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There are kulos for armies. You are allowed to take an eishes yefas toar. You are not allowed to listen to kol isha.
I don’t consider the army rabbis trustworthy on halacha worth a rubbed out nickel. I’d rather ask a magic 8 ball.
I’m kind of skeptical about this quote from Rav Elyashiv.
The Haredim can leave whenever they want. Nobody is holding them hostage. Just make sure the door doesn’t hit them on the way out.
We should leave? How about the tzionim and their erev rav can leave and go to Uganda.
There is nothing inconsistent about that. Of course we complain when people are doing things to us.
??? ????!
With trumpets!
If the Charedim never issued Siruvs or Charedim, you would have a point, but they do it all the time for other lesser offenses.
I think the point I was trying to make is that they issue announcements to people who listen to them; not to people who don’t listen to them.
As far as the chief rabbinate, I have no idea what they do or don’t do. Nor do I really care.
Sam:
His issue was not that he took it too far, but that he took it too far and ignored the fact that he was standing on his own against the whole world and against people much greater than he.
But that is not what I was criticizing here. I was criticizing that he did it in a political way; it looks as if he did it in order to win the chief rabbinate election. He ran on it as his campaign.
Sure. Do you really want us to get into the business of kicking people out of shul who we don’t agree with? Because somehow I think you won’t like that result.
And of course people declared them reshaim. Go back and read the CR from then. What was I saying? Blazes, what was even Joseph saying? Go read the forums on b’chadrei chareidim (I haven’t, but I’m confident you’ll find the majority voices condemning, and the minority will be those lunatics, who presumably are more represented on the internet, as we know that lunatics gravitate to discussion boards on the internet.)
Zdad, Charlie, the silence was not deafening. There were plenty of voices condemning it, and more importantly, nobody was defending it. There was no purpose or cause for a kol koreh or anything else.
Frankly, it wasn’t an issue that was related to the chareidi tzibbur. It was carried out by people who we know don’t listen to the gedolim, and was not sympathized with by anyone who does listen to the gedolim. We’ve been battling these sikrikim forever–they don’t care what we say.
I was thinking that rebdoniel, as a convert, is uniquely aware of the potential difficulties involved in validating a questionable conversion, and that is why he is saying he would not marry one.
Charlie: So then how am I supposed to understand your first story, that he wanted to set up a joint beis din with them. Is one permitted to set up a joint beis din, but not permitted to enter their batei avodah zara?
yichus: the mental contortions it takes to be a religious zionist are so endearing.
I bought a new hagadda from a box in shul, so I could interrupt with random interesting things I find.
Not true. I have personally seen copies of some of the correspondence between Rav Soloveitchik z’tz’l and Rav Lieberman z’tz’l from the 1950s when they were trying to set up a joint beit din across Orthodoxy and the Conservative movement. Interestingly, it was the Conservatives who backed out. The Rav would never have agreed to serve on a beit din with an apikorus!
I never was a fan of the Rav.
In any event, I’m not sure what that story is supposed to prove. I’m sure the Rav didn’t think that conservative judaism is legitimate.
You MO people don’t hold of Rav Schachter anyway.
And actually, this discussion reminds me of another anecdote with my friend the alter bochur who didn’t go to shachris and once demanded a second date when he went out of town to Queens.
Once a family friend wanted to set him up, but she asked if he would be ok with a girl whose mother is a giores. So he said he would be fine with it. But of course he didn’t go out with her; he was just saying he would to be friendly.
Than my mother in laws cooking? You don’t know my mother in law.
The way Mental Illness is portrayed here is you make it sound e/o who is ill is from the extreme ends of psychosis. Nothing could be further from the Truth.
Actually, I think that is the fault of you professionals who are trying to remove the stigma. You (plural) argue that I should marry someone who is schizophrenic, and then are surprised when I refuse and in doing so lump everyone together. You are the ones who in your zeal to grab merubah, don’t tafasta.
the strides us professionals have made
Wait, you are a psychologist?
I didn’t push for a second date because it would be kinda awkward to go on a date knowing the person never wanted to be there in the first place
When I first came to the yeshiva, there was an alter bochur who never came to shachris, and also once a similar thing happened to him while dating. So he did push for the second date, and then took her on a 3 hr walk in high heels and never bought her a drink, and then dropped her off a block from her house because it was “too hard to go around the block”, and then told the shadchan he didn’t want to go out again because she is ugly and why did he even set her up with him to begin with.
I’m meikel you can just be pogem it with your mother in law’s cooking.
If someone’s going for meat value, it doesn’t matter if it’s on Skype or in real life.
And if they aren’t, they you don’t want to marry them anyway.
Seriously women: Don’t you want a husband who thinks you are beautiful? Do you really want your husband to think you are ugly–even if he doesn’t care?
(pro-tip: he does care)
Health:
There is a kal v’chomer. If in a case where it is muttar they say it is assur, in a case where it is assur, ?? ?? ????
Also, maybe I asked my rav if I should rely on this?
plite: Of course, you should try to follow your own rav regarding whether pills can contain chometz. I was just pointing out that if you can’t get the correct pills, then I think you will be fine anyway, since I am sure your rav would say to rely on this psak b’dieved, even if he doesn’t want to rely on it l’chatchila.
(Although, the easiest first step is to probably call and ask him if he relies on this psak l’chatchila, in which case you’re done.)
The CRC of Chicago says that all pill medicine that is swallowed is ok, even if it contains some amount of chometz.
I rely on that l’chatchila, but even if you for some reason don’t, I think this situation is b’dieved enough that you can rely on it. Or at least if you can’t find out and presumably would have a problem getting other ones.
I know a guy who used to double wrap his mouth whenever he ate for this reason.
Those letters in parentheses are the manufacturer. I assume there is a glossary of abbreviations in the book.
For example, I am confident that TEV is Teva.
So look on your bottle and see what company is making your pills, and then see if it is one of those 3.
Dates are sick. If you want to understand the person a telephone call suffices. Dates are for measuring her meat value.
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If you want to understand the person a telephone call suffices. Skype is for measuring her meat value.
I’m not sure I agree there is no value to skype except meat value. But even granting that, wouldn’t you rather know right away if your going to be rejected for that than have a telephone relationship for a month and then be rejected.
Josh: they are fully aware and willing for it. In fact, they are driving it in quite a large way, by refusing to date men who aren’t committing to learn for many years.
You’re the guy. You should have made her travel. (Or at least you should tell this friend that from now on the girl is always traveling, just to make them mad.)
“Mr.” Goren? That’s ridiculous. Arguing than those greater than you and not being necessarily right does not revoke one’s right to an opinion nor change the fact that he was a major Talmid Chacham.
I dunno Sam. I’m kind of uncomfortable calling him a Rabbi also. I know he knew lots of torah, but I sort of also associate the title with the responsibilities that come with it.
And I kind of think that trading halacha for political position is not quite living up to that. For blazing sake, the guy ran for chief rabbi on a platform that he would be mattir mamzeirim, and then proceeded to do so after he won.