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Milah and Korban Pesach are Aseis that get Kareis if you are Mevatel them. The Rishonim try to figure out why it could be that one gets a punishment for a Bittul Asei. There seems to be an assumption that (prescribed) punishments only come for Lavin.
mdd: It is not at all a B’feirush Gemara that it’s obligatory. Just that good things happen if you do.
DY: He only blew one. It’s the same math.
Joseph: Is that the page where his great grandmother learned in Cheder?
The whole question is juvenile. Little kids have to think in terms of “getting” Mitzvos or Aveiros. Normative Psak is that it’s a Chiyuv. Not doing it is abrogating that Chiyuv. How much will HKBH punish you for ignoring this particular Chiyuv? Well if I knew that, I wouldn’t be human.
Isn’t this Pshat in the Gemara why he was only Ratzui L’rov Echav and not Kol Echav? Because the whole story only happened because he started up with Haman?
This is actually the law on the books. There just are no safe drivers in New York City.
DY: Miluim don’t stop you from getting a job. Nor do you have to do Miluim if you didn’t do the army.
nolongersingle: The age is 28, I believe. Maybe 26 if you have two kids or something like that. It’s not young, but it’s not that old. You can find jobs and start with low-paying ones and move your way up, like everyone else does. So you started 8-10 years later? Who cares?
It’s not the Mitzvah of Mishteh, but apparently R’ Schachter holds that one should have a meat meal on Leil Purim.
DY: Even if you don’t do the army you can work at a certain age. The number of Chareidi men working past that age is insanely low.
shopping: There’s a reason little kids (and adults) love Disney. And it’s not because they’re meaningless.
Meh. I’m still not sure it’s actually the Chafetz Chaim. Honestly, someone probably just found the most venerable-looking person he could in the film they had and called it the Chafetz Chayim. It does not look at all like the passport picture to me.
midwesterner: No, that sounds about right. Meaningless Shichrus on Purim will get you the same (long-term) as meaningless Inui on Yom Kippur. Fasting without T’shuvah is meaningless.
It was just naarishkeit until it became a fascinating study in both human vision and social interactions.
The South Korea thing is a myth. They study selected Agaddas in some school systems as part of “international literature”. That’s it.
Of course, the pro-marijuana crowd claims that R’ Moshe’s Psak is based off of incorrect medical information.
But they are my favorite animal ever.
There is zero reason whatsoever to break between fish and meat.
nisht: Almost every disease that a father has antibodies for the mother does because married couples essentially share all germs eventually.
And the Frum people who are anti-MBP are never doing so out of any “inappropriate” connotation. That is an old anti-semitic canard dating back centuries. The Frum people against it have that opinion out of health concerns, nothing else.
zd: False. The concern is viruses on an open wound. That’s it.
It’s a lot of people’s Shittah.
Lior: Parents aren’t a real problem as long as the child is breast-fed because the mother gives the kid immunity to almost anything she has with the milk.
Maybe. Sort of. As long as you don’t expect specific results or to understand *how* they’re good it might be okay.
DY: Of course it depends on the movie. I would never under any scenario endorse seeing an inappropriate movie. But your Chiluk doesn’t exist. If it’s YVY, then it’s YVY even B’Ones.
Lior: There is no Mitzvah whatsoever to drink Purim night. It’s just an excuse people use to get drunk (at best).
DY: There’s no Kreiva L’Arayos by watching a movie. EThe Az Nidb’ru has several Chiddushim in there, but even if we agree to all of them there’s no Kreivah because the movie makes me no closer to the actress. Other Issurim, sure, but not a Yeihareg V’al Ya’avor of Kreivah L’arayos.
If what you’re saying is true, then that means some Achronim hold that one should commit suicide if he knows an inappropriate thought will pop into his head. Hence, absurd.
DY: That’s absurd. Not even Hirhurei Aveirah are Abizraihu D’Arayos. I won’t ever say it’s Muttar to see inappropriate things, but it’s certainly not Yeihareg V’al Ya’avor.
YU has one.
Good. I’ll take R’ Shlomo Zalman and R’ Chaim’s L’ma’aseh over an unnamed Rosh Yeshivah any day.
Lior: It could be that within the process of attempting to prevent him from completing his theft is different. But yes, if there is no proof or witnesses you cannot grab a $5 bill out of his hands (whether the same bill or a different one) at a later time.
Lior: That’s absurd. Until you can trace your use of the flush toilet back to Moshe Rabbeinu, I expect to hear from you that you use an outhouse from now on.
Mordche/Mordechai
Lior: Bava Kama 27. We Pasken in the Shulchan Aruch that it is Muttar but only in a case where there is absolutely no question that you would win this dispute in court. In this case, since there is no proof that would win in a Beis Din, it is Assur.
DY: Your logic about no particular $5 bill being yours is false because money is fungible.
Arachin/Erechin
Excellent irrelevant and out of context quote, Lior (though I guess this is the proper context, sort of).
It depends on how you view genetics. Is the fish a new fish or is it a composite of its “parents”? If it’s a new animal, so all it needs are fins and scales. If it’s considered a product of what created it, then the Treif fish is a Davar HaMa’amid and it would be Assur.
How much is the Rabbi paid?
DY: If your Rav looks you in the eye and tells you, “Yes your kids are starving but Hashem will provide so don’t get a job”, you would trust him? I certainly hope not.
GG: That was an awful comment. You have no idea who he is and how much Tzedaka he gives. Also, if someone puts himself into such a position why is ZD obligated to bail him out?
You don’t need to know NT. You just need to know Tanach. And a lot of Gemara helps too. And the Rambam.
But don’t do it, it’s not fun.
Chullin 91a, I believe.
Rachmana Litzlan if, after a century of living far from such a precipice of poverty, we have intentionally brought ourselves back there again.
DY: It’s actually funny because the old printings have a slightly different line in that Gemara that was censored due to the Christians. But yes, I have your line 🙂 . The point is acknowledgement of who you are.
DY: It’s not about numbers. They don’t give you a Bechina in Shamayim and the one who is most holding wins. Chagigah 5b is a very important Gemara.
AJWC: That’s not a Ra’aya for anything. He also thinks the sky is blue. Does that mean it’s green?
I was once Mochel my worst enemy. He responding by messing me over even more royally than before. Good times…
Brookdale is a community college and mostly a commuter school. I don’t know anything firsthand, but usually those types of schools lack the on-campus parties and such that makes college such a bad place for Frum people.
Sam Klein reminds me of a Rebbe who once pushed a friend of mine off the Derech.
The Rebbe gave a fiery Shmuess to his Yeshiva about watching the Super Bowl and one of the things he said was that Hashem is watching what you are going to do during the Super Bowl and judging you. One of the examples he gave was something like “You know your uncle with cancer? If you stay and learn he’ll be fine. But if you watch the game…” My friend’s uncle was diagnosed with an advanced cancer that March and died two weeks later. To this day, I think that friend still fears he killed his uncle by watching the Super Bowl.
DY: Like I said, “common sense” is quite subjective here. The public school kid has different Taavos than the Chassid (the Gemara points this out). People have to know themselves. If they are going to be Over Issurim when dating at 15, then they shouldn’t date. But if they’re not, then I have a hard time understanding how it’s categorically Assur to “date”.
DY: I’ve admitted that I’m arguing with R’ Moshe. I have admitted that in the past as well.
Necessary is a relative term. If someone meets the right person at 15 but knows that not staying in touch might preclude a later ability to get back together, then necessary could mean years.
In essence, in communities that do this, “dating” means a best friend. And the person isn’t a best friend because they’re of the opposite gender, they’re best friends because they fit together as friends. And those same qualities that make them best friends could eventually lead to the same qualities that are necessary in a spouse.