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sponges should not be manufactured on shabbos
Chess.
If he’s good enough, he can learn in Slabodka.
To all those who responded to me: I appreciate your willingness to engage me in a vigorous but civil discussion. Unfortunately, my point of view is immediately removed from view. And so I find it pointless to continue.
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New kosher tefillin have a chezkas kashrus and need not be checked again.
If they have been in regular use, if they have not been exposed to high amounts of moisture, if they have not been exposed to extremes in temperature, if they are properly stored, if they were checked by a competent authority after they were written, and numerous other caveats.
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Yes, perfect translations are seldom found. I know that ??? is often translated as reward, as in ??? ????? , reward and punishment. Nevertheless, in this case, the pasuk seems to say that there is direct compensation for a concrete action or effort, ?? ??? ??????? . So I stand by my preference for “compensation”, as imperfect as it may be.
The word ??? in this context is probably best translated as compensation. “Reward” implies that it is a discretionary compensation ;one may be rewarded more, less, or not at all. “Payment” is best used in a legal transaction. “Compensation” is appropriate here, it implies that there is a direct relationship between the work done (??????)and what is received in return for that work.
“Once I was eating a meal somewhere together with about 15 other guys.
The host said something to me about expecting me to say a dvar torah. I said I preferred not to.”
I agree. When a ba’al bayis insists that a guest say a dvar torah and doesn’t take a polite “no” for an answer, he borders on the obnoxious. It is perfectly legitimate to politely decline for whatever reason. Not everyone enjoys public speaking,and not everyone has a “wow” dvar torah prepared for the ba’al habayis who just loves to test these boys.
A pet peeve of my wife is the seminary girl who always “brings a friend” and the two of them sit at the table whispering to each other throughout.
The point is that a learning yeshiva boy deserves our respect until proven otherwise. If I have a yeshiva boy over for shabbos and when he arrives he opens up my seforim, he gains extra respect, even reverence. If he sits at the table and attacks me for being a working man (yes, it has happened), he loses any respect I had for him. But he starts out with nothing to prove.After all,he is a learning boy and isn’t that praiseworthy in itself?
Some of the most famous founders and leaders of Chassidus were avid pipe smokers.
hello99 is correct.
Unless one is given permission from the ba’al hasimcha, it is stealing.
I maintain that cholov akum has to be identified with a specified non Jew who owns the cow. The term “akum” cannot be applied to an amorphous cooperative run by machines and a few managers. This would be called chalav stam, just milk. Not the milk of a specific goy, just milk.
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“A well known scientist and talmid chochom has developed a mathematical model on the assumption that no carriers marry. “
That no carriers marry each other, of course.
Bezalel is absolutely correct here. If one of a couple has the gene and they have two children, the number of people (two) stays the same, and the number of carriers (statistically one) stays the same. If they have four children, the carrier rate is still 50%, just like the parents were. No change.
The only way to reduce carrier rates is for carriers to marry each other. Their affected children take two defective genes out of the pool since they do not have children themselves.
Since Dor Yesharim thankfully does not allow for affected children, none of the defective genes in the population at large is eliminated from the gene pool.
A well known scientist and talmid chochom has developed a mathematical model on the assumption that no carriers marry. It has shown that the carrier rate rises over time, but so slowly that for hundreds of years it has virtually no implications for public policy or private behavior.
Young women with eating disorders and who are studying in Israel brought those disorders with them. They did not develop them in Israel. Anyone who understands the fundamentals of these disorders knows that.
The original intent, and the basis on which the gedolim gave their approval to the Dor Yesharim system was very clear. The couple must get a green light from Dor Yesharim before they meet.
“Isn’t there a famous story about a gadol who waited outside his home, because he didn’t want to disturb the cleaning lady’s singing? “
Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, zt”l
The Sefer Chassidim (Rabi Yehudah Hachasid,early 13th century)has examples of the Satan involving himself in shidduchim.
Two books:
1. Ish Tzaddik Hayah, A Tzaddik In Our Time, about the holy Rav Aryeh Levin zt”l
2. Hatorah Hemesamachat about the holy gaon Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l.
The OP has brought some good examples of how Jewish theology and practice has changed over time and how in many areas there is an evolutionary process that results in a consensus over time. This consensus is only achieved because its premise has withstood the test of time. If a certain belief is shown to be inaccurate, then of course the consensus thinking should be allowed to evolve to reflect the new knowledge.
In ALL the situations mentioned above, smile, say hello, ask how the other person is,and hope to hear baruch hashem, thank you. You may answer in kind. Then you can continue on your way.
Many products need little, if any supervision.
Thanks for the compliment, I was not quoting anyone. But if you say so, I’ll happily change the order.
The answer to the question of the OP is that it is ok to stay and shop.
Be honest.
Be modest.
Be nice.
If someone knows how to cut hair really well , he will take far more than 10 shekels. If all a yeshiva boy wants is a buzz, then 10 shekels is quite a large sum of money per allotted time.
Obviously, if it is good for shidduchim (increases market value)then it’s the right thing to do.
Even today, the Teimanim read the Torah by reading a pasuk and pausing for the reading of the targum.
Since once upon a time the targum was an understandable translation of the mikra, it is only logical that the original text come before the translation.
Neither KBY nor Sha’albim would view themselves as Modern Orthodox, and the term is not applicable to them. Furthermore, an analysis of Sha’albim would first require someone to get the name right. It is not Shalhavim. If I would analyze YQ or the Brinsk Yeshiva, no one would take me seriously.
I was told by those who worked on both that the Hebrew version is superior in both breadth and depth than the English. Another factor is that the English preceded the Hebrew and in general, the second edition is more successful than the first.
Dear BP Zaideh,
I vaguely recall seeing a significance to the number 160. Please wait a while and I will look for the reference and get back to you. Googling it got me nowhere, I’ll have to try to remember.
Kapusta has it wrong.
Kapusta has it right.
Family.
Commitment.
Discipline.
Dear not I,
Don’t let it make you uncomfortable, there’s nothing wrong with it. There was a time when last names didn’t exist.
I have an explanation.
Most clocks and watches lose (or gain) time over, well, time. If one sets the exact time, a few weeks later the clock may be slow and the person may miss something important. I think the “ma’ariv phenomenon” is well known. You think you’re on time, but when you get to shul, they have already started and you missed borchu. Setting a clock or watch ahead solves that. Yes, there is a psychological element here too and it works for many people.
I find it difficult to compare this to the issur of owning inaccurate scales.
“Most Mods don’t post comments, although they can do so if they wish.”
I find this comment disingenuous. Mod-80 is a highly prolific commenter. The practice of both commenting and moderating on a specific thread is a clear conflict of interest and should be disallowed. One cannot be a player and referee in the same game.
I think it’s appropriate to mention Bob Feller today. My father ybl”a thinks he was the greatest pitcher of all time, and he saw many of the great ones.
As to Walter Johnson, it’s hard to argue. This of course brings up the eternal problem of comparing greats from different time eras. Mantle is not a good example, he struck out against everyone. Koufax said himself that his toughest out was Hank Aaron, who batted around .320 career against him, I think the only player who batted over .300 against Koufax.
If you have relatives who live outside the green line and who are not chareidi, deny they exist and certainly deny you will ever visit them. That is, of course, if getting into a particular seminary is more important than telling the truth. Like a shidduch, some think that the truth can wait until it’s too late to change the situation.
Dear ronrsr,
I think we can agree that determining the “greatest ever” in anything will never be a consensus choice.
From 1957-1966, the last ten years of his career, batters hit .203 against him. In his best six years, they hit (I don’t remember exactly) in the .170s. That is enough for me to place him above all others, Jewish and not.
This is a no-brainer.
Sandy Koufax.
Saw him pitch.
The two party system has been around a long time, check it out.
Be wary of anecdotal quasi-evidence that you get here. Get a second professional opinion and maybe a third. Medical opinions in the coffee room are worth what you paid for them.
Sorry if I was unclear in my last post.
What I meant to say is that Israelis know most of these difficult words found in the davening because they are part of their everyday speech. I’m not sure what is difficult to understand or accept in that fact.
Israelis know most or all of these because they speak the language. Words like ?????,????,??,???? and others are part of their everyday speech. Americans must learn it independently and therefore their understanding of it is relatively poor. Another reason to live in Israel.
One of the elements that no one has mentioned here, but figured into my opinion above, is that there is no direct action on the part of the person. This is what is known as grama, and automatically reduces the issue to one of m’derabonon. If we add to this the ambiguity of the prohibition of video, (what is the issur in video? The electronics don’t heat up if I walk in front of the camera, there is no fire, so what is the issur? electronic impulses? that is at worst a d’rabonon in itself), we have a case of grama d’rabonon where the person is not even aware of what he is doing, and does not want the end result. I cannot see how this would be assur.
In a case where the end result is a light turning on, the issue is one of hav’arah, creating a fire. But if the light is only a sensor, no heat, grama, don’t know about it, don’t want it (you do want it because of security? less justification for a heter), then I think it is permissible.
Somenone else here mentioned that soon many if not all public areas will be monitored by video. What then? Even now, I know of no one who stopped walking in the Old City because of this issue. The opinon that forbids walking in old Yerushalayim has been ignored and will be ignored in other places too.
For more information on universities and Jewish participation in the Middle Ages, read “Yeshivot Ubatei Medrashim” by Breuer. Also see Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel’s many excellent articles on the rishonim and their influence on and from their non-Jewish intellectual counterparts.
1. The video is definitely not a problem as mentioned above.
2. If you are unaware AND uncaring (meaning even if you were aware, you still wouldn’t care)then a light going on as you pass by is not a problem.
3. If you are aware, or you do care (like a sensor in your living room) , then there are poskim who permit activating it in your normal routine (you may walk around your living room normally)provided it is not a heat producing sensor. There are poskim who forbid this even if the sensor is not heat producing.
“What do you do on Sunday’s??”
I don’t know what YOU do on Sundays, but I suggest you study some rules on apostrophe use