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Ben Gurion was a rasha.
Ubiq: GYE works too help those with the nisoyon of the aveiros they deal with OVERCOME AND STOP doing it. Is this YU group trying to help homosexuals STOP ENGAGING IN HOMOSEXUALITY?
YES OR NO?
Florida Governor DeSamtis recently fired an Far Left DA who was elected.
Forshayer: You’re referring to her getting speed camera tickets. That’s a different issue.
Igros Moshe (Y.D. 3:115): When the manuscript was sent to me I saw in it another matter. The wicked had intended to weaken the prohibition of homosexuality. First of all by raising the question as to why the Torah prohibited it. This itself is a great evil and it weakens the prohibitions to the wicked with this disgusting lust. In fact it is one of the greatest abominations that even the nations of the world know that it is an incomparable abomination. Therefore there is no need for any rationale to explain why it is an abomination that the whole world despises. The world already holds that the transgressors of this sin are disgusting and are not members of civilization at all. So when a reason is sought for this prohibition, this removes the obscenity from it. It removes the embarrassment, shame and disgrace and completely downplays the seriousness of this issue. Furthermore the answer – given in this manuscript to this question – is that the prohibition is in order to ensure that men will marry women and fulfill the obligation to have children. This further diminishes and weakens the prohibition. It is equivalent to saying that there is in this issue no sexual prohibitions at all but that the reason is just to ensure observance of the positive command to reproduce – which is not viewed as important by the world. These views are prohibited to publish. just as if they were outright heresy, since they represent a view which is contrary to the view of the Torah…
“OF course that letter was written almost 50 years ago
Attitudes and perspectives change.”Are you implicitly saying that Rav Moshe’s attitude and perspective on this issue expressed in the referenced teshuva is no longer acceptable in today’s day and age?
ubiq: How many men do you know that lack a Yetzer Hora for women?
Rav Miller was opposed to Kahane’s activities.
To determine whether the lawyer is correct you’ll need to lookup the relevant New York law. That shouldn’t be difficult.
Rashi is THE basic staple of any Gemora.
What if the candidate has a reduced mental capacity, such as Joe Biden’s senility, shouldn’t that be a legitimate issue?
The Alte Heim is Yiddish for the “old home”. It is referring to when most Yidden lived in Europe in the Shtetl.
I noticed this recent trend too. Interestingly I don’t see it in Chasidish circles. Can anyone explain why they haven’t fallen for this?
YU has already been considered beyond the pale of the Torah world for many many decades.
Intermarriage was already common in 19th century Germany.
Current thinking is Vote Republican.
smerel is correct. You can vote for Zeldin without voting for the Lieutenant Governor.
And smerel is correct that Mr. Doe above is a hypocrite for voting for Democrats who are intermarried. Of course he will neither confirm nor deny it, in order to leave it ambiguous. He can’t deny the truth, but neither can he claim a lie. So he’ll leave it unaddressed.
“Schumer claims his wife converted but I’m sure it was not an halachic conversion”
It isn’t possible to convert without becoming observant of the 613.
The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, CBS, NBC, ABC, AP, Reuters, and virtually all the rest of Big Media are Exhibit 1 in spreading false propaganda while calling it “news”.
Zeldin. (Nevertheless, Hochul will unfortunately win.)
How is the wife more of a hero than the husband, in regards to this inheritance story?
So you’re trying to communicate that we should only refrain from engaging in the worst iteration of aveiros; but commiting an aveira in not the worst way, isn’t so bad?
Great point. Reb Moshe’s psakim are irrelevant to the non-Yiddish speaking public. They should all discard the Igros Moshe, which should only be used by the Yiddish speakers who mingle.
Rav Moshe Feinstein held that we can’t apply tinok shenishba status to someone who lived near an Orthodox community and was aware of religious Jews. (Even if he didn’t grow up frum.)
Igros Moshe OC 5:28 , Igros Moshe EH 1:82:11 Igros Moshe EH 2:20 and OC 1:33.Rav Ovadia Yosef held similarly that it depends on whether they were familiar with a Torah community. In practice that means non-religious Israelis and “in town” Americans are not considered tinokos shenishbau.
Rav Ovadia Yosef (Yabia Omer OC 10:55) and Rav Binyamin Zilber (Az Nidbaru 9:55).Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach held that non-religious Israelis are not considered tinokos shenishbau and that the they are mumarim.
Halichos Shlomo Pesach pp. 326-7 and Madenei Shlomo p. 27Does the avreich also not eat in his father’s home since his father purchased the food with the same tainted money that the avreich is refusing to accept as an inheritance?
Reb Eliezer,
a) who said that if it was a tinuk shenishbah that changes the Halacha in regards to this case?
b) the article says his father is frum but his father’s brothers (who are business partners with the father) are not frum. Therefore those brothers were likely brought up frum, but even if not they are clearly exposed to frum life — which means that they are NOT tinuk shenishbah.
There’s a special place in gehenom for that.
Women in power is not a good thing.
Take 2 — Trivia: When did England have three Queens simultaneously?
How do these neighborhoods compare to Meah Shearim (in terms of Yiddishkeit, demographics, cost, amenities, etc.)?
GHadorah: Would you have the same response if it was a Glock 19 or cocaine that the the kid had?
Menachem: Why haven’t you let his parents know what he has?
If anyone can make a similar recommendation as requested in the OP, just למצוות שבין אדם למקום instead, I too would appreciate it.
Gut Moed
Menachem Shmei,
Yasher Koach for sharing this beautiful thought from the Rebbe.
Gut Moed
Everyone please be mochel me for anything I ever did necessitating it.
Mochel Loch, Mochel Loch, Mochel Loch.
Gmar Chasima Tova and a Gut Gebetched Yur to EVERYONE in the Coffee Room and to everyone in Klal Yisroel!
You defended the Ukrainians who celebrate and honor Bandera and Khmelnitsky with statues throughout the country, national holidays in their honor, putting them on Ukrainian postage stamps, having celebrations and marches in their honor, Ukrainian presidents awarding them Hero Of Ukraine ceremonies and the masses of Ukrainian citizens considering these mass murderers to be national heroes.
Mentsch1: if the South had fully enforced all Torah requirements for the institution of slavery, you’d be commending them now for having been righteous in the matter?
Chmielnicki and Bandera were Hitlers. Do not tell me the they or that Hitler had “good points” to celebrate, aside from their side -job of mass murdering Jews.
Are you okay with putting up statues of Adolf Hitler and making holidays for his birthday and issuing postage stamps and coins in his honor to commemorate Hitler being a great orator and restoring pride to the German people after WWII? Nothing to do with Hitler’s killing machines; only celebrating his “good things”.
That’s what you’re saying about Chmielnicki and Bandera; that we can’t do “cancel culture” or violate free speech honoring Hitler, Chmielnicki and Bandera.
Ukraine is indefensible. They still honor these mass murderers today.
And speaking of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, he was duly elected President of Ukraine by a democratic majority of Ukrainian voters. And the anti-Russians, supported by the Obama Administration and specifically Secretary of State Clinton, supported and abetted the violent coup de’tat that overthrew the elected President.
chiefshmerel: Wrong! It was the anti-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko who named Bandera a “Hero of Ukraine,”. The Russians are the ones who executed Bandera.
In late 2006, the Lviv, Ukraine city administration announced the transference of the tombs of Stepan Bandera, Andriy Melnyk, Yevhen Konovalets and other key Ukrainian Nazi collaborators to a new area of Lychakiv Cemetery honoring them.
In October 2007, the city of Lviv erected a statue dedicated to Bandera. In October 2007, the Lviv City Council adopted a resolution establishing the Award of Stepan Bandera.
In January 2009, his 100th birthday was celebrated in several Ukrainian centres and Ukraine officially issued a postage stamp with his portrait was issued to honor him. In January 2014, Bandera’s 105th birthday was celebrated by a torchlight procession of 15,000 people in the centre of Kyiv and thousands more rallied near his statue in Lviv.
In 2018, the Ukrainian Parliament designated Bandera’s birthday as a national holiday.
Today’s Ukrainians, including their modern day Presidents and leaders, also honor and celebrate with statues and public holidays, Ukrainian Nazis such as Stepan Bandera, who was Hitler’s Ukrainian man responsible for mass murdering Yidden in Ukraine. Just a decade ago Ukraine’s President established a holiday in honor of this mass murderer.
mentsch1: Slavery is a supported Torah value.
Kuvult: Pray tell and explain how you see Bogdan Chmielnicki yemach shemo vzichro, the Ukrainian Adolf Hitler ym’s, as a hero and how you justify his mass murdering Yidden. And explain how you justify today’s Ukrainians putting up statues of Chmielnicki all over Ukrainiane and honoring and celebrating this mass murderer, ethnic cleanser of your ancestors.
Do you also defend the masses of Ukrainians, including average citizens in Ukraine, who collaborated with the Nazis in liquidating Ukraine of its Jewish population into mass graves the Jews were shot into en masse?
ymribriat: Are you expecting a language here other than English?
ymribriat: I can assure you that most prewar shtetlech were very strict about adhering to tznius, not having girl friends, not having mixed gender schools, secular studies were an afterthought – if they even had any, they certainly did not fraternize with the Goyim or the Reform, they dressed very conspicuously Jewish that you could differentiate a Jew from a gentile a mile away and, yes, they got married young and had many children.
It’s true some things weakened after World War I, but certainly prior to that it was very strong and even after WWI it was much better than we see in OOT America.
Reb Eliezer, who said I have an excuse? It’s a weakness I’m still working on.
Moish26: Yasher Koach.
(Brace yourself for an assailment.)
#1: Are any of the following examples of what works in Lakewood and Brooklyn but isn’t realistic for other communities?
A. Tznius k’hilchasa
B. No opposite gender friendship
C. No television or unfiltered internet
D. No coed institutions or mixed gender events
E. Getting married young
F. Prioritizing Limud Torah over secular studies
G. Not fraternizing with gentiles or with non-Torah observant
H. Dressing conspicuously Jewish#1, can you also please share and explain with us in full detail the reasons WHY these things (whatever they are) that works in Lakewood and Brooklyn do not work in other communities?
What is it regarding these other communities’ demographics and institutions account as to why these things don’t work there?
If you could kindly explain all this it could help alleviate the problem you identified in your OP.
Yasher Koach
CA: Have you been playing too many video games lately?