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Hinduism changed in great deal over the centuries. Just like the other religions, they copied various Jewish practices that originally they did not do.
Why would you have such doubts to think otherwise, given that there’s no documented record of Hindus practicing the various similar practices to Judaism, prior to Matan Torah?
#1: You earlier said that there’s “quite a list of American rishwi yeshiva that got semicha from RIETS”, yet now you could only list one current such Rosh Yeshiva, when asked. (The one you mentioned is a grandson of Rabbi J.B. Solovitchik.)
The YU of today, with its toeiva clubs (since the 1990’s) and all, is incomparable to the pre/postwar period when America had very few choices of Yeshivos –and YU, with all its faults even then, was one of the only options.
#1: Which current Roshei Yeshivos received smicha from YU?
Dofi: What is the punishment for someone who violated the Halacha by giving more than 20%?
Dofi: Is that your standard Cut & Paste every time you see a Lubavitcher?
#1: Are you forgetting the great Roshei Yeshivos of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah?
It’s a typical, old fashioned, political persecution.
Chaylev, what is the Halachic criteria to determine whether an owner of a slave gave to hope?
MDG, technically, whoever inherited ownership of Hordus could have freed him.
I noticed the American qualification only after my submission.
Good point; I don’t think Rav Meilich is a Rosh Yeshiva.
Moshiach is coming before Shabbos.
Politics is a bore. Learn Torah for the real excitement.
HaGaon HaRav Ahron Schachter shlit”a
HaGaon HaRav Shaul Alter shlit”a
HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein shlit”a
HaGaon HaRav Elimelech Biderman shlit”aThe OP is correct. The first response to him can be a Limud Zchus.
Dofi: Many of these Roshei Yeshiva hold by the p’sak that Shabbos (which is a m’doraysa) ends according to Rabbeinu Tam’s zman. Yet, a number of talmidim end at the earlier zman. Yet, the R”Y don’t “bar them” as a result. So there’s no reason to think you have any basis to assert that they’d bar them for what you say that they would.
How many Roshei Yeshivos can you name right now, in your next comment, that are opposed to 18 year old bochorim getting married? If you provide no names, as we both know you cannot legitimately provide any, we have our answer and can safely assume you to be incorrect.
Dorah: Many of your Zeidas and Bubbes, living in the Shtetl, would have felt lucky to have a separate bedroom for their six boys from their six girls. Quite a few of your ancestors slept in the small kitchen or dining room. Are you suggesting your zeidas birth was an error?
At least they did have bread, salt and water. Soda they didn’t have and chicken was very infrequent, too. So you surely cannot complain they weren’t fed. (Otherwise, you wouldn’t be here today.)
I respect Sefardim for their unity.
Reb Eliezer, he was shot between the two court rulings. The second/final court, as I said, upheld one of the counts against Kastner (after his death).
You can make a donation on behalf of a niftar without putting the niftar’s name anywhere. This is no less a zchus for the niftar than if the niftar’s name is displayed.
Dorah: Having children asap is a biblical obligation not to be trifled with over financial considerations. Do you think parents of 10 or more children were able to “afford” it? If not, do you believe they should have had less and thereby you fault them for having birthed “too many” children?
Dofi: Do you think they’re capable of enforcing it? If they’re not capable of doing so, you have no question.
Reb Eliezer, the key word there is “most”. NOT all. Even the zionist supreme court upheld that Kastner was guilty of defending Nazis after the war in Nuremberg. And even the other two counts that the SC overturned, they only did so to defend their fellow zionist’s honor. Even so, they couldn’t deny his guilt on the third count. The lower zionist trial court found that Kastner was guilty on all three counts.
Wikipedia is notoriously unreliable on all contentious topics.
In any event, Kastner is responsible for the deaths of 500,000 Hungarian Jews. He was Eichmann’s right hand man in killing Hungarian Jewry, in Eichmann’s own words and in the historical record. A fellow Jew shot Kastner to death in Israel out of anger for the mass murder that Kastner is guilty of.
I respect Teimanim for maintaining tradition.
Yes, Adolf Eichmann, not Albert. It’s been a long week.
But Kastner was a collaborator. Eichmann himself, in a 1950s interview with a German magazine (that was later republished in Life Magazine) before he was caught, bragged that without Kastner he wouldn’t have been able to kill so many Hungarian Jews. Kastner knew beforehand, unlike the rest of Hungarian Jewry, of Eichmann’s plan to send Hungarian Jews to death in Aushwitz. Kastner never told his fellow Jews and instead let Eichmann round them up without them resisting or trying to run away (as anyone knowing they’re being shipped on trains to death camps would try to do), in order so that Kastner could get one trainload of people saved, who mostly were his family and colleagues.
Read the Vrba-Wetzler Report. Even the zionists courts in Israel admitted that even after the war Kastner defended Nazis in the Nuremberg Trials.
Interjection: Paying those bucks for that designer’s name on your bag, or a fancy name on your watch, is also irrational. Most people don’t do it.
Dofi, how much rent would a one bedroom basement cost a new couple?
Kastner was a Nazi collaborator. Kastner was Albert Eichmann ym’s’s right-hand man in exterminating Hungarian Jewry. The Rebbe fully paid for his seat on the train. 90% of the train passengers were Kastner’s immediate and extended family as well as his zionist colleagues. If anyone gets “credit” for that train being able to take the passengers to Switzerland, the credit goes to Albert Eichmann, as without Eichmann the train would never have come or been authorized to go to Switzerland.
CTL, every 18 year old has an obligation to get married. Bread, salt and water, if they have that, they have parnassa. They may not delay marriage for financial purposes. It is Halachicly prohibited.
akuperma: You offer nice theories, but the world — including the United States and the United Nations — recognizes Taiwan as part of China.
AAQ: The standard of livelihood required is bare minimum. “Kach hi darkah shel torah – pas b’melach tochal etc.” — Bread salt and water – if you have that, you have parnasah.
Hadorah: The mishna in Pirkei Avos says that 18 years of age should be the ceiling of when to get married, not the floor. It wants us to be married no later than that age. The absolute Halachic deadline one must get married by is age 20. After that the Halacha is (content warning: readers with liberal tendencies are recommended to stop reading this comment) that if he isn’t trying to get married once he is 20, Beis Din should force him to get married.
Wasn’t it the Ari HaKodesh ZT”L who identified most of the ancient kevorim in Eretz Yisroel?
akuperma: Taiwan is a part of China. Virtually every country in the world, including the United States, recognizes this fact. The United States voted to kick Taiwan out of the United Nations and replace them with China, on the basis of the fact that it is recognized that they are both the same one country; and that the United States and virtually the entire world recognizes the government in Beijing as the only legitimate national government of China. We do not have diplomatic relations with Taiwan since they are part of China, and we have diplomatic relations with Beijing.
In short, China is a terrible communist country; but they do not seek to conquer any other nation. When the South tried to secede from the United States, we reclaimed our land by force.
And is the tradition in your family that the young adults tend to marry approximately when they’re 19 years old or is it closer to when they’re 29 years old?
rightwriter: Why would you doubt it?
Mentsch1: You misunderstood me. I know that outside Israel the Kallah’s family buying the Choson an apartment isn’t a thing. But outside Israel the Kallah’s family has many other expenses they’re responsible for, much more so than the Choson’s family — and it is widely accepted practice.
And that’s all part and parcel of traditional Yiddishkeit. The Kallah’s family has always, from time immemorial throughout Jewish history, provided the Choson a dowry. As is proper.
And how do poor American parents marry off their daughters?
takah: If the amount isn’t raised, it is borrowed. And then paid back afterwards (probably by raising it.)
Avira, what did Rav Shach and Rav Avrohom Yehoshua disagree about?