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Reb Eliezer: Why does she need a divorce for the second one? As her first husband is alive, the marriage to the second was never valid in the first place.
Square: You once again built a strawman with your false claim that Ashkenazic Gedolim have anything other than a very high opinion of Sephardic Gedolim.
ReflectiveNotes: You missed the point. Zionism and the State of Israel have been devastating to Klal Yisroel. We would have been much better off if they never happened. What to do now is a separate question. Giving the State over to the Arabs now might be the wrong thing. But that doesn’t retroactively change the fact that the State should never have existed in the first place.
This point needs to be stressed every time Zionists come here and elsewhere on the web and in real life pontificating that their State is the safest place for Jews (it is not) and the State is the greatest thing (au contraire).
smerel: Brisk is extremely anti-Zionism. The Brisker Rov and the Satmar Rebbe were very close with each other. Notwithstanding any minor disagreements, as virtually all Gedolim will have with another.
Menachem: Did it go through on Take Two? I’m wondering which post it is.
The State of Israel will no longer exist as soon as Moshiach arrives (if not earlier.)
You must have been bored today.
Toi, I told ‘ya that your back, despite your denying so.
The only sad part is that, if this comment is any indicator, your hashkofos have moved leftwards.
Yseribus: That’s completely false. It has always been men, specifically Rabbonim, who have regulated tznius.
Should we discard all the Seforim HaKedoshim written by male Rabbonim and Halachos established by men and learnt on a regular basis by bochorim, yungerleit, baalei batim and Gedolei Rabbonim regarding the intricacies of tznius and other Hilchos Noshim?
Simcha:
Since 1948 the State of Israel has bore the largest victimhood of anti-Semitic violence, terrorism, war and deaths against the Jewish People. Nowhere else in the world, since 1948, have Jews suffered even a fraction as much of anti-Jewish death and violence as Jews have experienced under the Zionist Regime.
There’s an official Chaim Berlin minyan a few blocks from there.
It helped solidify the proof of what a tragedy Zionism has caused the Jewish people. The Zionist State has been the largest cause of anti-Semitic violence, terrorism, war and deaths r”l against the Jewish People ever since the rasha Theodore Herzl announced the Zionist goals and especially every since the rasha David Ben-Gurion and his henchmen established the Zionist Entity.
Nowhere else in the world, since the State’s establishment, has suffered even a fraction as much of anti-Jewish death and violence as Jews have experienced in the so-called State of Israel.
Chenkin is unreliable. He’s okay with mixed dancing, too.
Bayit: Everything the Torah says is, by definition, moral and ethical.
The loss to Klal Yisroel is still felt as strongly today as when the tzadik was niftar.
X-CTL: Why not privatize all government schools and then let each parent choose which school to send their children to?
yuda the maccabi: the love Zionists have for the Zionist Entity reminds me of the love Spanish Jews had for Spain, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella until the Inquisition, mass conversion of 50% of the Jewish population in Spain and expulsion of the other 50%.
Beis Din protects the accidental killer from the time they declare he is subject to a revenge killing by the גואל הדם until the time Beis Din successfully gets him to an Ir Miklat.
Also, even when the גואל הדם has the right to kill the the killer, and finds an opportunity to do so (outside the Arei Miklat), the killer has the right to defend himself by killing the גואל הדם in order to prevent the גואל הדם from his immediate attempt at killing him.
The גואל הדם only has the right to revenge after Beis Din ruled so. Thus, it would be known in advance who was an accidental killer that is subject to revenge and who the relatives are.
“People shouldn’t be in kollel”
CA: Now THAT kinda opinion _would_ be controversial. But that ain’t what I said. Kollel and working aren’t a stira.
“Emotionally, they may not be ready until 10 years later.”
Dorah: Or until 20 years later, I suppose. Would you suggest young adults wait until their mid-30s to get married?
“Unless, as is frequently the case, the wife is smarter than the husband and can earn 2x or 3x as much so he can stay home, take care of the kids and learn.”
Well, there always might be that unicorn. But we’re talking about the norm, not the exceptional exception.
“Agreed. Drop them off with love and dignity and call them once a week.”
Is Zaidy and Bubby really only worth to you a remote once a week phone call?
“The frum oilom is EXTREMELY susceptible to propaganda and fake news.
Yseribus: You’re living in the wrong circles. The real frum oilom are the least suspectable to any of that.
“I oppose school vouchers, if anyone wants to send their children to private schools then the taxpayer should not pay.”
X-CTL: Why should children be forced to suffer in failed NYC public schools rather than be given the opportunity to choose a private school that teaches successfully and without violence?
A better idea (and one that fits what the OP of this thread is looking for) is that government should get out of the school business and let the free market operate and parents will choose winning schools that produce successful children.
By default, barring proven extenuating circumstances, divorce, like marriage, must be mutually agreed to. A unilateral demand for it may be vetoed by the spouse.
Children must be physically disciplined at times.
1. Young adults should be ready for marriage at 18.
2. Husbands should work, wives should stay at home.
3. Young ladies who go to seminary after high school should do so close to home.
4. Don’t dump Zaidy or Bubby into a nursing home.
skripka: None of your expressed opinions here seem especially controversial or unpopular.
Dorah: Do you also go around saying that one man’s porn is another man’s art? And then insist on no “censorship” of such “art”?
CA: By time you hit the Loshon Hora button, you were already oiver the issur.
WB Toi!
There’s a software program that lets you enter your shaila as well as the answer to it that you want. It’ll then give you the name of a rabbi that says you can do what you want to do, as per the question you asked.
Yeridos Hadoros
Dr. Pepper, I love your posts and commentary and have been an avid follower of you over the more than 16 years you’ve been active here. I look forward to continue reading your valuable shared knowledge and opinions.
I wanted to mention that beginning with this election season, this year (and possibly late last calendar year), the tone, vibe and style of your comments have been unlike what I’ve been accustomed to over the past decade and a half. It’s just much different, I’m not saying better or worse. But I’m curious if anything might account for this change?
Kuvult: Yet, Lincoln, indeed did save the Union. And Lincoln is held up as a true American hero, ever since the end of the Civil War through today, by all sides of the partisan divide. So, perhaps, it can be argued that even the excesses you describe above may have been the right medicine for those dark times of war when the Union was threatened with disintegration — a fate Lincoln saved America from.
I answered your questions. You missed the Rav Chaim?
Then there was the officer who, after issuing a motorist a ticket, was yelled at by the driver that he was giving it to him to meet his quota. The officer replied that he already exceeded his quota for the day and was now giving the ticket just for the fun of it.
I’m not following how a ticket can get lost before the meter maids come to check it; it is supposed to be put inside the car on the dashboard, showing from the windshield. I never saw anyone put it outside the car (on the windshield, with the wiper blades.)
Thoughts are that he shouldn’t have volunteered in the first place.
Who is this legend I keep hearing references to but is seemingly never seen? Do we really have such a whispering phantom in our presence? He or she must be the Hastur or Keyser Söze of the Coffee Room.
It has nothing to do with me. I didn’t call anyone an apikorus; I simply quoted to you the Rishonim and Achronim call them an apikorus.
Take up your complaints against the Ran, Aruch Hashulchan, et al.
Okay, mbachur, still love ‘ya. 😝
CA: What kind of disability?
skripka:
“The point I was making about converts ws that according to what @UJM said, there should be a genetic change when someone becomes a Jew, That is to say, a doctor who is treating a recent convert shouldn’t assume that what worked earlier would work now, because the man has changed from Non-Jew to Jew.”
I said no such thing. The Gemora clearly said it is related to the gentiles having a different diet than Jews. Therefore, you certainly cannot assume a convert has the same medical status as a Jew. In fact, as the Chasam Sofer said, it is a generalization — not a hard and fast rule. You simply can’t *assume* that what worked for a Goy will work for a Yid.
“I am absolutely certain that I can find certain things you do that would be deemed apikorsus by somebody….”
Don’t be so certain. Certainly not by anyone of any authority. It simply isn’t the case
And none of your examples (wrong havara/pronunciation, Zman Tefila) carry the severity of rendering a person an apikorus and thereby forfeiting his chelek in Olam Haboah.
Would you eat some unknown substance if some medical authorities maintained that it is likely to kill you within three months of digestion — if another medical authority asserted it was completely fine to eat?
(And that’s before even getting into the fact that the consensus throughout the centuries of Tannaim, Amoroim, Rishonim and Achronim is that such a belief renders one an apikorus, yet you rest your eternal future on one Rishon (Reb Avrohom), where he is a daas yochid on an issue that the full corpus of Rishonim and Achronim never really even dissected his comment throughout the subsequent Seforim HaKedoshim. It, effectively, was a buried daas yochid until Mr. Slifkin trotted it out to defend his own apikorsus. History has proven correct the Gedolei Yisroel who declared Slifkin to be an apikorus, as Slifkin today is an open apikorus, who for the last decade plus is engaging in clear, open and unabashed mevazei talmidei chachomim on a daily basis.)