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  • in reply to: Loving your spouse #2001447
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    Where is the chiyuv mentioned?

    in reply to: Passport Expediting Service #2001173
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    No one can expedite currently.

    in reply to: The last Jew in Afghanistan #2000848
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    New he’s the Chief Rabbi of Afghanistan.

    He already lived under Taliban rule between 1996 and 2001.

    in reply to: Why can’t we TALK??? #2000489
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    Benignuman: If the data is unclear, how would you choose to proceed in making a decision whether the risk of taking the vaccine is greater than or lesser than the increased protection of the vaccine for someone who previously recovered from Covid, and whether to therefore vaccinate or not?

    in reply to: Why can’t we TALK??? #2000443
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    Benignuman: Would you agree that people in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s who recovered from COVID-19 would wisely choose to not vaccinate, based upon their natural immunity (that’s better than what vaccines provide)?

    in reply to: Why can’t we TALK??? #2000364
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    benignuman: You’d agree that someone who recovered from COVID-19 would wisely choose not to get vaccinated?

    in reply to: Why can’t we TALK??? #2000321
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    benignuman: Thank you for accepting my retort regarding your point about Polio.

    ” I think that the best way to decrease death is to have every person–who does not already have natural immunity–get the vaccine.”

    Thank you for accepting my point about those who recovered from COVID-19 don’t need the vaccine. And that the Biden Administration pushing the vaccine for those who recovered from COVID-19 is a political, not medical, decision.

    in reply to: Why can’t we TALK??? #1999576
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    benignuman: WB. Haven’t seen you in ages.

    The risks of Polio were far greater than the risks of COVID-19. Thus the risk/benefit analysis was much different.

    in reply to: Why can’t we TALK??? #1999415
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    Welcome to the 21st century left-wing progressive dictatorship. Where voicing the wrong thoughts will land you in a penitentiary colony near you where you’ll be released after a proper reeducation and rehabilitation to correct you prior to reentry into society.

    in reply to: What Are the Causes of Canon Printer Not Printing Black? #1999413
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    It is apparent from this thread that I.T. has become a popular field among frum women.

    in reply to: Boycotting Companies #1998713
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    CS: Slovakia was fully aligned with the Nazi killing machine.

    in reply to: I’m considered an anti Vaccinator #1998685
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    Other countries are accepting proof of recovery in lieu of vaccinating.

    in reply to: Is the frum “business/economic model” sustainable? #1998576
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    We’ve been hearing this question and drumbeat for 60 years. Nothing new here.

    The doubters and naysayers keep putting down what works.

    in reply to: I’m considered an anti Vaccinator #1998507
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    Syag, all I’m saying is that despite Delta arriving after both the vaccines and after most Covid recovered people had their recovery, between the two – having had COVID-19 previously is a better immunity than getting the vaccine.

    in reply to: Boycotting Companies #1998506
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    CS: It’s a fact that the Nazis killed Jews in retaliation of Stephen Wise’s Nazi boycott.

    in reply to: I’m considered an anti Vaccinator #1998464
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    Reb Eliezer, the vaccines were developed before the existence of the Delpha variant. Having recovered from COVID-19 is a better protection from Delta than the vaccine.

    in reply to: I’m considered an anti Vaccinator #1998413
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    The fact is that other countries are accepting proof of having previously had COVID-19 as acceptable instead of getting vaccinated, for events that require one or the other.

    Biden’s America, for political reasons, is not following that same policy.

    in reply to: Boycotting Companies #1998401
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    CS: That doesn’t change my point.

    in reply to: I’m considered an anti Vaccinator #1998402
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    ari: Long Covid doesn’t relate to the issue of unvaccinated recovered people vs vaccinated people. Nor to the issue of forcing recovered Covid people to get vaccinated.

    in reply to: Boycotting Companies #1998392
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    Boycotts are what the Reform leaders such as Stephen Wise initiated against Nazi Germany.

    The result was the Nazis killing more Jews.

    in reply to: I’m considered an anti Vaccinator #1998374
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    What we have established is that vaccinated people often get COVID-19. Whereas people who perviously had COVID-19 rarely get it a second time.

    As such, recovered unvaccinated people are much better off than vaccinated people. Nevertheless, for political reasons, they are trying to force vaccinations upon those who have already recovered from COVID-19.

    in reply to: I’m considered an anti Vaccinator #1998332
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    mentsch1: They’re pushing people to get a vaccine even if they previously recovered from COVID-19 for political reasons.

    in reply to: I’m considered an anti Vaccinator #1997973
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    People who had COVID-19 in the past are at least as well off as those who are vaccinated.

    in reply to: I’m considered an anti Vaccinator #1997960
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    And if the data indicates that those who already had COVID-19 don’t need the vaccine, then it is completely valid to choose to not get vaccinated.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #1997468
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    Yasher Koach, Reb Eliezer. In honor of the Yahrtzeit I’d like to share this:

    Rav Avigdor Miller five days after the petirah of the Satmerer Rav, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum, zatzal, said:

    “Actually I must divulge that I began this subject with the intention of saying something about the Satmerer Rav, zichrono l’vracha, because such an event is too big to pass over without some remark. We have to know that the Satmerer Rav represented an old tradition. He was ninety-three years old, which means that he had spent a great part of his life in the old world among the old talmidei chachomim. And therefore, when he came here he brought along with him not American ideas — he brought along the tradition of the Am Yisroel. He represented a continuity of our great past. And not only that, but he was a fighter, and his presence here had a very profound influence on everyone.

    And it’s only ויהי אחרי מות משה, after Moshe the eved Hashem passed away, that the people realized who they once had. It’s only after the Satmerer Rav has now passed away that people will realize what they once had but didn’t appreciate.

    And therefore this principle that we spoke about tonight, that the great men exert a powerful influence on their generation and that they represent the Shechina, has to be studied by us because we are still alive. We can’t give up and say, “Well, all of the old gedolim have passed away; Rav Aaron zichrono l’vracha, and the old Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rav Yosef Yitzchok are gone.”

    When Rav Yosef Yitzchok passed away, I remember the day. It was a dark day and the whole Jewish nation was in mourning — just like we are mourning for the Satmerer Rav zichrono l’vracha. When Rav Aaron Kotler passed away it was a dark day. Oh, the whole Jewish nation was in mourning.

    But ויאמר השם אל יהושע משרת משה — And Hashem said to Yehoshua the servant of Moshe, קום — Arise, get up. Because now is the time to start accomplishing big things – because we have to make up for the loss of the Satmerer Rav. And that means first and foremost to utilize the great men that we possess today. Because we still have great men and we should live with them; we should live in their shade and grow as a result of their presence.”
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    Q: Even the Litvishe Rabbonim recognize today that the Satmerer Rebbe is a tzadik ha’dor. So why aren’t they also shouting out against certain things the same way the Satmerer Rebbe does?

    A: And the answer is that to shout out requires not only conviction but it requires courage as well. And therefore, there are a lot of people who believe in certain principles but they don’t want to put themselves out. They don’t have the level of mesiras nefesh needed to fight for these principles. Look, sometimes it can be quite uncomfortable. Therefore it’s understandable that even people who agree with the Satmerer Rav are not in the mood to expose themselves to public opprobrium.
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    Some of the Rav’s memories of the Satmarer Rebbe:

    I was once in Williamsburg; by accident I happened to be there. I saw chassidim running so I ran too. People were coming from the mikveh and they were running so I ran too. I knew they’re running to a good place so I followed them. They ran into a big room on Bedford Avenue. It was in a basement and the Satmar Rav was sitting there in the front seat. It was erev Yom Kippur. They were all sitting there and he was talking to them. A glorious opportunity! The Satmar Rav was saying a few words to his mekuravim on erev Yom Kippur. A glorious opportunity to hear from a tzadik hador!
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    I was once present in front of the old Satmerer Rov zichrono livracha when he was saying hoshanos. It was four hours he was saying hoshanas! I was watching him. He didn’t make it one, two, three, a hurry up hoshanos. Four hours he was saying hoshanas; walking back and forth saying hoshanas. Four hours! It was pleasure to watch. Everybody was enjoying it.
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    There was one time when I was in Williamsburg – the old Satmerer Rav was still alive then. So I went in to see him because I was going to do something, a job, for him. I was the one who composed the advertisement against the Zionists that was placed in the New York Times – I wrote it for the Satmerer Rav. So I went in to him and he gave me a bracha that I should succeed. And I was up all night writing that article. Over and over again, I worked on it. All night I was up because it was important!

    in reply to: I’m considered an anti Vaccinator #1997457
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    Get a fake vaccine card. It’s easy.

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1997453
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    CS: I’m sure that none of your bubbes were CSWs, RNs, had a double matters — or even a single masters, for that matter. In fact, I’m willing to wager that your own mother had none of those as well. Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if your own wife had none of these higher education papers hanging on her wall. Am I right or am I right, dear CS?

    So what’s your Rebbishe stock gotta do with the Brooklyn Bridge? I assure you that none of your Rebbishe ancestors encouraged any of this. Indeed, I’m sure they’d all rather see you using a flip phone than a smartphone. So you’re not following in their ways yet trodding them out as props to support your positions that they oppose. Putting on vayser zucken sounds like a wardrobe stylistic choice in this case rather than any heartfelt commitment to the ideals.

    mrmwlf: Yasher Koach.

    huju: Kollel is not “one subject”, it is Kol HaTorah Kula. What my secular master’s and doctoral disciplines were in is irrelevant, but they were in two separate programs.

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1997320
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    CS: Yeridos Hadoros.

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1997291
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    By the way, much credit to the Chasidim on this issue. By and large, the default among Chasidishe wives is that they do not have careers or full time jobs (outside the home.) Indeed, it is very rare that any do have something like a 40 hour workweek outside. In fact, a majority or close to it might not work altogether as anything other than a housewife.

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1997214
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    huju: It is considered impolite to ask a grandparent their age. As far as education, following a bit over five years in Kollel (which includes a bachelors), it took an additional three years (including the required internship) to obtain the degree and work requirements for the chosen career.

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1997175
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    Reb Eliezer: The Aruch Hashulchan denounces in no uncertain very strong terms the terrible state where women left their hair uncovered.

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1997089
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    smerel: Please cite the alleged “Gemorah and Shulchan Aruch”.

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1997073
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    FYI if anyone wants to see the source being discussed, they’re Rambam Hilchos Ishus 13:11 and Shulchan Aruch EH 73:1.

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1997071
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    Nice trying to confuse two issues, gadol, after having foresworn responding and declaring you’re done replying here and that others can have the last word. Quick change of heart, I must say. But no one has ever proposed that executions are legally viable under Jewish law governing the conduct of our lives today, living under a Torah based and enforced system that we currently have in exile. Such a penalty is officially suspended until Moshiach comes.

    On the other hand, the topic we’re discussing here regarding how each gender is obligated to govern their lives is specifically relevant regarding our contemporary lifestyle today. The Shulchan Aruch and Rambam codify the laws we’re obligated to live by in the here and now.

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1996920
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    Gadol: Are you accusing the Rambam of making up an “arbitrary” set limit when he codified the Halacha? Are you implying that whereas the Halacha was correct and proper in the times of the Rambam and the Mechaber, today that changed and the codified Halacha needs to be whited-out from the Shulchan Aruch what was correct and proper then is no longer now and, as such, the Halacha has changed? At what time in history after Klal Yisroel accepted the Shulchan Aruch did this particular halacha go from being in force to it being cancelled? And where is this change documented in sh”ut Seforim that we no longer adhere to this halacha?; and which great rabbis (Rav Shlomo Riskin? Rav Avi Weiss?) wrote the teshuva?

    If this is your position, please explain how your position is any different than that of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards that every so often updates, modifies, deletes and/or adds to Halacha. Such as when in the 1950s they decided driving to shul on Shabbos is now permissible even while acknowledging that the “old halacha” prohibited it. How is what you’re suggesting different in principal, even if you perhaps differ from them on individual halachos that you consider need to be changed for the 20th/21st centuries.

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1996899
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    Gadol: You consider yourself a greater expert in Shalom Bayis than the Rambam to the point you’re calling out the Rambam’s “mistake”?

    Shulchan Aruch was written concisely and with the intention to be taken in literal form. Furthermore, as a general point (not necessarily/specifically being made for this topic), when there’s a conflict between Halacha and secular law, Yidden are obligated to give precedence to Halacha between the two.

    But most important to how you presented your comment is that there’s every reason to give the benefit in assuming every Jewish woman would voluntarily and very happily adhere to Halacha, rather than your implied assumption that it would be necessary for anyone to enforce it upon her.

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1996799
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    Gadol: “if you or your family members are taking this literally”

    Why would anyone *not* take the Shulchan Aruch literally?!?

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1996677
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    AY: How many fingers do you need to count how many Gedolei Yisroel sent their wives to work on Wall Street or in tumah Corporate America or, for that matter, any employment outside their home working for someone else? Any?

    Where did you get this incorrect idea that the Gedolim advised Klal Yisroel to disregard Kol Kevudah Bas Melech Penima? The Shulchan Aruch paskens as a matter of halacha that a woman should not leave the home often. Rambam actually gives a number of times per month that should be the maximum (and it is much less than you’ll guess.)

    in reply to: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work #1996524
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    Yseribus: I’m making the point that the wife — unilaterally — has the right to choose not to work. It isn’t her natural, traditional and Torah role to go to work outside the home.

    Nor is it ideal for her to even choose to work outside the home. At best, it is a b’dieved utilized when circumstances compel it.

    in reply to: Spirit Airlines #1996511
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    First World problems.

    Do you hear yourselves?

    in reply to: 2 is better than 1 #1996503
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    There are legal tender $500 and $1000 bills.

    in reply to: Charaidim #1996497
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    Avram, as an addendum to the above point, it is also relevant that Chareidim mostly simply maintained their traditional dress and mannerism. It is what it was. Whereas others decided to make a point by changing. Such as the kippa sruga was an intentional statement. Stopping to wear a hat was a change. Same with no longer wearing a jacket. On the other hand, Chareidim simply never decided to change what kind of Yarmulka they wear. Or to drop whatever aspects of their communities dress norms.

    Again, this is all very secondary and whatever nitpicking one might make on any of these individual points, the overall idea is this is at most a tiny, and not even universal, aspect.

    in reply to: Charaidim #1996473
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    Avram, I don’t disagree with what you pointed out. But that’s very very secondary. It isn’t even close to a major point. Many Chareidim regularly dress in business attire, or other general attire, no different than many other segments of society. And only put on special clothing for davening and Shabbos.

    in reply to: Jews’ flight from city per racist attacks in Israel #1996363
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    I thought the State is the zionist dream land.

    in reply to: Are you allowed to give Tzeddakah/charity to Non-Jews #1996358
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    Does anyone know what the actual issur of cheating a nochri is?

    in reply to: Temple Beth-El of Borough Park, what do we know about its history? #1996282
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    Anybody remember Rabbi Moshe Snow as the day camp director in the Irvington Bungalow Colony (in the 80s/90s, before it was rebuilt) in South Fallsburg?

    in reply to: Charaidim #1996279
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    Chareidi is both Ashkenaz and Sefard.

    Look at it this way: All universally acknowledged Gedolei Yisroel, that are accepted throughout the world as Gedolei Yisroel, are Chareidi. Even the non-Chareidim accept them as Gedolei Yisroel because it is blatantly obvious and indisputable. I can’t think of any non-Chareidim, especially ones who never in their lives had identified with some affiliation with the Chareidi world, who were accepted as Gedolei Yisroel throughout Klal Yisroel.

    Both contemporary and historical.

    in reply to: 2 is better than 1 #1996269
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    Use the dollar coin.

    in reply to: Hatzalah stickers color #1996196
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    When Hatzalah started 212 was the area code for all five boroughs of New York City, including Brooklyn. 718 only became the new area code in the 1980s.

    I recall yellow stickers a long time ago (1980s/90s) as well.

    in reply to: PSA for Hikers #1996164
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    Smartphone GPS can send you down dangerous hiking trails.

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