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Get a grip.
This OP, above, is plain amartzus and absolutely false, without a shred of truth to it.
The minhagim are far far older than 100 years.
And, regardless, no one has the right “to do what you feel would be better for you.” Everyone is obligated to honor, continue, fulfill and do their father and grandfather’s minhagim.
It looks like the frum community can confirm that Satmar, again, got it right. It was worthwhile and necessary to build bridges with Mayor Mamdani. Satmar did it before the election, so they’ll, once again, have a better relationship with the NYC government. And the rest of the frum community started building their bridges with Mamdani now after the election.
Dovid: Thank you for throwing the inquirer off the trail.
On another note, an unmarried person shouldn’t be driving, since they aren’t yet fully immersed in the value of life.
Sounds to me similar to a shomer chinum situation. (Don’t quote me on that; ask your LOR.)
Yes, absolutely. This is an open secret.
The reason the frum community in Eretz Yisroel doesn’t elect to gain (on the books) employment is because the Zionists passed laws making it illegal for frum people in Eretz Yisroel to work unless they first join the Zionist Army. And the frum will not join the army since the IDF will shmad them into Israeli goyim.
If they would me allowed to legally work without enlisting in the Israeli army, you’d see them working legally. But the frei don’t let the frum work.
The Mayor attended the major annual pre-Pesach Chasdei Lev food distrubution organized by the Frum community.
We can officially confirm the Mayor is no longer The Big Boogeyman he was made out for by the Zionists.
IzoBar: The Zionists made the area they operate in and or control the most unsafe places for Jews to live in since the times they’ve operated in and seized control of.
The Chasam Sofer writes that the reason Jews do not speak Loshon Hakodesh as a speaking language is because it is inappropriate to use a holy language while enveloped in Tumah, which is our current status. The Rambam writes that a love song in Hebrew is more repulsive to Hashem than the same song in Arabic, for instance, because the pollution of the Holy language is an additional crime. If someone wants to store smut in his house, thats bad enough. But to store it in the Aron HaKodesh is unspeakably worse. So to cause Loshon HaKodesh to be used as a street language, complete with all the disgusting ways it is used today in Israel, is just more of a reason why we should make sure it never gets into the streets. For our Creator to look down at the world and see His holy language – or even elements of it – used in magazines such as are sold in Kiosks on Yaffo or Dizengoff Street, or spoken by the lowest of the low trying to make a sale, is not something that he or we are happy about.
The Kuzari writes that Avrohom Avinu, therefore, spoke 2 different languages. One for holy speech – that was Loshon HaKodesh, and the other for mundane speech – that, the Kuzari says was some non-Jewish language that Avrohom Avinu took and changed around a little on his own. And thats the idea behind Yiddish. It is a non-Jewish language that we took and twisted a bit in order to make it exclusive among us.
Even though there are Yiddishistin who speak Yiddish, they took it from us, not vice-versa (as is the case of Modern Hebrew), and since we do not live in a country or society dominated by Yiddish-speaking shkotzim, there is no benefit of Lo shinu es leshonam by not speaking Yiddish. But there is such a benefit by not speaking Hebrew.
Other reasons why Modern Hebrew is not the “language of the Jew†are:
(a) Its origin is actually anti-Jewish. The creators of MH did so because “it is not possible to be a nation without a national language†(see Eisentein’s encyclopedia, ‘Ivrit’). This of course is Apikorsus, because Jews are a nation not like other nations – whereas other nations need a common spoken language, we only need the Torah to make us a “nationâ€. We are no more or less an “am†if we have or do not have a common language, common food, or common geographic boundaries. The idea was that MH will make us into a “nation like all nationsâ€, in the same way that some fool may say that all Jews should eat bagels and lox because without doing so, we will be less of an “amâ€. And even though those who speka MH in Bnei Brak today do not subscirbe to this heresy, we do not consider this language the “Jewish language†because it was created to actually change the definition of what “Jewish†means. In The golyon Maharsha, quoted by Rav Reuven Grozovsky in “Bayos HaZemanâ€, there is brought a responsa of Rav Yaakov Sasportes, a great combatant in the fight against the Shabse Tzvi yâ€s. He says that Shabse Tzvi actually intorduced some positive, even obligatory practices into Judaism. Performing Birkas Kohanim daily, even in Chutz La’aretz, was foremost among them. But, says the Ohel Yaakov, even though this is a good and positive practice, and perhaps even obligatory according to Halachha, since its origins came through Shabse Tzvi, we should not do it. The same applies, all the more to making MH our “national language.â€
(b) The changes in Loshon HaKodesh that were made, both in accent and content, are unacceptable. The changing of accents from Ashkenaz to Sefard for Ashkenaz Jews is wrong. Rabbeinu Bachye writes that if you change even a komatz to a Pasach in the language, it will lead to heresy. Also, certain words in Hebrew are definitely against the spirit of the Torah. (Ben Yehuda once said that he designed the language specifically to “shtoch†the religious). Example: “Chashmalâ€, which means electricity in MH, comes from the Loshon HaKodesh word found at the beginning of Yechizkel which is the name of the Angel of Fire. The idea of taking the name of the Malach of AIsh and using it to mean “electricity†was the implication that whereas in the olden days we believed in angels as explanations for things, today we believe in technology. It would be the same as calling penicillin, for instance, “Rephoel.†The Debreciner Rav ZT’L actually discusses if it is permitted to use this word.
MH does have its roots in Loshon HaKodesh, but its adjustments of it make it the worst of both worlds – since it has Loshon HaKodesh elements we dont want to use it for our mundane purposes – and since it has non-Loshon HaKodesh elements, we do not want to accept it as our national language. So to speak MH is one thing, but to say it is the “language of the Jew†is just not so. Neither is Yiddish the “language of the Jewâ€, any more than a black hat is the “clothing of a Jew.†But just as the purpose of the hat is “lo shinu es malbushayhen†– we want to dress differently than the seculars – thep purpose of Yiddish is “lo shinu es shemom†– we want to talk differently than the seculars.
There is no Mitzvah to speak in Loshon HaKodesh. Without the modernizations, its not much of a speakable language (we don’t have that many words). And if you do add in a bunch of words and tweak it, youll just end up with another Yiddish, but based on Loshon HaKodesh, which is only a bad thing, not good, as per above. Plus, the Responsa Chavtzeles HaSharon (I:OH:10) writes that Loshon HaKodesh is only Kodesh if its used exclusively for holy things. Once you start using it to speak mundane things, its not holy anymore. It’s like an Aron HaKodesh – once you use it to hold your model racing car collection and not Sifrei Torah, its not an Aron HaKodesh anymore.
The Radak (Sefer HaMichlol, introduction) writes that Loshon HaKodesh is all but forgotten to us, and all we have left is what is in Tanach.
Modern Hebrew is not different than Turkish or Farsi – it is the language of a secular culture complete with all those things that we want to stay away from. The fact that some of those who speak Modern Hebrew are religious Jews is not different than the language of any country Jews are in where they speak the language of the land. The point is to stay away from the language of the land and only talk the language of the Jew.
The Chasam Sofer notes that while Chazal used many words and phrases borrowed from the Greeks and Romans, they never coined a new word, as has been done in modern hebrew, for in their holy opinion it was preferable to use other languages rather than create even a single new word that did not have its like, its example, in the Torah, since it could not be rooted in sanctity.
The Chasam Sofer EH 2:11 says that in ancient times Jews used to use a modified version of the non-Jewish languages for everyday (divrei chol) talk, similar to what Yiddish is. The Kuzari writes that Avrohom Avinu, therefore, spoke 2 different languages. One for holy speech – that was Loshon HaKodesh, and the other for mundane speech – that, the Kuzari says was some non-Jewish language that Avrohom Avinu took and changed around a little on his own. And thats the idea behind Yiddish. It is a non-Jewish language that we took and twisted a bit in order to make it exclusive among us.
The Rambam writes that even in the days of Ezra they had a translator to explain the Torah readings to the people – clearly, they did not speak Loshon Hakodesh, even before the Churban.
Maran Hagoen Rav Elazar Shach told American educators that Yeshiva boys should be taught Chumash in Yiddish, even if the boys speak English amongst themselves. He furtermore said that both boys and girls should learn to be comfortable in Yiddish. He also said that Yiddish is spoken by “all jews†(that is his phrase). He referred parents to send their children to Yiddish teaching yeshivos. And there is good reason why Rebbes and Rabbonim give ma’amarim in Yiddish.
I would suggest shortening your domain name. Using dashes in a domain isn’t the best practice (for people to remember). The same is available without the dashes. And you might consider dropping the last of the three words altogether, to keep the domain name even shorter and easier for folks to remember.
More safe than the State of Israel. London didn’t have an October 7 or terrorist attacks and wars every Monday and Thursday.
Since you know that Eretz Yisroel is the safest place on earth, you are highly encouraged to move to Southern Lebanon, Eretz Yisroel, since Southern Lebanon has the kedusha of Eretz Yisroel.
You need to specify whether you’re referring to Loshon Kodesh or referring to Ivrit.
Ivrit is nothing more than the language of the Zionist State, in the same sense that Farsi is the language of the Islamic State of Iran.
The frum community stands fully behind in complete support of ICE in their commendable strong efforts in enforcing United States immigration laws, as well as the laws protecting law enforcement officers, such as ICE officers, carrying out their law enforcement duties in the field, against thugs interfering with said law enforcement operations.
Does investing by Heimishe folks work differently than investing by non-Heimishe folks?
What’s the problem with the general investing sites?
Which part of Florida?
Florida is bigger than most countries.
Herzl and Zionism were just as okay to have Uganda as their Zionist fantasy playland as they were to have it in Palestine.
Shall we make an offer you cannot refuse?
Milhouse: This isn’t the only post of this OP/posters comments that can easily be ascribed to being similar behavior as the nochrim.
Would you rather roll the dice to see if you’re right or wrong until Iran drops a nuke on Tel Aviv?
Clinton didn’t get authorization or give notification for his illegal war against Yugoslavia in Kosovo as well his war in Bosnia. And he ignored the 60-day deadline of the War Powers Resolution of 1973. As did Obama in regards to Libya. And Bush I in Panama and Reagan in Granada and Libya.
Nothing new here.
I’m glad to live rent-free in SR’s head.
WB hello99! It is always a pleasure to see you again.
Why not ask them if they have a copy of the original report (that they mistakenly didn’t send to you) that they can potentially send you?
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If you are looking for the letter of the law, it would seem mechila b’taos eina mechila, (Especially as you didn’t discover the issue and continue to use the Megilla without complaining, since a claim does not start until the issue is actually discovered. So you’d have the right to claim from the other party even after a significant amount of time passed.)
On the other hand, the other party might claim Minhag HaMakom or Minhag HaSochrim absolves them after a signifcant amount of time.
Democrats is the gematria of Amalek.
kosher_news_1: You must’ve heard the saying that the way to win a man’s heart is through his stomach.
Whatever difficulties Lakewood schools have, it is far far better than the Modern Orthodox towns where their schools refuse to accept anyone who doesn’t agree to pay about $80,000 per year, per student. And will be quick to throw their Jewish children out of school, and force them into public school, if the parent is too far behind on tuition because they can’t keep up with the prodigious and extortionate pricing.
Is there then any wonder that the MO OTD rate, per MO Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, is in the neighborhood of 50% of the MO youth?
Hungary under Miklós Horthy was realtively better for the Jews than most (if not all) other Axis countries. Horthy wasn’t looking to prosecute the Jews but he did hurt them in order to keep the Germans from overtrowing him (which they eventually did anyways) in which case it would become much worse (which is exactly what happened when the Germans overthrew Horthy).
They have a pregnant woman in the backseat who they are rushing to her OB/GYN.