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I thought that anytime a shul is physically open, anyone is allowed to go in in order to learn or daven.
Some things are better left unsaid in a public forum especially since they are liable to be taken out of context and/or misunderstood and can lead to incorrect impressions of both Rabbanim and Am Yisrael.
LB, sometimes Frum people davka go to catholic colleges since there are less pritzus issues (which is more of a concern than avoda zara issues since the person is much more likely to be affected by them).
Amongst other things, I think they are usually not co-ed which of course, makes a tremendous difference.
Also, one of the big problems in a secular college is that fact that you end up becoming part of a chevra of Jews who are less religious than you are, and Frum Jews are much more likely to be influenced by other Jews (especially religious ones) than they are by Catholics.
And it’s not like you have to take any religion courses. My impression is that you take the same classes you would take in a regular college.
My impression is that the main problem with going to a catholic college is the avoda zara all around. You have the same problem with a catholic hospital.
It seems to me that it may be less of a problem than pritzus. But of course, one should ask a sheilah as they should before attending any college. And anyone who is considering going to college should look into the pitfalls of all 3 options (Jewish, secular, or catholic), and make sure he is aware of all the problems with each option before he makes his decision.
Each option has advantages and disadvantages. Some would say that one is better and others would say another one.
Whichever one someone ultimately chooses, he should make sure that he knows what the problems are and how he can try to avoid them.
Once in Lakewood, I was walking in the rain without an umbrella. An avreich who was driving by threw an umbrella to me.
I thought that was really nice!
A friend of mine was on a date. The boy saw someone he knew and he was embarrassed for the guy to see him, so he held his umbrella over his face.
My friend was like, “Thanks a lot!” (sarcasm).
He goes, “Oh don’t worry. It had nothing to do with you. If I thought you were ugly, I would have held the umbrella in front of you.”.
Sadigurarebbe – that ‘s not the definition used within the Jewish world, although it may be the definition used outside the Jewish world.
The zionist/anti-zionist conflict within the Jewish world is completely different from the zionist/anti-zionist conflict outside the Jewish world.
Within the Jewish world, the issue is that many Frum people have a problem with a government that is not run according to the Torah and may think that it would have been better for the Jews if such a government had never been founded. We certainly don’t think the government has a right to make laws against the Torah.
Regarding the outside world, the issue is that there are many goyim who don’t think the Jews should be ruling themselves. Or they don’t think we should be defending ourselves. Or they think they have a right to tell us what to do.
This comes from anti-semitism, and even most anti-zionist Frum Jews would fight them on this.As far as the rest of the world is concerned, we have a right to self-rule and they have no right to tell us what to do and/or not to let us defend ourselves. Our fight is an internal fight that has to do with wanting to live in a country that is ruled by Torah.
WTP & Mammele – I’m so sorry – I keep mixing you guys up!
Actually, yichud can be more of a problem if the woman is single. If she’s married and her husband is in town, it might not be a problem halachically.
What about something that I learned on the way home from Shul?
I know of a Frum Mary. I’m not sure if she’s American though.
What’s a Homburg hat?
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There’s only been one Joseph for a while.
I’m totally lost
Whoops! Misunderstood WTP’s post.
Yeah, that is a wake-up-call.
oh. I just read the link. I didn’t realize you were just commenting on the previous post.
If you don’t think it was the Ponovitzer Rav who do you think it was? I’ve heard the moshol before, but I don’t remember who said it.
Nomachlokes – Welcome to the Coffee Room! I LOVE your name!
no one – I was responding to Meno’s question.
Emunah with Love and Chicken Soup by Sara Yocheved Rigler.
Okay, so it’s really a biography (of Rebbetzin Henny Machlis, a”h), but it’s the best mussar sefer I have ever read!
Shaar Habitachon in Chovos Halevavos
Yeah, it really was me. My mother said that the camera guy focused on me for several minutes.
I knew nothing about it until I got home.
Maybe it was the other way around. Maybe he said this first and then the moderator remembered (or noticed) the comment and decided to act on it.
Or maybe RebYidd remembered the comment (as she wrote above) and asked the moderators to act on it just so that she could write the above post.
Or maybe Malbim is a moderator.
I wonder if they are allowed to refuse someone because they aren’t Jewish?
Some of the Touro schools are mainly goyim. I think that all of their graduate schools might be mainly goyim. I know the Special Education one is.
LU -“SYAS & JWED”
Health: “I don’t use web sites, but Shadchonim, like Shadcan Mr. Sholom Blatter!”Health, I just noticed your post now. I actually had him in mind when I wrote “and shidduch resumes”. That is probably my main source of shidduch resumes.
I know a Frum Smith.
I know a Jewish Jones, but her father is a goy.
Nechomah – it was a Chassidish man in a Chassidish neighborhood.
Interesting:
Three Possibilites I can think of:1. Techiyas hamaisim started.
2. Someone just joined and (without realizing it) signed up using a User Name that has been used before, and for some reason the system accidentally allowed that to happen.
3. There was a mistake in the article linked.4. You misread the date of his post.
There are a lot of girls who are more than a shtickle zionistic who go to shadchanim.
I don’t know how old you are, but if you’re in the right age bracket, do you have any Stern connections?
Sometimes we do have to erase and Hashem allows us to. Boruch Hashem!
Randomex, maybe they (posters who wish to respond) can do whatever you did, and if the mods see fit to move their posts as well, they will.
The main problem would have been that no one would have known your post was there since they wouldn’t have thought to check a closed thread, but now you took care of that.
And I am assuming (hoping?) that your link (which I haven’t yet read) takes care of undoing the possible problems inherent in the thread.
Years ago, there was a mass Tefillah at the Kosel for something – I no longer remember what. My mother couldn’t go, so she watched it on a machine (I don’t want to say the “t” word) and she saw me davening at the Kosel.
Yeah thanks. I didn’t even realize you existed – I only knew about 25, 29, and 100. How many others are there that I don’t know about?
“There was nothing left to be said and the mod was afraid people would say it”
RebYidd23
I love the way my smileys come out now! 🙂
Definitely an improvement over boxes! 🙂
Thanks mw13! When I saw Winnie the Pooh’s post in response to Avi, I had to comment on the tzitzis comparison. It was too good of a “chap” to pass up.
When Frum people talk about Zionism, they don’t usually mean either one or the other exactly although it probably has some aspect of both.
They are talking about some type of Religious Zionism which of course can mean many things.
At the smallest level, it would probably mean celebrating Yom HaAtzmaut in some fashion. At a larger level, it can mean sending ones’ sons to the army and/or daughters to Sheirut Leumi, it can reflect itself in the types of schools one sends his kids to and the type of Rabbanim he follows and the types of neighborhood he would live in.“I think we need more Shidduchim and Zionism threads.”
I agree with the first part. Only they should be different from the ones we’ve had till now.
Mod 100 – looks like you forgot to put your coffee down before posting 🙂
hadn’t realized at first that that’s what you meant.
Yes, it would be.Also, sometimes I’m hesitant to copy/paste because it makes the post too long and/or too messy, but if it was set up automatically, it could be done in a way that avoids that issue to some extent, since the quoted part would probably look very different from the rest of the post.
Uh.. cool.. but I think he may have been referring to someone else with the same name.
Even better, it should show up in a different color until you’ve read it.
I don’t know if you ever saw those posts or if you did, if you understood what it was in reference to. I couldn’t write it next to yours because the thread was closed.
On a similar note, when men have curly payos is it because they curled them or is it natural?
I’m just curious because I thought I saw someone curling his peyos at the busstop the other day, and I wasn’t sure if that’s a common thing or just a nervous habit (like the way I play with my hair without thinking about it).
What they should do is put something in the system that lets you know how many posts in each thread have not yet been read by you.
Then you can figure out if there’s an earlier post you should read.
Maybe what DY meant was that the system should do it automatically when you hit reply to a particular post.
I don’t think it’s just semantics.
I thought (and still think) that he was trying to imply that someone who is not a zionist doesn’t care about EY.
Is that what you meant, Chaver? If not, please clarify, because it does sound like it.Thanks!