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What do people here think? Should I shave or not? Will it make a difference?
I’m not sure how the good folks in the CR would have a better idea about the environment in some unknown accounting firm than you do! Since you’re not sure, go back to your rov, tell him that you don’t have a good way to gauge the environment there, and ask how to proceed!
I don’t know how to interview for a large accounting firm, but one universal pointer about interviews: project confidence!
Hatzlachah!
But don’t we also observe mourning during sefirah on the national level in addition to Tishah BeAv, and it also falls out during Nissan?
I’ve never seen this issue addressed, but two distinctions come to mind.
1) The mourning of sefirah is not a single day, it’s drawn out over a long period.
2) The tragedy which we commemorate is different than that of the churban; it’s the tragedy of the Torah lost upon the death of R’ Akiva’s talmidim.
It’s also likely that chachamim who instituted the mourning during sefirah understood that tragedy to be independent of the churban, whereas the other tragedies, as R’ Moshe writes, are an extension of the churban.
The idea that Nissan is a time of happiness would seem to be a support for those who keep the halachos of mourning after Rosh Chodesh.
10 times deiezooger has used the number 10
Where does it say that Tisha be’Av is to commemorate all tragedies?
In the ???? ?? ??? ???? ???.
The thing with accapella..some accapelas sound lk real music so lk were supposed 2 be sad that rabbi akivas students were niftar. Why are we listening 2 something that sounds lk real music??
I’ve seen the opinion of one prominent posek that if the vocals are digitally manipulated to sound different than a human voice, it has, in fact, the status of instrumental music.
cherrybim,
The source I quoted has R’ Moshe being machmir on music during the year, but acknowledging that there are those who are meikil. He states clearly, though, that it’s assur during sefirah, so I’m not sure why it would be a tzorich iyun.
If you could please do me a favor, ask your rav if R’ Moshe’s heter because of nervousness is written in a teshuvah or something heard al peh. (I’m not asking you to question the veracity of what your rav said, c”v, but it’s easier to apply the heter to a specific situation if one could see the wording.)
My take on it is this – the Shoah is in a category of tragedy all by itself.
For a different take on this, take a look at the Artscroll Kinnos on #25 (the one I mentioned earlier) where the author explains, in better words than I ever could, how all tragedies which r”l befall Klal Yisroel are actually an outgrowth of the churban habayis.
The very broad nature of the tragedy, R’ Moshe writes in the teshuva which I mentioned, is an indication that it is a product of our being in golus.
- 1-Why do some (percentage? I don’t have statistics, just know it’s quite a few) shuls not say kinnos for the Holocaust on tisha b’av?
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The story is told about the Bobover Rebbe Zt”l that he felt that anyone in our dor is unworthy of composing a kinnah, until he saw in a sefer that anyone can. Possibly, some gedolim agree with his initial thought.
In Halichos Shlomo (in the section on Tisha B’av, I don’t have it in front of me for a precise citation), it is described how and why one year R’ Shlomo Zalman said R’ Weissmandl’s kinnah, but that the practice was discontinued.
Also, Rav Moshe (here) is discussing live music, not taped.
The words you quoted from R’ Moshe were badly botched up by OCR. The actual words, “??”? ????? ?? ???? ???? ????? ???? ??? ???? ??? ????” would imply that recorded instrumental music is ????. (I’m assuming that the radio he refers to was playing recorded music, or that even if it was live, being heard over the radio would have the same ??? as recorded music.
To bring a source for what all here have referred to, that we commemorate all of Klal Yisrael’s tragedies on Tisha B’av, in Kinah 25 (?? ??? ???? ???), the paytan writes, about the 11th century European tragedies, “??? ??? ?????? ???? ??? ??????”; in other words, we don’t add our own day of public mourning.
See ????? ??? ??”? ?’ ?”? ?”? for an explanation of how this is not contradicted by the fact that certain communities did, in fact, observe days of mourning in commemoration of tragedies which befell them.
Rav Moshe permitted any type of music in spite of the ban after the Churban since we need it in today’s times because of our nervousness, like a r’fuah. Perhaps the same heter applies for s’fira.
Do you have a source for that?
In ??”? ?’ ??”?, he is ????? on instrumental music during the year, and writes that even according to the ??????, it’s ???? during ?????.
Mr. 80,
She did suggest one.
I hope you think I’m a nice person too 😉
R’ Shlomo Zalman’s opinion is recorded in Halichos Shlomo, Moadim, 11th perek, 14.
D’var Halachah 22
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach permitted classical music during sefira.
R’ Shlomo Zalman’s opinion is recorded in Halichos Shlomo, Moadim, 11th perek, 14. See however, Orchos Halacha 54, which clarifies that this heter should only be utilized in case of need.
The overall approach of R’ Shlomo Zalman zt”l seems to be that what determines whether music is permissible during sefirah is not whether it is instumental or vocal, but rather, the type of mood attached to it. Any music, even vocal, would seem to be prohibited if it’s the type associated with dancing. (I hope this answers StuffedCabbage’s question.)
Your rov picks and chooses the psakim he likes from various poskim.
He would listen to nothing else that Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach would have to say about many other things.
Do you know his rav and all of his psakim to make such a negative comment?
“Nein” is what you say to dessert when you want to stay slim.
Unless responding to the question, “How many pieces of chocolate mousse cake would you like?”! 🙂
I found this. If you want my source, Google the sentence which begins The 2010 Statistical Abstract, issued….
How many Jews are there in New York?
1,618,000.
The 2010 Statistical Abstract, issued by the US Census Bureau, reports that New York’s Jewish population comprises 1,618,000 people, which represents 8.4% of the state’s population. New York is the state with the highest Jewish population in the US; nearly a quarter of the all Jews in the country are New York residents.
This fact is verified on : May 7, 2010. All facts are verified every 6 month after the last modification.
I checked the cRc’s site. Their Passover guide is downloadable.
Interestingly, no specific mention is made of paper towels; their chart for paper products says that paper products are acceptable, and then specifies:
Including bags, napkins, plates,
wax paper
with hot foods unless specially
certified for Pesach
(The OU’s chart makes no such condition on paper plates.)
Why don’t you call or email the OU and get an informed answer, rather than relying on halachic guidance from people you don’t know?
Why is the OU considered someone Imaofthree knows more than R’ Blumenkrantz?
If what you meant is not to rely on CR people, I agree; anything offered here should be independently verified. There’s nothing wrong, though, with asking the question as a way of hearing ideas.
Many poskim disagree. See, for example, the OU’s guide which allows all paper towels even for Pesach.
http://oukosher.org/index.php/passover/article/5705 (#33)
Follow your posek for halachah l’maisah.
Number of ?????? selling ??? ????? in .????? ?”?
The number player the rebbe was in Abie Rotenberg’s famous Journeys song
Smallest number of p’sukim for krias haTorah (Purim)
Why are so many gedolim and yidden willing to pay $30 a pound for hand-made, instead of $5 a pound for machine-made?
First of all, many are of the opinion that the kashrus is indeed better. Second, it’s not so pashut that machine matzos are baked “l’shem matzas mitzvah” (IOW that turning on the machine is considered the act of baking).
it would be foolish to assert that it [machine matzah] is better than hand-made matzah
No, it would be foolish to say that it’s impossible to bake hand matzah that’s not chametz, but not foolish to say that today’s machine matzah is superior to the hand matzah available today.
Shlishi,
18 minute (machine) matzah means the machines are stopped and cleaned every 18 minutes, which is not relevant to when the shmirah started on the wheat.
Fine so tell me… if *you* saw chometz on Chol HaMoed, would *you* get into your car and put as many miles as possible between you and it as quickly as possible?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
The Wolf
Wolf, although I agree with your overall approach here (as I understand it, that if we’re honest with ourselves we’ll realize that we are more afraid of physical than spiritual danger), I’ll take slight issue with your analogy. There is no benefit to running away from chametz although there is benefit to distancing oneself from radiation.
The Gra made havdalah on beer after Pesach to show that it was now permissible. Obviously there is something to eating chometz on Motzei Pesach.
Feif Un, right un! (Although he surely wouldn’t have spent hours on line (or online!).
I agree. What I really want is some rice!
You could have had rice on Pesach had you gone to a Sefardi’s house! 🙂
(FTR, I’m kidding with Charlie, following up on an a discussion in an earlier thread.)
My almost-unfailing policy is to never correct anyone
I’m not talking about correcting anyone, I’m suggesting asking for a source.
It’s always the husband who is the aggressor in a divorce.
You must mean that it’s NOT always the husband.
No matter how high a wall one builds, there will always be a ladder even higher. If the ladder breaks, there will be a shovel readily available.
We’re not talking about someone who is aggressively pursuing their ta’avos, we’re talking about helping people who are trying to avoid nisayon.
r-b,
Thanks.
I hope everyone had a great Yom Tov.
why is the YWN radio still working?
Some people start Rosh Chodesh (I’m posting this when there are no responses up yet, and the latest reply is four hours ago, so I wouldn’t be surprised if by the time this is posted, it’s about the fifth similar response!).
DZ,
Thanks.
Why don’t you just ask one of these big talmidei chachamim outright where the source is for the heter to talk during davening? Tell him “Torah he v’tzorich ani lilmod”.
Because I am non-confrontational. I actually confronted someone about talking during davening a few weeks back and immediately regretted it.
I’m not suggesting a confrontation, just a simple question, as a talmid might ask a rebbe.
Back in the CR, (yay gotta love fantasy!! )
Why don’t you just ask one of these big talmidei chachamim outright where the source is for the heter to talk during davening? Tell him “Torah he v’tzorich ani lilmod”.
If only cleaning were the only thing to do before Pesach!
Because I don’t know how much I’m going to get a chance to log in or post before yom tov, I’ll think I’ll just wish everyone in the CR a chag kasher v’sameach a little early.
To post here I haven’t much time,
I’m busy with chometz and grime.
500 there are not,
so Shticky take your shot,
’cause many posts here do not rhyme!
Because you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Sorry, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Guess what? The pizza was lousy. For all those years, it was the nostalgia that made me think it was so great.
That, or they changed the recipe.
Tell them, “Please understand that if i do your taxes, it might mean giving up a paid client, so I’d be glad to do it, but I must charge you. But I’ll give you a discount”. Then do so.
Thanks. It would have surprised me otherwise, based on the way the ??? is brought down in ?????? that it makes an ???? ?? ???? like a ?? ????.
stamagoy,
Since you didn’t say to whom you’re directing your post, that means it’s for everyone, some of whom are male, and some of whom are female. So whether you’re the brother or the sister, you’ve just violated your own rule!
Now, if you would tell me that since your comment is directed at nobody in particular, it’s impersonal and there’s no issue, I ask you: if you were in mixed company, would you be speaking up? No? Then you’ve just acknowledged the difference between anonymous chatting and non-anonymous chatting.
My opinion is that unlike non-anonymous chatting, which without a specific need is not appropriate, anonymous chatting is okay as long as the tone and content are okay.
Maybe if we use it properly (which for some people might mean not using it at all), the sonei Yisroel will not be able to use it for evil.
How does the money part fit in?
???!
“r u doing it with a theasaurus or not?? “
Some from a thesaurus (ex: gormandizing), some from an encyclopedia (ex: pouffe), and some from my head (ex: hurriedly ambulated).
Is that cheating? 🙂
Yontel,
If you want to point to a specific post, click on the #sign under the post, copy the address which comes up in the browser bar, and paste it into your post.
I must say I completely disagree with TBT and the others that agreed with TBT.
That’s amazing, because chalilavchas, who knows this young adult, agrees!
But it’s difficult to take a person, who has to retort to insults, seriously.
Of course it’s difficult, but it’s worth working on, because at times, one can see some truth even if the source is rotten.
Two things which I haven’t noticed being mentioned (although I only skimmed so I might have missed):
1) Pathway to Prayer by Rabbi Mayer Birnbaum (the original, in Lashon Hakodesh, is called Avodas Hat’fillah). This is a clear translation/explanation which can either be used before or during davening.
2) Studying carefully the halachos of tefillah. Although they’re different for women tan for men, there are chiyuvim for women as well, besides which, studying the halachos is a tremendous help for any struggle with one’s yetzer hara, regardless of what the particular halachos are.
Hatzlacha!
It was sacrificed…
I asked the posek hador, and he said that there are at least two people impersonating him.