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“It means that they understand that no one will listen anyway so you might as well do it safely.”
Like the law making it illegal to sing off key. Or take a shower without any clothes.
In short, the authorities don’t enforce the law to stop you from giving your 20 year old guest Kiddush wine on Shabbos.
“no one in my yeshiva in Israel besides the rosh even knows that I went “otd” and probably wouldn’t believe me if I told them.”
So why are you so worried about all this?
What if you had to relay negative information about him or her?
I’ve seen siddurim with a tefilla for the American government that included President Franklin Roosevelt in the tefila, by name.
On Purim you’re supposed to give tzedakah to anyone that asks, without investigation.
It is absolutely proper chinuch for yeshivas to train talmidim to engage in the humongous mitzvah of collecting tzedakah. Some Yeshivas have this chinuch all year, with the talmidim (from age 7 through beis medrash) collecting tzedakah year-round, not just on Purim. Tremendous kudos to them and their lucky talmidim.
If a non-Jew said that Jews shouldn’t be sold cheeseburgers, you’d call him an anti-Semite.
Yosef didn’t challenge Pharoh by publicly questioning him.
In the Soviet era it was illegal to learn Torah.
In the Hellenist era it was illegal to have a bris.
Do you guys refuse to give your under 21 year old guests wine from Kiddush on Shabbos?
Which is why I suggested a Yid shouldn’t be a member of the press corps altogether. Members of the press in America are essentially expected to grill him. Let the nochrim do that.
All of them.
Simcha, I invite them to my seuda and they partake with me in the seuda.
Simcha, I respect your right to follow your shitta. But the shitta that we are mechuyiv to get shikur ad dlo yoda literally is a well known, well followed, shitta many roshei yeshivos follow themselves and with their bochorim. Don’t pretend it is some quaint rare shitta. It is probably the most common one.
ubiq, we don’t need to issue a press release that we’re not participating in the press conference or avoiding questions. The “Jewish way” in interacting with secular governments has traditionally be to work amicably with them mostly behind the scenes. The potus won’t be offended if we don’t send a “reporter” to grill him on live television.
Avram, why any bdieved? Just find a better job than to publicly grill the head of our government. That isn’t a yiddishe midda. If he had to ask a question, I guess he could ask “Mr. President, how have you been able to accomplish so much good in so little time?”
🙂
That means sometimes you’ll have to wait *longer* than 6 hours (based on 60 minutes).
Bochor 2.0, a couple of posters here suggested going out with baalas teshuvas. What do you think of that idea?
Avram, you’re correct. He probably shouldn’t have been there asking questions. And the same would apply to the previous (or any previous) President.
Never saw such a hamantach that I recall.
I never saw a closed one.
2 days and 8 hours.
First come to the meeting and then send your resume.
That characterization is merely your opinion.
Is this a Dutch Ashkenazic shitta or a Dutch Sephardic shitta?
Does a kehilla of frum Dutch Yidden still exist today that follows this shitta?
The Yekkes (Germans) wait three hours, not six; so there’s already a difference between different Yidden in this regard, even without considering the Dutch.
Do Sephardim by and large keep six hours?
I’m mechuyiv to help others fulfill their chiyuvim.
Din Torah precedes Dina D”D. There’s a chiyuv to drink. The chiyuv starts at 13.
If you have another shitta, I respect your right to follow it.
Bochor 2.0: See my last comment above; it was posted late.
I meant commercial OJ.
Your thing is chocolate.
mik, you hold it’s okay to drink OJ that has no hechsher?
I use it to feed the birds.
Is being friends with older girls more socially acceptable than with younger girls?
They’re all over 13. I follow Shulchan Aruch.
Farshteit zich they’re not driving. That is self-understood.
Reb Wolf, my dear talmid, I am most very proud of you today.
So you’re fine not being considered by the girls that want a husband that puts himself together like his rebbeim; and instead being considered by the girls who are cool with the chup and often hatless type of guy?
I thought they wear kilts.
I usually buy a whole range of wines. When the bochorim come to my house collecting I let them choose what they want. Based on their choices I figure out which are the better wines.
“I do not necessarily look the part”
Did you consider starting to look the part?
Put it in the same place you’d leave your bike.
Nebech.
How does someone become a mekubal?
Are there shiurim for people interested in becoming a mekubal?
What does a mekubal do more than a rabbi?
Huge riduculous overblown dramatic story retelling is what sells papers.
(My last comment was for zd.)
ubiq, no, being quiet wouldn’t result in a c”H in such a case.
Who here ever said that the question was antagonistic?
Avram: DY’s underlying point is that Trump is the President of the United States. So even if he’s wrong and the Jew right, the Jew shouldn’t antagonise him, even unwittingly and unintentionally, since he’s the head of our government. (Or even if he were merely an influential governmental official.)
If John is the POTUS and Richard a Yid, Richard should avoid being in front of him on the expressway if that might unreasonably antagonise him.
I’m sure it’ll pay dividends for Ami sales. So why worry about any negative repercussions it may have on the Jewish community?
Geordie, what do large yiddishe mishpachos do?
Yidden must be careful regarding which dolls they bring into their homes.