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I think that Bobby’s cow made up that Halachah. The Mishnah Brurah mentions it as an Eitzah to make sure that you are clean. That does not mean that the Halachah is that you have to use it. Whatever gets you completely clean is enough.
Cheftze: It’s a Gemara brought down in Choshen Mishpat. I don’t recall exactly where. Maybe I’ll look for it later when I have time.
Cheftze: My issue is with people who think the word “frum” means something other than a way of saying “I’m better than you”. You do not know who Medium Size Shadchan is or who she holds the door open for. How do you then decide who’s “frummer” than whom?
The Gemara seems very against asking for money. It feels like it brings it out as a bad thing. However, I can easily see the difference between begging for a livelihood and collecting for an institution.
Tina: Honest question: What bother you here, the Schnorring or the not working? If guys used their precious few weeks off to just chill/relax and learned a few hours a day would there be a problem?
Loyal Jew: See Rashi Yoma 20b D”H Ee Tagras and you might have to rethink your definition of the “Issur of reversing gender roles”.
Also, every working Talmid Chacham should be offended by what you said. Many of Chazal and a good number of Rishonim, Acharonim, and Poskim also had to have a job to support themselves and their families so that they could learn. They are M’kayeim the world just as much as someone who is fortunate enough to be able to afford to learn in Yeshivah/Kollel all day.
Cheftze: In that case, it would have never been Chal (unless the woman had her own money for this) because the Halachah is that a woman can’t make a big business deal without her husband (and “big” is determined by whatever’s normal for the wife to do in this case). Since the woman can’t make the deal, it would be the same as signing a contract with a child or a monkey. It just doesn’t mean anything because the woman has no Reshus over the money she’s making the deal with.
Cheftze: That has nothing to do with a Neder. That has to do with business and it would depend if that’s the type of thing that a woman would sign without her husband’s consent in whatever society/community they’re in.
Sam4: I looked for it and asked several Gedolim what the source is. I was told by several that it is just said over by the Hamon Am and no Makor really exists.
ZeesKite: You’re not dealing with the issue though. What type of music do you prefer to be played? Who determines what is “overstepping the boundaries” and what isn’t? Is the whole world supposed to go with what you are comfortable with? Music means different things to everyone. Let people who are comfortable and happy with their music be happy with it. They obviously don’t feel like they’re being hurt by it.
ZeesKite: All “Jewish music” was more or less borrowed from contemporary stuff. You want real Jewish music? Listen to Gregorian chants. That’s probably how the Levi’im sang in the Beis Hamikdash.
Nitpicker: Yes. I meant Makdish.
Naysberg: There is no source anywhere whatsoever for the popular idea that L’asid Lavo we Pasken by Beis Shammai.
And I think there are six (plus 18) quoted in a Tosfos on Sukkah 3a if I recall correctly. It’s those 6 plus the Shmoneh Asar Davar in the end of the first Perek of Shabbos.
Loyal Jew: Source that “reversing gender roles” is Assur please.
PBA: I always thought that too. A physicist once tried to explain why I was wrong. I didn’t understand it.
Coffeefan: “Go!” is the shortest complete sentence. It has an implied subject.
Why doesn’t Vizhnitz eat fish on Pesach?
2qwerty: If it’s hers why not? If it’s his she can probably be Mekadesh something small but not something big, but maybe there is what to discuss on that.
Chacham: I feel like no. He can’t get rid of it L’mafreah so if she made something Hekdesh it stays Hekdesh. Mah She’ein Kein by a Hatarah because that is Oker the Neder Lemafreah. This feels too Pashut though. It has to be that a Gemara or Rishon said that first.
EY Mom: That doesn’t make any sense. We are Machmir that Mei Peiros are Machmitz Miyad. Shouldn’t Gebrochts for Mei Peiros be more Machmir than water?
And dipping shouldn’t be a problem even if you don’t eat Gebrochts. Just make sure to eat it immediately. You do have 18 (or more) minutes before any Chashash Chametz even begins to exist.
As an aside, I once met someone who bragged how Machmir he was on Gebrochts. He was worried about the Matzah becoming Chametz in his mouth. (He had a good Sevara, we say that warm water is Machmitz much faster and body temperature is quite warmer than room temperature.) So he ate his Matzah inside a plastic baggie. I slapped my head to my forehead and walked away. (I didn’t explain to him why he wasn’t Yotzei because he used to get violently angry whenever I would tell him why his silly Chumros actually led to more problems than they solved. I think I was Yotzei Tochachah with him until he was willing to hit me.)
Cooking in Keilim is different than dipping Matzah into soup. (And it still wouldn’t Treif up your Keilim. The only way it would would be if the Chashash Chimutz was actually legitimate, and in such a case it would be an Assur to cook the Gebrochts in the first place.)
AIC: It’s still Yad Yehudim Tekifin Al Atzman. And I won’t argue with R’ Miller, but that’s against P’shat in Nach.
Sushe: I’m not sure what your point is. The Chassam Sofer’s point was that it led to the building of Bayis Sheni, which is why we can celebrate it.
Sushe: That’s beyond ridiculous. For that to be true your soup would need to be a Kli Rishon (it’s not). And you would need to assume that the bit of Matzah in your soup is actually Machmitz in the amount of time it will take for you to eat the soup and/or the soup to cool down.
Really MiddlePath? You’re a Virginia Tech fan?
HaLeiVi: That might just be technical though. Toch K’dei Dibbur can change what you said, but it can’t remove it completely. So if you have nothing legitimate to change your Bracha to, then you’re stuck.
Cheftze: There was a war. Jews died fighting in battles throughout Bayis Rishon. There wasn’t the special protection that they had had in the Midbar and Kibush E”Y. I should have said “presumably”, because there’s no source for it, but do you have any reason to think that no Jews died in those battles?
RT: Maybe, but that’s not what the Chasam Sofer says.
AIC: And we have our Poskim nowadays. Do you really think that kings like Menashe or Herod (who killed every member of Chazal he could find) really let the Sanhedrin decide Halachah and how to run the country? I don’t see Z’man Hazeh as any different than what was then. Now as probably better; the government allowed Frum Jews religious freedom.
AIC: Of course they’re Jews. The leaders (and people) for much of Bayis Rishon were Resha’im also. We still mourn the loss of that Bayis and Eretz Yisroel. And look at the Rambam in the beginning of Hilchos Channukah. One of the reasons he mentions that Channukah was such a good thing was that Jews regained sovereignty over Eretz Yisrael for another 200 years. Once again, during a large chunk of that time the leaders were Resha’im as well.
And we celebrate Channukah even though many Jews died fighting those battles. It’s not mentioned, but Jews certainly died defending themselves on Purim. Everyone who dies leading to the G’ula is dying Al Kiddush Hashem. If HKBH has determined that these things are necessary to bring the G’ula, then we should accept them with joy. K’sheim Shemodah Al Hatovah Tzarich Lehodos Al Hara’ah. It’s all good for us because that’s what HKBH knows is best for us in the end. Same thing here.
He would do the same thing that we do now. You don’t eat much during the day, have a big meal at the Seder, then eat a K’zayis of the Mitzvah at the end.
I once met a family who doesn’t eat Gebrochts and who holds that potatoes are Kitniyos “just in case”, to use his words. I honestly don’t know what they eat.
AIC: Rav Schachter quotes a Chassam Sofer that there’s an Issur of Ba Tosif to make an extra hoiday. How, then could Chazal have made Channukah and Purim? The CH”S answers that there must be a Passuk or a Makor that one must make a holiday on a day which leads to a Geulah having to do with the Binyan or upkeep of the Beis Hamikdash/Eretz Yisrael. Rav Schachter also quotes Rav Herzog who quotes a Ramban that when Jews control Eretz Yisrael a third time they are Muvtach from HKBH that they will never lose it again. That is the source for celebrating Yom Ha’atzma’ut. Because it is a day that is remembered as being part of the Geulah, because HKBH has now promised us that we will never lose Eretz Yisroel again. Interestingly, Rav Schachter points out that no such Havtacha exists on keeping Yerushalayim. Thus, according to Rav Schachter, there is far more reason to celebrate Yom Ha’atzma’ut than Yom Yerushalayim.
As an aside, one of the most fun Gematriyos I’ve heard in my life is that Yom Ha’atzma’ut has the same Gematria as Bittul Torah.
Itche: No Pilpul necessary, just an incredibly Pashut Sevara. If you say Hallel then you can shave (and don’t ask me about Rosh Chodeshl; that Hallel is just a Minhag-this Hallel, if you say it, is a Hallel on a Nes).
Pashtus according to many Rishonim (though not all) is that there is no Inyan to learn 30 days before any holiday except for Pesach and Sukkos. Also, if I recall correctly there are a few Rishonim (maybe only one?) who say that there is no Mitzvah to learn 30 days before a Yom Tov D’Rabannan (assuming that such a thing exists).
HaLeiVi: True. Rav Schachter explained this once. I don’t remember what he said. I think it was in a Shiur 4 or 5 years ago.
Is MiddlePath’s idea really that much of a Chiddush? I thought everyone took that as a Davar Pashut. Wow. I feel really bad for what has happened to us if it’s really considered something incredible to help out your wife if she needs it.
Yitay: I second the motion.
On the idea of saying Ho’il even if no one can eat it, see SHU”T Chassam Sofer O.C 79 and R’ Akiva Eiger 1:7 if I recall correctly. This case should be better than the one they’re discussing though because Gebrochts is Chazi for people who don’t have that Minhag (or even for people who do, depending on who you ask).
HaLeiVi: Because those cases are not a Chazara. That’s Mochiach Sofo Al Tchilaso what he had meant to say.
Loyal Jew: It’s very possible that you’re right. How sad is that fact?
Maybe she holds by the Shulchan Aruch and her husband does all the cleaning.
Oomis: Actually, if you ask Rav Schachter, 18 minutes is a mistake. You actually have 22.
Dontknowitall: I think a father can revoke anything. A husband has limits. I think. I could definitely be wrong on this though.
Avhaben: Of course I can imagine them eating pizza the same way everyone else does. Why wouldn’t they?
Health: While you were right in your argument with Thinking Mom, your personal attacks on her were entirely uncalled for. Why can’t you just make your point and leave the insults out of it?
Logician: I’m not sure if that’s true. I have met many people who only it machine because there is much, much less of a chance of getting uncooked flour in or on your machine Matzah than your hand Matzah.
Farrocks: I don’t think it’s an unfair assumption to say that people didn’t use machine Matzos before they existed. I do think it’s an unfair assumption to say that most people only eat hand Matzos. It may end up being true (I can’t claim to have polled the entire Frum world), but it’s still an unfair assumption.
Rabbi Falk mentions the 4 inches, but it really can’t be more than an Eitzah Tovah as it has no basis in Halachah. Just make sure that the knee (or the area above the knee, as having the knee itself uncovered is a legitimate Shittah Halachah Lema’aseh, unlike a Tefach above the knee which is not) is always covered.
Farrocks: Don’t judge “most people” by your own community. Many Davka use hand and many Davka use machine. And many will use either.
147: There are different accounts given by different people, all of whom had very good reason to know precisely how many pairs he wore. The number I heard from the most sources was 84, if I recall correctly.
The basic idea is that there’s a Kiyum Asei in each pair worn, so why not wear as many as possible? Supposedly he had reasons Al Pi Sod for the precise number he wore, but no one knows exactly what they were.
I don’t see a problem. Why can’t you have Kneidlach all the days of Pesach?
Hello: It didn’t help me understand your point, unless the Beis Yosef learns it differently (I haven’t had a chance to look there yet). I’m not sure why it’s based on Ma’amid. If we assume Ma’amid is Assur because the Issur is Nikeres, the Rashba says specifically that this is Assur in a case even where it’s not Nikeres. I get the feeling here that the Rashba is adding a new category here of something that was added intentionally (but not Bittul Lechatchila), which is Assur on its own right.
I have heard similar stories about Rav Sheinberg and his Tzitzis saving people’s lives. Presumably one of them is true and the rest are just slight variations that came up over time.