sifsei chachamim

The worst insult is a ‘Maskil’
It’s reserved for someone who utilizes the highest faculty of the human person, the gift that Hashem gave us that sets us apart from the other species, and uses it against Kedusha.

Please help the simple ones among us understand what’s the understanding you are bringing to the rambam.
Also isn’t energy itself a creation of Hashem?

Be careful! They say if you speak about them too much you might call one into you.

(This is a true as most of the stories.)

They don’t have a normal electrical grid, there’s constant load shedding. Be prepared to live without electricity.

Did you see what the newsmax guy said?

I have it on good source that there can be very very serious side effects from covid. Far worse than fainting.

Of course girls have to learn sifsei chachamim

Sorry to disappoint but Obergefell and Lawrence will never be overturned, even their fiercest opponents agree. Roe will likely be curtailed but won’t be overturned outright for a long time if ever.

I am taking you at your word that this is an honest question, so I’ll take the time to respond.

I am a conservative (ffb) and I will be voting for Joe Biden. I find Trump’s behavior too erratic for the the office he holds, he does not have the maturity necessary for the pressure cooker he is in. Until Covid is has not been tested with a serious crisis, and I don’t think he is handling the crisis well. Nor do I think he’s an effective president. His only major piece of R legislation were the tax cuts.
I think he is a compulsive liar, he has terrible a character, his (not so) private life is reprehensible, and I don’t think he’s an honest man. (This is also a tiny percent of my issues with him.)

His greatest sin in my mind is fanning the flames of hatred and division in this country, that is unforgivable. As president he should seek to lower the temperature and the volume not stoke it.

I’m not taking away from the positive things he’s done. Namely on Israel, judges, standing against socialism (Maduro), his pro business policies but it’s time to move on from him. His hero status in our communities bothers me tremendously. As Jews we should only view non Jewish politicians through a transactional lens, we must not look to him as a model.

I’m fully aware that a Biden presidency will be bad. Bad for America, for the Jews, and for Israel.

BUT…
In the United States we tend to swing back and fourth every 8 years. There is going to be a Democrat president sooner of later, if not in 4 months than almost certainly in 4 years. Then it will swing back. 2024 will (most likely) be a open election with no incumbent running, Biden will be a lousy president. Give them time to regroup and refocus, and the chances of a republican comeback in 2024 are high in my estimation. I believe it is important that the party recover itself from Trump and parts of Trumpism.

This is my personal calculation. Even if I am wrong, there is always 2028. I reject the notion that this is our last chance to vase the county. If are country can be lost by a single election then it is lost already. Barack Obama was awful for Israel in his 8 years, Trump undid much of that. We will recover from Biden as well.

I understand that this is the minority view, but I home I can give at least some perspective why some people who are supporting Biden. Others will have different calculations.

Without getting involved in the details of your suggestion, are you aware that a large group of students of the Maggid of Mezrich, and their students, moved to Eretz yisrael in the 1780s?

אשר גאלנו וגאל את אבותינו… ברוך אתה ה’ גאל ישראל

That’s the Halacha. Matza is considered הנאה לגוף even if you don’t like it. (בלע מצה יצה מרור לא יצה)
Of course you are supposed to have kavanah the question is whether you can be yotzeh without it.
The entire drinking is one hemshech of kiyum hamitzva. There isn’t one gulp that takes you over the top.
The lomdus isn’t too complicated, if you need help ask the Lakewood bochrim that come to you’re shabbos meal.

(Btw the Ran is in RH daf 7)

מצוות אינן צריכים כוונה כשיש הנאה לגוף

I don’t understand how a Yid can take a nap on Purim. Meileh if you fell asleep from drunkenness, it’s an O’nes, But to do so l’chatchila?!
We try to be mekayem mitzvas lulav with the greatest hiddur, and we are machmir on Pesach kala kachamurah. But suddenly when it comes to Purim, after we made sure we heard every single word of the megillah, and we gave tzdakah to many many ani’yim, suddenly we can rely on the most meikil shita in achronim.

Yidden! Gevald! The forth mitzvah of Purim isn’t a second tier mitzvah.

Woodrow Wilson. He was definitely the biggest racist of the our presidents, and he was an anti Semite as well. Not to mention the founder of modern day progressivism.
I don’t think anyone comes close but I’d put Jummy Carter ym”s next.

Reb Moshe clearly wrote that in a place where cholov yisrael is available you should not rely on his heter.

Gedolei Yisrael always had their differences.

@milhouse I’ll take it that you haven’t learned much Even Haezer.

Has anybody been able to work out an answer to this question in 5 years?

@shopping
If they went engagement ring shopping I’m guessing they are not so chareidi, hence…

if u learn 20 blatt a zman how much other then gefes how much can you learn?

please answer i would like ideas (specially for kidushin)