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Justsayin, The Place Where I Belong from the original Journeys.
If you Google “is there a chief rabbi of the United States”, here’s what “rabeinu” will say:
Legend has it Rabbi Eliezer Silver was being driven someplace when the car was pulled over for speeding. The chauffeur tried to explain to the cop “but this is the chief rabbi of the whole United States!” — and from the back of the car, Rabbi Silver shouted — “and Canada!” (Mi Yodeya)
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Making it a baseball analogy doesn’t make it any better.
Sam, if so, r”l, I retract my earlier comment to Wolf.
RF, how is that relevant?
SF, yes, there’s a difference between doing an asay and refraining from a lo sa’asay.
OK, Wolf, he’ll get schar for raising money for CL.
HaLeiVi, nice.
The Ra’av (Bartenura) indicates that one only receives reward for refraining from a lav which tempted him. (Makos 3:15)
It seems that motivation does matter.
Certainly, he won’t get punished for being mechallel Shabbos, but neither will he get schar (and even if he does, as the poshut pshat in the Mishna seems, it wouldn’t be as much as for someone whose motivation was purer).
Rd, since I don’t now you and have no benefit from you, should I say that your existence is useless and that you’re an olam hazeh freeloader?
I think you should rethink this one.
…to enrichen the lives of this wasteland is his goal…
Actually, “to enrich and enliven that wasteland is his goal…”, if I’m not mistaken.
Yes, there are such devices.
Not offhand.
Popa
Dont date yourself.
It’s cheaper that way.
I said (s)he should remove them.
A lot of tzeddakah money was given by the wealthier members of those communities.
I don’t know where you get your information from, but I can tell you that many families, which under ordinary circumstances do not need charity, became legitimately and desperate
ly needy a year ago.
May you never experience what many did.
Luvtobejewish, I agree.
He isn’t refunding out of the goodness of his heart but rather he has no choice he wants that bad review removed because you killed his business.
So? Still doesn’t make it coercion.
WIY, I thought about a partial refund, because it is more equitable, but if offered a full one, why can’t be take it?
WIY, extortion is, by definition, initiated by the extortionist, not the victim. Look it up.
Goq, sometimes, when dealing with Jews, the legal code in Shulchan Aruch dictates the law, rather than secular law. “Non Jewish” could be a pertinent description (Italian would seem irrelevant, though).
WIY, I agree.
LAB, I enjoy some your posts, but you should retract this one.
Funny how one man’s left is another man’s right.
WIY, he offered the refund, why can’t he take it? Where’s the extortion?
Yes; doesn’t matter.
Oomis,
I’m ignorant when it comes to cyberbullying. Couldn’t the victim just avoid those sites?
And Blackberries.
APY, Goq was just being cute, not nasty.
Get you money back, take down the posts, but put up new ones.
“What do you feed a popa?”
Spent grain bread, homebrew, osso bucco, and Starbucks. Hold the pickles.
Sam, you’re ruining the joke.
And Eli Willner responded:
Incidentally, your quote from the rosh yeshiva is incoherent. Please re-express it or provide a reference to it.”
Any response?
VM, are you sure he didn’t just lean on the other guys who were sitting on the bench?
I guess not.
Apprantly, you do.
Moshe Goldberg, have you responded to Eli Willner?
Oh, well. 🙂
Have a good Shabbos.
If Rabeinu Gershon decided to ban polygamy because it became immoral, you’d be right, but that’s certainly not what happened. (Agav, I read that his charomim were a response to men who traveled on business and decided to abandon their wives.)
I understand the need, on occasion, to fit into secular society to some extent, but our inherent sense of morality should not change.
As to your final point, I agree that not everything halachic is devoid of subjectivity, but that doesn’t make it non-halachic, as long as it’s not subject to society’s ever-changing “morals”.
But there’s no need to expect everyone to know everything.
Only a velt’s mishugana would think he knows everything.
Boys in shidduchim are like teabags. The only good ones are Brisk.
Ok, but if even metzitzah is a shailah, it’s ultimately a decision based on Torah values, not on what society considers moral.
Deciding whether or not to accept the “studies” as grounds to consider it a sakana, how much weight to give something which is al pi nistar, etc., are questions of halacha.
120, no.
Syag, I’m also skeptical.
A simple “no” is the correct answer. It is b&w. No Rov required for this one.
I think a watch is jewelry.
BS, let me get this straight: someone has a problem with arayos, so as an alternative outlet, you’re suggesting arayos?
Are there really people so rude?
Art-of-Moi, it is your secret; it’s not just your father’s issue, it’s yours too. You have every right to speak to someone, and most certainly should. You are in tremendous pain, and need to take care of yourself. Please, please do.
Is there a teacher or guidance counsellor in your school to speak to?
If it does involve tzaar baalei chaim, then he’s right. But tzaar baalei chaim is a Torah concept, so I still don’t get your point.
The Gemara actually says that kedushei ketana is not appropriate, IIRC.
To give a counter example, is bris mila immoral in a society which considers it barbaric ch”v?
Little Froggie, I guess we’re not dear friends of his if we still see “getzel1”.