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In fairness, it is imperitive that it be pointed out we are talking about a small minority, regarding the above described reprehensible behavior.
In a physical sense. But in a spiritual sense, all too many.
Your Rebbe was telling you (and it isn’t clear you understood him) that you should wear a bakovidik hat and jacket both on dates and of course in shul.
Sefer Ishei Yisrael in the Shu”t section in the back, for one.
Very very true. Children should not have access to these dangers. It is pekuach nefesh mamish.
Isn’t there a defined shiur of X tefochim past the last house in the city?
arc, no its still not “minhug”. Its halacha.
I was touching on a tangentially related issue.
He said “closer” not “exclusively.”
“Why not?”
Because inside the home is concealed by privacy. Isn’t there a Gemorah praising someone (I forget who) who had a tremendously “upscale” inside of his house, while living in a “poor neighborhood” with the outside in shambles?
Mr. Gavra:
Why not? We did so in Mitzrayim, are we to abandon it today??
arc, this isn’t a matter of a “minhug”, but rather a question of a m’doraisa from Sefer Devorim.
And I’d be skeptical of that alleged yekki story, as the Mishna Berura didn’t invent anything but simply transmitted a mesora from thousands of years.
There is no relevance of what Moshe Rabbeinu wore for this purpose. We are required to wear the Jewish uniform of our time.
And make no mistake about it. While the uniform did change over time, there always was and is a Jewish uniform.
But if they dress pritzusdik, they surely aren’t frum. Non-Tznius dress certainly qualifies as undignified. And if they are dressed as a prutza, by definition they are at best selective in their observance.
Technically. But I think we all understand what he means is overly ostentatious, with a standout house that says stare at me from the outside. (The wealth displayed inside the house is not an issue.)
apy: Did you read them?? Some of them clearly say it is assur outright. Rav Kanievsky is one, and I believe the Chazon Ish as well.
rescue, You don’t have to compromise in one area for the other area.
I asked around and found out that the Shulchan Aruch YD 182:1 doesn’t permit it because of v’Lo Yilbash Gever Simlas Ishah (Devarim 22:5 — so it is a m’daraisa prohibition). Rambam Mishneh Torah, Hilchos Avodas Kochavim 12:1 wrote: “Our Sages did not determine the amount of hair which must be left at the corners of our temples. We have heard, however, from our elders that one must leave at least forty hairs.” Rambam Hilchos Avodah Zarah 12:9 wrote: The Torah permits a man to remove hair from other parts of the body (other than the beard or sideburns), e.g. the underarms and Ervah.
Maxwell keeps me going.
Is it assur to trim as well?
I ask since I only want to what’s right and ideal. If I shouldn’t (or if its better not to) trim even, I would like to stop.
Thank You
$28K a year, so a family with 4 or 6 children in the school WILL pay $112,000 or $168,000 tuition per year? I frankly don’t believe that.
What does Mofes stand for (abbreviation)?
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Yeshivish or Chasidish has little to do with appearances. One can wear a color button down shirt and be either Yeshivish or Chasidish or both. A Chosid might wear a suit, tie and “down” hat.
BTW, if Charda”l (CHAReidi DAti Le’mi) means “seriously religious” and “nationalistic Israeli”, by your very definition the “seriously religious” is coming from the chareidi description while the “nationalistic Israeli” is coming from the DAti Le’mi description. When did the term of Charda”l come into vogue? (I know the term Chareidi [at least in the U.S.] only came into vogue in the last 10 years or so. Prior, they were called “Ultra-Orthodox”.)
emoticon: You’re looking at the wrong yeshivaleit. Compare apples to apples.
yechezkel: Very often. My satirical response was exactly to point out the generalizing in the comment I was responding to.
why is a non-harry who wakes up at 5:30 to daven and go to kollel worse than a ‘harry’ who can be seen trying to find the latest minyan maariv possible and then use that as an excuse why he’s home late????
What about Davka?
mbachur: A “frum” person cant go to the beach by definition. (Unless its some unknown separate gender beach where it is completely invisible AND inaccessible to the opposite gender.)
So someone who “never matures” should never get married? Chas V’Shalom! The chiyuv to get married isn’t dependent on anyones feelings of “maturity”. Nor is Chazal’s sagely advice to get married at 18 or younger.
Far far better to get married very young straight out of the Beis Medrash or Beis Yaakov, before the negative influences start creeping in, then to wait to “mature”. Mature in shtuss and negative influences is what’s going to occur. Far more successful are the marriages of those who married very young (i.e. 18), then those who married later.
“So it is apparent that he didnt beleive that there was ever such a thing as Kishuf.”
That interpretation of Rambam doesn’t seem right. The Torah says kishuf existed in Eretz Mitzrayim, when Paroh’s kishuf-machers replicated some of the early maacos Moshe Rabbeinu performed.
tzippi, Marriage should never (as a general rule) be delayed. That’s not me saying that, but Chazal.
Count me in as well, philosopher. Couldn’t agree with you more.
My dear and beloved — blue-shirt donning — brother apushatayid:
I hereby extend an open-invitation to you to visit my shul and receive the Aliya of your choice – in your blue shirt.
Please note, that my opening sentence was “Ask your LOR.” Noting what my LOR said, was merely coincidental and as you saw secondary to the above.
“Why don’t many Jews offer that same hakaras hatov to Medinas Yisro’el?”
Because the medinah had no right to be created. Once they violated halacha ipso facto, they lost any right to recognition by the Torah community.
“but the same freedoms we got with the USA, we got with Medinas Yisro’el”
That’s absolutely incorrect. See how the zionist courts violated innocent father’s and mother’s right to Torah educate their children as their Rabbonim deem proper in Emmanuel, for the most recent of many many examples, and how the zionist court imprisons innocent mothers and fathers for providing a Torah chinuch to their children.
No American court ever threw fathers and mothers in jail for sending their children to the school of their choice.
Yasher Koach!
For marriage people “discriminate” on all sorts of basis’s — i.e. hair color, nationality, wealth, etc. I don’t think it is necessarily unreasonable to discriminate based on religious background/history for purposes of marriage.
My above point is specific to the issue of shidduchim.
WolfishMusings: Wholesale cost and market prices are two separate issues. Often in a capitalistic society market prices are out of whack (i.e. far higher) than wholesale cost.
The halachic price limits are based on costs, not necessarily market prices.
apushusitayid, which Rov? I think he is a big Tzaddik.
If “frum” people would buy pork if it were in kosher groceries, that is no heter for a kosher grocer to carry it. Same with pritzus.
apushatayid:
Indeed, hashkofos are always important.
You should be following the spirit of the law, not just the letter of the law.
Ask your LOR.
Per my LOR, it includes a white shirt.
ch123, nevertheless tochocho is an obligation to give, not an option.
Wolfish: Its more than theory; its practice. Even a Ben Sorer — who is UNDER 13, is said (according to one) to have happened. THAT was rare. A 13 year old receiving the maximum penalty of Beis Din, there is no basis to say it was any rarer than a 50 year old. If a 13 or 50 year old was Mechallel Shabbos (with the requisite attachments — i.e. warning, witnesses, etc.) both of them were just as culpable to the death penalty — and Beis Din would NOT provide any consideration to the 13 year olds age more than the 50 year olds age.
popa: Consider the possibility (if not likelihood) that her parents were correct.
The halachic price controls are the percentage markup that is allowable.
The rule is if someone knows the mitzvos/aveiros (i.e. he was brought up frum), then he is a b’meizid if he flouts them.
Are their exceptions to the rule? As with every rule.
WellInformedYid: As the authority in the house, the husband is obligated to enforce halacha amongst his wife and children.
oomis: If someone sees you doing something wrong, he is OBLIGATED to give you tochocho. Even if you think you are not wrong.
philosopher: Yasher Koach for speaking Torah true hashkofos.
philosopher: So if you agree you are subject to your husbands authority, what’s the problem?
kapusta: Because some people think halacha takes a vacation when they do.
ramateshkolian: You are dead wrong. The Torah has price controls. Torah Judaism is not a capitalistic society. Secondly, there is nothing wrong if they get rich; what is wrong is if they charge more than the TORAH allows.