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The Torah says the world was created in 6 days. And that Rashi says explicitly that when the Torah says Vayehi Erev Vayehi Voker Yom Echad it means 24 hours.

The 6 days of creation were in fact 24 hours. How could they not be? Aren’t days 24 hours now? So when did this change? Where does it indicate in the slightest that the first Sunday after creation (or the first Shabbos?) was suddenly shorter than previous days?

On the contrary – it’s clear that on the fourth day Hashem said the sun should shine during the time-period that was called “day” and the stars/darkness should rule during the time-period called “night”. Since then, that hasn’t changed, and obviously as we can see today, the sun and the stars have decided that the time period called day plus the time period called night, are 24 hours.

The Gemora says this explicitly. It describes 10 things that were created on the first day of creation, one of which is the “length of the day and night” – as it says, “vayehi erev vayehi voke yom echad”. So the time span of the day was created on the first day of creation. And, as Rashi states, it means “[the day and night together] – i.e. 24 hours between them”.

And, again…

Menachem, you give too much credence to modern science. EVEN IF modern science categorically declared with great unequivocality a certain “fact” that didn’t comport with what the Torah or Chazal wrote, we would have absolutely no reason to no longer take what the Torah or Chazal declares as absolute literal truth, or doubt it even in the slightest, despite the “science” to the contrary.

Science can be, and often is, overturned.

We all know what Dovid HaMelech writes in Tanach about parents and rebbeim who don’t use a rod on their children.

She’d make a mighty fine dog catcher.

Lizzie for Dog Catcher 2024.

Her bid for election to Congress in 2022 is about to fail.

1a2b: Even valid criticism?

Apparently AAQ is automatically going to spam and then a mod is, kindly, manually moving it out of spam each time.

The issue is occurring again.

First ask what the Torah’s view on what the optimal reaction, internally and externally, should be.

It is self-explanatory, based on its name.

… and since Rav Moshe was the Av Beis Din of Agudas HaRabbonim…

Btw, Rav Dovid Feinstein zt’l was fairly easily reachable, as well. You just had to call the Yeshiva payphone and ask whoever answered to put him on the phone.

Wait, none of the usual suspects reprimanded the OP yet for an allegedly poor education?

Hello, huju and company, where are you?

A very significant portion (very possibly a majority) of non-Orthodox “Jews” (secular, Reform, Conservative) that self-identify as Jewish, are in fact non-Jewish. These Goyim who are members of the Reform or Conservative movements, or these gentiles who identify themselves as “Jewish”, descend from — or are themselves — invalid conversions from the Reform and Conservatives.

Or the false conversions in Israel of Russians and Ethiopians who never were religious, never intended to be religious and never kept one Shabbos.

Or alternatively were deemed “Jewish” by virtue of patrilineal descent (mainly in the Reform and Reconstructive movements, but even the Conservatives accept their so-called Jewish status, as they cross-recognize the other movements), having a Jewish father and a Gentile mother. Or being several generations down from said goy (great-grandmother) or were adopted by non-Orthodox Jews, or descended any number of generations back from such a child.

Ken Zain that AAQ is correct and that since Covid they’re doing virtual brochos.

Poor Mr. Hitler. What a horrible childhood. No wonder he did what he did.

Mods, it seems Always_Ask_Questions’s posts have been getting caught in the spam filter for the last week.

How can you tell?

Menachem: You can’t be Mechallel Shabbos to save the life of a Mechallel Shabbos. (Unless there’s an issue of Darchei Shalom.)

takah: When you’re children reach your age they’ll be saying “I will tell you that if a teacher or school administrator had EVER given a mark less than an “A” to any of my children, that teacher or administrator would have felt my anger in a real way before the day was over.”

Mazal Tov , CA!!

By extension, it used to be that teachers could use corporal punishment anywhere, in every US state. Including in every public school. But as the left encroached with their liberalism across the country, mainly starting in the 1960s and continuing ever since, they started banning them in schools in the more liberal states.

As far as parents, if the leftist could have their way, they’d take away such parental rights as well.

Parents can use corporal punishment anywhere.

Yes. All things being equal, I generally prefer to vote for a gentile over a Jew. The Jewish politicians tend to have problems voting Jewishly, whereas a friendly gentile more often can vote for Jewish interests without having to worry how he’ll look among other goyim for doing so.

And as things generally aren’t equal, more often than not there are gentiles more naturally inclined to vote for our values moreso than Jewish politicians.

CA: Your quote aptly describes the liberals.

Jack, you are again acting hypocritically. I’ve pointed this out before and you still keep spewing the same lines. You refuse to support repealing state laws against murder, even though you acknowledge they are based upon Christian concepts of murder and not Jewish laws against murder. As was pointed out to you previously, in most states if you kill someone who broke into your home unarmed, you will be charged with murder, homicide or manslaughter. Even though under Jewish law you acted completely in self-defense, and had the absolute right to kill the intruder who broke into your home.

Which clearly and unambiguously demonstrates the falsity of your hypocritical “declaration” that “I am an Orthodox Jew living in Galus. I advocate for laws that will allow me to live as an Orthodox Jew is Galus. I will advocate against christian murder laws.” (ftfy)