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Dear Avira,
When I daven for your employee, am I allowed to feel compassion for him being ill?
Dear Common,
Completely different topic. That thread does not suggest the Illuminati’s involvement.
Dear Ze,
Your all confused. The point of a state of emergency is to bypass the bureaucracy. I’m sorry that The State keeps failing you. Maybe stop trusting them to run your life.
Dear Cs,
It’s a theory that lag baomer is associated with pnemius hatorah. I know you didn’t create it and it has multiple citations. But it’s still only a theory.
So we should have a celebrated day, because a theory about theories gained universal traction?!?
Dear Avira,
Can I daven for your employee’s health?
Dear Cs,
That’s a theory. It seems silly to celebrate a day based on something that is totally unsubstantiated.
A Sample Of Ongoing Experiments Being forced On The People.
Autopilot Cars.
Over 3000 ingredients in food.
Wireless technology.
Hundreds of untested vitamins.
Qanon.
Finance manipulations.
Drones and bots.
“The bureaucracy has failed us repeatedly.”
Dear Ze,
Do you know what that means? It is a clear admission of there being no conspiracy. Just incompetence. That is not a good thing. So don’t emulate it.
Dear Ali,
I was careful about names then, but your post on this thread is really tempting me.
Dear Jack,
Would have or did? Please make sense.
I don’t get your point. Cruz muddied his reputation with his ’16 presidential run. It hasn’t gotten better for him. So he started appealing to a different crowd.
Dear Mb,
Studying Torah (in a Beis Medrash) is the obligation of all Male Jews. I thought the thread shifted into what is the place of kollel. What is the difference between a job bein hasedarim, and a full time job with a seder before and after work?
Dear Ze,
Can I assume that you are less traveled then I am?
Your right it wasn’t just one paratrooper. It was over ten thousand drops.
It is really hard to stay relevant to a subject that never happened.
In your oddball opinions, what are the basic human rights?
Dear Ujm,
I think Jack is incorrect. But your statement is not any better.
Dear Avira,
So your admitting where it’s a matter of universal (not just the temporal fashion) etiquette, than it’s not a problem. All humans benefit from each others health and happiness. So that just about cleans up the original comment. (Which I still haven’t bothered to find.)
One question. Would be a problem to daven for my client/employee ‘s health? If they are ill I would lose from it.
Dear Always,
I don’t know how to read your last sentence.
Attempt one; at twenty people don’t go OTD. False statement.
Attempt two; the current education gives young adults their passion for Torah. Huh?
Attempt three; all this schooling is just to keep the students in the fold. That is a low bar.
Attempt four; it’s just a way to ensure our communities continuity. The more schooling the better community.
Attempt five; the schools aren’t trying to produce the next Chofetz Chaim or Chazon Ish. Neither of these two luminaries were produced by the equivalent to the schools of their day.I really have no idea what your trying to say. Kollel is about the individual dedicating his time to learning as opposed to his own spiritual growth. That B’nai Torah that are shteiging should spend as much time as they can to conquer all areas of Torah, was universally recognized for the past two millennia. The creation of the kollel centers around a different idea.
Dear Common,
As far as people would place their trust in it.
The whole idea of Chabad is not to view people (who act different) differently.
Four years later, and I still don’t understand.
“It’s best to travel the world and witness the reality of this world”
So how much did you travel?
Dear Dofi,
I missed your response to me. So I apologize for that last post. You are telling me to get real, and I can assure you that I am as real as it gets. Chabad – even activist Chabad, has gotten better about conforming to the halachic standard of others, For this reason, they are called on by Rabbonim across the spectrum of Orthodoxy to intervene in these critical matters so as not to leave a vacuum to the activist – and sometimes militant non orthodox. The fact is that many more Jews trust Chabad Organizations today. The majority of the YV had nothing but disdain for them, but relations have thawed and ideals have mellowed. The open eyed among the yeshivishe elite, have an eye to deciphering what Chabad did right.
You can stay in your cocoon and wait for some Chabadtzker to get caught in your AHA! trap. But the fact is, that they have successfully moved on, while we remain confused. As weird as it sounds, every (shteiging) Chabad Bachur that I met, is much more in touch with the real world than any of their counterparts. Their only youthful passion is the Rebbe and Toras Habaal Shem. Mir, Brisk, BMG, YU, et cetera, all wish their youth would have that passion.
Bump
(I did not get a response to my resume.)
Dear Dofi,
For the record, I insist that Mashiach must be a Cowboys fan with a taste for sushi. Now start a petition thread to get me banned. If that doesn’t work, as a last resort you have my permission to post something intelligent.
Dear Zaphod,
I submitted on the wrong page. Can I get a rant on how college is a kugel?
PS I confused ‘sophistry’ with ‘sorcery’.
Dear Bot,
Who is Benjamen? And why do we not discuss Beeblerox Inc? It seems to me that Zaphod is the best hope for humanity.
Nah. The best chance is to go to an online site, and call out to random people that they should call out to hashem. How could anybody not see that???????/!@#$%^&?
The debate I alluded to was about including a specific non-Jew in one’s thoughts during the Amidah.
Dear Avirah,
I didn’t read the post. Causes of the Holocaust are for the small minded.
Dear Avirah,
Davening for non-Jews was one of the early Hassidic debates. I don’t know how much of the liturgy you discarded over this one. By now I know that it is not worth bringing proofs to you from what Yidden actually did throughout history.
Dear Avirah,
The metzius of a yid, doesn’t make the vegetation or animals not a creation of Hashem’s handiwork. How can a human not be seen as such too?
Dear Avirah,
In context ‘a Jew in the house, a German in the street’ meant the opposite.
Dear Coffee,
I assume that normal etiquette isn’t a problem. Yaakov blessing the Pharaoh isn’t any different than saying good morning/good night on the commute.
Dear Avira,
I didn’t realize it was a poster and not the article. Okay. Forget the hashkafa for a minute. Do you think it would help the situation in the article? If it is a naive approach anyways, why bother with the hashkafic ramifications?
Dear Avira,
The Reformers wanted to gain social acceptance and financial prominence. They weren’t being altruistic about improving the situation for their fellow Jews.
Dear Gadol,
There are thousands of frum couples and thousands of life stories. It’s a series of binary choices. The real open-ended question is what is sufficient funds.
I disagree with your assumption. Kollel is mostly a life stage and not a life-long plan. Almost everyone in kollel [I am not discussing Israel. Totally different.] now, will have left to join the workforce, when their kids are in kollel.
And the kollel wives all have some form of employment at some point. I have never heard of any kollel wife that never worked in the modern day [Again, not counting Israel].
What a strawman!
Dear Dofi,
Considering how you go on beating your dead-beat drum, I don’t see why Chabad should not continue with their mantra.
The people who keep raising the issues with Chabad have done absolutely nothing for klal yisroel for the last thirty years.
Meanwhile, Chabad’s utility, keeps expanding. All parts of Orthodoxy, are increasing their reliance on Chabad for matters of Geirus, Kashrus, and communal organization.
I know one frum family that is heavily anti-Chabad. They are natural leaders. All they do for the community is regular secular stuff. What a waste.
Dear Avirah,
Today there can be found many mentions of connecting and beseeching a dead tzaddik.
Dear Ujm,
I don’t get the point of your list. It doesn’t have to be a known figurehead.
When and where did he speak the truth?? [How was it true before he spoke of it?]
Dear Yserbius,
I didn’t move the goalposts once. I did not say any cause or solution to this problem. It was you that kept lying. I was just pointing that out.
And I was doing that for a reason.
The Educated Modern Orthodox wonder why Lakewood as a whole does not appreciate their advice on matters which they specialize in. This post is the answer. This is a very difficult situation, and those caught in the middle are asking anyone and everyone for ideas. People who have been living in Lakewood for the longest time, do not need advice on how to deal with Lakewood. Yet, you and some other posters went on and on about Lakewood in general which has no relevance to the current dilemma. I know a little about what is going on from second hand sources. You seem to know way less.
If someone who is better educated on the topic doesn’t seem to care for the facts on the ground, than nobody will care for that better education. I sincerely hope this clarifies for you why there is such a barrier on ideas, between the MO and the yeshiva world. Personally, I hold no animosity over it. And I suspect that the YV does the same in a reverse scenario to the MO.
Dear Always,
It’s not a lack of awareness. It’s a lack of interest. It would take a major influx of resources that almost everyone agrees are better suited elsewhere.
Also, try to separate the two topics.
1) Following in the ways of Dovid Hamelech.
2) What does it mean to say that tzaddikim die?
Obviously for this one instance the two are intertwined. But that will be easily solved if we ever come to a consensus on each one separately.
Hey, I’m not rich!
Dear Ze,
Just because he let himself believe there were people out to get him that did not actually get him, it doesn’t mean I have to believe he did anything worth honoring him.
Dear Fellow Posters,
We can have a fun shmooze so long as we don‘t take this topic too seriously. The Rambam clearly says we don‘t know how the events will play out. And it‘s not even considered Limud Hatorah to discuss how it may happen. The main criteria is ‘a descendant of Dovid Hamelech who goes in his ways‘. If you think that any specific Jew is disqualified because of the latter phrase, please keep it off this site. It‘s a very high bar, which can be analyzed in an general manner. Let‘s not carry on pulling apart all the great Jewish Leaders to see how much they worried, cared, and acted on behalf of all Jews. And if you are not aware how Dovid Hamelch himself was a fulfillment of said phrase, kindly excuse yourself from this topic. If you are unaware of the initiator, than don‘t attempt to describe the culmination.Dear Cs,
I am very impressed by your ability to be so candid on this topic. I have the utmost (virtual) respect for anyone who can post like you do. Thanks for coming back!
Dear Bot,
Please elaborate.
Your conflating completely different ideas.
?? ??? ???? is not an endorsement for assimilation.
Your theory of German Jewish History is not accurate.
I don’t know where to find the article. What exactly (not a general feeling) did the author suggest that is in your opinion forbidden?
Just to be clear, I do not endorse assimilation in any form.
Dear Always,
You seem very lost on the topic of kollel. The responsibility to the kollel is not the same as the responsibility to learning. Some very basic halachic differences.
I think you have the blank space and are looking for the solid part. The dead have no connection to their own graves. It is for the living. So, it’s possible to achieve the save sentiment by any other ritual.