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  • in reply to: Trolling Wikipedia #1048126
    popa_bar_abba
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    Popa comparing YCT to the Taliban is so offensive, and so ignorant.

    I wasn’t comparing them to the Taliban. I was setting up a continuum of society’s treatment of women, with one end being American society and the other end being the Taliban. And then I said that YCT is closer to the Taliban’s end, and obviously, I am even closer.

    The fact that you are reading that as an insult says a lot more about you than about me, YCT, or the Taliban.

    in reply to: Isn't this YESHIVA world? #948311
    popa_bar_abba
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    Rational: I don’t think we practice the same religion. My religion is that I follow the rabbonim of my generation. And that is always what our religion was–even according to soloveitchik’s cute article.

    (Aside: I’m not sure why you think I am supposed to not call a professor’s article cute.)

    in reply to: Isn't this YESHIVA world? #948310
    popa_bar_abba
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    GAW: I meant to get on it; sorry, I’ll start a new thread on the topic when I do.

    BTW: this thread was a total failure. I meant to just make a funny joke, but then everyone went all ape.

    in reply to: Capital Punishment #951514
    popa_bar_abba
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    Here is my thinking on it. I don’t think that the purpose of punishing people is revenge; I don’t think the purpose is to make people happy that he was punished for hurting us; I think the purpose of punishing people is because we think it is justice and this the correct and proper thing to do.

    I think that society decides that certain things are wrong and immoral. And if people do things which are wrong and immoral, it is right and moral that they should suffer punishment. I think this is natural law.

    And to me, if a society doesn’t think that it has the moral imperative to punish moral crimes, then it is because they don’t really believe that the crimes are immoral. And when society refused to punish crimes, it demonstrates to the public that society does not consider the crime immoral.

    Thus, I believe it is absolutely a moral imperative that ???? ?? ???? ???? ??? ????. And when society does not do so, it displays to everyone that it is not that bad to kill people. And that has an effect on society, and makes people more likely to kill.

    in reply to: Isn't this YESHIVA world? #948307
    popa_bar_abba
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    PBA: You’re being inane. Nearly all yeshiva bochurim today have beards, and he might have even had semicha by then

    You have clearly never met a yeshiva bochur. Almost no yeshiva bochurim have beards, and most girls are somewhat taken aback when they date one who does.

    You’re also irrational. There is a huge difference between Daas Moshe (objective moral truth based on Torah) and Daas yehudis (halachos, minhagim, and dinnim that are constructed based on the practices of certain societies and cultures). If you don’t think this is a chashuv difference, you shouldn’t be making any statement s about this issue. Why can’t you understand this?

    I understand that. It isn’t relevant to this discussion. This discussion is about whether married women are obligated to cover their hair, and every posek holds they are–including the one who wrote the leading article being melamed zchus on how they might not have to.

    I’m very proud of you for knowing so much, and I’m sure your mother is also. If that is the validation you are looking for–you have it. But kindly stop sidetracking the discussion.

    I’ll bring it back on track. In response to your argument that covering hair is a new thing: I don’t care if people 100 years ago did it or didn’t or if it is new or old; it is definitely the halacha and nobody argues.

    And yes, I have read Solovetchik’s article, and it is cute and has a couple of decent points, but it is hardly the end-all on the subject that you think it is. If you are one of those people who reads one academic article and thinks he has discovered objective truth, then I am very sorry for you. If you’d like to open a new thread to discuss that article, I’m happy to discuss it with you.

    in reply to: Itchy Beard Begone! #998862
    popa_bar_abba
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    Is there any tzad l’hachmir for an ashkenazi? I really am enjoying not shaving. How about if say I won’t shave until the next friday?

    in reply to: Ahavas Chinam (cringe) #948117
    popa_bar_abba
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    Maybe one day Hashem will give you CLARITY in this.

    in reply to: Itchy Beard Begone! #998856
    popa_bar_abba
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    i hope not. I don’t want to have to shave yet

    in reply to: Isn't this YESHIVA world? #948303
    popa_bar_abba
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    To your first point: Don’t be inane. He was still learning in yeshiva, he didn’t have a position, etc. It isn’t so weird that he didn’t have a beard, and would not be so weird if he were in the same position today and didn’t have a beard.

    To your second point: Don’t be irrational. For purposes of our discussion, there is no difference between the two.

    in reply to: Your political party #948428
    popa_bar_abba
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    American Communist.

    in reply to: Isn't this YESHIVA world? #948301
    popa_bar_abba
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    The picture of Rav Sheneur Kotler was when he was in his 20’s or 30’s

    You can see it on wikipedia

    Right. So then what is that intended to prove? That gedolim don’t have beards before they are gedolim?

    in reply to: Kollel in Gibraltar? #947866
    popa_bar_abba
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    Oh. What type of sushi?

    I dunno, but probably a simple one like tuna avacado. or salmon avacado.

    Then we bough Moose Drool (it’s a beer from Montana)

    in reply to: Isn't this YESHIVA world? #948295
    popa_bar_abba
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    “I could care less for your semantical differences between daas whatever and daas whatever”

    Halachah does.

    Of course it does. But I’m not paskening. I’m repeating the psak of the poskim. So I just need to know the bottom line.

    in reply to: Isn't this YESHIVA world? #948293
    popa_bar_abba
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    gedolim without beards? lolololol

    now there’s a really good one.

    dude, before electric shavers, all jews had beards. You can’t cut it very close with a scissors.

    But do tell us, which gedolim didn’t have beards. And you better not answer some American gadol in the 1930’s

    in reply to: Isn't this YESHIVA world? #948291
    popa_bar_abba
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    Yes, they were being oiver. Deal with it.

    And I could care less for your semantical differences between daas whatever and daas whatever. Anyone with daas knows that I meant it is a chiyuv and not a chumra. And that is what Rabbi Broyde says. And nobody worth half a peanut argues.

    in reply to: Isn't this YESHIVA world? #948289
    popa_bar_abba
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    dood: if you think covering your hair is a chumrah, you are living in la la land. Even broyde wrote the article thinks it is min hadin.

    in reply to: Trolling Wikipedia #1048121
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    I’m already good to go. I made the username a long time ago.

    in reply to: Trolling Wikipedia #1048118
    popa_bar_abba
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    I don’t know how to use an IP proxy.

    Google: How to use an IP proxy

    in reply to: Weird, but I don't know if this has any halachic implication #1146970
    popa_bar_abba
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    Sam, Ben,

    Re: Rabbi Schachter’s issue. I wasn’t aware he held that. You both say he mixes meat (and would eat say hot dogs) because we check for the miut hamatzui, but I’m not sure why only a miut hamatzui is a problem, and not any rov. Is there some sort of rov in the gemara that even 1/60 cows don’t have any of the other treifos?

    But the real issue I was driving at is: Does the gemara say that R’ Yehuda held you can’t mix milk? no. Does it say that we are allowed to because it is less than 1/60? no. It kind of seems like DY’s answer is correct.

    And as far as that the cows are known in the dairy which one has stapled stomach, can we discuss that a bit?

    The rov of rov beheimos used is a ruba d’leisah kaman, so we aren’t using the lomdus of kol d’parish, rather, the rov is paskening that there is no treifah at all. But if you call up the dairy, you can easily determine that in fact some of them are treifos. So then we’d need your ruba d’isah kaman of kol d’parish (is this kavua?), but, like you say you can’t have a rov there because you know which are which–you can only have a rov once it is parish but by then it is all mixed together. yah, that sounds pretty bad.

    But that problem is only for non-CY which has stapled stomachs because then we know some are treif and need the ruba d’isah kaman. But for CY, we can just use the ruba d’leisah kaman, no?

    in reply to: Bread Theory of the Shidduch Crisis #1142342
    popa_bar_abba
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    Popa- how about the apples and oranges theory, do you know that one?

    Of course. The men are the apples, and the women are the oranges. And why would you think an apple goes together with an orange?

    in reply to: Weird, but I don't know if this has any halachic implication #1146962
    popa_bar_abba
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    Lemme wonder this, with the caveat that I’m feeling a bit behind the curve here.

    So there is a rov that beheimos are not treifos. And that is why we can drink milk usually, and why we don’t need to check if an animal is a treifah in all of the possible ways before we eat it.

    But do we ever say that the rov is a super strong 60-1 rov? And if it was, you’d expect some discourse on it with R’ Meir who doesn’t hold of rov except in super majority cases.

    So forget that we know about the stomach stapling affecting 14%–how can you drink any milk anyway since there will likely be more than a shishim, if you mix it together with each other? And ??? ????, R’ Yehuda holds ??? ????? ????? ???? ?? ????, so would he hold that if you mix a bunch of cows milks together that you can’t drink it? And how do we mix meat from different cows together, if we only know that they are kosher by rov?

    Don’t you kind of need to say like DY referenced above that the rov already paskened and we’re done. Unless you say something like that the milk is never separate since it all goes straight into the tank, but then won’t CY milk have the same problem because of the normal miut treifos?

    in reply to: Trolling Wikipedia #1048113
    popa_bar_abba
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    Blast it, the admin locked the page because of the guy who was deleting my stuff, but didn’t put my stuff back in!

    in reply to: Trolling Wikipedia #1048110
    popa_bar_abba
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    DY: You do it. Also, reverse the guy who just deleted my two new sections. I don’t want to be doing an edit war, so I don’t want to reverse it yet.

    in reply to: Trolling Wikipedia #1048106
    popa_bar_abba
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    Oh, that was a funny thread. I wonder if that was me who changed that–I certainly cannot remember.

    Note: An important point when trolling Wikipedia is to use an ip proxy. Because they track them.

    in reply to: Trolling Wikipedia #1048103
    popa_bar_abba
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    dash: Lemme see it. Which version should I look at?

    in reply to: Trolling Wikipedia #1048100
    popa_bar_abba
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    If anyone can find a citation for them talking about how women cannot be eidim or dayanim, that would be great also.

    in reply to: Trolling Wikipedia #1048099
    popa_bar_abba
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    Yes indeed. I figured they could use a taste of their own medicine. They are so high and mighty in their egalitarianism, when in truth, it is only a matter of degree and they are way way way closer to the Taliban than they are to normal American society.

    in reply to: The Big Lie�Tzedokoh Solicitation by Mail #948229
    popa_bar_abba
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    WIY:

    1. I hardly think that calls for that reaction.

    2. I don’t see how your version is substantially different in the key parts.

    3. I don’t know why you assume with such certainty that the version you read first is the more accurate one.

    in reply to: Kollel in Gibraltar? #947862
    popa_bar_abba
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    Oh. What type of deli sandwitch?

    They make very nice subs there. I don’t remember what I put on it. I may have gotten sushi also. Yes, I think I did.

    in reply to: Kollel in Gibraltar? #947857
    popa_bar_abba
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    I met the guy who runs the high school there, once, when I was shopping at Albertson’s in Seattle. He was a nice enough guy, and we shmoozed for a few minutes. Then I got my sandwich from the deli and ate it all up.

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948843
    popa_bar_abba
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    popa_bar_abba: What city and state is your shul located in?

    I decline to answer. It is even against the CR rules for you to be asking.

    I’m sure you’ll respect that I might have an interest in keeping that private.

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948842
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Okay, are you making this all up or not?

    Not making it up.

    in reply to: Weird, but I don't know if this has any halachic implication #1146934
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Just for the record: Pig Hooves are not kosher; you cannot eat them.

    Sorry for looking like a mod, but I had an important point to make.

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948837
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Confused? You can just ask.

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948836
    popa_bar_abba
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    I know, haftara is like my fave part of shul, after kiddush club. That’s part of why I stay for it, and we only meet afterward.

    in reply to: Weird, but I don't know if this has any halachic implication #1146931
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Torah: I have no idea how you can be so confident that there is no Pigs milk. If the fish is mislabeled, and the meat is mislabeled, and nobody even cares–what makes you think milk is different.

    Besides, who says pigs aren’t kosher. I saw one and it showed me its cloven hooves.

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948833
    popa_bar_abba
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    I’ll allow you to back down from that last post without making too much fun.

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948830
    popa_bar_abba
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    And I wouldn’t dodge your question. If I didn’t want to answer, I just wouldn’t.

    in reply to: Chechnian Terrorism #947675
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    I believe it’s safe to say there are no neviim in the CR

    I dunno about that.

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948828
    popa_bar_abba
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    You’re still making assumptions.

    Let’s count the assumptions in your last post.

    1. The speaker is a rabbi.

    2. The speaker is the minyan’s rabbi.

    3. The speaker is a frum jew.

    4. I purposely want to insult that person.

    That’s 4 assumptions, and just in your last post.

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948826
    popa_bar_abba
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    Nope.

    I said that the whole point is to disrespect the speaker.

    You said that if so, I should daven somewhere else.

    I said there is no where else.

    So unless you know why I want to disrespect the speaker, I’m not sure you have anything worth saying. Unless you think that I should rather daven at home.

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948824
    popa_bar_abba
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    In that case, grow up and show some respect.

    lol. You have absolutely no idea of anything about the shul or the people who speak. And you have the gall to simplify it to “grow up and show some respect”.

    lololol

    in reply to: Here we go again… #947627
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    excellent thread. thanks for choosing this one for your bump. (mazel tov, may you grow old together)

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948822
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Popa – Sounds like a great club. How do I join?

    Move to my community. Become friends with me. Maybe I’ll invite you in, after consulting with the other stakeholders.

    in reply to: Your Report Card Comments #1030914
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    There is something mildly disturbing about a 1st grader reading Perfidy

    in reply to: Weird, but I don't know if this has any halachic implication #1146926
    popa_bar_abba
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    Milk sold in the USA is tested.

    I don’t think they are testing it for which animal it comes from.

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948818
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    There is no other shul

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948815
    popa_bar_abba
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    Of course. I do it davka to disrespect the speaker.

    in reply to: Do Kiddush Clubs still exist? #948813
    popa_bar_abba
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    Like I said, mine meets right after haftara, and runs through the speech. We stay for birchas hachodesh on those weeks though.

    in reply to: Isn't this YESHIVA world? #948261
    popa_bar_abba
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    ubiq: Leaves of Faith, I think volume 2

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