.
Logician, being a chiyuv is not mutually exclusive to being chessed, and I don’t just mean that you can get extra credit for an existing chiyuv by having in mind to help people; I mean that sometimes chessed becomes an obligation. This is likely such a case, but because it originates as a chessed, there are exceptions. As to what they are, AYLOR.
I’ve been washing for one slice of pizza for as long as I can remember.