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Uh Oh. Now yer gonna get blocked!

To make sure the whole gown gets under the Chuppa.

RebDoniel, any time you change a rule there will be a balooning effect right away. In order to really know how things work you have to study a place that had such laws in place for a while.

While smoking is not healthy and is irresponsible, the effect is long term and down the road. You can’t compare a smoker to someone taking illegal substances. As far as I know, BH Yeshivos do not have this problem.

Like everything else, who knows what the future holds and what a Mussar Shmuess will sound like a couple of years down the line. But sofar, it is not an issue and please don’t make believe it is. People take the word of fiction seriously, even while being aware that it is fiction.

Maybe, if your story would be about a Bachur hiding his regular nicotine sigarette, that would help implant the idea that it is not normal to smoke. Think like a journalist: how you can change the world with slight inferences and biases.

Popa, who knows you better, your CR friends or your RL friends?

Opinion? Yes. I think it is very odd. Besides, most of the Pesukim given in the Siddurim are Brachos and Shevachim.

About multiple names, while we surely use them differently than the way it was back then, the Minhag is to say two separate Psukim. This is probably because, although they do combine to make up one name, they are after all two separate parts. People often enough name only partly after someone, or add a name.

The B’nei Yissaschar was famously named partly after his uncle, who said it will have a partial effect.

Do you need a source for the fact that adding a comment after the punch-line doesn’t help out?

I don’t think adding that Rabbi’s repsonse makes the joke any funnier.

When talking on the phone to an Earthling, what would be the delay?

Zach, welcome back and thanks for stopping by. Did you come here by chance or did someone tell you about this topic?

Once we settle multiple planets, we will have to deal with Universal Warming/Cooling being pushed by the United Planets.

So, as it turns out, there is a word in Lashon Kodesh for fun but not for Fahrgin. That must mean that Fahrginning is not a Torah concept but having fun is, of course.

I wasn’t referring to the 12 Mazalos of the zodiac. I was talking about the seven heavenly bodies. We would have to switch Mars for Earth.

The problem is that air conditioning won’t work, since there is no air to cool the coils. Oh, well in that case, temperature won’t dissipate, either. So you can cool the coils with cool water from the winter.

Which Mazalos do they count there, ShaTzaA ChaNKaL? In what order?

As for Birchas Hachama, if you go with the geo-centric model then it doesn’t change, since the sun is said to have come into the correct position. If, however, we go the helio-centric model then the question is do we, as earthlings, still count by the sun’s relationship to Earth or from our perspective?

The thing with Birkas Hachama is than it isn’t an observed phenomenon in the first place.

Shabbos is discussed already by some Poskim, since it was Nogea the Israeli astronaut.

Daniela wrote very profoundly about how we are different than the western culture in that we give inherent value to deed and externals. We are physical. There is no escaping that. If we want to be something and live a higher standard it has to be with physical deeds. Thinking and believing won’t do the job.

Outside of Yiddishkeit a spiritual person is someone who thinks and preaches. We think as spiritual someone who acts out the Mitzvos.

Daniela’s other point, also very well stated, is that this is not the first thing that one may call ‘unfair’. A Baal Mum is Pasul for Avoda just like a Lulav is Pasul when it is split. We don’t say it is unfair because we don’t care about the Lulav, but it is the same mechanism at play. Just plain Pasul. If you feel bad for him that he became Pasul, well, I also do. I also feel bad for any Baal Mum, Kohen or not. I’m sure Hashem has Rachmanus on him, too.

The Tzedukim didn’t take the advice of the guy Popa mention — to start from scratch. They put on Tefillin, because everyone always put on Tefillin. Then they made the changes whenever they felt that the Chachamim injected their own desires and worldview.

They didn’t call themselves Perushim because they called themselves Yehudim. Perushim is a title created by outsiders, who wanted normal Frum Yiddishkeit to be a certain sect within Judaism. The only time we find Chazal referring to themselves as Perushim is when they quotes Tzedukim.

good pont. But Shabbos is still part of it.

Sam, if you hold Techumin is a De’oraysa what would be the stress that he kept everything incuding that? The Maharal did keep the Girsa of Eiruvei Tavshilin, with a beautiful explanation of why this was picked.

Sam, according to what you said, Avraham Avinu wouldn’t have kept any Yom Tov (besides for Rosh Hashana and maybe Yom Kipper), and you suggested that Shabbos wasn’t either kept. However, you mentioned that according to a Girsa (the common one) he kept Derabanans. This Derabanan was Eiruvei Tavshilin, which includes both, Shabbos and Yom Tov.

In my Haggada it claims that Matza Zu Al Shum Shelo Hispik… The Ramban holds that they are two Mitzmos, one in Mitzrayim and one after. The fact that a Parsha is mentioned before Yetzias Mitzraim does not mean it was told to them there.

The Maharal I mentioned earlier was about Succah, specifically. And he explained, as mentioned, that although the reason is in the Torah that is not the whole meaning of the Succah. This is pretty known to anyone who learns, or peeks into, Zohar Hakkadosh, Chassidus, Shlah Hakadosh and other Sfarim. The fact that there is a Chiyuv to have in mind Basukos Hosahvti, according to many Poskim and is alluded to by the Tur, doesn’t contradict the fact that the Mitzva is a stand-alone and has value and purpose besides the memory.

Besides this, many explain the purpose of Matza in Mitzrayim was for the Emuna of what was coming. Avraham Avinu could have done these Mitzvos in the same manner, or as a Bakasha that his children be Zoche to these Yeshu’os. He was aware of Maase Avos Siman Labanim, which is why he was busy with the Be’eros.

Ubiquitin, I’d have no issue with saying that he had written Tefillin (although I’m not sure what would have been witten there), but the Tanya says it was accomplished another way. Before dismissing the Tanya read it through. I can’t point you to where it is, though.

Thanks, Torah.

Did the avos shake lulavim, put on tefillin, remember amalek, or take maaser?

According to what we learn that the Avos, or at least Avraham Avinu, kept the Torah there is no reason to think that he didn’t keep Lulav. The Tanya writes that Yakov Avinu would do Tefillin through a meditation with sticks. This is because, as was said above, the Avos learned the secrets of the Torah and its reasoning, and then decided how to manifest these ideas into action.

This being the case, perhaps by the Avos Tefillin and Lulav where one and the same.

Amalek obviously couldn’t be forgotten before he existed, but the concept of hating Hashem’s enemies was around all along. This was the point of a few Nesyonos of Avraham Avinu.

Maaser is in the Pasuk. Avraham Avinu gave Maaser to Malki Tzedek and yaakov promised to give Maaser upon his successful return to Eretz Yisroel.

Yichusdik, a good initial approach to funny looking Agadetta is to understand that we don’t undertand was is meant. The next level is to not ignore the Torah Chazal are trying to teach us, but to learn it. Many Sefarim explain Maamarei Chazal on different levels, but ignoring it is not an option.

Your suggestion, not to take it literaly, is exactly what I just did. I explained that it wasn’t our Yom Tov of Pesach and it wasn’t the time of Pesach.

As to the Matza, which is what Chazal say was the intention of the Ugos, Toi answered appropriately enough. The Mitzvos are deeper than merely being a memory. The Maharal writed in Gevuros Hashem, that if it were for the memory alone, there were many options of what to set. Also, he writes, there is no physical memory for the Mann, which is so important that Moshe Rabbeinu had to put some away for the generations. The Maharal writes that these Mitzvos, like Sukka and Matza, are like other Mitzvos — whose reasoning is far beyong us — but it was connected to the memory.

In a straightforward approach, Avraham Avinu had Matza just like we had it in Mitzraim. In Mitzrayim it was for the Emuna of what Hashem will do for us. Avraham Avinu was always praying for the future and his Mitzvos revolved around the future rather than the past.

Yekke, so he learned less than Noach?

What’s wrong with Ahavas Chinam, who doesn’t like freebies?

What Toi said, that it has to with Avoda Zara, although the Gemara doesn’t give such a reason (as far as us Amei Haaretz are aware of), Reb Chaim Ben Reb Betzalel, in his Sefer Hachaim, does Darshen some of them in that direction.

He is very right.

Even if you feel that the direction the state is going is correct, you can’t do something like this overnight. This is well understood here in America. There are many programs that we would love to discontinue but people depend on it and you can’t drop them like a hot potato.

They already lowered the entitlements drastically and people are searching for jobs. You have to wait until the first wave got settled before flooding the market with more. Pushing people onto a train doesn’t make more room.

I think you left out a point. Not just Nevua and Sanhedrin. The Gemara says Kishenismaatu Liban and Kishelo Shimshu Kal Tzarchan, is when Machlokes began. The Rambam learns that when a Talmid properly understands his Rebbe, his attitude and his take on a situation would be exactly like that of his Rebbe.

Once they weren’t Mekabel fully to this degree their view has a flavor of their own. This breeds Machlokes, since each Talmid has his own view and they are not reflecting the one view they recieved together.

I you sure you aren’t allowed to eat it anyhow? What if they don’t get it? They think it is Kosher and you are making a huge Chillel Hashem by puting up a fuss.