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  • in reply to: Is Amona like Gush Katif? #1214078
    Joseph
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    Young male rascals tend to be under 30.

    in reply to: High school diplomas #1214866
    Joseph
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    CTL, wouldn’t telling the judge your client is lying on the stand be disservicing what your client is paying you for? If a lawyer in mid-trial becomes 100% aware his client is guilty of the murder his client is charged with, he must tell the judge his client’s testimony on the stand claiming innocence was untrue?

    in reply to: IQ tests #1214205
    Joseph
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    CTL, have we met at one of the Mensa gatherings?

    in reply to: Mazel Tov! #1224468
    Joseph
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    DY: Mazel Tov.

    What do you get a mazal tov for?

    in reply to: High school diplomas #1214860
    Joseph
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    I’m pretty sure the FAFSA is only asking that for survey purposes. Getting it wrong wouldn’t affect the application, and most kids knowing mommy went to beis yaakov (but no college) will simply check off high school grad without thinking twice.

    in reply to: Do you recognize the do you recognize the state of israel thread? #1214679
    Joseph
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    Is Gary Kasporav still active in chess tournaments?

    in reply to: High school diplomas #1214858
    Joseph
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    I cannot imagine anyone even thinking of asking whether the potential machatenester (or the girl herself, for that matter) got a high school diploma. It wouldn’t cross one’s mind. And if asked, probably no one but the machatenester herself would even know she didn’t get a diploma.

    in reply to: High school diplomas #1214851
    Joseph
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    Who ever asks for a potential shidduch’s mother’s high school diploma?! Never heard that one before. It would be quite unusual to even ask for a copy of the girl herself’s high school diploma or for the boy to call the girl’s beis yaakov to check if she got a diploma.

    in reply to: I know they are a great organization, but… #1213683
    Joseph
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    Better than not doing the mitzvos at all.

    As previously stated, halachicly beis din is supposed to physically coerce a person to do his obligations, or not do sins, if that’s the only method of persuasion that works.

    in reply to: High school diplomas #1214826
    Joseph
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    High school is totally overrated. A nice Yiddish housewife needs to know how to cook, bake, say Tehilim and daven. All totally doable without a diploma.

    in reply to: Welcome YW Moderator-25 #1214114
    Joseph
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    Perhaps I shouldn’t have pointed out that 25 was previously utilized…

    in reply to: Tefillin vs Mezuzah checking #1213394
    Joseph
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    If S”A paskens either twice in seven or never (and M”B says twice in seven), how and where did once in seven enter the picture?

    in reply to: Welcome YW Moderator-21 and YW Moderator-25 #1213967
    Joseph
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    lilmod, on 26 I’m certain. On 25 almost certain. (The almost is only on the specific mod # from eight years ago.)

    in reply to: Welcome YW Moderator-21 and YW Moderator-25 #1213955
    Joseph
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    lilmod: charlie brown and ames are CR old timers from the stone ages. They were promoted to mods but have long since retired to a CR old age home where their nurses don’t allow them to post anymore. squeak, who is their long-time attending physician, can give a lot more information (HIPAA-permitting).

    in reply to: Welcome YW Moderator-21 and YW Moderator-25 #1213945
    Joseph
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    I think 25 was charlie brown.

    in reply to: I know they are a great organization, but… #1213679
    Joseph
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    Ideally we do force people to do mitzvos, if necessary. We just lack the power today to do so. Otherwise beis din could, and if necessary would, coerce people into doing their halachic obligations.

    in reply to: Welcome YW Moderator-21 and YW Moderator-25 #1213942
    Joseph
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    I believe ames was the original 25.

    in reply to: Pokemon Go #1213325
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    in reply to: I know they are a great organization, but… #1213676
    Joseph
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    If someone will violate Shabbos unless you fool him into not violating Shabbos, then you should fool him into not sinning.

    in reply to: Pokemon Go #1213321
    Joseph
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    Mod 25 seems to be new. But in amulege tzeiten, back in the stone ages of the CR, there also used to be a Mod 25.

    in reply to: IQ tests #1214198
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    in reply to: Is Amona like Gush Katif? #1214071
    Joseph
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    Do those who hate Sharon for Gush Katif now hate Netanyahu for Amona?

    in reply to: I know they are a great organization, but… #1213673
    Joseph
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    So fooling someone whose about to violate Shabbos into not doing so, you think is wrong?

    in reply to: IQ tests #1214197
    Joseph
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    And what does the ability to do well, or not do well, on a standardized test prove?

    in reply to: Why Was the Post Asking About the Closed Post Asking About the.. Closed #1213215
    Joseph
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    Sorry, this thread is [closed]. Cannot post to this thread.

    in reply to: Unsolicited Advice #1213305
    Joseph
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    in reply to: Unsolicited Advice #1213302
    Joseph
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    Of course you should help them.

    in reply to: I know they are a great organization, but… #1213671
    Joseph
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    For the OP’s issue to be a problem, you’re assuming that one cannot fool someone into stopping to do aveiros.

    in reply to: Tefillin vs Mezuzah checking #1213390
    Joseph
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    So what is the sofer checking when you bring him your tefilin every 3.5 years?

    in reply to: Tefillin vs Mezuzah checking #1213388
    Joseph
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    I gotta double check, but I thought it was specifically paskened in S”A twice in seven.

    in reply to: Tefillin vs Mezuzah checking #1213386
    Joseph
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    iac: Twice every seven years.

    in reply to: IQ tests #1214185
    Joseph
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    My results were completely off the charts. They said they’ll need to raise the maximum score to rate me.

    in reply to: Do you recognize the 'State of Israel'? #1214151
    Joseph
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    That survey questionnaire did not give an option for the surveyed person to state he disagrees with the formation of the state. If the surveyed person didn’t agree with the pre-selected responses, his response was omitted from being counted. Hence it is irrelevant in determining how many disagreed with statehood.

    in reply to: Do you recognize the 'State of Israel'? #1214149
    Joseph
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    Pew also surveyed the Israeli Jewish demographic about two years ago. I think they said chareidim in Israel are a majority of the religious Jews in Israel, with DL slightly behind.

    in reply to: Miscellaneous: You know, that one drawer #1213699
    Joseph
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    L’Chaim.

    in reply to: Do you recognize the 'State of Israel'? #1214146
    Joseph
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    Pew Research census from three years ago determined that 66% of American Orthodox Jews are chareidim. I’d argue they notably underestimated the chareidi portion since their survey was vastly underrepresented in all-chareidi enclaves such as KJ and NS where they speak Yiddish and most won’t answer their survey.

    I have no doubt that the vast majority of chareidi Jews opposed the creation of the state at the time it happened as well as today feel it was a historical/religious error in retrospect. Even if they support the continued current existence of the state due to the alternative at this point being dangerous.

    in reply to: I know they are a great organization, but… #1213667
    Joseph
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    Ohr HaTorah, Aish, Lubavitch and others don’t count?

    in reply to: Do you recognize the 'State of Israel'? #1214144
    Joseph
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    yytz, chareidim are about 70% of Orthodox Jews, and the vast majority of them are unhappy it was created. Thus a large majority of Orthodox Jews wish the state had never formed.

    in reply to: Do you recognize the 'State of Israel'? #1214129
    Joseph
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    May it very soon be abolished and our King Moshiach replace the evil regime.

    in reply to: Why say "ladies and gentlemen"? #1214596
    Joseph
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    Is referring to women (or men) a negative thing?

    in reply to: What are the manners in Yeshiva between rabbi and student? #1212993
    Joseph
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    TLIK, if one’s child is a mechutzef to the parent, you don’t think he ought to be disciplined? Or that the parent should teach/uphold kibud av v’eim?

    in reply to: Why was the comedian post closed? #1212967
    Joseph
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    It’s usually not a good idea to have a public discussion revolving around an ehlriche Yid.

    in reply to: Shutting Refugees out of America #1213275
    Joseph
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    For the umpteenth time, religious minorities from those seven countries, i.e. Jews and Christians, are exempted from the Executive Order.

    And the seven countries were selected by Obama not Trump. Trump simply extended pre-existing restrictions to the same seven countries Obama and Congress selected last year.

    in reply to: Why say "ladies and gentlemen"? #1214594
    Joseph
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    We differentiate in the zimun the Maranan and Rabbonim from the Rabosai.

    in reply to: Meshuga Frum: Ashley Blaker #1212958
    Joseph
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    Censorship is the proper Jewish way. Non-censorship is un-Jewish.

    in reply to: Shutting Refugees out of America #1213265
    Joseph
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    Of course it was anti-semitism; that’s exactly what I’m saying. No one actually believed immigrant Jews would kill Americans.

    Immigrants coming from Syria through Turkey HAVE been killing Europeans for the last couple years.

    in reply to: Shutting Refugees out of America #1213262
    Joseph
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    No one actually believed immigrant Jews admitted to America in the run up to WWI and WWII posed a risk to kill Americans.

    The “perils” “M” quoted were not about risk to American lives posed by immigrant Jews. It was about the perils dirty Jews posed to good Christian Americans.

    A Nazi could have attempted to pretend to be a Swiss Christian if posing as a Jew wasn’t available. It has nothing to do with being Jewish. And you can ban Communists, including Communist Jews and Christians, without targeting Jews.

    in reply to: Shutting Refugees out of America #1213256
    Joseph
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    No one ever alleged or seriously entertained the thought that admitting Jews to America before either WWI or WWII would pose a risk to the lives of Americans.

    The comparison is completely off the mark and irrelevant.

    in reply to: Childfree Zones on Airplanes #1213147
    Joseph
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    They don’t violate the Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach.

    But they are a result of a sick anti-children culture.

    in reply to: What are the manners in Yeshiva between rabbi and student? #1212989
    Joseph
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    TLIK, you don’t think parents should teach, and insist upon, kibud av v’eim?

    A rebbe must insist upon his kavod, not because he wants it, but because it’s his duty to teach his students that they are halachicly obligated in it.

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