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I also only buy Hanes, not that other company.
When you buy clothes you can’t wear them for 3 years.
That’s why I always buy suits that are three sizes too big.
you surely know that women continued to come to the bais hamikdosh for many reasons. What happened on pessach? all year round?
Fewer women.
DaasYochid; I am puzzled by your criticism. When was I ever – g-d forbid- disrespectful to any gedolim??
Not overtly disrespectful, but you make it sound like you’re a bar plugta. You should preface your comments with phrases such as, “What I don’t understand is…”.
I recently heard of a J&J new product that is like Ensure
It’s not on their website. Maybe it’s too new.
How can we say Kohanim today are not “real” kohanim? If that were really so, why would they still be unable to marry a gerusha?
What he was trying to say is that today’s kohanim are safek kohen, not hadst kohen. Even were it a safek, a kohen would be forbidden to marry a gerushah.
Torah study lets a bit of light in,
it’s the place he’ll find his Yiddishkeit in.
DY: I asked a friend of mine who knows almost everything there is to know about old Jewish music.
Is that you, DaMoshe?
Klal Yisroel Together MBC
No, it’s the alcoholics.
ROB, your tone, when arguing with the gedolei haposkim, really aught to be more humble. Anyhow, the reason the mechitzah was unnecessary after succos was because there wasn’t a mass gathering, hence no fear of kalus rosh and no chiyuv.
Rd, read the teshuvah, you’re wrong.
@jb22, I wrote “Kids don’t go OTD from frumkeit.”, which you disputed with “kids do go otd because of absolutism”. That was the strawman which I was calling you out on, because you twisted my argument into one defending absolutism.
I would agree that sending out letters isn’t a complete solution, but certainly, in many cases, the parents are naive and need to know what goes on when their kids go out on Motzaei Shabbos. A mass gathering wouldn’t reach everyone, and it’s a logistical impossibility to personally speak to every parent.
It’s also a necessary statement if the community’s values. You see how some people actually defend it.
Or, to say it a little nicer, meiheichi teisa.
Kids do go otd due to absolutism.
I don’t understand why you equate frumkeit with absolutism.
Additionally, expecting that teens wont find some way to circumvent you is also hopelessly naive – so instead of hanging out in pizza shops they will hang out in 7/11 and dunkin donuts.
Some kids, nothing will deter. Some kids don’t need deterrents.
This is obviously directed at the kids who will be deterred if it’s made more difficult.
I guess Uri Zohar shouldn’t have been accepted into kollel.
I agree that expulsion for one instance is extreme. High Schools should be teaching their students these halachos, and punishments should be stiff but not so final, that a boy or girl cannot do teshuva.
And, in fact, the letter, as reported above, and as I noted, did not indicate automatic expulsion for one offense.
T613, I actually linked to the relevant page (I meant that now you do).
For the future, go to the Contents page and search on that basis.
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=40631&st=&pgnum=4&hilite=
Pesach all year.
My stomach hurts just thinking about it.
Daas Yochid:- FYI:- Rav Avigdor Miller ZT’L is a Musmach of Yeshiva University, and this Yeshiva where he graduated from, strongly holds of these 2 observances.
So, in other words, his not celebrating them was not simply following what he was taught from youth, it was a thought out position.
ZD,
Are you avoiding the question again, or asserting that if something is illegal, it’s time to go shopping ’til you find a Rabbi who agrees with the law?
You can easily go to another juristiction temporarily and have it done where its not illegal. IE its illegal in NY, just go to NJ or CT and have it done.
You’re avoiding the question. Let’s say it became federal law, or illegal in every state.
What’s the German word for fun?
I ask Charlie, zd, and Avi: If you lived where it was illegal to do bris milah, and you had a son, would you do it, and if so, open or clandestinely?
In theory, I wouldn’t pay, although at best it might not be a chiyuv to pay, it would never be assur to pay even at the cost of being jailed.
And Avi K., last I checked, My rav’s last name isn’t King or Ghandi.
These are not very high standards of frumkeit. This is basic. It’s also being done in public, and it would be irresponsible to not speak out against it.
Of course, the single important aspect of chinuch is example. That doesn’t exempt one from taking other courses of action as well.
It should be pointed out that “will face serious consequences” is not the same as “will definitely be expelled”.
Yes, it’s his yahrtzeit.
Actually, I don’t think there’s one with the GNC label, but GNC stores sell Spiru-tein.
I am questioning the specific sanction of expulsion for being at a pizza store Saturday night.
That’s worth discussing.
Those who want to be supported in Kollel should have to take an oath that they did not have even a single improper conversation with a woman in the last 4 years.
That’s silly.
Not even a shilah. If you can’t follow a country’s laws, you go somewhere else!
You are in effect saying that secular law supercedes halachah.
Same here.
Now just substitute “didn’t agree” and we’re okay.
147, did you ever discuss Yom Yerushalyim or Yom Ha’atzmaut with R’ Avigdor Miller Zt”l?
Health, you obviously didn’t read my post in which I told you not to say that I didn’t read your posts.
FANATICS: YOU ARE THE ONES RESPONSIBLE FOR DRIVING YOUR KIDS OTD!
Actually Rabbi Steven Pruzansky claims to have seen a study that half of MO go OTD. Although he suggests, and he’s undoubtedly correct, that those numbers are skewed (based on who is defined as frum to begin with), there’s nobody who suggests that the rate of kids who go OTD in the chassidish and yeshivish communities is even remotely close.
Kids don’t go OTD from frumkeit. They go OTD because of emotional trauma, and normal parents can hold extremely high standards of frumkeit, and if the relationship is healthy, it won’t cause OTD. If the relationship is not healthy, even if the standards of frumkeit are low, the kids are still at high risk.
The causal reltionship suggested by some here between following halachah, or even “chumra”, and OTD is total bogus, and I strongly suspect is being used to justify inadequate adherance to halachah.
There was a study that came out 4 years ago from London university that baed on a sample of 17,000 people, men that went to same-gender schools are more likely to be divorced or never married by their 40s. Depression was also fairly hiigher than for co–Ed schools
Irrelevant. The relevant question would be if frum people who socialize with the opposite gender as teens have a higher divorce rate than those who don’t. I never did a study, but it’s highly doubtful. It’s also quite assur.
1. Do you know about the halachic status of Ensure? Is it more assur or less assur than other Chalav Stam products?
Less for two reasons.
1) Probably not made from liquid milk, and there’s a leniency (not universally accepted) for powdered milk.
2) More of a need than for most people, so R’ Moshe’s recommendation of “ba’al nefesh yachmir” would be less applicable.
This doesn’t address the opinions that don’t agree with the heter of R’ Moshe, or hold that the heter doesn’t apply based on today’s milk supply system, and don’t agree with R’ Tzvi Pesach Frank’s heter of powdered milk (even if indeed it’s made of powdered milk).
It also doesn’t address the issue of treifos caused by DA, while supposedly, those animals are removed from the CY milk supply. I’m told that the gedolei haposkim in E.Y. held that today’s “chalav stam” is actually chalav treifah.
2. Do you know if there other Chalav Yisrael products that do the same job?
No
3.Do you have any suggestions for people who need to gain weight and keep CY?
Milk shakes.
There are pareve shake powders made by NutriMax, and GNC, but I don’t know the caloric content.
I don’t have a Sefer Hachinuch handy.
Sure you do.
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=40631&st=&pgnum=379
Did anyone check the sefer hachinuch?
The first explanation he offers is along the lines of what Sam2 said. The second, is that the kohen’s appearance might be a distraction.
It’s important to remember that any explanation is not complete, and can only offer a bit of insight.
My advice is to find a reliable sofer through the regular channels; a trusted rav, family, friends, etc. Speak to him on the phone, and have him ship it.
We say that safek brachos lehakel does not apply to a birchas mitzvah.
Source?
We don’t say a brachah on sefirah with only one safek.
I’m sure you know the story of the gra with his pidyon haben who went around to all the people who claimed to be kohanim since they were all only safek until he met one family with a shtar.
Do you have a source?
Even if true, it could be l’chumra.
Even if he held it was a safek, we clearly don’t pasken that way, as we are satisfied with one, and we say a brachah.
Did anyone check the sefer hachinuch?
Iy”H over Shabbos.
You’re very welcome Golda, and now that you’ve joined the CR, feel free to ask any other questions. I hope the CR members will be nicer to you than we usually are to each other!
Efshir, one letter more than usual?
That goes to the point that the Tzedukim did not outright reject the concept of a Torah Sh’bal peh
Not necessarily. Tefillin is, after all, mentioned in the Torah (shebiksav). They may just deal with the kasha differently.
Ben, there’s huge difference between not understanding something, and finding it “troubling”.
how does she deal with the fallout if the girl gets upset with her?
It would be unconscionable for anyone to report what she said (indefensible rechilus).
Simcha613, I don’t agree with putting “rav” in quotation marks. That said, there’s another fundamental difference (aside from what on the ball wrote).
R’ Aviner is making a statement about what Chareidim should do, and the Rebbe is telling his own talmidim what to do.
What were the tzedukim’s and Karaites Tefillin?
I don’t think karaim wear tefillin.