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WIY: When the goy is drunk you learn their true feelings.
If anyone has a problem with Artscroll, hang out your shingle and open up your own Jewish publishing house. Otherwise shut up. Clearly the Orthodox Jewish people appreciate Artscroll as they keep purchasing their products, keeping them in business, while no one has displaced them as the King of Jewish Publishing.
Feif Un: It is time for you to retract your comment of “Do we now know more than Chazal? Are we putting gezeiros in place so as not to transgress other gezeiros? That is not allowed.” in light of the fact that it has been pointed out:
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agent:
I see what you describe happening quite frequently.
Spanish is practically useless for the vast majority of Americans. There are very few Spanish speakers in America that cannot communicate in English. And the few that are, let them learn English.
Yiddish, on the other hand, is very useful for a Jew. It is the international language of Ashkenazic Jewry. Go to Argentina or France or Israel and speak to your fellow Yid in Yiddish.
Al tarbeh is not a halachah, merely advice – not that it means don’t follow it, but you shouldn’t base a psak on it. And again, does that refer to a conversation with a woman when her husband is away, or is next to her as well?
Al Tarbe does not exclude whether her spouse is next to her or not.
WolfishMusings: You cannot make the Sheva Brochos of “shehasimcho bimoinoi” if the women are (or were) sitting next to the men.
tzaddiq
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r’ orlofsky once said that -generally- the difference between a parent in israel and a parent in america, is how they bring up their child. the parent in america tries his hardest to raise his child to grow up to be an ehrliche yid. the parent in israel raises his kid to be a kodosh.
kudos to Naysberg for his good intentions in raising his child to be, not good, but great.
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They learn English, Yiddish and Loshon Kodesh.
Three languages is much better than most goyim.
And for many of them Yiddish is their first language while English is only their second language.
How ’bout the time she takes the kid to church with her while the parents are out.
No. Don’t be so picky. Everyone can understand the author’s intent, even if it took a few extra seconds.
Did you fail to understand the writer’s point?
miritchka: The problem is not that a member who abuses his privileges is not ticketed. I am very happy he isn’t ticketed and yiddishe gelt doesn’t go to the government. But the problem with abuse is that the abuser is hurting all other drivers and parkers on the road.
Furthermore, and even much worse, when other drivers see driving abuse (i.e. using sirens to pass through heavy traffic or pass other drivers or go through a red light [suddenly turning on their siren to pass and then immediately turning it off after they passed]) too many times, in the future they may not pull over when they hear sirens during a real emergency since they may assume it is just another member abusing his privileges.
Only?
We take haircuts Erev Rosh Chodesh, l’kovod Rosh Chodesh.
Only to understand the dangerous nature of the technology. Someone like a Rov who needs to counsel others on its ills.
KCR: The Chasidim didn’t start calling themselves Chasidim. It was the misnagdim that (derisively) gave them the name Chasidim, which they accepted in stride.
uneeq: How did these non-members get VAS plates?
What other volunteer ambulance services exist in New York, other than Hatzalah?
Taster’s Choice.
By acting as a Tzadik yourself. Both in public and, just as importantly, when in complete privacy. Children pick up from their parents behavior even when you think they will never know what you are doing.
Hitching in Israel is far more dangerous than in the States. There are documented stories where even soldiers hitchhiking were kidnapped (and worse) by Arabs dressed as Israelis.
Let everyone do their job, and everyone will be happy: The husband must honor, love and support his wife. The wife must honor, love, fear and obey her husband. Everyone should follow the Torah and everyone will be happy.
First, Cops DO pull over cars even if they have EMT or VAS plates.
So how do members respond to calls (with l & s) without having to worry about a cop pulling him over while he is on the way to respond to an emergency?
Do you consider a legal technicality more important than someone’s life?
The law always allows lights & sirens when there is even a possibility someone’s life is at stake. That the law prohibits lights & sirens is because it is a non-life threatening/minor incident.
Not every emergency is authorized for lights & sirens. there are many times that i am on a emergency call where i will only turn on my lights & sirens when going through heavy traffic and immediately turn it off after i get through even though i am on a call.
If is not authorized for lights & sirens, how are you using lights & sirens for the time you are going through heavy traffic (even if you immediately turn it off after)? You are admitting to using lights & sirens against the law.
Anyways, I wasn’t talking about that scenario. I am talking about where the driver has no emergency. He simply just missed the green light and wants to chap going through the intersection, so he quickly flashes his l & s for a few seconds to get through the intersection. Or there is heavy traffic on the 17 on the way to the country, so he drives on the shoulder of the road for a few minutes to beat the traffic.
And not to repeat the parking abuse when not responding to calls.
P.S. Absolutely most members don’t abuse it. But the ones that do give everyone a black eye.
Whiteberry:
No, there is no similar halacha for the husband to obey, as the wife is instructed (“????? ????? ?? ???? ????? ???? ????? ???? ???? ???? ????? ?? ????? ?? ???. ????? ?????? ??? ?? ?? ??? ????? ????? ??? ?????? ?? ?? ?????.”). Rather the Rambam says a husband must love and honor his wife:
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WolfishMusings: How did he respond that caused you to regret asking him to quiet down?
I see VAS cars parking at fire hydrants or blocking intersections while they go daven in shul or visit someone.
Also have seen the cars zipping through red lights they just missed, or driving on the shoulder of the road, all while not responding to a call. (They sometimes turn on their lights or siren while they illegally zip through traffic and then shut it off as soon as they passed whatever they were trying to get through.)
Regarding the men seeing the ladies dance, there is usually a “natural” Mechitza of ladies standing around the outer circle anyway so that it is very hard to see anything anyway.
A “natural Mechitza” for the dancing!?! Surely you jest. Are you talking about an Orthodox wedding???
At Sheva Brochos.
Sam: It is hardly a minority opinion. It is cited in many other sources as well, including Sefer HaMinhagim, and the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 149:1 (based on the Bach and Beis Shmuel) rules that “shehasimcho bimoinoi” is not said during the benching of a sheva brochos if men and women are seated in the same room because there is no simcha when the evil inclination is active. This is one of the basis that many contemporary poskim use to rule that there must be a mechitza at weddings and sheva brochos.
Again, there is no such thing as “frum” or “frei” or “religious” or irreligious”. A Jew is a Jew. If a Jew is negligent in kashrus or covering her hair or in Shabbos or in tznius, they are still a Jew. Just a sinful Jew who has every opportunity to repent.
Feif: That isn’t entirely correct. Women are also prohibited from dancing in the presence of men.
There is no such thing as a mixed smorg in New Square. The hall has a brick wall between the men and woman downstairs, and the woman are upstairs while the men are downstairs.
Sam: First of all, the Shvus Yaakov is talking about a besula who was attacked — not a married woman. Furthermore, he prefaces his commentary with “ee lav demistafina miperush Rashi… vehaRambam…” This means that while he thinks he has a good pshat, he does NOT put it forth as a psak. Additionally, when he concludes the tshuva he brings the proofs according to the accepted pshatim, and then adds “ve’af lefi ma shekosavti…”, which shows further that even he considers his pshat as a theoretical pshat and not a psak. The Shvus Yaakov did NOT rule Halacha lemaaseh that a married woman is permitted to go with hair uncovered.
I don’t know what religious or irreligious/frei means. (In fact, those terms have no meaning, are irrelevant and should not be utilized.) What I know is that all sources say that the Torah requires a married woman to cover her hair in public. And anyone who didn’t, whether decades ago or today, is most certainly in violation of the Torah.
There are problems when men and women socialize (without the only intent being considering the opposite gendered person to be your possible shidduch.)
oomis: A married woman not covering her hair in public is a violation of the Torah according to all sources.
Giving of yourself to the RBS”O is a good thing.
How did the women (in the mixed section) dance with men being able to see them dance?
One thing you need to realize is that if there is any mixed seating, you may have a large number of guests who will decline to attend the wedding since their (via their rabbonim) personal position is to decline to attend any wedding with any mixed seating.
From a practical standpoint, mixed dancing is strictly prohibited according to all sources. And men being in view of women dancing is strictly prohibited. That being said, how will the men be precluded from viewing the women (in the mixed section) dancing? If that cannot be prevented, it is halachicly prohibited according to all sources.
You ended up davening Mincha without a Minyan?
NYC public schools do not begin on the first day of September and they end before the end of June.
Syag – I didn’t see it, so I have no idea. I was hoping you’d explain how she was biased.
Syag: How did the moderator display a bias?
Some folks didn’t make it through the new year…
Mi Yichye, Umi Yamus…
MorahRach: You most certainly do need your Rabbi’s input if your public actions are in accordance with what is expected of a Bas Yisroel.
“what do you call it- the zeros?”
we never had a name for that decade, like we did for the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. The 0’s, the naughts, etc. nothing ever caught on.
It’s called the 2000’s.
“W”, one of the best President’s the United States ever had, and a strong defender of Israel and one of the few friends of the Jewish People.
I am all for increasing the salaries of Rebbeim in Yeshivos. They are woefully underpaid and routinely paid late.
computer777: I’m sorry that you feel that people should not be humorous.