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‘”old man” said it very well.’
I disagree. the context is the kiddush bracha following.
the vayechulu is required for the reasons cited by other posters,
but would not be neccessary otherwise. the kidddush on yom tov eve
begins from borei pri hagefen without preamble.
same for birchas airusin. same for havdala after yomtov.
“there is no chiyyuv to go to the mikvah before Yom Kippur for a man”
are you sure?
the white mold that forms in homemade pickles and makes the liquid cloudy is harmless. You sometimes see it in commercial pickles as well.
and adding a small piece of rye bread to the pickling jar was common practice. the idea was that it causes it to pickle faster and better. Don’t know if it is true.
to ah Talmud:
I am sorry I don’t know. I bought my matzoh at the bakery.
I only checked the price in the store out of curiosity.
Most of the hand shmura is in the low twenties per pound.
some may be less and some more.
“The price gouging is on matza”
not sure whether you mean in the supermarkets or in the local jewish groceries.
I did not do a survey, but in the kollel gorcery in boro park,
the price for at least one brand of hand shmura is the same or less than you pay at the bakery.
in Shoprite all passover items including hand shmura are way more than in the jewish stores.
this is especially true of the “heimish” brands.
the supermarkets sometimes do give deals and low prices on standard machine matzoh brands. but everything else is shockingly high. oh and there may be sales on kedem grape juice. those two items are about it.
if you want to see price gouging,
go to the kosher or passover section in shoprite or pathmark.
compare those price with the prices in the kosher stores.
People who don’t ordinarily (nebech) look for kosher or jewish style do come to these stores before passover and pay those monstrous prices.
(Someone claimed to me that it is not all the supermarkets’ fault
but that the distibuters charge them more. I just don’t know)
some have ansered this obvious question -and this answer may not serve for us now-
that since we review all the basic halachos in the yotzer we no no longer need to do so at the drash so the rav says some nice lomdus instead.
however the yotzer:
a) is not understood by everyone.
b) was written by a rishon but some of the halachos are not what we (especially ashkenazim but even sefardim) follow.
and last but most important, we need to hear halachos that apply to modern life like yes, vacuum cleaner bags. That is why many rabbonim now DO discuss halacha l’maasa.
to talmud:
Source for this halacha?
I remember a period when white shirts were out of fashion.
Everyone was wearing colored and mostly striped shirts even on shabbos. it was even difficult to buy a white shirt.
Most younger yeshiva bochurim started following this style as well, while older yeshivalite stayed the course with white shirts.
This fad did not last very long.
haleivy:
thank you.
daas yochid
I agree.
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Fascinating Torah trivia
1) vo’eiro is the hardest Parsha to lein, so am always glad when it is behind us.
hardest in chumash shmos maybe.
hardest of all? I don’t agree.
i thought targum yerushalmi was something else.
an old mikraos gedolos has both “targum yonoson” and targum yerushalmi. if I remember correctly, the targum yerushalmi is not complete but is only shown where it differs from one of the others.
irony? that’s not what I would call it.
clowns are incorrigible.
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popa
Ask yudel shain
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no, don’t.
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What programs are there where you can type a teshuva of Igros Moshe, let’s say, and get a sensible translation?
Not all of us want to sit there and look every other word up in a Jastrow.
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the igros moshe is not a kitzur shulchan aruch.
tshuvos are for those who willing and able to study and read them
and reach a psak-horaah, helped by the discussion in the tshuva not simply by the last line.
the above is based on what rav moshe himself wrote in the igros,
and on his several times refusing permission to have the sefer translated and published in english.
the coffee room is a moshav letzim.
tremendous harm is done each time the igros (or other such) is translated and posted here, even when (by some strange accident) it is correctly cited and applied. The lurkers will not understand and will misapply. Again this not my own idea but based on what Rav Moshe zatzal himself said and wrote.
and for you rebdoniel, who frequently says, “well as a sefardi, I dont have to pay attention to rav moshe”, why would you want this invention? it again demonstrates that
a) you pick and choose what suits you rather than seeking emes
and
b) the coffee room is a moshav leitzim and should be distanced.
(I stay away from even lurking here for long periods with occasional visits that alway leave me feeling sick. I seem to have a hard time remembering this)
and limits are good.
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A translator program that would be able to translate rabbinic texts into English.
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far too much of this already.
to kako
This is true of everyone not ashkenazim.
One (anyone) may only know what the common practice
is and not if it is
a chumra
a local minhag
a minhag of most or all
a din d’oriaisa
a din d’rabbanan
Current accepted practice that may have
been matter of machlokes in the past
And so on.
Why do you attribute such lack of
knowledge particularly to ashkenazim?
in your example, the person who thinks that something actually practiced by many outside his community is assur, probably doesnt know that that is the case, or that the shulchan aruch permits it.
And don’t be too sure that you may not have some similar lack of knowledge about something.
first, i am ashkenazi.
I am insulted that you (you know who you are) refer to our minhag
as myopia.
second. at least two posts said that sefardim never name after a living parent. Oh really. I was personnaly acquanted with a boy named after his father and looking forward to growing up and naming his son after himself.
Would apreciate some clarification. perhaps this varies in different communities.
third. I am utterly disgusted at the tone of some posters.
and last, the ashkenazi MINHAG is not claimed to be HALACHA.
Ish Baal
Ish Boshes
Meriv Baal
Ish Tov
Lo Ami
Lo Ruchama
come on!
you mean (in your second example) one name is ish and one is boshes? or one name is ish and one name is tov!
one name is lo and one name is ruchama?
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And the winner is from Yeshaya:
“And we shall name him: Pelle Yoetz El Gibor Avi Ad Sar Sholom.” That’s right. Eight names for one person!
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this is at most 4 names.
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nitpicker – “These are not exceptions at all.
these names are compounds with more than one part. not two names.”
The Noda B’yehuda provides these examples, look it up.
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very interesting. in fact amazing.
the mahrshal (as i think I remember quoted by rav yissachar frand)
said there were none. so he didn’t see it same as as the noda b’yehuda.
to haleivy.
I am not sure why you addressed your comment to me, but I agree completely. My own second name is another example and I am sure it also was just a nickname, never used formally, in previous generations. As you say, these names eventually became actual
names used to call up or in shtaros. Still later they became stand-alone names in their own right, without the name they used to accompany.
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A few rare exceptions: Rav Oshia Beribi, Rabi Eliezer Hakefar Beribi found in Eruvin 53a, Avoda Zara 43a, Chullin 28a, 84b.
Abba Shaul, Abba Yosi.
Ayeh Mari – Gittin 35a
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These are not exeptions at all.
these names are compounds with more than one part. not two names.
I heared a taped shiur about names given by rav yissachar frand.
he said that the marshal criticized the then somewhat new practice of giving people more than one name.
I also saw in sefer nachlas shivah (the classic sefer on writting shtaros of all types) that the author also expressed surprise at the unusual practice in some places of giving more than one name.
it was also evident to me from this sefer that at that time, when a person’s name was changed due to illness, it was completely changed to a different name. not as we do, which is to add on an additional name before the current name.
also yes, you can find names in tanach and mishnah that are a phrase but it is still a single name.
and My point exactly was that
Still
a) it raises extreme difficulties for the certifier
b) people reading your post may misconstrue it to mean a general heter. the correct answer is ‘it depends…’.
someone posted:
…and Reb Moshe authorized the use of shtar mechira for Jewish places open on shabbos…
Please everyone bear in mind that a complex tshuva,
with many ifs and buts, can not be summarized in a single sentence.
your point was ( I suppose) that when all the criteria are met,
it may be halachically possible to do so,
and therefore the fact of the store being open may not disquallfy it from being kosher or certified. Still
a) it raises extreme difficulties for the certifier
b) people reading your post may misconstrue it to mean a general heter. the correct answer is ‘it depends…’.
rebdonniel wrote
Nitpicker,
Well, be a nitpicker if you want. I certainly pity you.
wow! Cant even pay a small visit without getting burned.
I think you misunderstand. I try to be helpful by pointing out
facts or distinctions that I perceive that others have missed.
that’s is all I meant by the sn nitpicker. Many others here do the same though, that’s how you have a discussion.
The rest of your post has nothing to do with me.
I didn’t discuss the rishonim.
and one more thing. The whole idea of a DE designation has always been a matter of debate for what might be called philosophical policy reasons. most kashruth orgs resisted for a long time. some now use it but the OU still disagrees. there are valid arguments on both sides.
I quite agree with pba’s assessment of rebdoniel.
about oreos.
I attended a yu presentation about two years ago.
they said that (as of that time)
there were no dairy ingredients or dairy problems with oreos
in any of the many plants where they are manufactured.
but.
Nabisco refuses a pareve designation because they reserve the right to begin using a dairy ingredients (or non-pareve certified ingredients ) or dairy equipment at any time.
IOW. Oreos were completely pareve then, but may not be today and may not be tomorrow.
I suspect by some arrangement they (the ou and nabisco) allowed that run for the crumbs to be marked pareve.
on no! my one post in a long time and I wrote ‘row’ when I should have written ‘roe’.
hello.
from wikipedia:
Caviar, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization, is a product made from salt-cured fish-eggs of the Acipenseridae family. The roe can be “fresh” (non-pasteurized) or pasteurized, with pasteurization reducing its culinary and economic value.[1]
Traditionally the term caviar refers only to roe from wild sturgeon in the Caspian and Black Seas[2] (Beluga, Ossetra and Sevruga caviars). Depending on the country, caviar may also be used to describe the roe of other fish such as salmon, steelhead, trout, lumpfish, whitefish,[3] and other species of sturgeon.[4][5]
so it seems this is another word that has a very specific meaning and a more general meaning. however it doesnt seem to be just a synonym for ‘row’.
goodbye.
“What does Rav Moshe say? “
Why don’t you study it yourself? or just ask your lor when you have a practical question.
One thing Rav Moshe did say many times is that he didn’t want
anyone simply quoting a psak in this way.
Once again, the status of corporations in halacha depends on which halacha and the particular question.
(the coffee room is a dangerous place and is probably machshil many)
shlishi wrote:
akuperma: Halacha does not recognize the secular legal concept of a corporation being a non-person.
That isn’t exactly right either.
“”or that our “money” is really a negotiable security of no set value, and that the halachas apply only to the sorts of money they had in the past, which were coins with intrinsic value (paper money, and in particular paper money backed only faith in the government, is a new invention). “””
if there is such on opinion( that there is no problem of ribis with our government created money), it is certainly a minority opinion. I have never seen this mentioned in any thshuva or discussion of ribbis questions. Perhaps I just missed it, but surely it is not taken into consideration in any of the discussions I have read.
it isn’t always ok.
this has undoubtedly been discussed here before.
but as always, for a specific answer to an actual situation,
ASK YOR LOR!
“NASA brought us velcro”
nope!
“If cholov yisrael spoils more quickly, it’s because the stores are negligent in how they keep it.”
AND because most cy companies are not using the more modern higher temperature pasturization. And some of us are glad of that.
The standard pasturization is fine for the purpose of killing dangerous bacteria that may be present. The higher temperature is only for shelf life.
Some cy companies are using the higher temps though, so seek them out if you prefer longer shelf life over less cooked milk.
You mean yesterday was atypical?
Good to hear because I was shocked at how much more the CR
had deteriorated.
(or perhaps it was MY comments you were
referring to. In that case don’t worry too much, I only occasionally check in here now, just to keep my disgust fresh)
the thought isnt funny but painful to imagine.
Why are they things we WOULDNT do?
Why are they still fun to imagine?
Sick!
My sense of humour does not depend on imagined random acts of harm or pain to people.
( I was quite relaxed until I decided to check out what was doing in the CR. )
any one who proudly wears the word incorrigible has no credence and should be shunned.
… because they are known to the Mods as being troll posters..
Or because they are mods themselves.
Why would anyone think stuff like this funny or worth replying to?
I suppose that though you wouldn’t actually do it, the picture
and thought is humorous to you and other posters here.
Nebech.
“How about putting a few drops of Visine in someone’s coffee?”
Suppose someone were to contaminate YOUR food?
what is wrong with you people?
“With the exception of Shabesai Zvi and Oso Ha’ish”
And I wonder if shabsi tsvi is still an exeption since he no longer has any influence.
and watch out with purim costumes which
a) may be shatnez and/or
b) may require tzitzes
Oh Avi K!
You shouldn’t have returned in kind!