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AJ: Are you suggesting Hashem had no part in orchestrating Pearl Harbor? Or that Hashem had no bearing on the beneficial side results of Pearl Harbor benefiting Yidden?
Welcome to Golus; of which the State of Israel is a major part thereof.
AAQ: TorahAnytime
P.S. N0m: It is after Chanukah. You stipulated that you’d follow up on the conversation regarding saving the lives of men before women, in the thread you promised a further comment on over a year ago that never materialized.
N0m: There is no abundance (i.e. more than other demographics, namely learning boys) of non-learning boys who remain long-term single or even single until an older age. In other words, there is absolutely no evidence (if you submit otherwise, please do submit it) of non-learning boys marrying later than learning boys or of them remaining single in greater proportions than learning boys.
This is even the case if you discount “fake learners in yeshiva” and disregard them. Regarding those openly not learning in yeshiva are not getting married later or never moreso than learners.
Regarding going OTD (“leaving the fold”), there’s probably some truth to that; but that’s more due to the fact that learning Torah is more likely to keep one in the fold and sincerely observant than one who isn’t learning.
akuperma: Also consider that Hitler put so much resources into the Final Solution, that he thereby reduced Nazi Germany’s military resources available for the war.
Avira, why is half Sefardi, via the maternal side, a hindrance?
DaMoshe: What your basically describing is that RJBS was the head kiruv rabbi for America.
Regarding your points about YU in general, in fact they’ve gotten much worse over the last 25 years, with their student body as well as some faculty, including some of the rabbinic faculty in RIETS, literally offering open support for practitioners of toeiva.
CS: Cold milk, hands down. Hot coffee is good afterwards, especially on Shabbos morning.
We can be meshadech MB with KC…
It is a hiiddur mitzvahfor the kokosh to be rich in chocolate and eaten while warm.
When one student claims RJBS supported wome egalitarian minyanim whereas another student claims he was deadset against them, y’know there’s a problem.
“Why can’t it just be neither?”
HaLeiVi: If following a halacha is ultimately angers goyim it is a Kiddish Hashem; of violating a Halacha makes the Goyim happy with us, it is a chillul Hashem if done. It isn’t neither. Why would you question whether it isn’t a Kiddish/chillul Hashem?
Reb Eliezer, in what context did the Mattersdorfer bring up Reb Yoshe Ber? What reason did he have to discuss him?
N0m: If you were correct, then working/non-learning boys would be remaining unmarried. But that doesn’t appear to be the case.
MDG: That was his own fault. He, during his lifetime, let everyone think he meant something what. Hence, two students can cite him as supporting completely polar opposite positions.
I’m sure they should not be called Jewish.
AAQ: I’m mainly (though not exclusively) referring to the so-called “conversions” of Russian gentiles in Israel, most of them too old for army service.
Avira, in fairness, I not infrequently hear Litvishe Bnei Torah refer to their Rosh Yeshiva as “the Rosh Yeshiva” even when speaking to people or groups of people not affiliated with their Yeshiva.
RE: Now that you got both Pfizer and J&J, please let us all know which of the two is the better shot.
Your parents weren’t freed yet on December 7, 1941.
Reb Eliezer: What was your rebbi’s opinion of him?
Jews are halachicly obligated to protect their own home’s privacy and to not invade others privacy
“Does anyone use non-professional shadchanim? Parents, friends, teachers – people who know you.”
Of course! Those are the best Shadchanim. They’re much better than the so-called “professional” Shadchanim.
WB, ZD!
I’m not sure which many people you’re referring to.
And just as RJBS found his two initials endearing, as ubiq said, there’s nothing that changed posthumously. As long as you include that title Rabbi in front, it is not only perfectly correct but it is exactly as he himself preferred.
The Rambam says that a working person, a Baal Haboss, should work three hours a day and should learn Torah eight hours a day.
Mesivta Bochor: The general frum world (non-rabbis) generally referred to him during his lifetime as “Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik”.
Then how do people charge for Shiurim (as they did in Hillel’s time)? And how was Hillel allowed to try to bypass the fee?
Halachicly, anyone able to listen to a voice/sound isn’t obligated to pay for hearing it.
Do what Hillel did — climb on the roof and listen in for free.
YO: I must congratulate you on becoming a baal teshuva, by switching counting from the years of Yushke to counting the years from when Hashem created the world!
Zos Chanukah!
D) This site realizes such a story is great click-bait for the clientele that frequents here. As such, publishing such stories results in good ad revenue.
Also, America needs tort reform. We are too litigious a society. Every stupid mistake (I’m not referring to any particular story) shouldn’t result in a lawsuit.
“Why make a song which only applies to half of the population when you can make one which applies to everyone?”
The singers make songs regarding the Kehuna. And Kohanim represent much less than half the population. Making a song applicable to a subset, in no way precludes making songs for other subsets or songs which applies to all.
“rather than trying to offend”
Your implication is that the Brocha is offensive.
“you would have asked about שלא עשני עבד as well.”
I could have. But I only needed one example. There was no need to make the same point twice. Would you, similarly, view asking about שלא עשני עבד as being offensive to עבדים?
The biggest Kiddush Hashem, and what should be the goal of us all, is to die Al Kiddish Hashem. See Brochos 20a, Sanhedrin 74a.
1. Kiddish Hashem: Doing a Mitzvah in front of three or more Yidden.
2. Chillul Hashem: Doing an averia in front of three or more Yidden.
Example of 1: Mocking an apikorus.
Example of 2: Eating in a treif restaurant.
CA: 1. Kol Isha would preclude them singing it in public. In private, they can sing any other song; there’s no issue if there’s one song that isn’t relevant to them. 2. Why would anyone object to a man singing a Brocha that he makes seven days a week? It wouldn’t be any different than singing any other Brocha that is used as a song.
That isn’t any better than every random guy in the street shaking a lulav from a Chabad kiruv worker.
Philosopher: Is one Brocha that Hashem gave us inspiring while another Brocha that Hashem gave us not inspiring?
But it doesn’t mean that the generation as a whole looked better.
It is pretty much common knowledge that Torah is more widely learnt today than ever before.
HaLeiVi: Whilst it may be the case that there’s more learning today than ever before, that in no way shape or form, for many clear reasons, indicates that the contemporary generation aa whole is in better shape than any of the previous generations — whether comparing to our Zeidas generation or earlier.
smerel: How are you applying Rav Yaakov’s point to this conversation?
CTR: Rav Aharon Kotler ZT’L, and Rav Schneur ZT’L after him, would under no circumstances even walk into YU. Rav Elchonon Wasserman ZT’L also, when he came to America in the ’30s, was invited to speak in YU, and he refused to even walk in to the place. (The fact that Rav Moshe went into YU does not show he was not opposed to it, but rather that even if he is opposed to it, that doesn’t mean he may not enter it. Different Gedolim had different ways of expressing themselves in these issues.)
Rav Aharon Kotler ZTV’L, in Mishnas Rabi Aharon (Vol. 3, Hesped on the Brisker Rav) states that the essence of Modern Orthodoxy is the same as the Reform and Conservative. That is, change Judaism into something that more people will be willing to accept.
Rav Shimon Schwab, Mitteilungen, Bulletin of Khal Adas Yeshurun April/May 1989:
“Sometimes the Modern Orthodox halachic foolishness which is flirting with the anti-Torah establishment, may border on heresy. This is all part and parcel of the spiritual confusion of the dark ages in which we happen to live”.“However, in addition to the legitimate shitos we have discussed, there is yet another, more modern version in vogue called “Torah Umaada”. Apparently this is identical with Torah Im Derech Eretz, especially since both claim a belief in the priority of Torah over maada. Both seems exactly alike, but like two left gloves which cannot be worn together, they don’t fit!
During his lifetime, RJBS referred to himself, published under the name as, and his rabbinic colleagues and students referred to him as Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik. His rabbinic peers (equals) generally called him (in person to him and between themselves) simply by those two initials of his first names. There wasn’t and isn’t anything derogatory about that. The reverence in mostly referring to him as R’ Yoshe Ber is, for the most part, posthumous by those seeking to raise his stature.
Apparently the OP is suggesting that Shadchanim network via Zoom.
Bentch slowly.
Novelty: Does a servant skip shelo asani eved but still say shelo asani goy?
Does anyone have a response to my above question? Or, perhaps, there’s no PC response.
As is well known, some of the popular frum singers have made albums that include a song “shelo asani goy”. Very nice. But why have none of them included a song shelo asani isha?
If anyone can give me a coherent, intellectual, non-emotional response to that question as to why one is okay/appropriate/proper whereas the other is not, I would most appreciate it.