ubiquitin

“Most Likely Yom Suf is where the Suez Canal is today”

Most likely not,, since where the Suez Canal is today was dry land back then and not a “Yam”

I’m not sure what you are looking for.
some believe it is Jabal Mussa in the Sinai Peninsula, though nobody knows for certain.

when it was captured during the 6 day war R’ Shlomo Goren Ascended with a Sefer Torah.

the joke at the time was that he was trying to give it back

No

Yeshivos vary both in order ad what is included (eg some include Nedarim)

” have you ever heard of the Princeton Longevity Center?”

Not specifically, though as mentsch says “but they tend to be high end NYC concierge type practices” they take advantage of people willing to pay for expensive tests with absolutely no evidence of any benefit.

Midwest

“Take your MDs advice. If he/she recommends a test, get it done. If you don’t need it, don’t get it.”

Agreed, completly .
Though mentsch sems to be saying something different beshem “A very chashuv person/posek “, but I dont really understand if and how it differs.
And if it doesnt differ then I dont understand what it adds , as it is potetnially confussing

“The hierarchy of the question is not a big deal. ”

I agree it isnt a big deal. And square I did not mean to imply that you were trying to refute chazal and I did not mean to apply the Rambam i quoted to you. I see how my comment could be interpreted that way. I’m sorry for not being clearer.

I do think though that it isnt good to confuse taful and ikkur. to elevate an idea found in recent sources to being “all what Judaism stands” and a “core belief” isnt a healthy practice.
That is all I meant, IF you want to delve into said idea further and understand how chazaka fits with it, I get that (regardless of whcih direction the question is posed) all I meant was that between the two concepts namely chazaka and hischadshus haolam, if any is a “core belief” chazaka is the one that is more grounded in our tradiotional sources. (Again not that they both can be)

Square
“besides for the fact that chiddush ha’olam is mentioned in the brachos instituted by the anshei knesses hagedolah”

It doesnt neccesarily mean what you (ie the Nefesh Hachaim) say it does. After all we also say “chok nossan velo yaavor”
And even if it does, doesnt the fact that we say it everyday show the opposite of what you identify as a tennet of faith. you say in the OP “that there is nothing to be taken for granted, and teva is as much a neis as a neis nigleh,”
so how can we say “Hamechadesh bechol yom…” Isnt that “taking it for granted” From the Beracha you see exactly the opposite of your question. We DO take for granted that what existed yesterday exists today. You didnt say in davening “If Hashem wants he is mechadesh bechol yom and if not not, there is just no way to know” We say the exact opposite. We take for granted that He is Mechadesh bechol yom. you said it today, you will say it this evening and tomorrow iyh.

“I’m not sure there’s anything “backwards” in posing a question on an earlier source based on what a later source says….See, for just one example, baba basra 81b where the gemara questions a beraisah based on what r’ zeira says.”

firstly The difference between A Nefesh Hachaim and Gemara is much greater than the diffeecne between R’ Zeira and a beraisa. If anything Gemara is a tenent of our faith. Thus if anything Chazaka is a tennet of our faith, and one who rejects the concept of chazaka is an apikores according to the Rambam Teshuva 3:7. I’m not sure that one who rejects a nefesh hachaim or midrahs in Tehillim is in the same category

Secondly the question there isnt on the Beraisa.
Briefly:
The Gemara is discussing what to do with safek bikkurim cant just bring it to the azara if not since that is chulin leazara, so the gemara says he is makdish it. …The Gemara asks but if it is chulin by being makdish it he cant give teruma and maaser from it. Answers that Teruma, masser sheni and ani can be eaten by poor kohein who is podeh it. the Gemara asks what about maaser levi ?
so the Gemara brings a beraisa that accoring to R’ Elazar ben azarya MAssr rishon can be given to Kohein “Teruma gedola goes to a kohein and maaser rishon to levi accoridng to R’ akiva. R’ Elazar ben Azarya says Maaser levi goes to a kohein” (this is the end of the beraisa)

Then the Gemara asks what about saying parshas bikkurim ?
Answers reading isnt meaakev

Then the gemara asks on that answer (not on the beraisa) from R’ Zeira of kol harai lebila…

Health

“Stick to the topic on hand or start a new one!”
There is no topic at hand. this is another one of your silly game shows where we are supposed to guess what secret (usually made up) answer you have i mind,, that you will then offer to tell for a fee.

The question in the OP is so vague as to be completely devoid of meeting
By “sudden death” do you mean “sudden cardiac death” any cause of death? sure if the sudden death was by jumping out of a plane without a parachute then yes it could probably be avoided (or at least mitigated) by making sure you always wear a parachute when you jump out of a plane. always. no matter how uncomfortable it may feel.
That would without doubt prevent “sudden death”

what is more interesting is this fib you told “2nd – the only times i accused anyone of multple SN’s is where they admitted it themselves or the Mods called them out on it!”

In this thread you said “Unless you did – is Uncle Ben one of your many SN’s?!?”
Where have I admittied or the mods called me out for using multiple screen names?

BTW Square your question is backwards.

The question isnt on the concept of chazaka. chazaka is mentioned before the idea that ” that there is nothing to be taken for granted, and teva is as much a neis as a neis nigleh, ” (though nobody that I’m aware of says this is “all what Judaism stands for” )

the question is on THOSE sources, how can they say that when clearly the Gemara based on pesukim (veyatzah hakohei min habayis…) says there is a concept of chzaka.

to that you can answer as DY has. but the question you posed is backwards

“The first one?”

you must have a different version.
Mine doesnt say that beleiving a person who was alive yesterday isstill alive is “antithical to Judaism”
He might be alive due to Hashem who is the “oseh” reffere to. But that doesnt mean theres a fifty/fifty chance he is dead.Does yours say something else?

As you see from the Gemara

Square root
“As far as letting the torah be machria….yeah, that is what we Jews do. The question is what is the torah’s view?”

It is????

Ok so what is the torah view on what the goal blood pressure should be? Does the Torah support SPRINT’s more aggressive conclusion or HOPE-3’s? I used to think it was the medcial community’s role to decide. Luckily as a Jew I now know I am supposed to let the torah be machria

Mamale
“humans increase “greenhouse gasses” by simply breathing”
Look up “carbon cycle” there are some nice diagrams you can google. If you need a more detailed explanation as to why that stament is nonsense I’d be happy to go into more detail

What is with all these strange definitions of what is “antithecial” or “anathema” to Judaism?

even if you dont like somehting that doesnt mean the torha considers it Anathema.

“The joke portrays a rabbinic leader as having infantile selfishness and vindictiveness. It also implies ever so strongly that non-Jewish life has no value. I was taught that such “jokes” are anathema to the Torah, even when said clearly in jest.”

Which Rabbinic leader? there isnt one it isnt real it never happened. it is a joke about simple chasidim not the unnamed non-existent Rebbe. If you said it makes fun of simplicity of some chasidim, fine

Square root
“avrah (the only one who answered the question):”

I too answered. Though it was in the form of a question, that you didnt answer. IT was the same a DY’s point regarding hitting submit which you didnt answer either

2scents
“Regarding the outcome of patients, I do not think that such data exists and why would any hospital even try to gather this data?”

Yes that is what I said,

I am not accusing you of mocking EMS. And I am by no means in any way criticiisng hatzolah. As I said, IF needed I would call them
I am just wondering if you think there is a difference in patient outcome. that is all.

“Yet anecdotally people have situations…” totally! Though sadly there are a few anecdotes in the reverse (admitedly far less) I am asking if you think these anecdotes add up to improved patient outcomes. Kudos for all involved in saving the pateitn w/ the LAD obstruction,. This may or may not surpirse you but Ive met patients brought in by EMS who survived.

Again if you dont want to answer, that is obviously fine, and I fully undertsand why that would be.
My question is simply do you think patients brought in by Hatzolah have better outcomes than similar patients brought in by another agency.
1 )Yes
2) No
3) prefer not to answer

Again I understand there is no data to back it up, and you cant know with certaintly, but you seem to have some anaecdotal experience and it must point you in one direction or another,
(and again worth noting even if outcomes are the same it is reassuring t ohave a familair face, I am not critisicng there holy work at all.)
I hope you dont mind obliging me , its just soemthing Ive wondered about

CY
“Ubiquitin, I’ve never heard that “joke” before. I find it to be profoundly disturbing on many levels.”

nu nu, its an old joke. Sorry if I made it more violent than it had to be. I ddint mean to distrurb you let alone “profoundly disturb”

Toi
+ 1

“and teva is as much a neis as a neis nigleh, ”
where on earlth did you get the idea that this is “all what Judaism stands for”

If I measure a mikva and it contains 40 saah.
Is it “antithical to Judaism ” to beleive that 30 seconds, 10 minutes or 10 hours later without anyone removing water there are still 40 saah!?

and lo and behold if there is 40 saah is that a neis nigleh no less than if there was no water ?

Reminds me of the joke of the moifes performed by a Rebbe who was upset tha that a bus drove by him while he was waiting “The bus should crash killing erveryone on board” The rebbe prounounced.
His chassidim turned to him “but Rebbe, there might be yidden on the bus”
The Rebbe said ” oy youre right! the bus Should NOT crash”
And haflo vaphela the bus didnt crash!

you do realize that is a joke right?

2scents
“You mentioned two examples, strokes and heart attacks.”

no Ky did ” So let’s say their response time is six min.Long enough to cause death my heart attack or permanent damage by stroke.”

I was replying to a minor inaccuracy .

“Everyone knows that every wasted minute means more dead cells.”
Not to mention financial penalties. (I’ve sat in administrative meetings trying to improve door to ballon time)

“Please do not state publicly that minutes do not matter when it comes to heart attacks and strokes, they do! If anyone is experiencing any symptoms of a heart attack or stroke they should immediately without delay call whichever EMS they prefer.”
Agreed, my word choice was poor and I did not mean to imply that any time should be wasted in seeking emergency medical care

Though my question is simply do you think patients of a similar acuity brought in by Hatzolah have a better outcome than those brought in by say FDNY?
There is proabbly no available hard dtata that can possibly actualy address this question , and I fully understand and respect a prefrence not to answer. Its just something Ive worried about since anecdotaly I havent seen such a discrepency in outcome and it is hard to imagine there is one

“Reminds me of the Coffee research… Drinking coffee is terrible…”

I dont really understand this argument. Do you smoke in the hopes that one day soon it will AGAIN be discovered how beneficial they are?
As GH says public policy should be determiend based on CURRENT scientific consensus. not hope for what future studies may show. and the fact that when faced with conflicting evidence gets them to change their mind, onlt makes them MORE belevable not less. Just the opposite, its the fellow who isnsits that ciggarettes are safe or that vaccines cause autism based on one study from decades ago that we should be wary of.

“HaShem, in all His wisdom, capabilities, has not left the Driver’s Seat. He’s still in charge of the world AND EVERY THING IN IT.”

Again that doesnt absolve us from histhadlus. yesterday I built my home on the beach It seemed safe since just before I built it the water was rushing away. Some Kofer told me this was a bad place to build there since later that afternoon the water would rush back flooding my home. I tolfd that kofer that only Hashem was incharge of water and if he wanted by basement to flood it would flood wherever I built it. Of course due to some aveira I did when high tide came by basemnent flooded .

while of course not the same, I’m not sure why warning of rising sea levels and making efforts to reverse it or avoid it is inherently a bad thing , and that doing so indicates that He isnt in charge ch”v

C ISnt a Torah Hashkafa while obviously Hashem runs the world, we perform Hishtadlus IF our actions are say, going to cause ocean levels to rise, it is not a “proper Torah view” to say eh, Hashem will take care of it.

As to whether or not climate chaneg is real or what its causes are, that is a question for scientists, climatologists etc, I’m not sure what that is a question with a “proper Torah view”

“Don’t you mean a Chillul Allah?”

No I mean if they find out that a kosher store was deliberately misleading them it could be bad. Though admittedly, I am grasping tryingto figure out what could possible be the OP’s concern

“while the more balabatish Muslims are OK with eating the regular, kosher meat”
Exactly right and the frei ones dont even care about that. There are over a billion of them. They dont all practice the same thus this statment “Anything that’s Kosher is Hallal ” i true accroding to many though not all muslims.
Although even my coworker (not “friend”) will eat kosher if there is no halal available

RichardM
“Sounds unlikely, ubiquitin.”

It shouldnt there 1.5 billion muslims in the world. It is absurd to think they all follow the exact same laws Even among the observant ones.

“Are you aware that some Yidden in the Middle East refer to Hashem as Allah? ”
I am. but are you aware that One beracha can be made to shecht many animals, whereas many muslims require their “beracha” (lehavdil) be rcited with each animal.
Yes some are meikel, and as Joseph said some shochtim will say “bismillāh Allahu akbar” with every shechita so it is halal lemahdrin. As I said, AYLI I am not paskening

Health
“Now what degrees to you possess?!?”

This EXACT question has been posed to you dozens of times.
It’s cute that you demand honesty of others when you keep repeating this obviously bogus claim (aside from many other lies you’ve been caught in including in this thread that demonstrates it isn’t just me who sees through you)
Without elaborating at all

Lol

“However, what I don’t understand is why they print advertisements in their magazines”

$$$$$
Now you understand.

This is the same exact reason why they don;’t put pictures. they owuld lose money as it has become not “frum” to have them

“don’t the rabbonim doing the sale with the goy make the transaction legally binding under the local/national laws?”

Yes, and there is no question he halachicly owes me the money, and while I’m no lawyer I believe legally as well, exactly as you say.

My concern is twofold.
1) If lemaisah in such a situation I in all likelihood will not collect the money, doesnt that make the mechira appear to be a harama
Admittedly this is a far fetched scenario so it might not actually be a problem. And secondly maybe I’m wrong and a the Rav who facilitates the mechira would say absolutly go to beis din/court and get him to pay for HIS chometz that got destroyed. Somehow I doubt it,
2) Based on the above, it might be an issue of taking achriyus over his chometz given that there will be such a headache if it gets destoyed I’d be worried and perhaps even protective of his chometz.

Again, I’m not sure what would happen,

I guess my question is simply:
What do you think would happen after Pesach I want to get paid for the chometz I sold and that got destroyed. Do you think the Rav would tell me to go sue the goy for the money he owes me?

Joseph

thanks for not asking your same “question” a third year in a row.

What I have been wondering is what if chometz gets damaged.

I sell my 100,000 warehouse of chmoetz to the goy.
He puts down a down payment say $5
After PEsach I come to collect the remaining $999,995.
He defaults and I collect my chometz in place of the money he owes (of course if he wants he can pay the remaining 999,995 and keep the chometz if he so chooses, note: (again)I cannot force him to pay and keep the chometz)

The problem arises if Ch”v the warehouse burns down.
After PEsach I come to collect the remaining $999,995.
He no longer has chometz to give in lieu of money and now owes me nearly $100 K it seems doubtful that he would actually pay which calling into question the sincerity of the sale (its easy to say dont make him pay its a chilul Hashem and will cause problems, but its 100,000 in a general sale of course I would make him pay why shouldnt I here.)

Of course this doesnt actually invalidate the sale ch”v. since what he would do in a hypothetical scenario doesnt really matter, lemaashe he would owe the money even if I would not get it back

Thanks Iascisrmma I saw that teshuva, though In context he is talking about giving a hechsher on splenda. which (As I understood) even if technically muttar, we wouldnt rely on it lechatchila to go ahead and give a hechsher for Ashkenazim for PEsach along the lines of R’ Moshe’s long established policy for hashgachos not to rely on eino ben yomo “mechuar hadavar” even though TECHNICALLY we can eat kosher food produced from a goy’s treif machinery, since HE has no gezeira of eino ben yomo utu ben yomo.

that said, the CRC’s publication Sippurim in 2012 wrote the following by R’ dovid choen “Rav Belsky ruled that since the minhag of kitnios has become so well established and accepted for all Ashkenazim, if a utensil was used with kitnios one is required to kasher that utensil before using it for Pesach food. ”

The question I have though, is I once heard from R’ Belsky that when something is muttar bedieved we dont apply gezeira of aino ben yomo utu ben yomo. Example there is no question that a pareve item (eg spageti) cooked in a fleishig pot ie a nat bar nat., if then mixed with cheese is mutar bedieived. Thereofre R’ Belsky held (and the truth is this is a GR”A YD 95:10) if the fleishig pot was used >24 hours ago you can lechatchila use it for spaghti planning to then eat the pasta with cheese.
There is no question if a kitniyos pot was used on Pesach the food is muttar, ( if there is more food than pot since kitniyos is batul brov) Therefore according to the above it should be muttar to use a kitniyos eino ben yomo pot on PEsach.
Again though clearly he didnt hold that regarding kitniyos
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