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  • in reply to: Teen Violence in Lakewood #2174700
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    Yseribus: Are you trying to claim that in the pre-Holocaust era it was common for Mesivtas in Europe to offer a secular studies curriculum that most bochorim attended?

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    Avira, Loyal: Don’t we have a mitzvah bzman hazeh to eliminate Amalek?

    in reply to: How much does a shadchan charge? #2174688
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    “That’s what I paid total.”

    How long ago?

    in reply to: Teen Violence in Lakewood #2174574
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    It is absolutely the case that the Roshei Yeshivos since Rav Ahron supported a no secular studies arrangement in Mesivtas under ideal circumstances. The various Roshei Yeshivos may have had different opinions of what ideal circumstances were that allowed a Mesivta to forgo a secular curriculum. Some felt that many parents wouldn’t send their children to a Mesivta with no English so they permitted secular subjects to prevent the bochorim from being sent to worse schools. Others may have felt other criteria needed to be considered whether to allow or forbid secular studies.

    in reply to: Teen Violence in Lakewood #2174562
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    Yseribus: Why are you limiting your view to the post-Holocaust era? The pre-Holocaust era is much longer and more important to authentic Yiddishkeit. In the pre-Holocaust era in Europe secular studies was by far the exception by Chareidim, both Litvish and Chasidish. In fact, secular studies was especially rare pre-WWI and still by far the exception pre-WWII.

    in reply to: podcasts and WhatsApp statuses are so great #2174308
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    How do WhatsApp status do anything?

    in reply to: How to do teshuva for breaking shabbos? #2174053
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    Avira, I agree with what you’re saying. I’ll just add that sometimes on this forum there’s a suspicion a poster is making an imaginary tumult rather than anyone not taking a real situation seriously.

    in reply to: Teen Violence in Lakewood #2173883
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    Yseribus: Au contraire. Since Rav Ahron’s times the Roshei Yeshivos advocated no secular studies. But in earlier generations the Roshei Yeshivos couldn’t widely implement such a Yeshiva program since the parents refused to send their children to Yeshivos with no secular studies; so the Yeshivos were forced to offer secular in order that the parents shouldn’t send their children to worse Yeshivos.

    Nowadays many of the parents have come around and agree with Rav Ahron and the Roshei Yeshivos, and are willing to send their children to Yeshivos with no secular studies.

    Baruch Hashem!

    in reply to: Backstop everything #2173800
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    The 2008 bailout was smart and vital, even though it was politically toxic, since the bailout prevented a much worse economic disaster.

    in reply to: Teen Violence in Lakewood #2173795
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    Obviously the Roshei Yeshiva *today* not only agree with Rav Ahron Kotler that high schools shouldn’t have secular studies, but they believe the imperative today to eschew secular studies is even stronger than in Rav Ahron’s time as it has been more successfully implemented today than when Rav Ahron advocated this practice.

    in reply to: Teen Violence in Lakewood #2173721
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    Rav Ahron Kotler encouraged high schools, already in his time, to have no secular studies.

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    And Jews were killed in revenge for his attack

    in reply to: Rebbetzin Weinberg z”l #2173569
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    It’s seems clear to me that the OP is referring to someone who passed away in the current news cycle.

    in reply to: Happy PI Day! #2173573
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    Who is sponsoring today’s pie?

    (Please use a restaurant with a universally accepted hechsher.)

    in reply to: Does anyone know a rabbi to talk to? #2173440
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    You should also speak to Christopher Wray: (202) 324-3000

    in reply to: How to do teshuva for breaking shabbos? #2173403
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    The best teshuva is to start taking the prescribed meds.

    in reply to: Does anyone know a rabbi to talk to? #2173402
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    Rabbi Cohen is an excellent choice to speak to about this.

    in reply to: The Five Most Likeliest Candidates to be Moshiach #2173398
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    Avira, I haven’t been following this conversation closely, so the following question may be a misunderstanding on my part, but even if the Abarbanel’s position (that’s being discussed here) is against the consensus of the other Seforim Hakedoshim, is there a problem for a Jew today to personally hold of the Abarbanel’s position on how the Moshiach will come in the future?

    in reply to: How much does a shadchan charge? #2173060
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    Square: Whatever Mr. Weissman suggests, do the opposite.

    in reply to: Teen Violence in Lakewood #2173026
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    N0m: please give the different possible definitions of a Yeshiva that you refer to.

    in reply to: teen only coffee room #2173012
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    N0m: Do you also believe no parent can keep their teens off drugs? Away from girls? Not to shoplift?

    in reply to: Remember the Old Timers? #2173000
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    The OP’s break was two years, not nine years. It’s still notable.

    in reply to: How much does a shadchan charge? #2172968
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    You only need to pay a Shadchan for a successfully made shidduch.

    in reply to: teen only coffee room #2172757
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    Which kids are on Instagram?

    in reply to: Teen Violence in Lakewood #2172738
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    AJ: My first hand community work on the issue in multiple municipalities.

    in reply to: What was your Purim like? #2172643
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    DaMoshe: While .08 puts you unambiguously over the legal limit, any amount of alcohol consumption inhibits your ability to drive and reduces your inhibitions, reaction time and vision. You can be arrested for DUI even if you are under the limit and for safety reasons (even if you think you won’t be arrested) you should refrain from driving after any alcohol, even if you are under the limit.

    in reply to: What was your Purim like? #2172566
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    DaMoshe: How “small” was the amount of wine you drank and what leads you to believe that it is small enough that you can drive after consummating it?

    in reply to: Once Again, I Will Not Be Getting Drunk on Purim #2172455
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    Reb Volf: Refuah Shelamo

    in reply to: Teen Violence in Lakewood #2172408
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    A much greater proportion of students in Yeshivos that offer secular studies are teens-at-risk than students in Yeshivos that offer little to no secular studies.

    If the argument is based on reducing the number of teens at risk, the better argument is that those Yeshivos still offering secular studies should drop their secular curriculum.

    in reply to: Teen Violence in Lakewood #2172206
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    Yeshiva kids do quite well as fabulous Yidden even without knowing American history or earth science.

    in reply to: Murdaugh Verdict – Circumstantial Evidence without Motive #2172078
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    ConcernedMember: A standing panel of judges who are educated in the law and of known high moral character would certainly be far better than 12 random people off the street.

    in reply to: The Five Most Likeliest Candidates to be Moshiach #2172030
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    Avira, repost them. May have been a technical error.

    in reply to: Murdaugh Verdict – Circumstantial Evidence without Motive #2171897
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    mentsch1: Beis Din executing outside the normal rules, that you refer to, can do so for any widespread societal issue. If there’s a lack of tznius problem they can execute every woman in public with uncovered knees or wearing pants.

    Have you ever seen a Walmart selling live crickets as food? I have. You can advocate executing half or more of the gentiles in the country for violating the Sheva Mitzvos against eating a living creature, and thereby being chayiv misa.

    And as the Rambam defines Christianity as Avoda Zora, you can advocate it for all Christians, even the ones with a phobia of eating crickets.

    And how many Goyim aren’t guilty at some point of stealing a pen in school or in the office, anyways, even if they aren’t Christian and don’t eat crickets.

    in reply to: Murdaugh Verdict – Circumstantial Evidence without Motive #2171785
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    mentsch1: that’s may be if his guilt is certain but he got off on a technicality. Like, there was 100 witnesses to him murdering someone but no one warned him (or only one person warned him) in advance. Not if his guilt is in doubt, even if it appears more likely than not that he’s guilty.

    in reply to: Murdaugh Verdict – Circumstantial Evidence without Motive #2171680
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    When there’s doubt, it’s far better to risk letting a guilty man go free than to risk an innocent man spending his life in prison.

    in reply to: Can We Please Sing ונהפוך הוא correctly? #2171674
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    CA: And where do you see that poetic license is permitted?

    in reply to: Murdaugh Verdict – Circumstantial Evidence without Motive #2171669
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    Two additional points:

    1. Using 12 random people off the street, in a system that proudly insists on including lowlives, drunks and the homeless in the jury pool, who are experts in nothing, can be uneducated in basic life and are of no particular moral standing, to decide the fate of an accused’s life, is the height of rishus.

    2. There’s a necessary tension regarding either giving the benefit of the doubt to the accused and acquitting him if his guilt is uncertain, even if his guilt is likely yet unproven — versus not giving him the benefit of the doubt if guilt is likely but unproven, and thereby convicting him in such circumstances, essentially using a system of guilty unless proven innocent. In a moral system we use the rule of innocent unless proven guilty; America claims to follow this principle but actually that claim is a lie as they frequently convict innocent men, and certainly often convict accuseds whose guilt was clearly not proven.

    3. Correction to typo in previous post above: It should read “AFTER a month long trial” (not ‘street’).

    in reply to: Murdaugh Verdict – Circumstantial Evidence without Motive #2171656
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    Milhouse:

    A. Specifically what proof existed that he’s guilty? There isn’t any.

    B. Circumstantial evidence is, by definition, not proof. Even with circumstantial evidence the accused can be innocent despite the existence of circumstantial evidence.

    C. In Beis Din circumstantial evidence can never be sufficient to find guilty of murder.

    in reply to: Murdaugh Verdict – Circumstantial Evidence without Motive #2171655
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    They jury came to a guilty verdict after three hours of deliberations in a single afternoon, street a month long trial chock full of contradictory complicated testimony and detailed evidence from both sides.

    The American justice system is a farce.

    in reply to: Rabbeim- ditch the drink #2171658
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    Jack, thank you for sharing. In short, Rav Miller is saying to get drunk but not too drunk.

    He also acknowledges other shittos (than his own) that hold that you should get very drunk. And even cites one of his rebbeim that gave alcohol to his talmidim to get them drunker than they already were.

    in reply to: Rabbeim- ditch the drink #2171574
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    Jack, Rav Miller was a proponent of getting drunk on Purim.

    in reply to: Teen Violence in Lakewood #2171571
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    guteyid is absolutely correct. It was Rav Ahron who said to not have secular studies in Mesivta.

    in reply to: Shmurah Matzah Prices #2171468
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    You can get it for much less.

    in reply to: Was Albert Einstein a Baal Teshuvah? #2171446
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    Avira, kuvult’s comments generally reek of sarcasm where he intends to generate criticism of what he’s saying.

    in reply to: Dissapointed #2171370
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    So start a thread that you find interesting and worthy of discussion.

    Much better than complaining.

    in reply to: Was Albert Einstein a Baal Teshuvah? #2171355
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    Albert Einstein was a Baal Aveira.

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    Dear YWN Username:

    The very term “significant other” is a disgusting goyish terminology. We Yidden only have a Choson/Kallah or a Husband/Wife. Nothing else and nothing in-between. Until a couple is engaged they are strangers to each other, no different than when they first met on their first date. It is pure pritzus for any outsider to refer or discuss them as a thing or for either of them to discuss their dating, whomever he/she is, with someone other than their parents/rebbeim.

    in reply to: Beeblebrox Inc. Returns #2170929
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    One thing you didn’t clarify in your previous posts is what time of the day, each afternoon, you are dismissed from high school.

    in reply to: Bar Mitzvah 411 #2170571
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    The Palace or Tiferes Mordechai.

    in reply to: Teen Violence in Lakewood #2170413
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    There’s always a man bites dog.

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