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DaMoshe: Are you open to hearing and potentially accepting the view that Zionism is diametrically opposed to Judaism; and if it makes perfect sense transforming yourself, DaMoshe, into an anti-Zionist (in the same sense and extent that you’re anti-Christianity (presumably)?
Welcome to the 1980s!!
This was already very widespread by the 1980s.
Conformity is a blessing and a necessity. Every member of every Jewish community absolutely should strive to conform to community standards, on all levels, to the greatest extent possible.
Blessed is he who conforms.
How do you know that the girls who got in have secret boyfriends?
We need a guide on how to live on a shoestring budget.
Jews have a right to live in Eretz Yisroel. Doesn’t matter whether Eretz Yisroel is controlled by the Turks, the British or the Zionists. Jews have a right to live there despite those three foreign rulers (or any of their predecessors.)
HaGaon HaRav Avigdor Miller ztvk’l famously said many times that therapists are mostly good at lightening the burden of your carrying cash in your wallet.
A related issue is unqualified therapists. Therapists who think they know, when in reality they are more incompetent than competent.
And unfortunately the patient usually has little way of knowing it realizing and are often lead astray.
none: You beliebe in none of the Torah? If the Torah tells us what not to do (or what to do), as explained by our Rabbonim, that is an obligation you must follow.
Simcha613: You’re ignoring the fact that both Shulchan Aruch and Rambam (and the Gemora and others) all pasken l’halacha that teaching girls Torah that they shouldn’t be learning is “tiflus”; which Rashi explains leads her to open immoralities.
And we see the fulfillment of this Shulchan Aruch/Rambam/Rashi in real life today where the girls who do not learn Torah shebal peh are overall much more Eidel and Ehrlich than those that are taught Torah shebal peh as part of their school curriculum, in defiance of the aforementioned Shulchan Aruch, Rambam, Gemora et al. And where these “over-educated” girls are far more likely to be dressing non-tznius and otherwise be acting publicly in loud and unrefined and unfeminine like manners.
NP: You’re splitting hairs when it is directly and implicitly the same thing. Chazal’s criticism of Bruria for her mocking of the truth about Nashim Da’atan Kalos is well understood by the meforshim to be a result of her learnt Torah not intended for women and as a result her thinking herself more knowledgeable and understanding than reality, directly a result of her “over learning”.
none: Stop drinking the Western Kool-Aid. Yidden are G-d’s Chosen People because we are better. One of our worst is 100 times better than 100 of the Goyim’s best. We are far above them in every way.
Apikorsus is a real thing. There are real apikorsum. You can pretend as much as you want that the idea is ad hominem and/or only an unfair attack. But the reality is that it exists and there absolutely are people who fall into that category and ideas and opinions that squarely fall within that description.
Yankel: Who ever said the Khazar kings were tzadikim or that whatever they did was the right thing?
none:
Rashi says that Cham’s punishment was that his offspring became שחורים. The Torah, Judaism and Halacha are explicitly anti-nochri and support Jewish supremacism. You should be proud of this fact.
none:
You are opposed to the Halachos outlined in Chazal, in Shulchan Aruch, in Rambam and elsewhere regarding the prohibition of teaching women parts of the Torah?
none:
Learning for the sake of learning (Limud Torah/ Talmud Torah Kneged Kulum), is the best form of learning.
And where did any wives come into this picture?
GHadofi: Thank you for openly clarifying that you are not Chareidi. (And that you despise Chareidim; though this second point is peripheral.)
It puts your entire history of (and future) posts and comments all into perspective.
(Now you may go on about the all the wives and children…)
ZSK: I have no idea what you are talking about. I made a general comment. I have no idea what the RZ folks believe our disbelieve.
Eretz Yisroel is in Golus. Anyone who claims otherwise is an apikorus. Theodore Herzl did not end golus and David Ben-Gurion was not Moshiach.
Bayit: Eretz Yisroel is in Golus today.
Golus only ends when Moshiach comes.
Which apikoros wrote this, that we are no longer in golus and it has ended?
Did Theodore Herzl end the golus? Was David Ben-Gurion the Moshiach?
*Hashem
Everyone needs to move to New York to vote out the Jihadists and Communists.
Paging: All Zionists.
For the idiots saying it’s the men’s problem and that they should worry about it without regulating women’s dress and behaviors, take up your complaints with Harlem and Chazal, who made and codified the Halacha regulating women’s dress and behaviors, yes, insofar as how they affect men.
akuperma: Excellent points and analysis.
none2.0: So if someone with a Yarmulke and Kapota is giving out free Chazer tasting samples in Lakewood, a block away from BMG, you’ll say leave him, don’t say anything or protest because “you cannot control others”?
Sorry, I seriously doubt Rav Fishelis approves of having a television and said anything close to that.
Which Rabbi Fishelis is this that approved of having a television?
GadolH: That’s a very poor excuse.
Well, well, well, looks like, again, that MAGA is the most pro-Israel and pro-Jewish political movement in US history.
And President Trump has, once again, proven to be the most pro-Israel president since the State of Israel has existed. Not to mention, the most pro-Jewish president in US history.
Rabbi Yeruchem Gorelick ZT’L was asked what induced him to go work in YU. He said (in Yiddish), “JB convinced me that the future of Torah in America depends on YU.” Then he slapped his head, as if to say “What was I thinking?”
AAQ: What you said about Rav Meir is pure apikorsus, though I will refrain from calling you an apilorus, since I’m being dan lkaf zchus that you’re simply ignorant about it. But c”v to utter that Rav Meir is to be blamed. Bruria failed because she was a woman who engaged in learning that a woman is not permitted to learn. Her suicide serves as an example and reminder of what can happen to a woman who learns what she is not permitted to.
Yaakov Yosef A: Is all your above criticism of those who call out Manis Friedman also directed at Rav Ahron Feldman shlita, for very publicly calling out and making a מחאה against Manis Friedman?
It isn’t just in the Gemorah. It is also cited l’halacha in both the Rambam and Shulchan Aruch.
Non Political: I am not disagreeing with HaKatan and SomeJew that Z has a halachic status of Kfira / A”Z. I didn’t comment or address that point and simply objected to your putting words in my mouth on a position I may have not yet articulated addressing. The general point I made is that even something clearly prohibited sometimes has exceptions under special circumstances permitting engaging in an otherwise prohibited activity.
Yaakov Yosef A: Do you make the same comments in defense of, when others publicly criticize, Rabbis Avi Weiss, Asher Lopatin, Shmuel Herzfeld, Ysoscher Katz, Daniel Sperber, Zev Farber, Dov Linzer, Yuval Cherlow and Nathan Lopes Cardozo?
aheimisherenglisher: You’re 100% correct.
Only the Modern “Orthodox” and the non-Orthodox violate this Halacha.
Yaakov Yosef A wrote: “As I mentioned before, I really don’t care either way. It isn’t my place to judge any Yid, let alone Roshei Yeshivos or Rabbonim of any kind. If Rav Ahron Feldman holds something Rabbi Manis Friedman said is problematic, then let them meet each other and discuss it privately. Why do I need to be involved?”
Rav Ahron Feldman shlita made his comments as a public statement, ltoeles harabim. How could you possibly not care? Rav Ahron Feldman made his public comments so that you, and everyone else, should care.
You seem to not only be saying that Rav Ahron Feldman shlita is wrong, in your view, not you’re calling our Rav Ahron Feldman for making his public statement rather than, as you suggest, he sit down over coffee with Manis Friedman to (quote you) “meet each other and discuss it privately.” Yet Rav Ahron Feldman decided to make a public מחאה.