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  • in reply to: Good places to go on shidduch dates [suggestions] #1206253
    Joseph
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    What a happy coincidence! 🙂

    in reply to: Massive Hasovas Avaida – MissingMoney.com #1206575
    Joseph
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    How far back in time are abandoned financial accounts still held by the state, awaiting for it to be reclaimed?

    in reply to: Massive Hasovas Avaida – MissingMoney.com #1206573
    Joseph
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    Do they send contents of unclaimed items in abandoned safe deposit boxes to its original owner or heirs?

    in reply to: Good places to go on shidduch dates [suggestions] #1206250
    Joseph
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    TDM, what do the first three letters of your YWN CR username stand for?

    in reply to: Good places to go on shidduch dates [suggestions] #1206243
    Joseph
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    The domain name for that website was registered 15 days ago.

    in reply to: Comments on Kerry's speech on Israel? #1206181
    Joseph
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    MA, actually he’s a bnei chom.

    in reply to: Psak of Rav Kook on Chazal vs Scientists #1208790
    Joseph
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    Albert Einstein’s theory hasn’t been overturned.

    in reply to: Let's hear from the Dem voters #1206149
    Joseph
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    huju, you don’t need advice; you need to win elections. Point being that it isn’t a matter of being “forceful”. And that it’s a matter of democracy, not being undemocratic as you suggested the Democrats be in 2020.

    in reply to: Psak of Rav Kook on Chazal vs Scientists #1208786
    Joseph
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    Not only did Chazal learn their science from the Torah, but Rav Breil, the Rebbi of the Pachad Yiztchok teaches us that we do not even entertain the possibility of a scientific statement in Chazal not coming from the Torah .This we see from Rav Briel’s answer to the Pachad Yiztchok’s question regarding the killing of lice on Shabbos. The Gemora permits it, based on a scientific fact. The Pachad Yiztchok asked his Rebbi that due to the possibility that this scientific fact is incorrect, perhaps we should be machmir and not kill lice on Shabbos, just in case.

    in reply to: Is "Haredism" a Movement? #1207161
    Joseph
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    Reuven sheifele, the Sefardish chareidim might follow Chacham Ovadia Yosef, the Chasidishe chareidim might follow the Gerrer Rebbe while the Litvish chareidim might follow Rav Shteinman. There’s no conformity.

    And, pray tell, which minhagim do they all follow?

    in reply to: Let's hear from the Dem voters #1206147
    Joseph
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    In order to control redistricting, you need to win state legislative elections in 2020 and gubernatorial elections in 2018 and 2020.

    in reply to: Comments on Kerry's speech on Israel? #1206175
    Joseph
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    Eisev Sonah L’Yaakov.

    in reply to: Good places to go on shidduch dates [suggestions] #1206232
    Joseph
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    Do a beshow and things will be much simpler. 🙂

    in reply to: Psak of Rav Kook on Chazal vs Scientists #1208782
    Joseph
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    ZD: Albert Einstein, which is the most current science on the matter, stated in the theory of relativity that it is correct to state that the sun revolves around the earth, or to state that the earth revolves around the sun, as either description is functionally equivalent.

    in reply to: Is "Haredism" a Movement? #1207154
    Joseph
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    Which minhagim? Which “chareidim”? The Sephardic chareidim? The Chasidic chareidim? Which “Big Rabbis”?

    in reply to: Preparing children for REAL LIFE at a very young age #1206552
    Joseph
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    Imagine that. Rivka Umeinu got married at three!

    in reply to: Is "Haredism" a Movement? #1207143
    Joseph
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    You haven’t been reading too carefully.

    in reply to: Is "Haredism" a Movement? #1207139
    Joseph
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    Matan, it implies no such thing. How’d you make that error? Did you similarly mistakenly assume it implies that Telzers can’t be chareidim? Or that Breslovers can’t be chareidim? Why’d you pluck out only Sephardim?

    in reply to: Is "Haredism" a Movement? #1207134
    Joseph
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    Sephardim, Breslovers, Lubavitch and Telzers are kehilos that each have unique minhagim and/or rabbonim. “Chareidim”, as an ambiguous group, do not follow any specific teachings of any specific Rebbi, nor do they believe in any specific values not already in the Torah. Chasidim follow the specific teachings of the Baal Shem Tov and his disciples; Telzers follow the teachings and Minhagim of the Telzer Yeshiva; the Mussar movement was started by Rav Yisroel Salanter – but “Chareidi”? There was no beginning to “Chareidism” except on Har Sinai; no particular person whose teachings they follow except Moshe Rabbeinu, and no particular Minhagim they perform.

    in reply to: Psak of Rav Kook on Chazal vs Scientists #1208765
    Joseph
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    Another example is how we treat lice on Shabbos. We follow Chazal, not modern scientists.

    in reply to: Is "Haredism" a Movement? #1207128
    Joseph
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    gavra, they self-segregate *themselves* in identity classification in identifying as MO or RZ. As earlier stated, those who people refer to as “Chareidim” have mostly never referred to themselves as such – in America you can go to Yeshiva from Kindergarten through Kollel and you will most probably never hear “we are Chareidi,” and you may even never hear the term used at all.

    in reply to: Let's hear from the Dem voters #1206141
    Joseph
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    CTL, we care that anti-semites like McKinney who are elected on the Democrat line are or were supported by the Democrat party and official party organs including re-election support efforts and party funding, despite their active and expressed anti-semitism during their tenure as an elected Democrat.

    in reply to: Obama's Legacy #1208033
    Joseph
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    To sum it up in a couple of words – His legacy: America Last. His wife’s legacy: Hate America.

    in reply to: Obama's Legacy #1208032
    Joseph
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    All good examples of his legacy. A mediocre President.

    in reply to: Let's hear from the Dem voters #1206138
    Joseph
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    CTL, I hardly accepted them, I simply tired of a roundabout discussion. McKinney was consistently a member in good standing of the Democrats’ Congressional Black Caucus and was honored by her party as long as she won elections. And to describe Ellison as NOT a Democrat is disingenuous, I think, when he’s the leading candidate to LEAD the Democratic Party.

    in reply to: Let's hear from the Dem voters #1206134
    Joseph
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    CTL, Current elected Democrat officials still bow down in homage to Sharpton.

    Health, I thought you wanted to give Israel to the Turks. What changed?

    in reply to: Let's hear from the Dem voters #1206124
    Joseph
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    CTL: Racist anti-semites, like Jesse “hymietown” Jackson and Al “diamond merchants” Sharpton, who were Democrat Party candidates for President of the U.s. doesn’t phase you?

    Is the continued and long time support of the Democrat Party and scores of Democrat elected officials – both on the national level and on the local level – who coddle to these agitators, inciters and rabble rousing anti-semitic race baiting demagogues something you fail to condemn?

    And that’s all before we get to elected Democrat anti-semites like Cynthia McKinney, Keith Ellison, et al.

    in reply to: Let's hear from the Dem voters #1206121
    Joseph
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    Israel and Netanyahu support a Palestinian state. Bill Clinton was the President who changed US policy to support a Palestinian state.

    in reply to: Let's hear from the Dem voters #1206108
    Joseph
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    CTL, it wasn’t merely a matter of supporting the Israeli government. He saved lives. I’ll take a so-called “Jew hater” who saves tens of thousands of Jewish lives over a so-called non-anti-semite who stabs Jews in the back rather than just dirt talks against every ethnicity behind closed doors.

    in reply to: Let's hear from the Dem voters #1206094
    Joseph
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    CTL, you mean the Richard Nixon who saved Israel’s behind in its most desperate hour, when it faced a surprise attack/war, and Pres. Nixon rushed it desperately needed arms?

    Yeah, I’ll take that kind of “anti-semitism” over any Democrat, any day.

    in reply to: Let's hear from the Dem voters #1206090
    Joseph
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    The Democrat Party has for many decades openly tolerated, encouraged and supported anti-semitism in its ranks. Whether it was Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Jerimiah Wright and many others.

    in reply to: Is "Haredism" a Movement? #1207097
    Joseph
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    fny, your last comment is devoid of any accuracy.

    in reply to: Is "Haredism" a Movement? #1207095
    Joseph
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    Some other charismatic and influential people with chiddushim were Moshe Rabbeinu, Yehoshua, Dovid HaMelech, Ezra HaSofer, Rabban Shimon Ben Yochoi, Rashi, Rambam, Rabbeinu Gershom, the Yaavetz, the Baal Shem Tov, the GRA and the Chofetz Chaim.

    Chareidim do not follow any specific teachings of any specific Rebbi, nor do they believe in any specific values not already in the Torah. Chasidim follow the specific teachings of the Baal Shem Tov and his disciples; Telzers follow the teachings and Minhagim of the Telzer Yeshiva; the Mussar movement was started by Rav Yisroel Salanter – but “Chareidi”? There was no beginning to “Chareidism” except on Har Sinai; no particular person whose teachings they follow except Moshe Rabbeinu, and no particular Minhagim they perform.

    in reply to: Is "Haredism" a Movement? #1207092
    Joseph
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    “How is everyone defining Chareidi anyway?”

    The default, traditional manner of being frum.

    By giving generic, default Judaism a label it conceals the fact that this Judaism is in fact the generic and default.

    I generally do not use the adjective “chareidi” because it is misleading. It originated in Eretz Yisroel as a way to describe those who followed the Eidah HaChareidis as opposed to the Rabanut. But it has evolved, and has come to mean basically anyone who is not Modern Orthodox/Religious Zionist.

    So there really is no such thing as a “Chareidi.” Those who people refer to as “Chareidim” have mostly never referred to themselves as such – in America you can go to Yeshiva from Kindergarten through Kollel and you will most probably never hear “we are Chareidi,” and you may even never hear the term used at all.

    in reply to: Is Dating Tznius? #1212097
    Joseph
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    If the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, in both Eretz Yisroel and America, came out with a Kol Korei that Bnei Torah and Bas Yisroels should not date but rather should conduct shidduch meetings exclusively in the parents homes or otherwise under direct parental supervision or nearby presence, how would the hamon hoam react?

    in reply to: The Sephardim's Relationship to Ashkenazim in Israel? #1205862
    Joseph
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    There are Sephardic Chareidim.

    in reply to: question about a rabbi #1207436
    Joseph
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    I’m always happy to be mistaken for a talmid of Rav Aharon.

    in reply to: The Sephardim's Relationship to Ashkenazim in Israel? #1205859
    Joseph
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    Hock, please go into details. I’m unaware of your point.

    in reply to: Pilot Drops Dead #1204821
    Joseph
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    Copilot takes over.

    in reply to: Tochacha #1204356
    Joseph
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    Rav Shach was very far from being a misnagid. He had very close relationships with numerous Chasidishe gedolim. And he was impressed with and highly complimented certain Chasidishe hanhagos.

    in reply to: Is Dating Tznius? #1212088
    Joseph
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    Is Oorah’s founder a posek? A baal hashkafa?

    in reply to: Peyos #1204373
    Joseph
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    DY, what happened to your peyos?! :0

    in reply to: Tochacha #1204344
    Joseph
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    In a famous letter the Chofetz Chaim himself attributed tragedies in his generation to a decline in tznius.

    in reply to: Peyos #1204369
    Joseph
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    There are two types of chareidim: the yeshivish wrap the peyos behind the ears while the chasidish let the peyos hang in front of the ears.

    in reply to: Tochacha #1204343
    Joseph
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    Avram, the Tosfos Yom Tov told us that Tach V’tat was a punishment for talking in shul, Rav Shach and Rav Avigdor Miller told us the Holocaust was a punishment for the assimilation and Reform in Europe. And both before and since various gedolim have identified various tragedies as a punishment for specific sins.

    in reply to: Here is a not so hypothetical question #1204216
    Joseph
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    ubiq, seven people won electoral college votes, by my count. Trump, Clinton, that Indian guy, Powell, Ron Paul, Kasich, and Sanders (in Hawaii).

    in reply to: Tochacha #1204330
    Joseph
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    Wolf is Berditchiver. In everything he sees people do, he only sees good.

    in reply to: Here is a purely hypothetical question: #1203323
    Joseph
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    ubiq, so far at least three Democrat electors, in several states, who attempted to vote for someone other than Clinton, were immediately replaced with an alternate elector who voted for Clinton. And the original electors vote didn’t count.

    And Clinton lost more electors than Trump (who only lost two to faithless electors.)

    in reply to: Rules for Davening #1206899
    Joseph
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    Thank you lilmod, you answered more elequently than I could have. (Now you’re really me.)

    huju, you need rabbonim to know what Hashem wants of you. They know what that is better than you know yourself.

    in reply to: The Black Sheep of Your Family #1203147
    Joseph
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    squeak is the black sheep of my family.

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