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DY: Our levels of infestation are higher? I would have thought that with modern farming and the use of some (still-legal) pesticides that our levels of infestation would be much, much lower. And we do see some Achronim advocating not eating certain fruits. But no one Assered all vegetables, which is what they would have had to have done if our standards were applied to them. Am I the only person who finds it more than curious that the Achronim don’t explain how to check individual vegetables. Pashtus is they just looked and if they saw nothing then it was fine.
I did once hear something on this topic from a tremendous Talmid Chacham. He said that back in the day, it was hard to live as a human being, let alone a Jew. You would have to work a ton just to get a tiny bit of food and nighttime was almost unusable because candles were expensive and there were no lights. Nowadays, where it’s much, much easier just to be a human being, we can afford to place more restrictions on ourselves as Jews.
Yehudayona: I just noticed that today as well.
Yitay: Honestly, no pun was intended.
I also thought that it was just your form of satire. In fact, you can’t honestly believe that about yourself. I still think your self-depracating posts are meant to be satirical.
Reu: The issue is that the Halachah states that what is Muttar or Assur in this case is determined by what is normally done by the women there (this Pashtus includes both Jews and Goyim).
Shein: How does owning an iPhone Passel someone L’eidus? I’ll give you a better question: Bring me a source that someone who actually looks at disgusting things on the internet is Passul L’eidus. You can’t. That doesn’t make someone Passul L’eidus. There is a list in the Shulchan Aruch (towards the beginning of Choshen Mishpat) as to who is Passul L’eidus. Owning an iPhone would not qualify someone under any of those categories. This Rov is just wrong and is probably Chayav to ask Mechilah for Ona’as D’varim.
Realist: No. It might be dependent on what type of bathroom it is (say a place with only a urinal might be a Machlokes), but not what you’re doing in there. (Though I guess since we consider our bathrooms a Sfeka D’dina we might have to say Safek Brachos L’hakel after entering one of them, which would make this all quite interesting. But the Pashtus is as I wrote it.)
Curiosity: I believe it’s a Machlokes Haposkim and I was told that the majority hold it has to be identifiable as a bug, not just a speck. The issue is that there are things that would have been identifiable as a bug before you washed and killed them but now aren’t. Those may not be eaten.
Choc: Unless I’m misinformed, the bugs in broccoli melt under high heat. There’s also a Sfek Sfeka to rely on if they don’t.
Rob: Glasses are necessary because the naked eye is determined by the average person’s vision. We assume that that means 20/20 (even though it probably means something closer to 20/40, especially for Jews).
Naftush: I believe that Pashtus Lashon of the Shulchan Aruch is like him and against you.
Iced: Source that it was because of Christian persecution? See the Gemara in the end of Yevamos which says that it’s Assur to marry a second wife without the first’s permission. The Gemara in Pesachim also says that two wives is a bad idea. It’s fairly clear that the vast majority only married 1 wife even in the time of Chazal.
Also, that’s a lie about Mormons. The Mormon Church completely outlawed polygamy at the turn of the 20th century.
I don’t understand the whole problem with broccoli. Soak it, rinse it, then boil/cook it and it will be fine.
JHF: The word god in “god particle” has no Kedusha whatsoever and should not be capitalized. In fact, capitalizing it gives attributes of HKBH to a physical (pun slightly intended) object and borders on Avodah Zarah.
HaLeiVi: We did have this discussion before, and I still hold that we don’t Pasken by the Shittah that it never did and never will happen. I think the Gemara is pretty Mefurash that we don’t hold that way, actually.
Wolf: That sig is probably an Issur of Ona’as D’varim, even if you were actually wronged by him in that way in the past.
Shein: No. Both who are “Toheh Al Harishonim” lose all credit. You are probably thinking of the Tosfos (Rosh Hashana 5a if I recall correctly) that says that a Goy who does something Shelo Lishmah (meaning Al M’nas Sheyichyeh B’ni or something like that) doesn’t receive credit for it because presumably he will regret having done the Mitzvah, while a Jew will probably not regret it even if his reason doesn’t come true. (But Pashtus is that this is not a hard and fast rule. Pashtus is that a Goy who does not regret it still receives credit.)
Beheimish: After looking over the Sugya I have to completely agree with what you said. Although how low on the neck is still a matter of Machlokes.
Scrabble without the holders is Vadai Muttar and with the letter-holders is possibly Muttar as well, though it should definitely be avoided in America if possible because R’ Moshe wrote that it’s problematic. Banagrams is okay as well.
Shein: You have it backwards. By a Jew HKBH counts Machshava as a Ma’aseh, even if he doesn’t get to perform the Mitzvah. By a Goy he has to actually do it. Kavanah for the Mitzvah alone doesn’t count.
Shein: Look at the Mishnayos in Yadayim. Most of the cases where the Tzedukkim accused Chazal of being wrong were where the Tzeddukim wanted to be more Machmir in Tumah V’taharah cases and Chazal said no. (Also, read any of the historical works (including the Frum ones) that will tell you that a lot of the anti-Mesorah sects in Bayis Sheni were actually more Machmir than the Mesorah, which was why they were against Mesorah. They felt they were better than Mesorah. That’s why the whole community was in Kumran. They wouldn’t live in an area with other Jews because they felt they were all Tamei.)
BH: V’chol Yisrael Yishm’u V’yirau.
Realist: You are Vadai Chayav to make new Brachos on T’fillin after going to the bathroom. That’s B’feirush in the Shulchan Aruch.
Lifting up would be an interesting Shaila to discuss. On the one hand, they are doing it because they think it’s Assur to speak with them on. Hence, it would be an Assur time to wear T’fillin and therefore a new Bracha would be required when putting them back on. On the other hand, that Halachah might only be defined by place, not time. Also, the people are wrong because it is Muttar to talk with T’fillin on. Hence, what they think shouldn’t really matter because it’s not actually an Assur time to wear T’fillin. I would think that the Halachah is that because the person knows that he may do it at the time that he puts them on and because he puts them back immediately after lifting them up (unless it’s an extended conversation, though the amount of time may not be relevant and based on a Be’ur Halachah in Hilchos Tzitzis you may have up to 2 or 3 hours with them lifted up) then he would not have to make a new Bracha after just lifting the T’fillin up.
RebRY: What “of course” is that? Why is it better to speak Yiddish?
He says don’t shave the throat with a razor.
Based on the Psak of the Shulchan Aruch, we avoid shaving the entire throat with a razor.
Toi and Little: I believe the Nodah Bihudah says that it’s a Bubbe Maiseh that a 13-20 year old can do any Aveiros and not be punished by Shamayim. 13 is Bar Onshin, not 20.
ca: By the way, just so we’re not Motzi La’az on the students of the wrong school, it was Michigan State, not Michigan.
Bubka: Leich Leich Amor Linzira…
Md: It depends where you go. The big cities are fine. The small towns can really be that bad. And if you aren’t physically assaulted, I know of plenty of people that get spit on and hit with thousands of dollars worth of absurd traffic tickets for being “different”.
Iced: So which is it? American respect for law and order or the Satmar Rebbe wearing a streimel? Or are you saying that American respect for law and order comes from R’ Yoel?
PBA: Regardless of why, unless he’s a Shoteh, a 15-year-old who molests a boy of at least 9 years of age is Chayav Misah.
Aurora: Don’t, it was a terrible joke. And planting trees in Israel on Tu Bishvat is a custom at the very least in some communities (I don’t know if it is in the more right-leaning communities, but if I had to guess I’d assume that it isn’t).
I read through that entire website. There were no lies that I saw, though some of the source material was definitely questionable (and there may have been some exaggerations that give false implications). It makes most of the legitimate arguments against Zionism that exist, and it does not read as if it’s based on hatred but rather on an honest extreme anti-Zionist stance.
The problem is that it’s fighting an argument that’s already over. There are no pre-WWII Zionists anymore. The question now is whether one supports the current Medinah and how much. So whoever was right about the pre-WWII argument (and denying that major Torah figures supported the foundation of the Medinah is just denying reality), it doesn’t matter. It’s over. All using the term “Zionist” does nowadays is breed hatred about an argument that’s not at all relevant. It’s a meaningless term because the Nationalism-based movement of the 1880s-1940s is over. That’s not what someone who refers to themselves as a “Zionist” today means. So why foist a hate-filled term on someone when the pejorative meaning of the term doesn’t apply to them? (Ironically, what is done in referring to “Zionists” is the same thing that I’ve seen people here claim that anti-Chareidim do to Chareidim.)
Iced: That would be because of the lack of Jews in the Deep South, not the lack of violent Klansmen.
Iced: But it’s not just Jews that New York accepts. You can be dressed as anyone and anything and won’t get a second look. That happens to have a positive for Jews, though it’s probably not so great for society. But like zdad said, if you look like a Chassid in Alabama you will get stared at, screamed at, and possibly attacked by a Klansmen, who are probably the only people in much of the Deep South and Northwest that know what a Jew is.
HaKatan: How many times do I have to tell you to stop posting that thesis by that disgusting anti-Semite who has also published claims that Jews control all of the world’s media, organized crime, and many armies?? You only make yourself look very bad by association.
mz: Honestly, that sounds like an apologetic explanation for the Rambam by someone who is uncomfortable with accepting what the Rambam actually means.
How did I know that as soon as rob mentioned Eim Habanim S’meichah that we’d see the Frumteens cut-and-paste?
rob: It’s in the Moreh (and possibly also the Peirush Hamishnayos). I can try and find where later.
rob: There’s a reason no one quotes the Rambam’s Shittah about T’chiyas Hameisim.
Shmoel: The Rambam says that T’chiyas Hameisim only lasts a short time and is only for a few individuals who were nearly perfect in life but who didn’t have the time and ability to achieve a certain level in this world. Therefore they are given a second opportunity to reach that level.
I was careful (at least, I think I was) to try and not say there is an Issur in it because we do give them as Matanos before death. My point was that that’s not the attitude the Torah takes. And I do not understand the Sforno’s position. That’s not the way the Gemara explains the Passu (sort of, I can hear a Chiluk but I don’t think it’s Pshat).
Rabbaim: The part about not being M’vaccer the Ben Ha’ahuvah before the Ben Has’nuah.
rob: Look at the Chinuch on this. Doesn’t he say it applies to both?
Rabbaim: You didn’t answer my point about Halachah being against your stance.
Anyway, Toi is right. Because it doesn’t always apply, it’s a weaker Lav. R’ Schachter spoke about this Sugya in a Shiur last year (I think it was given last yeas; I heard it last year on YUTorah). Someone asked something similar to your question but I don’t remember if R’ Schachter addressed it.
I feel like there’s a long Tosfos on this in the middle of Yevamos.
Wolf: Horiyos 13a if I recall correctly.
And Shein, the logic of a man before a woman is actually different than the logic of a Talmid Chacham over an Am Ha’aretz. In fact, a Talmid Chacham before an Am Ha’aretz actually trumps a man before a woman. A female TC (or, more likely, the wife of a TC) comes before a male Am Ha’aretz. See that Mishnah in Horiyos.
Interjection: A Niddah means a woman (including one’s wife) who has had her period and has not yet gone to the Mikvah.
Shmoel: Once again, the Rambam does not agree to that.
Sure. One of the guys involved is a mass murderer who got off on a technicality. Or one is a Rasha Gamur and everyone knows it while the other is a recognized Gadol Hador.
Aurora: If you are not yet Jewish, speak to the Rabbi of the synagogue and maybe he’ll be okay with you driving. If you are Jewish, then no Orthodox Rabbi would ever tell you that it’s permissible to drive. I would advise finding a place to stay nearer to the Orthodox synagogue just for Sabbaths.
Wolf: There is no rule of not killing an innocent. That rule is a S’vara that who can say that one life is more valuable than another. But what if it’s clear as day that the S’vara doesn’t apply?