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Keeping Shabbos is hard enough, perhaps we should allow melacha right up to shkiya (instead of 18 minutes beforehand) and again the earliest zman you can conjure up for motzei Shabbos?
If there’s a correclation between chumras and otd, it is that pushing kulas causes folks to go otd.
It is everyone’s requirement to worry about their neighbor’s spirituality. It’s all of our business. What one person does affects everyone else.
The Gemorah tells us that the reason that the goyim are not destroyed is because they don’t officially recognize toeiva “marriage”.
If the Gemorah cared enough about this, even though it is regarding the goyim, we too ought to care about it.
How is it any different than what transpired between Rav Eybeshutz and Rav Emden? (Or the Vilna Gaon and the Baal HaTanya…)
The choice is to accept $15,000 a year per child from the government or to charge parents $15,000 per year, per child.
Is the decision that simple?
In Antwerp the law requires any school accepting public funding to not discriminate on basis of gender.
They’ve increased in size in the last few issues.
What a joke. Frum advertisers are not intimidated by these Al Shaptonesque Nazis.
Satmar never asked for the security and indeed opposed the creation of the state from the very beginning, that now requires the security. They cannot hold them responsible for the situation they themselves created and instigated.
Whose trying to shut AMI down?
Let Israel institute an all-volunteer army like the United States.
I don’t understand why anyone would want to force people to stop learning Torah all day to go to an army that does not have a need for additional soldiers than they already have. As it is they have enough soldiers. If you take people away from Torah and make them soldiers, the Israeli Army will simply have to reassign others who were never learning in the first place into some task other than fighting, as they aren’t currently short-staffed as it is. It is absurd to take Torah people away from the Torah to make them soldiers, so you can take soldiers away from being soldiers and make them into cooks or something.
Let the Torah people learn all day. There is no comparison between learning Torah all day and learning half a day. The more Torah the better, and the more Torah the more protection. A full day of Limud Torah does more for Klal Yisroel than a half a day of Limud Torah (with the other half soldiering.)
Daas: Where do you see a google option? (And how is it different than the search bar on top?)
Rav Moshe has about three teshuvos on bas mitzvah parties. So it is surely a halachic issue. He writes that it has no tradition in Judaism and was introduced by the conservatives and reforms. He strongly urges it not be done.
rabbiofberlin: If Rabbi Pruzansky said the MO OTD rate is 50%, even if he is off, he is not going to be far off. So it isn’t 50%; is it 45%? 40%? 35%? Even if it is less, it is still a substantial percentage. He is not way off base. He is a Rov in one of the largest MO communities.
I don’t understand the nitpicking. Rabbi Pruzansky says the study shows 50% MO OTD. Even if he is off a bit, we know we are dealing with a substantial percentage.
Instead of whining, let’s do something to change the dynamics. Rabbi Pruzansky identified quite a number of issues in the community.
Right, since you are lacking the “scientific” data you are going to let the second largest group of Orthodox Jews go to pot and virtually assimilate into goyim. You’re going to wait until you receive “peer reviewed, psyschological” data before you take action to stem this terrible tide.
Just sit there, relax, don’t worry too much. Dismiss the data showing large segments of modern orthodoxy — whatever the large percentage exactly is — become irreligious secularites. You can wait to start worrying once you see all the methodologies, authors and subjects. Until then we can pretend everything is nice and pretty.
Why would he? It is about his own community and he is the last person to publish a set of data that is questionable. And yet he does cite these figures. Regardless, he certainly is in the ballpark. If it’s 40% instead of 50%, then it’s good?
You think Rabbi Pruzansky gave a false set of data?
A car is indoors. It’s not like a chazir eating on the street.
golfer: Because you don’t know the author or methodologies of the study you will give it no weight and, if it is indeed accurate, you will allow 50% of the modern orthodox population to assimilate into oblivion?
DaasYochid: I don’t know whether this study alone in isolation disproves Modern Orthodoxy as a valid path, but it has been stated as being an invalid path by many of the gedolei yisroel.
No, she is 100% a kosher Jew.
If it is apikorsus to hold the position that Hillel, an Amora, took on Moshiach’s future status since we reject it, wouldn’t it similarly be apikorsus to believe something about Maaseh Beraishus or astronomy that Chazal or the poskim reject?
(And if someone nebech mistakenly believes it, he is still an apikorus per Rav Chaim Brisker and the Rambam.)
kfb: Get a grip.
Akuperma: Reread the Post story. They allow non-Jewish customers to spend less than $25. They ONLY enforce a minimum on Jews.
Yemenite Jews aren’t Sefardim. Why are the folks clamoring for Sephardic biographies not similarly demanding biographies of Teimanish gedolim???
I believe dil should always lovingly and happily accept and cherish anything and everything their mil offers, whether advice or gifts.
Imagine if they tried pulling this minimum order shtick on blacks because they noticed blacks weren’t ordering as much as whites.
It is unimaginable. Only Jews they realize they could probably get away with it. Jews don’t riot or have a Sharpton.
If they did it to blacks, besides getting their pants sued off and the EEOC filing a discrimination case against them, Sharpton would start a riot and the media would have a field day.
Veltz M:
Artscroll never held themselves out as Klal Yisroel’s Publisher.
Sam2: How is religious zionism different than secular zionism in this regard?
Someone fluent in Yiddish/English/Hebrew can learn a LOT more Torah than someone fluent in Spanish/English/Hebrew. Yiddish is a very useful and handy language for a Yid.
Yehuda: Yes. Sephardim do practice yibum today.
Sephardim represent 10% of Jewry. Publishing a book that caters mostly to them will result in a much poorer return of investment (if not outright loss) than publishing something with broader appeal. Also, there have been many more Ashkenazic gedolim in the last 250 years, and that is reflected in the quantity of seforim published by and about them.
Ramban speaks of post Beis Hamikdash III Eretz Yisroel.
And I would give a lot more consideration to the thoughts of any of the three shteeble rabbonim I know than R. Schachter.
And if the Arabs take over or bomb Israel, which haven will we run to?
Start it today.
The zionists yms have made it uninhabitable, by virtue of their historical actions.
Kedushas Eretz Yisroel can be found in Southern Lebanon. More so than in Tel Aviv.
There is absolutely no reason to treat ex family, whether in-laws, cousins, or ex-spouse, any less friendly than you would treat anyone else you know.
Is Triangle-K reliable? I heard that the rabbi who started T-K (the current rabbis father) did something chutzpadik to Rav Moshe, which is part of the reason the oilem doesn’t use T-K.
Who gives a hechsher on Coke and Pepsi?
Zahavasdude: Rav Shach’s son was always religious.
If the only two men in the world left were Raoul Wallenberg and Bernie Madoff, I would hope anyone would marry their daughter to Madoff rather than Wallenberg.
And if you forget it and carry it?
The parade had 35,000 participants, mostly from MO day schools. It had an official marching band for toeivaniks, under the banner Jewish Queer Youth. And it had women singers performing.
The Bais Yaakov movement was created to keep our girls frum. Before Beis Yaakov girls learnt everything they needed to know at home. It was that way for thousands of years. Bais Yaakov was a response to a shas hadchak.
Will a six day school week make our girls frummer than a five day school week? No. So no need for six days. Will a six day school week allow boys to learn more Torah than a five days? Yes. So six days in Yeshiva. And more hours per day. And more days per year than girls. As it should be. This isn’t a contest where we need to compare boys and girls. And surely we needn’t c’v make them “equals”.
Yes, must always. As in always always. We are talking about in the public arena. As in entering or exiting a vehicle on the street. No exceptions. Halacha clearly requires the upper leg to *always* be covered in public. We are not discussing in the privacy of ones home.
If a woman is hospitalized for a birth or illness, and no one lit for her at home or anywhere, does she have a knas for missed weeks?
Therapists can be dangerous. All too many push for divorce. Sometimes they may be needed, but tread carefully, do research, and only use one a trusted Rov knows well enough to recommend. And always discuss all aspects with a trusted Rov.
yit – if she dresses inappropriately (acc. to halacha) that causes guys to look at her. You are aware that a female can dress in a manner that causes males to look at them, whereas they would not have had she been dressed appropriately. Hence Lifnei Iver multiplied by however many extra looks she caused.
Yes, I meant she gets an aveira for Lifnei Iveir for every guy she causes to look at her by dressing inappropriately (halachicly).
HaLeiVi, Mod-80, HaKatan and ZeesKite.