popa_bar_abba

I’m still waiting for the big talmidei chachamim here to answer

Shkoyach for the titling.

I hear your point. At the same time, I’ve never seen in any discussion of hishtadlus and bitachon that having kids is a factor, nor have I seen such an idea anywhere else.

Sam: What if he is a mumar l’hachiis for a davar echod, and that davar echod is that he drinks yayin nessech.

Can he drink his own wine?

Here is the gemara, taanis 11a http://www.hebrewbooks.org/shas.aspx?mesechta=10&daf=11&format=pdf

You can see clearly that the reason is because you should share in the community’s pain.

truthsharer:

Yeah, that’s when people were actually starving to death en masse. Today that doesn’t happen.

Actually, I think the reason there is because you shouldn’t be doing enjoyable things while people are starving, and it is not about having children.

I’m looking for the sources. My bar ilan is down so I’m having to do some manual learning. It’s in the first perek of taanis I think.

What is the difference between that, and ??????, the ???? saying on their holiday that someone comes down the chimney?

What’s the difference between us saying mashiach will come, and the goyim lehavdil saying Jesus will come again. Or the yennem goyim saying the 13th imam.

It’s a book. I recall a rav told my brother he should learn it when he was engaged. I doubt he did so. But he got married anyway.

WIC and food stamps do not exist so that you can have as many children as you possibly can, and let others support and feed them. That is disgusting.

Actually, I think that the fact that you are reducing children to a monetary decision is kind of disgusting.

G-d has enough money to support my kids, and the fact He chooses to do so with your tax money is because you are too cheap to do what you should and give it voluntarily and happily.

On the one hand, the Sienna is cheaper. On the other hand, it also gets better reviews. So it can be a tough choice.

I hear that. Too much gashmius.

🙂

I’m pretty sure Hashem has enough money in his bank account to support all my children.

Actually some counts estimate over 30 Shomer Shabbos MKs, and a noticable part of all the anti-religious parties are Shomer Shabbos. This is a good sign. The fact that the leading enemy of the yeshiva wears a yarmulke is a clear improvement.

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The term Orthodox is a social and cultural grouping; a way of describing a certain social group.

That is, we may share many characteristics, and those characteristics are useful to predict what members of the group do, or who will be a member of the group but none manage to define the group.

Being shomer shabbos publicly is not a sufficient characteristic. There are conservative jews who keep shabbos publicly. Keeping shabbos publicly is probably a necessary characteristic, but privately is not.

Being presumed a kosher eid is also not a necessary characteristic. I posit that I would consider someone orthodox even who was a known child molester–if he davened in my shul and sent his kids to my school etc.

It is just a social grouping; people are orthodox who identify and act as part of the group.

At some point, there could feasibly be a split among the group who currently is pretty much one large group, and it will become two separate social groupings. When that happens, probably one of them will be given a new name (I propose: Open Orthodox, to signify that they want to pretend to be Orthodox, but don’t feel bound by any of the Torah’s rules besides the social justice ones which they invented by pulling out of a horse’s tuches.)

So that’s why attempts to define are futile and irrelevant–the question is only whether they are considered part of the social group. I don’t know enough about the israeli politicians but Saul Lieberman (he should rot) was certainly not Orthodox even though he presumptively was better at keeping the torah than me besides for the dinnim of being a meisis umeidiach, which I am better at.

Probably was practicing spins in the snow.

Yes, but this story has nothing to do with knowing how to go out. In fact, if the guy is a sociopath, it is better that it come out on the dates than if he is taught how to hide it.

Also, I don’t even believe the story. There is no way to go through the toll without paying (except by simply driving through, but then the machine knows you didn’t pay), and there is a very easy way to make it look like you are going through without paying–putting an ez pass in the glove compartment. Ergo, he had his ezpass in the glove compartment.

So you started off with a broad condemnation of yeshiva guys. Then your grand story is a story which is clearly very rare and only happened once in your career.

Shame on you. You are being motzi laaz on an entire group, and on the lomdei torah particularly.

Yeast alone is not chametz (nowadays they put Chametz additives into it)

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Yeast is a microorganism that flies in the air. When it lands on something with sugars, it ferments it. Sometimes, instead of waiting for yeast to land on our food, we take a bit of food that already has yeast in it and stick that in. Those bits of food are what we call “yeast” that we buy in the store.

If those bits of food are dough for instance (as should be the case if it is bread yeast), then I do think it is chometz.

How to reconcile them? The most obvious way: the second quote is referring to someone living an ascetic life, based on minimal work, and not living off donations. Note that the second quote does not say that the person can completely abandon all business affairs and be supported by others.

You are misreading it if you think he is still supporting himself on minimal work, since the entire point of the rambam is to say that these people gain the status of leviim, and don’t have to join the army or any other societal burden, and are given there food from Hashem the same way the leviim are (through an obligation on us to support them).

If you want to answer the contradiction, why don’t you take a look at what the acharonim say. I’m sure you’re not the first one to ask this. I would guess out of mein boich, that the difference is whether your intention in the learning is to be paid for it, or if you are just learning l’shma and other people are giving you money like their obligation is to do.

For the mitzva, you need to eat a k’zayis–that is all. Just the volume of one zayis. A regular zayis.

So go out, pick a watermelon, and eat that much volume in matza.

It may be more enjoyable to do pesach cleaning on mushrooms. Just saying.

Popa, what he intends to ask is, can you go to a bar for a mitzva date? (mitzva date – I suppose that’s when you date an older girl.)

No, it is when you date your relative. Like a mitzva tantz.

1. Of course. But I think 20 minutes you also don’t have to call. And sometimes you think you are close because you don’t know the area so you don’t know you will be so late.

2. Many people are noheig not to shave, and only trim for halachic reasons. Probably that is why.

3. If you borrow a car, you can’t always ask for it to be perfectly clean. Maybe the shadchan should supply the car if he cares so much.

4. Give me a break. Just how many hours would you like him to put in before the date–keeping in mind he probably doesn’t have internet. Maybe he should drive to all the places the day before. This is how life works; when you drive to new places you get lost.

5. This is not common at all, and the fact you include it among your general advice kind of detracts from the rest of your advice.