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PBA: will do when I get the chance but I’m at work now.
Re your Prediction: Will you ‘probably be opining’ that you were mistaken if I show you that you were?
PBA et al: Is the Netziv big enough for you? He held that establishing a Jewish State was correct and part of the Geulah process.
Merav
Musser zoger, acharonim like Radvaz and R’ Moshe Feinstein and others have stated that nowadays it is practically impossible to emulate Rishonim in combining full Torah knowledge with working.
So read my question carefully again and then give me 1 rishon.
Coke is also not a ‘Yiddishe Mychal’.
What a load of baloney.
Please somebody? anybody? give me one rishon who ascribes that anybody should be working not learning and not fulfilling their potential to become a talmid chochom /posek/ rosh yeshiva. Just 1 rishon.
RebDoniel: Why are you fixated on the Raavad? There are many Rishonim who argue on the Rambam on numerous matters. And who says anybody argues with the Rambam on this matter? And from where do you get that ridiculous assertion that the Rambam is generally not followed especially by Charedim?
No offence but you are way off here.
What would Mozart do if he were alive today?
Scream and scratch the lid of his coffin .
Mods – can I have a new subtitle please? You think of one please ‘cos its nerdy to choose your own.
I gave you one already
Please change my subtitle to ‘Member’
Ive had this idiotic subtitle for a year now can u think of something else please mods
If there’s something strange in the neighbourhood – who you gonna call?
The local authorities.
There once was a man from Dundee.
Whose limericks always ended on line three.
I don’t know why.
How many Poles does it take to change a light-bulb?
Light-bulbs cannot be changed. They simply are. Do you mean replace a burnt-out bulbed with a new one. Well, with design, logistics, manufacturing and marketing etc. it could be argued that many people play a small part in the process but the exact number is dependent on the particular circumstances.
Artiste: With respect, your statement is inaccurate as even if you daven mincha before shkia but after Plag you should wait until nacht for maariv.
If you daven Mincha after Shkia you’re standing on strong shoulders – both the Mechaber and the Rema pasken that this is OK.
Absolutely. The atomic composition of all matter would be unfathomable without it.
the dice
Yehudah Tzvi I take it that you are not descended from Amninodov Ben achar Ben.
This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard of in a long time.
If they don’t own the bus, sit wherever you like and when they confront you tell them to get up early and go to Shul like Jewish men have been doing for thousands of years.
Whats the source that Levi was married to someone called Adina?
Adina in the Piyutim is a reference to Esav. Also she was the mother of Rochel AND Leah.
er….Chava?
It is for the same reason that the fourteenth word in this sentence isn’t spoken out in full.
Wolf and nishtdayngesheft:
For goodness sake stop arguing about the semantics.
‘Why’ it happened can equally refer either to its natural cause or to Hashem’s reason for making this happen. We are privy to the former and not the latter.
End of discussion.
Surely(?)
People living in glass houses should not.
Before you criticise someone walk a mile in their shoes. That way you’re a mile away from them when you criticise them and you have their shoes.
Hey all, this thread is for funny variations of good quotes – not for good quotes themselves
Veni, Vidi, Visa
‘I came, I saw, I went shopping’
Rav Shach purportedly said to a generous Torah benefactor “For your support of Torah, it’s possible you have greater Olom Haba than me…but as a Torah learner I definitely have greater Olom Hazeh than you..”
V’dok Haytayv Ki Omok Hu.
Quick point about the title of this thread:
If he could care less, then you’re saying he does care and it could mean he actually cares a lot.
Maybe you mean he COULDN’T care less.
avhaben; the pasuk seemingly criticises how they would walk on their tiptoes as a way of attracting undue attention. High heels serve the same purpose. Just observing. The point Yeshaya makes about the perfume in their heels is a different one at the end of that pasuk.
He does not criticize eye-liner or necklaces. In Perek 3 Posuk 16 he criticizes:
1) The way they stretch their necks in a haughty fashion
2) The way they wink their eyes (see meforshim)
3) The way they walk raising themselves.
The pesukim following this posuk are not a criticism of their dress, just a list of what Hashem will take away from them including many obviously permissible items like bracelets, ribbons, tablecloths, mirrors and much more.
However, high heels would at first glance seem to be an issue from that Posuk.
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“I find it somewhat ironic that Hashem arranged davka on his yohrzeit that large parts of the jewish community in the east coast are relying on private generators rather than electricity.”
I find this absurd. Firstly how do you know what Hashem davka did or didn’t do? Are you privy to the way He decides what happens to each country/person?
Secondly, according to your reasoning – what exactly is the message supposed to be? The Chazon Ish was niftar today 49 years ago, so Hashem is causing a small segment of a different generation of Jews in a different country where the Chazon Ish’s psak is not nogeiah, to make use of some machines that are used to circumvent the halachic problem the Chazon Ish had. Oh – and at the same time, agav, lots of people will die and billions of dollars lost.
Let’s stop trying to guess what Hashem is doing every time something happens. That’s what we had Neviim for and others with Ruach Hakodesh.
For now, let’s just keep His Torah – that’s all He ever asked for.
Yekke2 – arguably Avraham Avinu didnt do Hachnosas Orchim because it was an official Mitzva (it was after all before Matan Torah).
Maybe he did it because he understood it to be G-d’s will. And it is regarding this, that Chazal say it is greater to do Hachnosas Orchim than be Mekabel the Shechina – also a way of carrying out G-d’s will.
No but it can make suffering a little less uncomfortable
The tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon. Full moon = high tides. I was awed when I first learned this.
I’ve been thinking a lot about all this and, not sure if you’ll agree with me but this is my conclusion. I think it’s probably important to differentiate between:
1) Modern Orthodoxy as a Hashkafa; and
2) Behavioural trends within the MO community.
Let’s take No.1) As a Hashkafa, MO differs as far as I can tell only regards to 3 points:
a) The Mitzva of Yishuv Eretz Yisrael (perhaps more relevant to Mizrachi)
b)The concept of Daas Torah
c)The value of learning Torah vs. Secular study for its own sake.
I don’t believe any of these issues create in and of themselves issues of apikorsus ch’v although the last two possibly can lead in that direction if taken to the extreme.
Let’s have a look at 2) – Behavioural trends. Well this is just a matter of fact. Within both the MO community and the Charedi community you have attitudes ranging from respect and self-sacrifice for the Halacha to a don’t care attitude. Now it’s a question of percentages – in which community is there a larger percentage of families that genuinely care for the Halacha and Torah values and not just for show. I’ll leave this question open because I don’t know the answer.
Dolphina – I respect your right to your opinions. However one statement you made prompts me to respond as it is not a matter of opinion – it is a matter of fact.
A child with a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother is not Jewish according to Halachah. Fact. It may seem unfair but it’s just the way it is.
G-d made the world so He gets to make its rules too. There are other rules He made that may seem unfair like certain rules of physics e.g. the fact that a speeding bullet is able to kill an innocent person
Child is Kosher but Pagum.
According to some Shitos, the Chasan davka should hold the Kallah’s hand when taking her to the Yichud room as this constitutes part of the Chupa/Nisuin.
“It’s a shame R’ Yehuda Hachosid didn’t write the Aseres Hadibros”
Anon.
According to geneticists it increases the chances of a defective embryo by 4 times Rachmana Litzlan.
Mazel Tov for your neighbour and may Hashem give them only healthy offspring.
yehudayonah: Read my post – I never said there are more Cohanim than Leviim.
Because 3 out of the 5 Trei Ossor are in the Torah and only Ezra and Nechemiah are in Tehilim.
It is an extremely crass, insensitive, vulgar and boorish joke.
It is also very funny and I don’t think that’s a contradiction.
Yehuda Tzvi – I’ve also wondered why the ratio of Cohanim to Leviim is so high. I believe there could be two answers:
1) This won’t go down well but a lot of Cohanim nowadays are probably not bona fide Cohanim. There is a story brought down about one of the Gaonim (I think Rav Saadyah Gaon) who gathered hundreds of Cohanim to circle Yerushalayim as a way of hastening the Geulah and he saw a vision of Eliyahu Hanavi who told him that only one (incidentally lame) Cohen there was a real Cohen. It is also brought down that the Vilna Gaon would repeat Pidyon Haben on himself every time he met a new Cohen – until he met a Rappaport Cohen.
2) It could be there are many more Leviim around not realising it but their status as Leviim was forgotten. In contrast, Cohanim have had a unique way of preserving their identity through the generations with Birchas Cohanim.
Animal Farm by George Orwell – a brilliant and powerful book.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
On the subject of Neil Armstrong – what a shame he fluffed up that line on such an unprecedented historic occasion.
‘One mall step for man, one giant leap for mankind.’
If he would have said ‘…for A man…’ it would have made sense. The way he said it, ‘man’ and ‘mankind’ mean exactly the same.
I was somewhere in Europe seriously thinking that WW3 was about to start….
There is no absolute proof. However there are indicators that are very compelling including the fact that it is near-impossible that practically ALL Jews would have the tradition (which was the case until the Reform movement took hold 200 years ago) that a particular event was witnessed by ALL Jews unless it actually did.
The key word above is ‘ALL’ Jews.
No other religion, out of the hundreds that exist, claims its beginnings by a mass revelation – it’s always, and without a single exception, one or a few people saying a miracle or revelation took place.
As Rabbi Keleman puts it – imagine if the Pope suddenly announced that God personally spoke to ALL Catholics at some point in history and this was revealed to him in a vision. However much respect and awe he inspires, he would soon be out of a job. Since not one Catholic has that tradition from his father or teacher, it would be clear he is lying.
The Vilna Gaon wrote a mathematics book called Ayil Meshulash