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  • in reply to: Negotiating Prices and Discounts #872596
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    If you don’t negotiate, you overpay.

    in reply to: Which Would You choose? #872464
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    Internet Asifa. Since having the internet in ones home could literally be a pikuach nefesh issue for the neshoma.

    in reply to: Heteirim for Copying and giving out Music #876282
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    At most the issur would be hasagas gvul. But even that is not necessarily the case, depending on the circumstances and posek.

    in reply to: Baghdad in the Gemora #872400
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    midwesterner: What is your source for that history. Particularly that Rabbeinu Gershom moved from Bavel to Europe, rather than haven been born in Europe, and that he was the first godol to do so. And that Rav Hai Gaon was of the last gedolim to die in Bavel.

    in reply to: Giving Ma'aser money from inheritance #872765
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    Who said the kids have to give even if nothing was left to charity? And if they do, why should it make a difference if 10% was contributed to charity by will of the deceased? The estate certainly has no tzedaka obligation. If anything, it would only become incumbent *after* disbursement.

    in reply to: Words from an ex IDF solider for Yom HaZikaron #1163204
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    Shulchan Aruch:

    “tzivu chaza”l shelo yilmad adam es bito torah mipnei sherov hanashim ein da’atan michuvanos l’hislamed u’motzios divrei torah l’divrei havai l’phi anius da’atan, amru chaza”l kol hamilamed es bito torah k’ilu milamda tiflus bameh divorim amurim torah she’bal peh, aval torah she’bicsav…”.

    simcha: Which part “is not clear”?

    in reply to: Justice in Balto.? #874515
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    He’s rachmana ltzlan facing up to 10 years behind bars.

    in reply to: Negotiating Prices and Discounts #872592
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    Just tell the shopkeeper that you are willing to pay no more than $X.

    in reply to: Ger Chasidim Wearing Socks Over Pants #872411
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    This minhag isn’t exclusive to Gerrer Chasidim.

    in reply to: Giving Ma'aser money from inheritance #872757
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    The parent already gave maaser on the money while he was alive, when he earned it years ago.

    in reply to: neturei karta sinks to new low praises alla #872341
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    The Noda B’Yehuda writes that shituf is avoda zora (even for a gentile).

    in reply to: Chasidish or Litvish and Nothing Else? #942928
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    Oberlanders daven Nusach Ashkenaz; why would they be categorized with Chasidim?

    in reply to: How are the Syrians so rich? #872111
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    There’s nothing wrong with stereotyping, so long it is accurate (and isn’t negative).

    in reply to: Words from an ex IDF solider for Yom HaZikaron #1163179
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    HaKatan has the brocha of a mesorah that long predates zionism.

    The Sefer Aim HaBanim Semecha doesn’t contain anything new. It’s a collection of all the old Zionist arguments that have long been disproven. The truth is, his position stood no chance to begin with, because even though Rav Teichtel was a Talmid Chacham, he was opposing the collective Torah knowledge of the greatest Torah giants, including but not limited to Rav Chaim Brisker, Rav Samson Raphael Hirsh, The Chofetz Chaim, the Rogachover Gaon, The Lubavitcher Rebbe (Rashab), the Belzer Rebbe (R. Yisachar Dov), the Chazon Ish, the Brisker Rav, Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzensky, all who were opposed to Zionism and the creation of a State. So he was really quite outgunned from the start. The most extensive work on this topic is of course the Satmar Rav’s Vayoel Moshe, which disproves just about every Zionist “proof” ever conceived.

    Example: On page 147 he addresses a powerful statement in Ahavas Yonason by R. Yonason Eyebuschitz ZT”L that it is absolutely prohibited for Jews to take over Eretz Yisroel before Moshiach, even if all the nations want them to, which is kind of a problem for a religious Zionist like Rabbi Teichtel. This is his response: “You should understand that the words of Rav Yonason only apply when there is no sign from heaven that we should all abandon the lands of Chutz Laaretz, meaning, when Jews can live peacefully outside of Eretz Yisroel … but not nowadays, when the words of the prophet came true, [that Jews will be hunted down by goyim]. So when the nations give us permission to return to our land, can there be any doubt that it is the will of Hashem that we return to Eretz Yisroel? I am certain, that if Rav Yonason Eyebushitz was living with us today and saw the terrible golus that we endure, he himself would say to us: ‘Brother Jews! The time has come for you to go to Eretz Yisroel, for this is the will of Hashem, for it is not coincidence what has happened to us in Golus, but rather it is the finger of G-d pointing to us to rise from golus…”

    And it gets much, much, worse. This attitude that “everyone has to interpret the world the way I do” often passes the line into the realm of the absurd. On page 98 he deals with the Minchas Elozor, who was a vehement opponent of Zionism. He was vehemently critical in general, actually, when it came to protecting the Torah. And nobody was beyond his scrutiny. Here are some quotes:

    in reply to: going to football games #872270
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    Most people bend the rules when playing Monopoly. I’m sure there are other examples.

    in reply to: neturei karta sinks to new low praises alla #872322
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    Or OUR understanding of other religions practices is off and misinformed.

    in reply to: Girls don't know boys #872167
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    Skipping night seder to play ball??

    in reply to: Words from an ex IDF solider for Yom HaZikaron #1163172
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    What mistake, Sam? Which country was willing to accept the emmigration of 18 million European Jews. Certainly not America and Franklin Roosevelt. America had strict immigration quotas, AND THEY WERE FULLY EXHAUSTED every year. So there was no openings for any additional immigration to the US. And you know what Roosevelt did with ships with Jews that came here without authorization. You heard about the MS St. Louis, didn’t you?

    So stop the anti-semitic canard that the rabbonim stopped anyone from coming to the US. The US was closed to additional immigration.

    in reply to: between a rock and a hard place #871760
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    ” Unless you won’t get the kids if you leave, obviously.”

    Well, one of them won’t get the kids. So by that consideration, for at least one of the spouses it won’t be worth leaving.

    In any event, even without that consideration, the vast majority of divorces are/were avoidable and unnecessary.

    in reply to: Words from an ex IDF solider for Yom HaZikaron #1163169
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    Having a State isn’t worth one lost Jewish life, let alone the blood of over 25,000 Jews.

    in reply to: Words from an ex IDF solider for Yom HaZikaron #1163165
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    lesschum: European Rabbonim DID come to America even before the turn of the century and thereafter. And yet the delapidated state of Judaism in America.

    simcha: Just between 1948 and 1997 alone Israel suffered 20,093 war dead. There have been many more since. And many thousands more civilian terror victims. How many dead did Shevet Efraim suffer?

    We would have been far better off with no State of Israel and over 25,000 Jewish lives — and countless never born children of the dead — preserved.

    in reply to: Words from an ex IDF solider for Yom HaZikaron #1163162
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    Still had what chance? They never had a chance. Roosevelt wasn’t opening the doors to allow European Jews to move to America. There were strict immigration quotas. And those quotas were all filled, so it wasn’t like more immigrants were welcome to America.

    Besides that at the time living in America was a spiritual danger. (Throwing tefilin in the Hudson, working on Shabbos, etc.) And better to live in a place with a physical danger to your life than to live in a place with a spiritual danger to your neshomo.

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    ICOT:

    Thank you. But HOW can simply viewing a website cause an infection? And if so, how can anyone ever go to a new website or any unfamiliar website (for example, found through google)?

    And how can it occur by simply viewing an email? And if so, how can people accept or read e-mails from people they don’t know?

    These are common everyday things.

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    ICOT:

    A virus can infect a computer by simply going to a website? Or by simply receiving an e-mail that you do NOT open any attachments? That seems to be the inference here, and I was not aware that to be the case. Otherwise, how can this virus infect ones computer?

    in reply to: Words from an ex IDF solider for Yom HaZikaron #1163158
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    The Satmar Rebbe ztvk’l zy’a wrote in his Seforim that the establishment of the medina delayed Moshiach.

    in reply to: neturei karta sinks to new low praises alla #872285
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    What own entity? Islam, unlike Christianity (despite their claims), believes in Monotheism. You are allowed to go into a mosque but not a church.

    in reply to: Heteirim for Copying and giving out Music #876273
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    Tnai? Its only a binding tnai if the seller will refund the buyers payment if the tnai is broken (i.e. a copy is made), as that is the recourse for a broken tnai. Since the producer and retailer won’t accept a return and refund the cost of the CD if the buyer breaks the tnai, the tnai is unenforceable and effectively there is no tnai.

    in reply to: Joining Hatzalah #873012
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    2scents, what kind of politics is it infested with?

    in reply to: what kind of electronic educational toy is good for 3 yr old ? #872037
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    Sam: anti-social is a big reason. Distracting is another.

    in reply to: Joining Hatzalah #873006
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    golden mom: Which new volunteer ambulance service opened up in boro park?

    in reply to: hp or dell #871925
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    Packard Bell.

    in reply to: Did I ever tell you about the time I almost got gored by a bull? #874118
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    You live on a farm?

    in reply to: Joining Hatzalah #873001
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    Why would they decline a sincere volunteer, that chances of acceptance are slim??

    in reply to: what kind of electronic educational toy is good for 3 yr old ? #872034
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    Why electronic? Non-electronic is better for so many reasons.

    in reply to: Heteirim for Copying and giving out Music #876265
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    OOM: And that has nothing to do with copying music either.

    batseven: There are other shittos. (Even according to Rav Belsky, the issur is not “stealing”. It is something else.)

    in reply to: Heteirim for Copying and giving out Music #876262
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    That has nothing to do with copying music.

    in reply to: A Grade on Chinuch #871391
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    Very pleased.

    in reply to: Roite Bindelech Segula (Red String) #871368
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    Against ayin hora.

    in reply to: Senior Citizens and Older Singles #871511
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    They don’t read the coffee room, so why are you posting this here? Even if they read it, they wouldn’t know who you are.

    in reply to: Bar Ilan CD #871346
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    What are the similarities and differences between Bar Ilan, Otzar HaChochma and HebrewBooks?

    in reply to: Roite Bindelech Segula (Red String) #871364
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    It’s a very old segula.

    in reply to: Bar Ilan CD #871340
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    RSRH: How then does Bar Ilan copy whole Seforim unto its CD?

    in reply to: Boys Have School Sunday While Girls Don't #1211215
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    So is an extra day of school on Sunday a waste of time?

    in reply to: Househusband #871321
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    Because the legal obligation to support her rests with him, regardless of whatever alternative arrangements or reality exists.

    in reply to: Heteirim for Copying and giving out Music #876257
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    lessc: There is a difference in halacha beyween tangible and intangible goods.

    in reply to: Bar Ilan CD #871333
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    It costs a pretty penny.

    in reply to: Heteirim for Copying and giving out Music #876252
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    If they would not have otherwise purchased it.

    Some poskim hold of it permissible while some other poskim hold it isn’t permissible.

    in reply to: Words from an ex IDF solider for Yom HaZikaron #1163146
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    Not everything is black and white, but in the case at hand he is pure evil.

    Gut Voch

    in reply to: Safek if counted during the day. #871280
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    Forgive me for saying this, but I’ve noticed Sam often takes issue with halachos or psaks that are less than egalitarian, and sometimes tries reinterpertating or adapting them for modern times.

    in reply to: Words from an ex IDF solider for Yom HaZikaron #1163143
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    Anna Porter’s hack job is a joke and Gaylen Ross’ film is Hollywood material. The train was overwhelmingly filled with his cronies and their families. If you want to know what the rabbonim say about him, read Rav Michoel Dov Weissmandel ztvk’l zy’a’s Sefer. He was directly involved in the rescue of European Jewry during the holocaust.

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