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There are shuls in both St. Louis and Minneapolis. Google restaraunts.
Charlie, don’t be dense. Yes, it is very wrong to live by a moral code which opposes the morals of the Torah. And yes, moral vegetarianism opposes the morals of the Torah.
The fact that it happens to do so by amplifying out of proportion other Torah morals is inconsequential.
Shaul thought he was doing a mitzva by saving the animals of Amalek to bring as karbonas. Hashem said, I don’t need your korbanos, I need you to do the ratzon Hashem.
Ah yes, everyone. I was thinking of maharats more than yoatzot. I don’t know as much about yoatzot, and I don’t know any personally.
The gemara says that if your rebbe teaches you the wrong pronunciation of a word, making it the wrong word, you should stab him and kill him with a spear.
You see the imprortance of being a good teacher.
Smiling uses up more blood than frowning (it causes increased blood flow to your face).
Suppose I declare that I don’t give terumah to kohanim, because I disapprove of hereditary classes. Is that ok, since we don’t give terumah to kohanim b’zman hazeh anyway?
And even when moshiach comes, I can just not grow stuff.
You clearly have never met any of the Yeshiva Maharat students.
But I have. I know one of the graduates quite well.
Is she your relative or your sister?
In any event: so let her learn. I certainly have no problem if she wants to learn privately. But becoming a (conservative) rabbi is quite different than just learning privately.
People don’t become rabbis because they are “very smart and academic.” Some become rabbis because they want to serve klal yisroel. Some become “rabbis” because they want to destroy klal yisroel. Some become maharats because they want to push a social agenda on klal yisroel which is against the Torah.
So that’s the relevant question. Not why she likes learning.
I do not think the survey was poorly done. I read an article by a Harvard Law professor arguing that, but he is incorrect.
No, actually my day has gone quite well, B”H.
So then why are you going bat-crazy on minhagei yisroel?
There is no mitzva in dancing around a fire; if there is, tell me the bracha that’s said.
First tell me the brocho that is made on burying people. Is that a mitzva?
Then tell me the brocho that is made on returning a lost object.
Then tell me the brocho that is made on abstaining from being mevazeh minhagei yisroel.
You’d think people would commemorate his yahrzeit with learning and revolving their lives around the Torah, rather than jumping around a meaningless fire, bittul z’man, and causing massive chillul Shabbat.
Wow. Had a bad day, did you? I hope you feel better now that it’s morning.
I have done the trawling that rebyidd refers to. Also the trolling.
It has always been worse. It is better htan ever.
Broomstick for sweepeng floor, or for flying on?
I’m going to seminary. I will be starting as a freshman at Hadar this fall, majoring in yiddishkeit.
I don’t think it does.
It doesn’t obviously follow you would be able to shave every friday. The reason is that this Friday you are shaving on Sunday, so it is a direct bizui to shabbos is you don’t shave on Friday.
And again, what is exactly is the big mitzva to davka shave on Sunday, that it is necessary to be mattir shaving on Friday to avoid the bizui to shabbos? (l’shitasi, I answer that people will shave on Sunday bec it isn’t assur, so that’s why there will be bizui, and that is going to be true even for us who can shave on Monday.)
When the ??”? said you can shave on ??? ??? when ?”? ????? falls on Sunday, he was going ????? that the ??????? of ????? begin on ??? ???? and go to ?????. In this case, you don’t have the option of shaving later in the week, so there is a ???? to shave on ??? ??? so that you don’t shave right after ???. But most of us who end the ??????? of ????? on ?”? ????? wouldn’t be able to use that ???? because we could avoid the ????? by just shaving later in the week.
And why didn’t the Rema just say you can’t shave on lag b’omer either when it falls on Sunday? What mitzva is there to davka shave on lag b’omer?
However, R’ Schachter points out that the Rama’s source (I think it’s a Maharil) is explicit that the reason isn’t Kavod Shabbos. The reason is that the Christians would not let anyone get haircuts on Sundays (Blue Laws such as this still apply in some states in the US, actually) and that we will not force this Minhag on people more than the bare minimum. Thus, in such a year as this, you can get a haircut on Friday. So, R’ Schachter says, nowadays there is no reason to permit haircuts on Sundays (I assume he is unaware that some states still have these laws and it’s possible that if you live in such a state that you could get a haircut on Friday).
Did Rema have a copy of the Maharil?
If yes, isn’t it odd that he would get that so wrong?
Maybe Rema saw that the minhag of haircutting on Friday was being applied even in places where they were not stopping us from getting haircuts on Sunday, and decided himself that the minhag was now for kavod shabbos?
I also need help with my laundry.
Should really get married and never have to touch the stuff again.
Shoe size 13; ring size 24.
Are you mochel me for saying that the guy should stone the bad chazzan with his esrog?
Hello old friend!
If wearing a toupe counts as a yarlmuke, is it assur for a woman to wear a sheitel because it is a yarlmuke?
get a full sized yarmulka. problem solved
Or a small sized head
is it right for a sis to nix just cuz it would be awkward to be related to her friend
um what? tell her it’s ok, if her “awkwardness” is more important than your marriage, you’ll just break off all ties with her after the wedding and it won’t be awkward anymore
Epi-Epilogue
Rivky looked up suddenly from her slice of hot pizza with gooey cheese and warm sweet tomato sauce and a crispy yet chewy crust, and burst into tears.
Then, with the two required parts of every chapter of a frum serial* disposed of, she got back to the story. Wasn’t it possible, nay, probable that if the shidduch crisis vaccine was not working, it was because the shidduch crisis itself was caused by vaccines!
Thinking to herself, she muttered “if you would inject your baby with thimerosal, aluminum foil, smallpox viruses, and disodium EDTA you would be arrested, but the doctors put it all in a vaccine and now it’s perfectly safe?”
(*HT to someone else for their important work in identifying that)
I have an app that makes the phone vibrate violently to remind me to stop texting with my friends during davening.
Bencraft in Boro Park. Buy the lower tier Borsalino. Costs something like 180 or maybe a bit more, these days. Lasts forever.
While you’re there, buy some pizza also. Maybe mach heimish in the pizza shop?
It was me. I know your screenname. And I definitely know who just came back from seminary last week.
Chazal and the Rishonim knew everything that ever was and will be through Sod Hashem Liraiav.
So maybe they knew WE would figure it out!!
(Charlie, we are joking)
I don’t like you grouping them separate from books you take seriously.
Krypton
There is zero chance this is a real post, but for the benefit of the readership I will note that one does not “send” their post-high-school son to yeshiva. The son goes, if the son wants to, and where the son wants to.
You koifer mamash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lo bashamayim hi! It wasn’t true before we figured it out!
What, so if he died a year earlier there would be a good kasha, but now there isn’t?
Isn’t a good enough kasha that he didn’t convert until he was old?
And nobody says that answer because they didn’t know! We only figured it out now!
To answer the original question, there is no hint in secular sources of Aristotle converting.
Nor of unkelos converting.
In fact, it’s Mashma from the Rambam and other Rishonim (who try to deal with the question of how Aristotle could have been so close to the truth yet remained an Apikores) that they hold he didn’t either.
Maybe they’re talking about before he converted.
Its quite sick when someone learns special skills that are taught to help people, and uses them to hurt people instead.
After reading the CR for the past week, I think my brain really needs a good washing to get rid of all this bickering.
I’m more afraid he’ll come back as The_Tzaddik.
They sell reisman’s pastries in most stores in the NY area. Try any.
And one thing we ask. Please be civil towards us, you condescending not nice and nasty person.
All the best and good shabbos,
Popa Ibn Abba
oomis, I totally agree with you! That is what I was wondering, is it a healthy thing or not. On one hand, of course I get the value of speaking our mind anonymously. On the other hand, then there is no accountability and its easy to attack others, etc. I think there is alot to be analyzed from the types who do post here and why but i didnt really mean to ask so seriously, but just like most people, to start an interesting thread, to relax, or when Im bored or too tired to do anything else.
BTW, Im not really a therapist. I’m a mailman. Or a Sheitelmacher. Or an actuary. Or a cowboy. Or a triple agent who has been turned.
Just kidding. I am a therapist. And if anyone figures out who I am, big whoop.
PS I dont think I am defensive, I just have the (terrible) habit of sometimes trying to be rational. Even in coffee room
I actually read through your entire long boring post on the off chance you had hidden your apology in the middle.
Folks, don’t bother reading it. He doesn’t apologize.
Plastic bag.
At the end, won’t we all just be choking a dolphin.
Whether he is comfortable with the fact that you will be paying him a too low salary and shifting part of the cost of hiring him to the day school parents.
Good for eating from, but suffocating if you stick your whole head in.
Your doctors gives shots themselves? That’s pretty odd.
I dont want to come across as clinical or cold. it is interesting to note the strong reactions by some.
You’re still doing it. You’re turning every interaction you have with people into an academic observation about them, instead of engaging with people as people.
I don’t know you, and you may be very pleasant, but you are coming across here as a sociopath.
And not nice also. You think you’re the first person to come on this site, post for a few days, and then accuse us of unhealthy behaviors for posting here? Or call us all lifeless losers who waste our time here? You aren’t. And it’s a pretty mean thing to do.
You owe us an apology, and you owe yourself some thinking about how to recover some empathy out of your clinical abyss. You may want to see a therapist.
Have you read the essay by Rabbi Avraham ben HaRambam that I cited? He certainly doesn’t think that these are “fable”! But he doesn’t limit Chazal to literal meaning they way you seem to. His father clearly had the same approach, and Ramban also took a similar approach. That Rabbi Avraham’s essay is in the front of every copy of Ein Yaakov printed for hundreds of years shows that we have accepted it as the proper approach to midrash/aggadata.
Yes, but he certainly doesn’t throw it all into one big heap of fantasy he calls “holy books.”
Sam: Agreed, of course.
I happen to love the work. But I treat it as a holy book, not a history.
That is a very bizarre and disturbing distinction. You put holy books in a “fable” category as if they are just these nice things that are pretty and nice to read with pretty and nice ideas, instead of viewing the Torah as the truth and as relevant to reality.
I would never come to see you, because you view people’s emotions as “interesting” observations.
You are so completely removed from any ability to empathize with other people that you literally came on here and did the exact thing that you accused us of (by accusing us of it). You are truly a sociopath.
And a sociopath does not a good therapist make.
And you really do owe us your real name now, to remove the anonymity from your attack on us.