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False. Bochor means an unmarried male. Whether he’s 16 years old or 46 years old. A yungerman is a matter man, whether he’s 17 years old or 27 years old. A 19 year old teenager can be a bochor or a yungerman, depending upon his martial status. And that’s officially and in practice how each of them regardless of age is called up to the Torah for an Aliya. You can bear witness to this in every Shul. I’d be happy to provide sources if you wish, but this is as well known as 1+1.
And every non-Yekkish Ashkenazic Torah authority and Posek has ruled that a married man wears a Talis godol and an unmarried bochor, even at 49 years old does not.
And you are incorrect about widowers and divorcees. They have the same status as married men, and may daven for the Amud on the Yomim Noraim.
A female shouldn’t be going solo.
lakegoy: You showed the Gedolim. You should fire them. As you said above in your OP, you know better than them. You should declare yourself the Godol Hador and tell the current Gedolim they are no longer needed, as you are taking over.
Democracy is unJewish.
Judaism supports and demands a theocracy, led by a Jewish monarch from the Davidic dynasty, under strict Biblical law.
Both historically and to be implemented in the future, under Jewish rule.
Kuvult:
SCOTUS absolutely determined that the secession was invalid and void.
See Texas v. White (1869)
Given that it was illegal to secede from the United States, and therefore the secession was never legally valid, the people in the South were Americans.
President Trump will soon be giving Cuba the Venezuela treatment and will install a new regime on the island.
As previously pointed out, on a tangential and related issue, Abraham Lincoln unconstitutionality seized the property of American slaveowners without compensation. America owes descendants of slaveowners compensation.
The State of “Israel” has nothing to do with Judaism or the Jewish people anymore than the State of Lebanon does. Both of those states include portions of Eretz Yisroel and portions of Chutz La’aretz.
The State of “Israel” is a secular non-Jewish state that stands for the polar opposite of Judaism.
Support for that state in no way, shape or form indicates support for Jews.
One can easily oppose the State of “Israel” and support and be the biggest friend of Jews. And one can easily support the State of “Israel” while being the biggest enemy of Judaism and Jews.
Chas V’Shalom should the majority of Ashkenazim who have the Minhag Yisroel of NOT wearing a Talis while they are still a Bochor, date violate that Minhag by putting on a Talis Godol.
Richmond Braun:
This problem doesn’t exist. I never heard anyone call 30 or 40 year old men (or 21 year old men, for that matter), a “boy”. Not sure where you’re coming from, but this seems to be an isolated behavior to your circles.
Additionally, there absolutely IS a difference between a bochor (bachelor/never married man) and a yungerman/married man. For example, a 20 year old married man can daven for the amud on Yomim Noraim, while a 40 year old alte-bochor cannot. And when the 20 year old yungerman is called up for an Aliya, he is called Reb, whereas the 40 year old is called Bochor. This is all appropriate and correct and fully sanctioned by Chazal.
It should be an encouragement for all bochorim to get married ASAP. Hopefully, as young as possible — as Chazal strongly demand. In fact, Beis Din is supposed to force bochorim to get married once they are 20 years old.
P.S. The age of adulthood for men is 13 years old. A 13 year old and a 19 year old have the same “man”/adulthood status.
P.P.S. We do not follow the Goyishe world; in fact, we strive to usually do the opposite of them.
P.P.S. No one may alter the minhag yisroel, for the majority of Ashkenazim who follow it, that a bochor does not wear a talis godol.
TLIK: Everyone is obligated per halacha to give tochacha when necessary.
The requirements to give Tochachah are:
1) You have to first assess that there is at least a reasonable possibility of the person listening to you. (Sometimes there are Halachic ways of assessing this.)
2) You have to give the Tochachah in a non-aggressive manner, and never in front of people.
3) You have to make the person understand that the only reason you are giving him the Tochachah is because you care about him, and it is for his good, so that he can get Olam Habah.
It also says in Sefer HaChinuch perek 239 that you should give someone tochacha privately and in a nice way; but if they don’t listen to you, then you should embarrass them in public so that they will do teshuvah.
It depends if the Zionist War is still ongoing or (temporarily) over.
“he wants to exclude the largely Hispanic migrants coming here to work and join in the proverbial American dream of getting rich through honest labor”
Breaking into the country illegally, and cutting the line ahead of all the applicants who followed the rules to immigrate, is NOT honest labor.
There’s no reason illegal aliens should be rewarded for their crime, by granting citizenship to their children.
What’s the difference between in-laws and outlaws?
This article is a boldfaced lie. It is NOT the norm. Very very far from it. The norm is exactly the opposite what this article claims in the frum world.
CA: If they disparage Rav Shach, they absolutely should be blocked.
How could you imagine otherwise?
Mishpacha and Ami should not be in any Jewish home. It is full of absolute goyish trash.
AAQ:
Montana doesn’t have a Cantonist system where they send out their gestapo to chap Jewish children Czar-style to forcibly induct into their army, where they can expect to come out of it a secularized goy.
The Zionist State does.
Regime change was never assured and no one ever assumed it would clearly happen. It was never a defining requirement of pending US military action.
Iran has suffered billions and billions in destruction and damages from the war. Their air force is gone. Their navy is gone. Their nuclear program is set back 25 years for sure and possibly gone altogether. Their entire political leadership from the supreme leader down are dead. Their nuclear scientists are dead. The rest of their military and missiles are crushed and set back more than a decade.
The military action achieved all its required goals.
And the US isn’t responsible to achieve Israel’s goals. Additionally, President Trump has helped Israel in the past almost 18 months more than any other presidential candidate would have in eight years.
Regime change was never assured and no one ever assumed it would clearly happen. It was never a defining requirement of pending US military action.
Iran has suffered billions and billions in destruction and damages from the war. Their air force is gone. Their navy is gone. Their nuclear program is set back 25 years for sure and possibly gone altogether. Their entire political leadership from the supreme leader down are dead. Their nuclear scientists are dead. The rest of their military and missiles are crushed and set back more than a decade.
The military action achieved all its required goals.
And the US isn’t responsible to achieve Israel’s goals. Additionally, President Trump has helped Israel in the past almost 18 months more than any other presidential candidate would have in eight years.
Rav Ahron never served it in Lakewood.
According to those who disagree with Rav Moshe, cholov stam is simply treif like cholov akum, no different than unsupervised milk from China or Vietnam.
The OP did not accurately reflect these points above.
CS: Any worse than Jastrow (who was Conservative)?
Seven years?
There’s also Bar-Illan.
Doesn’t mean anything. They were young men, not rabbonim, at the time. They may have regretter certain things. Especially considering that they themselves, having come out of it and experienced what it was, when they became older and wiser and Rabbonim and Daas Torah, they had the insight to criticize doing so.
Rav Yeruchem Gorelick ZT’L was asked what induced him to go work in YU. He said (in Yiddish), “Rabbi Soloveichik convinced me that the future of Torah in America depends on YU.” Then he slapped his head, as if to say “What was I thinking?”
Even among those who actually taught in YU, there were those who were opposed to the whole place and would have been very happy if it would have never been in existence (I am referring to Rav Gorelick).
ChatGPT can give you the whole thing.
Chaim: Did you pick up your incorrect historical examples from the Internet, likely from Modern/Barely “Orthodox” blogs?
S&P 500 index fund.
Simcha: I always get a chuckle when a non-Orthodox Jew who attends a Reform Temple, like qwerty613, calls Torah Jews antisemites and lies about their positions. The inversion is ironic.
We mourn on this day and c”v do not listen to music or make weddings.
It depends if you are the baker’s assistant, the baker’s husband, the baker’s neighbor or the baker’s customer.
(Aim HaBanim Semecha…continued from last comment):
Anyway, the following is R. Teichtels explanation of why The Minchas Elozor was against Yishuv HaAretz. I promise I am not making this up:
First, he tries to establish that whether the redemption will come miraculously or slowly and naturally depends on whether Moshiachs coming will be because we deserve it (zachah) in which case it will be miraculous, or because Hashem sent it to us despite our not deserving it, in which case it will be natural. Then he says, quote:
And with this we have an open response to the entire objection of our master and rebbi, the holy scholar, the Minchas Elozor ZTL of Munkatch, regarding being involved with building the land. For I myself was one of his group, and I knew that his entire objection was base don the fact that the redemption is going to come miraculously, not naturally But his honor remains intact, for he on his high level believed that the entire world is on the high level where they deserve Moshiach, like he was. But the truth is that this last generation, unfortunately, not deserving of Moshiach, and therefore the redemption will come couched in natural methods. Aim Habanim Semechah p.98
I promise I did not make that up. In other words, the Minchas Elozor mistakenly and naively thought the whole world was Tzadikim like he was, but in reality he didnt understand that the world doesn’t really deserve Moshiach.
Now never mind how R. Teichtel decided he can judge the world and decide whether they deserve Moshiach or not; never mind that he has not one Halachic shred of evidence to back up this position of his; but to say that the Minchas Elozor naively looked at the whole world as much more righteous than they actually are, as deserving of redemption when in fact they dont deserve it, is beyond ludicrous. Its downright absurd, and for anyone who knows anything about the Minchas Elozor, totally dishonest. If there was one person in the past hundred years who we would say is not guilty of over rating the world, it could very well be the Minchas Elozor. If hes not first on the list, hes second.
And to attribute such an attitude to him of all people, is nothing less than the stuff of la la land. And thats besides the arrogance of saying that he is more able to discern how deserving Klal Yisroel is of greeting Moshiach than the Minchas Elozor. This is a Halachic treatise? Nope. Sorry. It would have been one thing if they would have left it as a sermon or a drush, but because the Zionists dont really have any serious Halachic backing, they took this sefer and made it something of an icon. Its a big pity.
BTW, R. Teichtels sefer comes without any Haskomos (approbations) form anybody. But he did want Haskomos, so what he did was I am not making this up either, I promise – he took Haskomos out of another sefer, and printed them in his sefer, saying that the Haskomos would certainly apply to his sefer too, since the two seforim generally say the same things. But none of the rabbis of his time not a single one wrote him a haskama.
Another note: Aim HaBanim Semechah speaks basically about building the land. The topic of creating a sovereign state which was the major objection to Zionism is almost completely ignored. Perhaps this is what the Lubavitcher Rebbe meant (told to the author’s son, quoted in the introduction, p. 21 ) when he told the son of author to publicize that your father was a G-d fearing Jew who was far away from Zionism. I would think this is because in his sefer he never argues in favor of a Jewish State, but rather in favor of building up the land.
Aim HaBanim Semecha doesn’t contain anything new. It’s a collection of all the old Zionist arguments that have long been disproven. The truth is, his position stood no chance to begin with, because even though R. Teichtel was a talmid chacham, he was opposing the collective Torah knowledge of the greatest Torah giants, including but not limited to Rav Chaim Brisker, Rav Samson Raphael Hirsh, The Chofetz Chaim, the Rogachover Gaon, The Lubavitcher Rebbe (Rashab), the Belzer Rebbe (R. Yisachar Dov), the Chazon Ish, the Brisker Rav, Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzensky, all who were opposed to Zionism and the creation of a State. So he was really quite outgunned from the start. The most extensive work on this topic is of course the Satmar Rav’s Vayoel Moshe, which disproves just about every Zionist “proof” ever conceived.
Aim HaBanim Semecha is not even taken seriously outside of Zionist circles, because it is mostly emotional sermons and discourses (droshos), rather than a serious Halachic analysis. Its an emotional outcry in response to the holocaust (he dates the introduction Parshas Tetzaveh 1943) and its clear that he was talking out of desperation for finding a safe haven for Jews, which many felt Eretz Yisroel would be. He confuses his personal feelings with Halachic methodology, Rebbishe vertlach with Halachic rulings, and so is not at all compelling.
Example: On page 147 he addresses a powerful statement in Ahavas Yonason by R. Yonason Eyebuschitz ZT”L that it is absolutely prohibited for Jews to take over Eretz Yisroel before Moshiach, even if all the nations want them to, which is kind of a problem for a religious Zionist like R. Teichtel. This is his response: “You should understand that the words of Rav Yonason only apply when there is no sign from heaven that we should all abandon the lands of Chutz Laaretz, meaning, when Jews can live peacefully outside of Eretz Yisroel … but not nowadays, when the words of the prophet came true, [that Jews will be hunted down by goyim]. So when the nations give us permission to return to our land, can there be any doubt that it is the will of Hashem that we return to Eretz Yisroel? I am certain, that if Rav Yonason Eyebushitz was living with us today and saw the terrible golus that we endure, he himself would say to us: ‘Brother Jews! The time has come for you to go to Eretz Yisroel, for this is the will of Hashem, for it is not coincidence what has happened to us in Golus, but rather it is the finger of G-d pointing to us to rise from golus…”
Ok. Now, of course, even in the days of Rav Yonason (about 250 years ago) Jews were persecuted, and all throughout Golus they were, too. Yet R. Teichtel decided that he knows how to quantify the measure of suffering that Jews are expected to tolerate in Golus, and what on the other hand is a sign from Hashem” for them to return. He decided that he can read Hashems signs and that this, for sure, is what our suffering means. Where did he get this scale? Nowhere. He decided it on his own. He and only he decided that this “sign from Hashem” tells us that the Golus is over.
Well, he can read whatever he wants into “signs from Hashem,” but this “sign from Hashem” has no Rashi or Tosfos to tell us how to interpret it. Nor did Hashem tell him how to read history, nor does he have any sources that his is the proper reading. Since when do we pasken sheailos based on personal feelings? Its a nice sermon, but Halachicly it means nothing. Yet to him, not only is it Halachicly binding on everyone, but it “there is no longer any room for doubt”.
And it gets much, much, worse. This attitude that “everyone has to interpret the world the way I do” often passes the line into the realm of the absurd. On page 98 he deals with the Minchas Elozor, who was a vehement opponent of Zionism. He was vehemently critical in general, actually, when it came to protecting the Torah. And nobody was beyond his scrutiny. Here are some quotes:
Whoever becomes an leader in this world becomes evil in the next world (Rambam, Tur). The world explains this to refer to the lay leaders, like presidents of congregations, which in many congregations this is true. But if were going to talk about our generation and our days, it can be referring to the Rabbonim as well, unfortunately. Divrei Torah III:47
Whevener there are Reshaim in the world, there is suffering in the world. Who are Reshaim? The robbers. (Sanhedrin 113b). This is referring to the fake leaders who rob the truth form the people, because they act like Tzadikim and act for their own benefit. They prevent the redemption. Hashem should save us from them. ibid 58
There are Rebbes (admorim) who are fakers, they make believe they are Tzadikim, are meyached yichudim, and dress like Rebbes or rabbis. This is all the doing of the Satan in order to bring the public (followers) to sin. ibid V:82
The reason why Jews in Germany can learn heresy and still remain religious is because they are like the people who are immune to poison because they are used to drinking it and so have so much of it in their system. So too the German Jews, they are soused to the poison of secularism since they are habituated in it from childhood little by little, that this does not hurt them. That is why they are immune to the bad influence of the Mizrachi and the Agudah as well. ibid IV:93
And you shall love your neighbor like yourself – this means, just like there are different parts of you that you care about more for instance, you care more about heaving your head than your feet so too we love the Tzadikim more than we do others. The lowest level is those who are like our fingernails, also part of us, but we clip them off and discard them. These people too are like fingernails that need to be separated from the rest of us, and this is for the benefit of Klall Yisroel. ibid II:39
The tradition of many Torah observant Jews is to wear sackcloth on this forlorn day.
Unfiltered access, for one thing.
in 2025 the IFSW held a vote
The International Federation of Social Workers is a communist front. There website today is expressing solidarity with Iran.
The Zionist State only desires to have a membership in these organizations based on the old Zionist principal expressed shortly before 1948 that they want a state to be like all other states; just as other States have robbers and killers, they want robbers and killers in their Zionist state.
Rescue:
Can you clarify your question to me? How is what different? I was pointing out that qwerty613 has repeatedly proven himself a perjurer and fabulist. Now he’s stooping to insisting that he did more than cleaning Rav Moshe’s grandson’s teeth. Maybe he did a root canal for him; but he ignored the point that Rav Moshe’s grandson told him directly that he’s a Chosid of HaGaon HaRav Avigdor Miller ztvk”l. That was the posters own previous description of what the grandson told him. Then, a few comments back, he downgraded Rabbi Plutchok from being his “present Rav” and “current Rav” — his own words only a few weeks ago on this forum — to being ‘only’ one of whole bunch of Rabbis he picks and chooses, depending what answer he wants to hear. For mixed swimming permission he has another rabbi, apparently. And, now, in his most recent comment above, Rabbi Plutchok was further downgraded from three days ago being one of several rabbis of his (unlike in January when he was his current and present rabbi) to being a former rabbi who he already dumped in 2023 when Rabbi Plutchok moved to the Five Towns. Now he rarely sees him. Give him another few weeks, and by June he will “dislike” Rabbi Plutchok. Because, after all, Rabbi Plutchok said that he considers Rav Miller a Gadol — a big no-no with this root canal purveyor. But, fear not, he won’t hate Rabbi Plutchok, only dislike him, because even though Rabbi Plutchok said that he considers Rabbi Miller a Gadol, it is “not a Gadol like Rav Moshe, Rav Yaakov etc.” But he’s a lucky-ducky fellow, because he’s a member of some religion where “one does not have to listen to what his Rabbi tells him”, as he aptly put it. Maybe he got that from the New Testament. I wouldn’t know, since I never read it.
The Shulchan Aruch explicitly rules a husband must prevent his wife from acting non-tznius. That’s but one of many explicit examples in Halacha. The same obligations applies regarding a father to his children.
The State of so-called Israel “is embracing Torah values” as much as North Korea is doing so.
qwerty613: So when you started learning by Rav Miller, you didn’t even know how to learn Gemora, as per your previous posts. But now you not only hate him, you just falsely made up that Rabbi Plutchok dislikes him — even though you’ve previously posted Rabbi Plutchok holds Rav Miller ztvk”l is a godol hador.
Your entanglement in your web of lies continues.
Until your last post, you referred to Rabbi Plutchok as “My current Rav”, “As my Rav”, “My present Rav”, “my Rav”, etc. When one has a Rav he’s obligated to follow his psakim. But in your most recent comment, when confronted with these uncomfortable truths, you downgraded Rabbi Plutchok to merely being “one of my Rabbis”. Apparently, now, you have a roster of rabbis in your rolodex to ask specific “shailos” to, depending what answer you want to hear. Rabbi A, he permits TV, that’s who I’ll ask the TV shaila; Rabbi B, he permits mixed swimming, that’s who I’ll ask the swimming shaila…
You’ve also written that Rav Moshe’s grandson who comes to you to get his teeth cleaned is a Chosid of Rav Miller.
I hope you don’t mess up your patients teeth as bad as you mess up everything else.
Now you can go back to playing imaginary chess, with you comically ending 50% of your comments with “checkmate”.
Dr. Pepper — she was a moderator and had the ability to delete her comments. Her account still exists (along with a tiny number of not deleted comments if I recall).
Btw, she made a personal backup of her comments before deleting them.