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“Hi, my name is Bob. Do you need a friend? If so, I could fulfill that role.”
I shouldn’t believe everything I read in the Gemorah, Rashi and Rambam? Clearly we don’t share a common religion because my theology requires belief in what is told to us by Chazal and elucidated by the Rishonim. I suggest you educate yourself with Shabbos 62b. Yes, the husband/father is responsible in making sure his wife/daughters are dressed in full accordance with halacha.
And water didn’t never need a hechsher?
GH, I guess you don’t read and believe the Gemorah, Rashi and Rambam because everything I said I am merely repeating from Chazal, Rashi, Rambam and Gedolei Yisroel like the Tosfos Yom Tov and others (including Gedolim recently with us and some still with us) that attributed specific tragedies with specific acts among Yidden. FTR, pritzus among women by Bayis Sheini is one of the reasons Chazal themselves list in the Gemorah as a reason for the churban.
1 in 7 Americans “shtams” from Brooklyn.
Mir is mostly American; why would they need Ivrit for Americans?
Obviously GH disagrees with aforementioned Rambam, Rashi, Chazal and Gedolim like the Tosfos Yom Tov, who attributed Tach V’Tat to talking in shul, and the Gemorah which attributed the churban to sinas chinam and women’s pritzus.
I can give you a coin.
GAON, that doesn’t make much sense, IMHO. If the entire food chain changed in recent times so that food items (even water!) that halachicly need no hechsher now people require hechsheirim for, beer should be even more important to have a hechsher.
Yid18: GAON is correct. A married woman, as an eishes ish, has even more restrictions. She shouldn’t be going outside more showy than an unmarried girl. In the home, for her husband, of course its different. But outside in public and away from home she must always be much more modest.
Cleaning help earns tenure. Once they’ve been employed for three months they have a chazaka and may not be fired.
LC, Rambam is saying even “ordinary” or “natural” tragedies that occur “as expected” and “on schedule” are brought by Hashem to give Yidden a warning to fix their behavior.
“Very often, married women tend to dress differently e.g. less simple, than single girls”
Why is that?
There’s nothing more enjoyable than Torah/Halacha.
LC, clearly you missed the Rambam I quoted in about the 19th post on this thread.
“some people keep chalav Yisroel l’chumra, not as a halachah. So, they would be fine with giving chalav stam to other or eating off of chalav stam equipment.”
That’s true. As you know, Rav Moshe, who’se motter CS says a Baal Nefesh should be machmir. So such a Baal Nefesh could give CS to a non-Baal Nefesh.
But my earlier comments regarding it being prohibited for a strictly CY consumer to give CS food to a CS consumer was referring to those who hold by CY (and not CS) Al Pi Halacha, Al Pi the shittos (held by virtually all Chasidic poskim and many others) that CS is Cholov Akum mamish.
Meno, threads virtually always go off on tangents not directly related to the OP.
The Gemara says, “Ein pur’onee’os bah li’olam elah bi’shvil Yisroel.” [Yevamos 63a] No misfortune comes upon the world if not for the sake of Yisroel. Do you hear that? All misfortunes are only for the sake of our people. Even what comes upon the nations of the world. And Rashi says, “ki’dei li’yari’um,” in order to put a fear into us so that we should do teshuva.
It is very reasonable for the fee to include covering the original construction costs. Otherwise you’re being someach on third-party donors to cover the costs of building the mikva. All things being equal, everyone would equally share the cost for the construction through the usage fee spread out over time after construction.
Takes2: Satmar, Brisk, Eidah and others in Eretz Yisroel specifically and deliberately forgo accepting government funding that they’re legally entitled to, i.e. student tuition, yeshiva funding, etc. In short, they put their money where their mouth is. And they have every right to live in EY, so don’t bother starting with “but they walk on the streets the zionists paved [even though they didn’t ask them to pave it]”, etc.
You can be in and out of the Mikvah, dried and dressed, in less than 15 minutes. All in the same place you daven at. You could even double it up with your regular shower, so it is effectively taking even less time than that.
Hiding, i.e. not publicizing, negatives of Klal Yisroel is a Kiddush Hashem. It would be a Chillul Hashem to broadcast negatives.
Appraising one’s faults is surely a good thing. And we should all do that for ourselves and improve our faults as we work to fix them. But not putting the klal’s faults in the newspapers. Or on the internet.
ubiq: My sense is that a Makom Kodesh needs funds to operate. Whether the Mikva, the electricity, gas, or even general shul non-mikva expenses. I don’t think many shuls with mikvas are operating on a profit-level where they’re bringing in much more income than they need to continue serving Klal Yisroel. If they need to raise funds from a certain aspect (i.e. Mikva) than their actual cost for that service so that they can pay other general kodesh expenses, that’s entirely legitimate.
Orthodox is also a made up concept. They won’t ask upstairs whether you were Orthodox.
I hope my suggestions in the comments come across as me offering them out of love for fellow Yiddishe brother.
Algore invented the internet after having planted a forest full of ecological loving trees that he hugs every day.
I’ll bet your wife pays 12 times a year at least double what you’re paying twice a year.
You should go to the Mikva at least every Erev Shabbos, if not every day, not just twice a year.
א גוט יום טוב וגמר חתימה טובה!!
How much is this so-called “price gouging” anyways? Most places seem to be about $5 or $10 on Erev Yom Tov.
This seems to be what the vast majority of Shuls with Mikvas do.
Aren’t Shuls entitled to use this as a form of raising funds, whether for the Mikva or even general operating expenses? I don’t see why not. They are a Makom Kodesh not a capitalistic enterprise.
It’s a Mitzvah to be a buki on fabrics?
I seriously doubt that there’s even a single frum Jew in the world today that has never used Yiddish words interposed casually in a conversation.
Can you clue is innocents into what wicker furniture is that it is such a huge issue?
I’m too lazy to Google, so forgive me.
Lilmod, there are some very legitimate rabbonim/poskim publicly approving eruvim in Brooklyn (and probably Manhattan as well.) And there are opposing rabbonim, also very legitimate, who say anyone carrying — even if they legitimately hold by a Posek who approves of the Eruv — is a Mechallel Shabbos.
I should add that there are some poskim who consider the heter for Cholov Stam to not be legitimate. (Despite the big names behind it.)
I believe this thread should permanently be made into a sticky.
Sam, you’re telling me Rav Moshe holds that if someone uses eruvim in Manhattan or Brooklyn that you can give him a package on Shabbos that he’ll carry?
Frum_bachur: What would your preferred solution be? That he and she swap off paying for the date, with each date? He pays first date, she pays second, he third, etc.
I hear that by the Chasidim the Choson and Kallah’s families split the cost of the wedding 50/50. (This might entice some girls to marry a Chosid.)
What is reason that many folks, who insist on a hechsher even where it isn’t strictly required, nevertheless drink beer without a hechsher?
Doesn’t the OU and/or Agudah publish a list of local shuls?
If your posek holds Cholov Stam is assur, giving CS food to another Yid (who uses it) makes as much sense as giving another Yid (who uses the eruv in NYC) a package to carry on Shabbos if your posek (i.e. Rav Moshe) doesn’t hold neighborhood eruvim in Flatbush, Boro Park and Manhattan are valid.