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To Litvishechosid
You may live in a time warp but “NOT all unmarried girls live at home until they get married no matter now much money they make”….. Your stereotype is about 10-20 years out of date. More young frum women are getting their own apartments (many sharing rentals with friends) while there are also many guys likely to be living in their parents’ basements, when not hanging out in some dorm room at a yeshiva. The applications for admission to Stern College have been growing by record amounts along with other special programs for frum women who want to pursue college and graduate studies. No, they just don’t hang around the house anymore helping with the younger kids and cleaning.The more ostensibly frum candidates, the better chance of splitting the Chareidii vote….other possible candidates include Meir Porush and Ze’ev Elkin. Porush would be and especially fun choice since it would give the Gerrer Rebbe and opportunity to do “political tshuvah” for getting Barkat elected several years ago.
If you are talking about the Rothschild family from Paris who control the world’s weather (as reported here recently on YWN)) the answer is probably not. If you are talking about the Rothschild family from Willy and BP, absolutely all are frum yidden and big baalei tzadakah.
Age differential is more important at younger ages….less so as we get older. Simple arithmetic….a 15/30 year old match for a shidcuh makes little sense whereas the same 15 year age gap at 45/60 seems more within the scope of realtiy.
Are there still respected scientists who have good-faith disagreements on the role of man-made actions on the growth in greenhouse gas emissions and its role in climate change? YES
Do the largest percentage of respected scientists agree that man made actions are causing climate change: Yes
Are there always a few dissenters in any widely held scientific debate: Yes.
We generally base public policy on the most widely held view of any scientific issue. Our religious beliefs inform our policy decision but in a democracy, are not the basis for making policy. There will always be dissent and we never have 100 percent consensus.
A slight variation of your answer to this question is being Menachem avel in any of these tragedies involving the untimely loss of a younger man or woman under inexplicable circumstances. I have heard and read many verts on this issue including the excellent piece by Rav Feiner posted here last week before yom tov. There is really nothing to be said and all the standard words we are prone to use ring so empty. There are times where I feel guilty about being unable to say anything that seems meaningful or that can provide some real support to the avelim. At the end, I simply learned to say little and simply listen to the avelim talk about their feelings and otherwise squeeze a hand or give a hug.
Hey Sam….its not just you. A recent study a major journalism school found that the average college graduate was spending 18% more time on internet news sites since the Trumpkopf’s election. Surprisingly, the news sites with the longest “stickiness” (i.e. how long the viewer spent on the site) was Fox News, and not the “Fake” news sites such as CNN and MSNBC. The study did not consider aggregation sites such as YWN but only the primary sources.
If you watched any of her “videos”, you’d realize this woman was a real sicko with no real political agenda although she arguably espoused incoherent left wing stuff . Nonetheless, its no different from sickos with a right-wing agenda or any agenda. Other countries also have their sickos who commit violent acts but why at such a greater frequency here in the U.S.
And the millions of Israelis who speak grammatically correct Ivrit (including some gadolim who are resident in EY speak beautiful Ivrit in their daily lives) are engaged in “low” forms of speech while segments of the Chareidi population who are intelligible only to one another are morally superior?? I guess in “Joes world” that makes perfect sense.
Klugeryid….sorry for the focus on Shabbos but that is the issue here, whether they read it ONLY on Shabbos, which is not what I meant to say, predominantly on Shabbos, or frequently, the question is why would it be assur since there is readership outside of Shabbos. Sure, the readership has more leisure time on Shabbos but that argument would apply to many other products that are assur on Shabbos which we don’t seek to restrict .
All joking aside, the entire purpose of the postings here is to communicate a point of agreement, disagreement or abatraction. Given the ease of using spellcheck and a thesaurus, there really isn’t an excuse to waste the time of CR readers with incoherent rants. Yes, some satire and sarcasm may go over the heads of some readers just as some of the pearls of wisdom from Halacha or an inyan from Chazal may be intelligible only to a few of our big CR talmeidei chachamim but that is my problem, not that of the poster.
“The Donald is going after Amazon”
…and wind and solar companies, and social media companies, and advanced technology companies and just about anything that reflects change. The Trumkopf has this sick and weird obsession with dying industries which are not coming back. The Wall Street journal had a great story about his yearning to bring back the world of 50 years ago where America was more “industrial”, more white, more rural, more male dominated and more Church-going. He seems to ignore the reality of a rapidly changing post-industrial society where automation and advanced information technology have forever changed the way products are produced and sold. Just like the first big shopping centers in the suburbs destroyed the old downtown retail stores, eCommerce (of which Amazon is just a small part) will destroy is destroying the big malls. Just like the big kosher supermarkets are destroying the old heimeshe stores. It is inevitable, it is good for consuemrs (more variety, lower prices, larger selection and incredible convenience. For those of you like the Trumkiopf who yearn for the “good ole day”, first of all, they weren’t so good but in any event, go to a museum.First, mazel tov Do the minimal bris with family and then do the full CT Lawyer Kiddush the next Shabbos or a week or two later…from your prior postings, it sounds like Mrs. CT Lawyer really knows how to throw a classy party and it would be a shame to waste her talents on stale macaroons and grape juice. And also, your new grandson will be 50 percent older the following Shabbos and your daughter and son-in-law more rested and relaxed.
“Most readers read these magazines on Shabbos and (if I understand the halacha correctly) it is prohibited from anyone to read or look at advertisements on Shabbos…”
What marketing study or credible evidence is there that “most readers” read these newspapers or magazines only on Shabbos?? If we extend your logic, it would be assur to sell many products which are muktzah or whose use might be assur on Shabbos. For example, a frum yid might have the time on Shabbos to use his/her cellphone (even a kosher phone) to call mishpacha or friends to just schmooze, something they might not have time to do during the week. Should we ban the sale of kosher cellphones because some ehrliche yid might call his shver on Shabbos?
Again, you don’t get it…I am the principal contributor to the tofu based chulent debate and other non-sequitors…it doesn’t bother me but obviously has you concerned you might miss out on something of greater importance…enough said, back to the kitchen to work on non-chometzidik alternatives to my tofu based cholent for a non-kitniyos eating litvish son-in-law…
chag kosher v’sameach (w/o kitniyos)
If the Mods were to to shut down each new thread whose focus borders on the proper etiquette for dancing on the head of a pin, we would be left to debating the virtues of everyone’s favorite Shabbos recipes for tofu-based chulent or whether its appropriate for the gabbi rishon to walk out of shul to “supervise” the Kiddush club just when the rav begins his d’var torah… the REALLY important issues facing klal yisroel .
By now, its almost universally understood that EN and Hatzalah are two great organizations and each does certain things well. However, they are NOT the same and may never be. For any serious life threatening emergency, call Hatzalah/911 asap…..EN is a good alternative for non-life threatening matters where both the quality of care and reducing stress for the woman in need would be enhanced by having a woman first responder where time may not be as critical and ability to communicate issues with another woman are important to the care provided. Over time, EN may evolve to provide equivalent first-responder capability but is generally not at that point today and its not anti-feminist to acknowledge that reality.
Duhhh. No one is stifling learning, if thats what you call it. The inyan of eating X, Y, or Z is a totally legit line of inquiry and 90 percent of the threads here parse the details of shaiylos which are not matters of pikuach nefesh or where a mistake rises to the level of chayav kores….it was a simple observation that for many of us, if we are not confident about a nuance of kashruth we generally forgoe an opportunity to indulge until such time as we are no longer in doubt. End of story…
No Meno…when in DOUBT, dont.. If you can get a quick and definitive psak from your local R/P than you are no longer in doubt. In many cases, its not that easy to get such a definitive yes/no, or simply don’t feel you want to bother your R/P with a minor question. Rather than take a risk, many of us would simply forego a potentially problematic issue, especially on matters of kashruth around pesach etc.
Ubiquitin….yes, I am being held captive at an undisclosed location in Chumrahville and forced to eat nothing but kitniyos by a bunch of sephardeshe zealots. My point was rather simple…when in doubt, don’t. Otherwise, get a Sehpardeshe chef for eruv shabbos/ achron shel pesach (in EY) if ther is an absolue need to cook/bake kitniyos. I suspect this becomes an issue (along with others) when you have “mixed marriages’ aka a livish marries a Sehpardeshe yid and the kids alternate in-laws for yom tovim.
I see variations of this debate year after year. Is it really that difficult to forego kitniyos for another day or two after yom tov??
They also marry their first cousins at the age of 14 and 15 in Kentucky and West Virginia….I guess Joe finds that a positive attribute. There are risks of higher incidence of birth defects or genetic disorders although the risk is now considered much lower than it used to be. As we have learned in relation to our resident troll: just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean you should do something, whether marrying children in their early teens or engaging in Polygamy…
If you are going to sit behind a shtender shteiging 24×7, except for sleeping and and periodic asher yatzar moments, than its certainly possible to wear tefillin all day, every day (other than shabbos/yom tovim). However, for 90 percent of the tzibur who in the real world have to go out and work fo a parnassah, whether a farmer working the fields, a skilled worker in construction or a professional working in a laboratory or computer faciliy, you are fortunate to have an 30-45 minutes in the AM to put on teffiilin during shachris.
Anytthing is better than a slab of starch flavored wih salt and onions. I’m not certain as to the nutritional value but if you are short on carbs and sodium, definitely go for it. Otherwise, tofu is the way to go.i
Just like the conservative Trumpkopfs are insisting that every new law or regulation should have a “sunset provision” that means it disappears in 5-10 years if not affirmatively reconsidered and renewed by Congress,, perhaps we should consider imposing a sunset provision on all minhagim so they terminate every 100 years unless renewed by the gadolim of the current generation based on whether it is still “relevant”.
iacisrmma
Chazal bring down that having a Yom Tov Sheini is a reasonable compromise between having only one day of yom tov and three days of yom tov, nothwithstanding uncertainty on solar/lunar calendar dates. They also note the upheaval in the heimeshe community if we were to reduce moed by one day from four to three to make up for the additional day of yom tov
We have a custom to not observe obsolete minhagim whose origin is no longer relevant due to changed circumstances.
There was a lengthy thread on the identical question about 2 or 3 years ago….unless some of these seforim are rare or high value items, using any commercial shipper via cargo ship is the lowest cost option, especially if you are able to find a shipper looking for smaller items fill a container. If you are concerned about reliability and timely delivery than a shipper like DHL can provide “as available” air cargo shipment at a higher cost but with real time tracking and more certainty. Really depends on the value of these seforim to you and how difficult they would be to replace if lost or damaged.
Respectfully disagree…..many minhagim ARE attributable to the practice of a rav in a particular community. I was a guest a shul for a family simcha and at one point in the davening , all the regular mispallalim started hocking on their sthenders and backs of the benches in front of them at a certain point in the davening in a way I’ve never experienced or seen done elsewhere. it was explained to me that this was the minhag of the shul’s prior rav that was continued after he was niftar and a new rav was hired. Sure, there are many minhagim that are family-specific especially those related to what is eaten at sedudos on certian yom tovim but many are practices of a Rav that all his chassidim or followers adopt.
I don’t like to use analogies to the Shoah or other such tragic events but over the course of history, some of the world’s greatest tyrants and Rashaim ranging from those who grabbed power in developing nations and engaged in genocide of their opponents to a Putin in Russia who is more selective in his targeted assasinations have won the popular vote or majority vote (in some cases with 99%). Here the Trumpkopf won legally against a flawed candidate but even then couldn’t win even a plurality or majority of the vote. His behavior since taking office for many of us is an obscenity but he is still President.
Just personal perspective but I have found some of the small chassideshe hashgachos to be more rigorous and focused than the larger commercial hashgachos….you are correct, its a personal judgement and to some, a Badazt or niche Yekeshe hashgacha might be the same “gold standard” to others. R’ Kuber’s point here is that whatever hashgacha you rely upon, its only reliable up to the point they transfer the food to the ultimate serving entity or customer…anything you eat that is not directly from a sealed container is at your own risk unless you can trace the “chain of custody” to equally reliable hashgacha to the one that supervised the preparation of the food.
R’ Kuber is the rav of a shul in the town of Telz Stone outside of Yerushalayim but more important for purposes of this article, he is one of the top kashruth experts in EY who worked for many years at the OU. His biggest complaint over many years has been the chronic screw-ups associated with the widespread practice of a catering firm with otherwise top of the line chassideshe hashgacha (the gold standard) delivering food for an event held at some shul or simcha hall where there is no onsite mashgiach to supervise the preparation and serving of that food to the attendees. He has argued that in most cases, the caterer should simply refuse to do business with parties who have not provided for real time hashgacha of the food service. He has noted that in the issue is almost always a desire to save the cost of paying a mashgiach to monitor the simcha, sometimes using the excuse that there will be chashuve rabbonim and knowledgeable askanim attending and thus “nothing bad can happen”
The only “surprise” is that there are some who are still “surprised” by the Trumpkopf’s ongoing downward spiral and the ugliness surrounding his presidency. It was funny at one time…no longer. There is a difference between being “politically incorrect” or “non-traditional” than the vulgarity, crudeness and hate we are watching in real time.
To “Little I Know”
Your litany of “crimes” (aka murderer etc.) committed by HRC confirms your name….I’m sure you will find a sympathetic ear on Brietbart or Alex Jones’ website but notwithstanding substantive and passionate policy differences, most readers here generally retain a high level of objectivity.All the sarcasm of the prior postings aside, just be yourself and talk with him about the issues that excite you, about recent places you’ve been to, about a person you’ve recently met who you found especially interesting, about your plans for continuing your education (if that is part of your gameplan). Remember that he is probably as anxious as you are about “discussion topics” so approach it as an equal and forego all the “dos” and “don’ts” you’ve been given by well-meaning friends.
Again, this was totally inappropriate unless you are some inexperienced intern in the Trump reelection campaign trying to score points with the Trumkolpfs. Remember when he mocked the handicapped NYTimes reporter.. 99 percent of the time YWN gets it right….this time, not even close.
To Neville Chamberlin….its not just teffilin on Moed which obviously has wider context but more narrowly the sheer number of special mihgaim which I think there are more related to pesach than succos.
Or as a last minue purim sugyah, what do the araba minim of succos have in common with the arba koses shel peseach and the arban banim of the hagadah? Winner gets a gift-certificate to the new “all you can eat” non-gebrokts chulent place on 13th Avenue.Where do chazal bring down that during yetzias mitzrayim and the subsequent time of dor ha’midbar yidden ate only shmurah matzoh?
In the late 1990s when the price of shmurah matzoh dropped below $20/lb….
So the consensus is that one should put on Teffilin during chol hamoed but should only do so when sitting in the area where one normally has built a sukkah and must follow the davening by eating a pas gebrokts. Whats clear is there are more minhagim than there are gadolim and other chashuve rabboniom who can be cited as the source of the minhag. I cannot think of any other yom tov or chag where there seems to be so many variations of what was once a fairly prescribed routine.
Sadly, with the sinas chinam exhibited almost daily in comments here by certain posters, hard to imagine we will be reading sightings of moishiach ridiing a white donkey heading down Eastern Parkway, or for that matter, anywhere else. As to who has the “potential” to be moishiach, I’m not sure chazal bring down that the decision is like some voting on American Idol, where yidden get to vote fo their favorite rebbe .
We can debate obama policies on lots of issues (where many of us diagree with some of his positions)
However, simply on a personal level, Obama was a mensch and great husband and father. He and Michele were grat role models as compared to the current immoral and depraved resident of the WH who brags about sexually assaulting women, praises Nazi groups and tyrants around the world, and lies almost non-stop with his own “alternative facts”.
Do I want to bring back Obama,…NO….Do I wish we had a mensch in the WH…YESKitov:
We heard about the defective Federal Pacific panels during the insurance investigation of our fire. In our case, the fire resulting from a defective circuit breaker on the heat pump circuit within a different brand of panel. The smoke alarm went off, the fire department arrived within a few minutes but the house was a total loss (mix of fire and smoke damage). The fire investigator indicated that a sprinkler system might not have put out the fire entirely but would have slowed its progression considerably until the fire department arrived and also would have minimized smoke damage which as many of you know, is generally more destructive than structural damage. Obviously, all those who say that good smoke detectors are better than nothing is true along with other common sense fire safety measures to escape the fire. However, from a property damage perspective, sprinkler systems are great investments (especially where you can also afford to install a backup generator like we did to protect against frozen pipes in the event of a power loss).
P.S. Servpro handles both smoke damage from a fire and water damage from burst sprinkler system pipes.