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DY: I never watched, and it’s certainly not worth watching, but to quote a Rebbe of mine, “Some of their best scenes contain more Mussar than most S’farim written nowadays.”
DY: I still remember the day I was called “an untrustworthy modern liberal” because I eat Gebrochts.
And your proof is a proof against you. Even those who hold that Chazal can err in science and claim that we know nowadays that Metzitzah does nothing still do Metzitzah on Shabbos.
Swetkib (Joseph?)probably: Whatever mistakes Slifkin may have made as a person has no bearing on whether or not his Shittah that Chazal can err in science is Kefirah.
R’ Dessler’s Shittah is only tenable if you assume the Hishtalshlus of Torah Sheba’al Peh like the Geonim. If you assume that Chazal got their science from scientists and if you assume the Rambam’s Derech in how Halachah works, you are left with one conclusion.
DY: Isn’t “If I can’t see it, it’s not illegal”, the most famous B’feirush Simpsons ever?
Ben Levi: Please use proper terms, by the way. Rav Slifkin claims to be “Rationalist”, not “Rational”. There is quite a large difference.
42: See Rashi there.
Health:
“By your “logic”, Hashem also wanted the Holocaust and every other tragedy to happen.”
Drey kup: Why does it matter?
HaKatan: It is very much Kefirah to say that anything happens in this world against HKBH’s will. A person doesn’t bang his finger unless HKBH decrees it. But the Holocaust was against His will? How is that not Kefirah?
Ben Levi: Fine. As I’ve said before, I don’t care what Slifkin himself believes. Talking about an individual borders on Lashon Hara. I’m more interested in the theories he puts forth. So whether he personally believes that they knew nothing more than contemporaries or slightly more than contemporaries is irrelevant to this discussion. What is wrong with the connection to modern day from the end of my post?
Ben Levi: There is a tremendous middle ground. I think Slifkin believes that Chazal knew more than their contemporary scientists. However, he believes that Chazal relied on the scientists for things and therefore, the same way that those scientists were wrong, Chazal could have followed their error. Just like modern-day Poskim ask engineers and electricians before Paskening on things involving electricity, so too Chazal asked their contemporary experts how things worked before Paskening. I really don’t see why people call that Mehalach Kefirah.
not a mod: I’m laughing maniacally at that.
I remember someone from AskMoses telling an NCSYer I was working with that, “Shomer Negia is a nice Chumra but not an actual Halacha”. I am very, very wary as to their Ne’emanus.
I believe every Halachipedia article is approved by Rav Schachter or Rav Willig before being published.
The CR is an awful place for Halacha. No one who states Halachic opinions here has any idea what they’re talking about.
Itche: I don’t mind utilizing it for convenience. But to make a Drasha out of it? That flies in the face of actual, God-given Torah.
PBA: Can an idiot be a Malshin? I assume it requires a certain intelligence level (which he clearly lacks, from that article) to get yourself these statuses.
Tosfos on Yevamos 53a-b words it a little differently. His reasoning there might even include a Grama and not just Karka Olam.
MDG: Look at Rashi there. It’s about the unborn son controlling his Ta’avos.
… How can tax be avoided?
Isn’t this a B’feirush Tosfos (in either Sanhedrin or Yevamos) that letting someone throw you on a baby is Muttar if the other option is being Moser Nefesh? I thought Tosfos is clear that Grama is okay here.
We are Noheg almost nothing from the Tzava’ah. Why are people so hung up on this one?
DY: And making corn bread.
It is a double-edged sword though. If you find a bug that is not visible and recognizable as a bug to the naked eye but is with a magnifying glass/bug light, then throwing out the vegetable is an Issur D’oraisa of Bal Tashchis.
Who’s R’ Yankel the Iluy?
Drey kup: The best Pshat in that is that he was badly hurt by the Chareidi community and is lashing out. That’s why I ignore his criticisms of them.
dafyomi: Why do you assume that?
Probably. The best Eitzah in any Safek about Tfilas HaDerech is to say it in Shma Koleinu during Shacharis.
BH: Not that it changes your point much, but the Call of the Torah Chumash refuses to use it.
BH: I strongly disagree. The Ovdei Avodah Zarah forced something into our holy Torah and you want to find a Remez from it?
It is important to keep our neighbors happy. Yerushalayim was in a much more dire state 50 years ago.
I couldn’t find it. I distinctly remember it though. Oh well. I’ll see it again if I ever Chazer everything.
DY: There’s no Chiyuv to check anything that’s less than a Miut Hamatzui. That is clear. Why do you think it’s not Pashut?
DY: I always thought the exact opposite. B”N I’ll go Mekoros-hunting if I have time tomorrow.
DY: He doesn’t have a line in there that learning straight Gemara without any Peirush isn’t actually learning? I’ll try to find it when I have a chance, which might not be for a while.
Syag: I did not think I was sharp. I apologize if I came across that way. I assumed that non-comatose people can drink water without IVs. Maybe I just don’t know. But if they cannot drink water without IVs, shouldn’t not giving them the IVs be prosecutable?
PBA: In a T’shuvah about Ta’anis Bechorim, I think.
Syag: There’s no tap in a room? They actually don’t make water available? That’s… strange. And should be prosecutable under American law.
PBA: Doesn’t R’ Moshe say you can’t even make a Siyum for that?
#1. See Ishei Yisrael (I’ve quoted the precise Marek Makom here before, I don’t remember where off the top of my head).
#2. See DY’s post
#3. Rov Rishonim and the Shulchan Aruch (I think) Pasken that if it’s not Bolet it’s not an issue.
DY: The story of R’ Yochanan and the woman who stopped walking to Shul comes to mind. See the Tzitz Eliezer’s T’shuvah about that story. This should seem to fall under that case.
Wait, I thought (assumed for no reason whatsoever) that PBA at least does Tosfos with Daf Yomi.
I don’t know about the case. Someone showed me a post on Facebook that Taynad that Mimah Nafshach taking the mother off life support is murder (either of her or the baby) based on Tosfos in Niddah 44a. It’s a very compelling argument.
I don’t think this is murder. There is no direct shortening of life whatsoever. The water is available, the person just isn’t drinking. At absolute worst this is “Lo Sa’amod Al Dam Rei’echa”. If I were entitled to an opinion, I would be inclined to believe it’s actually Muttar.
midwesterner: Not that that’s Muttar for several reasons, but at least one has the Sridei Aish to rely upon so that there is no Kol Isha in that situation. The Sridei Aish’s Hetter doesn’t apply here.
Oh shoot. I just realized a fairly strong Hetter for this, actually. But it is definitely not one that should be mentioned in a public forum.
DY: Yeah, but if the rest of it wasn’t so bad then the not wearing Yarmulkes probably would.
DY: Please. I know what Bal Tosif is. It’s not my fault that no one else seems to understand the importance and potential prevalence of Chukas Akum.
I just have a logistical question: How did you do 11.5 Blatt if you only printed 10? And if you have a gemara/dafyomi.org, then why did you need to print out the 10 Blatt in the first place?
There are 4 editeds in the first 19 posts on this thread. What’s the CR record?
And 4 deleted. We’re being patient
akuperma: See, that’s just not true. Most people who are “Modern Orthodox” think that it is very wrong. So he doesn’t fit in. That’s why most actual “Modern Orthodox” people think Chovevei is Conservative.
I assumed he needed a Passuk because the Svara is not a strong Svara at all.