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none2.0: So if someone with a Yarmulke and Kapota is giving out free Chazer tasting samples in Lakewood, a block away from BMG, you’ll say leave him, don’t say anything or protest because “you cannot control others”?
Sorry, I seriously doubt Rav Fishelis approves of having a television and said anything close to that.
Which Rabbi Fishelis is this that approved of having a television?
GadolH: That’s a very poor excuse.
Well, well, well, looks like, again, that MAGA is the most pro-Israel and pro-Jewish political movement in US history.
And President Trump has, once again, proven to be the most pro-Israel president since the State of Israel has existed. Not to mention, the most pro-Jewish president in US history.
Rabbi Yeruchem Gorelick ZT’L was asked what induced him to go work in YU. He said (in Yiddish), “JB 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?”
AAQ: What you said about Rav Meir is pure apikorsus, though I will refrain from calling you an apilorus, since I’m being dan lkaf zchus that you’re simply ignorant about it. But c”v to utter that Rav Meir is to be blamed. Bruria failed because she was a woman who engaged in learning that a woman is not permitted to learn. Her suicide serves as an example and reminder of what can happen to a woman who learns what she is not permitted to.
Yaakov Yosef A: Is all your above criticism of those who call out Manis Friedman also directed at Rav Ahron Feldman shlita, for very publicly calling out and making a מחאה against Manis Friedman?
It isn’t just in the Gemorah. It is also cited l’halacha in both the Rambam and Shulchan Aruch.
Non Political: I am not disagreeing with HaKatan and SomeJew that Z has a halachic status of Kfira / A”Z. I didn’t comment or address that point and simply objected to your putting words in my mouth on a position I may have not yet articulated addressing. The general point I made is that even something clearly prohibited sometimes has exceptions under special circumstances permitting engaging in an otherwise prohibited activity.
Yaakov Yosef A: Do you make the same comments in defense of, when others publicly criticize, Rabbis Avi Weiss, Asher Lopatin, Shmuel Herzfeld, Ysoscher Katz, Daniel Sperber, Zev Farber, Dov Linzer, Yuval Cherlow and Nathan Lopes Cardozo?
aheimisherenglisher: You’re 100% correct.
Only the Modern “Orthodox” and the non-Orthodox violate this Halacha.
Yaakov Yosef A wrote: “As I mentioned before, I really don’t care either way. It isn’t my place to judge any Yid, let alone Roshei Yeshivos or Rabbonim of any kind. If Rav Ahron Feldman holds something Rabbi Manis Friedman said is problematic, then let them meet each other and discuss it privately. Why do I need to be involved?”
Rav Ahron Feldman shlita made his comments as a public statement, ltoeles harabim. How could you possibly not care? Rav Ahron Feldman made his public comments so that you, and everyone else, should care.
You seem to not only be saying that Rav Ahron Feldman shlita is wrong, in your view, not you’re calling our Rav Ahron Feldman for making his public statement rather than, as you suggest, he sit down over coffee with Manis Friedman to (quote you) “meet each other and discuss it privately.” Yet Rav Ahron Feldman decided to make a public מחאה.
Yaakov Yosef A: Rav Ahron Feldman shlita called out Manis Friedman as an am haaretz who is spreading heresy. Do you disagree with Rav Ahron Feldman?
Non Political: Rav Nadal wasn’t yet a godol when he joined. So that in of itself isn’t a raya. You’ll need to tell which godol suggested he join.
By the way, he also deserted the army in 1948. Using your argument I’d have to assume you see that as a raya that people in the army should desert it.
Non Political: Firstly, I haven’t made a single comment about Kefira and/or A”Z. So it is preplexing what you are hocking in chinik about in addressing that irrelevant question to me.
But, just to humor you, in order to even answer your potentially false question, first you’ll need to provide the specific names of the specific Gedolim, who told specific individuals who you can name for us right over here, to join the IDF. And the actual timeframe when they allegedly told them that — and your actual verifiable proof it isn’t fiction that belongs in the Bubbe Maaisas files.
Yaakov Yosef A: Perhaps you shouldn’t assume that we don’t already do exactly that and always have been doing exactly that.
ZSK — Not only is it my business, but it is the business of every Jew. Kol Yisroel Areivim Zeh L’Zeh includes the spiritual beings of every other Jew; not just their physical beings.
“Charedi Gedolim” is redundant; there are no other Gedolim.
And, yes, religious Jews, who never asked for the State that triggered a century of violence, shouldn’t serve it.
And they aren’t needed.
They are needed in defending Kal Yisroel with their Limud Torah and being Shomer Torah U’Mitzvos; things the secular neglect and refuse to sacrifice for.
Yaakov Yosef: It most certainly is every Jews business. Mrs. Bennett is a public Sabbath desecrater and a public Kashrus desecrater and a public desecrater of everything holy and obligatory.
Public activity is every Jew’s business.
Non Political: There are, also, examples of Sefardi, Litvish, and Chasidish Poskim who have instructed people to eat treif food.
Or to kill someone. Or to drive on Shabbos. Or to r’l amputate a limb. Or to eat chometz on Pesach.
Sometimes it is permitted or required.
Yaakov Yosef: You would, seriously, take Naftali Bennett, married to an open and proud mechallel Shabbos and lack of taharas hamispacha woman, even b’dieved, as an Eid?
YWN doesn’t represent anyone other than the owner of the website.
The Gemora is correct. Albert Einstein, in his Theory of Relatively, proved that saying the sun resolves around the earth and saying that the earth revolves around the sun, are functionally equivalent and effectively saying the same thing.
The only difference between Satmar and most of the other Gedolim was how to deal with and interact with the State post facto. Most said you can vote and take money, whereas Satmar holds you cannot vote and cannot accept Israeli government funding.
Otherwise, Brisk, Agudas Yisroel, the Litvish and the other Chasidish all held and hold the same as Satmar vis-a-vis Zionism.
The difference is very minor. On virtually all the significant questions they all hold the same.
Those uninterested in what some rabbis said 125 years ago or 80 years ago, should burn their Talmuds.
ubiq: Yes, very much poorly; especially after you deduct the EHK’s 16,000 fraudulent votes that the WZO is now invalidating and removing.
But at the end of the day it might not even matter, altogether, since the WZO is considering disqualifying the entire EHK slate entirely, as per the recommendation of its Area Election Committee (AEC), based on the fraud that was uncovered.
AAQ: There’s absolutely nothing reductio ad absurdum about either including both OO and MO (or excluding OO and MO).
What would be reductio ad absurdum is to advocate to include only one, but exclude the other, between OO and MO.
Square: Lubavitch is still anti-Zionist today.
The only difference with the past is that they don’t talk much about it anymore.
Only third place? The Reform did double as well as the fake-religious so-called “Eretz Hakodesh”. Baruch Hashem the EHK fakers did so poorly.
But even more than that, the WZO has found that the so-called “Eretz Hakodesh” engaged in widespread fraud. 16,000 votes are suspicious and will be invalidated by the WZO Area Election Committee (AEC). This will reduce EHK even further down. The fraud included reusing the same Gmail addresses with periods and plus signs, in order to sign up and vote multiple times for the same email user. As well as paying with prepaid credit card numbers in order to evade signing up multiple times.
Figures that the unscrupulous, unprincipled and deceitful EHK, which tried to encourage true Torah Jews to vote in a heretical election by using falsehoods, would engage in such fraud.
The above was just in the US elections. In the UK election, the WZO postponed the election to a month later due to fraudulent activity where “Eretz Hakodesh” distributed a flyer encouraging husbands to register their wives and children, in what has been determined by the WZO to be a clear incitement to break the rules regarding personal registration only.
Based on this, the AEC recommended that the full Eretz Hakodesh slate be disqualified altogether from the election.
The EHK has made WZO founder Theodor Herzl proud.
Lubavitch has always been strongly anti-Zionist. In fact, the Lubavitcher Rebbes have traditionally been from the most vocal anti-Zionists; Lubavitch is as much anti-Zionist as Satmar and Brisk.
AAQ: Don’t forget to include in your “Joint Siyum” the “shitot” of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Yeshivat Maharat, the International Rabbinic Fellowship, and the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale.
Some of the prominent “Talmidei Chachamim” you might invite include Rabbi Avi Weiss, Rabbi Asher Lopatin, Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, Rabbi Ysoscher Katz, Rabbi Daniel Sperber, Rabbi Zev Farber, Rabba Sara Hurwitz and Maharat Ruth Friedman.
Thank you for you non-partisanship!
It is the same top notch Yeshiva it has always been.
And Rav Pinchos Scheinberg zt’l learnt in the Beis Medrash LeRabonim yeshiva, in New Haven, famous for being Torah-only — with zero secular studies.
DaMoshe: It has nothing to do with the Scots or Scotsmen. Theoretically, perhaps, YU could have produced a godol; if not for its krum hashkafas that are kneged HaTorah. But given that YU is what it is, it had about as much chance of producing a godol as the Princeton Theological Seminary has.
Square: Rav Pinchas Scheinberg zt’l was a talmid in Mir (in Poland) and in Kaminetz (also in Poland, at the time.) That’s how he became a godol. Not because went to NYC public school and YU (both of which he passed through).
DaMoshe: You have a different bar for who you call a godol.
anon1m0us: YU never produced a single godol in all its history. Some godol’s may have taken a job there as a rebbi to try to be mekarev some of the students there, in the early years when that may have still been possible. But they were not products, themselves, of YU.
Mr. Weissman had posted on YWN about 10 or so years ago.
Rav Ahron Kotler refused to enter the YU building even when one of his students levaya was inside. Instead, he stood outside.
somejewiknow: Excellent point. Yasher Koach.
HaKatan: That is powerful statements you shared from Rav Elchonon hy’d and from the Brisker Rov ztvk’l. Everyone should pay heed to them.
Yasher Koach
Hagaon Harav Elchonon Wasserman hy’d already wrote (the Ksav Yad is available), as far back as in 1940, that it is better to physically die at the hands of the Nazis ym’s rather than be saved from physical death by Yeshiva University and then be spiritually murdered by YU.
Aside from the fact that the high likelihood was that the crime was committed by an intruder into the building, hypothetically if a Yid (including any who dormed there at the time it occurred) had a “hunch” or assumption or theory or suspicion, he would be prohibited to share it with any nochri or authority due to mesira. Especially as there’s no ongoing threat to safety.