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HaLeiVi: Ah, true. Fair enough. I thought you were saying V’lo HeHarim Eloheihem as to why a person can’t be A”Z. That didn’t make sense.
HaLeiVi: Which question is that answering?
DY: Wikipedia is not my source. This was years ago, but I’ll try and backtrack it and see where it came from.
Wikipedia about Hello Kitty, under background:
“There has been some suggestion[by whom?] that Hello Kitty has its origins in Maneki Neko, and that the name Hello Kitty itself is a back-translation of Maneki Neko, which means beckoning cat in English.”
Wikipedia of Maneki Neko:
Maneki-neko come in different colors, styles, and degrees of ornateness. Common colors are white, black, gold and sometimes red. In addition to ceramic figurines, maneki-neko can be found as keychains, piggy banks, air fresheners, house-plant pots, and miscellaneous ornaments, as well as large statues. Maneki-neko are sometimes called the “Chinese lucky cat”, as it is also increasingly popular among Chinese merchants.”
Read the origins there also.
I will try and find my source again that claimed positively that Hello Kitty came from Maneki Neko. If you see the pictures, though, the cats are clearly being depicted in the same position.
42: It might not be Avodah Zarah, but I’m certain we can find a way to make it Yein Nesech. (Retroactively, obviously; we could make it Yein Nesech by, you know, being Menasech it, but where’s the fun in that?)
DY: It wouldn’t apply to an Eved K’na’ani either, I assume. A person might have a Kinyan on the E”K but he is not fully “his” in the sense that he has absolute R’shus over him. The “human being-ness”, for lack of a better term, of the E”K still belongs to himself (on a related note, see the Sugya in Gittin about a person who is Mafkir his E”K but died before giving a Shtar Shichrur), which is why the Adon cannot permanently damage him.
See also Chullin 40a for a related topic.
The ones that killed millions with malaria are pretty famous. And it’s not quite a mosquito, but the tsetse fly is close enough.
DY: I would not be Assur B’hana’ah. I don’t worship myself and Ain Adam Oser Davar She’Eino Shelo. So you can believe me and still enjoy my posts. You could read them to make fun of them even if they were A”Z though, so that’s fine.
DY: I am very much an Avodah Zarah. There are plenty of people who worship me (I can’t decide just how not-serious I’m being here).
Ivdu: I didn’t claim it was Satan worship. It’s based off a Japanese (thanks for the correction, I read the book a long time ago) Avodah Zarah.
DY: If Rabbonim said it was Traif the smokers would still rationalize. Second of all, I find it very sad that we have somehow distorted the Torah to a point where Tarfus is more sensitive than Sakanas Nefashos.
If I can say something radical in a slightly different direction, I don’t know why “professional” Shadchanim need to exist at all. I have a friend who was single. My sister had a friend who was single. I knew enough about this girl because my sister spoke about her and had her over a few times, so I set it up. They got engaged, and I was quite shocked to receive a sizable check from the new couple. I didn’t do it for money, it just seemed right. And apparently it’s quite rude to attempt to refuse the money (I asked both the Chassan and Kallah individually because I really felt very uncomfortable taking their parents’ money). So I just bought them a really, really expensive wedding present. It was my money and I could do what I wanted with it.
The point is, people in Frum communities know people. You don’t need boys knowing girls well or vice versa. You need guys who know guys and girls who know girls, and then the overlaps (siblings, close families, neighbors, friendly parents, etc.) can set people up. Honestly, I think turning Shidduchim into a big business has hurt single people more than anything else.
I once found a Haskama for a Sefer that praised the author with the line “Mibirchisa Chavita Leih”. Look up the context in the first Perek of Kesubos…
DY: No, it would be described as an overwhelming desire to make Brachos and appreciate what HKBH gave us in this world.
DY: Frankly, there’s no way anything in a cigarette can be anything but L’shevach. It can’t get worse.
DY: Honestly, I hate that response. “M’od M’od” doesn’t mean Ish Kol HaYashar B’einav to add whatever he wants and impose that on others. It means what the Shulchan Aruch says it means and is an additional level of practical advise to avoid a situation where you might stumble. It doesn’t mean that there’s no limit to the Chumros.
TheBigOne: You are wrong in your definition of Chillul Hashem. The reason doing an Issur in public is Mechallel Shem Shamayim is because it gives an improper indication of what Hashem wants. Hashem wants us to follow Halachah. By publicly flouting Halachah, one (seemingly) shows that Hashem considers such a behavior acceptable. As such, someone improperly represents Hashem.
No one (well, very few people) are claiming to represent Hashem’s will when they publicly admit to doing Mishkav Zachor. As such, Shem Shamayim is not Mechulal because no one is claiming to represent Shamayim in this process. It’s no Chillul Hashem if someone who knows nothing of Yiddishkeit (or a Goy) does something Assur in public. That’s not the point.
Isn’t it an explicit Rambam that if the Middos of HKBH were pure Rachamim then Sh’chitah would never be allowed? Maybe by HaOmer Al Kan Tzippor Yagiu Rachamecha Meshatkin Oso?
To answer the original premise, any world leader of any type requires a sacrifice of time spent with family. President of the United States is no different. HKBH chooses/gives His stamp of approval to the right person with the Kochos to handle it.
PBA: I know of several Sefardi Poskim who allow their followers to be Mattir Neder on fish and milk. In fact, many Sefardim are Noheg L’hakel anyway.
PAA: R’ Ovadia is famous for holding (by several different logical paths) that Ashkenazim should be Sefardim. Ashkenazi Poskim rejected that Psak of his. This is just an example of that. (And see the harsh words R’ Ovadia has the for TZ”E when the TZ”E tried to Pasken for Sefardim against R’ Ovadia.)
Goq: I thought the same of Lebron as you did until I read his piece today about why he is coming back. I think having two kids has actually made a bit of a Mentch out of him. Then again, everyone will know for sure when he is next up for free agency…
outreach: There is a Magen Avraham who says that B’dieved Mezonos works on anything except for water and salt.
old man: See the Chida in Shem HaGedolim about reprinting the Rabbeinu Yerucham. But, Lulei D’mist’fina to argue on the Chida in Nistar, I would be willing to say that the Cherem on reprinting the Rabbeinu Yerucham actually came from Nigleh-i.e. that it’s full of typos. I would guess that that is also R’ Ovadia’s S’vara in permitting it.
Depending on who you hold like, a grape should be able to have Ha’eitz, Ha’adamah, HaGefen, Mezonos, and Shehakol work for it. Grape juice also probably has all 5 work.
Wolf: Well, Obama seems to think that he can, so…
Why would it only be a problem if you use the whole Passuk? How does that change anything at all?
PBA: R’ Moshe says it is only about Shir Hashirim as a Limud Z’chus on using any Passuk. The basic reason is that Shir HaShirim is the easiest to confuse for an actual love song. We might mean the Torah when we hear “Kol Dodi Hinei Zeh Ba” but that’s certainly not what it sounds like. I could see the S’vara extending to Eishes Chayil. Then again, if I had to guess, I would think that Eishes Chayil (unlike Shir HaShirim) is meant to be true on a Pashut Pshat level as well. When you give Pashut Pshat in Shir HaShirim, you lose what it actually means. Saying Eishes Chayil about one’s wife (as an actual love song) is something Jews have been doing for hundreds of years, if not longer.
DY: This is awkward. You just quoted a T’shuvah of the TZ”E that I was entirely unaware of. B”N I’m going to go look it up right now.
PAA: I watched 9 of the 12 parts on Youtube. Entire was a slight exaggeration, I guess, but it was more than enough to understand him and his opinions.
HaLeiVi: He didn’t break with Mesorah. He is a Talmid of R’ Kapach whose Yemenite Mesorah was very similar to that Mesorah anyway. It might be a mistake to try to apply that Mesorah to the rest of Klal Yisrael, but it’s certainly a valid Derech.
Old man: I like it.
Ben: It’s absolutely a typo. He is quoting Rashi word-for-word except he says “3” instead of “6”.
PAA: Indeed I watched the entire thing.
HaLeiVi: This is different. He has a Derech with a legitimate Mesorah, especially among the major Poskim in Egypt in the times of the Rishonim. It is unfair to put him in the same category as Tzedukim or Conservatives.
PBA: I heard Satmar enjoys singing that one.
I honestly have not been able to find any Heter (or even a Limud Zchus) for singing any songs where the lyrics come from Shir HaShirim. And certainly not any that contain concepts like love.
The Barney theme song and Yankee Doodle
YY: Avodah Zarah is Assur B’hana’ah. It by definition has no use. Hence, it’s Muttar to break.
I spent a long time today looking into R’ David Bar-Hayim. Chas V’shalom to say he is Conservative or an Apikores. He is going back to a Halachic style that has fallen out of disuse in the past centuries, but was certainly prevalent in the time of the Rishonim (and seems very similar to the Maharshal). The Maharshal was outvoted by the Shulchan Aruch and those who chose him, but it is a valid Derech.
That being said, Klal Yisrael has for the most part rejected such a Derech. As such, quoting him for anything L’ma’aseh is problematic. But he is not Paskening based on ulterior motives. He is Paskening based on what seems Pashut Pshat based on the available Mekoros.
PAA: He’s not an Ashkenazi Posek. He might be an Ashkenazi; he might be a Posek. But he is a Posek for an era before there was ever a difference between Ashkenazim and Sefardim.
DY: Go as far North as you can on the shortest day of the year, assume first meal towards Chatzos and second meal sometime before Shkia, and you get 3 hours. The problem is that you’d have to go above the arctic circle before you get somewhere with less than a 6-hour day on December 21st.
PBA: It’s a nice Pshetl, but unfortunately the Mizmor L’david’s Chiddush is not borne out by reality or history. Pashut P’shat is that the Minhag developed based on a typo in the Rabbeinu Yerucham.
I believe the Mishnah B’rurah quotes a Shlah that one who has his eyes open during Shmoneh Esrei will not be Zoche to see the Geulah. The M”B adds on that if one is looking in a Siddur it’s fine, if I recally correctly.
From what I recall, most Poskim don’t seem to bring this concept down. So we probably have a Makom to be Meikel (and certainly a Limud Zchus) Mistimas Divreihem.
chochom-ibber: Please, enlighten me. What does the Gemara in Brachos say about two families sharing a meal? (The only possible thing I can think that you are thinking of is by M’zuman and Nashim V’avadim.)
Bookwoem: I am not holding in the company or its products. I saw in a book once that Hello Kitty was based off an idol. That set off alarm bells in my mind so I did research into Hello Kitty. I do not recall seeing anything about other characters, but I really wasn’t looking for that at all.
rebyidd: Perek Shirah?
Bookworm: There’s actually a Chinese restaurant in E”Y (with a Badatz Hechsher) that has the idol displayed in it. People just don’t know.
Tai Chi is Avodah Zarah. Most martial arts are based in Avodah Zarah though the forms of them left today are just artistic and combat moves and thus are probably not Assur.
Yoga is Avodah Zarah.
yungermanS: That’s a nice rant, though obviously meaningless L’ma’aseh. You should add to it that the Gematria of Dollar (Dalet Vav Lamed Reish)=240=Amalek.
Bookworm: Look it up. It is actually based on a Chinese idol.
In fact, I knew someone in a secular college whose roommate actually worshipped the Hello Kitty idol. It had a ritual for good luck and everything.
ben: A cross is Avodah Zarah no matter where it is. Sort of. No one is actually worshipping the chess piece or the Red Cross symbol or the Swiss flag, but it’s based off Avodah Zarah. Then again, so is Hello Kitty, so there’s no difference between your example and mine.
PBA: Shkiya in London is currently after 9. Two weeks ago it was after 9:30. I think Paris can approach 10 pm. You work later than that on every other weeknight? I find that hard to believe.
Hello Kitty
First of all, early Shabbos is a Kiyum Asei D’Oraisa according to almost everyone except the Rambam.
Second of all, DY beat me to the Rashi that HKBH doesn’t have Tosefes Shabbos because He can be Metzamtzem while we can’t (thus, Tosefes Shabbos would actually take away from His perfection and thus it’s not Shayach to Him at all).
Third of all, many places on Earth are just not Shayach to take in Shabbos late in the summer (try London). I know big Rabbonim who are not Makpid on the Mishnah B’rurah’s Chumra to have a K’zayis of bread after Tzeis Friday night because they are asleep before then, as Tzeis can get close to or after midnight (especially if you want to hold 72 or 90 minutes or even degrees). So people fall back to Ikkar HaDin (that early Shabbos works) because there really is no choice.
PAA: Everyone learns in their homes. I can’t prove it, but I have long thought that you cannot give your own house a Din of a Beis Medrash. It’s a house; you live there. I have also thought that you cannot apply this Rama/Gemara of Makom D’Garsi to one’s own house, though I can’t prove that either. But Libi Omer Li that it has to be a place where the Ikkar Kavua is learning, not living.
YUTorah puts up Shiurim from almost 30 Roshei Yeshivah daily (as well as numerous other speakers and Rabbonim). One of those has to be right for you. Try them out and see what works.
PAA: Yes, but that doesn’t help because this is not an issue of Davening where you learn vs Shul. It’s an issue of Yechidus vs Tzibbur, where the Tzibbur option is (presumably) where you learn.
PAA: The second T’shuvah you quoted. That’s not like you at all. He should go to the Minyan in Yeshivah, even if it necessitates going to sleep earlier out of his night Seder.