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There is no prohibition on an individual or a tzibur offering a misheberach for those who protect their lives on a daily basis. They need the tefillos not more than ever before given the risks from terrorists and the internal strife within the country.
By the time Moishiach arrives and has completed all the necessary Environmental Impact Statements and obtained all the required building permits to complete construction of Bayis Shalishi, we will be doing korbonos virtually in the Metaverse.
This time of year and probably through the summer, the “cheapest” RT El Al flights from JFK/Newark to Tel Aviv will run about $800 to $1,000. You can save about $100-$200 by taking some flights on other carriers with a connection but you have to be crazy to incur the additional time/flight delay risk by making an unnecessary stop.
Short answer. DON”T store any leather products in a car on a hot day. Period. Full Stop. And putting them in a cooler with ice is even more problematic. It may be ok for short stops (e.g an hour or so) but otherwise, keep them with you or leave them in the beis medrash, shul or home when you finish davening.
Just be aware that there are real benefits to “in-person” classes if that is an option for you based on your location, finances and professional aspirations. Not all colleges are “party schools” and most students are serious about their education versus worrying about their itinerary for bein hazmanim (aka spring break). While you can certainly obtain excellent training online, the top professors and degree programs still involve in-person learning.
Much hatzlacha in whatever choice you make.In rare agreement with R’ Yosef. I’ve flown up front on several 12/13 hr flights to Japan and Dubai and the obscene prices (which clients paid) were not worth it if I had to pay out of pocket. I don’t drink alcohol on long flights and have a hard time sleeping on the “flat beds” which they promote as a key feature. You also get the same “kosher” meals wrapped in plastic while watching the sushi and filet mignon served to the guy sitting next to you. The ONLY real advantage for me is that its a bit quieter in First, less likely to have a screaming baby sitting next you, and shorter lines (if any) for the Lav. I’m a big fan of the premium economy, where I purchase regular economy and use my upgrades to get a wider seat on the aisle. Sometimes, when flying off-season you can get upgraded to business but those upgrades seem very rare these days.
“the growing number of Torah programs for women can prevent careerism and secular values from entering a woman’s mind..”
Believe it or not, there are a very significant number of frum women who are able to acquire the needed academic and job skills to earn a good parnassah, make significant contributions to their community working in the fields of medicine, public health, finance and law, while still living a torah life. Its pathetic how many men simply have a hard time accepting this reality and (putting aside R’ Yosef’s trolls) continue to flail around with respect to women’s capabilities and achievements.A generation of kids in BP did trips to Shatzer’s before Pesach to see the world’s finest shmurah being made
“There’s no way to avoid the rampant pritzus on any American college campus…”
So true. Its mega-rampant. Wherever you look, there are students running to class, throwing frisbees on the quad and engaged in passionate political debate about which conservative speaker to boycott. Much better to skip college entirely and find a beschert with wealthy parents to maintain the lifestyle you’d like to get accustomed to.
Desparate is correct: YU doesn’t allow enrollment in a secular degree program unless you are fully participating in the full yeshiva program. There are some narrow exceptions for individuals to “audit” certain secular courses that are approved on a case-by-case basis, but these are not credit-granting degree programs.
Ditto for United. I flew over last week with my grandson who was running in the Jerusalem marathon and came back on Sunday. Seats in the Premium economy were comfortable but still affordable. (You need to take a second mortgage for first class and upgrades never seem to be available) United staff were courteous but firm on enforcing the carryon rules (especially with regard to the usual nutcases trying to squeeze a steamer trunk in the overhead bins). Food was actually good for airline food. Most importantly, flights left nearly on time.
What is especially amusing are the efforts by House Republicans to further twist themselves into know to protect this cholerah. They are insisting that the Manhattan DA come to testify about a prosecution that is still in progress and an indictment that doesn’t exist other than in Trump’s paranoid mind.
Its a stupid prosecution that could (politically) jeopardize the Georgia case and several pending federal investigations for election interference. And in a rare case of agreement, Reb Yosef correctly notes the “novel” (aka dubious) application of the underlying statute here. Republicans should be supporting the right of every American to pay off their former mistress to avoid having their wives make their lives miserable.
“It depends if the person was smoking weed…”
Which person?? Are you referring to the bochur, the shadchan or the OP?? I’m still not sure what everyone is talking about here.
We need CWR posters to define what they mean by a “heimeshe” university. College is not a kugel. What specific attributes aside from the option of gender-separate classes are you talking about??
Lebdik” UJM’s trolling seems to go over the heads of most posters. Think of a wife locked in the kitchen with a ball and chain around her ankle seeking permission from R’ Yosef to leave the house on Wednesday for 2 hours to to purchase cleaning supplies for Pesach
CA: So you are saying that bad is good when the good in question is bad so it is important to distinguish the good from the bad, or is it the other way around??
Millhouse: The OP says that, “Mazuz argued [that Goldstein’s actions] prevented a very great danger,” I don’t believe the Rav would make such a statement if he had been fully informed of the facts, as several other posters noted above. Nor are many of us big fans of Kahane’s legacy which obviously is a big factor among those who celebrate the actions of this murderer.
Mentch 1: Irrespective of being bnai/bnos mitzvah, the issue of child-labor turns on the nature of the work and risks involved. A 13 YO is certainly capable of doing certain work and learning valuable job skills and responsibility but clearly daas torah couldn’t have contemplated having a child of that age working in a coal mine or in a meat processing plant.
Goldstein was a sick terrorist and as noted above, Mazuz was clearly uninformed when making his baseless comments defending this terrorist.
Refoelzeev: If you are serious, perhaps you should identify WHICH of the several “Rebbitzen Weinbergs” who have been niftar in the past several years, and provide at least a minimal profile of her life and why it is newsworthy that this particular “Rebbitzen Weinberg” warranted coverage in the news pages. If it was one of the individuals speculated above, perhaps tell us which one.
“Let IT fall, who cares the majority of us aren’t going to become rich anyway no matter how much effort we put in..
Kspark: Let what fall?? Not sure what you are saying (and maybe you don’t either). Interest rates need to rise to restrict demand growth. If you mean banks should “fall”, thats equally harmful to ALL of us, rich or poor, since it could result in losing some or all of savings for millions of Americans. And also, speak for yourself, since for most of us, there is a direct correlation between effort and success. If you are saying you are an exception, than make that clear.Equally interesting is whether shadchanim charge a fixed-rate for any assignment or do the charges depend on how “challenging” the client may be. Does age, family yichus, wealth, education, looks, etc. factor into how much is charged?
‘the better argument is that those Yeshivos still offering secular studies should drop their secular curriculum..”
Even for our resident trollster-in-chief, a truly mindless observation. It is clear that for a certain segment of bochurim, there needs to be some alternative path to provide them with an outlet for their energy while offering as much limudei kodesh as they can usefully aborb. Its not a binary choice although some seen intent on making it seem to be mutually exclusiveMove to West Virginia. At least in the Mountain State, children can no longer be forced to marry under the age of 16. The Republican Senate had blocked the bill on Wednesday night but it was passed at the 11th hour yesterday before adjournment. Its ok for younger kids to work in some jobs but the Arkansas bill allows for children under 16 to work in shlachthoises and dangerous factories.
Yaakov Doe: Could you explain what is “Rashi Matzoh” at $50/lb and “Erev Pesach Matzah” at $75/lb as advertised on the Satmar website??
Its not just “secular” studies. Teaching American history or algebra alone would not address the underlying social and psychological problems driving this small segment of teens to engage in disruptive activity. Nor is it unique to the yeshiva velt. It requires comprehensive outreach involving the family, schools and mental health professionals working together, something lacking across society in general and not just in frum communities.
$30-$35/lb for higher end shmurah seems to be the norm this year. Purchase in person if you can rather than online. Last year I made the mistake of ordering for shipment and box didn’t have 3 intact pieces.
Guteyid: There IS a problem when the schools and other mosdos in a community mindlessly pretend that all bochurim should be shteiging 24×7 and ignore the non-conforming segment of yungerliet who for various reasons don’t fit the mold. There needs to be outlets for these bochuring to channel the energy while simultaneously trying to deal with their anger and agression.
“homicide” “overdose” “car accident….I really hope you are being sarcastic.
Hopefully just hyperbole. However, if it could be shown that a Rav actively encouraged excessive drinking leading to a death or serious injury, he would definitely be open to prosecution and incarceration if the facts are verified. There is no waiver under the DWI, homicide or wrongful death statutes for “Purim authorized intoxication”.
“wow, THAT sounds a lot like a description of Bill Clinton
Common Saychel: It depends on the the meaning of “THAT” is.Its all in the Shtreimlach!!
What misnagid has not walked by a chosid bedecked in a 16 inch fur headpiece delicately balanced on his head on a hot summer day along with a beautifully tailored bekishe and not experienced a deep sense of envy and anguish about not having been born into yiddeshe royalty. Its not just feel-good niggunim.“No one is saying that Donald Trump is Mashiach”….
Thats refreshing to hear since I cannot locate any instance where Chazal bring down that the of Moishiach would be a disgusting racist, anti-semitic, misogynist, who engaged in adulturous behavior with numerous women and continuously vilifies others in an insatiable attempt to feed an endless ego.“Not drinking doesn’t make you a kofer”
Any more so than drinking in excess and putting yourself and others at risk makes you a tzadik. Fortunately, most who do drink, don’t drive and many don’t even have a car.
So all the ehrliche yidden celebrating Purim with their families and can pass a sobriety test are by definition, “kofrim” since not engaging in excessive drinking (w/o a medical heter) or even drinking in moderation, is kefirah. That makes sense. You heard it here first. If you are pulled over by the newly established morality police for DWNI (driving while not intoxicated), you have been warned.
AAQ: I think the OP was perhaps thinking about a quiet ride along a bike trail running through the woodlands and bucolic meadows of Rockland County rather than threading his way among a bunch of Odysseys on a bike lane in Willy or BP
Is “moderation” fundamentally (not just linguistically) incompatible with ad shelo yadah?
Is “moderation” fundamentally (not just linguistically) incompatible with ad shelo yadah?
Coherent sentence?? He is quite coherent by current standards for political leaders. Has anyone been able to interpret the incoherent rants Trump keeps pumping out nightly on his Truth Social vanity media site about other Republicans, Fox News, Rhinos, and the world in general all are conspiring against him? Obama was considerably more consistent than Biden but Bush Jr. was also prone to gaffes.
Biking is great in the right locations and using common sense. There was nebech a tragedy reported yesterday of a bochur who was niftar in an accident in suburban Baltimore while biking on a fairly busy highway (Reisterstown Road) right off the ramps to I-695. Unless you are a really experienced biker, I wouldn’t think of riding along a multi-lane highway without a protected bike lane.
“What does the topography have to do with the zmanim”
Nothing. It is another, totally separate, defining attribute, along with zmanin underlying observance of many of the taryag mitzvot. If we are on a planet whose surface is entirely water, I’m sure you can name lots of mitzvot that become totally irrelevant.
“Perhaps that has less to do with bias and more to do with the cumulative accomplishments, innovations, social movements, and historical events with worldwide repercussions of ONE population versus another…”
Do you mean chassidish or Litvish?? If the former, do we have a special month for each Chassidus? I’d be intrigued as to how Satmar will celebrate Tzionist History month or how Misnagdim Appreciation Day will be celebrated at 770.As a practical matter, we have too many “months” to recognize specific demographics, causes, etc. Its become a bit of a joke just like the last administration had a monthly “Infrastructure Week” to promote legislation they were never able to enact. There are more groups seeking special recognition than there are months in the years.
Reb Yosef to Reb Yosef: Excellent point made in response to your prior excellent points.
So if there are other planets where the climates/topography etc. approximate those on Earth, a yid on Planet Aleph arguably would be similarly situated c’neged a yid performing the identical mitzvos as he/she were located on Earth an chutz-l[aretz if the metric is EY-centric.
White history month(s) are the other 11 months of the year which are not Black History Month. For all practical purposes, history as taught in schools is essentially White Eurocentric history for obvious reasons. I’m not threatened by schools and media inserting a modicum of Black or other ethnic-centric history if done with common sense and avoids the usual hyperbole and fringe political agendas like reparations etc.
“Halacha LeMoshe MiSinai” is not [always] meant literally, and sometimes means “a very old law”
Thats wonderful news. Should be do a poll where all the CR poskim are asked to identify the their choices for the three “very old” halachas that they would like to see nullifed or at least observed in accordance with a kulah that would not require a literal interpretation??
GTN: Still not sure what you are saying……..Bernie has been saying the same thing for 50 years, some of it legit and much totally inaccurate or hyperbole. Haaretz seems to slants its editorial agenda based on political opportunism of the moment. Much of the recent rise in anti-semitic rhetoric and tropes and other/ethnic racist attacks are clearly originating at the other of the political spectrum here in the U.S. Bottom line is that the hate is now coming from zealots at both political extremists.