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I see some posters have B”H solved their problems with paying rent/mortgage, tuition for kids’ yeshiva/school, balancing their bank account, etc. and are left wondering if there is gender equality where execution by bais din in Talmudic times is concerned.
I see some posters have come to the foolish conclusion that it’s wrong to ask questions unless one’s life is perfect.
The Wolf
I am not sure what you mean – please explain
I mean that if chesedname is going to make such an assertion, I would like to know the source and the complete list of sins for which there is no teshuva.
The Wolf
As a matter of fact, I happen to enjoy cooking very much. Last week, I cooked everything for shabbos, including the challos (which I got to make for the first time).
The Wolf
WIY,
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The Wolf
not true murder, aishesh ish, etc
there are a small amount where u stay in gehenim
Still waiting to see a source (and, since you’re stating there’s more than one) a list of which sins are covered.
The Wolf
for example a man has his chest uncivered for skelah,
It’s a machlokes in the gemara in Sanhedrin:
One opinion is that a man is covered in front with a small cloth and a woman is covered in front and in back.
The other opinion is that a man is stoned naked and a woman clothed.
The other major difference (vis a vis skilah) is that if the person is hanged afterward (as is done for some sins), only a man is hanged. A woman is not hanged.
Otherwise, the procedure is the same — and, in all events, the court case itself is carried out identically regardless of the gender of the defendant.
The Wolf
There are a few minor differences in procedure, but nothing really substantively different.
The Mishna/Gemara in the sixth and seventh perakim of Sanhedrin deal with this.
The Wolf
There is absolutely NO aveirah in the world that one cannot do teshuva on!
Well, there is the sin of my being alive. 🙁
The Wolf
he didnt make things up out of thin air.
I never said he did. Please don’t imply that that is what I meant.
The Wolf
Who said anything about “you must stay away from your own daughter”? That is “interpreting it [the comment] extremely”. The point was about a man dancing with a daughter or sister in middle of a sea of (dressed to kill!) women.
My apologies then — I clearly misinterpreted what you said. You were talking about a man and his daughter and I did not realize that you were focusing on the “in the midst…” portion. I thought you were focusing on the man and his daughter.
The Wolf
(Just waiting for someone to accuse me of “MO” “heresies” or not having a “true commitment” to Torah, halacha and/or yahadus for suggesting that a person does not have to stay away from his own daughter.)
The Wolf
but Rabbi Miller, tz’l, said acher absolutely could do Tshuva, only he would not be aided in this. the bas kol was a test
Did Acher know it was a test? If HKBH told you something, would you not take Him at face value? Avraham Avinu did — to the point where he was ready to slaughter his son.
The Wolf
Do you often hold children responsible for the crimes of parents and grandparents?
It’s one thing when you know that the people involved are still Neo-Nazis and the like, but it’s altogether different when it’s a blanket ban on people who weren’t even born when the atrocities happened (which covers just about every person working for a German company today).
In your parents’ day, many of the people working (and therefore benefiting) from the company may well have been involved with the Holocaust. That does not hold true today.
The Wolf
Don’t bother quoting from that “extreme” text called The Shulchon Aruch iit may offend some peoples “sensitivities.”
I don’t think the text is extreme… I think he’s interpreting it extremely if one is to take it to mean that you must stay away from your own daughter.
I don’t believe the mechaber meant that.
The Wolf
Look at the Tiferes Yisroel on that Mishna, and you will find a very clear explanation; that it is a metaphor for something totally spiritual.
See! I knew someone would bring it up. 🙂 Just like those who completely ignore p’shat in this week’s parsha and say that Yaakov never really kissed Rachel. 🙂
The Wolf
Do you *really* think that the SA’s dictum of ????? ?? ????? ???? applies to one’s daughter as well?
The Wolf
if done on purpose, there is no mechilla, kapara, or coming out of gehenim
I’d like to know your source on that.
The Wolf
The Rambam says you can do Teshuvah on anything.
Does the Rambam address Acher?
The Wolf
I just received an email from them with their new website and registration information for next summer. So, I’d say that Sternberg (and Mogen Av, Heller, etc.) are all going to be open next year.
If it’s okay with the mods, I’ll post a link to the new website.
The Wolf
Go ahead
Does retzicha only include intentional murder?
Retzicha refers strictly to unlawful murder. Putting someone to death is harigah, not retzicha.
If it was purely an accident, then I’d say no — he is a “horeg” but not a “rotzeach.” If he was a shogeg (i.e. at least partially negligent), then I’d say yes (the Torah uses the term for someone who must flee to one of the Arei Miklat).
The Wolf
wolf: thank you for bringing humor and lightness to the coffee room while still keeping it real and to the point. after spending a few hours in the hospital trying to get my son’s hospital records to give to the next specialist, i needed to laugh. thank you! tizku l’mitzvos.
You’re welcome. I’m glad I was able to make someone laugh… especially when they needed it. I hope your son has a speedy refuah shelaimah.
The Wolf
Just curious, Wolf; did you wear a hat /jacket / gartel during this momentus occasion? I’m very happy for you either way; I’m just curious.
I don’t normally wear a hat, jacket or gartel, so the answer is no. Even so, somehow I doubt that, even if I did wear them regularly, I would have been wearing them while kneading the dough (which is what I was doing right before I was mafrish).
And while I have not yet done the challah, I did have a chance to bentch lecht, so I know how special a moment that can be (I wore the H/J/G, in case you’re wondering)
I got to bentch licht twice.
The Wolf
I think were all much much safer
I think we’d be much safer if the women didn’t attend the wedding at all. Why do women need to be there? The kallah can send a shliach to the hall to accept her kiddushin. The nesuin will happen when she goes home to her chassan at the end of the day.
So, you’ll just have the men in one hall and the women across town in the other hall, and then no one has to see anyone of the opposite gender — including the chosson and kallah. That’s the safest method.
The Wolf
(Of course, I wouldn’t want a wedding like that, but if safety [vis-a-vis boys and girls comingling] is the main criteria, then perhaps we should adopt this model.)
D’oh! You’re right, of course. That’s what I get for cutting and pasting without reading it through.
The Wolf
I’m both a father and a brother and I was mafrish challah this week. Of course I didn’t dance with it, but I don’t see the issue with that and… what’s that? Kallah? not Challah? Oh, I see. Well, that changes everything, doesn’t it?
Never mind.
The Wolf
I always liked this one:
“I have an irregular phone… it has no 5 on it. My friend called me up and said, ‘How come you never call me anymore?’ I said I couldn’t call everyone I wanted because my phone has no 5 on it. He said, ‘That’s wierd. How long has this been going on?’ I said I didn’t know because my clock has no 7”.
The Wolf
Wolf – The store used to be on a street called 7 Mile Lane. Now it’s moving around the corner.
I had figured as much. 🙂
Nonetheless, I’m still gonna sue for misrepresentation. 🙂
Reminds me of a Stephen Wright joke.
“I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, ‘Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.’ He said, ‘Yes, but not in a row.'”
The Wolf
I am very judgmental. But I reserve my judgments for one person.
The Wolf
Well, I wasn’t saying we should use the term l’chatchilla — but if we are using it, it should be capitalized.
The Wolf
allah
Please capitalize this term. It’s considered proper and respectful when writing in English to capitalize HKBH’s name — regardless of the language being used.
The Wolf
I had my head handed to me
That must have hurt. I hope you had a good neurosurgeon to put things back together again.
The Wolf
Almost all people marry girls they never saw before in their life
I think you need to redefine “almost all people.” You’re using it to mean “almost all people in my little subgroup.”
The Wolf
Back it up. Prove it
Back up what? All I said was that I was waiting for someone to make the position. Furthermore it was a joke — see the smiley on the end?
I’m not sure what it is, exactly, you want me to prove.
The Wolf
Shidduchim come about by living according to the Torah and going through the process with a shadchan
So, you’re saying that there is NO other possible way of meeting one’s spouse other than through a shadchan?
The Wolf
Just waiting for someone to explain that they didn’t really dance and that it was just all spiritual 🙂
The Wolf
I do NOT have any ADD tend— oooh, shiny!! 🙂
The Wolf
Does the market really cover seven miles? If not, I think I smell a lawsuit for misleading advertising. 🙂
The Wolf (who wanted to sue the makers of The Never Ending Story and The Greatest Story Ever Told).
personally i say if you cant taste it, it doesnt exist.
that rule only applies to food
What about iocane powder? It’s odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid and is among the more deadly poisons known to man.
Just ask Vizzini. 🙂
The Wolf
personally i say if you cant taste it, it doesnt exist.
YOU??? A physician says this???!! I’m utterly shocked!
The Wolf (who is now off to consume some tasteless carbon monoxide, which, apparently, does not exist 🙂 )
wolf what do you mean use some water? between the pot and the liner?
Exactly. Put some water in the pot first. Then put the liner in and fill it up with whatever you want in your cholent.
The downside is that you still have to clean out the serving dish… 🙂
The Wolf
cleaning the cholent pot
Use some water and a crock pot liner. It makes it *much* easier to clean.
The Wolf
kol hakovod to you wolf. that’s terrific you help so much.
I try.
Actually, I did *all* the cooking for this past Shabbos (Eeees was *very* tied up this past week), including baking challah for the first time. No one in my family has come down with food poisoning yet, so I suppose the food was okay. 🙂
As a side bonus, I actually got to be mafrish challah for the first time in my life. I had never performed that mitzvah before.
The Wolf
I don’t have any real problem with any aspect of kitchen work. I love to cook. Cleaning up is a bit of a pain, but not a big deal.
If I had to pick one thing I don’t like doing, it’s emptying the dish rack after the dishes have dried.
The Wolf
“Dr. Hall” has what sort of doctorate?
Do you have reason to believe he’s lying that you put his title in quotation marks?
The Wolf
This is for Charliehall:
What’s with your obsession over Dr. Hall’s political viewpoints of late?
The Wolf
At no time did I dance with my sister at her wedding. I *did* dance with my wife, but that was in private.
(Just waiting for the howls to come from some corners — “WHAT! You didn’t dance with your sister? Don’t you know it’s a minhag kadosh to dance…”)
The Wolf
I always wondered how you can tell when sour cream goes bad. Does it go sweet? 🙂
The Wolf
I fail to see your point. Are you saying that it’s all right to steal because it’s not worth the owner’s while to come after me for such a small amount?
The Wolf
Actually, everyone on this site (except for you) is really me. I have 3,874 screen names.
The mods know through their mystical ruach hakodesh methods.
The Wolf