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… if he is married.
Advice for what?
BTW, who is paying the shrink?
Who do you hold by in this case?
Sam: So how are you typing here on this forum?
Your assumptions of all those implications is not correct.
Also, you make a brocha of leishev b’succah on it.
And bringing a laptop or tablet (iPad) to type your notes is okay (even thought writing is not)?
What about writing on an online forum?
See the answer given you in the other thread regarding your unwarranted limiting usage of the word mitzvah.
Thank you so much for sharing that wonderful story.
Sam: It only works once if he specifically relies on the rov on purpose? Or it only works once even by mistake? i.e. if he forgot or was an onus and couldn’t make it twice in a row, the second time the Rov’s doesn’t work for him?
The Din of Chacham Befanav applies to a woman?
Why not a non-Jewish employer, Jothar?
It’s a mitzvah to eat and drink everything, even a cup of water, in the Sukkah.
8) If you live in a community with a rabbi, then don’t worry. He makes an eruv for everybody which you may rely on if you forgot, were stuck and weren’t able to, don’t have any idea how to make an eruv, or lost your eruv.
So why not forget the whole thing, and just be someach on the rov?
Hillel didn’t choose a different shiur when he couldn’t afford to pay to attend. He went to the roof and listened in.
Sam: Isn’t it in Shulchan Aruch? Isn’t following S”A a mitzvah?
In NY there is a one-week waiting period before unemployment insurance becomes active.
yashrus: You have a good sense of humor.
They’re not anymore obligated to pay for Chol Hamoed than they are obligated to pay for Shabbos.
BTW, a Jewish business is supposed to close for Chol Hamoed.
Some people feel Hashem is a hindrance to their income.
popa: Why is siblings permission better than parental permission?
Within the same gender they should wait (within reason). Between opposite gender siblings, there are different customs.
Feif: Minister Eli Yishai said its pidyon. Rav Ovadia did not.
It seems that the whole world has family problems these days.
metrodriver: In fact I did address that angle above. If he was put into the car after advising the cop he was religiously prohibited from entering the car, he would not be Mechallel Shabbos by a goy putting him and taking him out of the car. He wouldn’t have to resist getting in or out, but advise the cop he was religiously prohibited from getting inside through his own volition and power.
Also, the cop would almost certainly not have arrested for refusing to sign. There haven’t been any jaywalking arrests in years, and his commander would have him in deep water if he brought a Jewish Sabbath observer to the precinct on his Sabbath because he was trying to observe his Sabbath — as the first jaywalking arrest in years. That would have gotten the police department in political hot water.
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And Sam, I don’t see a basis for your assumption about kavanah. Just like if a man saw a non-tznius women he must remove her from within his eyesight, if a man smelled a perfumed woman he must remove himself from within her smelling range. Even if he thinks he has no kavanah.
Sam: You can easily be in an office or be a guest in a home or walk down a street or in a grocery or many other places where only one woman has perfume emanating from her. Especially in frum neighborhoods.
The guy walking down the empty street passing her and smelling her perfume certainly was oiver a lav as a result of her lifnei eiver.
Sam: She may in fact be the only source. (Not to grant the claim that she need only be the only source to violate the lav.)
And why do you assume he must have kavanah to be oiver?
I’m with you AYC on that.
I see, ayc. Somehow I thought your info re: R. Reisman was firsthand. Why would they exclude Rubashkin, Pollard and others? It would seem to make more sense that they are including those too at least equally.
The Associated Press picked up the story. The AP is reporting that Netanyahu convened the cabinet to approve freeing 1,000 Arab terrorists for Schalit.
There is no issue here that Hashem wants you to be Mechallel Shabbos for. There is no safek sakanos nefoshos. And often there is no opportunity to ask a rov on the spot.
A NYC Police Officer (with a gun) threatening to arrest you unless you are Mechallel Shabbos? My choice is clear: Hashem first.
In a clear a case of no sofek sakanas nefoshos. And in the jaywalking incident, there was no opportunity to ask a Rov. The cop didn’t offer to let him go ask a shaila.
I wouldn’t C”V be Mechallel Shabbos.
Mod 80: It IS holy to take naps in the Sukkah.
Sam: Hard to apply that to being taken to a Brooklyn police precinct or Central Booking.
ZD: Even an afternoon or day or two (way longer than needed to be bailed out), or even longer, at Rikers isn’t safek sakanas nefoshos.
Sam: When you say “sakanah”, you are limiting it to a situation of “sakanos nefoshos”, correct?
Sam: In that Shabbos jaywalking case, the cop threatened to arrest him if he didn’t sign. (It was actually on the street – he didn’t follow him home.) The Yid told the cop he couldn’t sign for religious reasons. (Eventually he unfortunately did under pressure.) It turned out the cop was a plain ‘ole anti-semite, as there hadn’t even been a jaywalking *ticket* issued in the entire precinct in at least over two years, let alone an arrest. (You don’t get arrested for jaywalking.) What was the cop suddenly making a federal case of a Yid crossing in middle of an empty street in a heavily Jewish neighborhood with no cars in sight? The cop got transferred out of the precinct he was working in, against his desires, as a penalty for what he did. Nevertheless, I still don’t see any justification for signing. Even if the cop put him in the car, he wouldn’t have been doing that (getting into the car) himself. The signing he is doing himself.
If I were the merchant, I would happily give members discounts since it would be a great (and cheap) way to buy a portion of their mitzvah.
If I were the member, I would always certainly not ask for the discount and even refuse it if the merchant automatically gave it to me, since I would never want to sell even a portion of my mitzvah.
popa: If the store is owned by Jews and is open on Shabbos, there is even more reason to not patronize them.
The police ought to be give them a ticket on their driving license.
The OP’s case is of a minor accident with only property damage. While it is technically illegal to leave, the cops do not arrest people who left a fender-bender. At worst, it will cause the insurance companies to find him at fault for the accident (even if he wasn’t really at fault.) That is certainly not a reason you can C”V be Mechallel Shabbos for. And even IF it were a case where he could theoretically get arrested for leaving, that is still not a reason you can be Mechallel Shabbos C”V.
What I would suggest is that he leave, and on Motzei Shabbos go to the police precinct to explain and report the incident and why he had to leave for religious Sabbath observance.
Tell him to speak to a Rov. The very problem he is having by smelling other ladies who put on much perfume in public, he is asking you to cause other men. Does he or you really want to be nichshol other men and have other men thinking about you? It is not permitted.