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PBA,
Imrei Shammai.
The loshon of the Medrash Hagodol regarding speech differs from the loshon regarding steps etc.
Hashem is “gozer” the amount of speech; the sitting, standing, and ambulation are “oleh b’machshavto”. He knows it, but it doesn’t say he rations it.
It is possible to understand “gozer” as rations.
Sam,
Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank said it also (Mikraei Kodesh).
As a whole, you’re right. But it’s not as much of an absolute as culturally. There is a segment of American charedim who follow the Israeli charedi model for psak.
Hi, Sam, how are you?
Yes.
Red Hook was one of the neighborhoods hit hard by the storm. I have no idea if any of this means anything.
Tragic events are most definitely a wake up call to do teshuvah. We have more to gain by looking in the mirror than by finding fault in others.
FE,
Culturally, not halachically.
RD,
I listed the Rishonim.
Yes, the Rem”a is meikil b’dieved. You are advocating being meikil l’chatchilah, even for Ashkenazim.
Also, Oreos are baked, not cooked.
Longarekel,
You used the word menora in the title, which is fine. If the term is good enough for the Mishnah Berurah, it’s good enough for me.
Click on the top left, where it says, “latest reply”.
The rema himself brings 3 rishonim how hold like that.
Is that the Rem’a, or a later comment? I’ve never quite figured out the parentheses. Either way, if you count the Rivan, Rashi, Mordechai and Or Zarua, it’s four.
By the way, rumor has it that Oreos are completely pareve, not even keilim, but Nabisco doesn’t want to lose a warehouse full of packaging in case they ever reformulate to dairy. This would explain the different designations on different packaging.
And although I don’t eat Oreos because of pas Yisroel, I’m told that the more expensive versions of the heimishe brands are just as good.
PBA is a cyber-bully. When one disagrees with him, he puts them down, rather than engaging constructively.
I’ve had halachic disagreements with pba, and I can’t remember one time when he put me down.
Then again, I don’t think I’ve ever disparaged the Rem”a, (or the Mechaber).
Elu ve Elu
So if I say pork is kosher, does elu v’elu kick in?
Quince, Quiche, Quinoa,
and Quaker oats, so he could eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and have a healthful fruit as a snack.
OOM,
Actually, it would make sense, but it’s just not true.
One could posit that everyone has a preordained zivug which could be lost through poor choices, and obviously the potential spouse will lose out.
The gemara in Sotah,however, which says that there is a bas kol, does not say that it applies to everyone. Tosafos clearly in dicates that it does not apply to everyone, and as you point out, logic dictates that it doesn’t apply to everyone. Does a baby born with severe mental disabilities, l”a, have a preordained zivug?
So certainly there is a concept of a preordained zivug, but it doesn’t have to apply to everyone, and even for those who have one, it may not actualize.
ZD,
On all of the issues. you raised, I think there are poskim who are meikil, so the geirus would be ok.
Gefen, as I’ve said, I believe the geirus is valid, but the shaila Health brought up is a legitimate shaila.
I don’t know how we pasken if a ger intended to eventually keep everything, just not immediately.
A hat, or davka a black hat? Wearing a hat, according to basic halacha, is required, although Tzitz Eliezer is meikil since today it is normal to appear that way before a ruler. But black? I never heard of any reason for that, other than cultural.
Cantgetit, true, but not everyone neccessarily started with a “rightful zivug”.
613, not true.
GM, NDG specifically wrote that he was referring to responses in the CR.
Cantgetit,
I’m saying it’s not universal. Nowhere in Chaza”l (AFAIK) does it say that EVERYONE has a predestined zivug, and certainly not that everyone will marry.
SJS,
I know of nobody who identifies themselves as charedi and considers a black hat to be a halachic requirement.
If you wish to argue on point, you would have to either defend or dissociate yourself from real halachic problems in MO, such as mixed swimming.
Yekke, can you provide a source which states that every person has a zivug?
Longarekel, I was kidding.
Gefen,
Halachic geirus requires kabolas mitzvos. If someone wishes to convert without accepting even one halacha, even one whose non-observance would not make his wine assur, his geirus is invalid. By definition, the geirus was not according to halacha.
Popa, correct. Or if they are childless after ten years, although for some reason, that’s usually not kept (I think Rivash addresses this).
They used to think molesting is okay?
HaKatan,
You are very unfairly lumping segments of MO together.
I know many people who identify with MO but attempt to do everything al pi halacha, even if I disagree with their approach to halacha.
Yeah, that too.
BaalHabooze, I assume that someone who simply can’t afford it would be an exception.
Usually; but I can think of exceptions based on halachic considerations.
Gefen,
This is a halachic shaila, which has nothing to do with our perception of who’s “frum” and who’s not.
I like options 1&3 (especially 1). Option 2 is far fetched, and would only be true if they only learned well after Chanukah.
Toi,
That’s a far cry from saying you’re not yotzei. The Ittur and the Or Zarua are acknowledging that the minhag remained; the Or Zarua doesn’t know why, but doesn’t explcitly say to change, the Ittur says it’s preferable to light outside, but clearly you’re yotzei inside, and the Gaon is mashma that the minhag still remains.
I have no problem with someone lighting outside. I do have a problem with someone casting aspersions on those who light inside, which, at least in ch”l, is the predominant minhag and obviously has been since the sha’as sakana.
There is another way of reading the IG’M. “M’chuar” is going back on the schools closing. According to this reading, R’ Moshe is not referring to individuals using their vacation days.
The N’G did not learn this way in the IG’M – he learned that “m’chuar” is going on the worker taking days off.
APY,
I meant the IG’M and N’G when I wrote “they”.
Shmendrick’s comment was most definitely trollish, but the way to respond is not to misread the IG’M. “La’asos y’mei chofesh” hardly means going to Disneyland.
I don’t know if situations such as described by TCG, takahmamash and MorahRach are included in the inyan of “m’chuar” (which I would translate as “vile”), or if other poskim disagree, but let’s not distort the IG’M.
ZD,
The pre-measured oil cups are not a pain.
Longarekel,
It’s probably the wind. You should light inside.
Ayin Biur HaGr”a
APY, what type of vacation are they talking about?
Shmendrick, do you know what the word “chossid” really means?
Health, I see no chilluk between thinking it is or is not a chumra.
Health, you are advocating increasing the gap.
Health, he is no longer alive. This was in an out of town kollel community and the kollel was involved in the geirus, so she certainly saw the kollel wives’ hair covered.
Health, aside from the valid objections which I raised on that thread, your idea would throw single women above a certain age under the bus.
EY Yid,
He said “let’s assume”, and asked a question based on that. He didn’t say he knows for a fact that she never intended to cover her hair, nor did he say that every ger needs to prove the validity of the geirus.
APY,
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I do object and make a machoah to the comment by shmendrick that “Reb Moshe was not a chosid…of any kind”. He certainly was a chossid in the true sense of the word.
PBA: The OP was talking about someone who “keeps everything” but hair covering. Aren’t you being a bit generous with Avi Weiss to assume that his geirim are so observant?
Okay, I’m going to defend Health here. He didn’t come here to bash a particular person, or insult a ger. He came to pose a halachic shaila, based on an observation he made.
Sure, it’s possible for a shaitel to look real; it’s also possible on occassion to know for sure that it’s not a shaitel.
Of course, it’s possible that someone, over time, became lax in her observance; but since there are many shomrei Shabbos who don’t cover their hair, it’s very possible that she never intended to, and it’s certainly reasonable for his experience to arouse the shaila.
However (and I may surprise some with this opinion), I think that even if she never intended to cover her hair, her geirus is still valid. We don’t need to find a legitimate heter to leave the hair uncovered, all we need to do is be able to assume that she doesn’t think it’s a violation of halacha. That’s reasonable to assume, since so many shomrei Shabbos ladies don’t wear a head covering.
Tosofos in Shabbos (68A bd”h Ger – http://hebrewbooks.org/shas.aspx?mesechta=2&daf=68&format=pdf) say that even if someone doesn’t know about Shabbos, it doesn’t passul the geirus.
I was present when this very shaila was presented to an adam gadol; there was a lady who was m’gayer with no intention to cover her hair (she converted with her husband). The godol affirmed the geirus.
To solve this problem go to my topic here in the CR called “Who wants to be a “Tzadaikes like Rus”.
Okay, I went to that topic. B”H no more shidduch crisis!
I can think of two reasons for YWN not to report it.
1) It’s not easy to report such a story accurately without writing details which don’t fit their standards of tznius.
2) Once the alleged perpetrator is locked up, it’s hard to justify that their is toeles. However, if this were the reason, they shouldn’t allow it to be discussed in the CR either.
Akuperma,
Not only if the boys are disappearing, also if there are 10% more girls entering the shidduch market each year, which would be true based on a certain percentage of population growth and average higher age gap of males over females marrying each other.