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Any song you like. Just about every tune can be made to fit Lecha Dodi. Just pick your favorite song and go with it.
DY: Many of them, sure. They’re waiting for a chance to kill us all anyway. Going on to Har HaBayis may provoke minor immediate violence, but it’s not more than they plan on doing eventually anyway. No peaceful Arab becomes unpeaceful after someone goes onto Har HaBayis. Those who would attack Jews for going up are eventually going to attack Jews anyway.
No one knows. We’ll figure it out post facto.
yekke: The assumption is that a fair God wouldn’t do such a thing.
DY: I don’t believe ou that the Rabbi stoned you. You’re Passul L’eidus for endorsing iPhone usage.
DaMoshe: I’m pretty sure there’s one in Chelek 2 or 3 of Tshuvos V’hanhagos by R’ Shternbuch.
The Frumguy: That didn’t result in deaths. The death came when someone stabbed another Kohen.
The Gemara’s apparent timeline as is is problematic, though, because Nero was the one who sent Vespasian himself. So he clearly didn’t do Teshuvah immediately. Him doing Tshuvah later can work in the wording of the Gemara, but it’s forced.
It’s possible. The Gemara or Mishna never records it.
It’s interesting that these stampedes only happen at the hajj because they all ignore the rules of limits for where people can be and when. Within Nissim Gluyim, we would need (and presumably would have if the Neis stopped) these rules. As long as they were followed, people would be safe.
Joseph: Doesn’t the Gemara say that that was just Bayis Rishon, not Bayis Sheni?
Joseph: That is incredibly unlikely as none of the Roman sources or ancient historians even reference, in any way, his conversion.
I find it most likely that, if you want to reconcile the Gemara’s account with the history that we can tell, he just ran off and disappeared after being condemned for being a traitor to Rome. Everyone assumed he killed himself (I searched but I don’t think anyone mentions a funeral). In reality he became Jewish and lived in anonymity somewhere.
HaLeivi: It is not thousands of years old. It was clearly very different in the times of Rashi.
DY: I don’t need to be an expert in Kaballah. The Mechaber called it a Shtus. I’m not against doing it per se because it is an old Minhag, but I do think the way it is currently done has to be stopped.
nisht: I’m disappointed in myself also. I have to remember, but someone quoted that the chicken should Davka go to Tzedaka. I apologize for thinking of the wrong one.
The Minhag isn’t that long-standing, by the way. It started well after Rashi’s time (see the Rashi I quoted as the second comment in this thread). The Mechaber calls it a Minhag Shel Shtus (before later printers edited it to not be mean to the Ashkenazim). It had major questions on it to begin with (which Pashtus is we answered because Poskim for the most part defend it, not scream at it) and the fact that a huge factor of Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim is now included should really matter to us.
Joseph: I’m sure there are Shittos that say that you get Schar for not violating Lavin. That’s why I said maybe.
Joseph: Maybe not. Maybe all you did was avoid a potential way to lose lots of Schar.
I saw somewhere recently (don’t remember where) that we only receive Schar for Mitzvos, not for avoiding Aveiros. So this could all be moot anyway.
Mods: Shouldn’t the article also include her natural hair color? It might be that she always goes outside with it, but if something is wrong it is not guaranteed that she will be able to wear it.
Did someone really claim that it’s Assur to go on Har HaBayis because it’s Makom Avodah Zarah? Last I checked, Eloheihem Al HeHarim Velo HeHarim Eloheihem.
nisht: Wrong. Open a Kitzur Shulchan Aruch.
Joseph: There are major Poskim who have said the way these chickens are treated is a violation of Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim. Is R’ Moshe Shternbuch a “PETA-type crazy”.
PBA: Anti-Torah people saying stupid things is not a reason to do things that are potentially problematic. We don’t kill Christian babies just because the antisemites say we do.
Sam Klein: You know, Ziyuf HaTorah is a form of Avodah Zarah too…
Joseph: These are Mishnayos. You should learn them.
The lender can’t ask for payment. The borrower can try to pay. The lender has to say “Meshamet Ani”. The borrower can then say “Af Al Pi Kein” and it counts as a repayment, not a gift. And the Mishnah says that “Ruach Chachamim Noche” from someone who repays the debt that passed Shmitah.
Joseph: R’ Moshe disagrees with you. He seems to think employees have a Chazakah on their jobs and can’t be fired without cause.
Joseph: To answer your question, who says they don’t? If they can’t enforce it, it’s because they turned the Gezeilah into a Milveh.
Semantics are stupid. Words mean whatever meaning we give them. To you the word “Frum” has no negative connotations, therefore you see it as having no negative connotations. To others that might not be true. The same word can mean different things when used by different people. The whole premise of this thread is fallacious.
I recently had a Chareidi relative visiting New York from Meah Shearim and he attended Slichos in YU (main Beis Midrash before Shacharis) and was shocked by how similar it was to Yeshivos in E”Y. I’ve never been, but the Slichos there are reportedly very good.
Mashiach Agent: The first rule of being like Rochel Imeinu or Yirmiyahu HaNavi is to not think you’re like them. Also, fasting for 72 hours straight every day is quite a feat. I would love to be able to learn 72 hours straight every day.
Mashiach Agent: Why do you assume people aren’t doing Tshuvah?
Joseph: No one knew it was a passenger jet when he entered the classroom. There were different rumors and reports and initial unreliable eyewitnesses were contradictory (which is why there are “Truthers” and conspiracy theorists saying crazy things). Bush could have heard possible reports, but he couldn’t have known.
I was once at a wedding with dairy food. It felt weird, but honestly the food was better than any other wedding I’ve ever been to.
Just to be clear, “Modern Orthodox” and “Baal Teshuvah” don’t mean the same thing. Very few places market themselves as both. Good BT places with Smicha programs in Israel would be Ohr Sameach or Chapelle’s, and look at Sha’ar Yashuv in America. Good MO places in Israel would be Gush, maybe the Sha’alvim or KBY Kollel but those are trickier. In America, YU.
I would love to know who Joseph considers the “normative common sense Psak” when R’ Moshe, R’ Shlomo Zalman, and R’ Elyashiv are all “minority opinions”.
PBA: Why are you surprised? If I think that you can’t be Yotzei Maror with horseradish then Kal V’chomer I think it’s Muttar to eat bacon.
Bacon might be “meat”, but it’s nowhere near as heavy as any meat we have. Serve lamb bacon at a Bris. It won’t be nearly as awkward as our meat.
feivel: When I have time I’ll try to dig them up B”N. But they can do studies about UV radiation in locations that haven’t been (as) affected by human pollution (e.g. above very remote areas in the Pacific) and they can calculate how strong the ozone layer was by reverse-engineering how much damage was done and things like that. This was one of the paragraphs we had to read in a practice SAT and the topic interested me so much that my teacher gave me lots of reading on it. I just have to find my high school notebooks…
feivel: Both are true. UV rays do naturally filter through at unhealthy rates in many places during certain times of the year. Our poisoning of the atmosphere and ozone layers has exacerbated the problem, but the problem was always there. There are many studies on this.
feivel: So why do you have a right to common sense and I don’t (though I try to avoid “common sense” Halachic arguments because they’re often so subjective)?
Who pays $20 for 10+ hours of work? That’s insane.
yehudayona: To quote R’ Soloveitchik (referring to toothpaste), “Do you think dogs know the Halachah? Your dog is a Shoteh!”
stam: You didn’t answer my question. I said studies have been inconclusive about it being bad for you. But no one claims it’s beneficial (except you).
stam: Can you explain why you think saturated fats are good for you? Studies have been inconclusive about them being bad for you. There’s no evidence that it’s good for you though.
From Wahls’ own website:
“Then it occurred to me to search for vitamins and supplements that helped any kind of progressive brain disorder. Slowly I created a list of nutrients important to brain health and began taking them as supplements. The steepness of my decline slowed, for which I was grateful, but I still was declining.
In the summer of 2007, I discovered Functional Medicine, an organization devoted to helping clinicians use the latest scientific discoveries to take better care of those with complex chronic diseases. As a result I developed a longer list of vitamins and supplements that were good for my brain. Then I had an important epiphany. What if I redesigned my diet so that I was getting those important brain nutrients not from supplements but from the foods I ate?”
And I’m saying that even if that’s true it shouldn’t matter, because there will be no way for there to be Blios in your food.
Just so we’re agreed. 🙂
stam: All Dr. Wahls did was figure out which nutrients and vitamins fight MS best and altered her diet to maximize getting those chemicals in her body. It worked brilliantly. She in essence self-medicated *what the doctors were advising anyway* with her diet.
So we have discovered that MS, which is fought with naturally-occurring vitamins anyway, can be fought by eating those naturally. How on Earth does that help for cancer?
nisht: I don’t check but I have seen detergents with a Badatz in Israel. Also, even if soap comes into contact with a tablecloth which comes into contact with food, who cares? There will be no Blios or even a Chiyuv of Hadacha from that contact.
The fallacy of this thread is the assumption that just because something has a Hechsher means that someone thinks it needs a Hechsher.
DY: No, but it is very important for the rest of the world to realize that he is wrong. Disproving such ideas can be actual Pikuach Nefesh.
feivel: If I said something was “common sense” you would call it a “Boich Sevara”.
stam: So because pharmaceutical companies fund hospitals and med schools every med student who steps foot into med school is somehow magically brainwashed to not understand nutrition? The labs they study in school that explain how medication works are fake? I’m really confused as to your logic.
Also, let’s point this out: “Lou Gherigs, Crohns, Celiac disease”
I have a feeling anyone who has known someone who has died of ALS would walk up to you and punch you in the face for that comment. It is a debilitating disease with no known cure or treatment. Neurons all over the body (starting with extremities and moving closer) just stop working and no one has figured out why. But you, mister genius quach stam a deya, have figured out the cure! Who needs the hundreds of millions donated to research last summer? Who needs to look into anything? So again, I challenge you:
Publish what you say works and how or admit that you are either a liar or a murderer for not sharing this information to the World.
Celiac is a hereditary immune system condition in which your antibodies attack gluten molecules as if they were bacteria, which ends in the antibodies attacking and destroying villi in the stomach and intestines. Please explain to me how your cell-healthy diet fixes that.