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February 18, 2018 11:41 am at 11:41 am in reply to: @Chabad Shluchah Please Explain Why Davening To/Betten a Rebbe is Okay #1471286☕ DaasYochid ☕Participant
Once again, you have failed to answer why the Rebbe would need to answer how it’s okay to ask a Rebbe for brachos (and no, he wasn’t merely explaining the reason it works).
You also again fail to explain how Hashem being revealed through a tzaddik (all the sources which you brought say nothing more) is “atzmus umehus araingshtelt in a guf” which connotes much more.
Also, we are no longer in the Rebbe’s generation. Chabad’s failure to choose a new leader is just that – a failure – and doesn’t force the Ribon Shel Olam to keep the Rebbe alive (and again, the fact that there are sources to refer to a tzaddik who was niftar as alive in some sense does not begin to explain the way you treat the Rebbe.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantWho’s foul mouthed? Who’s a hater?
February 18, 2018 10:38 am at 10:38 am in reply to: Is there any way to prevent mass shootings???? #1471245☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantInfringing on the rights of 300 million people is not something to be taken lightly, yes, even to save lives as harsh as that may sound.
Yes, that is harsh.
Why not restrict cars from being capable of travelling more than 25mph everywhere at all times? Thousands die every year in car accidents.
Comparing the benefits of high speed travel to the benefits of allowing almost anyone to buy guns is just ludicrous.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantBut maybe a clue can found in the words of gedolei Yisroel , for example the rabbi of Gur and R’ Sonnenfeld who said , that if more frum people who have made Aliya , it would have looked different. Hashem had His plan, and the ultra extremists tried to thwart it….
Actually, R’ Sonnenfeld would more likely have said (the Brisker Rav did say it) that moshiach would have come had the atheist zionists not taken over.
You are again conflating Eretz Yisroel, and the mitzvah of yishuv (which the Gerrer Rebbe and R’ Sonnenfeld were in favor of), with a secular political entity.
You cannot legitimately complain about someone ch”v cursing Eretz Yisroel, when they in fact curse the secular political entity, and not the Holy Land.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantI get the impression that by cooking where no action is involved it is permitted to use a shabbos clock but not by anything else besides putting on a light.
If you’re getting the impression that that’s what Rav Moshe is saying, you’re getting the wrong impression.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantReb Moshe compares cooking to the Nemukei Yosef different than anything else, why?
I don’t understand what you are asking.
February 18, 2018 10:01 am at 10:01 am in reply to: @Chabad Shluchah Please Explain Why Davening To/Betten a Rebbe is Okay #1471171☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantWhat makes you think you are qualified to determine who he was by reading his writings?
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantWhen you can distinguish between Eretz Yisroel and, l’havdil, the State of Israel, we can discuss.
February 18, 2018 9:54 am at 9:54 am in reply to: Is there any way to prevent mass shootings???? #1471151☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantFirstly, you are the one who started (and continue) with the ad hominum attacks.
The way the pro gun lobby is being intellectually dishonest is that they don’t compare countriess with a similar socioeconomic situation as the U.S., but fewer guns, because doing so would yoeli the uncomfortable fact that they don’t have the kind of gun massacres we have here.
You can cloud the situation all you want by nitpicking on the term “assault rifle” and pointing to a ban on a specific gun as being effective, but that doesn’t alter the overall picture that we too easily allow people to obtain guns, whichever specific models or categories you can name, that are used to kill people.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantWhen you put a pot of food on the fire before Shabbos, the cooking process begins before Shabbos, and we view the rest as taking place on its own.
Rav Moshe views setting it up on a timer not as if the process already, but as setting it up so that the process will begin on Shabbos.
If you tell a non Jew before Shabbos that you want him to do melacha on Shabbos, unless you later tell him not to, the melacha will be done, yet we don’t view it as if you set the process in motion before Shabbos, we view it as being started on Shabbos.
Rav Moshe considers a timer to be in the same category.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantIf someone disagrees with you, ZionGate, it must be hatred.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantThe use of a timer by definition means you don’t need to do an action on Shabbos. The timer does it for you, just as in amira l’akum, the non Jew does it for you.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantDaasYochid, please explain isn’t A/C similar to cooking that once it is turned no action is necessary?
Yes, that’s why I think the same way Rav Moshe assered having food cook on a timer (that’s the case in the teshuvah), he would asser a/c.
February 18, 2018 8:25 am at 8:25 am in reply to: Is there any way to prevent mass shootings???? #1471090☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantThere were many mass casualty incidents without the use of guns. 9-11, Oklahoma City, the tractor attacks in E”Y, the truck ramming attacks, particularly the one in Nice that killed 86 people. Banning guns is an emotional reaction. The right reaction is to determine the root cause of why these attacks are perpetuated, not to ban every possible means of attack.
It’s not an emotional reaction to ban one particularly efficient method of mass killing. It is folly to not try to save some lives because you can’t save all.
Do you really believe that if Nikolas Cruz wasn’t able to buy a gun, he would have rammed a truck into the school?
I’m all for determining “the root cause of why these attacks are perpetuated” (hint- some people are evil), but not to preclude taking common sense measures to prevent some of these events.
If we determine the root cause of why these attacks are perpetuated, and somehow manage to eradicate the desire some people have to commit these heinous crimes, then we’ll talk about allowing people to indiscriminately own AR-15s and the like. Until then, why give them the weapon which makes it easier and more likely to kill?
February 18, 2018 12:30 am at 12:30 am in reply to: The majority of car accidents involve women. #1471027☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantWho said anything about pedestrians?
Anyhow, JJ2020 makes a valid point that if you don’t define “involvement”, your statistic doesn’t mean much.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantWould you look at the Igros in Cheilek ח?
I asked Rav Moshe that, and he said it’s fine.
February 18, 2018 12:22 am at 12:22 am in reply to: Is there any way to prevent mass shootings???? #1471022☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantToday there is no way to keep guns out of the wrong hands. Anyone can make a gun using the Internet. There have even been cases of soldiers stealing guns from their bases and selling them to dealers.
It’s true that a law passed tomorrow will not suddenly eliminate all guns, but if better regulations were enacted and enforced, there would be fewer guns around and fewer guns deaths.
Tell me, living in Israel, would you employ your reasoning to allow guns to be sold to Arabs?
February 18, 2018 12:16 am at 12:16 am in reply to: Is there any way to prevent mass shootings???? #1471016☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantIf you really believe in intellectual honesty, you’ll acknowledge that the high rate of gun violence in the U.S. is connected to the gun culture, and loose regulations.
Also, if you believed in intellectual honesty, you wouldn’t accuse me of accusing pro gun people of not caring if children die.
I think children die as a result of the gun culture and ease of obtaining them, but your not seeing that is due to your love of guns and intellectual dishonesty, not because you actually want to see kids die.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantQuoting Rabbi Miller about the internet today is as relevant as quoting Reb Moshe on the use of timers.
You turned out to be wrong about timers; do you still maintain your position regarding internet? (Although I think Rav Miller didn’t actually say this, it’s just a masterful job of imitating his style by DaMoshe.)
February 17, 2018 11:16 pm at 11:16 pm in reply to: Is there any way to prevent mass shootings???? #1470997☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantThere are over 300 million guns in this country, most of them semi-auto, so banning them is not possible, nor will anyone listen.
Yeah, too hard to ban guns, let’s keep letting children be killed in school (and in homes, in the street….).
February 17, 2018 11:16 pm at 11:16 pm in reply to: Is there any way to prevent mass shootings???? #1470996☕ DaasYochid ☕Participant@daasyochid So is every type of gun, knives, cars, hands (which killed more than double the people in 2016, which was easy to find data for, killed using an AR-15), blunt objects (also killed more people than murders using an AR-15)
Yeah, silly Nikolas Cruz, he should have just used his hands instead of an AR-15.
February 17, 2018 10:50 pm at 10:50 pm in reply to: Is there any way to prevent mass shootings???? #1470985☕ DaasYochid ☕Participantbut to ban AR15 bec they are an assault rifle is misleading and intellectually dishonest
How about banning them because they’re used to assault people?
February 17, 2018 9:43 pm at 9:43 pm in reply to: The majority of car accidents involve women. #1470957☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantWomen buy car insurance for their cars, not their feet.
Source?
February 17, 2018 9:38 pm at 9:38 pm in reply to: The majority of car accidents involve women. #1470951☕ DaasYochid ☕Participant68.1 percent of all crashes involve women.
What percentage involve men?
February 17, 2018 6:59 pm at 6:59 pm in reply to: @Chabad Shluchah Please Explain Why Davening To/Betten a Rebbe is Okay #1470851☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantBy seeing the Rebbe’s living example
You may have missed the news, but Lubavich does not have a living rebbe.
February 16, 2018 3:42 pm at 3:42 pm in reply to: @Chabad Shluchah Please Explain Why Davening To/Betten a Rebbe is Okay #1470804☕ DaasYochid ☕Participant☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantHow are women driving “an eyesore”?
February 15, 2018 3:40 pm at 3:40 pm in reply to: @Chabad Shluchah Please Explain Why Davening To/Betten a Rebbe is Okay #1470129☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantAlso, sometimes the letter seems to be irrelevant to the current question.
How does your rabbi explain that?
☕ DaasYochid ☕Participanthow about a dab of super glue on the lips?
That’ll help them daven better.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantThe reason why his Psak would be different today is because when you walk past a house an you hear the air conditioner go on, you don’t even assume that someone just turned it on. The factors that go into making something a Zilzul Shabbos have changed.
You seem to be conflating maris ayin with zilzul Shabbos.
It’s possible that assumptions can be related to zilzul Shabbos, but Rav Moshe gives a different explanation for why timers are zilzul Shabbos (he says having melocho done automatically on Shabbos is a zilzul, and then explains why leaving food on a blech to cook is different), and nothing changed.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantNC: You asked what circumstances changed? Part of the zizul shabbos issue is the noise made by the appliance…
In addition, the units themselves are much quieter today then in the 1970’s.
The teshuvah wasn’t about an air conditioner.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantDoes Reb Moshe talk about air conditioners?
The teshuvah which I posted does not specifically address air conditioners.
Anyway I was told by a Posek here in Staten Island that Reb Moshe revised his psak in later years.
Doesn’t seem very likely.
Please research.
If you would provide a name, someone could research. Otherwise, it’s hard to prove a negative. Meanwhile, the teshuvah I posted was written in תשכ”ז, and R’ Dovid continues to asser (as per ubiquitin), so I’ll assume that he never retracted.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantIf you say oneg shabbos mattirs a Shabbos goy
It actually does for a d’rabonon (sh’vus d’sh’vus b’mokom mitzvah), but not every comfort and convenience falls under the category of Oneg Shabbos for this.
For example, the main foods for the Shabbos seudos do, but nosh doesn’t.
The poskim for the most part are in agreement that it is not muttar to ask a non Jew to turn on the a/c when it’s a matter of comfort (obviously, if there’s a health issue involved, some cases will be muttar).
February 14, 2018 3:13 pm at 3:13 pm in reply to: Are Reiki and similar “therapies” consider Avizrayu D’avoda Zara? #1469446☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantConflating these Issues is Mamesh Kali Hakerem.
Lol, nice.
February 14, 2018 2:38 pm at 2:38 pm in reply to: @Chabad Shluchah Please Explain Why Davening To/Betten a Rebbe is Okay #1469429☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantThis level of arrogance is something that permeates the existence of many younger Chabad Shluchim and is troubling.
Do you think the troubling hashkafos are also common?
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantRav Moshe’s tzad to asser it as amira l’akum is that it’s included in Chazal’s issue not that Rav Moshe was making a new g’zeirah.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantNeville ChaimBerlin, see specifically the third page to answer your question.
☕ DaasYochid ☕Participant☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantWe really don’t know if R’ Moshe (who wrote his psak about shabbos clocks in 1977 (not specifically for air conditioners) would still say it is a “zilzul shasbbos” issue.
We may not “know”, but nobody here (unless I missed something) has given a valid reason to think it would have changed. The fact that sometimes things do change isn’t a reason to think it changed here, nor is the fact that air conditioning is more common.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantDY, could you explain how it was ever mutar to ask a goy to turn on lights?
I think they were meikil on amira l’akum even on a d’Oraisa (havara – the glowing filament is considered aish) for mitzvah d’rabbim (public shalishudis). I have to check back on the teshuvah. As I recall, R’ Moshe wasn’t accepting the heter, he was saying that since l’maaseh it was done (probably before timers were in common use or even invented) it leaves the realm of zilzul Shabbos.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantI think that air conditioner would be ok.
We’re discussing what R’ Moshe’s opinion would be.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantDY: I asked a private shailoh to Rabbi Reisman in 2004 and his psak was based on a psak of R Moshe from the 1970’s. He told me that based on current circumstances R’ Moshe might reach different conclusions then when he wrote his tshuva.
So you’re saying that a psak can change if circumstances change. That’s not a chiddush. The question is if that applies here.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantDY: I heard this from Rabbi Reisman regarding another psak of R’ Moshe.
Which psak? Not all psakim are comparable (obviously).
☕ DaasYochid ☕Participant☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantIs that related to FOBF (Fear of Being Fleishig)?
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantWhy does “the velt” that generally follows Reb Moshe’s psakim disregard Reb Moshe when it comes to air conditioners on a Shabbos clock?
R’ Moshe’s talmidim might very well avoid use of timers on Shabbos.
Many people follow many of his psakim, but not necessarily all. This may very well be one of those psakim which most poskim of his time disagreed with, and therefore wasn’t widely accepted.
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantIt is also possible that now, since air conditioning is more prevalent and is considered (by most) as a necessity, R’ Moshe may come to a different conclusion.
I don’t see why prevalence should change the din, and it’s being a necessity doesn’t preclude leaving it running a whole Shabbos.
February 13, 2018 4:23 pm at 4:23 pm in reply to: Unhealthy lifestyle in the Frum community. #1468726☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantKosher supermarkets are only now slowly starting to carry some at least healthier sounding products.
Kosher supermarkets have always carried a large assortment of fruits, vegetables, and many other healthful foods.
As many others have posted, who made this into a frum problem? Is there any evidence whatsoever of the frum lifestyle being less healthy than the rest of society?
☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantI don’t know what R’ Dovid holds, but I believe R’ Moshe would likely continue to asser.
In his teshuvah about timers, as I recall, he states that the reason to permit them for lights is that since it was customary to ask a non Jew to put on a light for Seudah Shlishis, it is not zilzul Shabbos. The same wasn’t and isn’t true for air conditioning.
February 13, 2018 1:02 pm at 1:02 pm in reply to: Are Reiki and similar “therapies” consider Avizrayu D’avoda Zara? #1467889☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantWhy would people do something that might be Avoda Zara just for the placebo effect?
Who says it doesn’t work? I once saw somewhere (I don’t remember where) that the ta’ava for a”z was that it worked – through koach hatumah. Not ch”v a separate r’shus, but rather allowed by Hashem to to give us s’char for following His will even if it means foregoing the benefits.
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