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I feel like it’s a Mefurash Gemara that a son should never inherit Rabbanus by virtue of being the son.
Chacham: I know someone who never trusted any Eruv. He was once visiting Eretz Yisrael and was informed halfway through Shabbos that the community he was staying in has walls around it and is gated shut on Shabbos. He was so happy that he immediately grabbed a Sefer and ran with it to the Beis Medrash, because it was the first time he had had the opportunity to fulfill the Mitzvah D’Rabannan of Eruvei Chatzeiros.
Shein: Nothing’s too small. Crumbs aren’t Assur to own because they’re inherently Bateil, not because they’re not Ra’ui La’achilas Hakelev.
Logician: It’s a Machlokes by Issurei Hana’ah that comes from the Gemara about giving a dog N’veilah. But this is probably better because it’s not really your Issurei Hana’ah that you’re giving to a B’ehimah Shel Hefker. The reason for not feeding the B’heimah Shel Hefker Issurei Hana’ah is that the animal will like you. That’s just not true in a petting zoo. The animal won’t recognize you more than the tens of thousands of others who feed it. Also, I did combine the fact that there’s also a Machlokes by whether N’veilah B’chalav is Assur B’hana’ah.
We eat Matzah because Hashem told us to. In fact, the Mitzvah of eating Matzah came before we left Egypt and had dough that didn’t have time to rise.
Wolf: I once thought of that but now I don’t think so. Because it’s not determined by what a dog necessarily would eat, especially if it’s not hungry, but by what a dog could eat without hurting itself.
We end between 12 and 1 as the elderly members of our Seder can’t go much later than that. A late Seder for the sake of having a late Seder would defeat the purpose. Judaism is not a religion of competition. There is no need to be better than anyone else, certainly when “better” is determined by something as subjective as who takes longer to talk, read, and eat a meal. It’s possible for some to have a more meaningful Seder in two hours than others have in 6. And it will almost definitely be more meaningful if the goal of that 6-hour Seder is solely for the sake of saying, “My Seder lasted 6 hours.”
Oh, and, needless to say, I will not compete.
Yitzchokm and Shein: I know of that Minhag. Many people do it. It’s a ridiculous enough Chumra in its own right. No, that is not what he said. He was proud that he thought one year to eat the Matzah while still in the bag so it didn’t become Gebrochts. in his mouth.
Shtick: What’s the problem during the year with Basar B’chalav feed? There is no Issur of owning Basar Bechalav and I don’t think that feeding the zoo’s animals with food that you specifically bought from the zoo to give these animals is called Hana’ah. Especially since it’s already a Machlokes whether to be Machmir on N’veilah B’chalav, I don’t think that would be a problem at all.
Shein: Okay, and for someone who gets sick from wine there is no issue whatsoever with grape juice. Besides, many Poskim say the Hiddur in wine is that alcohol is Derech Cheirus. So just add a drop of wine to the grape juice and you’re pretty much okay.
Toi: That’s the point you missed. Their issue wasn’t that they were proud of it. Their issue was that they were ostracized for Ta’avos they couldn’t control. One of them was told he was evil and had already tasted all Ta’avos in the world and wasn’t satisfied-when he was ten years old. It’s situations like that that they wanted to raise awareness of. Not whether or not they are proud of the Ta’avos they have. They just want people with the same Ta’avos to not be ostracized, even if they don’t act on them. (I’m not saying that I agreed with the event or its purpose; I’m just explaining what it was and I cannot say that it was illegitimate.)
Yeah, but then everyone in the CR who called someone out for trolling would become Mosrim. And we all know what Popa says about Mosrim.
It’s a Mefurash Mishnah in Horiyos that if you know, B’vada’us, that the Rabbi is wrong then you don’t listen to him. However, if you have the slightest doubt that you may be wrong then (logic dictates) that you must defer to his greater knowledge.
Yitzchokm: It’s a Mefurash Gemara. Kar’cha B’siv Lo Yatza (somewhere around Pesachim 109 or 115).
Derech: It only gave legitimization to those who didn’t know or care what was going to happen. The point of the event was that people should not be ostracized just because of their Taavos. Yes, several RIETS Roshei Yeshivah very strongly criticized it. And several supported it. One speaker probably said something he shouldn’t have. That doesn’t make the whole even a legitimization of homosexuality.
OOM: That’s what he claimed. This guy likes making up Chumros that he could never actually keep, so maybe (hopefully) he didn’t. One who eats the Matzah inside a plastic bag isn’t Yotzei.
Nisht: That personal attack was uncalled for.
To those mentioning Mesorah for keeping Gebrochts: You do realize that at some point, someone whose father ate Gebrochts suddenly started not eating Gebrochts, right?
Rav Schachter says that the difference between Judaism and other religions is that we encourage any and all questions. This is because we know that Judaism is Emes so we have no reason to fear any question at all. (With the exception of the questions mentioned in the beginning of the second Perek of Chagigah. This is not because we don’t know the answers, but rather because the answers are beyond human comprehension.)
Derech: But that’s misleading and disingenuous because when you talk to others about “YU” they will think you are talking about YC. And most people, even the most right-wing people I know, were not against that meeting once they saw/read the transcript of it. Most of the people who say such terrible things about the “panel” never saw or heard what went on there. I even heard someone claim that at the event two people publicly performed a Ma’aseh To’eiva to raucous cheers. Read the transcript first, then call that event terrible. The event had a stated purpose (which, contrary to popular belief, was not to in any way legitimize homosexuality) which most people felt it succeeded in getting across. Read the transcript. After that, if you still think that it was so terrible, you can talk against it.
I hold there’s probably an issue of Chukas Hagoyim in referring to the English names of the week (Sunday, Monday, etc.). Sometimes I have to though if there’s no other way to explain what I’m trying to say. I haven’t found myself any Limud Z’chus yet other than the fact that since almost everyone does it, it must not actually be Assur.
Hello: Unless the word “ostensibly” means much more than I think you mean it to say, you didn’t get the point. Maybe you did though. I don’t know. I’m not gonna say explicitly why here though.
Derech: That is an institutional issue that people deal with. It has no relevance to the students. I guarantee you that the majority of students have no idea that these clubs exist at Einstein and Cardozo, nor does it have relevance to them. So fine, from now on, just for you, I’ll say YC instead of YU. Happy?
Brotherofurs: And this anecdote proves what, exactly? People have gone off at every Yeshivah in history. Does that mean that no one should attend any Yeshivah?
Derech: Correct. When we say “YU”, we should all say “YC” instead. Would making that technical correction make such a difference to you? Everyone knows that when we say “YU” we mean YC anyway.
MDG: I told this story in another thread, but I once met someone who was so proud of the fact that he was so Makpid on Gebrochts that he would eat his Matzah with a plastic baggie surrounding it. And no, he wasn’t Yotzei Mitzvas Matzah.
People shouldn’t have any inherent problem with Gebrochts or not. It’s not my fault if someone else wants to not eat normal, Muttar food on Pesach. I think people are so against it because many people have a perception that those who don’t eat Gebrochts are “better” or “frummer” than those who do. I know of a respected Rabbi who was once abandoned by a prospective Ba’al T’shuvah because this guy thought the Rabbi was “liberal” and “modern” because he ate Gebrochts. I don’t think there’s any issue and no real reason to make a huge deal out of this. But some people decided to make this issue of eating Gebrochts or not more important than it is, and this has led to problems.
Good shaila. Assuming it’s a brand that actually uses flour in the paste, it’s still probably Nifsal Me’achilas Hakelev so probably not. That will take some research though to see how it’s made and what happens if people/dogs eat it.
Derech: Leave Einstein and Cardozo out of it. When people talk about going to YU, they mean YC/Stern. You will most likely go most of your career in YU without ever speaking to or seeing someone from Einstein and/or Cardozo.
Flyer: I’m going to assume that the title was intentionally error-filled.
The Shulchan Aruch Paskens that a cross is Avodah Zarah. So either he didn’t know Christian theology perfectly (a possibility, but highly unlikely), or we have to slightly expand our definition of what constitutes being worshiped in order to make it Avodah Zarah.
Rav Schachter raises a bigger issue. Since Metzitzah, as far as we know, is only for healing, and since that healing is taken care of by other means nowadays, why are we allowed to do Metzitzah on Shabbos? It should be a Chiyuv Skilah.
Yitchokm: It’s not that Hanhaga can be changed based on current popular perception, it’s that maybe it can be changed due to new circumstances or a new understanding of Rishonim. Poskim are Mechadesh all the time and are sometimes even sure enough of that to Pasken by it. And we change Hanhaga. There are plenty of places we’re Machmir in Yoreh De’ah because we don’t know technical definitions anymore. Or people who decided to stop eating Gebrochts. Or plenty of other examples. There is no reason why things like MBP should be inherently different from those, even if in reality there is a different conclusion. But there’s no reason not to ask and look into it.
Toi: It didn’t happen. Never. There was a club (and clubs don’t have meetings, they held events) called the “tolerance club” whose purpose was to raise awareness of certain issues on campus. They were derogatively referred to as the “gay club” because the founders of the club were gay. That’s the story. People who perpetuate the rumor that this “gay club” existed in YC for the purpose of promoting and supporting homosexuality are doing nothing but being Motzi Shem Ra.
Chacham: I just think that the Metzius is that that’s not true. And certainly when the cross isn’t the main point of the picture.
Hello99: I know many people who won’t drink Rashi, Bartenura, and several others because of Stam Yeinam Chashashos, Vehamyvin Yavin.
HaKatan: Very few graduates of YU/Stern “repeatedly abandon one or more areas of Halachah”. I highly doubt that’s it’s even significantly more than how many people go off the Derech at any other Yeshivah. We get that you hate YU/whatever you want to call “MO”. You don’t need to repeatedly post the same Motzi Shem Ra.
Toi: It was not possible. YU students vociferously protested the idea that there was a “gay club” there.
Chacham: That is if the Avodah Zarah itself is used as a decoration. This is just a picture of the Avodah Zarah which is not Avodah Zarah.
To what Rabbaim said above, I don’t think it’s only to keep the driver awake. There is an Issur of music year-round (O.C. 560, I believe). The Poskim there say that to be Mezarez Bim’lachto is muttar. I would assume the same here. Music should be okay so long as the only purpose is that the driver drives better with music, even if the driver doesn’t technically need it.
No. While a cross itself is Avodah Zarah, a painting of one which was never intended to be worshiped or actually worshiped is not.
Toi: YU never had a gay club. Ever. That’s pure Motzi Shem Ra. And I’ve met guys from YU who will without a doubt be some of the next generation’s leading Poskim and Talmidei Chachamim. I don’t think anyone can claim that any Iyun is lacking from the top guys in Rav Rosensweig’s shiur.
Stuck: If proper safety precautions were ensured no one would be against MBP. According to Rav Tendler, apparently, the only proper and ensurable safety precaution is not doing MBP. But yes, I think in principle your last post says it perfectly.
Stuck: No one (I think) is disputing that. The question is whether the suction was direct because of expedience or because it is inherently meant to be done that way.
Kanoi: Davening drunk is K’ilu Oved Avodah Zarah.
And anywhere close to Shichruso Shel Lot is life-threatening.
Yitzchokm: The “MO”, whatever that means, aren’t interested in “modernizing” anything. Please, before you bash a group, define them. What does “MO” mean to you? And, like I said, I think the main claim is that Metzitzah B’peh might be unnecessary because it was the most efficient way to do Metzitzah, not because there is a Halachic imperative to do it that way. Not because of what anyone else thinks or of subjective barbarism or even about “modernizing” Judaism. Just that there may be a safer, equally effective, equally Halachic way to do it nowadays. That’s the claim. Please tell me how that’s “modernizing” Orthodoxy.
Toi: I don’t think that’s true. Plenty of Stern girls find good Lakewood guys. And the top YU guys are just as good as the top guys from any other Yeshivah anyway.
PBA: And why do you think the Shulchan Aruch disagrees with the Beis Yosef?
PBA: I don’t know what R’ Yisroel held by Davening drunk. All you have is a story. We don’t Pasken from stories, and certainly not from second- (or fifth-) hand accounts. The only major Posek I have seen explicitly Mattir Davening drunk on Purim is Rav Kook.
(And apparently I’m a week late with this post. Didn’t see it last week. My apologies.)
Scissors: While divorce is never something to be happy about, let me say that I was happy for you that you got out of that abusive marriage. I can only speak for myself, but I feel relatively confident saying that you have nothing but Brachos and well-wishes from those of us in the CR.
PBA: You think Chazal and the Mechaber intended for us to do something that is K’ilu being Oved Avodah Zarah?
PBA: Just curious, if you get so drunk, what do you do about Davening Ma’ariv and Bentsching after the Se’uda?
PBA: it has to do with our knowledge of the world changing. I could bring dozens of examples for things like that.
You mean like Metzitzah B’peh? 😉