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  • in reply to: The infamous club at YU – gone? #2119964
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    In our chasiddish yeshivas in my time they held that one should rather go to public school.

    in reply to: The infamous club at YU – gone? #2119790
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    These clubs will dissolve automatically if there is no attendance. The schools should teach their detriment.

    in reply to: Thank you for your love, best wishes and prayers #2119747
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    BDE, May Hashem console you among other mourners of Tzion and Jerusalem by bringing Meshiach with the redemption and know no more sorrows.

    in reply to: WHY DO WE KEEP FIGHTING? #2119738
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    There is a benefit in milchamto shel Torah. It helped the Beis Hillel through allowing the Beis Shamai to come first because of their humility. They arrived to the truth by seeing the other side and not being blinded by tunnel vision, seeing only one side of an argument. Being humble, we will admit when we are wrong creating peace,

    in reply to: Not Happy #2119676
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    Sam, it is emunah and bitachon as the Ramban’s sefer not in reverse. Emunah leads to bitachon not vice versa as in English, faith and trust.

    in reply to: Goodbye Fauci, Democrat Operative, Destroyer of America #2119669
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    Covid is the opposite of kavod. Who runs towards covid, it will run after one and who runs away from covid, it will run away from one whereas kavod when running towards it, it will run away but when running away, it will run towards one.

    in reply to: Commemorating the 60th Yohr Tzeit of Rav Yonasan Steiff Zt”l #2119512
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    In the story above there are two errors. One a grammatical error, should be, who gave him an incantation. Two, a spelling error, should be, threw him out. The 64th yahrzeit will be the 9th of Elul, Monday Sept 5. The young man, validated by Mrs. Esther Bleier above, was my rebbi at Adas Yereim, Wiener Yeshiva, Rav Holtzer ztz’l.

    in reply to: Goodbye Fauci, Democrat Operative, Destroyer of America #2119460
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    I want to make my statement above stronger. Dr. Fauci can give the ‘best’ advice but people will die ch’v of he is not listened to. It is interesting that ‘listen’ and ‘silent’ have the same letters. One must be silent to listen.

    in reply to: If you’re curious about the board game “Bavli,” here you go #2119450
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    Go to the website marbitz dot com the play a gemora game like gemora tutor to reinforce the gemora expressions, idioms.

    in reply to: Goodbye Fauci, Democrat Operative, Destroyer of America #2119448
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    The more often we scrutinize our actions in the year, the easier it is at the end of the year as the loan will be paid up.

    in reply to: Goodbye Fauci, Democrat Operative, Destroyer of America #2119431
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    Sam Klein, obviously we should do teshuva but it does not mean that we should dig our own grave as in the Midbar without listening to advice how to protect ourselves. You always encourage people to do teshuva but do you do teshuva? בכל עת יהי-ה בגדיך לבנים, we should not need a wakeup call to keep our cloth constantly white. The Dubner Maggid explains that teshuva is like the payoff of an installment loan. Some people account for their actions every night others every week end or month end and others once a year. The importance is that by the next year the loan should be paid.

    in reply to: Not Happy #2119425
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    Keep Rebbi Nachum Gam Zu’s saying always in mind, גם זו לטובה, this is also for the better. It could have been worse. Emphasize the positive. כל מה דעבד רחמנא לטב עבד, everything Hashem does is for the good. The Chasam Sofer interprets the pasuk וראית את אחרי ופני לא יראו. We don’t see the big picture. We see things from hindsight. איזהו עשיר השמח בחלקו, the truly rich person is happy with their lot.

    in reply to: Goodbye Fauci, Democrat Operative, Destroyer of America #2119318
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    Fauci might give the right advice but if he is not listened to, people will die.

    in reply to: the zeide R’ zushe #2118911
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    It is not the same to be a tzadik ben tzadik where one has to work hard to live up to it and then he has double zechusim. The Mayanei shel Torah brings the Rebbi Meir from Premislan who says זה א-לי ואנוהו if a person recognizes his own G-d is beautiful but yichus G-d of my father might bring to gaive, haughtiness.

    in reply to: No torah no jewish state #2118871
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    Learning between mincha and maariv might be based to learn day and night which ben hashmosas might satisfy as well as learning at dawn.

    in reply to: Relating the Tisha B’av message from Hashem in Today’s generation #2118784
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    Through the Shechina which we can feel even if we don’t understand it. We should make Tikun Chatzos. Before I sit on a chair I say it.

    in reply to: BTL degrees #2118741
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    AAQ, PhD in what?

    in reply to: the zeide R’ zushe #2118708
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    My father had a favorite saying in yiddish, ob es ist bashert tzu tantzen, tantz man, when it is fated to dance, one dances. It is based on a story where the brothers spent over night in a motel. Their room was located next to the bar. A drunken soldier, being in a good mood, picked one of them up from the bed and started to dance with him. He periodically would do this. Eventually he had enough and he told his brother to change places, figuring that as he was dancing with him, he will continue dancing but now with his brother. When the soldier came back, he said, I danced enough with you so I will dance with him. He ended up dancing with the same brother, so he said the above saying.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2118658
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    Moish, you yourself still are not sure if Syag is a woman, so what are you talking about? I don’t see their personality revealed but you have revealed yours. Probably a bachur who is not sure about himself. You have not shown any halacha that this is an issur. Over here we discuss ‘gender neutral’ topics.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2118645
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    Mosh26, are you a Rav? If not, don’t tell people what to do. Your own reference about talking to the opposite gender indicated it is ok as no flirtation is allowed here where even her voice quoted from the Beis Shmuel is not a problem. So if you are unhappy and have a problem, no one wants to hear your views and get off this platform. As pointed out the mods are available to make sure that no private and personnel information is conveyed. I think you are speaking shtusim and lakshen as כל הפוסל במומו פוסל, one faults with his own faults. The women over here communicate just as men where their views are gender neutral. Only you care if the communicator is a woman or man and no one else, so it looks like you have a problem. I don’t ask anyone because I don’t think it is a shaila. I will tell you a story that my father a’h told me. A Rav gave a drasha about the issur of bowling. Someone who wanted the Rav to see what he is talking about took him to a bowling alley and showed him how it is played by throwing the ball and knocking down the pins. The Rav said this is a game but not bowling. When asking a shaila, one must tell the Rav the full circumstances how people on the CR mostly don’t know each other to whom they are talking to by writing in public and the mods (supervisors) don’t allow any private and personnel information as I quoted by the policy and principles that have been instituted here for the communicators by threatening them to be booted off.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2118597
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    Is there yichud by a doctor or he is tarid bemelachto, busy in his work, if no nurse is available?

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2118600
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    Don’t make fun. It applies to יורה יורה ידין ידין which I don’t have.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2118601
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    About Rav, Shmuel etc. is said that an additional title would not have done them justice. By adding we diminish.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2118602
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    I think it comes from Rebbe R’ Yonasan Eubshutz.

    in reply to: No torah no jewish state #2118539
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    Maaser kesafim is a minhag and not a chiyuv, rewarded well. The Dubner Maggid says that there was question above, why Hashem gives one more than kadei chayov, needed for survival? So Hashem said, I will give them ten times as much to be able to give maaser required for survival. If one does not give maaser, he will only get what is needed for his survival. This is what it says עשר בשביל שתתעשר, give maaser to become rich.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2118535
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    Avira, there was a person like you called e.e. cummings, an American poet, who became famous for not using any capital letters.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2118488
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    Avira, did you look at my post reply #2118409 above?

    in reply to: what advice do u wish you’d have received when you were younger? #2118529
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    The Beis Elokim says that Meshiach is not coming because the majority has to ask for it. Marry for money usually does not work as the parties are not compatible.

    in reply to: No torah no jewish state #2118479
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    AAQ, the Rambam above becomes questionable when when we have Non-Euclidean geometry and Copernican astronomy.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2118443
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    Should be above Moreinu Horav Reb or Morah Moreinu Horav Reb.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2118441
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    I will quote the rules posted by the mods which should eliminate the problems discussed.

    Personal Info

    1 – Please don’t try to pry out personal information. Any questions or comments directed towards trying to “figure out” a blogger’s identity will not be tolerated.

    2 – Personal email addresses or websites will not be published. Posts that ask others to meet them at “Plonis” will not be approved. Should a blogger continuously try to pry personal information from others, he/she will be booted from YWN

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2118409
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    Avira, I will try to justify why Talmidei Chachomim’s name should be capitalized. There is a midrash peliah ויאמינו בה’ ובמשה עבדו – אם במשה האמינו בה’ לא כ’ש אם כן למה נאמר במשה שכל המאמין בת’ח כאלו מאמין בהקב’ה
    it should have said that Hashem is the obvious? No, the talmidei chachomim are the obvious as their strength emanates from Hashem. Similarly, Shimon Hamosini did not need to derive to fear a talmid chacham as that was obvious for him. However, for Rebbi Akiva, who hated originally talmidei chachamim, it was not so obvious. So if we capitalize Hashem, we should also capitalize the name of talmidei chachamim.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2118385
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    I think that the CR is ‘not’ yichud under any condition as it is ‘public’ and the mods will ‘deter’ any personnel communication. Therefore it is ‘not’ assur as the OP perceives.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2118383
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    When writing to each other is not really yichud as it is different than personnel private mingling where only the often communication creates the friendship to want a personnel meeting.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2118262
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    You are right. In English there is no respect. The rebbi would be called you so we have to speak to him in third person. In Hungarian the greeting for the elderly is the Hungarian equivalent to, I kiss your hand. I call myself Reb Eliezer to try to indicate that the elderly should not be called on their first name. When one is called up by us to the Torah will be called as Reb ben Reb and Habochar and the Rav, Moreinu or Morah Moreinu.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2118227
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    In English capitalizing is the way to give respect whereas in Hebrew one uses some extra words of praise. The RMA in the first teshuva says, לכבוד יתברך ויתרומם לפי מעלת מדרגתו.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2118215
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    When writing in private to each other, one might create a rendezvous, wanting to meet each other.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2118170
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    AAQ, I agree.

    in reply to: No torah no jewish state #2118151
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    Look at the Rambam Hilchas Kiddush Hachodesh (17, 24) where he says that by Mathematics and Astronomy we can rely on non-Jewish Greek sources as the truth proven cannot be denied.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2118147
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    Yes, it might be but the CR is public. Writing is better than talking.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2118113
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    Avira, proper names specially of gedolim should be capitalized.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2118041
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    ujm, your criteria might be a yichud problem as it might be done in private whereas over here communication is in the open.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2118038
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    The svara is, if there is a stipulation that there will not be a discussion about each others family and private matters but business and politics, there is no problem as the ruling of kol beisha discussed above. The woman in her discussion is seen as a man. We don’t know what the gender is and women are asked as the men not to reveal their gender. No one knew that I was a man until I revealed it and maybe I should not have.
    Moish26 gave a reference above whether permitted to talk to another gender who says, ‘It is permitted for a man to talk to a woman regarding work or business related subjects [serious and to the point conversations’. This has a reference: See Beis Shmuel 21/4 “However hearing her voice during speech is permitted”; There is no prohibition found in Poskim regarding interaction with a woman for business related matters or other everyday activity, and so is the custom even amongst G-d fearing Jews to have work conversations with women when necessary.
    Over here it does not say they don’t know each other, so it says when necessary.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2117925
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    Should be עם האשה with the woman who is recognized as his wife.

    in reply to: BTL degrees #2117928
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    CS, what was your major?

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2117907
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    Since you don’t read I must repeat what I wrote:
    What is says אל תרבה שיחה עם אשה, don’t speak much with a woman, I don’t think applies if you don’t know her, see her or hear her. Her political views or Torah views will not affect you.
    We have to compare apples to apples and not apples to oranges. The wife the husband recognizes and knows, so must be others. The kal vechamer has a pircha, can be questioned. She will tell what you said about other people to the neighbors which can cause friction.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2117904
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    Someone put one hand in his pants pocket, so he told him to put both hands in there as אין דבר שבערוה פחות משנים. He says about straw hats, der heim hat man gelegt der stroi inter the behamos du legt man es auf die behemas, at home they put the straw under the cattle but over here we put it on top of them.

    in reply to: The coffee room is ussor and I’m trying to make sure people chap #2117819
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    ujm, I think kol isha is worse than here not hearing whom you are mingling with and I indicated that it is mutir, permitted.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2117817
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    A Jewish Press article at:

    https://www.jewishpress. com/review/in-print-review/what-we-owe-the-satmar-rebbe-a-tribute-on-his-40th-yahrzeit/2019/08/24/#:~:text=Next%20Tuesday%2C%20the%2026th%20of%20Av%2C%20will%20mark,yahrzeit%20of%20the%20Satmar%20Rebbe%2C%20Rabbi%20Yoel%20Teitelbaum.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2117813
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    See an article which appeared in WYN:

    Satmar Rebbe’s 29th Yartzheit Today

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