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I think Rav Moshe did from the famous story of him not putting on a seatbelt until asked “to do a yid a favor”
Rav Moshe was pro gun control.
Allowing the public to own these weapons is not an isolated incident, Syag.
hakaras hatov is a proper middah. not everyone expresses it in the same way (nor can they). some expression of hakaras hatov should certainly be shown.
Agreed.
I also think there’s something sorely lacking in any chessed done with an eye towards how the recipient expresses their hakaras hatov.
Do you look before crossing the street? The risk of getting hit by a car is often less than 50%, or even 10%, depending on the street and the time of day.
Do you lock your doors at night? Because there’s probably a much lower than 50% chance anything would happen to you on any given night if you left them unlocked.
Sorry, I’m not buying it. If you didn’t avoid any risks lower than 50%, you’d be dead.
As far as I’m concerned, “thank you” on the way out is perfectly fine.
So buy two tickets
You borrow it.
I don’t even want to win
I guess you’re not a Lubavicher.
You have to do some kind of hishtadlus by buying one ticket as mentioned above in the name of the Lubavitcher Rebbe ztz”l, so even though you have no control whether you will win, but you did yours.
Why is that called doing yours since the odds are so ridiculously long? Yes, you’ve increased your odds by buying a ticket, but you also increase your odds by buying multiple tickets, but you’re against that.
🤔
But I have control over picking the winning numbers??
It wouldn’t take zechusim to beat 300 million to 1 odds??
Joseph, one is hishtadlus. If you are not in it, you can’t win it.
You could find the winning ticket on the floor, or get a ticket as a gift.
Also the 1929 massacre was a brutal, horrible and criminal act. The Zionist movement was quite strong then. It was absolutely in response to the Zionist movement there. It was a horrible and disgusting criminal act. There is no justification for it. But to say that it disproves the notion that prior to the Zionist movement gathering steam the Jews and Arabs in the land got along is false.
I agree with this.
It should tell you what we’re dealing with, though.
Phil, why a the vicious personal attacks? Can you please point to the post where Joseph condemned anyone for going out? He expressed his opinion. You’re entitled to disagree, but this is ridiculous.
I haven’t seen much in the way of actual content from you, just vitriol. It seems to me that you are a much bigger troll than Joseph ever was.
Mesdames CS and Philosopher have said that the Shulchan Aruch and Rambam cited no longer apply in our 21st century day and age.
Who is Mesdames?
What does “no longer apply” mean and how does that differ from what today’s poskim allow and often encourage?
The Palistinians only had a problem with the Jews living there when the Jews started taking control of the land.
Yeah, the Zionists got us into a huge mess. The solution isn’t to commit suicide.
And nobody denied what it says in Rambam or Shulcan Aruch, yet you keep quoting them.
No, but she can set it at the maximum for what he is charged with.
That’s exactly what the Palestinians want to do!
Well, not precisely. They don’t merely want military control, they want to annihilate us.
The Israelis weren’t controlling E”Y until they took it over either. In my analogy the Native Americans put together a military and took control. I don’t know exactly what Native American beliefs are regarding how they came to live in America but they probably believe they had a god given right to be there too.
But now they are. If you want to go according to past history, it still belongs to the Jews. You are going according to one specific time in history, but both before, and after, it belongs the the Jewish people.
Who cares what the Native Americans “probably” believe? Does the actual truth mean nothing to you?
I notice you didn’t respond to my point that it’s not practical because of security.
Not a single posek in the universe disagrees with the quoted Shulchan Aruch or any of the other poskim cited.
I don’t know about the single poskim, but i know a lot of married ones who allow their wives to go out.
So because $15k is a high amount according to the too low charges brought, she was right?
It was quite obviously a hate crime, and she should have granted what the prosecutor asked for.
Two flaws in your analogy:
1) Hashem didn’t grant New York to the Native Americans. He did grant Eretz Yisroel to the Jewish people.
2) The Native Americans aren’t currently running New York. The Jews are currently running Eretz Yisroel.
Furthermore, even if the moral thing to do would be to give the Palestinians a state, it’s not practical. It would be suicidal. We’re dealing with a people which educates their children to hate and kill Jews.
Avi, I figure you’d go for the first option.
I don’t want to derail the thread, but just because there’s no room in your head for a different opinion, doesn’t mean it’s a non starter.
See the first Rashi on Chumash. Hashem created the world, and gave Eretz Yisroel to the Jewish people. It’s not morally problematic to not allow non Jews to govern.
Of course, if you hold that the shalosh shavuos are binding, it’s wrong for us to govern Eretz Yisroel altogether until Moshiach comes, no difference one state or two.
3G networks are being phased out causing a switch to smartphones.
Verizon is phasing out 3g, the others, not yet AFAIK.
Verizon does have a 4g flip phone, and supposedly TAG can make it “kosher”.
So if someone wants a flip phone, it can still be had.
Now, they charge you hundreds for a flip phone
That’s an exaggeration. You can get one for less than “hundreds”.
Hashem created the State. The Zionists were just His messengers.
What does that mean? Surely you don’t mean that the fact that it exists means it’s good. There are plenty of things which exist (or existed) which we don’t consider good, yet could only come to be through Hashem’s will.
I wear a hat because The Rebbe wants me to.
Ugh
Therefore i am requesting that someone kindly send me the citation in the Igros Moshe where this very subject matter is discussed.
There is no teshuvah which discusses which shavers are muttar. Various talmidim of R’ Moshe’s have different opinions about which are muttar, probably based on which shavers they observed him approving and their interpretations of how it would apply to today’s shavers.
Yes, the gartel does go on the outside of the cover of a posul sefer torah as I’m sure people have witnessed in shul. What’s your point in making that statement here?
It’s a good response to ubiquitin.
The Frierdiker Rebbe (1880 – 1950) once said regarding why Lubavitcher Bochurim don’t wear a Gartel over their jacket, (we do wear one before marriage, but under the shirt) “מיינע בחורים זיינען נישט פסול’ע ספרי תורה” – My Bochurim aren’t Posul Sifrei Torah.
Implying that married men are?
So why is a talis different than a one wearing purple hair and a nose ring etc, in terms of arousing any antisemitism..
I don’t recommend that either
I once heard a drasha from R’ Yechiel Perr, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva of Far Rockaway who explained that wearing a talis in a visible way in the street might have caused an anti-Semitic response. I think he quoted R’ Yaakov that it was proper no to wear the talis openly.
It’s a מגן אברהם in סי’ כ”ה, also brought in משנה ברורה.
Meno: think of it like how in Litvish Yeshivos the bochurim don’t usually wear ties on weekdays, but their rebbeim do. The Rosh Yeshiva wears a longer coat at most places. We all have concepts of bochurim dressing less formally than their superiors for gaavah kind of reasons.
Tieless is informal.
Shirt untucked is unkempt.
Bad example, but in concept, yes.
It’s a bad example because we know full well that football is muttar (unless you want to kler maybe tackle football is a sakana…) and that recognized poskim have allowed and encouraged participation in sports (at least in chutz la’aretz…).
However, a psak that tipping is mandatory when it is the norm is fully consistent with regular dinei Choshen Mishpat cannot be ignored unless you have a psak otherwise.
DY: If Rabbi A issues a ruling on an issue no other rabbi addressed, his ruling isn’t universally binding.
So it’s a hefker velt? Just do what you want?
@DasYochid
Do you think any experienced adult should work for $4 per hour from the employer and have to live on the generousity of customers?It depends on the value he is providing to his employer. If he is an experienced, capable worker with marketable skills, employers will compete for his services, and he’ll get paid a lot more than that.
You made two points there – one about pay amount per hour, and one about putting the burden on the customer. I don’t necessarily disagree about the latter.
In NY, that kid at McDs gets $7.50/hr minimum wage and the experienced server is paid $4.00 plus tips.
That’s ludicrous.Why is that ludicrous?
Hi, Goq!
You can’t assume anyone disagrees, true, but you can’t assume anyone agrees either, in the absence of them so saying.
Which leaves us that it’s a chiyuv, and not just “alleged”.
I didn’t see anything about Rav Belsky commenting on this issue.
I posted a link above
But even if he did you can’t assume other poskim who didn’t comment on the issue necessarily agree with him.
Au contraire, you can’t assume anyone disagrees without reliable information.
allegedly mandatory
Why allegedly? Do you think Rav Belsky didn’t actually write that? Does anyone disagree?
Tipping is totally optional.
No it isn’t.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/tipping-waiter#post-687480
Maybe if kosher prices weren’t too high, people would have more money to tip. Stick to your job.
If you can’t afford the tip, don’t go to a restaurant. The price of kosher food in no way justifies withholding the waiters their due.
marbeshalom: What makes you believe that all the jews moved out of Canarsie?
He read on YWN that it’s hard to find a Shacharis minyan.
Mammele, I believe he made a mistake when he wrote the boy wasn’t a carrier. His parents never tested.
Yes, the way I understand it, it wouldn’t make sense to say that he actually has Tay Sachs but isn’t a carrier.