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Rabbeinu Yonah commentary on Mishnah,
tractate Avot, chapter 3, last paragraph:The study of Mathematics [Chachmat HaCheshbone] sharpens the [mind of] a man.
QUESTION: Does Rabbeinu Yonah seem to prohibit Jews studying Mathematics?
Or does he seem to be encouraging Jews studying Mathematics?When people see that Chareidi Jews are not able to spell words correctly, does that make people think better of religious Jews, or does that make people think worse of religious Jews?
When people see that Chareidi Jews are not able to spell words correctly, is that a Kiddush HaShem, or is that the opposite of Kiddush HaShem?
Sefer Pele Yoetz, Perek Cetibah:
An unmotivated Jew who has not learned the skill of writing correctly in Hebrew AND IN THE LOCAL LANGUAGE, he will be covered with shame and disgrace.
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Rabbi Mordechai Gifter:“We teach general studies*, and they should be studied properly.
One should try to excel at whatever he does.”SOURCE: Rav Gifter: The Vision Fire and Impact of an American Born Gadol
(chapter 23, page 288) by Rabbi Yechiel Spero, June 2011, Mesorah Publications,
ISBN-10: 1422610977 & ISBN #: 9781422610978Nobody believes that Harry Potter is real.
What is “GF diet”? Please explain.
Months ago, I made a long list of similarities between Chabad and “Jews for Cheeses”.
Unfortunately, that list of similarities was deleted by moderators.
Can you figure out what are the similarities between Chabad and “Jews for Cheeses”?
Several years ago, one anonymous non-Jewish commentator on the internet said that The Gentiles were the original muggles.
This is similar to what “AKupermana” said.
Why does the Coffee Room tolerate crazy people who believe in a Melech HaMashiach who died without rebuilding The Temple [Beth HaMikdash], and without ending the exile [galut], and without defeating the enemies of the Jewish People?
Ex-President Donald Trump is *** NOT *** Jewish.
Rumors to the contrary are false and stupid.
If you want to know who founded Modern Orthodoxy, then I suggest that you read the biographies of Rabbi Shimshon Rafael Hirsch.
Here are a few quotes from one of his biographies:=================================
Behold! G_d speaks to you through nature, and again through history!…Rabbi Hirsch’s positive view of the study of secular
subjects was not limited to science and history.SOURCE: Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch by Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Klugman (chapter 17, pages 204 to 205), year 1996 CE, ArtScroll History Series, Brooklyn NY 11232
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“The girls in the [Orthodox] Realschule [which was founded and directed by Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch] studied the same subjects, including Chumash and Hebrew grammar, as the boys, except for Talmud and mathematics, in place of which they were taught handicrafts.”SOURCE: Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch by Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Klugman (chapter 19, page 223), year 1996 CE, ArtScroll History Series, Brooklyn 11232, ISBN 0-89906-632-1.
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“Rabbi Hirsch preferred honest Gentile teachers for secular subjects over non-observant Jews, who he felt would have a negative influence.”SOURCE: Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch by Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Klugman,
year 1996 CE, ArtScroll History Series, Brooklyn 11232, ISBN 0-89906-632-1.=================================
In [year] 1888 [CE], the Prussian government issued a decree requiring all students to take standardized examinations, which were to be administered on the Sabbath.No special dispensation was granted to Jewish students to take the exam on a different day.
Rabbi Hirsch authored a petition to the Prussian Minister of Education Gossler, signed by 115 Rabbis from all of Germany, stating that all writing on the Sabbath was prohibited by Jewish law…soon before his passing Rabbi Hirsch received a reply from the Minister of Education assuring him that school principals would be permitted to “judge sympathetically” requests to defer the examination to a weekday.
SOURCE: Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch by Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Klugman (chapter 19, page 231) year 1996 CE, ArtScroll History Series, Brooklyn 11232 ISBN 0-89906-632-1
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Rabbi Shmuel Landau, the son of [the author of] Noda BeYehudah and his successor as Rabbi of Prague, also expressed his approbation for [secular] studies directly related to earning a living:“[One should] learn German thoroughly, as well as other required subjects, because without German, including written German, it is impossible to survive in these countries.
Someone who does not read and write German cannot succeed in any trade, and every father has an obligation to teach his son the language and customs of the country in which he lives…”
SOURCE: Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch by Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Klugman (chapter 18, page 210) year 1996 CE, ArtScroll History Series, Brooklyn 11232 ISBN 0-89906-632-1
George Santos is *** NOT *** Jew”ish” and *** NOT *** a Jew!
PLEASE do a google-search on: “Charedim attack soldiers”.
Chareidim often attack the Jewish soldiers who protect them.
Even Jewish soldiers who are Chareidi — are attacked by Chareidim.
Since Chareidim ATTACK soldiers who protect them from Arabs, I do NOT feel sorry for Chareidim when Chareidim get attacked by Arabs.
QUESTION: How do we Jews BENEFIT from a dead moshiach?
ANSWER: WE DON’T!
A dead moshiach cannot bring all Jews back to the Derech HaTorah.
A dead moshiach cannot bring all Jews back to Eretz HaKodesh.
A dead moshiach cannot defeat the enemies of our people.
A dead moshiach cannot rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.
A dead moshiach does NOT BENEFIT Jews in any way!According to my understanding, the Spanish Inquisition happened because wealthy Jews displayed their wealth a fancy possessions before the eyes of the Gentiles:
{1} Shevet Mussar, Chapter 17, paragraph 15:
Those who rise up against us seek false accusations against us when they see Jewish women decorated with gold and silver.{2} Kav HaYashar, Chapter 18:
“Because of our many sins, the Gentiles have their eyes on Jewish wealth.
It is a very good idea to conceal your wealth from them.”{3} Kav HaYashar, Chapter 82:
Imitating the fashions of the Gentiles… they provoke the jealousy and hatred of the Gentiles. They look at us and notice that Jewish women appear better dressed than the Gentile noble women; and we are in bitter exile, where according to justice we should be wearing black clothes to mourn the length of our exile and the destruction of the Temple.{4} “Because flashy clothes and jewels draw so much attention to themselves, they may also draw the ire of your clients who may secretly question why your clothes are so much more costly than their own. Wearing flashy outfits is particularly dicey during a recession or during a down business cycle when company layoffs abound.”
SOURCE: 301 Smart Answers to Tough Business Etiquette Questions (page 142) by Vicky Oliver, year 2010, Skyhorse PublishingUJM, you must make a distinction between hating Reform Judaism and hating Reform Jews.
The Metsudath David commentary on Tehillim, chapter 69, verse 5, seems to imply that Sinat Chinam is hating a person who never harmed you.
Netziv’s introduction to his commentary on Bereishit [HaEmek Davar] teaches that sinat chinam is hating someone because he belongs to a different group or because he has a different point of view or because he does things differently or a different custom.
Arabs are 20% of Israel’s population, but they are 40% of Israel’s doctors, 40% of Israel’s pharmacists, and 40% of Israel’s nurses.
This is partially because of preferential admission to medical programs (which in the USA is known as “Affirmative Action”).
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For 20 years, I fought against “Jews For J____” (with haskamahs from prominent Orthodox Rabbis) and lots of mesiras nefesh.
The differences between Chabad / Lubavich and “Jews For J____” are much smaller than most people realize, and the number of similarities between Chabad / Lubavich and “Jews For J____” are much more than most people realize.
If mashiach-from-the-dead really is possible, then why did NOBODY in Chabad / Lubavich believe in mashiach-from-the-dead when Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was still alive and healthy?
I challenge you to find even ONE Lubavicher who said, when Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was still alive and healthy, that mashiach-from-the-dead is possible.
You cannot find any, because there never were any. Not even one.
If was only **** AFTER **** Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson became sick and died that Chabad / Lubavich suddenly decided to believe in mashiach-from-the-dead.
N0mesorah: I do not understand your question.
Are you asking how old I am?
The CEO of the company that produced the Titan submarine said that he did NOT want to hire “50 year old white men” to design his submarine.
Instead, he insisted on only hiring Politically Correct minorities (women, gays, lesbians, Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims) to design the Titan submarine.
I know a Baal Teshuvah who took two years away from work to study in yeshivah.
He paid full-tuition, using his money ONLY.So his total expenses were: two years of full-tuition PLUS the amount of money he lost by not working for two years.
If an FFB did something like this, he would be respected as a tzadik.
But since this person was only a lowly Baal Teshuvah , he gets no credit at all.
In the average Ashkenaz synagogue, the % of kohanim is around 1% to 3%.
In the average Syrian synagogue, the % of Kohanim is around 30% to 35%.
Since the Torah prohibits Kohanim from marrying converts [gerim],
is it wise to permit converts in a community where 30% of the men are Kohanim?Additionally, some poskim [whose names I unfortunately cannot remember] have written that Kohanim who are Syrian and/or Sephardic have a greater [or better] mesorah of kehunah than Ashkenazic Kohanim, which makes the prohibition against Kohanim marrying converts even greater for Kohanim who are Syrian and/or Sephardic.
For example:
When a Syrian Kohen performs a Pidyon HaBen, he NEVER returns the money, because Syrian Rabbis hold that there is no doubt [safek] on the identity of their Kohanim.Compare this to Ashkenaz Kohanim, who return the Pidyon HaBen money,
because they fear a doubt [safek] on their identity of their Kohanim.Is it wise to permit converts in a community where 30% of men are Kohanim,
who have no safek [or less safek] on their yichus as Kohanim?PS: Many Orthodox Rabbis in England do not accept converts, because Jews were re-admitted to England on condition that they not accept converts.
yungermanS:
Where in Brooklyn is a “Jewish kosher Gym exercise room”?
Seriously, I want to know.
ujm and 135847:
Your super-strict attitudes are one of the many factors that drive Jews away from the world of Orthodox Judaism and make them go off-the-derech (in my humble opinion).
On the Jewish calendar, EVERY DAY is filled with countless tragedies, from the first day or the year, to the last day of the year, and 100% of the days in between.
This entire discussion is pointless, and should be deleted.
Always_Ask_Questions said:
“in Gemora, chicken was a delicatessen”You meant to say:
“in Gemora, chicken was a delicacy”President Donald Trump cut-off the money supply to the so-called “Palestinians” (actually, they should be known as The Phoney-stinians). Because of their reduced money supply, The Phoney-stinians were unable to pay terrorists to murder innocent Jews, which resulted in a large decrease in the number of Jews murdered by Phoney-stinian terrorists.
When Joe Biden became President, he restored hundreds-of-millions of dollars in payments to The Phoney-stinians. As a result, Phoney-stinian leaders are again able to pay terrorists to murder innocent Jews, which resulted in a large increase in the number of Jews murdered by Phoney-stinian terrorists.
Who should Jews vote for: The Democrats, who intentionally pay for Phoney-stinian terrorists to murder Jews (even though this violates American law), or Donald Trump, who stopped payments to The Phoney-stinians, so they could not afford their “Pay-for-Slay” policy, which literally saved Jewish lives?
So long as the Democrats remain in power, YOUR TAX DOLLARS will be used to pay Phoney-stinian terrorists to murder Jews!! Wow!! Wow!! Wow!!
If you are a True Democrat, then you will completely ignore and completely forget everything that I just said, because the Democrats use the Mainstream News Media and educational institutions and Hollywood, to exert a powerful form of Mind Control on millions of people.
This Mind Control shuts-down your ability to think logically, and forces you to always vote for The Democrats 100% of the time, even when doing so is completely contrary to basic logic.
If I wanted to, I could easily give many good reasons to vote for Donald Trump instead of the Democrats — but would be a total waste of time, because no amount of facts or logic can break the powerful Mind Control that Democrats use to brainwash people.
This past Shabbat, I visited a family that has many guests.
When the time came for dessert, they served iced cream.
Since I cannot eat dairy foods, checked the box, to verify that it was pareve.
I could not find a kashruth symbol, even after inspecting the box many times.
I showed the box to the host & hostess,
who also could not find any kashruth symbol.The iced cream was taken back, and thrown in the garbage.
125 st said:
“Nach should be taken out. It’s not Torah.”
MY RESPONSE:
What “125 st” said above is one of the most ignorant statements that I saw in my entire life.
For your information, any Jew who says that ONE WORD of Nach is NOT from HASHEM, that person is an Apikuris Gamur, and he or she is guaranteed to be eternally-banned from Gan Eden, no matter how many good deeds he or she did in his lifetime.
If Sefer Mishlei is not Torah, then why did: Rashi, Vilna Gaon, Malbim, Metsudath David, Ibn Ezra, Ralbag, Rabbeinu Yonah all write commentaries [peirushim] on Sefer Mishlei?
Everything that I just said about Sefer Mishlei is true for all of Nach.
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Midrash Tanchuma, Parshat Re-eh, chapter 1:“The wicked rebels of the Jewish People do not believe in the Neviim (Prophets) or the Cetubim (Divinely Inspired Writings).”
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Midrash Rabah, Seder Tisa, Parshah 41, Paragraph 5:Rabbi Levi taught in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish:
Just as a bride wears 24 different decorations,
a Torah Scholar must be diligent in all 24 books of Tanach.================================
Midrash Rabah, Seder Bamidbar, Parshah 2, Paragraph 10:Through the study of Torah, Neviim and Cetubim,
the Holy One Blessed Be He atones for him…================================
Midrash Rabah, Kohelet, chapter 1, paragraph 34:The Neviim and Cetubim [Nach] were given
so we should labor in them, and do mitzvot
and good deeds and receive reward.================================
Rashi commentary on Exodus/Shemot,
Parsha Tisa, chapter 31, verse 18:…A Torah scholar needs to be expert
in 24 books [of Tanach, which has 24 books].Rabbi Moshe Feinstein [ZTL ZYA] was accepted as the highest posek by BOTH the Chareidi Yeshivah World AND the Modern Orthodox.
So far as I know, he was the last Rabbi to hold that distinction.
This demonstrates how much the situation has deteriorated since his death in 1986 CE.Additionally, it is dangerous to say:
“Bridging the Gap Between The Torah World and MO”,
because it could cause the Modern Orthodox to believe they are NOT part of “The Torah World”.That is much more likely to push them farther away from Torah, than it is to draw them nearer.
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein [ZTL ZYA] once said that it is very important that EVERY JEW consider himself to be Orthodox, regardless of his level of mitzvah-observance.
Right now [May 2023 CE] Lubavitch has hundreds of posters in Brooklyn, placed where they can be seen by millions of people, most of whom are not Jewish.
These posters strongly suggest that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson [the last Rebbe of Lubavitch] is alive right now, and that he is the Melech HaMashiach, right now.
This is very wrong, for many reasons.No matter how many things Lubavitch does wrong, they always have thousands of useful idiots who rush to defend them and justify the things they do wrong.
I wish that I also had thousands of useful idiots, who would rush to defend me, and justify me, no matter what I do wrong.
In March 2002, the Moetzes Gedolai Torah issued a public statement, which decreed that the Vort ceremony be COMPLETELY ELIMINATED, to reduce the cost of getting married.
That decree was published in Jewish Observer magazine, which was the official magazine of the Agudath Israel organization (at that time).
That decree was completely ignored, even by the most “Frum” Jews, and even by people who claimed total loyalty to “Daas Torah”.
Soon after, the decree was completely forgotten by almost everybody.
In March 2002, the Moetzes Gedolai Torah issued a public statement, which decreed that the Vort ceremony be COMPLETELY ELIMINATED, to reduce the cost of getting married.
That decree was published in Jewish Observer magazine, which was the official magazine of the Agudath Israel organization (at that time).
That decree was completely ignored, even by the most “Frum” Jews, and even by people who claimed total loyalty to “Daas Torah”.
Soon after, the decree was completely forgotten by almost-everybody [except me, because my special midah is that I remember things that other people forget.
Many people, both Jews and non-Jews, told me that I have a “photographic memory”].PS: We “Frum” Jews spend too much on liquor.
For helpful passport advice, please go to:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/important-advice-for-jews
You might want to include a few whole eggs in the chulent, some people like that.
To reduce excess gas: pre-soak the beans in water for 24 hours, then drain-out the water, then add new water, and then pre-soak the beans in water for another 24 hours.
I did this, and it removed the excess gas from the beans.
Is that is not possible, then use fewer beans.
“Rabbi Yisroel Reisman [a very respected Orthodox Rabbi] spoke out against those Jews who plan their vacations for locations like: Switzerland, France, or Italy where the people hate Jews.”
[He said:] “It would be better to visit the Land of Israel to benefit from its holiness and help our brothers economically.”
SOURCE: Flatbush Jewish Journal, 2010/6/17, page 32
The word “Gaon” is certainly over-used as a title for Rabbis.
When the word “Gaon” is over-used as a title for Rabbis, then those Rabbis who are not referred to as “gaon” are being indirectly demoted.
If my memory is correct, the Steipler Rav requested that he NOT be referred to as “the Steipler Gaon”.
If my memory is correct, the practice of over-using “gaon” as a title for Rabbis started with Chareidim, and only Chareidi rabbis are referred to as “gaon”.
YU / Modern Orthodox Rabbis are never referred to as “gaon”, no matter how much they know.
Donald Trump freed Jonathan Pollard –- something other presidents did not do.
Donald Trump was the ONLY President to have two Orthodox Jews as close advisors.
Donald Trump cut-off funding to terrorists, resulting in a big decrease in terrorist attacks.
Donald Trump showed that Jerusalem is Jewish, by moving the USA Embassy to Jerusalem.
(Something many other presidents promised, but never did.)And lots of other things that we must be grateful for.
When you rejoice over the downfall of Donald Trump,
you are rejoicing over the downfall of the most
pro-Jewish and pro-Israel president of all time.That makes you a wicked fool.
The G*D-of-Israel HATES ungrateful people.Our obligation as Jews is to give gratitude to those who helped us,
not to judge them for their flaws,
and certainly not to rejoicing over their downfall.Those who rejoice over the downfall of those who helped us
(like Donald Trump) they make Chillul HaShem,
because people will say:
“LOOK AT THOSE UNGRATEFUL JEWS!!”PS: Under Donald Trump, inflation was under-control.
Under President Joe Biden, inflation is out-of-control.The members of Israel’s Supreme Court were NOT ELECTED by anyone, yet they have the power to overrule ANY elected government official.
Even worse, nobody has the power to overrule ANY decision of Israel’s Supreme Court.
Israel’s Supreme Court has unlimited power and is not accountable to anyone.
In our times, the Mainstream News Media relentlessly attacks: the State of Israel and also Orthodox Jews and Orthodox Judaism.
If the Beth HaMikdash were fully-functional today, then the Mainstream News Media would attack it relentlessly. There would be many attack-articles (also known as Hit-Pieces) about cruel Jews slaughtering innocent animals.
There would also be massive protests against the Beth HaMikdash in all major cities.
The United Nations Organization (UN) would repeatedly condemn the Beth HaMikdash for slaughtering innocent animals, and also for excluding non-Jews from the Temple, and also for excluding non-Kohanim and women from the Avodah.
Many organizations around the world would boycott any business that sells things to the Beth HaMikdash, and also boycott any person who works the Beth HaMikdash.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) would issue arrest warrants against the people who work in the Beth HaMikdash for slaughtering innocent animals, and any other accusation they could think of.
The attack-articles, and the protests, and the condemnations, and the boycotts would be 365 days a year, and endless.
The countless enemies of the Beth HaMikdash would never get tired of attacking the Beth HaMikdash: they would attack the Beth HaMikdash again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again, forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever….
Since you are a high-level Yeshiva bochur, you must certainly be intelligent enough to understand that nobody can tell you where to find a shiur, unless we know WHERE you are located — unless you want us to recommend a telephone shiur or internet shiur.