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It means the shochet’s wife shaves her head.
Where in hilchos loshon hora?
2) If the listener is not allowed to believe the informer that he [the informer] heard it in front of three, he should not be allowed to listen. By extension, the informer should not be allowed to tell him, because of לפני עור. So to say that it is muttar to repeat a story heard in front of three but it is assur for one who hears it from him to repeat it is paradoxical.
It’s not lifnei iver, because although the listener has to be choshesh that it wasn’t actually said b’apei t’lasa, the informer knows that it in fact was, and that the listener was not actually oiver on anything.
Does anyone hear that svara?
Yes, but in your case you didn’t need to come on to g’reira.
Mazel tov!
There’s clear lashon zachar and nekeivah in Chumash.
People managed to deal with that for thousands of years without carrying phones with them everywhere they go.
For those thousands of years, your boss or clients didn’t expect you to always be available.
That said, it’s not an excuse. Put your phone on silent when you pay a shiva visit, and don’t check your messages until you leave. No boss or client has a right to make you such a slave that you can’t be unavailable for 15 minutes. It’s more about self control than it is about a real need to be perpetually accessible.
I think you need to be cautious and open minded at the same time (within certain limits of course).
For example, I am disturbed by your skepticism about schlissel challah. I’ve heard from what I consider a reliable source that it’s an ancient minhag, from well before it was ever recorded in a sefer.
I don’t like to dismiss (e.g. call silly) anything which a large segment of klal Yisroel, including gedolim beyond our comprehension, do.
Daas: Does it make more sense to have a different age for everything? One age for joining the military, another age for voting, another age for drinking, another age for getting married, another age for piloting an aircraft, another age for being legally liable for crimes, another age for becoming a legal adult, etc?
If the proper age for each is different, yes. Perhaps some overlap, so the same age might apply to more than one.
The point of age restrictions is safety, and the reason we don’t make insanely high age restrictions is because we balance utility against it.
Whatever the proper balance is for a particular endeavor, it shouldn’t be affected by the fact that a different endeavor has a different age at which the balance is struck.
If you’re so concerned about the lomdus of being m’chalek between a child and an adult, let the age of adulthood be 21, but we’ll let 17 year old kids drive, and 18 year old kids go to the army, but don’t compromise on safety or utility for some relatively arbitrary number (arbitrary because it’s not the best number for a particular law, but chosen because it’s appropriate for a different one).
They’re two different things. Why do they have to have the same minimum age?
You tell me, in your own words, why it should be 18 rather than a different age. Don’t tell me because they can go to the military, because the reasoning behind military age is not relevant to drinking age.
Daas; Try explaining in your own words, your own thoughts, why a 21 year old should be allowed to drink and a 20 year old not. And why the drinking age should be set at 21 rather than at another age.
I didn’t express an opinion of what the drinking age should or shouldn’t be.
I’m just saying the analogy to being in the military is inane.
Aren’t you being hypocritical by supporting 18 year olds killing and dying for their country while opposing 18 year olds trained and tested for drinking from drinking?
Just as hypocritical as saying you need to be 23 to pilot a commercial aircraft but can blow your nose at 3.
daas
I believe Joseph’s deductive reasoning is more logicalI think the correlation between blowing your nose and piloting a commercial aircraft is as strong as the one between going to war and drinking (i.e. there is none; they’re both separate things and should be judged on their own).
but, point of fact
actually there are no restrictions on a 3 year old piloting a planeThis is not true. To pilot a commercial aircraft in the U.S., you have to be 23 (besides training and experience requirements).
If you can blow your nose at age 3, you should be able to pilot a commercial aircraft.
Steve Eisman, the founder of Footsteps
Are you sure he’s the founder? I read that he’s a board member, but not the founder.
In fact, the mesader kedushin specifically asked the boys if they had paid for the wedding ring with their own money.
Why? He can acquire it as a gift; as long as it’s his, it makes no difference how or whether he paid fo it.
Doesn’t Jew in the City do this kind of work?
I think the Shach just means it’s muttar even though you are l’chatchilah you are getting yourself in a situation where a goy will touch it. He refers to the gemara with Shmuel and Avlet, which doesn’t seem to be dealing with a case of b’makom m’chiraso.
Why would you have to guess?
Dyslexic chassidic.
I got some Norman’s. It was not stam yogurt.