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WIY, I don’t think anyone here is denying the idea of mofsim. IIRC, DaMoshe once posted such a story about his own rebbe, Rabbi Wachsman.
I think there was innocent humor here, not leitzonus.
This thread IS the salt for all my other threads.
Your other threads were salty enough without this one.
At least he didn’t introduce your son to drinking!
No, he learned that at home.
Avi Weiss protested Mandela? I have to rethink my position on this.
I got lucky. Although the government decided who I must marry, she turned out to be an excellent wife.
HaLeiVi, no; afterwards, he bentched.
Popa, the Chassidish part is that the Rebbe figured it out.
Torah613, what kind of hashkofos confused you?
Yes, Sam, I heard that about krias Shema as well. I think what I said would even cover things which aren’t good bla’az.
Commonsense, you think so?
Rambam wrote that you can learn and be erlich ONLY if you work.
Oddly, for years, the Ramba”m only learned and didn’t work.
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OURtorah, the historical and grammatical answer to your original question is that traditionally, Ashkenazim have pronounced the ? as “s” while Sefardim have pronounced it as “t”. When the Zionists (Ashkenazim) took over E”Y, they spoke Hebrew with a Sefardi accent. The Modern Orthodox in chu”l, as a show of kinship with the Zionists in E”Y, adopted this accent, despite it not being in accordance with their tradition.
The answer to your underlying question, though, is more subtle and complex.
I can only try to give you chizuk and tell you to stay strong in your commitment to grow.
I can’t tell you which external manifestations of your new association to keep, and which to hold off on. What I can advise you is to hold strong to the ikkarim. I can only imagine how difficult it is for you to perform kubyd av v’em properly, for example. Hopefully, though, if you stay strong, they will see your sincerity and support you.
Hatzlocha. I’m davening for you.
Do you see any eulogies for Churchill and Ben Gurion here?
And why do you think political allying with a rasha is the same as supporting his rishus?
There is no double standard here. What there is here is a sickening defense of someone who supported the murder and murderer of our brothers.
Abraham Lincoln- never denounced Arafat!
I’m fairly certain that he didn’t support his murdering Jews either.
I don’t get what you’re saying, Charlie.
Because his persecutor was a Nazi sympathizer and he later reconciled with his widow, we should forgive him for embracing (figuratively and literally) Arafat?
I totally don’t get this thread…
popa_bar_abba
Incorrigible; semi-retarded; eccentric; perhaps a man; somewhere between mean and average; sometimes only a bit over the top; arbitrarily engaged in cynicism.
How many tongues can fit in one cheek?
Sam, which one do you recommend?
Yserbius, it’s called “Bias Ne’eman”.
Yet, we only use it for afterwards.
DaMoshe, I think the subtitle given by the mods is a macho’oh of sorts.
I like kishke.
Oomis, you’re asking an excellent question.
I think we assume that if a certain sound is consistently used to represent a particular letter or vowel, even if it’s historically inaccurate, it still halachically valid.
Health! We were worried about you!
How are you feeling?
The idea that Mandela is anti-Israel is actually a hoax
Are the pictures of Mandela and Arafat, kissing and embracing, photo-shopped?
People want their anonymity, and that’s fine, but in theory, I would daven on behalf of those who disagree with me as well.
Sam, I don’t think anybody should be surprised to see someone on a Jewish website calling someone who encouraged terrorism against Jews a rasha.
Frankly, I’m surprised to see accolades here for someone whose picture has been taken embracing Arafat.
FL, popa didn’t address the intentions, he addressed the likely results.
The OP was actually written three years ago. 🙂
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but I’d like to see the Maharsha”l inside.
I will bl”n try to find it.
You’re right. I Googled it, and apparently they’re from a country named Illinois. Is that near Chicago?
That’s why you should never send your son out of town.
Where?
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The USA does not know how to handle snow. Minnesota is not America! It’s not even Romania!
I knew that ear wax defended against lashon hara.
Yehudayona, I certainly hope that by then, we won’t be fasting on Asarah b’Teves, and that “yakiru v’yeidu kol yoshvei tevel…”.
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It’s a stirah, BTW.
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Sam, I saw where the ??”?, as quoted by the ?”?, as quoted by the ?”?, says that a baal nefesh starts the fast at night. I also saw that someone who can’t fast should still avoid wine and meat, and it kind of makes sense to apply that to the night before, but do you know of an explicit source for your chumrah?
Sam, as I recall, whether or not bechirah affects actual events is a machlokes. The Chovos Halevovos holds not, the Ohr Hachaim holds it can. Even the OH”C holds that it can’t affect someone who doesn’t deserve it, but it speeds up the din.
Edit: The Ohr Hachaim clearly says it can, but it’s limitation might be my own pshat to limit the machlokes and to explain why Hashem clearly foils some attempts, or something I heard from my rebbeim. I don’t remember which.
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In every gas station.
Possibly Romanian salami. I’m waiting for a package from Chicago (which is apparently in Romania).
These school shootings are copycat crimes. I think reporting them should be outlawed. Legal free speech does not include yelling “fire!” in a crowded theater.
It’s important to remember, as ma’aminim, that as distressing and unfathomable as suffering is, nothing is senseless. Hashem always has a cheshbon.