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Health is meno!
Why didn’t I realize that??!!
You’re making up sfeikos where they don’t exist.
Avram the MD:
Eating contests are extremely dangerous and should not be done.
Which medical journal did you read that in?
“Potentially Jewish”? What does that mean?
Ubiquitin, have you ever heard of the Princeton Longevity Center?
1. Why should anyone trust your psak vs. that of the poskim of the kashrus organizations who seemingly unanimously would asser if not for the mechira?
3. I have no issue with the fact that many kashrus organizations take an interest in public awareness of kashrus issues. In fact, I thank them for it. For example, the lists of medicines and food/beverage items not requiring hechsherim are very useful.
4. If they’re being honest (I have no reason to think otherwise), they will receive schar as oskim b’tzorchei tzibur.
5. Why should distributors be different? You don’t seem to realize that this particular distributor has a monopoly on certain brands in a certain region.
Your accusations of irresponsibility against the kashrus organizations (and by extension, their poskim, who you accuse of not being levelheaded) is what just may be something which will hold you accountable upstairs.
I’m kind of surprised about that because if I am ever in a car with a male driver other than my husband I davka don’t sit behind him cuz’ it’s awkward to be in the rear view mirror.
A passenger directly behind the driver is not visible.
but I dont really understand if and how it differs.
If the doctor’s opinion is that full screening should be done on someone without any risk factors, because you might as well try to catch a problem if there is one, that would differ from the opinion mentch1 is citing.
BTW, I would say the same about a chareidi who wouldn’t give anything to a tzioini meshulach who cannot sing “B’derech Hatorah Neileich”.
DY, Tisha b’av will indeed be a joyous day one day.
Yes indeed. Avraham Fried even sings a song by that title.
May it be this year.
my friend will not give anything to a chareidi meshulach who cannot sing the first 2 stanzas of Hatikva
Your friend is a jerk.
Ah freilichin Tisha B’av to you too.
DY: I have no personal knowledge if the owners/managers of KRM know who owns the beer distributorship.
The flyer strongly implies that they do.
It is somewhat sad that we are so obsessed and scared of innocent relationships with the opposite gender.
No, we’re legitimately concerned with “innocent” relationships turning into not so innocent ones, as tends to happen.
What about the positive mitzvah involved in helping someone? Isn’t that worth something?
Of course it’s worth something, nobody said or implied otherwise. Guarding against the yetzer hora also has a lot of value, though.
I don’t know if it was any easier then to determine who actually owned the chametz over pesach; the supplier or the distributor. I also don’t know if they used non-jewish suppliers as most of the salesmen I saw while working in KRM were frum.
Are you saying KRM was not certain who owns Manhattan Beer Distributing until this year either?
If you buy a beer from a random store, what are the odds that 1. *this* beer was 2. *owned* by a 3. *Jew* 4. *on pesach*.
Need all four.More than 50% right after Pesach. This company distributes a majority of the listed beers in NY.
It’s not pashut l’halacha that going under 50% would make it muttar either.
At one time (back in the 1990’s), KRM sold their Chametz through R’ Asher Zimmerman Tzatzal, who required a minimum of 4 weeks of inventory of all chametz to be purchased prior to Pesach.
Even purchased from non-Jews?
Also, a rav from the Bronx had been trying to convince him for years to sell; he obviously knew…
DY: I don’t see where the ad says what you wrote. It says this has been “our practice for a number of years”.
Why would they go out of their way to not buy from them from Pesach until Shavuos if it wasn’t an issue?
Rabbi elefant of the OU said rather clearly, it was NOT known who the owner of this beer distributor was until this year.
KRM apparently knew.
The Kollel Store in Boro Park has advertised that they purchased enough supply of beer before pesach and sold it with their mechira and will not have to purchase from the distributor until shavuous.
They also said they have known about this for years. Where has everyone else been?
it’s pretty much every single beer you’ll find in a liquor store.
I don’t think they sell beer in liquor stores, rather, supermarkets for the most part.
there’s a good article in the 5 Towns Jewish Times about it
114 Brands – Are They Kosher? The Great Post-Pesach Beer Controversy of 2018 (but NOT 2019)
Adding to the brew-haha (HT Dovid Lichtenstein) was the fact that the kashrus agencies realized it was a problem this year and tried to get Mr. Bergson to do a mechira, but until Rav Kalman Weinfeld used his creativity and tenacity to concmvince him, it seemed he would never agree, so statements ended up getting released as if there was no mechira whatsoever.
ZD, I think you’ve got it a little mixed up.
The issue isn’t whether an irreligious Jew can sell his chometz, it’s whether the sale is considered a sham if he keeps his business open on Pesach.
R’ Moshe was actually mattir (although the beer bought by the company on Pesach would still be a problem), but the Star K, OU, and others follow the opinion that it’s not a valid sale.
Does that imply in previous years he didn’t sell it at all and it was for sure assur?
Yes
I’m now told that “The Rebbe” refers to the Gerrer Rebbe, even among non-Gerrers.
Nah, if anything, the Lubavicher Rebbe.
Is the current Brisker Rov referred to as Der Rov, in the same way Reb Velvel is?
Who’s the current Brisker Rov?
to the best of my knowledge, my Kallah doesn’t post on the CR!!
I’ll bet to the best of her knowledge, you don’t either. 😉
May you be zocheh to build a bayis ne’emon b’Yisroel.
So exciting!
Mazel tov!
Wait, you’re not sure if you’re overseas, or not sure if you get a mazel tov?
For example, if you wake up after a Costco trip and realize you really don’t need to buy that stuff in bulk.
That’s a bad example.
The majority of car accidents involve meno.
I would suggest you start taking the subway.
The body shop owners in your town must be millionaires.
That’s why their kids are driving Audis and BMWs.
If women were far worse drivers than men, young females would be charged far more than young males when they purchase insurance and start to drive.
Not necessarily. Men drive more.
BUT>>>>16-25 year old males are charged much more, they have a far higher accident rate and commit far more violations of the driving laws/statutes.
They drive more.
Let’s grant that male drivers are less responsible than female drivers. In a comparison of responsible drivers, do you think it’s possible that men would come out as better drivers?
why it is that we’re to look at the world with an attitude of “everything here is by default going to stay unless there’s a definite change.”
Who says we’re to look at it that way? We’re supposed to act that way while knowing that Hashem could just as easily recreate things differently from moment to moment.
There’s no explicit pasuk to follow chazakah; it’s a limud. And again, it’s a limud that we make a halachic assumption. That could have been true even if we didn’t live our lives based on the perception of cause and effect.
But there is such a Pasuk – it is the one where the Torah instructs us to follow Chazaka.
As well as every other pasuk which deals with how we interact with the world Hashem put us in.
I ask because, to paraphrase, by doing that, you in essence ignore the very concept that the world is actually being created every moment, and act as if it’s autonomous.
(You don’t really, I just mean according to your question.)
Then please answer why you hit submit.
Who cares why I thought you did? I’m not the one asking the question.
The question isn’t why I thought you did, but why you in fact did.
Are you specifically asking a question about chazakah meikara, or are you actually asking why Hashem created the world as He did?
See this thread: https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/six-days-of-creation-refreshing
why would we be instructed (by the torah, as catch yourself so brilliantly pointed out;” a halachic principle”, to quote the pearls of DY) to, in essence, ignore that very concept that the world is actually being created every moment, and act as if it’s autonomous?
When you sent that reply, you clicked the submit button, not the log out button, correct? If so, why? Isn’t there an equal chance of getting the result you want no matter what you do?
Is that principle not antithetical to all what Judaism stands for: that there is nothing to be taken for granted, and teva is as much a neis as a neis nigleh, and, so too that there;s nothing to keep things the same any more than they should be changed?
No, it’s a halachic principle. It doesn’t address the likelihood of something changing, only the assumptions we do or do not make.
I can’t help but point out that the square root of 2 is irrational.
I can’t help but point out that that’s not such a nice thing to say.
Ubiquitin, I’ve never heard that “joke” before. I find it to be profoundly disturbing on many levels.
Why? I don’t.
Avram in MD: Can/Should one daven for snow in July, which goes against the natural order of things in our part of the world
I don’t get it. Avram is talking about davening for helpful weather within the natural order, and akuperma is talking about davening for unnatural weather.
Are you two talking to each other, or over each other’s heads?
Can you please explain what it is?
Why, so you’ll know how to do it?
😉
It is stealing.
It is stealing.
Among those with this minhag, parents/in-laws are almost universally an exception.
From Politifact:
Two researchers — Jaclyn Schildkraut of the State University of New York in Oswego and H. Jaymi Elsass of Texas State University — analyzed mass shootings in 11 countries, covering the period from 2000-14. Aside from the United States, they looked at Australia, Canada, China, England, Finland, France, Germany, Mexico, Norway and Switzerland.
The United States has more mass shootings — and more people cumulatively killed or injured — than the other 10 nations combined, according to their research. While part of this is because the United States has a much bigger population than all but China, the difference can’t be explained by skewed population numbers alone.
When adjusted for population, the United States ranks in the upper half of their list of 11 countries, ranking higher than Australia, Canada, China, England, France, Germany and Mexico. The United States did rank lower than three countries — Norway, Finland and Switzerland — but they have populations so small that one or two mass-casualty events can produce a relatively high per capita rate.
A guten Moed and erev Yom Tov.