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People who refuse to acknowledge that there’s a difference between halacha and chumra.

Maybe find a Hebrew equivalent?

let us know what you decide and maybe you will convince me to move with my family once you get there!

If HKBH convinced you to eat only kosher food, and keep Shabbat, and wear tzitzit, and daven every day, then why are you not already convinced to make aliyah? It all comes from the exact same Torah!

Teenage girls having fun is assur. You should be sitting at home until the Tatte brings home your true zvug.

Many years ago, a young couple in our apartment complex lost an infant. (I don’t remember all the details; I think the baby was sick for a few days before s/he died.) The funeral was on erev Yom Kippur. I, personally, had a very hard time understanding this. After davening that night, I went over to the Rav, and in tears, I asked him to explain it to me. I just didn’t understand how Hashem could take a baby.

He answered me by asking if I thought that parents would regret even one second of having their precious child with them in this world, had they known what was coming. Of course not, they treasured every second they did have. So, that still doesn’t explain why Hashem did what he did, but we can’t know that. But we can take comfort in the fact that the parents were able to treasure their baby, even for just a few days, even for just a few hours.

This is standard for electronic items. And Walmart has the same policy for these items as well.

During Kaddish one is not allowed to talk (duh) but . . . one must stand silently and listen intently to the words and answer the appropriate responses.

Sfardim do not stand for Kaddish (unless they are saying it).

A shul is NOT allowed to skip tachnun when there is a bris earlier that day in the same shul . . .

It depends on what the Rav of the shul says. Our Rav says all minyanim skip Tachanun on the day a brit is held in the shule. I have never asked him his sources for this, but since he knows halacha forwards and backwards, I trust he has sources to rely upon.

Yanky55 says:

You’re way off base in terms of nusach. MOST people correctly use the nusach of Shabbos Mincha for Avos as well.

Actually, you’re way off base according to what I learned, and I learned nusach from a well repsected Rav who learned it in pre-Chorban Europe. He quite emphatically said – many times – the correct nusach for Shabbat mincha is used for Kaddish before the Amidah, and picks up again with Ata Kadosh (nusach Sefard) or L’dor va’dor (nusach Ashkanaz). It is not used for Avot.

Reading some of the posts here again reinforces why each person should have a Rav to ask, and not rely on the “poskim” who inhabit the CR. A Rav is able to see and interpret shades of gray within black and white, while several of the posters here obviously can’t.

Perhaps one day they will learn that lesson.

I also don’t have a perfect family – I have non-Jewish relatives. But many of their kids are halachically Jewish. The Wolf is undeniably correct in what he wrote here.

When I used to be a watch commander with the NWCP in Baltimore, I would ride around the Park Heights Agudah with the officer specifically so he could ticket all the cars that were blocking driveways. It was usually 3 or 4 a night. It would get me so angry that men thought it was more important to leave their cars wherever they wanted so they could run in for a minyan. (Not to mention the chillul Hashem when the non-Jewish officer saw this.)

And of course, I didn’t even mention Krembo cake . . .

Sacrilege, I know when we used to shop at Trader Joes they had a list of all the hechsherim on products in the store, which organization they were from, and a contact name and phone number for each one. Ask at the store, maybe they still do this.

I LOVED going to Trader Joes. They had the best chocolate non-fat yougurt – I used to buy it by the case! (It wasn’t cholov yisrael.)

I’m missing the point. Are you saying it’s impossible for any man to sit next to a woman on a bus or subway and not have lustful thoughts? Are you saying that seating on every bus needs to be gender separated?

These people need help locking them up in jail is not a soulution. Why cant there be a rehab center where they can get help? Lock them up but as long as they dont get help they are not going to stop doing what they are doing.

Then lock them up and throw away the key. I wouldn’t want a molester anywhere near my children, even if he’s been “rehabilitated.”

Every week, I hear the cry from my wife after havdala: “Don’t eat the leftovers, they’re for tomorrow night!” I myself usually make myself some tuna fish or a deli sandwich, depending on what’s available.

Simcha613:

. . . but is that a reason not to have a tefilah for the men who are putting their lives on the line to protect Klal Yisroel and Eretz Yisroel?

And women, too.

HaKatan:

But history has shown what a disaster the whole experiment has been and continues to be despite the many yeshivos, kosel access, etc.

So don’t set foot there. Don’t come, because chas v’shalom you should spend money that would benefit anything in Israel. And what are you basing this marvelous revision of history on?

Darchei Noam:

As far as utilizing zionist infrastructure, the zionists have made it impossible to not utilize it if you live or go to E. Yisroel. And Torah yidden have been living in E. Yisroel before the zionists, and do not have to leave because the zionists contaminated the holy land.

Wow, I’ve never been called a contaminator before. I guess there’s a first time for everything.

By the way, MW13, both of the shules I used to attend in Baltimore made a mi shebayrach every week for the U.S. armed forces, in addition to the one made for the U.S. government.

So what will each of you do after 120 years, when HKB”H asks you why you didn’t live in E”Y? What excuse will you have? What will you answer?

I’ll bet if living here was a chumra, there would be a lot more aliyah.

Ok, ok, I made a slight mistake – I meant a kid under bar mitzva getting gelila.

Cut me some slack, ok?

Emoticon613, I believe in order to teach in Israel you must be licensed through Misrad HaChinuch.

Maybe we should start an Allan Sherman Appreciation thread. I have all these songs (and more) on my MP3 player.

Halva. It is so good!

I heard the halacha about not kissing children in shule many years ago, so I stopped. Unfortunately, the person who came over and told me about this was a big talker throughout davening. I was a bit chutzpadik, and told him I would stop kissing my children in shule when he would stop talking through davening. I kept my end of the bargain, but I don’t know if he ever did or not.

But it’s still NOT Eretz Yisrael, no matter how many ” Yeshivos, Botei Medroshim, Botei Knessiyos, Chesed organizations (Hatzolah, Shomrim, Chaveirim, countless Bikur Cholim, Tzedakah organizations, Gemachim, health services, etc.), Roshei Yeshivos, Rebbe’s, Gedolim, holocaust survivors, and so many Shomrei Torah U’Mitzvos all over the place” it has.

I saw someone who claimed to have a college degree, but didn’t. He was hired, and fired two weeks later when he couldn’t produce a degree or transcript.

Remember, that often you will have to fill out an application in addition to submitting a resume. When you complete the application, there is usually a line at the end where you sign, and it says something about everything on the application being true.

“When I believe my and my family’s yiddishkeit will not suffer tremendously due to moving to EY, I hope I will do so.”

Suffer? By living a mitzva?

Suffer how? There’s no question that mitzvot count fully here; you can’t say the same about living in chu”l. It’s no different than anything else – things you work at don’t suffer.