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Sam2,
Kukiyani are assur.
Hello, aurora77,
Kudos to you for your commitment to keeping kosher. My advice to you is simple. Don’t believe everything you read on an anonymous forum.
Although most of what I’ve read in this thread is true, there are some inaccuracies and oversimplifications. You might want to contact the OU directly, so that at least you know from whom you’re getting your information.
Good luck.
Daven really loud.
Why not ask “is there a way to tell if a guy will be a competent husband and father?”
That’s a fair question. You would expect a girl to ask it. The OP is a guy, though, so he asked about a girl.
A good girl is hard to come by, these days.
True, but it’s much harder to find a good guy.
This article
implies that the candidacy of a frum Jew for a judgeship is endorsed by R’ Belsky.
To assume that it is against halacha to hold a judgeship in a secular court would also imply that the judgeships of several ehrliche yidden were obtained without halachic consent, and I don’t believe that to be the case.
There is a well known story that when two litigants representing two sides in the Bobover dispute appeared before a frum judge, the judge recounted a meeting with a gadol after his election (some three decades prior). When he asked the gadol for advice on how to act as a judge in a secular court, the gadol told him that whenever two Yidden appear before him, he should try to get them to go to beis din. That gadol was the Bobover Rebbe, ZT”L.
Is saying a kapitel Tehilim aloud after davening a problem of Lo Sisgodedu?
Sam’s eitzah is correct, and I don’t think there’s an inyan to say L’dovid with a minyan.
Is Joseph a fungus?
Nah, he’s just a fungi.
FTR, and FWIW, I personally think Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. I’m just explaining what the motivation could be for someone to deny it.
What if they would have texted their questions on a Kosher phone?
Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Wow – $30 bucks to replace a neighbor’s sticker. I hope he doesn’t hit you up for a lot more for the damage to his car.
rob,
You’re right, the source I found was a typo, it’s actually 2:3, and not so clear in what way the heavenly bodies differ from the things we find here on Earth, but apparently, it’s normally understood to mean that they are not solid enough to land on. On YU’s Torah site, there’s a lecture from R’ Nosson Kamenetzky in which he supposedly relates the story with his father zt”l (although I didn’t listen to it), and it may have been recounted in Yonoson Rosenblum’s R’ Yaakov biography, although I don’t have it in front of me and I don’t remember it with certainty. I do remember that Rosenblum got much of his information from R’ Nosson.
Source?
Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah 2:4
I wonder if the girl got cold feet when she realized that the boy couldn’t even spell “and” correctly.
Who says the rebbi was more right than the teacher?
The boy.
Well, the Rambam held that the moon was not a physical entity, so if someone wanted to defend that position, he would have to say the whole thing was a hoax.
You don’t get a letter for expiring inspections.
Mechitzah b’peh would be if you tell the women to leave.
In my neighborhood, two different magidei shiur were offered a well paying position to give a gemara shiur, but it was known that there was a woman who wanted to attend. Both asked their respective rebbeim, who both said the same thing; it might or might not be assur, but either way, don’t do it.
See Ohr Hachayim Hakadosh on parshas Shemini regarding infestation of produce.
The OP also alluded to a serious issue,even for someone who does ask for CY milk. Unless there is a mashgiach present, or they give you a sealed container, how can you rely on the milk actually being CY?
V’gilu bir’adah
Curiosity,
If you could prove to me that two hundred years ago they ate the same vegetables as we do, with the same level of infestation as we have today, I’d eat them too. However, we have higher levels of infestation than they did, and we have types of vegetables which were uncommon.
There’s no reason why it can’t be difficult to eat food, even if “inherently kosher”.
Curiosity,
The thought went through my mind that the Torah in its darchei noam couldn’t possibly be expecting us to strain our eyes so badly over a tiny black speck floating in a vat of water.
Maybe the Torah expects us to just eat something else. You’re completely misapplying the concept of d’rocheho darchei noam. According to your interpretation, I could eat pig if I really had a hard time abstaining.
rob,
where is the limit??
Sam2 gave a very sensible limit – visible to the normal human eye. If someone has worse than typical vision, that wouldn’t make foods muttar to him which are assur to others. No one’s arguing for requiring a microscope; you’re creating a straw man.
I believe the change in font size is supposed to relieve eye strain. I don’t know how, or even if it’s true, but I heard that this is the reason.
Yitayningwut,
I don’t disagree that the assumption is that the Torah wants to avoid issur, but here we’re not avoiding issur, we’re removing the cause of the issur (the neder).
This is not a metziusdik’e chiluk, as you say; it’s a lomdish’e chiluk.
Nechomah,
Only one is necessary. If the oldest doesn’t do it, another one can. May Klal Yisroel be spared from tragedy.
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???”? the other cases.
???? ????? is still a ??????? in the ???, though, so you can’t learn it out.
As far as you know, are there manufacturers that sell the same model / screen size with different screen technologies?
Yes, when my screen broke, I had to take the old one off to see the model # of the screen (I ordered from laptopscreen dot com).
And secondly, would you use the same reasoning to allow eating from a neveiloh?
No comparison, for obvious reasons based on the rules of logic.
You can’t compare issur with heter. If it were g’neivah, it would be assur. But it’s not. It’s a hashkafa issue, and an old machlokes between gedolim, going back decades. The Chazon Ish, the Neturai Karta (real one), Eidah Chareidis, Brisker Rov, Satmar Rov, etc. all weighed in on this, and due to my limited intellect, I will not take sides, other than for whatever is practical in my own life, for which I will follow the mehalech of my rebbeim. The gedolim used their massive, Torah honed intellect to decide these matters, and didn’t take these matters lightly; they “learned it up” with yiras shomayim andyegiah rabbah, as they would the most difficult sugyas in Sha”s.
You should be more humble, recognize your stature relative to the gedolim, and not c”v insinuate that those who follow the path of the Chazon Ish are disingenuous or hypocritical.
This is my last post, at least for a while, so everyone have a wonderful summer, and may we all meet soon in Yerushalayim Hab’nuyah bv”a.
As mentioned by me and others, girls langish and cannot get a shiduch
But somehow the boys get married.
You’ve totally misplaced the blame, due to your anti-kollel bias.
My argument has been that the vast majority of jungeleit would leave the kollels if they could go make an honest living.
Many certainly would. That’s not the main point of your argument, though.
my limited intellect is not up to the task.
If only you realized how true your words are (not meant as an insult – I say it about myself as well.)
Why is it OK to take from what one sees as Tomei? Can someone please explain?
Where would the money otherwise be spent?
??? ???? ?? ??? ???????? ??? ???? ????”? ??? ???? ????”? ??? ?????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ?? ?????? ?? ?????? ?? ????? ???? ???? ????? ????? ?? ????? ??? ??? ??”? ,?? ?? ???????? ??????? ???? ??”? ????? ????? ??????? ?? ?????? ????? ??????? ????? ????, ?”? ?????? ??? ???? ?????
R’ Moshe knew the Gemara in Berachos.
I’ll sell you my $18 tickets for $99. 🙂
you can try yout utmost in your reasoning (this is why I called it a pilpul) but paying kollel jungeleit is ZEDAKAH !</em.
Wolf would have a field day with your logic.
people have not accepted this idea that everyone should learn at the expense of the tsibbur.
Many have, and the rest need to be educated. At the very least, you can stop being part of the problem, now that you’ve seen r’ Moshe’s teshuva and that you were wrong l’halacha. (I’m assuming you didn’t mean “everyone” literally.)
popa- you are quoting a daas jochid in R’Nehoroi-look at the gemoro berochos 35B.
It is the Gemara’s conclusion.
Also, popa- you are wrong in your percentages. You forgot to count the tens of thousands of young bachurim who are learning. Don’t they count??
I don’t know where anyone gets their numbers from, but it’s clear that R’ Moshe wanted many married men to receive stipends.
After all, we seem to be the adults in the room.
I am disappointed that you have resorted to bolstering your argument by calling those who disagree with you children.
Sam2,
Again, you were too kind.
It’s a shame you were wrong, because it really is a good middah.
but to complain that he actually has to look after himself
I didn’t see a complaint there. And even if he did complain, unless you have never complained about anything in your life, you shouldn’t begrudge him his complaint.
Unless you think that no one in the world has bigger tzaros than you do.
And, keep in mind, tashlumin can only be done right after the regular shmoneh esrei…. not hours later.
M”B (108:15) concludes that b’dieved, one should daven as long as it’s still within the z’man of that tefillah; the opportunity is not missed. He advises that the second tefillah be a nedava b’tnai when possible.
Does the Gemorah not say that a man who has not taught his son a trade, has taught him to be a thief (or something like that)?
The Gemara concludes:
????? ??? ?????? ???? ???? ??? ?? ?????? ?????? ????? ???? ?? ??? ??? ???? ??? ?????? ?????? ??? ????? ?? ??? ???? ?????? ??? ???? ?????? ??? ??? ???? ???? ??? ???? ???? ?? ????? ?? ???? ??? ?????? ?????? ?? ????? ????? ??? ?????? ??? ?????? ??? ???? ????? ?? ?????? ?? ???? ??? ?????? ??????? ??? ???? ??? ?????? ????? ????? ??????? ????
If some of those of us who are frum feel that the yungerleit should not expect to be blindly supported forever without their earning a living or without concretely giving back to the country out of appreciation for the support they do get, how could the non-frum world ever be expected to accept that? And that is the crux of why the Israeli government is giving the yeshivah boys so much grief now.
So in other words, you are blaming it on yourselves.
There are at least two sides to every story,
And often, only one is right.
and if we are to be fair, it would be a good thing to try to reasonably understand the emotions that are involved here now.
To understand is not the same as to agree.
Did you read the teshuva I quoted from R’ Moshe? To repeat his conclusion:
??? ??? ???? ?????? ????? ??????? ????? ???? ?”? ??? ?????? ??? ???? ????? ????? ????? ????? ????? ???”? ???? ?? ?????? ??? ?’ ???? ?? ????
Reb Moshe is explaining the Rambam Talmud Torah, not Shmita.
Unless you want it to be a stira, you have to explain like the Radba”z or similar (e.g. Maaseh Rokach, who is quoted in the Mafteach as explaining that the Ramba”m in shmita is referring to someone who has enough on his own, or is willing to suffer dire poverty).
I gather you have conceeded that the Beis Yosef, Rama and Shach do not rule that way, and it is not the accepted Halacha.
Yes, it does seem that he conceded this point.
it is clearly not the Rambam’s intent.
Although, to be fair, R’ Moshe seems to lean towards understanding the Ramba”m that way, although he emphatically states that the halacha is not that way.
Yes, the very same one.
Therev is only one reference in the shach to “melamdim and lomdim” 9see R’moshe’s teshuva that daas yochid quoted).
One is enough for me. R’ Moshe is quite clear that he is very much referring to kollel stipends.
it is the misuse of these deferments that rankles people.
The Chazon Ish was said to be very disturbed by exemptions being given to bochurim who weren’t really learning.
But, the decision of who should receive exemptions and who should not, is not something that we can allow to be made by the Israeli government. They are certainly not trustworthy to leave alone those who are serious learners. And, as I quoted R’ Moshe, we could use many talmidei chachomim learning, not just a select few as you state.
The same R’ Avigdor Miller who only spoke Yiddish in the home.
Its kind of hard to follow this thread but did someone say tashlumin is the same thing as nidava?
No. In a case where it’s uncertain if tashlumin is required, one should daven twice, the second with a t’nai: if tashlumin is required, the SHM”E is required for tashlumin, it should be tashlumin. If not required, it should be for a nedava.
The reason popa’s case is so fascinating is that there are a number of complications:
1) He didn’t omit the entire SHM”E, just Yaaleh V’yavo. Since the tashlumin would also be without Y”V, there is a machlokes whether or not it applies. Normally, the M”B would recommend the nedava b’tnai approach previously described.
2) This, however, is not a normal situation, since he accepted Shabbos by davening Maariv, and we don’t say tefilas nedava on Shabbos (a full-fledged, unconditional tashlumin, however, could be said).
3) Nor, taynas popa, is this an ordinary case of not saying nedava on Shabbos, since it’s only Shabbos via his acceptance, since it’s not yet shkiya. (I do not feel this is a valid chiluk.)
Mw13,
Great post.
You should rather Daven two Maarivs.
In this case, you can’t (according to one shittah which we are choshesh for), because there is nothing being added, since the reason you need to daven again is for missing Yaaleh V’yavo, but you can’t say it now anyway since it is no longer Rosh Chodesh. Nor can you make it a tefillas nedavah b’tnai, because we don’t say tefillas nedavah on Shabbos.
CA,
For seeing the positive. There are two ways to look at it.
1) The head of a Jewish government, a very public figure, has a set of Shulchan Aruch on his wall, but doesn’t follow it.
2) The way you did: even someone who doesn’t keep the Shulchan Aruch, at least recognizes its importance, to a degree.
ZD,
Complete conjecture, for no benefit.
your thoughts
R’ Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev would be proud of you.
If the Viznitzer Rav had a problem with Rabbi Lau, he should have made them months ago. You dont make demands 2 weeks before an event.
He is not the one who invited him. I do not know when the invitation was offered, accepted, and announced, but I didn’t know about it until a couple of days ago. You’re right, though, that there was lack of aforethought in inviting someone controversial.
If people would be as strong about keeping the Torah as they are about being anti Tzioni
Are you c”v accusing the Vishnitzer Rebbe of not being as strong about other parts of the Torah as he is about being anti-tzioni?
DY: And, as mentioned above, if you don’t hold of doing a N’dava B’tanai then it’s missed.
No, he advises it l’ravcha d’milsa, but holds that mei’ikar hadin you can still daven during the z’man of that t’fillah.