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The steel curtain will shred the cheese.
onegoal: Last time I recall you were in LA. I was in the 1979 blizzard in Chicago, and by April 1980 I had moved to LA!!!
Eruvin. It is difficult. However, widespread computer concepts help me understand Eruvin concepts. There are virtual “dwellers” and virtual “private domains”.
I see that the famous mosherose is doing Yuma. He will learn that normally husbands are supposed to be with their wives. Only because of the stringent “tahara” concerns with the high priest was he separated from his wife for the 7 days before Yom Kippur.
Here in Dallas we had an ice and sleet storm closing all the schools, and now the coldest weather in a decade. Two football teams from Green Bay and Pittsburgh arrived yesterday bringing all this.
When I saw the post title I thought of Democratic Underground, Huffington Post and Move On.
Phew, it is only left handedness!!!
Employees with relevant college degrees generally have more bargaining power against demands for work on Shabbos.
Tomorrow evening it will have been 3 days and an appropriate time to console the Jets fans.
“the Jets already beat the Steelers this season, they also beat the Patriots (twice) who throttled the Steelers.”
This is the proof that not all possible Kal V’Homers can be used!!!
Everyone has a different Alter Heim. It is where one grew up.
I still follow the football team from the Alter Heim, and they just finished the Jets off!!!
The JETS have landed.
Growing up in the 1960’s in an Orthodox community, carefulness in all manners dealing with money was emphasized. Cheating in school was a big no no.
“Chalav Stam? no such a thing”
The thread name is totally dismissive of a Psak that the majority of Orthodox Jews rely upon.
“Josh, are you Joseph?”
We are on opposite ends of the spectrum on most issues.
I may be the anti-Joseph.
“that one must learn after he’s married in kollel”
If that is the reason someone is in Kollel, he should not be there.
If he is there to make a solid accomplishment in learning or prepare for Meleches Kodesh that is another story.
Next Sunday they will run into the Steel Curtain.
A good Shadchan should coach the boy on the appropriate means of transportation based upon the Shadchan’s knowledge of the girl.
For example, with Sacrilege it would be, “Borrow your uncle’s nice car”.
Where experience is minimal, coaching is essential.
Voluntary when you really mean mandatory
“we will be facing Katrinas all over the world”
While there is wide consensus that warming is occurring as you correctly detailed above, no one storm or event can be attributed to this warming.
“The question is what to do about it.”
Some of the proposed solutions which crush personal autonomy and / or threaten Global Economic Depression scare me more than warming itself. We already know what a 10 year long Depression leads to. Dictators and would be dictators love such crises as Global Warming as excuses to more tightly control our lives.
However, there are many common sense actions that can be taken which do not threaten personal autonomy or economic downturn. They will also make the USA less dependent upon the oil that some of the above mentioned dictators control. Yesterday we traded in the gas guzzler.
“Black hole known as the Social Security Trust fund”
Social Security is real and real people have benefited from it.
However, the Trust fund is only an accounting gimmick.
A real Trust Fund can not consist of IOUs issued by the Trustee!!!
Even if the so called “Trust fund” did not exist benefits would still have to be paid out. It would be political suicide for any leader (socialist, democrat, republican or even tea party) to even hint that pay out is at risk.
It comes out that the so called “Trust fund” serves more to protect the rest of the government spending than it serves to protect the beneficiaries!!!
At least for now Obama and the Republicans have put the economy above partisan maneuvering and come up with the compromise that is needed to allow the economy to recover.
Hopefully in 2012 they will be able to fight over who gets credit for the recovery.
Continuing the tax cuts will keep a trillion dollars in capital here in the USA where it can sustain and generate several million real jobs. Else it will move to countries with lower tax rates along with the good jobs. Even socialist Canada has a maximum federal tax rate of only 29%.
The stock market crash in 2000 was far greater than that in 1929, but a 10 year great depression did not ensue.
“1 cow wife to have an 8 cow secretary”
Comparing women is cows is degrading to all women.
There were Charedei Roshei Yeshiva such as Rav Ruderman ZT”L that disagreed with the approach that myfriend outlined above.
If you have a son to send to Yeshiva you must do what is best for him, and not let him become a Korbon for some larger goal.
Onegoal, I checked the prices of those cars, and going to a run of the mill Lexus will be a huge step down!!!
Do you have any “cars” that actually fly?
I really think Beverly Hills needs to spend just a little less on cars, and a little more on teaching their sons and daughters about punctuation and capitalization.
However, your writing style fits in well with the mosherose wing of the YWN.
From the title I thought gambling related material was the subject.
In that regard I will argue that the most stringent approach is needed because there has been a great breakdown in the sense of responsibility regarding money.
Worst is that many of our sons see no obligation to learn how to support their future families.
I did check out the memorial site for the cat. Nothing Jewish about it.
“every Jew must have some familiarity with the reality of the spiritual world in order for him to properly fulfill the Nigla/revealed part of the Torah”
Spiritual concepts that are in Tanach, Mishnayos and Gemara are part of the Nigla.
However, there needs to be a sequence to learning.
Chapter 11 of Sanhedrin should not be the first Torah someone learns.
There are strong reasons 8 Masechta’s (Tractates) are focused upon in the Yeshivish world. Berachos is not one of then.
“give up my car to live in Eretz Yisroel’
I have identified a “car” that can reach Israel – Gulfstream G650!!!
According to this we should be able to use Hamentashin filled with fruit based jelly or preserves?
Chelm had the internet before Al Gore “invented” it for everyone else.
Based upon this thread Chelm is now in the US, and really should be called New Chelm.
“a new economic order”
Previously Torah was never supported by MOFES.
This creates the emphasis on the “spiritual experience” instead of actually having to know what one learned.
Many in the Charedei world put a much greater emphasis on actually knowing what one learns. Mifal HaShas is a strong example.
The amount of outside knowledge needed to fully understand Torah and make Torah that which can fully guide our lives is enormous. If we so completely block out outside knowledge from the new generation in the name of purity as the right wingers on this blog want to do, much of the Torah will become meaningless to them when they learn it. Studying which animals are permitted and which are prohibited will be like chanting magical incantations.
“Accordingly, it would be forbidden to eat turkey on Thanksgiving.”
Other Teshuvos have come out that are not as strict.
But according to the Moshe Rose wing of this coffee room, even using Kaylim (utensils) that had come in contact with turkey in the past are prohibited on the fourth Thursday of November.
So right, based upon how you interpret and combine sources: Eruvin, Sukkah and Chulin can not be studied by anyone under age 25.
They will bring a Sefer Torah scroll to you and ask “do you know what it says in here?”
Identify the 24 species of prohibited birds.
Beware of schools that supposedly have a solid secular studies program, but the vast majority of students just “blow it off”.
Actually the goal is to reduce the mesiras nefesh as much as practical. When we first formed as a nation it was one Ben Levi for every 40 Yisraelim. Thereby the one Ben Levi could be supported BeKavood – in an honorable manner.
On the lighter side:
Some hats have such large rims that they must be viewed as a separate roof enclosure, and the wearer can not be considered to be eating in the Succah. I may be way off base on this.
No Matzah from the beginning of Nissan.
No turkey from the beginning of November.
No donuts from the beginning of Kislev.
Chocolate donuts, yum.
If I lived near a Kosher Dunkin Donuts, I would be as big as a linebacker!!!
Requiring professional standards of those who represent themselves as full time learners will greatly enhance Kavod HaTorah.
I am now convinced that WIY is not one of the Moshe Roses on this blog.
On a lighter note, I ran into someone in the Columbia Kollel who is in a 5 to 7 year PhD program. They have to take and pass Qualifying Exams.
“does not forbid a King or a Beit Din from taking your property”
This was only to be used in extremely rare circumstances.
Look how Ahab was punished for abusing this power.
The King could execute anyone for for Mored B’Malchus, which included any act of disrespect or rebellion.
Charliehall, I am sure you would not want to see this power being used routinely.
Everything has limits, including the government.
The amount the king could take in normal circumstances is 1/10.
“the stringencies of modern day Chassidus were not the norm throughout the vast majority of our history.”
I have to concede the first 130 years.
Eruvin 18B
Rabbi Meir says, Adam HaRishon was a Chasid Gadol … for 130 years sat in fasts, separated from.. etc.
But then we have Yaakov Beraishis 29:7 rebuking the shepherds for not working enough.
The responsibility for respect and quiet during davening also falls heavily on the shul leadership. Long MiShebairachs will lead to schmoozing that will carry on after the MiShebairach ends. Our shul has eliminated them and replaced them with pledge cards. Decorum has improved. If the overall Shabbos service approaches 3 hours, the temptation to talk during the repetition of Mussaf becomes overwhelming.
Now, what kind of business is this?
How does such an organization earn any money?
Perhaps this is a non profit organization?
Who is funding this?
“This is a charedi office”
No, at most you can state that they dress in charedi style, just like the old “Kosher style” eateries.
It is the BRAGGING part that is most shocking.
The focus of Kaddish has to be sanctifying G-d’s name in THIS WORLD. This form of sanctification requires 10 men. Most other forms of sanctification do not require the presence of 10 men. Other forms include keeping Mitzvos one is obligated to do, doing acts of kindness and any behavior that enhances the image of those who keep Torah and Mitzvos.
When children sanctify G-d in this world, the parents’ souls gain benefit.
Kaddish is not a prayer for the dead, nor a tool of manipulation of other world.
“He was bragging about his behavior in shul last Friday night.”
Either he is completely ignorant about the meaning of Kaddish or an apostate.
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If this becomes a central driving principal then there needs to be separate coffee rooms for men and women. When Shabbos guests come over separate dining areas for men and women.
There are some great stringencies in the area of tsnius (between husband and wife) that the Mechaber brings down, against which the Remah argues.
“the role of women in the workplace”
Women are forced into the workplace because men do not take seriously the obligation of supporting their families.
In this regard I will be judgmental.
Before one learns any mystical aspect of a Mitzvah, he must know every non mystical detail of that Mitzvah first.
If it is a Rabbinic law, one must know what Biblical law it is to protect.
This is why Kabbalah should only be studied by those already established as strong scholars in the revealed Torah.
I do find plenty of spirituality in the revealed Torah.