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GAW – Bother. You got the bikkit line in before me…
You going to update, or do I win?
What I am trying to say is not that belief in gilgul neshamos should be an ikkur today, but that there needs to be acceptance by the individual of those ideas that were accepted by the greater majority of the previous generations of gedolim.
No Psak = no required acceptance.
Either I am misunderstanding you or you misunderstood me because I wasn’t clear.
The second.
For us though, he is a mi’ut (possibly even against himself) and we have to follow the consensus, not the individual opinion.
That is a different question. However, since there is no Halacha Pesuka (AFAIK, SA doesn’t mention it) one can “hold” whatever they want. To call reincarnation an “Ikar” is difficult to say the least.
P.S. That is not to say that it doesn’t exist. The Sefiros are also a strong basis of Kabbalah, but no one will tell you that you must believe in them or be a Kofer.
What I meant about the Rambam not having Rishonim to hash it out was that, had the Rambam been born now he would be like us, subject to the consensus.
I’m Moche on this as well (but this obviously didn’t come out the way you wanted it to, so I’ll just ask that you reword it).
Sam2: I think there is a difference between the Rambam and someone today in that the Rambam didn’t have the benefit of the gedolei Rishonim and Achronim to hash it out for him. For him it didn’t need to be an ikkur, but for us , disbelief in gilgulim represents a lack of belief in the Torah of the previous generations.
In the same vein, Rava would not have held as he did either had he the “benefit of the gedolei Rishonim and Achronim to hash it out for him”. Rav Chaim whould have showed him right about Yeush, no?
Neither would have Hillel, Rebbe or Rebbi Akiva. Maybe David HaMelech was on the level that he could have won over the “gedolei Rishonim and Achronim” after “hash(ing) it out for him”.
Afar L’Pumi
Off the top of my head:
The Ribbono Shel Olam
Ain Od Milvado
Yashrus
So that when it is reincarnated, it should maintain a similar or better position in life. It should not spend the next Yuga as a worm, and should cry WANNA BIKKIT less often after reincarnation this time around.
akuperma:
I read the letter, and ironicly, the writers puppet your thoughts that the Charaidim have been sucessfully able to leverage their political power to their monetary advantage, and are now paying the price of having such payments with strings attached.
I could have seen you as the author.
Terry Pratchett is clean for a given definition of clean.
A Feegle’s?
I have to repeat fkelly. Define “clean”.
How about “The rise and fall of the Third Reich” or “Bellum Judaicum” by Titus Flavius Josephus. Those will keep you busy for a while.
ZD: I have no problem with the message, had they not included their name prominently. The same idea (work is a Chiyuv) would have been proclaimed, but without being an ad for their company.
GAW – I’m astounded, absolutely flabbergasted. It’s not simply Halacha, it’s the attitude. If we’re going to talk about Halacha well then there’s nothing wrong with boys rating girls either, even thinking that they find certain girls attractive is not Halachically problematic, but Heaven fore-fend the shallow, external-obsessed boy who does so… Girls? Now apparently it’s fine for them to be shallow and obsessed with the way a guy looks…
There absolutely is a problem with guys rating girls. Histaklus is Assur. So is having a discussion regarding girls and their attractivness (as possibly part of Lo Tasuru and SZL). Girls have no such chiyuvim or Issurim.
As an aside, it may be worth me noting that in every case that I personally know of it was the girl that instigated the relationship, not the guy. In the two cases I know of where it went beyond ‘first base’ it was the girl that pushed for it, not the guy. And this, I believe, is trace-able to the attitude that it is the guy’s problem, that girls are faultless and are allowed to rate guys’ attractiveness with impunity.
If she instigated with a boy, she is at fault. As for the rest, it is a “slippery slope” argument.
How else do you expect for Yaffed to get out their message?
Either by not having the Org. name on the billboard and just getting the message out, or excluding the Halacha.
This is making the Torah a ?????? ????? ???. As much as we have been accustomed to do so in the yeshiva/Kollel world, it is still Assur without question for Yaffed to promote their Org. via this billboard.
That being said, I don’t think that they care.
It’s this kind of misandrist claptrap that creates the kind of atmosphere where girls feel perfectly comfortable taking pictures of guys dancing behind the mechitza so they can rate them and guys feel so uncomfortable with the thought of even accidentally seeing a girl that they walk so bent over they end up looking like Quasimodo by age 20.
There is nothing wrong in Halacha with girls rating guys, which is why it is done. Girls also have “interests”, and unlike boys, they are allowed to think (and in some ways act, as long as it is not with a boy) on them. Ask the Ribbono Shel Olam why that is the case, but it certainly is.
Girls are evil, licentious, and more
They will lie to your face, stab their friends in the back
Think you only like them for looks
and possibly their snacks
To slip into teen mode:
OMG!!! like ROTFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After reading this, I can’t help but to think of all those girls who will never find their Bashert due to the shidduch crisis 🙁
Yes lets, anyway you cant blame me, i havent learned since like junior high…..
Busy Shopping? 🙂
There may be “Lifnei Iver” issues if you provide food (and otherwise she wouldn’t be eating then), since she will not be making brachos.
IIRC, the dinim of “BYomo Titan Scharo” are different.
I’m asking (and I know I could be very wrong) is:
the concept of bittul clearly requires two distinct identities. The thing being botul and the thing it’s being botul to.
Are strawberry ice creams botul to raspberry ones? I think not, because there’s not distinct halachic identity between them, unlike neveila and shchuta.
Ayin Ran Nedarim 52a.
Typical Joe Trolling. His brain is too warm.
I think we asked Rabbi Brezak
Try asking your own Rabbi (the one who’s shul you daven in). I promise he won’t bite you.
Im not sure, as long as i know what is om(k) to eat and not
You don’t. That is the problem. And then you go ahead and try to tell others based on your wrong ideas.
Truthfully (not to be condescending), you are a little young for a Moreh Horah. I’ll drop the subject as well, but once again strongly suggest that you learn the subject. Learning about Kashrus, Shabbos & Choshen Mishpat is way more worthwhile in your life (both spiritually and Mitzva-wise) than “learning” Ramban, Radak, Nach and other “non-actionable” Limudim (what Chazal called “Tiflus”, or secondary learning).
By that reasoning, since regulations and enforcement have changed, relying on R’ Moshe’s heter nowadays, anywhere, is also by extension.
DY: would you mind please elaborating on this?
Toi
beware the cleats
okok to clarify, the ice cream is identical in appearance and taste. my bad.
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DaasYochid
a singular mind
Toi, then this should have been in the “best pareve desserts” thread. 😉
This should go up as one of the best responses in the CR.
and btw homies i’m pretty sure r’ moshe’s heter is only for ‘murica. wanna extend it elsewhere on the same reasoning? go ahead, but that’s your own cheshbon b.
American products, not America. Products made outside of America (such as China) need to be CY even in America, and the same for the opposite (Made in America products in Canada or Peru (or EY) are under Rav Moshe’s Heter).
Well sorry, im not like so known in this subject, im only a female teen, this is how our rav translates it from wtvr language rabbi’s and yeshiva guys speak into my language.
Point to know when you go to Sem. You do not know everything. Your “Rabbis” don’t know everything. Many times they will tell you whatever Chumrah of the Week that they see on the street as actual Halacha. You should “hear all, trust nothing”. Ask a Posek, and if you don’t have one, call one (eg. Rav Dovid Cohen, Rabbis Forst or Fuerst, or your shul Rov).
I dint know anymore on the subject, i know what i need to know, and i dknt want to learn more.
Fight about it with someone else now, cuz i dont know anything else
Problem is you don’t know what you need to know. Go learn (ask your shul Rabbi, for example, not your Sem Teacher who from what you tell us knows from nothing) and get back to us on what he says.
But in israel, almost everything is choliv yisroel, and its very simple to take it on, so you so to say have to.
So says the “Rabbi” who holds Trumos & Masros need to be taken off from Peiros of CHUL. 🙂 Excuse me if I take anything you say with a large amount of skepticism.
The are many matters about which Rishonim disagreed, Therefore some were right and some were wrong. If they had all agreed on everything, there would be no need for Achronim to carry on the debates. The question is therefore a classic example of a “Klutz Kasha” since on its own terms the answer is obvious.
Come on! Elu V’Elu means they were both right (just don’t ask me how)
I just wanted to reiterate, in case there were any sfeikos created in anybody’s mind, that no-one today has enough knowledge or any power to say that Rishinim were wrong. Let alone on a news site forum.
And as I am apt to say, a Rishon is only not possible to be wrong if he speaks ex cathedra. If he does not speak ex cathedra, he could be wrong.
I just wanted to reiterate, in case there were any sfeikos created in anybody’s mind, that no-one today has enough knowledge or any power to say that Rishinim were wrong. Let alone on a news site forum.
Just like Rav Aharon Kotler never read Tolstoy 🙂
From the good old days:
This may be what a Human mind can comprehend (a form), and may even be how us Humans relate to the Ribbono Shel Olam, but in no way is that the actuality of the Ribbono Shel Olam.
as a follow-up, this (IMHO, but I imagine there are Rishonim that say so as well) is what the Torah means by “Lo Yirani HaAdam V’Chai”. Even Moshe Rabbainu was human, and Humans are unable to “see” the Ribbono Shel Olam. If one were to “see”, he/she would be overloaded and die.
OneOfMany: What happened to updates?
HaLeiVi:
Just realize, all the Mefarshey Rashi deal with these Rashi’s without batting an eyelash. Whatever it means it means. It’s not the first funny sounding Medrash. The fact is that Yecheskiel Hanavi saw KiDmus Mar’eh (which is three stages of comparison). There is a form to speak of, and it doesn’t mean that you are defining Hashem with that.
The best way that I can explain this (and I really do mean it) is “second sight”. Meaning, when someone “sees” something that their mind can’t comprehend (and that is what a Nevuah is, “seeing”), the mind tries to translate it into something that it can comprehend, and moves past the original “first sight”. This may be what a Human mind can comprehend (a form), and may even be how us Humans relate to the Ribbono Shel Olam, but in no way is that the actuality of the Ribbono Shel Olam.
Son of Man – look to the sky
Lift your spirit, set it free
Some day you’ll walk tall with pride
Joseph, a man in time you’ll be
Grow up already = User not found = Joe.
“Welcome” back.
Anyone else?
I’ve bought Bostonians (which are the same as Florshiems)
Is that your opinion, or are they literally the same shoes?
They are owned by the same company and make the same products. However, I am not a shoe expert, so I can’t be certain that they are exactly the same. I have worn both and found no differences.
I don’t buy them, but people whose feet ache do buy them and it’s not wasteful.
I agree. That was my third point earlier.
Eccos (well made, not fancy AFAIK) run $180, I think, at Hat Box. Florsheim and Rockport are around $100 IIRC.
Is that due to their actual cost or NYC pricing?
Edit: A quick look at Zappos shows ECCO for $140.
You really do prove my point, though. Someone who is “using Chessed Vouchers” should not be shopping at the expensive stores, but buying them for cheaper and using the money elsewhere. I’ve bought Bostonians (which are the same as Florshiems) for $30-$40.
I want to stress again that if you believe that the world is 6000 years old obviously evolution could never have happened..
Please define:
World:
Years:
Old:
Being that the famous Zohar/Medrash says that there were 974 “worlds” before this one, the question becomes moot (unless of course you understand completely what that means).
The problem is designating all those who are registered in yeshivot and kolelim as “tora schoalrs’.
They only do so to get out of the army, and who can blame them? You and I don’t want to be in the army if we can avoid it, and neither do those who live in Tel Aviv.
As I have said before, if both sides were interested in a solution, they could sit down and have this solved in about 15 minutes. The problem is that the Charaidim want to keep their gelt, and the seculars are afraid that 10-20 years down the road, any agreement will be reneged on (once Charaidi + Dati become a majority in Jewish Israel), so they feel the need to “integrate” Charaidim.
A solution could look something like this:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/what-is-your-ideal-endgame-in-israel
ZD:
The bigger issue is that many people (nothing to do with frum, Charaidi or purple) have no idea how to budget, save or spend appropriately. People who need shoes go buy shoes (which may be $100+), when they should be spending $30 on shoes and the other $70 on things like food, rent and tuition. I am (nebuch) aware of such individuals, and it is a nebuch, as they don’t have what they need and can’t comprehend why not.
The second point that needs to be made is peer pressure is a very large factor in what some people purchase. I heard recently something about “red soled” shoes. I don’t know why someone would care about such a thing, but if there is pressure to wear them, then someone may buy them no matter the cost.
Finally, there are people who have problems with their feet who need to buy orthopedic or extremely high quality shoes, and it is worth the money spent.
I just heard that BYA girls H.S. in Flatbush canceled the 9th grade bio regent under orders from Hagon R’ A. Schechter Shlita due to apikorsus and other questionable material. I can’t understand why all other yeshivisha schools are not following suit.
This is Superlamdon on Slab.
Because they’re not dealing with a customer base which would put them out of business with a generous return policy. 🙁
Correct. Wal Mart in Monticello had to change their “generous return policy” due to its customer base. A Chillul Shem Shomayim.
I contacted the manufacturer and they sent me a $50 check apologzing for the poor quality.
In that case, don’t mention it here. I can just see them getting a slew of letters.
Article from the OK (Mods please allow). They refused certification.
http://www.kosherspirit.com/Article.asp?Issue=17&Article=219
If I had money, I bought a new pair. If not, my child had a shoe with a detatched bottom that flapped around and let in rain. Then I stopped buying at payless.
I’m sorry to hear that, but I don’t think it to be uncommon (and it has happened to me as well. One pair per year, and live with it).
On the other hand, some people like to feel the ground while they are walking. A few can even tell where they are with their eyes shut (and it comes in handy), just by feeling the street type on their feet. For example, the “toe glove” type shoes were very popular a few years back.
I bought the kiddos Shoes at a more expensive regular shoe store and you know what they were destroyed in 1 week (AND I had the receipt), When i bought them back the store refused to refund or exchange. I had to file a chargeback and complain to the shoe manufacture to get my $50 back. (This was a FRUM store BTW)
Had it been a non-Jewish store, you would have gotten a full refund. 🙁
You should buy name brand shoes, the other ones are bad for your feet. Are “kiddos” like “skechers”?
Will they be offering Electrick Floorbangers? What about the temperature? Freezing I hope, so that their brains work faster.
Mr. Shine can be in charge.
notasheep – Thank you.
I am so moving there
I said maybe. Do some research & get back to us, and we’ll see. It may be more worthwhile to move to Memphis, as it is closer to the source & all that.