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This is pure Democrat political theater. Virtually the only networks carrying it are Democrat aligned and/or left-wing so-called “news” outlets, such as NBC/ABC/CBS/PBS/NPR etc., all having been spouting far left garbage for the last 60+ years.
June 9, 2022 12:12 am at 12:12 am in reply to: Let’s Say Republicans Win the Midterm Elections? #2094825ujmParticipantOrban is doing great in Hungary. America needs its own Orban.
June 8, 2022 10:27 pm at 10:27 pm in reply to: The solution to the shidduch crisis in one easy step! #2094793ujmParticipant“just don’t take wives that did not finish high school/seminary yet.”
Those wives are the most wholesome, temimusdik, happy, Yorei Shamayim and best mothers.
June 8, 2022 10:27 pm at 10:27 pm in reply to: The solution to the shidduch crisis in one easy step! #2094794ujmParticipantmentsch1: Why are you assuming that the divorced women’s children will need to be supported by the step-father (her new husband) rather than by their natural father (her ex)?
ujmParticipantThe so-called “hearings” are simply political theater. It is worthy of airtime only on Comedy Central.
ujmParticipantWho is discouraging exhalation valves? (And what is their reasoning for doing so?)
June 8, 2022 2:53 pm at 2:53 pm in reply to: nichum aveilim when one doesn’t know the niftar/family #2094670ujmParticipant“Why would I sit shiva for someone I don’t know”
Because Hashem said you should.
June 8, 2022 2:45 pm at 2:45 pm in reply to: nichum aveilim when one doesn’t know the niftar/family #2094669ujmParticipant“I was at a lost for words when he looked at me expectantly.”
You need to wait for the avol to start the conversation. You should not.
June 8, 2022 2:22 pm at 2:22 pm in reply to: The solution to the shidduch crisis in one easy step! #2094662ujmParticipantmentsch1: I’ve mentioned earlier that this inyan will mostly be applicable to wealthy men.
June 8, 2022 1:38 pm at 1:38 pm in reply to: The solution to the shidduch crisis in one easy step! #2094633ujmParticipant“it will magnify the divorce crisis”
I don’t think so. What I do think is that it’ll make it easier for divorcees to remarry.
“most kesubas explicitly have a clause that the husband won’t take another wife.”
And most marriages will remain monogamous. This’ll only be for a minority of marriages.
June 8, 2022 7:55 am at 7:55 am in reply to: The solution to the shidduch crisis in one easy step! #2094498ujmParticipantOnly the Teimanim held of polygamy in recent history.
Moroccans and other non-Ashkenazim have living Jews who practiced it. It isn’t only Teimanim.
So yes, “exceedingly rare” in the sense that it was something practiced by a minority of one single Jewish ethnicity.
That is a mistaken notion. Au contraire. Enforcing monogomy is what’s practiced by a minority of one single Jewish ethnicity — namely, Ashkenazim. All non-Ashkenazic groups permit plural marriages. In fact, Chacham Ovadia Yosef zt’l was a very vocal supporter of it, and several times, on the record and available on recordings from his famous Motzei Shabbos shiurim insisted that Sephardim today should be permitted to have multiple wives. He was upset that the secular state outlawed it outside any binding halachic process. Indeed, the only reason it tapered off among non-Ashkenazim in general, is because the goyim/secular states most non-Ashkenazim move to in the last number of decades prevents them from engaging in it. From a purely Torah perspective it is fully permitted. If, as today seems very plausible if not likely, the various non-Jewish governments no longer pursue preventing plural marriages, then there’s every reason to believe non-Ashkenazim will immediately re-engage in their natural right they enjoy al pi halacha, already. And as has been pointed out, even for Ashkenazim Cherem R”G was initially setup with a built-in expiration date. Even though it was extended by later Rabbonim, current Ashkenazic Gedolim could decide it has outlived its usefulness and recognize that Rabbeinu Gershom himself set for the Cherem to expire and thus once again permit it.
June 7, 2022 10:58 am at 10:58 am in reply to: The solution to the shidduch crisis in one easy step! #2094324ujmParticipantI explained it’s infrequency, despite legality, above. Another obvious reason is mathematics. That said, I wouldn’t characterize it as “exceedingly rare”, with Teimanim being Exhibit A. It was not that rare among Teimanim, even in the current modern era. Some even had more than two wives.
June 7, 2022 9:26 am at 9:26 am in reply to: Remembering My Rebbi, Mattersdorfer Rav, Rav Shmuel Ehrenfeld, ztz’l #2094287ujmParticipantReb Eliezer, there’s a similar story of the Klausenberger Rebbe zt’l giving his socks to a girl in the DP camp, after the war.
June 7, 2022 8:40 am at 8:40 am in reply to: The solution to the shidduch crisis in one easy step! #2094267ujmParticipantZvei Dinim: Do you happen to know the Maare Makom for Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg or more detailed context of when he permits it?
June 7, 2022 1:08 am at 1:08 am in reply to: The solution to the shidduch crisis in one easy step! #2094208ujmParticipantYaakov: The Fundamentalist Mormons openly practice it in the United States for the last 100+ years without legal issues (as long as it doesn’t involve underage spouses.) Furthermore, Supreme Court precedence from recent years makes clear that the State cannot interfere in such marital/religious rituals.
Interjection: Even if practiced, only a small minority of men and women would actually desire to engage in such marriages, out of both economic considerations and personal preferences, so it is unlikely to cause a reverse Shidduch Crisis. I don’t foresee a groundswell of women signing up to be a second wife, unless they’re part of the Shidduch Crisis of those previously unable to find a husband.
ujmParticipantDr. Pepper:
Yidden in Europe having guns, big or small, in the 1930s would NOT have helped one iota. Do you seriously think we could have outgunned the Nazis ym’s?! Who are you kidding. If we were to shoot our enemies they’d have come with 100 truckloads of Gestapo and SS men to simply gun down every Yid within 100 miles of the gunfight. It would have been counterproductive and resulted in far more Jewish deaths.
June 6, 2022 11:35 pm at 11:35 pm in reply to: The solution to the shidduch crisis in one easy step! #2094196ujmParticipantFor non-Ashkenazim (Sephardim, Teimanim, Italkim, Moroccans, Persians, etc.) it doesn’t need to be reinstated since it is perfectly fine to engage in today, as it was never stopped.
ujmParticipantI once saw a Rabbi give someone a heter to take a car service home from the hospital after she was discharged (and healthy). I didn’t get any of the details why he gave that heter.
ujmParticipantShe’s a soccer mom. She posts between games.
ujmParticipantThe shadchan is telling you (or the girl is telling your son) that she liked the boy from 3 dates ago better than your son so she’s not interested in your son? Otherwise, how are you concluding this?
June 1, 2022 9:15 pm at 9:15 pm in reply to: Slavery — The Torah True Way (with Reb HaLeiVi) #2093521ujmParticipantShaila: The slaves owned by American Yidden, did they have the Halachic status of being an Eved Knani?
June 1, 2022 2:27 pm at 2:27 pm in reply to: Slavery — The Torah True Way (with Reb HaLeiVi) #2093315ujmParticipantBesalel: The Shulchan Aruch paskens Halacha l’maaisa bzman hazeh that it is very possible to acquire an eved. You don’t necessarily need his approval.
ujmParticipantmentach1: Do the Jews who owns it fully keep Shabbos and Kashrus or are they Mechallel Shabbos and treif eaters?
ujmParticipantIt isn’t worth giving up even 60 seconds of Limud HaTorah for this purpose, even for a “moment of silence”.
ujmParticipantWhich is why I earlier says a safek mamzer cannot marry anyone. Unlike a mamzer, who can marry certain people.
ujmParticipantAll-h simply has the same meaning as G-d.
When the shochtim in Eretz Yisroel shechted meat for the Arabs, they’d make a Brocha using the name All-h.
ujmParticipantHashem has 72 names.
As far a referring to Him, as you cannot call Him by his name outside of Tefila, there’s
Hashem
Aibeshter
Ribono Shel Olam
Bashefer
Hakodesh Boruch Hu
Tatte
Guttand a number of others.
ujmParticipant5TR: I agree that if your family didn’t own a slave that Lincoln emancipated then you shouldn’t be getting reparations.
ujmParticipantPlease define who is, and what makes one, a “Litvak”?
There aren’t too many around.
ujmParticipantYseribus: I’m against the NRA as anyone. But how are they antisemitic?
ujmParticipantWolf: Your clarification is still pending.
ujmParticipantSyag, the 18 year old Texan who shot the school last week had zero known mental health issues.
ujmParticipantbesalel: In this instance, walking around with a Yarmulka in Jerusalem doesn’t trigger the goyim to form anti-Jewish riots; parading around waving the zionist flag, does.
ujmParticipanthuju: You aren’t stupid; but you are Jewishly ignorant.
ujmParticipantI was always more of a Talmid of Moore’s Law.
ujmParticipantWhat was so shlecht about King Henry VIII?
ujmParticipantHarryyid13: Excellent OP.
Thank You
ujmParticipantRepeal the Second Amendment.
P.S. Excellent OP.
ujmParticipantHaLeiVi: It is, at best, like eminent domain. In which case the government is legally obligated to compensate. The government cannot declare a property “illegal” and make it hefker. Otherwise it could render real estate property ownership in Connecticut to be illegal and declare it to be ownerless.
ujmParticipantNo. According to the age gap theory, almost all the men get married, but there are very many women who don’t.
ujmParticipant1: It was the US government who emancipated them without compensating their owners, who legally bought them at market value — and thus caused the owners to sustain a loss due to the governments action.
May 29, 2022 12:32 am at 12:32 am in reply to: Security measures in our Shul’s, Yeshiva’s and Kosher Grocery’s. #2091919ujmParticipantHadorah: You have police parked outside your shul three times a day, seven days a week?
ujmParticipantWhile all politicians do this, it is a Democrat Party specialty.
ujmParticipant“Secondary”.
ujmParticipantReb Eliezer, do you ever cross the street on red if the road is completely empty on both sides, perhaps at night time or any other time, or do you ever jaywalk by crossing in middle of the (empty) block rather than going (all the way) to the corner (on a long avenue) as the law demands?
Or are you truly the tzadik who is concerned about Dina Dmalchusa and would never walk across the street on red or cross in middle of the block?
ujmParticipantDon’t parse a legal letter from Rabbi Zweibel Esq. like a Chazal.
ujmParticipantActually, doctors use a looser description of life at risk than poskim.
ujmParticipant“And a different part of the answer is the failure to educate ourselves about how to reconcile the teachings of Torah with the teachings of science.”
No “reconciliation” is necessary. The Torah is eternal, as true today – in every sense and in every word – as it was 3,500 years ago. “Science” is overturned once newer science disproves older science. Just because science says something now that does not mean that tomorrow a newer science will disprove and overturn it.
ujmParticipantChelkas Mechokek (2:5.9): One who knows that there is a mamzer is not allowed to reveal this information – But it is stated in Shulchan Aruch (EH. 2:3) that two people had testified that a family has a mamzer or challel. How can they do this since they are violating the halacha of not revealing this information? However saying they shouldn’t testify also presents a difficulty since we pasken in this sif that if there is a doubt whether there is a mamzer in a particular family that someone who marries a member of that family needs to get divorced – so why isn’t it a mitzva to reveal this information because today or tomorrow witnesses will come and testify that there is a mamzer in the family and consequently the children of this family will be considered sofek mamzerim? A possible answer is that concerning the Ran on which the leniency of the Rema is based, he could be talking about a case where it is not clear that a member of the family is actually a mamzer – but merely that there is a rumor. Perhaps it is only such a case where the Ran is saying that there is no need to reveal this information except to modest people [who won’t spread the information]. However when two witness know for certain that a mamzer assimilated into this family it is very difficult to claim that they should not testify since the children of this family – once the information becomes public that there is a mamzer who is mixed into this famly –will henceforth be sofek mamzerim.
ujmParticipantEdios (8:7): Rabbi Yehoshua said, I have received a tradition from Rabban Yochanon ben Zakkai who heard it from his rebbe and his rebbe heard it from his rebbe as a halacha l’Moshe m’Sinai (Tradition given from Sinai) that Eliyahu will not come to declare unclean or to pronounce clean, to put away or to bring near. But rather he will put away those brought near by force and to bring near that who have been put away by force. The family of Beis Zerephah was on the other side of the Jordan and Ben Tzion put it away by force. And there was already another family there and Ben Tziion brought it near by force. For such people Eliyahu will come to declare unclean or to pronounce clean, to put away or to bring near. Rabbi Yehuda disagreed and said Eliyahu will bring near but not put away. Rabbi Shimon said that will come to resolve disputes. The Sages disagreed and said that Eliyahu will neither come to put away nor to bring near but rather to make peace in the world. As is stated in Malachi (3), Behold I will send Eliyahu the Prophet to you… And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children their fathers.
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