SchnitzelBigot

Depends on how you define “Ein Davar Tamei Yored Min Hashamayim”

January 1 means nothing to me.
The year 2024 will continue until March 25th as it always has since time immemorial.

Fraud that’s prohibited as a d’oraita is worse. Drabanan are equally bad. And if its not prohibited at all but fails the “yashrus” test, then fraud is better.

The Mishpat Kohen zatza”l ruled that no, they shouldn’t be voting. (I’m not sure if that’s the same as having the right to vote).

Firstly, you’re using the Drashot Hara”n’s interpretation. The Ramban differs.

Also, of course you should have hakaros hatov. He who denies the good of his friend will soon deny the good of G-D (Medrash). The question is should we as a nation be “proud”. I happen to think this was a major kiddush hashem, especially so soon after the massive chillul hashem that took place last simchas torah. So yes, I’m proud of what happened. Is it wrong? Maybe, but I have a soft spot for kiddush hashems.

The Judeo-German sufffix of -im for Hebrew feminine plural nouns is assumingly a corruption of the German -en

To me this sounds like a tax-deduction workaround.

@The Frumguy thanks, I was not aware of this!
@ Kuvult this is the internet sir, if you want to be a ganef keep it to yourself, don’t be mechalel shem shamaim brabim
@ not avi: religious clothing is not taxable at all, read the bulletin that OP mentioned. The $110 threshold is only applicable on the state level and in certain counties such as NYC, rockland county still charges 4%+ on clothing under $110.

The Australian Jewish News, 14 December 1945⁩, has a detailed account about Eisenhower’s tour of Feldafing and his meeting with the Klausenberger Rebbe. You can find it in the Sefriya Leumi’s website. (Of course none of what’s described above actually happen – the Klausenberger Rebbe wasn’t the Rabbi to give a speech, he just presented bread and salt to the general as per the old minhag). Did the quiet battle you describe occur before or after the whole shul broke out in singing Hatikva? lol…

Today a female soldier was killed while on duty in the North and all the Israeli Haredi newspapers are covering up the fact that she was a soldier. This is so offensive, this person died because she was on duty for her country, how dare you take that away from her??! If you have an issue with female soldiers, you can call her servicewoman or whatever but to write nothing?? I’m blown away

Antagonizing all your goyishe neighbors in South Jersey by voting in a Dem askan is “Daas Torah” while going to a peaceful rally is “inciteful”.
/s

my 2 cents: If you realize you can’t afford the big house you bought in the sought after good neighborhood, simply move to a smaller house elsewhere or rent if the payments will be lower. It isn’t embarrassing and nobody cares.

Supposedly certain zip codes have recently had their premiums increased because of the jump in car crashes due to new people moving in…

Benjamin of Tudela found barely 10 Jews in Antioch

It can be a number of things:

1. if you recently had your tax return filed, this can be a “plus up payment” of the third stimulus.
2. if you filed your tax return before congress passed arpa which exludes 10,200 of unemployment, then this can be a refund of that.

The reason why chassidim don’t wear masks is not because of stubbornness; it comes from embarrasment. Everyone is embarrassed of everyone else. People that wear masks in shul are openly mocked by others who would also wear a mask if they weren’t afraid of being mocked themselves. The solution, as always, is to start with yourself. You wear a mask and socially distance everywhere, and when a large enough number of people do so, then everyone will become comfortable with it, and you’ll see the percentage of people wearing masks skyrocket.

To answer the question, it depends on what kind of people are currently testing themselves. A New York Post article claims that per capita, white liberal areas in Manhattan test three times as much as white middle class areas in South Brooklyn, and they use anecdotal evidence to show that the Manhattanites are basically being frivolous about their testing while South Brooklynites only test themselves when they’re sick. If this is true about Boro Park and Midwood too, then it would make sense to test more nonsick people in our neighborhoods to reach the same ratio of well people frivolously testing to sick people testing that white liberals have.

If however, there is no deficit of regular well people in our community testing, then encouraging more testing just to artificially lower our rates can potentially be dangerous in many ways. On the other hand, this egregious lockdown on our neighborhoods, which is horrible on every level, makes me want to say that anything should be done to lower our numbers.

There is another concern that people might have, that if we all test, even if the positivity rate goes down, the number of positive people will inevitably go up, and the government/media will decide to drop the current metric and begin using number of positives as a new metric. I personally was nervous about this happening, but I’m beginning to think that De Blasio and Cuomo will have to explain to everyone in two weeks from now how their lockdowns are very successful yada yada yada, and how the positivity rates are down all because of their decisions yada yada yada so they’ll look for any number that’s good news.

Wouldn’t it be similar to a father who refuses to מל or פודה his son?

If this will help anybody, I heard there’s a yeshiva open in the Poconos with 200+ ey guys

This question comes up in regards to slavery. We all, no matter how much we would like to think otherwise, consider slavery abhorrent. The Torah does not. These questions began to rise with Moses Mendelssohn and German Jewry, so I think R Hirsch deals with this subject thoroughly.

How did the OP come to the conclusion that Socialism causes people to go otd. One can argue that capitalism made people OTD in the United States.

Yes!!! We can lower traffic deaths by transitioning to public transportation and/or driverless cars. Let’s start having this important discussion.

Anonynous Jew, you’re referring to the cause of secession. The top 5 reasons for the actual war was lincolns 1. Blood 2. Thirsty 3. War 4. Mongering 5. Decision to resupply fort sumter instead of abandoning it like he promised to the peace loving north.