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I asked whether any of you can dispute thet fact that in pre-war Europe
I believe the Pri Chodosh lived before the war. 🙂
Anyhow, hilchos toloim, as I pointed out, is the poorest example you could find for your point, because infestation differs from time to time and place to place.
In fact, ironically, your stubborn insistence on maintaining standards below the minimum required by any reputable organization demonstrates the point of the OP far better than the examples he gave.
Does anyone of you dispute that?
The Pri Chodosh disputes that.
Golfer, bimchilas kvodech, this thread is supposed to be about which threads to wear, not which threads to comment on.
ROB, no, even the cRc is more particular than what you said. I don’t know what you do, but I don’t recall you mentioning:
1) Rubbing the surface of the strawberries
2) Rinsing under a strong stream of water
3) Using detergent for the ones which are not round and smooth.
Even if you do all of these things, you would have to give a valid reason to explain what gives you the right to follow the cRc as opposed to the majority opinion which is that detergent, at a minimum, is necessary. The fact that your instinct tells you that using detergent is outlandish does not qualify, IMO, as valid.
If you have a legitimate posek, on whom you rely both l’kulah and l’chumrah, he did his own research, and you follow his method, that would be valid.
Zahavasdad, you have no right to assume that the OP comes off as standoffish or elitist.
And keeping firm to one’s values in Yiddishkeit is a kiddush Hashem of the first order.
Redleg, from the OP: “I’ve heard him make some really questionable comments and psaks about halachos in general and kashrus in specific.”
I meant bashing yct and bashing this rabbi
It’s a mitzvah to bash yct. If this rabbi associates himself with yct, it’s a mitzvah to bash that association, and to point out the folly in looking to him for any sort of religious direction.
I would imagine that in a popa_bar_abba YCT themed thread you would argue that placing people outside the bounds of Orthodox Judaism is divisive. It’s interesting that you are so quick to do it here. It’s also surprising to me that you would direct this kind of statement at a college student who is trying to uphold her religious standards.
Avram, that was an impressively astute observation.
LF, (nice one.)
Avram in MD,
What approach would you recommend a person in this situation take before the fact, e.g., if you get invited to a meal, or asked if you’d eat at someone’s house?
Actually, what the OP did, albeit inadvertantly, was probably perfect. She changed the subject. No direct insult, but fairly obvious, so that she can stay on decent terms, yet not be asked again.
ZD, the rav may have held that you don’t have to be choshesh for treif’e utensils or remixing of the salad. (He excluded onions and radishes which are davar charif (sharp) because even a clean knife that wasn’t used in 24 hours would make it assur.) That part makes sense for your situation of sha’as had’chak/hefsed merubah. The part I don’t get is unchecked romaine lettuce; I assume he didn’t mean to include that.
Avram, I thinking telling the rabbi a whole megillah about a policy not to eat in others’ homes unless she knows them well would insult him. At this point, I think the less said, the better.
1. Presumably, hasagas g’vul, and if copying from an original CD, possibly geneivah depending on the terms of the original sale.
2. I don’t know. I think in most cases, the Jewish stations have links to buy the songs (or albums they’re from), so I’m guessing that it’s beneficial to the artists and producers even without direct financial compensation, and they are agreeable to that.
3. Whatever you hold about that, I’ll agree.
4. The latter is definitely false. the former depends on #1 and #3.
5. Too general. In fact, though, I was told that the venue actually has to compensate the copyright holder, but the performer doesn’t have to.
If the phone was purchased with a credit card, call the credit card company and try to get your money back through them.
Sam, when we’re not sure. they’re assur, and I think it’s hard to know when it’s ????? ?????.
ROB, concerning your approach to halacha that one may do what they are comfortable with, see Chazon Ish Yoreh Deah 150, 1 and 4. I don’t know that anyone disagrees, certainly not to the basic approach, but this is a famous nareh makom.
To summarize, you’re wrong. It’s not a hefker free-for-all once we don’t have a Sanhedrin.
SaysMe,
On the contrary, most posters felt that the OP acted appropriately to keep to her standards of kashrus.
She did nothing to demean him, and came here because she felt she could have done even more to save face.
I’m not sure against whom you think loshon hora was said, although I certainly think there was tachlis in giving her chizuk in keeping a higher standard under difficult circumstances.
ZD, Rav Nissan Alpert zt’l was educated enough to know what he could ot could not compromise on.
My educated guess is that this “rabbi” compromises on basic halacha.
I’ll bli neder look a little later (I found it: http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=40815&st=&pgnum=316&hilite=), but R’Moshe doesn’t see a tzad heter.
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=919&st=&pgnum=43&hilite=
Can you please post a link?
ROB, I think I might, but it’s four against one if it’s a machlokes.
I have my Ipod leaving together with my Iphone.
Where do they go? (I guess that was supposed to say, “learning”.)
Anyhow, to answer the OP, there are various shiurim available online, various email lists to subscribe to, and various apps for various devices. There’s also hebrewbooks.com and Otzar Hachochmah.
A bit more information about your (husband’s) level and needs might be helpful in narrowing down what to recommend.
Charlie,
They were either careful to only eat types of produce which were known not to be infested, and checked carefully those which were occasionally infested, or they ate bugs.
Rabbiofberlin,
Can you please cite the specific source?
It would be muttar al y’dei aku”m, though.
JayMatt, frankly, I don’t understand how they’re allowed to make these broadcasts available for download.
Maybe they have permission, but even so, as Jbaldy pointed out, the problem according to R’ Belsky (and I think he’s clearly based in an Igros Moshe) is lost revenue, so no legalistic maneuvering would help.
I wouldn’t even ask him in an emergency.
I don’t know who this particular rabbi is, but I’ve heard of people who call themselves rabbis who are mattir obvious issurim.
One example is toloiom. Some rabbis permit eating salads in a non kosher seting. They probably never learned hilchos toloim, and/ or don’t keep up to date and don’t know that leafy vegetables need checking by a mashgiach.
Another is bishul akum. People aren’t aware that things like pasta and eggs are assur if cooked by a non Jew (eggs are actually mentioned explicitly in Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 113,14) as being subject to bishul akum.
Many of the Kashruth Standards are just chumras or just being machmir
You wouldn’t believe it, but some are actual halachos!
And I think you’d agree that not everyone who calls themselves a rabbi deserves the title or the kavod that cones along with it.
Popa, I would feel comfortable in someone’s kitchen if I felt like they were trustworthy, and everything they did was halachically legitimate, even if I disagreed with some things.
So I would probably eat in your house. I would just make sure to ask all the relevant questions. As long as people have healthy attitudes towards others’ standards, there doesn’t have to be awkwardness.
The problem is, some people are not trustworthy, and/or their standards are not halachically legitimate, even if they consider themselves Orthodox.
So to the OP: if you feel this “rabbi” is not trustworthy, and/or his psakim are not halachically legitimate, then you absolutely did the right thing, and should definitely stick to your guns on this.
“Music that is offered on the internet may not be copied since it is only put there for one to listen to.”
Popa, would you also understand if I wouldn’t eat your non minei gavli anisakis and chashash pig’s milk yogurt?
I would hope so. I would also hope that I wouldn’t consider you an avaryan for doing so, since there are accepted poskim who are mattir.
I am maskim.
Snagged, I’m not sure whether you’re trying to say the halacha or the mistake.
Interjection, I’m curious if the CRC is more meikil on some strawberries than the four national hechsherim (who don’t specify that only those with an irregular shape need to be washed in soap) or if most strawberries are not sufficiently round and smooth, so they don’t mention it, but they are in agreement.
Rabbiofberlin, I just wanted to point out that this was the thread in which we discussed toloim, and it’s still open.
WIY, I am asking you.
Yichus is like a boy in shidduchim. It can be compared to almost anything.
I can’t imagine that those twelve consecutive posts by popa aren’t a ywn record.
I guess he’s trying to make sure his kids have yichus to be proud of.
APY, Shulchan Aruch should be sufficient.
Tonight I communicated that I appreciate the fact that we don’t spend time with each other.
Two out of three is pretty good, I think.
(She didn’t think so, though. I’m not sure why.)
Seriously, though, good advice from the OP.
And if they don’t, sue them (and let us know how it goes).
They saw how much yiras shomayim they had.