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Cheftze: Are you joking? Do you think they wore suit jackets in 16th-century Turkey and Israel?
Cheftze: You do realize that the jacket the Shulchan Aruch is talking about it very different from the suit jacket of today, right? Applications can be made from one to the other, but they are clearly not identical.
Zees: Do they even allow women at the Siyum Hashas? (Honest question; I’ve never been there.)
HaLeiVi: Not quite. It seems fairly clear from the Moreh that the Rambam thought that Nevua was possible even in his time. He Paskens like Shmuel. The only difference between this world and then will be Shib’ud Malchiyos Bilvad.
Hershi: You’re ignoring the first word of that S’if Kattan.
Unless the rules have changed drastically since the last time I checked, it’s 2 red lines including the mid-line. So it’s basically anywhere from behind center ice. (I hope posting the rules isn’t a Lifnei Iveir on Chukas Hagoyim.)
Cheftze: Source please?
The Mishnah B’rurah does not say it for Bentsching (as far as I know). The citation that Gabei is misrepresenting is 91:12.
Lakewhut: B’nei B’rak and most of Me’ah Sh’arim, as well as certain isolated communities throughout New York and Eretz Yisroel.
HaLeiVi: Correction- “Troll” is the most overused and misunderstood word on the internet.
Just curious, was Yamoos hinting at something else here? You could replace the word “troll” with something else in his post and it becomes very interesting indeed.
Lakewhut: This depends on Minhag Hamakom. In many places (including almost everywhere out of town) a Kippah is enough. In some places, where one would not be caught outside without a hat ever, it is not enough.
Mammele: Why do you say that? According to the Rambam we certainly will. We don’t seem to hold like the Rambam in Inyanei Mashiach, but it’s still important to recognize his opinion. Also, I haven’t looked, but I do know that the concept of everyone being physically perfect after the Keitz is a Christian idea. I don’t know if it has a basis in Judaism.
PBA: Yitay is saying that there is a concern that this will make people look and feel like the Minhag to wash Mayim Achronim has greater Halachic basis than the Minhag not to and that it could push out the Minhag not to. I think that’s an issue in some cases (look at what happens with Gebrochts), though whether it’s something to worry about here is a separate discussion.
My Posek didn’t Assur the internet. I think that’s reason enough.
JaneDoe: I thought the article was fine as well. My point is that you equating an attack on the article with an attack on those Gedolim was unfair.
JaneDoe: Okay, but how does that help your point. Your point is inflammatory because it implies that an attack on the article is an attack on them. The flaw in that logic is obvious. They would all have been able to write articles against YCT that even Rebdoniel would have to agree to. Rebdoniel never attacked them, only the article in question.
YehudahTzvi: That’s fine. Although if the person is a S’fardi you probably should make it very clear that you are not at all uncomfortable if they use the sink and that they should if that’s their Minhag.
The Gemara says that a Solar eclipse is to remind the Umos Ha’olam that there is a Dayan and to do T’shuvah and that a lunar eclipse should remind K’lal Yisroel of the same thing.
JaneDoe: While you happen to be in the right here, you evaded his point. They said nothing about YCT in particular.
Feif: I was told Rav Schachter wanted to go and was asked not to attend. Anyway, he is very Machmir on the internet as well. I believe he says that your computer should have a password and only your roommate (not yourself) should know the password.
Csar: Just curious, why do you call it a Bubbe Maisa? I asked two people who I know who were in Torah Vada’as at the time. Both told me it’s true. (Well, one said he saw it and the other said that he had stepped outside the Beis Medrash at the time but that everyone their knew it had happened.)
Imma: Not quite. He said that whatever the Gedolim who spoke after him said would be binding. Unfortunately, I don’t really know what that is because they were almost all in Yiddish after that.
Naftush: The Yeshivah where this story took place (which should be easily verifiable; if it happened there would be many living witnesses) was in America.
Avhaben: Are you saying that because our Avonos caused the Beis Hamikdash to be destroyed that there is no reason to be happy when it is rebuilt? If we never would have sinned then we never would have lost it. Regaining Yerushlayim is a reason to thank HKBH, regardless of how we lost it and how we got it back (also, see my earlier post).
Kaf Ches Iyar 45 years ago was the biggest day of Ahavas Yisrael and Achdus in recent memory. Why do people have to politicize things (from both ends) and ruin it?
Rabbi: I meant Avi Weiss, not Schwartz. I am far too tired to be posting now. I’ll be back later after I take a nap (i.e. after Shabbos).
Rabbiofberlin: Avi Shwartz and Dov Linzer have both published things that basically cross the line into denying Mesorah. That’s very different than Zionism or anything like that. There the argument is on what the Mesorah is, not whether or not the concept exists.
2good2btrue: That’s just not true. Look at the Edus things in the Shulchan Aruch. It’s not true.
Relaxation: There’s a city in northern Michigan called Hell. I assumed 😉 you were talking about that. And yes, it does freeze over just about every winter.
Itche: I once met a guy that reads Tarot cards for Frum people as a joke. I was unsure if it was Assur or if he was Mekayim a Mitzvah because it was Leitzanus of Avodah Zarah.
Why are you living in northern Michigan?
I think checking out Facebook is normal. Googling her, not so much.
There is probably no inherent Issur (depending on the precise situation), but everything must be done with Sechel. This feels like a lack of Sechel.
Health: Both Logician and I understood that point. And, who knows, you may be right. It’s not my place to judge her. However, your reason for saying that Tzitzis is less than other Mitzvos was just not correct, which is what Logician is also pointing out.
Gefen: There is no inherent Issur. R’ Moshe has T’shuvos about playing cards on Shabbos. But there is no inherent Issue so long as it’s not for gambling. And I highly doubt the Arizal said anything about it. The modern deck of cards wouldn’t exist for almost 3 centuries after that. It could be he was referring to an old form of Tarot cards, which would make more sense.
See, however, the Be’ur Halachah in Hilchos Channukah where he says playing with cards is quite a bad thing to do. However, it’s clear that he’s talking about playing with some form of gambling.
HaLeiVi: I would say Ad’raba. The differences between those with more of a Rambam leaning and those with more of a Zohar/Arizal leaning are astronomical.
PBA: That’s a bit arrogant. Academics sometimes (though in my studies very rarely) have a good perspective on things. Just because it doesn’t interest you doesn’t mean that it can’t be the Emes.
Yytz: Rav Schachter called them Conservative. That’s good enough for me.
I think everyone here agrees that no one at YCT now would actually Pasken like this. It’s just a little fun at the expense of a group that is trying to change Judaism, even if it is a bit satirical. Would anyone be complaining if the title was “Conservative-style Teshuvas”? Just read it as that and there’s no real issue here.
The Mekubalim say today that only 1 or 2 people in every generation aren’t Gilgulim.
I don’t remember perfectly, but I believe the Tzitz Eliezer agrees with the Aruch Hashulchan that even for a relatively minor bother you can talk and do things after the Brachah. The reason for this is because it’s not a Brachah on sleep itself, but a Birchas Hoda’ah on Minhago Shel Olam. The Mishnah B’rurah says not to. This makes sense because it lines up with their Machlokes about Hama’avir Sheinah (and Elokai Neshama) when one didn’t sleep. The Minhag recently (as evidenced on Shavuos) seems to, at the very least, be Choshesh for the M”B Lechatchilah. It also makes sense, since the M”B is seemingly in a minority in this, that the Aruch Hashulchan is perfectly fine to rely upon if it’s too much trouble.
If one slept a half-hour, you would be able to get up and do normal things, but you would have to wash Netilas Yadayim first.
Major Machlokes Haposkim to the order. See the Aruch Hashulchan for talking.
Ders: I’m sorry. I didn’t realize that explaining Shittos that Frum Jews hold by is “defending the indefensible”. It’s nice to know that when I quote the Mekoros or R’ Schachter that it creates some sort of P’gam because you have decided it’s an indefensible position. (I don’t think I ever specifically spoke here about Gemara at Stern, but I don’t see why that wouldn’t fall under the Prishah; as far as I know they’re not mandatory). And I quoted R’ Schachter as having said that about Rabbi Lamm, which may have been inaccurate. That quote may have been from R’ Soloveitchik or someone else in charge (I heard it B’sheim R’ Schachter but I’ve since been informed that it was someone else).
And it’s interesting that you mention that quote of mine. That discussion was closed before you started posting in this forum. (In a possibly unrelated note, why can’t I see your profile?)
Logician: So do I. But it seems like, from everything I’ve read in the past few days, that Rabbi Lieberman doesn’t fall under that category.
Yitay: What type of trolling was my question? Reverse type 3?
Ders: See what R’ Matisyahu Salomon says about this is Matnas Chayim on Purim.
And the fact that it’s in the Sha’ar Hatziyun and not the Mishnah B’rurah itself should say something. The M”B quoted almost every Shittah imaginable. The fact that a Shittah is quoted does not necessarily mean that he thinks you should follow it.
Ders: How about you cite one of my posts where I hold of “shvach MO Shittas that go way out of mainstream”, whatever that means? Or wher I reinterpret a Halachah to sound nicer to women, whatever that means? And until you do either, please stop with the thinly veiled personal attacks on me. Thank you.
Anyone want to try and translate Ester and Mordechai?
I think Touro does, but I’m not positive.
Nechomah: We generally don’t listen to the Rambam’s medical advice, but I don’t think he said that anyway. He did say to get 8 hours a night though.