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Tolkien’s letter #192 clearly says Frodo deserved the “honour”, as he did his utmost.
I will put on a pair as soon as my rav does. I almost bought a pair years ago, and was talked out of it.
The dunkin donuts in five towns has a goy turn on the fire. Ditto in Baltimore. My rav says bishul akum.
They rely on either frying isn’t bishul or it’s not oleh al shulchan melachim. Ask your lor.
Hello to all of the above. I would also like to add hello to Syag lechochma, ICOT, yitaningwat and hello99. I am inspired by syag’s and Icot’s levelheadedness and kindly souls, and the lomdus and knowledge displayed by yitaningwat and hello99. Also a hello to all the mods, who freely give of their own time to make this a better place.
Midwesterner, I agree with you in that I wish they weren’t necessary, and that the place could go back to the cozy feeling it used to have. I also wish that my children wouldn’t have had to have safety presentations in their schools to learn how to deal with strangers. I used to trust in the coziness here, and learned my lesson the hard way, as did many others. Now I’m trying to prevent others from making the same mistake. If we had verified sn’s we could go back to being cozy, but until then the coziness is a mirage. It’s like a shul in boro park where any child abuser with a white shirt, beard, and payos can walk in, look alike a tzaddik, and offer your kids candy. People can post personal information if they wish. I just want them to know the dangers of doing so.
This also helps drive home that kol davar besefer nichtav. We think we say something and it disappears. But in Heaven, it’s all written and published.
Be the example to your kids. Always smile at the, hug them, and leave work issues at the door. Tell your kids how much you love them and they love each other. They will buy it. Kids are naturally happy.
Swiped from yated.com:
A few of the men walking with the Rov ventured to give voice to their thoughts. Perhaps it is because children lack a maturity which brings with it a more solemn outlook on life, one suggested. Perhaps it is because they have few responsibilities, proposed another.
The Rov shook his head, indicating his disagreement with these suggestions. Realizing that the Rov wanted to teach them something, the talmidim stopped and waited to see what he would say. Why, indeed, are children normally in a happy and carefree state of mind?
As we grow older, the Brisker Rov explained, we complicate matters. We erect mechitzos, barriers, and we bury our natural state under layers of self-imposed encumbrances (such as jealousy, desire, greed and doubt). Children, who have not yet complicated their lives with external baggage, are in their natural, purer state.
Avar zmano battul karbano- this thread was already published in country yossi.
As Gandalf said, Frodo was the best one to take up the quest. Was Gandalf wrong?
Many happy returns!
I have a relative with a 30 Marcheshvan birthday, so he’s only half as old as he should be.
The shomer shabbos ben torah trollusk is back. The CR is complete. Welcome back, bar shatya!
Does the mashgiach turn on the fire at the chicago dunkin’ donuts, or are the donuts bishul akum?
Frodo. Samwise comes in second, although Bilbo will get his moment in the sun soon.
This is the favorite hobbits thread right?
I thought I remembered something on this. I took a peak at my darchei halacha cheat sefer from my semicha days. He has a whole pilpul on bittul sakanah lechatchila. He has a pischei teshuva and s shu”t shoel umeishiv on th allowed side, and a yad yehuda on the assur side. He is machria that by a doraysa like fish-meat (not sure why this is deoraysah but I read it quickly as I was in a rush) we should be machmir and by a derabanan like mayim giluim (again, not sure why this is derabanan) we can be meikel. Good question to ask my lor.
What’s the school’s internet policy?
PBA, how did you allow a thread like this to get started by someone other than yourself?
YW Editor, congratulations on finding a new way to both monetize content as per the TOS and get new content contributors! Ka-ching!
It was probably the mechalel shabbos troll thread. 🙂
This is what I’ve been saying all along- the cozy atmosphere here is a mirage. Between stalkers/harassers,trolls, and now the thread appearing in print, one really needs to be careful here. I find it a good thing, in that the knowledge that the bittul zman may end up in print may cut down on troll posts. Furthermore, it might bring in fresh blood into the CR, creating more invigorating discussions and diluting the trolls.
Sam2, the articles in the secular Jewish press and the MO Jewish blogs clearly indicated that many students agreed with the beacon. And the mishkav-zacharnik clearly indicated that many at YU agreed with him. So your claims of only 10% seem a bit far-fetched. If not a a majority, it’s clearly a vocal minority. Whatever the ratio is, it’s large enough to negatively affect one’s ruchnius.
I also just submitted a query on gelighting.com. I did read through some of their catalog, and I see that the very small fluorescents still use preheat, but the bigger bulbs use the instant start, which don’t seem to need such high heat to start the ion flow. I didn’t mention any halachic nafka minas in the query in order to ensure mesiach lefi tumo.
MIT is offering online certifications for a fraction of the price of attending MIT, and without the atmosphere of college.
As I said, I know perfectly well what he was trying to do. But in a case like this, where it is apt to be misunderstood, he should have made sure he was super-clear beforehand what is and what is not happening. And he should have made sure none of the speakers were active mishkav-zacharniks. This was a slow-motion train wreck that anyone could have predicted.
The writers of the Beacon claim support from a lot of YU students for their writings. You can’t just brush it off with “nobody listens to them anyway”. It is clear they thought they were representing a large part of the student body. And in fact, this same student body cheered on an active mishkav-zacharnik and gave him support. Finally, the atmosphere inevitably affects people. A school in which a large part of the student body thinks mishkav zachar and gross violations of halacha are ok is clearly not for a frum person. Saul Lieberman was Orthodox too, but nobody would have said to go to JTS.
Mistakes happen. Some of them, like YU, endure for years.
Estoy aqui.
This topic requires more research than I can do during a work week. What I have been mevarer so far is that the filaments you refer to are the same ones used as the starter, in order to get the electricity to flow through gas. And not all hot cathodes are the same, and not all thermionic emissions are the same.In the interim I will trust my rav on this. That said, I have asked a frum friend who is on break from his doctorate and loves to tinker with a soldering gun and circuits to be mevarer the metzius for me. I will iy”h have more time over the weekend to do more reading on the topic. I will also report what my friend says. I have asked him to examine a cfl because those are the bulbs used today, until LED bulbs become practical.
If you have a babysitter in your home and you never check up on her, you can bet your house is treif.
So this active mishkav zacharnik says he was cheered on and given support for his activities. Is he lying?
furthermore, even if the press got it all wrong, the bottom line is the way the event was understood publicly. And publicly, it was understood as the Orthodox approving mishkav zachar like a YCT grad.
I know what Rabbi Blau was trying to do. He’s Orthodox. he was trying to do a public event to publicize what Rabbi Aharon Feldman writes in his letter- you can have feelings and as long as you dont’ act on them, you’re still a frum Jew.
He failed spectacularly. Read the press coverage from jpost, Jewish star, and allthe blogs- what he ended up doing was giving the impression that’s it’s ok to be a practicing mishkav-zacharnik. And the entire crowd cheered these people on. It was a massive chilul Hashem, and it should have been done much more carefully. Having a practicing mishkav-zacharnik getting cheered on by the crowd accomplished exactly this. Someone should have made sure the guest list didn’t include this guy. Again, this just doesn’t happen in Touro. Rabbi Blau didn’t tell the entire crowd to cheer on a practicing mishkav-zacharnik. but they did, which says a lot about YU.
The defenders of the Beacon say they are just publishing things which are relevant to the average YU person instead of sweeping it under the carpet and pretending it’s not true. This is what I’ve seen on various Jewish news sites and blogs. The fact that they had this “hava amina”, and it’s well-supported by the anonymous interviewees in the Jewish news articles, makes the loud protests irrelevant. The fact that there are many on the student body who are accepting of these breaches makes the whole place a sakanah for a frum Jew.
Rav Hershel Shachter may be a tzaddik and a major talmid chochom, but if the price of hearing his shiur is YU then no thank you. Touro or Naaleh.
Avenue J men’s shoes minyan…must be a great joke/slogan in there somewhere…. Help your souls and soles?
The song itself was meant to be somewhat secular- it is about someone who used to celebrate hannukah but no longer does. If it works to get people sentimental about hannukah, kol hakavod. But the song isn’t geared for frum people.
If fluorescent bulbs operated at this temperature, why do many of them not work below 50F? And why can you put your hand on a fluorescent bulb without getting a burn?
Both had mentions in the Books of the Maccabees, which were turned into the Artscroll Chanukah.
🙂
This event was what I was referring to, not the club that was inside some YU affiliate building years ago. This was YU itself, putting out a public show of support for toevah. And while many of its roshei yeshiva denounced it, this would never happen at Touro.
But as everyone is admitting, Rabbi blau was snookered into doing this conference that legitimized toeva in the Jewish community. the Beacon legitimized negiah and worse in the MO community. While the frummer elements in YU denounce these things, it’s hard to go to YU and NOT be affected by other parts of YU. Touro doesn’t have these events.
You can tell your help not to bring outside food in, but if you don’t check up on them they WILL violate it. Without checking up, there is no mirsas.
This link, page 7, says that on preheat, the contacts are heated to 1750 degrees for a few seconds. That said, this does NOT apply to newer bulbs. So as far as I can google, my rav is correct on this- newer bulbs do not use the preheat method.
http://www.unvlt.com/literature/navigator/pdfs/Navigator.pdf
howstuffworks.com and other websites implied that today’s bulbs don’t use a hot filament as a starter anymore. They have something that works quickly to excite the gas and shuts off. Another webpage says today’s instant-on bulbs have the starter preheated, so turning it off and on just moves the circuit, so turning it on doesn’t generate the heat that early fluorescents did by turning it on. Where did you get the K temperature you quoted? I saw that for an incandescent tungsten filament, but not for a fluorescent starter.
Hello99, the question is how hot does the metal get. I spoke to him Friday night, and he told me that the old bulbs had a heat element, but because that wasn’t the main part of the bulb it was a davar sh’eino miskaven, and therefore it would be assur for a Jew but you could ask a goy. He told me that today’s bulbs don’t get as hot, so he believes that it would only be a derabanan even for a Jew to turn it on. I will iy”h try doing my own research on this. It’s only bishul if it becomes red-hot like a filament. If it gets hot but doesn’t glow it’s not bishul.
I checked the dirshu M”b but nothing on the kids and holding them by light bulbs- I checked both 334 and 343.
My rav says to say it yourself after davening but without putting your head down to avoid lo sisgodedu.
Certain gedolim were makpid that their children only have one name. My rav has children with 2 names, so I’m not. I have seen halachos that you can name a girl after a boy but not a boy after a girl. Can’t quote a source for it now, but I did see it. As always, ask your lor.
hello99,there is magen avraham as well who argues on Rabi Akiva Eiger, by Chametz. I forget where, but my darchei halacha cheat sefer, in the I’ll try to hunt it down.
Many people daven this way, and not just for shemonah esrei. So it better not be sheker.