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O Torah, thou art the light that guides us,
The path that leads us home.
Thou art the source of our strength,
The wellspring of our hope.

Thou teachest us to love our neighbor,
To care for the poor and the needy.
Thou teachest us to be honest and just,
To walk in the ways of righteousness.

Thou art the source of our wisdom,
The fountain of our knowledge.
Thou art the key to our understanding,
The gateway to our salvation.

We praise thee, O Torah,
We exalt thee, O Law.
We will follow thy teachings,
We will keep thy commandments.

For thou art the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through thee.

We are grateful for thy guidance,
We are thankful for thy protection.
We will never forget thy love,
We will never forsake thy word.

Praise be to thee, O Torah,
Praise be to the G-d of Israel.

Rocky, I just looked up which hechsher they used. It happens to that is one of the most reliable, well established, trustworthy and oldest hechsherim around that is virtually universally accepted.

I know nothing of the dispute you’re referring to, but despite the position on that dispute that you’ve taken and enumerated, even assuming you have the basics correct, it can be well assumed that the hechsher had legs for their statement and/or had a legitimate reason to believe what they stated — even if their might have been another legitimate side to the dispute.

Was their hechsher any worse than OU?

Chazal tell us to check out a girl’s brothers, and insure that they are of good caliber, before deciding to marry her. Because your children will inherit the same traits as your wife’s brothers.

Because we make a misheberach for the President. Not for the army. And not for a foreign country and army.

Assuming the anarchists in Israel end their shutdown of Ben Gurion airport; as of now their are no flights into or out of the State of Israel.

Mods, “benToiroh’s” posts have been going straight to spam for the last half of week.

Avira, would you consider many MO conversions potentially invalid, given the issues you outlined?

N0: False citation of Rambam. Rambam absolutely does not say these two groups have the same extent and degree of arayos issues as each other. They are most certainly far from equal between the two groups I cited.

AJ: It is Halachicly forbidden to have a girlfriend. (See Igros Moshe E.H. 4:60 for the Halachic citations.) The crowd that openly has girlfriends and proudly watches Hollywood flicks with miniskirted (and far worse) people is obviously going to have far more arayos than the crowd that doesn’t have girlfriends or watch movies.

N0m: Some JTS rabbis also learned in BMG.

Arayos is absolutely a far larger provided by the left-wing crowds, such as the YU oilem that large numbers have girlfriends openly and have no compunctious viewing Hollywood pritzus even publicly.

The first step is to rent your own (possibly studio) apartment to live on your own.

Rav Matisyahu Salomon shlita said that the Kollel guys with wives who graduated college and are employed in the outside world are generally the first ones to leave Kollel.

Reb Dorah:

That’s the second “rare agreement” you’ve had with me in two days.

I’m starting to detect a trend. I always knew that with enough effort on my part even you’d start coming around.

Winning one heart at a time…

“If your worried about women going out, kol kevuda…”

N0: Why “If”? Kol Kevuda is specifically cited in Shulchan Aruch (and Rambam) as actual Halacha. It’s a mandatory and obligatory part of Jewish life.

N0m: Neither of them worked on Wall Street.

The Gemorah says Michal bas Shaul Hamelech wore Tefilin. Some also say that Rashi’s daughters wore Tefilin and that Chana Rochel Schumacher of Ludmir wore Tefilin. Should we introduce Tefilin into our Bais Yaakov’s?

Dr. Pepper, I’m not an expert on this issue, but is the public school systems in suburbia as bad as those in the major cities? I somehow got the impression that often well to do parents move to towns known to have decent to good (or better) public schools that are in another league compared to major cities.

Dear N0: You and yseribus are changing the goal line of this train of thought. The only point relevant here is that this third-world style persecution pioneered by those in power in Venezuela, Russia, Cuba, China and Iran and picked up by the Democrats in power in the US attempting to use government power to “prosecute” their political enemy based on a novel legal theory for an act that occurred 7 years ago and the DA in office at the time didn’t prosecute and the newly elected Democrat hack DA also decided wasn’t prosecution material, despite having overtly campaigned for the office of DA promising to persecute his party’s political enemy, until his far left woke constituency demanded he reverse his decision not to prosecute, to which he complied.

I hear that Turkish Airlines is quite popular.

Dear N0,

No. This discussed hatred of Trump didn’t exist by all these folks prior to Trump entering politics.

Midwest: Where did you hear that’s the reason they closed?

mentsch1: The OP’s underlying point, as has been for the past several years in his comments, is that girls’ moms’ are unfairly relying on shidduch references to reject a first date with him.

Yseribus: There’s no way to avoid the rampant pritzus on any American college campus.

commonsaychel: You’re sure that isn’t a tzeilim on your necklace??

AAQ: It’s been almost unheard of, even historically, for a rabbi to need approval by the local government to be a rabbi.