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There are two remazim in this thread. One spells Trump’s name with a Tes and one with a Taf.
LU: Can you leave a list of the sources he cited here? Then I can get around to them sometime later this week, I hope.
gofish: I do not have time right now, but I hope that I can encourage you by saying that I can explain why every single one of Joseph’s sources is taken out of context and what the proper meaning is. And no, it’s not that women are jars of excrement.
dovrosenbaum: The fight against gay marriage is over. The religious lost. All candidates support gay marriage now. Ted Cruz didn’t, kinda, but he was it. You don’t remember Trump saying how he was pro-LGBT at the convention?
I’m guessing that the Yemenite (and many other Sephardic) communities would be quite insulted by your claim that no one has been persecuted more than this group.
LF: Many Poskim have pointed out that it seems from our use of the Vilna Shas and how Bava Kama 36 is printed that we don’t hold like the Yam Shel Shlomo that making Torah more appealing to non-Jews who might not like it as is is Yeihareg V’al Ya’avor.
Yoreh Deah 116:3 is explicit that the only Issur is to eat them together. If they are cooked together, then you are by definition eating them together. Many are careful to avoid putting them on the same plate because it’s likely that they’ll get mixed, but that’s not an actual Issur. There is certainly no issue of being on the same table.
MA: Do you look things up (or even learn them at all) before you claim that something is “a Halacha in Shulchan Aruch”? Fish and meat is not a Halacha, it is something that is Assur Mishum Sakanah. That has several Nafka Minos. And it is very, very, very clear (I cannot stress how clear it is) from the Shulchan Aruch and the Poskim that it is only Assur when they are cooked together. There is nothing wrong with having them on the same table.
Mashiach Agent: No, everyone does not have equal rites. Or are you claiming that women are allowed to wear Tefillin?
Joseph: I don’t know anyone or the entire situation, but you are claiming half of a “chicken or egg” conversation. Maybe Lipa is upset with the Gedolim and says bad things about them because he is hurt and his experiences do not match up with what he grew up expecting from Gedolim?
Joseph: I think it was in HaPardes but I’m not sure. He says it’s a Chillul Hashem to get married without a marriage license.
Meno: That is actually a Mashal that originated in Christian sources. It might be a good and meaningful Mashal, but it’s definitely not what Gan Eden and Gehinnom actually are.
Joseph: It is 100% legal and halachic to have a chupa v’kedushin sans any state marriage license. It isn’t even questionable in the slightest.
R’ Henkin disagrees. If I recall correctly, R’ Moshe does too.
Shopping: It’s easy to vote from overseas. File for an absentee ballot. They’ll mail it to you and you can vote like any other citizen.
MA: Lol. Plenty of Rabbis use the internet. I doubt they “hang out’ in the CR, but they have internet.
akuperma: Stein has also flip-flopped on major issues to adjust to the rapidly-shifting far-left base. Johnson has been pretty consistent for most of his career, though he shifted left on some issues when he left the Republican Party (which makes sense). The constitution party and the new independent (McMullin, I think his name is) also seem to be ideologically consistent, but they’re way out there in terms of having no real support.
Many American Poskim, especially decades ago (R’ Henkin was the most famous of them) held it was Assur to get Halachically married without a marriage license because it is a Chillul Hashem because it looks like you are “living in sin”. Very few are Mapkid on that nowadays, though I have heard some are.
Toi: I never use hashtags. I just used one here instead of posting “Poe’s Law” because of the nature of the thread. You don’t have to worry about me. I hope. 🙂
#PoesLaw
It’s obviously B. The only reason for someone to be so adamant about what he is going to do is to guarantee himself the money by having both choose Split. Now, I guess that the other guy could have known this and chosen Take, but it’s not worth the risk. So they both took Split and split the money.
iac: Yes, but a much milder form of shame than, for example, Boshes or Cherpah or Klimah.
If you don’t have anywhere else, start a blog (blogspot is supposedly very east) and email it to all your friends and let it spread from there.
Depends how old, depend who is on the beach.
Health: Maybe conservative justices with overturn Obergefell, but no one will make sodomy illegal. Even if the courts would (and there is no reason to uphold such laws), the local governments would just rescind them. The vast majority in this country now are no longer interested in making sodomy illegal. That ship has long since sailed.
It means not nice. It’s a “gnai”. “Gnai” means a bad thing. There are stronger Leshonos to mean more awful things. “Gnai” is a relatively benign word of bad things.
DY: That is a fascinating way to look at it.
Ben Levi: Honestly, for the vast majority who believe in evolution, it’s about figuring out what is more likely to be true. It’s not about making humans and animals the same.
Meguneh does not mean disgusting.
LU: No. R’ Elyashiv Davka referred to the Sheishes Yemei Bereishis being 24-hour days.
TCMO: I did not say everything was Apikorsus. There are some things that are. That is not debatable. What falls under that might be.
Joseph: I am aware of the sources. I’m also aware that it’s fair to read Rashi as saying that 24 hours means vis-a-vis itself–meaning it was a normal day with some form of progression that shifted and can be divided into 24 recognizable parts, like our days. It doesn’t have to mean that they 24 hours averaged to 60 minutes each.
LLL: Very knowledgeable people have attempted to reconcile evolutionary history with Chumash. Some have done a better job than others. We have no statement on if all the animals were created at once, so it is possible (see below) to reconcile much of evolution with Chumash if someone is so inclined. I would be very hesitant when it comes to humans, though. The Torah is pretty explicit that Hashem created Adam and Chava at the end of creation, after all of the other life-forms. Even if one tries to reconcile evolution, La’anias Da’ati, it has to end with human beings.
The main problem you run into, though, is time. If you assume that the 6 days of creation were 6 24-hour periods, there just isn’t enough time for any evolution. The idea that it is heretical to believe that those days were longer than 24 hours seems to be quite a minority, though supposedly R’ Elyashiv did say it (and all of the Mekubalim got very angry at him for it). We do, however, find no Rishonim or Achronim (that I know of) that claim that the numbers of the ages and generations given from Adam to Avraham aren’t meant to be taken literally, so the 5776-year clock has to start from Adam according to everyone. I am partial to Gerald Schroeder’s work on this subject. I don’t agree with it personally, but he does a very good job trying to reconcile the ideas of the age of the universe.
For whatever it’s worth (which is not much), I personally see no need to accept evolution of species as the way HKBH created the world. I see no issue with Him creating a world with genetically related species. Basically, the Kashyas of evolution and science on these issues don’t bother me. But for those that they do, I do think that some of the attempts at reconciliation are definitely not Kefirah. They might not be right, but they’re not Kefirah either.
DY: To be fair, R’ Saadyah Gaon can be read as saying exactly just that. It will depend on how far you can extend “Eineinu Ro’os”.
Comlink: I’ll argue with you. Let’s say a game like gin or rummy, where part of the game is discarding (not playing, but discarding) the cards that don’t fit in your hand, could definitely be Borer. I could hear a claim why it’s not if the card is still playable after, in which case a “discard” is really just another form of “playing” the card, but I’m eh on accepting that.
You forgot Operation
Meno: Not really. A really Safek Pikuach Nefesh allows one to be Mechalel Shabbos. But it’s clear there’s a concept of some form of Sakanah that can matter but does not rise to the level of Pikuach Nefesh vis-a-vis V’chai Bahem.
Health: I have friends who are doctors, lawyers, paralegals, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, public school teachers, private school teachers, university professors, video game programmers, computer science coders (lots of different one, don’t know the technical titles), IT managers, financial advisors, hedge fund workers, executives of companies, among many others. They can all leave early on Friday afternoons in the winter.
kaganys: How can u say that trump I’d a failed businessman if he’s the most successful businessman around today
What makes him the most successful businessman around today? He’s nowhere near the richest. According to the Forbes list this year, he is #336 in the world. Bloomberg has him at around #500. Other, far more successful businessmen (including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, and Mark Cuban) think that he’s more of a failure than a success as a businessman.
Joseph: So don’t take courses in evolutionary history. The methods are true, just not the application to the past. If you take a class in cell biology or anything that uses PCR, the history of the evolution stuff is irrelevant. Most professors or evolutionary theorists don’t care about how the world came into being. They might assume it doesn’t involve God, but that lack of God is not relevant to their courses so they won’t mention anything. High school biology classes are much more problematic than college ones.
Also, again, unless you’re taking contemporary sociology courses, no one will put in the current college campus liberal agenda. Maybe some English courses. So find and avoid the teachers who espouse “PC culture” and avoid sociology. It’s not like math or physics or computer science or whatever professors will be injecting political ideas into their courses.
That is brought in many Achronim. I’m not sure if it’s in the Shulchan Aruch too, but it might be.
LU: Of course there is such a thing as a completely Kosher movie. They might be incredibly rare, but they exist.
Someone famous said that vaccines gave her kid autism and this famous woman crusaded for others to believe her. And then lots of moronic men (V’hameivin Yavin) believed her and once it became societally not-crazy to believe in anti-vaccination, so others followed along too and even found “logic” in it.
Ironically enough, it turns out her kid has a genetic disorder from birth, not autism.
Evolution per se is not Kefirah. It is a function in nature that we can actually see. The idea that evolution was the way in which all the species on our planet was formed probably is Kefirah (it seems to be according to most, though apparently R’ Hirsch and a few others said it isn’t). That doesn’t make studying evolutionary functions as it pertains to modern-day medicine (or other scientific applications) Kefirah.
We wanted to include Mishnayos and a Baraisa in the Davening so that everyone who Davens will at least say some Mikra, Mishnah, and Talmud every day.
Meno: Doing something dangerous (without good reason) is Assur. That doesn’t make it Muttar to be Mechalel Shabbos to stop. The Gemara says that climbing a tree is a Safek Pikuach Nefesh (vis-a-vis that the climber can fall and die). But it’s not Muttar to be Mechalel Shabbos to stop someone from climbing a tree.
Joseph: I have answered you on this many times in the past. It’s kinda sad that you pretend that responses to your claims don’t exist.
My comment got deleted. Understandably so. Mods, any chance there’s a way I can convey that information without it getting deleted?
just say it was someone famous
I find it absolutely hilarious that so many Trump supporters critique Hillary for being a “liar”. Look, there are lots of reasons to think she’s bad. And thinking that she would be worse than Trump isn’t crazy (even though I disagree with it). But a liar? Trump has barely been on the political scene for a year and he has already told more lies than any candidate or president in recent history, possibly even ever. The man just has no regard for the truth. He lies about anything and everything if it sounds good. Criticizing Hillary for her server, her emails, her getting money from groups in foreign nations, etc. makes sense. I get it. Calling her a liar? If you live in a glass house, don’t launch a catapult.
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LU: Sort of. Kreivah L’Arayos might be Yeihareg V’al Ya’avor, but it’s still only a Lav. Shabbos is an Issur Skilah. Shabbos is more Chamur. Kreivah has one Chumra attached because of its status as Abizraihu, not on its own merit.
Excellence: I think that it is because of logic like yours why the Rambam frames this Ikkar Emunah as one that you have to actually actively “hope for” every day. The other Ikkarim are just things you have to believe. This one you have to actively want.
Sparkly: All throughout high school and several college-level courses. I have also tutored high school and college students in biology and chemistry.
LSS: “Believe in science”? What does that even mean? “Science” is not a system of beliefs. It’s a study of the world as we see it. It’s Kefirah to study how things work?
Go to YU. Immersion therapy.
shopping: I’m curious if you read any of my responses to your TV and movies addiction claim.