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So getting back to the OP–what was the question about person “Aleph”? Were we missing something?
I’m not sure I understand the point in the OP that the “serious girls” are looking for a full-time learner. Given that the vast majority of frum yidden work, either at the time of marriage or at some point thereafter, what are the girls thinking? Ideally we’d all be learning 24/7, but that’s unfortunately not how the world works. It can’t be that only men realize this.
Perhaps she was wondering what the reason for that restriction is, and what the result would be of violating it, and whether it will change. Like with working. And purple.
When we lived in an apartment about 10 years ago we had an appliance which was a dryer on top and and a washer on the bottom (is that what you meant by “pre-stacked?”) It may have been made by Kenmore, and worked well. It did require a 220V outlet which we paid to have installed. At that time, the buzz was that a 120V unit would take much longer to dry than a 220V one; I don’t know if things have changed.
The chareidim are mistama holding by Rav Kook that women ought not run for office. Of course, he held women shouldn’t vote either, so they’re being a shtickle meikel.
The OU said the company uses vegetable oil, not that the company said it.
Chazer shmaltz is noisein ta’am lifgam.
Oil is liquid (yad shochat dam)
The fact that a liquid may or may not congeal when cooking with it (in any case oil stays liquid or burns) doesn’t mean that’s not considered cooking with a liquid.
Isn’t riding a bicycle outside of an eruv (which I assume most of the places the boat would be docked at would be) a problem of hotza’a, besides the issue of shema yisaken?
Randomex: Maybe it’s a chumrah by yuchsin. Like one of the reasons given for the cherem derabbeinu Gershom–you might marry women in two different cities and then their kids might marry. Although in that case, you might rather apply “kol kavua kemechtza al mechtza dami” since the guy would be going out and finding the girl (“at home”) where she is kavua.
“YVLY means that one allows oneself to be murdered rather than transgress, not that one is “supposed to die”.”
No, yehareig means “be killed” not “be murdered.” There are various cases given of being killed rather than transgress, such as dying of lovesickness or whatever rather than have some sort of contact with a woman, dying of thirst rather than bending down (bowing) to drink from water in front of avodah zara, etc.
HaLeiVi: Presumably that would be prevented by taping down the switches or putting it in shabbos mode or whatever you’re doing to prevent other problems, like light and display turning on.
From their website it appears that all Jif-to-Go are OU Parve.
CRuzer: there are some ingredients that are complicated, and some that are simple. If you see “natural flavors,” you have no idea what’s in it. If you see “popcorn, soybean oil, salt,” you kinda know.
To paraphrase the old joke: How do you know Moshe Rabbeinu wore a tie? Because it says “vayispalel moshe,” and do you seriously think Moshe would daven without a tie?
Heschel clearly wasn’t Orthodox. He had “smicha” from Geiger’s Conservaform seminary in Berlin. And he couldn’t decide between Hebrew Union College and JTS.
oldman: Your disingenuous genuflection toward Saul Lieberman is pathetic.
If the one wearing the yarmulke was a man, yes.
“”Can you ask a woman?”
No.”
Are you sure? What’s the makor? Saying shalom aleichem has to do either with making use of the light, or greeting the shechina, or wishing the downfall of our enemies. None of these reasons would preclude saying it to a woman. (Now, why there would be a woman and no men around, I don’t know.)
Green eggs and ham
If it matters, check out Wikipedia, cousin marriage law in the US by state. In some states, living with your cousin is illegal, and in others, married cousins from another state wouldn’t have their marriage recognized.
As far as pluses and minuses of being married, a previous poster mentioned the marriage penalty (re: income tax). But it’s only a penalty if the two incomes are similar; if they’re disparate, it’s actually a marriage bonus.
On the heels of Megillas Lester, maybe a play focusing on Rus uncovering Boaz’s feet: Megillas Fus
There may be other issues with the matza machine, like the rolled-out dough traveling through warm areas before reaching the over, which may hasten the process of chimutz. Also, I’ve never seen either type of machine–is it possible that a tzitzis tying machine has a greater role for the operator than the matza machine?
About the difficulty in eating a kezayis of matza vs challah–remember that on seder night we eat four kezaysim.
But who was trying to be mekarev whom?
I would do teshuva for all the shabbosos I kept be’issur.
Not to say anything about quinoa specifically, but as is well known, the sephardim frequently engage in elaborate rituals to ensure that their rice is chometz-free. Stories abound about women sitting around a table all day, checking batch after batch of rice three times each. Obviously, the issue of cross-contamination is real for certain grains. That the sephardim elected to deal with the issue through rigorous personal checking, and ashkenazim elected to deal with it through avoidance, is immaterial. Someone who elects to deal with it by pretending that there’s no problem at all (with problematic grains) doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Think of all the additional learning that could be done if we were to stop focusing on women wearing tefillin, Farber rubbishing Torah miSinai, and all the other “cool” issues of the day. At my bar mitzvah, two women showed up in shul, complete with tallis and yarmulke. I have no idea who they were, everyone ignored them, and we never saw them again. Isn’t it possible that if we treated every yahoo with the same “whatever” kind of attitude, we’d be able to accomplish more in other, more important areas, such as talmud torah? Just wondering.
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“I support making this world a better place for our children, but not for our children’s children, because I don’t think children should be having children.”
You have to distinguish between the response and the decision. The response, of course, is nonsense, as is the whole idea of the 100K petition website. It’s a way for the administration to look good without actually to ever have to take a courageous policy decision.
But the decision is correct, obviously; regulation of medical practice would mean nothing if quacks were allowed to do as they pleased.
Recent story out of China that kids were being given books to rip up, wound up ripping up the parents’ cash.
Ubiquitin–hilchos retzicha apply to bnei noach also. I would think it would be obvious that if the Torah says he’s alive (for the sake of argument) then he really is alive, regardless of what people think or what the law says.
See Igros Moshe O.C. 5:10 for his insights into this issue. For example: the maaleh of “lo shinu es shmom” was mainly for before matan Torah when there were few mitzvos and little way to distinguish bnei yisroel from others; “Aryeh” is a fine name but who says it’s any better than “Leib”, because neither is mentioned in Tanach; a number of gedolim had completely foreign names (Maimon (Rambam’s father), Vidal (author of Magid Mishne), etc.); Jews always talked and learned in the local language (no mention that it was davka a Jewish version like Yiddish). See further.
“I have an Ashkenaz friend who does the same as you (i.e./he eats corn on the cob, string beans, and peanuts on Pesach).”
I don’t understand–even if you hold that corn and peanuts aren’t kitniyos, and even if you hold that you can eat kitniyos raw (like you can eat wheat etc. raw), how can he eat cooked string beans? Isn’t that the most fundamentally problematic way to consume kitniyos–that if one ate wheat etc. the exact same way he’d be chayav kares?
“Non-natural remedies were never Assur when they worked. The Gemara has plenty of such remedies. Not understanding something does not make it Kishuf.”
The gemara had natural remedies, and other remedies which relied on the science of the times. What’s being proposed is something that’s non-natural AND non-scientific. And it’s not from the Torah. So you’re claiming to harness some non-existent force which is not Torah based, nor science based. That’s the definition of avodah zara.
“Sometimes many alternative treatments work solely on the basis of the power of suggestion or the placebo effect.”
So if I tell people it works via kishuf but really it’s just placebo, is that OK? Or is it geneivas da’as on my part? (Can I be oiver geneivas daas if I’m tricking people into not doing an aveirah? Are they doing an aveirah anyway if they think it’s kishuf but it isn’t?)
Have you ever tried to have a halachic discussion with a woman? Now you know why women can’t become rabbis. Their bought process with respect to Torah is very different.
If eggs aren’t batel then what’s the svara behind cooking 3 eggs at a time so that if there’s a blood spot in 1 it will be batel?