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anon1m0us: And mitzvas d’rabbanan are chopped liver? If mo billed itself as a kiruv stage for those “at risk” of going off the derech, you’d be right. But that’s not the case. They bill themselves as an equal or even better form of full Judaism.
She should ONLY dress more attractive when in private at home. It is improper tznius to do so on the street or in public or when with someone other than her husband.
1) An airplane
2) A mansion
3) A Lexus
Is it the same? For how many generations down? Today, do ben-acher-bens of Rav Akiva also have no zchus avos?
a mamzer can marry.
popa: That is only under the working assumption that being a gvir is a good thing.
zsdad: You’ve been crusading against the chareidim on the other threads for alleged abuses. Where are you calling for Lamm to be sent to prison for failing to report the abuse he was aware of when it happened to the authorities?
Why hasn’t Norman “caveman” Lamm been fired in light of his actions
Please define what constitutes a nice Chanukah present for a Rebbi.
The Halacha is that if a wealthy man loses his fortune, the community must provide him with enough charity so that he can live at the rich standards he is used to.
This is because it is painful to downgrade ones living standards.
Isn’t the twelve mazalos (zodiac) used in Judaism?
BaalHabooze: Is Satmar directly linked to the Baal Shem Tov or did it come later (like Tosh)?
Merriam-Websters’ first definition of religion is “Worship of God or the supernatural.” That certainly is not the defining attribute of the Jewish People. Otherwise we’d have a lot more in common with members of other religions that with some of our own brethren. And that certainly is not the case.
yichusdik, your pshetl of mamleches kohanim vegoy kodosh in fact support my earlier point that the greatest common attribute of the Jewish People is our nationhood.
The Jewish People aren’t defined by a “religion” (whatever “religion” means.) We are defined by a nationhood.
Meshugener: Mesorah doesn’t solicit donations for biographies. Only for seforim/translations. So your point is incorrect.
Baruch Hashem, I can say that not only have I never attended a mixed seating wedding, but that I’ve never even been invited to one. To my entire circle of family, friends and neighbors, the very idea of a mixed seating wedding is extremely foreign. In fact, before running into this website I’d never heard of a religious Jewish wedding with mixed seating. And if someone had referenced a mixed seating wedding, I’d have automatically assumed it was a non-religious ceremony.
I said no need to be apologetic about ones languages skills being less than perfect. I did not say anything about not knowing a language.
And, furthermore, no one — certainly not the poster the OP criticized — was belligerent about their language skills.
I thought it was the Nets that moved to Brooklyn.
Of the very many people I know and asked, all of them have witnessed (or been victims of) anti-semitism in the medina shel chesed throughout their lives. And most of them live in Brooklyn, Monsey, Lakewood, etc.
Yes, anti-semitism is something we all live with most days. Whether in areas with large Jewish populations or in areas with hardly a Jew in sight. And everything in between.
So, then, what is this about?
And no need to be apologetic about a language one is not up to speed with.
Feif Un: No one is putting in new gezeiros. Shulchan Aruch says it is required L’HALACHA to (quote) “STAY FAR FAR AWAY FROM WOMEN”. Why aren’t you adhering to this Halacha? How do you stay FAR FAR AWAY from the EISHESH ISH of your friend???
Driving and parking “perks” cannot be claimed where the government did not grant it.
By time bentching comes around at literally every one of the very many weddings I was still at, the crowd (of men) was not significantly more than a minyan or two. So, clearly, relatively not many people stay till bentching.
OneOfMany: And these folks, indeed, have a solid command of Yiddish and/or Hebrew. So their English (as a second language) is understandably not up to par.
M22: No it isn’t if the “differences” are silly or do not justify a divorce. i.e. She wants to move to a different neighborhood or she isn’t materially satisfied with not being sufficiently monetarily wealthy or if she falls for another guy. Believe me, these and many other unjustifiable reasons (including many much worse and even dumber than these examples) occur all the time in divorce cases. And in such cases the husband should put his foot down and insist there be no divorce — and people should encourage and support him in continuing the marriage.
It’s in teresting that boys get a shalom zochor, vach nacht, bris milah, pidyon haben, upsherin and bar mitzvah while girls get few of that.
With mixed seating, inevitably, you will have men sitting next to — and shmoozing with — someone else’s wife.
It stands to reason that most gittin are the ex-wife’s fault, as it is the husband who chose to divorce her, since a wife cannot divorce her husband even if she wanted to and cannot demand her husband divorce her unless she has a legally justifiable grievance that she can prove in court (beis din.) Without that the husband is legally justified to remain married to her, if he so chooses, whether she likes it or not. On the other hand, a husband can legally divorce on much lesser grounds (and in Sephardic culture, which isn’t subject to R”G, even on no grounds at all.) So if a divorce occured, it must occur with the willing consent of the husband (otherwise it would be invalid) though not necessarily with the willing consent of the wife (especially in Sephardic culture which has no constraints from R”G.) Therefore it stands to reason that if a divorce occured, it is more likely the ex-wife is at fault since the husband has a far easier position to divorce an at-fault wife than a wife has to demand a divorce.
May I suggest that the Coffee Room replace its current forum software package with a more modern, technologically sophisticated, forum software that has standard features such as being able to automatically quote a comment the user is responding to and allows html coding in the body of postings?
Lack of a secular education is a positive attribute and something a Jew can be proud of.
How do the members get the tickets dismissed?
simcha: If two women are holding hands and moving together in a limited area (i.e. more than just from point A to B), it is dancing.
Sam: I doubt that. Specifically which “yeshivish” rabbi did you hear that term used regarding a mixed seating wedding from? Your definition of a yeshivish rabbi is likely in fact not yeshivish.
Is it correct to say that NYPD Traffic will almost never ticket a vehicle with VAS plates for any parking (and probably moving too) violation? (Call it a “courtesy” if you wish.)
Isn’t Dunkin cholov stam?
akuperma: Kosher phones isn’t a computer in your pocket as they have no web access.
A few years ago I saw a small old red car (looked non-Jewish) with VAS plate number “1” in the parking lot of Home Depot (Hamilton Ave.)
There are things that a husband and wife should not tell each other. Yes, some things are better not shared.
There is not much differences between Litvaks and Chasidim anymore. They might (or might not) dress a little differently; they might (or might not) focus slightly differently in which Seforim they learn. But there little essential differences.
It is ALL politics. The entire position. As well as the positions of Chief Rabbis of Israel.
Why do cops generally not pull over a hatzala car with vas plates when they are speeding or go through lights? Obviously once they see vas they don’t bother. (Same with parking.) So the vas plates itself carry priviliges.
Sam2- Only MO rabbis would have made that MGM comment on this topic that you heard.
Sam: Chatzi Shekel?
Feif: You missed the point. *IF* women would’ve come, you would’ve needed at least a third stadium, instead of just the two stadiums they rented. I’m not saying women should’ve come and mixed with the men, just if the women of the men attendees would’ve been there, it would have been double the size. And people under 19 years old were strongly discouraged from getting a ticket beforehand. Its true some children came, but a relatively small number. If they would’ve bussed in the school children from the Yeshivas and Beis Yaakov’s, even four stadiums would be too small for the Chareidim from the New York Metropolitan Area. If the Chareidim from around the country flew in, forget it, you would’ve probably needed to rent out the entire Island of Manhattan to accomodate all of them. (Okay, maybe the last sentence is a slight exaggeration.)
I don’t have the mare makom, but Rav Elyashev shlita paskens this prenup causes get me’usa.
Wolf: She can’t decide that when they are getting divorced. She would have had to state that when they were first married.
Feif: Very well. So if someone wants to get remarried and have kids with some poskim holding its fine while other poskim holding the kids will be mamzeirim, there is no law stopping her. But she and her kids will bear the consequences. Many people won’t marry someone considered a mamzer by great poskim, even if some others disagree.