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achosid: Just because the Gra made Havdalah on beer doesn’t mean that he held there is a Halachic obligation to.
However, this thread seems to border on Bal Tosif.
The Tzitz Eliezer has a T’shuvah on this and brings down several different opinions about what is a problem and when. There are several Minhagim by this and certainly not everyone is Makpid. There are those (including the T”E) who hold that Tehillim is always okay while he also brings downs opinions, if I recall correctly, that Tehillim was Davka the problem.
If you are at a Sheva Brachos you can have music. It’s a Seudas Mitzvah and trumps the Minhag of Sefirah. Also, not all are Noheg to allow weddings before Rosh Chodesh Iyar.
Chacham: I don’t know that that’s such a good Ra’aya. We know what food is Kovea the Shiur Achilas P’ras for Tumah. But who says that has anything to do with a B’rachah Achronah?
Yekke: That Shittah in the Tannaim, which seems to be accepted by Rashi and Tosfos, has been roundly rejected by almost all other Rishonim and Achronim and isn’t even used as a Snif L’hakel to be Mattir an Agunah. Everyone knows that the world-accepted P’sak is that being Jewish or not goes after the mother.
Just buy some milk that’s very close to the expiration date. That means that for sure it was milked before Pesach.
yeshivaguy: Source for that please? It sounds very strange to me.
147: Here you are, making things up again. Find me a source that there’s an Issur of Hachanah from Chol Hamoed to a weekday. Here’s a hint, you won’t find one.
If what I heard is correct, he has eye problems and can’t be in the sun. He always had eye problems and they were exacerbated years ago when someone broke into his house and threw bleach or something similar in his face.
Saysme: Why would that make it Mezonos?
Nisht: The bodies weren’t kept for 11 months. Haman was killed and hung (I believe you’re right in this grammatical instance, though we can let haifagirl decide) on Pesach. His sons were killed in the battle when they tried to help the enemies wipe out the Jews 11 months later.
PBA: That might actually be called being Megaleh Panim Batorah Shelo Kihalachah. If this story is true, you might want to stop doing that.
abra cadabra: The point was that they don’t because they don’t treat wine touched by anyone who went to college as Stam Yeinam. I think the point was made quite well.
This was big a few years back. They said in the name of Rav Elyashiv that believing the world was older than our counting is Apikorsus (supposedly it was in response to Schroeder-like Pshatim). Several Gedolei Kaballah argued back that much of Kaballah believes in an older universe. I don’t remember the entire back-and-forth, nor do I know if it was published anywhere reliable.
Rav Schachter mentions that “we would still be slaves” means that we wouldn’t have the Torah. We probably wouldn’t still physically be slaves. Most countries have gotten rid of slaves and history is full of slave revolts. But we wouldn’t have the Torah and “no one is called free unless they learn Torah”.
Whatever the Chassan and Kallah will enjoy most.
Popa: Many Rabbonim have tried many things over the centuries to be Mattir Mamzerim. Look at the T’shuvos. We do everything possible to Mattir them. Rav Goren’s issue was just that he went too far.
I think the new PBA decided to be Yotzei the Gemara that every mother-in-law hates her daughter-in-law. She’s trying to poison you, popa.
kwalker: “Mr.” Goren? That’s ridiculous. Arguing than those greater than you and not being necessarily right does not revoke one’s right to an opinion nor change the fact that he was a major Talmid Chacham.
PBA: I disagree. The Gemara has a concept that we can approximate sometimes (Lo Dak; see around Sukkah Daf 8), but always only L’Chumra. We need a Passuk to tell us that we can always assume that pi is 3, even though it will have Nafka Minos that are L’kula as well.
147: Rav Schachter says that putting apples in Charoses is a mistake. Tapuach in Nach and Gemara doesn’t mean apple. It means a citrus fruit. It’s a mistranslation. So put apples in if you like. But if you want to make proper Charoses (as some Rishonim hold there is an actual Mitzvah to use Charoses) you should make sure to also include a little something of a citrus fruit (squeezing in a few drops of Esrog juice will still make it taste fine).
mdd: A lot of Poskim explain why we don’t hold like the Rambam. I agree that he’s a fairly minority opinion in the Rishonim and was certainly rejected by the Achronim in this. But my point is that one Rambam reveals P’shat in the other. The tremendous amount in which the final Rambam in Shemittah is taken out of context is, frankly, insulting to the Rambam’s Shittah.
t613: How is it actually L’ma’aseh? Unless you plan on having a Mechalel Shabbos B’farhesia at your Seder table and plan on serving non-Mevushal wine, in which case ask your Rav. Or just buy Mevushal.
Talmud: Start with the Nosei Keilim (I don’t think it’s any major ones) by Bishul Akum and whether that applies to a Mechalel Shabbos B’farhesia. I think it begins to be referenced around there. I don’t recall who says what off the top of my head.
PBA: Artscroll quotes the Tosfos HaRosh who basically explains what Brony says. We know that Halachic pi is 3 but that real pi is 3.14. The Gemara asked for a source (which it doesn’t need because it’s easily measurable) that Halachic pi is 3, not for a source for what real pi is.
mdd: People also ignore the other Rambam where he calls it a terrible thing to learn off of communal money…
Talmud: Part of this Machlokes is whether someone without Ne’emanus has Ne’emanus for themselves.
This Shaila is very Nogea L’ma’aseh at the Seder, by the way. If you have a guest who is a Mechalel Shabbos B’farhesia, can you pour him a glass of non-Mevushal wine or is it Lifnei Iver because he will touch it before drinking it?
Saysme: No. We know that romaine is Chazeres. However, romaine has lots of issues with bugs so the Shailah is whether iceberg is also considered Chazeres.
And speak, your disparaging of Rav Schachter and dismissing his “religion as half science and half Torah” is offensive beyond belief. When you know 1/100th of 1% of the Torah he knows, then maybe you can decide when and if to decide where scientific and historical data can influence our reading of Halachah.
If you don’t know history or context, you can’t even begin to accurately understand Chumash. Or does Chashmal in Yechezkel mean electricity? Of course it doesn’t (well, it can be something similar, but we don’t know). We know that because we know when electricity was invented. This is no different.
DY: The Chazon Ish didn’t actually say the bigger Shiur L’maaseh. He just explained the Shittah of the Tzlach and made it famous, so it gets put under his name. He ends the whole thing saying it’s not L’ma’aseh and that everyone knows how big an olive is (or something like that).
Machlokes Haposkim. Many hold yes for a few reasons. Some do hold that he can’t.
DY: SHU”T Chassam Sofer YD 1:127 (maybe OC, not 100% positive) implies that it can and does change, though that change would be close to negligible.
DY: It is no more Gaavadik than those who think that what our ancestors did wasn’t good enough and try to add on or change the Halachah in the other direction. I don’t think Rav Schachter is a Ba’al Ga’avah here. I think he honestly learned the Sugya and believes that one is not Yotzei with horseradish root (he also quoted the same well-known Talmid Chacham that Old Man quoted and said that Baruch Hashem each year more and more people listen and there is less horseradish being used in B’nei B’rak every year).
Ubiquitin: I’m not sure what you’re saying. If it was difficult to find a Lulav that was 4 Tefachim long then we would have measuring sticks to make sure we’re Yotzei. We want to be Yotzei so we find out how much we have to eat. For many people, eating too much Matzah isn’t good for them (they’ll gain wait or will have stomach issues) so they try to eat less than a lot. And our estimates are almost always on the high end anyway. Have you ever seen an olive? They’re really not big at all. They are quite small.
About Time: I do not know if it’s true that R’ Moshe wouldn’t Kasher his Gittin. But if it is, it’s because of his attempt to solve the “Agunah crisis”, not because of anything personal. R’ Lieberman may have overreached on that one, but it doesn’t make him any less of a Talmid Chacham or less Orthodox. There are Orthodox Rabbonim who have done things with much less Halachic basis than he had on this issue.
Rabbaim: Well, that was a gross insult to whomever you just calles Baalhabastas. I think they’re okay with following Halachah, you know.
Ubiquitin: Right. Hashem told us to eat. He also told us how much to eat. So that is how much we should eat. I’m not sure why you’re assuming there’s more of a Kiyum than with the K’zayis. We eat 5 K’zaysim anyway (though the Korech one doesn’t count).
147: First of all, it’s a Machlokes Achronim. The two opinions line up between the reason for 2 K’zeisim and which is the Matzah with which we do the Mitzvah. Listen to Rav Schachter’s Shiur from this past Monday (I think, maybe Tuesday). He discussed all of this.
And don’t make up your own Drashos. You’re not Chazal. That’s ridiculous. There is NO Makor in Divrie Chazal for the Drasha you just made up. None whatsoever. In fact, you’re so wrong that it’s the opposite of what you said. The Shittah of R’ Elazar Ben Azaryah (that Achilas Pesach and Matzah is Ad Chatzos) is based on a G’zeirah Shavah of Lailah Lailah from Bachatzi Halailah. Thus, Lailah means midnight. And those who are Makpid to eat before Chaztos is not because of this Shittah (which we don’t hold by), but rather because of the Shittah in the first Mishnah in B’rachos that any Mitzvah Shemitzvasah Balailah has to be done before Chatzos Mid’rabannan so that you don’t end up messing up. We don’t really hold like that either, but many are Makpid to try and do it Lechatchilah. Your attempt to read Pesukim like you are Chazal is a Drashah Shel Hevel and an insult to real Limud Hatorah. (Oh, and if you want to be even more wrong then look at the first Mishnah in the 4th Perek in B’rachos. Tefillah Haerev Ein Lah Kevah. It calls it Erev and you still have all night.)
Ubiquitin: Are you suggesting that there is more Hiddur in the Mitzvah to eat more than a K’zayis? Why would you think that?
147: That’s what I said. The Matzah that was eaten with the Pesach is the Matzas Mitzvah. It’s not a Zecher. It’s the same Matzah.
Rav Schachter explained it recently. It’s a Machlokes Achronim. Either one Zecher L’Pesach and one Zecher L’chagigah or it’s one Zecher L’Pesach and one with which to be Yotzei the Mitzvah of Achilas Matzah.
Squeak: Rav Schachter also says you’re not Yotzei if you mix lettuce with horseradish. He says Asi D’var Reshus Um’vatel D’var Mitzvah.
Rebdoniel: My statements on Rav Blumenkrantz would apply to Rav Abadi as well (though I cannot claim to know the whole Eisek with him, not do I necessarily want to).
Rav Schachter says you’re not Yotzei with horseradish. The Gemara says it needs to be a leafy vegetable. Horseradish is a root.
Leyzer: You have to think of the Rav too. I have only been giving Halachah classes before Yamim Tovim and Inyana D’yoma, but already it gets tedious and tough to say the same thing over and over again. He has to keep himself sharp and motivated all year round too. And, personally, nothing motivates me more than sharing a Chiddush or Kasha with those who like listening to me for P’sak, even if they aren’t necessarily on a level to entirely follow what I’m saying.
Rav Schachter says that the Passuk says to give Tzedaka to your local institutions first. He thinks it’s a direct violation of the Din that people give to far-away Aniyim and Yeshivos before their own Aniyim and Yeshivos.
Veltz: Giving money to a Yeshivah that actually needs it is Tzedaka.
Jacob: Rav Schachter explains quite clearly why, Al Pi Din, there are several reasons that bottled water needs a Hechsher. The first and most obvious is that the bottle might have Tarfus in it (Kavush Kim’vushal).
I want to make something very clear in this thread. There is a difference between the type of Machmir that Rav Blumenkrantz was and types of Chumros in certain other Seforim (I’m not judging any individual other Sefer here; just commenting about R; Blumenkrantz). Rav Blumentkrantz was a major Posek that explained the Halachah Ad Buryo and was just often Noteh L’hachmir. That is fine. We have Poskim that are more Noteh some ways than others. It happens. It might mean that we don’t hold like Rav Blumenkrantz all the time (as he is Machmir more often than the average Posek and therefore it makes sense that there are cases where we accept his P’sak and cases where we don’t). He does not misrepresent Chumros as Halachos. He does not take personal Chumros or safeguards and impose them upon the Tzibbor. Calling him a Machmir as a dismissive term is offensive and lacks Kavod HaTorah. Saying he is more Machmir than average and therefore we don’t always hold like him might be okay (if done properly). Dismissing him as a “Machmir” is just wrong.
Old man: 2 minutes is because I hold of a small K’zayis. It’s pretty impossible to eat 11 grams at a leisurely pace in over 2 minutes. The bigger the K’zayis you hold of the longer you have. What you say is true. K’dei Achilas Pras is defined as eating something much larger than a K’zayis at a normal pace. So yes, if you eat at a leisurely pace you will be Yotzei. But there technically is a set time.
DY: Thanks. I slipped up measurements in my mind. All ounces in that last post have been changed to grams. It’s about .5 to 1 oz.
If it’s a clean place, bowling.
Health: You have got to lose this idea that “Kanaus” means using carte blanche to insult anyone and everyone that disagrees with you. TKND is certainly enough of a Kanoi in his own way. There is no need for any insults here.