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CH: We don’t accept toeiva “marriage”.
RW: Because that’s what Hashem set and created during maase bereishis. It’s been that way since Day 1.
In any event, there are countless non-Syrian Sephardic Shuls in Brooklyn.
The SY shuls are just as happy as anyone else to have geirim. Their takana is only against members marrying a ger and against their rabbis conducting conversions. Nothing else. Geirim are more than welcome to join SY Shuls.
Who needs conveniences??
I differentiate between the Yidden and the Goyim who think they’re Jewish.
huju: Six months will put it past election season. Apparently, then, there’s a silver lining to it, after all.
Amil, do you have some connection to New York City?
Menachem, I do not have my own opinion. I simply follow the Gedolei HaPoskim and my Posek, as I mentioned. And they paskened what I told you. You aren’t in a position to tell anyone that they cannot follow certain Gedolei HaPoskim and must follow the ones that you choose or identify.
As far as the second point, I very much deal with non-Orthodox “Jews” very frequently. And I can tell you with a great deal of certainly that a large portion of those who self-identify as such or are affiliated with Reform and Conservative congregations are, in fact, Halachicly non-Jewish.
Jack, akuperma’s point was that when the Republican party was new, the two major parties were the Democrats and the Whigs. The Republicans, then, were a “third-party” that nevertheless won the presidency.
Aside from that Lizzie would be disqualified for high office, or any office for the matter, even if she were a man, additionally of course there’s the undeniable fact that women shouldn’t be holding office or political leadership positions altogether.
Jerry Nadler had a frum education. He became an apokorus later.
AAQ, please share with us that information.
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”.
Wolf: Thank you for sharing your wonderful thoughts on this subject. It adds to our collective understanding of this topic.
And, again…
ymr: They looked up to me and tried to emulate me.
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.
Yungerman: What you wrote is pure loshon hora.
We all know what Dovid HaMelech writes in Tanach about parents and rebbeim who don’t use a rod on their children.
Lizzie will be on the unemployment line after this year’s election, when the voters will be ejecting her from office.
Democracy in action.
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.
Reb Eliezer, Einstein overturned the previous science. Describing the General Theory of Relativity isn’t easily accomplished in a forum such as this.
1a2b: Even valid criticism?
It’s a matter of description. You can use either frame of reference.
Apparently AAQ is automatically going to spam and then a mod is, kindly, manually moving it out of spam each time.
Deflation is extremely rare in the United States. The last significant occurrence was in the early 1930s. And the last time before that was in the post-Civil War era.
The issue is occurring again.
Lizzie is on the verge of losing her primary election and her seat in Congress.
Good riddance.
She’d make a fine Sanitation Commissioner somewhere in Wisconsin. She could even help clean the streets. She’s unqualified for anything more.
First ask what the Torah’s view on what the optimal reaction, internally and externally, should be.
In this case the simple way is the truthful way.
It is self-explanatory, based on its name.
Reb Eliezer, if you learn the Theory of Relativity, you’ll farshtay.
… and since Rav Moshe was the Av Beis Din of Agudas HaRabbonim…
According to Albert Einstein, the sun revolves around the earth.
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.
Unless things changed in recent years, Rav Shmuel was easily reachable on his home phone. He usually picks the phone up himself when it rings.
Wait, none of the usual suspects reprimanded the OP yet for an allegedly poor education?
Hello, huju and company, where are you?
“How can you tell?”
Mod, often on the main page of the CR you will see under the “Last Post” column for a thread the name of a poster. But then when you open the thread you see that named poster isn’t the last post and often doesn’t have any post there. This is a tell-tell sign that the bbPress software running the CR put the post into spam, despite listing that poster as the Last Post for the thread.
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.
Menachem: Are you accusing Reb Moshe, the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, and the numerous gedolei poskim of “theoretically let a fellow Yid die (חס ושלום) because Reb Moshe, the Kitzur, etc. chose (on their own) to have their opinion”?! The fact is these are the normative psakim of poskim throughout the doros. Your trying to discard these great psakim is beyond the pale.
Yes, absolutely I have clarified with my Rov and Posek that these are the psakim we follow halacha l’maaisa bzman hazeh. And, no, they do not have the din of תינוק שנשבה.
“In these last moments of golus, let’s focus on the positive and holy parts of every Yid.”
The halacha is absolutely clear that we do not consider someone who habitually violates the Torah, Shabbos, etc b’rabbim to be part of us. And isn’t entitled to the various protections and considerations we afford to a Shomer Torah U’Mitzvos.
You should be very concerned to lean לחומרא for the mitzva of שמירות שבת. Let me ask you a serious question, if you were alone in an isolated rural area and saw an akum drowning in a rural lake on Shabbos with no one else around to save him, would you save him knowing that whatever choice you made no one else would know you were there?
Ken Zain that AAQ is correct and that since Covid they’re doing virtual brochos.
CA: Before you know it you’ll it”H be making a Shidduch. Just like the last 13 years flew by in the blink of an eye, the next few years until your bochor’s Shidduch will be even quicker.
Poor Mr. Hitler. What a horrible childhood. No wonder he did what he did.
Menachem: Rav Moshe Feinstein and the majority of poskim rule that to be a tinok shenishba a person has to be totally and completely unaware of Judaism. Anyone familiar with frum Jews is not a tinok shenishba.
Regarding saving lives on Shabbos, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 92:1 “Shabbos is pushed aside for Sakonas Nefoshos… therefore it is a Mitzvah to desecrate Shaboss for a Kosher person (even if he sometimes does sins [[ed: not a habitual sinner]]) who is in mortal danger”. Also see also the uncensored Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Dei’ah 158:1. See Shearim Metzuyanim Bahalacha 92:1; He brings the Pri Megadim who says we do not desecrate Shabbos for one who doesn’t keep Shabbos Litai’ovon (for convenience reasons).
Mods, it seems Always_Ask_Questions’s posts have been getting caught in the spam filter for the last week.
How can you tell?
The vast majority of non-frum Jews are NOT תינוקות שנשבו.