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You forgot Rosh Yeshiva or Rebbi.
choppy: I’m shocked you would shamelessly flaunt using the Internet.
Classic choppy
Shlishi
“Rav Aharon Kotler ZTL, who would under no circumstances even walk into YU (even for a funeral), once commented about Rav Soloveitchik, “He is respnsible for the majority of Tumah in America.” Also from the same Rav Aharon, “He destroyed an entire generation of Jews.”
Dr. Marvin Schick disagrees with your insinuation. On his blog he wrote:
[R. Soloveitchik]
The continuous bashing and insulting of Gedolim which other posters disagree with.
A Bananagrams or Monopoly Deal tournament
rabbiofberlin
+1
choppy
“The Gemora in Sotah (21a) tells us that the Torah protects us from pain and affliction”
So next time I have a toothache should I simply learn Torah instead of going to the dentist? Of course not! Both Torah and other activities are required everyday in the life of a Jew. Such a blanket statement makes it sound like one can just go to a Beis Medrash and never worry about food, tuition, or health because the Torah will provide it for you.
Darth Vader is Luke’s father!
IDK if this works but JFJ but I heard a story in yeshiva about a guy who said to a missionary “So as long as I believe in him I am forgiven for all my sins and saved?” When the missionary responded in the positive, the Jewish guy said “So if Hitler declared he believed in him a second before he committed suicide, he’d be forgiven and brought to Heaven?” The missionary gave him a confusing look and the Jewish guy said “Thanks and have a nice day.”
Ever the optimist Toi
It is a problem and the Rebbeim should come out against it. Perhaps the yeshiva could have someone who is a recovering alcoholic to come in and discuss the dangers of drinking with them.
A fan
Hat Box is 1837 Coney Island Avenue.
Look into Fairleigh Dickinson University. They have a BAIS Program that will enable you to learn in a Yeshiva and take classes during Bein Hazmanim.
It is reliable and its members are Talmidei Chachomim.
In Maseches Tamid it says that a mechanism was built in the later years of the Beis Hamikdash in order to help with either draining or bringing in water (sorry its been a while since I last did chazara.) Chazal learn from there (again do not clearly remember) that technology that can assist Avodas Hashem is permissible if it really helps.
If you have a problem with my name, maybe you can join the Decepticons
Forbidden, like making a right on red in New York.
blueprints
No, I am not Joseph. Nor do I have an amazing technicolor dreamcoat.
ANONANO
Source please
popa +1
Not at all. Brisk is one of the finest Yeshivos in Eretz Yisrael. If you think the ideals of the Yeshiva are suitable to provide you with a son in law, then by all means you have the right to solely look there for him.
The sequel to Aryeh vs Arieh
The West Side Kollel in Manhattan. Rabbi Prager there is really wonderful personality and a Talmud Chacham of the highest caliber.
Make more chumras
rosewood
Tell that to the Gedolei Yisrael. Black and white have become the color of Am Yisrael and some random poster has no right to change our mesorah. Look at the centers of Torah learning like Lakewood, Brisk, Ponovezh, and many other yeshivos where all the students continue the legacy of our ancestors dressed in the two shades that represent our nation.
(For the record my above statement was done in sarcasm after reading the many responses from members here who declare such things on different threads like http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/whats-the-argument-against-having-a-madina/page/4 )
Absolutely forbidden unless the hotel is owned by Frei Zionists who have killed more Jews than any other enemy of the Jewish People to date.
Pick Michlalah.
I think it was the Kotzker who once said “Litvaks serve the Shulchan Aruch. Chasidim serve G-d.”
sushe
To be honest, I have heard of the letter from MY Rebbeim but never actually read it until Avi brought it up. Maybe he can provide the source
Tora Yid
I am in the tri-state area. Let me know some Rabbis who can verify it or better yet provide a tape of it.
sushe
“What corraboration (if any) is there that the alleged letter by Rav Aharon Hakohen is authentic?”
What proof is there that maybe TorahYid or Health misheard Rav Berel? At least the letter Avi brought up was written down and is not founded on oral testimony!
yichusdik
It was cool how sushe called out exactly what you predicted. Any idea who will win the Super Bowl?
He is a bit busy disparaging Gedolim who he holds are Apikorsim because they disagree with his worldview.
Health
So what do you think of the letter from the Chofetz Chaim’s son that gives honor to Rav Kook? While I understand you heard the story (and learned a very valuable lesson in Kavod HaRabbanim I see) from one Gadol, a different one says otherwise. It is even in writing! So can you live with the fact that a Gadol who says differently than yours is still a Gadol?
The Bibical Zoo and the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens
Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook (sorry couldn’t decide if this belonged in the controversial thread or not)
Toi
“base themselves on an outcast from the hashkafic norm then theyre confused, not legit”
Does that mean anyone who disagrees with you?
ToraYid
You said “The rebbe was called a giant in Torah AND midos by the LITVISHE gedolim.” While I am not doubting this fact, there was opposition to some of his ideas by others.
After the Six Day War, the Agudas Yisrael had a convention to decide its position on the matter. It was unsure of whether to support the Satmar Rebbe’s position that the victory was from the Satan (which at the time Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky supported) or whether it was a Nes from Hashem. After many Rabbonim spoke, Rav Itche Meyer Levin, the son-in-law of the Gerrer Rebbe got up to voice his opinion. He said “Not so long ago the Jewish people suffered the horrible loss of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. When we went to the gedolim for an explanation we were told that we must be silent and accept this because it was G-d’s will. Now we were just faced with another possible holocaust in the Land of Israel but the Jews were saved this time. We hear gedolim who say that these millions who were saved were saved by Satan. How is that when it comes to the death of Jews it is G-d’s work but when it comes to rescuing them from death it is Satan? It can’t be.” At that point, Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky sent on a note up to be read by the podium that read “I want to publicly retract my previous statement supporting the view of the Satmar Rebbe and say that now I agree fully with what Rabbi Levin just stated.”
So while its true that many Gedolim may have supported the Satmar Rebbe, others disagreed. Another famous one is where Rav Moshe Feinstein disagrees with the Satmar Rebbe over the issue of sending Israeli soldiers into Uganda to save Jewish lives.
A Yeshiva Bochur that is not housebroken
I did discuss a PERSONAL experience with girls from a certain seminary (won’t go into specifics). It was declared Lashon Hara and the thread was obliterated.
2sense
Some begin it before because there is an opinion in Piskei Teshuvos that any food eaten after Tzays is considered Melava Malka. So the the third meal is done late in order to A)Have a third meal and B)Continue it so there can also be the mitzvah of Melava Malka fulfilled in the same sitting.
Health
“A good portion of the bloodshed lies squarely on the hands of the Tzionim. They Raitzed on the Goyim by making a Medina -thereby increasing their hatred and subsequently their violence ten-fold!”
Health I would never suspect you would stoop so low. You really think that the murder of innocent children is the victims fault because they hold by a legitimate Shitta that just happens to not be your own! It almost sounds like you blame a rape victim because she was wearing a short sleeve shirt! I really cannot believe you or your “Unhealthy” worldview.
2sense
Is Techeles considered Livush Yehudi?
2sense
“”The long outer garment is not a chassidishe levush, it is a yiddishe levush(levush yehudi)””
Funny, I guess the every Litvish and Yekke Rav who wears a suit must not be sartorially jewish. (FWIW Rav Chaim Ozer was Litvish)
“As for those at yeshiva CHAFETZ CHAIM who feel the need to remove their beard”
Do not focus on Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim. What about the European yeshivos of Slabodka, Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary, Mir, and others where the students shaved? Why are they exempt from your anti-depilatory remarks?
chassidishY.U.type
Rav Herschel Schachter, Rav Berel Wein, Rav Avraham J. Twerski, Rav Yisroel Belsky, Rav Simcha Kook, Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, and the Roshei Yeshiva of Yeshivat Aderet Eliyahu wear it. (I assume your are talking about the Murex Trunculus that was discovered by Rav Yitzchak Herzog, the second Chief Rabbi of Israel.)
Many Rabbis today debate whether it is real or not. Rav Chaim Kanievsky, Rav Yosef Shlomo Elyashiv, Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman, Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl, and many others do not wear it.
This is an issue you should discuss with your Rav
R.T.
+1
“Maybe the township should compensate residents that were damaged by the pothole roads in Lakewood.”
Only if the Rabbonim agree that such a proposal is proper in light of creating a Chillul Hashem
The Modern Orthodox should move out, as the Chareidim were there first. Oh wait….
I said a few negatives in a previous thread, but it was considered Lashon Hara. Needless to say, the thread was closed.