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Zahavasdad, it wasn’t economics; it was always difficult. What changed was the level of persecution. The assassination of Czar Alexander in 1881 unleashed a perood of pogroms whose length and ferocity exceeded anything previously experienced by the Jews. It was this new terror, when added to the economic hardshjps, that prompted Jews to ignore the calls of rabbonim to stay and not emigrate to the US.
Schools in New Jersey did as the storm dumped alot more snow there
DY, I’m not claiming to have a source, nor am I paskening for others.
DY , I’m guessing it’s because unlike Joseph telling others what they can’t do, I’m only saying what I would do
Joseph, your concept of mesirah is rooted in Czarist Russi. In the Pale of Settlement, no Jew could get fair treatment in the Russian court system. Conversely, the Beis Dins were effective and empowered to enforce their decisions. Consequently, Jews were forbidden to take another Jew to the governments courts.
Contrast that to what we experience in the U.S. . Civil Court, despite their inadequacies, are not antisemitic and , generally speaking, Jew can get a fair shake .
Beis dins, however, are toothless, powerless and have thier own inadequacies. Their decisions cannot be enforced. I’m sorry but if a frum neighbor is doing something wrong, I’m taking him to civil courtLet’s start with a more practical, achievable solutions. Those lives were lost because they either had nonfunctional fire alarms or no alarms at all.
Every home should have an alarm at each level of the home. They should also have carbon monoxide detectors.Someone who has the chutzpah to violate building and zoning codes and infringe on your property is probably not going to pay attention to a toothless beis din. He’s also not conforming to building permits , if he got one at all.
Please, dont believe that every midrash is fact
. They’re notActually, the website is Joseph’s source, not Rabbi Miller.
Yes, everyone had the right to attend the shiurim and take notes. If you asked 20 attendees who took notes to give you a verbatim description, how many different versions do you think you’d get? Yet, Joseph, and the website, present these tapes as accurate , verbatim transcriptions. Were they actually taped? Did the website have exclusive access? If they have legal rights to the tapes, and expended time and money to create accurate transcriptions, they have a right to control them.
If you disagree, you can always seek out one of those 20 alternative versionsMe12345
There was a famous comedian whose humor was based on making fun of everybody. He once remarked that everone loved his humor unless the joke was about them.
People get offended all too easily.Takes, on the contrary; the place of execution was deliberately set up far from beis din to maximize the time available to halt the execution in the event other evidence surfaced
It should be easy to test. Does the genome of the Germanic people trace back to the middle east/Sinai?
Joseph, most of the boys that i went to yeshiva high school with in the 60s were turned off while we were still in school.
Growing up, Catholic school tuition was so low because many of the teachers were nuns , who weren’t paidHeath, why dio people need access to automatic assault rifles? Do the deer shoot back? I voted for Trump and consider myself to be politically conservative, but this is not a liberal vs conservative issue. Hunters do not need assault rifles of any kind, they should be illegal to own or sell.
Out of town yid. Don’t use a print siddur! Go back and use the scrolls they replaced
Those of you wishing to go back to Sinai, mske sure that you’re under 20 years old so that you can also enter Eretz Yisroel
The talking phenomena has always fascinated me. Lawyers would never dare walk into Federal Court 15 minutes late and shmuz with their buddies as they walk to their seat. Teachers would never allow students to wander the classroom shmoozing.
Others wouldn’t think of walking in late to a shiur and shmooz while the rav is giving the shiur.
Yet many of these same people have no problem walking in late to shul and start greeting people who are already davening. It cuts across the spectrum of yiddishkeit.
I think part of the problem is that most people do not have a good understanding of what the tfilos mean and why Chazal selected them. Each of the brachos in Shmoneh Esreh has a background and a reason as to why chazal selected it. In their haste to start teaching Gemorah, the yeshivas give the tfilos short shrift.
I think that people would talk less if they understood why they were in shulJoseph, are you cherry picking again? Rabbi Heller ( the Tosfos Yom Tov ) also believed in secular learning. He was well versed in secular science with a particular interrst in arithmatic, natural sciences and astronomy. He was also interested in philosophy and works by non Jews. So, if you accept his psak on the cause of the massacres, i assume you accept his views on secular learning
To the mods: is there any valid reason to open and keep open another chalav yisroel vs stam thread?
Litvish, until 1960, everybody wore small brim so please stop with your MO nonsense. They were called snap brim hats. Al pi legend, John Kennedy went hatless at his inauguration , which prompted men to stop wearing hats. If you look at pictures taken of yeshiva bochurs in prewar Poland, they are wearing snapbrims. Although the pictures are black and white, it’s obvious the hats ( as well as jackets and shirts ) are not all black and white
You’re making the founder sound like a full blown Nazi. He was a TEENAGER during the war and was influenced by his German grandparents and the charisma of the Swedish party’s founder. He has apologised repeatedly since it became known in the 1990s.
Joseph, you’re pulling psaks out of context. First of all. Do uou follow all of the psaks of those sfarim or just this one. Second, do you know anyone who holds like Rav Shach that they should not meet more than once in a month?
Baltimoremaven, I looked at tlik’s comment and I don’t see the problem
If you are that easily insulted because not everyone liked your minhagim, then that’s your issue.Joseph, it’s a minhag, not halacha. Until 150 years ago it wasn’t an issue:
A. No telephones
B. No easy transportation between shtetls, especially when they lived more than 20 miles apart.Joseph, why do you care? Looking for a shidduch for a daughter?
Zahavasdad, Lemberg is in Ukraine and was never a german city, either by rule or population
The only sizable german population were german Jews expelled by the Germans in the 1300s and welcomed by King Casimir, who controlled the cityThere have always been fringe conspiracy theorists. The internet only provides a wider platform.
Mrs Plony , I don’t believe yo understand GMO’s. It’s not sed to crossbreed flounders and tomatos.
Take your example of plum and beefsteak tomatos. Let’s say that the plum tomato has a trait you want to incorporate ( disease resistance ) into the beefstake. Historically, farmers had to keep crossbreeding until he got lucky. GMO simply shortens the process .Joseph, what is your source that is has been observed for millennia?
Joseph , i believe you are mistaken about pre war europe. Remember, millions of Jews jad already spent decades in the Soviet Union and many were no longer frum. Also, keep in mind that more and more young Jews had left the shtetls in the 1930s for Warsaw andother metropolitan areas.
CT, then you really weren’t sick.
Joseph, if State regs don’t apply to limudai kodesh, why had the Agudah ( along with the Catholic church ) fought tooth and nail over the years to prevent the fingerprinting of teachers ( currently mandated for public school teachers ) in religious schools?
The shaming has gone on for a long time. In the 5thgrade ( 1960 ) i told my Rebbe that i had davened half of shachris with full kavanah, seeking chizuk. What happened instead was that he brought me to the front of the class and publicly ridiculed me for thinking i had accomplished anything. From then on i went thru the motions. In high school, boys asked halachic questions only to be yelled at, called schutzpanick and worse. By the time freshman year ended they stopped asking and caring by graduation were no longer frum.
Fast forward 35 years; my 7 year old great nephew wasbeing beaten up by his rebbe because he was dozing off at the end of a very long day. He began to hate learning because he associated it with the beatings. The beatings stopped when my neice told the rosh yeshiva that she would go to the precinct and swear out a complaint and have the rebbe arrested and sue the rosh yeshiva.Joseph, you continue to ignore thr point. They consider themselves married and present themselves as being married
The sole pupose of being married by a layman was to collect benefits that an unmarried couple is entitled to but not a married couple. In other words, using halacha to steal is unethical, if not illegal, and behaviour not befitting a frum Jew. Besides, as another postet observed, Social Security is not bound by NY law and would consider them married since that was how they presented themselves and livedJoseph, I’m talking about married people. Noone dosagrees that unmarried people living together don’t forfiet benefits. As usual, you are muddying the water
Joseph, so now it’s ok because goyim do it?
What happened to chukas goyim?There are many things that can technically be done on Shabbos by use of timers ( i.e. turn on a radio ) but we don’t because it violates the spirit of Shabbos and the intent of chazal. So, yes, technically a marriage officiated bya frum layperson is not recognized by the state, it violates the spirit and intent. We are supposed to be and claim to be, at a higher madrega.
The source is in NY Domestic law 25. In addition, there have court cased. In 2009 , a son challenged his mother’s right to manage his father’s estate as they had a Muslim religious ceremony but no marraige license/certificate. The Court ruled that since the marraige met the requirements of Part 25 of the Domestic law and they had lived as man and wife, the marrage was valid.
Joseph, so a kula is ok if it helps you commit fraud. If you are married, you are not entitled to the benefits! Just because you do it in a way that the State might not recognize doesn’t make it kosher.
Joseph, marraige by a rabbi, priest etc is not considered a common law marraige.
Joseph, in NY, a religious marraige conducted by a qualified indivdual and with a ketuba is considered a legal marraige. Failure to notify SSA is fraud.
Joseph, didn’t say it was. But it is illegal to continue to collect Social Security/pension benefits as if they weren’t married
WTP , what people don’t realize is that a religious martaige can be considered a legal marraige, particularly when they present themselves as man and wife. The fraud comes in when they fail to register their marraige.
Actually, according to Wiki, a chinese auction is derived ad a slur against Chinese people. It says that the original name may have been a ” chance ” auction because tickets/chances are thrown into a hat. Over time chance morphed into chinese
DY, the blaclk in Black Friday does not refer to Africansso it is an ineffective comparison. Prior to on line shopping the stores depended on the sales on the Friday after thanksgiving to put them in ” the black ” ( made a profit ) for the year).
Me12355, Shidduchin is one of the exceptions that the Chafetz Chaim makes, provided the following conditions are met :
A.the person making the request must it is for the pirpose of a shidduch
B. The request cannot be made from someone knownto be an enemy of the prospect
C. The response must be carefully thought thru and not exaggerated
D. It is permitte to report only those negative comments that pertain to the shidduch. However,if , for example , the engagement has already taken place and the newinfo is unlikely to break it, you cannot say
E. If the requestor is known to be indiscreet, you cant answer
The Pischei Tshuva holds that it is an avairah to withhold information regarding a shidduchIve been told that lashon hara does not apply tp shiduchim. If you are not permitted to give an honest answer, there is no point to the resume or supplying references.
Joseph, the United States, where Jews are allowed to attend any shul, yeshiva and even incorporate as a political entity ( KJ, New Square ) to practice Judaism as tjeey see fit.
LU, you are missing the point. When an OO synagogue wished mazal tov to a gay couple, CR commentators immediately blamed all MO and pointed a finger at the RCA for not repudiating the mazal tov. Where were your comments in that context? Your defense of Chareidi gedolim over their silence applies to the RCA
Haleivi, my point was that lumdus like Chabadshlucha’s that is based upon the shape of the letters is meaningless. The alphabet shapes we use today are borrowed from Aramaic,. The Torah was originally written in ancient Hebrew, an alphabet that dates back to Sinai and looks nothing like our current Hebrew
He’s not eating the pie, just holding the box.