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PBA: Because my father sells our Chametz (I’m easier; I never own any Chametz) and he knows what he’s doing.

PBA: We don’t sell our real Chametz because we hold that is a Ha’arama that wouldn’t work on a D’oraisa anyway. So we only sell Ta’aroves Chametz, Chametz Nokshah, etc. So if we ever find Chametz on Pesach (and B”H we never have) then we would burn it.

Let me get this straight: You’re asking for us to post what we believe stereotypes are in this thread? This can lead to no good…

Yungerman: I’m not so sure that we hold like the fact that you only have to worry about them where they first land anyway. There is a story in Mo’ed Kattan about how an Amora (I think Shmuel) threw his nails at his brother-in-law or some similar relative. Rashi there points out that he must have gathered them afterwards because the Gemara elsewhere says that one who throws his fingernails is a Rasha (because of the pregnant woman Sakanah). Now, Shmuel had already gathered them up to throw them at his relative. So presumably the problem is not just where they first land. (Also, it could still fit with the P’shat because if they get kicked/bounced/rolled around they will become duller and won’t be as sharp of an object to step on.)

Logician: Because this is an Olam Shel Sheker HKB”H expects us to not see the good in everything. Therefore we have a Bracha on apparently bad things to remind us that there is good in everything.

Why would you call it a Zechus? It’s a tremendous Pikuach Nefesh for no reason.

Nechomah: That’s interesting and a true point. If one would bite their nails then they would have to wash their hands afterwards just life any time you cut your nails or get a haircut. That doesn’t mean you can’t bite them. It just means that anytime you actually bite a piece off you would need to wash your hands.

A mamin: I find that hard to believe. The internet may be a catalyst, but it’s very rarely a cause for these issues.

I’m sure the mods won’t allow this question through (I’m not even sure that I think that they should, honestly….

Rav Moshe has a T’shuvah permitting men to be lifeguards. Presumably this would be the same.

Also, the Issur of watching women dance is very unclear to begin with, especially if they aren’t dancing inappropriately. Still, if a photographer knows that seeing the women dance will lead him to Assur thoughts, then he isn’t allowed to videotape the women.

I think it’s silly. The mods can think for themselves. If you don’t like a thread, explain why. Posts just reading “Please close this thread” don’t add anything. If you’re uncomfortable, ignore the thread. If you think you have a reason to close it that the mods may not have thought of, say so. If you just want it closed, then the mods who haven’t closed it yet obviously disagree with you. A simple request to close doesn’t add anything.

I appreciate the support. Still, that thread got closed when someone requested it, and some mod (this one) got tired of modding the questionable comments on it.

PBA: Rav Schachter says that it falls under Dina D’malchusa because it is for the safety of the society.

I don’t think there’s any Halachic issue with biting nails.

You should throw them out, burn them, or flush them down the toilet (some have a preference to burn them but there’s probably no actual difference). Don’t ever leave them lying around.

The Gemara says that a woman who walks over a fingernail can lose her baby. I once heard a wonderful P’shat that it probably means that if she steps on it she might think she was just bitten by a scorpion and the fear/trauma will cause her to miscarry. But we assume that it’s a Kabbalistic Inyan and therefore you should never leave them lying around, even though scorpions are not present around us nowadays in most places.

I’m gonna get in trouble for saying this, and the difference is obvious, but not all acts of Prishus means more Kedushah and Taharah (and this extreme example is to prove the point, not to compare Ger to any of these people). The Tzedukim/Essenes/other sects were more “Machmir” than Chazal on Tumah and Taharah issues (see the Mishnayos in Yadayim). That doesn’t at all make them more Kadosh or Tahor than the rest of K’lal Yisroel who followed Chazal. Ad’raba.

And this discussion was not to bash Ger or anyone. It was to dispute the premise stated by a poster that one who doesn’t hold hands with his wife is inherently more Kadosh and Tahor than one who does.

Yitzchok: That concept does not make someone with any particular Hanhaga not to do something more kadosh than anyone else. I could decide to stop eating pretzels (even Pas Yisrael and Yashan) L’shaim Shamayim. That would not make me inherently more Kadosh than everyone else who eats pretzels.

Ken Zayn: I don’t believe that survey. 1000 is far too small a sample size to be significant in a country this big, especially with so many sub-demographics.

NOMTW: Sorry, I thought you were referring to a play called “Elphaba” which was a precursor to Wicked. And the name Elphaba never came from Baum. They named her Elphaba after Baum’s initials (Lyman Frank Baum-LFB), which is even more of an affront to him. I cannot confirm this, but I also heard that they waited for a few of his kids or grandkids or something like that to die before coming out with the play because they some of them were so disgusted with the distortion of the story.

And yes, the Wizard of Oz is credited with being the first full-length color movie, even though the Kansas scenes are in black and white.

I think far too many people here don’t realize that almost nothing Popa says is ever serious.

I just read it. I was beyond saddened and disgusted. And she learned the wrong thing from the Purim story. Ester refused the makeup and was the pretty one anyway.

Apparently this wasn’t solely anti-semitic. The gunman has struck 3 times, targeting a different minority each time (he hit Arabs too).

Aaron Chaim: Of course he would have. It wouldn’t have been his Yahrtzeit yes. 🙂

Avhaben: It’s fine for young children, completely Kosher, though it may be a little scary. There is also a Kol Isha issue if your kids aren’t that young.

NOMTW: Really? Shouldn’t you be biased against it? The play Wicked completely distorted and destroyed Baum’s entire world outside of the Wizard of Oz movie. True Baum fans absolutely hate the play.

Hello99: I am still not sure why you are completely comparing a Milsa D’avida L’ta’ama to a Ma’amid. Can you give the source/link this Rashba so we can see it inside? I would think that Avida L’ta’ama, while operating under similar principles to Ma’amid, would be worse, particularly in this situation. (Especially because I think I recall hearing that we treat a Milsa D’avida L’ta’ama as not Bateil because it’s inherently Nosein Ta’am, not because it’s a Ma’amid.)

Also, I think that you may be mistaken in applying the Shach 87:35 here. He does not say that by all Heter. The basis for something becoming Basar B’chalav is that Derech Bishul Asrah Torah. So you need meat to give flavor into milk (or vice versa) in a way that is a Derech Bishul. There is a separate Issur of a Davar Hama’amid. We say that a Ma’amid is never Battul, so we treat the Issur like it’s there. Thus, when you have a N’veilah Hama’mid in something, it is like a N’veilah. Having meat be Ma’amid in milk is fine because there is no Nesinas Ta’am so it never becomes Basar B’chalav. You just happen to have a food with both meat and milk in it that is Muttar to eat. In this case, however, we are not concerned with something becoming Basar B’chalav. We are concerned with something becoming Assur because it has an Issur D’rabannan of having milk in it. If we treat this milk like a Ma’amid (according to your understanding of the Rashba) and that it never be Batel, then these products now have milk in them, which makes them Assur Mid’rabannan.

(As an aside, I’m not entirely convinced that the bread becomes Assur immediately and you can’t add the Siman after the fact. If your intention is to add a Siman by stamping a letter D or something like that into the bread as soon as it comes out of the oven, I’m not entirely convinced that that wouldn’t work.)

Wolf: I think you missed my point.

If an Amaleki wants to fulfill Hashem’s will then he’s probably not an Amaleki.