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I find the anger in this thread horribly misplaced.
A 15 year old boy who is molesting younger children was quite obviously the victim of molestation himself, and that is the cause of the current problem. Now you want to kill him? Why don’t you kill his victims also quick before they become adolescents and start themselves?
His phone number is 646-321-3331. I got permission to post it.
Call Zvi Gluck. Google around for how to contact him, or ask around.
Feif: Yes, people who work in software supply reported an immediate and dramatic increase in filter sales and installation. I have this information first hand. Ask anyone you know.
You can’t avoid estate and gift tax by giving it during life in trust or any other way.
The only way to avoid gift tax is to give less than 13k to one person in a year.
There used to be a trick where you would give it directly to your grandchildren so that it wouldn’t be taxed again when your kids died. But that is closed by the Generation Skipping Tax (GST).
He should be carefully calculating what is the appropriate expression and how he can best display it to the public.
Seriously, what is this thread?
But any brother that wants yibum takes precedence over any that want to do chalitza, correct?
Sure. All you need is a time machine to take you back to the time when we did yibum.
What happened to Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis? She did the RNC invocation in ’04 or ’08.
Hmm. I dunno. Maybe try this thread and see if anyone has any insights. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/derek-jeter-1
Well, I think it does make a difference which one it was.
If he was staying out despite that it made you angry, then it means his real purpose was to do whatever it was he was doing (or maybe to assert independence). In that case, he couldn’t tell you because you would get upset at him and forbid it.
If he was staying out specifically to make you angry, then he couldn’t tell you because not telling you was part of the whole point.
In any event, though, you are correct that it doesn’t really make a difference on your reaction. If the reason he isn’t telling you where he goes is because you will get upset at him, then certainly getting upset at him for not telling will not accomplish anything. If the reason he isn’t telling you is to get you upset, then certainly getting upset does not accomplish anything.
OK.
Do you think he stayed out all night specifically to make you angry, or even though it made you angry?
So were angry because he made you worried, or because he didn’t care that he made you worried?
Why were you angry at him? Can you articulate that for us please?
Fire safety in Israel and in America are very different things.
The buildings in Israel are made of stone and poured cement, and are not flammable. That is why they are not very concerned about smoke detectors.
Once when I was in yeshiva, the heater in the bathroom started making funny noises and breathing fire on Friday night. So I used a hanger to shut it off with a shinui. When I mentioned it to a rebbi in the morning, he told me I should have let it burn. He said that the buildings are non-flammable, and fires are not considered pikuach nefesh in Israel.
One can set up a trust in US law and stipulate whatever he wishes… he can say that the money can only be used to buy cars for people with blue eyes. He can stipulate that only college grads can benefit form this trust and he can stipulate that only Shomrei Torah Umitzvos can benefit.
SHAPIRA v. UNION NATIONAL BANK 39 Ohio Misc. 28 (Ohio Court of common pleas 1974) holds that you can make a will dependent on whether the kid marries a jewish girl and it is not against public policy.
In re Estate of Feinberg 383 Ill.App.3d 992 (Ill. App. 2008) holds that such a trust is against public policy. But, it was reversed by the IL supreme court in 235 Ill.2d 256.
So, I wouldn’t be too sure that every state will honor such a clause.
He is not dead; he had an aneurism, but he is in the ICU at Bellevue.
No, not if you’re a mature, responsible adult.
Since when are romantic relationships “immature”?
no, I said I was at a bagel shoppe
PBA and others, it’s hard to help people in distress if we first have to determine that they “absolutely” need it.
I bet. Not nearly as hard as it is to have a discussion with you since you don’t read the posts you are responding to.
Today I was in a bagel shoppe in Cleveland, and the lady in front of me was holding a baby and had 3 other little kids with her. And then she accidentally knocked a thing off the counter. So I said, let me get that for you. And she let.
So you see, I’m happy, and ooomis is happy. Only Joe doesn’t like this story.
gregaaron: Thanks for the good discussion.
Oh, I thought you were trying to prove from the donkey halacha that a person is obligated to accept a chessed. That was the part which I thought needed proof.
In any event, I think you are looking at things too black on white. Tznius is not binary; things are not right or wrong; there are balances and nuances.
I think that it is appropriate for a man to offer to help a woman carry a stroller, since she is the one who needs the chessed done and he should not be frum on her cheshbon. But, I think the appropriate thing in this situation is for her to decide whether she absolutely needs the help and otherwise to decline.
The frum Kardashian.
I think it’s relevant.
Whose Halacha?
Don’t be ridiculous. Just because some retard in the dati community is megaleh ponim shelo k’halacha because he can’t stand to see that his zionist religion was false all along–doesn’t make it muttar for men to listen to kol isha.
Do you have ANY study or polling to support this assertion ‘that frum jews all over the world are petrified to be citizens” ? that “because they will be forced into an army which tries to make them break halacha”?
Do you have a study that tells you which foot to put into which half of your pants in the morning?
I don’t need a study, I live in this community which is afraid to be a citizen. My friends who are citizens by accident of birth renounce their citizenship. The ones who live in Israel make sure to register all their kids as American so that they can leave when they need to.
if you don’t see the nefarious attitude in these passages, then your ignorance of english is even more glaring.
My how condescending. I don’t really feel like talking with you. You’re rude.
Popa, the comparison is that saying each of those phrases (“thank you” and “good shabbos”) is considered – by most people, I would think – to be the polite and usual thing to do.
Oh, I don’t think you understood what I was saying. I’m not advocating anyone be rude. I am advocating that the norm should be changed such that it is not normal to say good shabbos.
well, you are certainly being uncivil in the way sam references. But I still have no idea what you’re talking about.
I don’t see how my tone was uncivil, if by that you mean rude.
And I don’t think that’s what ROB meant; he meant by position puts me outside normal discussion, I think.
Well, when I read the post and then looked at the author, I was very taken aback. That’s what happened.
Amazing how simply noting a certain fact has put me outside the “civil discourse”. Whatever that means.
I haven’t even taken any opinion!
Feif: To echo Joe, this post looks like it was written by anyone but you: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/shloimele-zl#post-2999
What’s the comparison?
@oomis You think she was doing something wrong by refusing my help? What is your basis for that? You certainly can’t prove anything from the donkey halacha.
@gregaaron: There is no connection between those two things.
Whether you like it or not, IT IS A HAVEN for jews from the whole world.
Sure. A haven that frum jews all over the world are petrified of being citizens of, or their kids being citizens of, because they will be forced into an army which tries to force them to break halacha.
yitay: I don’t think that’s much of a raiah.
oomis: I’m unsure what you are responding to. As I noted, I think a man should offer to help a woman struggling with a burden, or struggling with an overloaded donkey.
yitay: I’m looking.
You really think someone saying good shabbos will cause feelings of arousal in ANY community?
No. I’m not concerned for feelings of arousal. I’m concerned for feelings of friendship and relationship.
Josh: Actually, that is the opposite of what the medrash says.
Noone here is wishing for it’s destruction, just the dismantling.
nearim omrim l’vnos, u’zekeinim omrim l’haros…sh’binyan nearim harisus hu, v’harisas zekeinim binyan hu.
(sorry folks, I don’t have hebrew enabled on this computer)
So one time I went to my cousin’s kid’s bris in Jerusalem. My cousin’s neighbor (from the same landing in their building, 2 apts on each landing, who I naturally recognized because the kids are always back and forth and I was always around) was pulling a stroller up the staircase. So my other cousin and I offered to carry it for her.
She said no. And she was correct. We should not be friends.
It was appropriate for me to offer, and it was just as appropriate for her to refuse. We should not be accepting favors from one another. We should not be building positive feelings about one another; we should be strangers.
I come from? I come from Monsey.
And sure, it is a perfunctory greeting. And the purpose is to be friendly. And I’d prefer you weren’t friendly with my wife, thanks so much.
That is not my hashkafa.
Also, we are way past the issue of saying good shabbos now. Are you saying that this is the situation in Miami, Chicago, LA, Baltimore, Denver? I’ve been in those places, and there are plenty of people to be friends with.
And that premise doesn’t really make sense to me either. Are you saying there are not enough men to be friends with? How many friends do you need?
Sam: Back to our conversation. That actually makes it seem quite worse. You make it seem like people in small communities will actually be friends with their friends’ spouses–not just say “gut shabbos”. I can’t think of any way that Hashem wants that.
Ok, maybe my second paragraph could have been left out.
Let’s not get carried away.
That sounds about right. But I think that norms should be adjusted so that it is not normally done.
little I know: Your posts are contradictory.
I think I remember hearing R’ Paysach Krohn say that the fact that Yitzchak Avinu had an OTD son in Eisav shows that even the best parents can have OTD children.
Or it shows that even popular speakers can say dumb things every now and then.
Seriously, does he think this sort of soothsaying does anything for anyone? Has he so completely given up on influencing people that the only thing left to do is make them feel better about the way they are.
Sam: I’m addressing you because you are rational.
So, I imagine you are correct that it is not assur to be say hello to a woman.
But, all that means is that it is not part of a hard rule. It is obviously still subject to a question of what we can see that Hashem wants us to do.
It is quite clear that chazal frowned upon the idea of men and women having relationships. Of course though, it is a question of line drawing. I don’t think it is far fetched at all to say that men and women should not have the sort of relationship where they greet one another in the street, and should not greet one another in the street in order to avoid such relationships.
Before reading this thread, I would have thought it is appropriate to greet a woman on shabbos in the street. But I’ve been convinced otherwise now. I don’t like it.