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Jack, if a parent murders someone should they be spared on the basis that their children will be orphans otherwise?
It’s a bit like the kid who killed his parents and asked the judge for mercy since he’s an orphan.
While commonsaychel will surely be yelling troll from the rooftops soon enough, the OPs intention is lsheim shamayim. And he’s not wrong, per se, either.
Reb Eliezer, where can a heibel worn be purchased?
Reb Eliezer, do you wear a heibel worn?
Oib nisht, farvus nisht?
Today’s the big day democracy will speak when the voters, in their great electoral wisdom, will give Lying Lizzie the boot by firing her and booting her from office. A win for democracy and a win for America.
The icing on the cake will be the return of Sarah Palin. If for nothing else than to be the Left’s new boogeywoman.
If I recall, while Ethel was convicted for more than she was actually guilty of, she nevertheless was guilty of doing work for her husband’s nuclear spying that was on behalf of the Russians.
Syag, may I respectfully ask why is a layman unqualified to express his thought that Rabbi Dr. Twerski was mistaken in a certain halachic thought? (I’m not arguing with your point about if the person arguing misunderstood him in the first place. Just your point about needing to be qualified to disagree halachicly/hashkaficly with someone in his position.) I don’t think he was recognized as a rabbinic authority.
Have you met any SYs with the last names Teitelbaum, Katzenelenbogen or Deutsch?
They give aliyas to geirim who happen to come to their minyanim. They just don’t sell memberships to non-SYs.
I don’t understand this argument. Rabbi Dr. Twerski was a psychiatrist and a Talmid Chochom but not a Rov or a Posek.
LOT112: Did your father have a Minhag not to wear a kittel ever, including by the Seder and on Yom Kippur? If so, and that’s a valid Minhag, then you certainly shouldn’t start wearing a kittel because you think it is cool to; you should absolutely continue your father’s minhagim.
A Ashkenazi cannot become a member either. Nor can a Persian, Yekke, or Chosid become a member.
Avira, and should they be working, especially outside the home? We should start a new thread to discuss.
Another violation of mesorah that should be of concern is regarding girls who are from families where the women don’t drive, yet they decided they will drive a car. B”H this isn’t a widespread problem yet, but we need to nip it in its bud.
lakewhut & #1:
Are you also perturbed over the point that commonsaychel made? In other words, does it also bother you that about 66% of the Yeshivish/Litvish oilem come from Hungarian/Polish/Chasidish stock, and you believe that those 2 out 3 “”Litvish”/Yeshivish people should return to their Chasidish roots?
Atara is a Minhag thing? It’s simply something to make your tali’s nicer.
Is how many stripes your talis has going to be thought of as a Minhag, and we’ll compare your number to your father’s?
Donald Trump also killed Elvis. And Kennedy.
Avira, what was Ralbag’s error?
Kapotas was always a Litvish thing, not Chasidish.
The Minhag in Chaim Berlin, which isn’t Chasidish, is to wear a gartel. This isn’t new, it’s always been the case there. Other non-Chasidish kehilos might have similar minhagim.
I never saw American Litvish wear a shtreimal. No idea where you got that thought. Yerushalmi Litvish always have worn shtreimals.
Shul membership and burial is only available for SY community members. Any non-member isn’t qualified. It isn’t that geirim are banned but rather any non-member of the community.
AAQ, what religious element does Alcoholics Anonymous have?
Avira, where do you go now?
RW, again, there’s no evidence that they have been doing it since before Matan Torah.
#1: “UJM there are bochurim in the closet in yeshivas. I heard stories that I won’t get into. So if you don’t think that there are bochurim struggling with this Yetzer Hara in the Daled Koslos of the best yeshivas, you just don’t have your finger on the pulse of where society is. Not everyone in YU agrees that there should be this club.
Legally today, if someone sued a Beis Midrash program that is an AARTS program or getting government funds that they don’t grant people certain rights, they would also be sued.”
There are also bochorim that break Shabbos, there are bochorim that steal and there are bochorim that eat in a non-kosher restaurant when traveling away from Jewish population centers. Do you know of any Yeshiva with a Mechallel Shabbos Club, a Treif Tasting Club or a Thieves Club? How on earth can you justify or excuse any so-called “Yeshiva” tolerating for even one second (let alone funding!!) any club celebrating terrible sins?!?
“Not everyone in YU agrees that there should be this club.”!!? Are you blazing kidding us?! “Oh, some people in YU think we shouldn’t celebrate terrible sins even if others in YU (including students and the administration) do think we should celebrate and tolerate it.” That’s what you just said.
If a law is passed that universities must teach the New Testament, will YU start giving Shiurim on Yushke Pundrik?
Will they start having mandatory courses on Matthew, Mark and Luke, in accordance with the law?! “Bochorim, you must make sure you pass the next bechina on John the Baptist, Pontius Pilate and Paul of Tarsus if you hope to get a degree or smicha from Yeshiva University. Otherwise we could lose our government funding or even get sued.”The SY geirim takana is only applicable in the SY community. NOT in any other Sephardic communities.
“-isnt that before Torah was written?”
No, the Torah was written before Maaisa Bereishis. It was given to us at Har Sinai in 1313 BCE.
Additionally, those documents do NOT mention any of the things similar to Judaism.
Dovid: Pleading ignorance that yoga is Avoda Zora doesn’t excuse continuing to practice it.
AAQ: Who wrote 40 years ago that Lakewood is litvishe teachers with Hungarian students?
Ask Dan.
CS: Which Litvish Roshei Yeshivos take kvitlach? Extremely few, if any.
The Chazon Ish, who was no Chasidish Rebbe and isn’t from our Dor, gave medical advice and drew a diagram where to perform surgery.
Dovid: Yoga is pure Avoda Zora.
RW: “-There aren’t?”
No, there is not.
Isn’t Rav Shmuel Dishon the Mashgiach (not R”Y) in Stolin?
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”a