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@ujm – I’m not a Novi but China? Resources, strong government, desire to strengthen economy and international standing.
@always_ask_questions – you demonstrate the problem with US politics brilliantly. Don’t think about what I wrote, just quickly retort with an irrelevant and ridiculous insult. Thank you for making the point so clear to everyone.Watching US politics from the UK is a fairly sobering. It seems so fractured that not even the most basic job of government – ensuring that its citizens are safe on its own streets and schools – can be agreed on. There seems to be so little consensus on anything. Major worldwide economic trends are blamed on specific leaders for the sake of party politics. It’s very hard to imagine the USA’s continued position as a world superpower like this.
Kesuvos 17b – Abaye expresses his astonishment at Rav Pappa’s lack of knowledge of a minhag that he would have known from his mother by calling him a yosom.
(The joke being that Abaye was the yosom yet knew the minhag)Agree.
With the greatest of respect, I’ve found coverage by YWN very patchy in recent months. There is no clear sense of when the sure will be updated and with what type of news.
A clear guideline of what type of news and frequency of update would be very usefulThis isn’t a direct response to the question – but as a community we have to know that these possibilities exist and work on reducing the risk and space for it to happen.
I work in both schools and a shul in the UK where there is a huge emphasis on ensuring that there are no areas which are private. All offices and classrooms have windows to corridors, and those that don’t have CCTV. A lot of screening happens before recruiting. All programs, in and out of school, and shul programs, are thought through to ensure that the possibilities are reduced. Kids are taught in (some) schools about abuse (in an age appropriate way).
I can’t answer the therapy question. But again, the therapist ideally shouldn’t be working alone, and should be visable to people outside their office.
It works both ways. These measures are as much about protecting the victims as they are about protecting the potential accused from false accusations.
A lot of responsibility lies with parents. Where are your kids, are they secluded with someone, whose around during their private lesson, therapy, after school shiur etc. Be strong and resist the sleepovers. In whoever’s house.
This doesn’t answer the question of how to deal with somethingg that’s already allegedly happened, but hopefully cuts down the possibilities in the first place.
They treat these animals like royalty!
We got an email on Sunday from London Zoo about a chimp that died:
“Once anaesthetised, and with the support of specialist doctors from University College Hospital and Guys and St Thomas’ in London, our vets could see that Kumbuka had an infection which required surgery to further investigate. Sadly this revealed that the infection was severe and widespread, and that the kindest, and only, option was to not bring him round from the anaesthesia.”
If only your average Joe on the NHS would get a team of doctors from two hospitals for their health issues…Don’t pay your staff
I need a cheap car. I searched online but couldn’t find. A couple days later, my boss sent me somewhere 10 miles away for a days work. The night before I had to go, I looked online around that location, found something I liked, checked it out at lunchtime, chewed over it thru the afternoon, and drove it home that night. Cost £650. Would have lasted for years. My best buy ever.
Some Google searches on; I think it’s because Avram Pengas was the lead guitarist. He was born in Athens. The series are titled ‘the new chassidic Greek sound’.
There is something written about Salonika on the vinel jacket but resolution is too low to read.Erm… I think that you fundamentally misunderstand when Brexit is about.
Is Brits are not looking for another stab at giving up our sovereignty, another attempt at allowing mass migration, etc etc etc.
Least of all switching the Queen for…Whilst not directly answering, Pesach Krohn’s advice about Pesach was that it’s absolutely normal to cry at the Seder. Which was good advice, seeing as that’s what happened. So feeling sad is just normal. Don’t expect not to be.
Can I pose another question re Holocaust memorial;
The purpose of remembering the Churban Bayis is clear; realise the lack of Shechina, work on Ahavas Yisroel, Limud Torah, or any of a score of similar themes (and please don’t start nitpicking at that).
How does one meaningfully remember the Holocaust? I of course am not downplaying it’s significance. But this year, on Tisha B’av, after seeing a historical account, I was left with a feeling of overwhelming sadness, but also the question how to channel that feeling.
Ideas?I think that the moral of the story is not to allow husbands to change diapers.
To Shulchanhashalem
I generally dislike these tit for tat conversations – but lets go.
1. Could you clarify which of my sources are second hand?
2. I don’t think that any of your proofs stand up to scrutiny.
a. The CC was the recognised Godol – The recognised godol is not necessary the recognised posek, there are different roles in Klal Yisroel, eg the Ari is not recognised as a Posek. I am not going to risk mentioning names of current Gedolim and I suggest that you don’t either.
b. The OH quotes the MB – I am sure that the OH recognised the MB as a tremendous sefer, and he therefore quotes it. He is happy to disagree on hundreds of instances, and don’t see that your proof has any bearing on the argument.
c. Many people ask the MB for his seforim – maybe because he sold them personally and not published in shops? I have no idea of the accepted publishing norms of the time. Maybe they were only referring to his Sefer Chofetz Chaim? I really don’t think this is at all persuasive.
d. The CC corresponded world wide – again, as he lived far longer than his contemporaries, he became the Godol Hador. But are these piskei Halocho? I understood that R CO Grodzinsky became the defacto posek in 20s/30s.
3. Contemporary practise is clear that many minhogim were like the OH, as pointed out in the quote from R Schachter. Another example would be when people daven Maariv, it being clear that the current trend to daven Maariv Bizmano comes from people converging towards the MB as opposed to the OH.
I would point you to this interesting biography which clearly shows that the CC felt himself secondary to RCO Grodzinsky, and which does not mention his alleged posek hador status.
sorry, no links
In friendship
Ramat
Replying to Shulchanhashalem, I think that proof that the OH was the mainstream posek is that many of his pesokim is what was done by mainstream yidden in Europe, as opposed to things in MB which are being taken on in the last few decades.
For example – I know from a resident of Krakow that they would use a “hackmesser” on Shabbos, something the OH allows and the MB forbids. I believe that there are many examples of this.
Whilst the CC may have been considered the godol hador (and definitely in his latter years when he was the last of his generation of gedolim due to his advanced age), the OH was among the poskei hador (including the Maharsham and Ben Ish Chai for sefardim).
The Chazon Ish was very much for the Mishna Berura, writing that it is like Sanhedrin Milishkas Hagoziz, and his influence on the increasingly influential Yeshiva community has influenced the increased usage of the MB.
Does anyone know why there is no published OH on some parts of Shulchan Oruch? In his introduction he writes that he is publishing on all 4 chalokim, yet some parts (eg Yayin Nesech and Hilchos Avodo Zoro) are unfortunately not available. Did he never write them or are they lost?