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I remember learning that when making a siyum during the 9 days, one shouldn’t invite extra people. I believe the language used is that one should only invite those who would be invited if the siyum were made at a different time of year.
The Rav who gave the shiur where I heard this said that there are restaurants who have someone come in every night of the 9 days to make a siyum, so that they can sell their usual menus, and not lose a week’s worth of business. He said this is 100% wrong, as in many cases, you don’t know the person making the siyum at all!Joseph, you are falling to a new low this time. A letter is talking about dinei nifashos, and you choose to focus on which parent should write the letter, who it should be addressed to, and whether the school is required to handle it.
I repeat: this is DINEI NIFASHOS. A child being bullied in school can have long-term effects. I DON”T CARE WHICH PARENT WRITES THE LETTER!!! Joseph, you are the very definition of a chossid shoteh. I really don’t know why the mods still tolerate you – if it were up to me, I would have banned you a long time ago.
Whether the local laws require reporting or not shouldn’t matter. The school has a halachic responsibility to act on it. End of story.
So Joseph, basically, you’re saying that Yiddish and Modern Ivrit have the same status – a language that is used by Jews, which separates us from non-Jews?
Please don’t argue that Ivrit is used by secular Jews, because for many, many years, so was Yiddish. There even used to be Yiddish theaters in NYC. Nowadays, Yiddish is actually seeing a revival among secular Jews, who view it as part of their cultural history, and therefore are studying it again.Joseph, the correct “shprach” would be Hebrew, as it has holiness to it. Yiddish has no holiness whatsoever.
I haven’t been called for jury duty since 2004. At the time I tried to get out because I was a student, and didn’t want to miss classes. If I was called now, I would have no issue serving on a jury. Why would I? My employer pays for any time you miss due to jury duty, so there’s no financial concern. It’s a responsibility that comes with living in our great country, and I think I might even find it interesting!
I think the real question here should be “Why is BMG the default option?”
I once had someone tell me he was going to BMG because “it’s the thing to do”. I asked him, “Is it the best place for you?” He said “I don’t know.”
Having a big place which churns out products like a factory, with no thought to individuality within its ranks, is one of the biggest issues we have in the frum world today. We have a rule of chanoch l’naar al pi darko. Every person needs individual attention. We also have asei l’cha Rav – have a Rebbe! Do you think you get a real kesher with a Rebbe in BMG? I have 3 brothers who went through BMG, and none of them has a lasting kesher with their Rabbeim/Rosh Chaburah from there. One is still close with R’ Altusky (from Darchei) and one is still close with R’ Bender. The 3rd, as far as I know, isn’t as close with either one of them, but does have a kesher with his Rav. I see the same thing with many of my cousins who went through BMG – the Rebbe they’re close with, who they consider their main Rebbe, isn’t from BMG.Regarding what R’ Bender said:
Does he think it needs to change? I guess so, but the question is how. I can tell you what he does.
He established a special gemach specifically for alumni of Darchei. He also set up a program to teach vocational skills to both kollel members and community members who are in need. They can learn plumbing, electrical work, and other skills. They have classes in computer skills. You can start taking advantage while a kollel member – they have classes scheduled at times that can work for most people. I believe the cost is also significantly reduced for kollel members.I have 2 brothers, as well as my closest friend from high school, who had to deal with this issue. One brother and the friend both have a lot of resentment towards the yeshiva system now, for not informing them how difficult it would be when they finally needed to go support their families.
My friend asked R’ Bender about it, and he replied, “You’re right, it’s a big problem! I try to help out my talmidim, but there needs to be a change, we need to do something to help out everyone!”The Mishna in Avos say that learning without working leads to sin. Just in case the words of the Mishna aren’t enough for you, it’s now been shown to be true.
But go ahead, bury your head in the sand and claim it’s a huge kiddush Hashem.DY, I checked the album. I had that as a kid. Never liked it that much. I’ll try listening to it again.
Joe, Shapiro is also friends with Gilad Atzmon, who has proclaimed that he follows a strict diet – “I eat anything but kosher”. He is willing to deal with someone who hates everything Jewish in order to bash Israel.
Shapiro has never said anything against NK, and has publicly bashed Israel, in front of non-Jews. He is inciting non-Jews against Jews, and likely can be considered a rotzeach.As for Feif Un, we aren’t neighbors. We are friends, and used to be co-workers. I met him in college. I also introduced him to Rabbi Bender, who he now admires very much.
Shapiro is one of Joseph’s heroes because he is a member of Neturei Karta. He stands with the enemies of the Jewish people, and deserves no respect at all.
DY, was that London album the one with “The Forgotten Princess”? I think that’s an awesome album!
Here’s what happened:
The owner of the property needed to do some work, and decided to do it on Shabbos. Being that the owner isn’t Jewish, that’s not a problem (the restaurant rents the space.) The issue was that the workers were given access to the restaurant and its kitchen, and were completely unsupervised.
The OK told the owners of Basil that this was an issue, as the workers could have used ovens to heat their lunches. There are cameras in the kitchen, so they requested the video footage from the property owner. They asked Basil to remain closed until they reviewed the video. Basil didn’t want to miss any days, so they opened against the OK’s wishes. Therefore, the OK pulled the hechsher.Or so I was told by someone “in the business”.
Joseph, I suggest you follow your post from yesterday. Don’t mix into arguments between, say, Satmar and R’ Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik zt”l. It’s fire. You’ll get burned.
Avi, I think you’re mixing up Ivana and Ivanka.
Great thread DY!
I think that Dveykus 4 could have been the best of the bunch, except the quality of the music went way down on it. Instead of actual instruments, the whole album sounds like it was played on a keyboard.Some of my other favorite albums:
Tzlil V’Zemer 2
Regesh 3
The Rabbis Sons – Halelu
MBD – I’d Rather Pray and SingI tried posting proof of their misconduct. The mods didn’t allow it through.
Neville,
Please don’t slander MO by saying “I think there’s a tendency…” If you don’t know, don’t even speculate. It’s pure lashon harah.
I can tell you that recently, I asked my Rav about this issue, because I had to attend a business dinner at a non-kosher restaurant. I was told I could bring my own food, but they didn’t want me to eat it out of a pan, as they are a high-class restaurant, and they wanted to serve it on their own plates.
My Rav told me that if I get cold food, I could ask them to cover the bottom of the plate with some Romaine lettuce leaves (big ones, not chopped) that were rinsed, and I could put the food on top of it. If I had hot food, it was not an option. Thankfully, after speaking further with the restaurant, they allowed me to use some nice plastic plates which I purchased.
You also said 90% of MO women don’t cover their hair. Again, a total falsehood. Where do you get your information from? I’d say that 90% of married women in my shul DO cover their hair.Joseph, a lack of additional funding only hurts the public school kids and not the private schools kids because of the corruption of the school board in East Ramapo.
You said earlier that secular education is not mandated, based on a Supreme Court ruling. Let’s assume that’s true. Funding can only be used for non-religious education. If secular subjects aren’t taught, only religious subjects, then why have busing? Busing is so that the kids can be educated. If they aren’t being educated (as defined by the laws, meaning secular subjects), then why should they have busing paid for?The East Ramapo school district has been a huge chillul Hashem for years.
In 2015, RAS resigned from the Moetzes because it was getting involved in a dispute in Israel. He felt strongly that Agudas Yisroel of America shouldn’t be involved in Israeli matters. It was only after a compromise was reached that he withdrew his resignation.
I guess he changed his mind about getting involved in Israeli matters.
besimchah: There are also “successful” neo-Nazi marches. A large crowd doesn’t mean the cause is good.
So besides the Satmar chassidim that made up 98% of the crowd, we have a rasha from Neturei Karta, and a person who continues to show disrespect to the undisputed Gadol HaDor of the previous generation, R’ Moshe Feinstein zt”l, on a daily basis.
Definitely a great crowd!MO is traditional Judaism in its purist form.
The Chazon Ish said after WW2 that a change was needed due to the large number of Rabbonim that were killed by the Nazis, and that was the start of the modern-day yeshiva/kollel system. MO kept the traditional path.Many Jews aren’t chassidim because they actually follow the mesorah they got from their parents. Chassidus was a radical change from the Jewish tradition, which was part of the reason why so many opposed it. Chassidus is not traditional Judaism – make sure you remember that!
Unfortunately, people forge piskei halachah from Rabbonim all the time. Just look at the walls in Bnei Brak, Yerushalayim, etc.
My Rav likes to tell over how he once went to ask R’ Elyashiv zt”l a shailah. There had been a sign on the wall regarding the issue, which paskened that it was not allowed. My Rav asked the shailah, and R’ Elyashiv told him it was permissible. My Rav asked if he was sure, as there were signs up saying that R’ Elyashiv held the opposite. R’ Elyashiv responded, “You pasken from a wall?!?!”There was a letter going around that was signed by the 4 Roshei Yeshiva of BMG stating that everyone should try to attend the asifa. It was now announced that the letter was falsified, and the Roshei Yeshiva never said/wrote any such thing.
Yet another chillul Hashem from those supporting this gathering.Rabbi Bender shlita once told me that pants aren’t considered beged ish anymore. He said the first women to wear them violated the issur, but once it became the norm for women to wear pants, it wasn’t an issue anymore. He said it’s due to tznius, and if there were pants that were tznius, there would be no problem with a woman wearing them.
Joseph is correct. The Ponovezher Rav zt”l didn’t say tachnun, and set that as the rule in the yeshiva. R’ Shach zt”l was poresh from the entire yeshiva, and he sat down as said tachnun. When he became the Rosh Yeshiva, I believe he changed the minhag there to say tachnun.
I don’t know. Ask R’ Hershel Schachter. He’s the one who holds that no matter what day of the week it falls out on, it should be celebrated on the 5th of Iyar.
I remember years ago there was a tornado in the Far Rockaway area. I was in yeshiva at the time, in Darchei Torah. I remember that I was walking to the dormitory, and it was very windy. I looked up and saw a cloud that was spinning quickly, although there was no funnel coming down from it. I thought that it looked like it could spawn a tornado, and the wind was so powerful that things from the ground that were a bit bulky (although not overly so) were beginning to be blown around, and hitting me! I ran into the dorm – I didn’t want to stay outdoors. A few hours later, I heard that there had been a tornado in the area.
HaLeiVi, the secular Israelis celebrate it as a secular event. Religious Zionists celebrate it as a recognition of Divine intervention.
So you think the Ohr Sameach was wrong?
Mods, I never said that R’ Ovadia zt”l said to say Hallel with a bracha. It was noted earlier in the thread that he said it WITHOUT a bracha. Just to note, Sefardim don’t make a bracha on Rosh Chodesh, or the second days of Pesach (they don’t make a bracha anytime the full Hallel isn’t said). I also never claimed that R’ Ovadia claimed it could be a chag because of aschalta d’geulah – I wrote that R’ Schachter says that.
My point was that to call it a “silly” holiday is wrong, as there are plenty of Rabbonim who take it very seriously.Did you just hear it by reading the old posts in this thread? It was written almost 6 years ago.
You say it’s a silly holiday, yet many Rabbonim celebrate it. R’ Ovadia Yosef zt”l said Hallel on it. R’ Schachter shlita gives a psaht as to why it can be considered a Yom Tov, similar to Purim.
Mods, do you allow links to YUTorah? If so, here’s a link to a great article that examines this question from both sides (it includes the views of the Satmar Rebbe in it as well as those supporting a Jewish State.)
http://www.yutorah.org/togo/haatzmaut/articles/Yom_Haatzmaut_To-Go_-_5770_Rabbi_Ozerowski.pdfPLEASE DON’T CONCOCT THINGS IN THE NAME OF POSKIM. RAV OVADIA SAID TO RECITE HALLEL WITHOUT A BRACHA – WHICH IS SIMPLY RECITING PRAKIM OF TEHILLIM. THAT IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE. Rav Ovadia Yosef (Teshuvos Yabia Omer 6:O.C. 41)
AND WHY NOT QUOTE FROM THE LINK THAT YOU YOURSELF POSTED INSTEAD OF YOUR OWN THOUGHTS? HERE IT IS:
R. Ovadia Yosef (ad loc.) argues that even an atchalta d’geulah is not sufficient to warrant reciting Hallel with a berachah on Yom Haatzmaut, since there are still numerous challenges and troubles in Israel. Although it is possible R.Ovadia would distinguish between Hallel and the other characteristics of establishing a Yom Tov, it is clear that he feels this type of atchalta d’geulah is not strong enough at least regarding certain aspects of such a chag. He bases this on the Yerushalmi (Pesachim 10:6) that says although one should indeed recite praises (“shirah”) to Hashem when He does miracles for you, this does not apply to “techilat geulatan,” such as the night they left Egypt (as opposed to after crossing the sea).37 Also, it is worthwhile to note (as does R. Goren in passing) that we don’t have records of a specific day of Yom Tov for the return of Jews to Israel in the time of Ezra, so too here one could argue that atchalta d’geulah alone would not warrant a designation of Yom Tov.
Joseph, the Ohr Sameach wrote straight out that the 3 Oaths are no longer in effect.
I remember when Hurricane Irene hit us. It started on Shabbos afternoon, and went into Motzei Shabbos.
An email was sent out before Shabbos to the shul membership urging everyone to stay home on Shabbos afternoon if conditions were bad. The Rabbi repeated it after davening Friday night and Shabbos morning.
Sure enough, on Shabbos afternoon, it got bad. I stayed home from shul, and davened Mincha and Maariv at home. I don’t remember what the Rabbi did, I just remember him saying that your safety is more important.What if the guy turned out to be Satmar?
This thread is horrible. You want to pick on some Zionist things, go ahead. But the Holocaust? REALLY? What is wrong with you?!?!?
As for saving people – I don’t know what happened with Zionists. I do know of one person who told his followers NOT to accept the offer to help them escape from the Nazis, because the people who offered to help were Zionists. A short time after that, he abandoned his followers, and accepted help from a Zionist to save his own life. Most of his followers were killed.
I remember there being an empty lot, with a faded sign advertising a daycare.
The Profile pages seem to work from a Mobile browser, but not a desktop browser. I used an extension to switch my browser to a Mobile profile, and the page loaded. When I switched it back to Desktop, the page stopped working.
R’ Shteinman told a Rebbe a few years ago that times have changed, and we can’t hit children anymore.