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Have you seen this occur consistently on Fridays?
Eretz Yisroel is the proper name.
Do you call the Kosel the Kosel (or Kotel if Sefardic) or do you call it the “Wailing Wall” (or “Western Wall”)? If you call it the Kosel/Kotel, you should call Eretz Yisroel, Eretz Yisroel.
38th birthday?
Gratefulblac: What’s shver? One man can have multiple zivugim and marry them all.
Are masorti shomer Shabbos, kashrus and taharas hamishpacha?
The Khazar’s lived in a Sefardic part of the world.
“(Unless the biological father wishes him to be Jewish, in which case it’s not a matter of zochin.)”
What are you referring to with this point?
It’s a huge mitzvah to collect tzedaka. And yeshivos are in the business of teaching talmidim to do Mitzvos.
Every Yeshiva should be sending talmidim to engage in the tremendous mitzvah of raising tzedaka.
Given that Ashkenazim came from Eretz Yisroel to France/Germany, whereas Sephardim went from Bavel to Spain/Portugal, it’s more likely that Sephardim lost their lineage at some point within. Especially once half of the Sephardim converted under the Inquisiton, all bets were off.
Goyim can’t have a bashert because halachicly their marriages aren’t recognized as marriages.
rational: sources, please.
Yabia: There is no questionable European lineage. Do you actually consider Rashi and baalei Tosfos to be goyim?! Regarding Sephardim’s broken lineage following the expulsion, 50% of Sefardim converted to Christianity rather than leave Spain and Portugal.
Are Hungarian Yidden to Ashkenazim what SY Yidden are to Sephardim? Y’know, wealthier than average and enjoys bessere zachen.
I hope you’ve never cut your fingernails, RY23
Hungarian Jewry had one of the higher survival rates during the churban of the Holocaust among European Jews since there Nazis ym”s didn’t enter Hungary until 1944.
Rudolf Kastner threw hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews under the bus, in return for one train he received from his friend Adolf Eichmann ym”s, by not revealing to the public prior to the deportations to Aushwitz the Veba-Wetzler Report he received documenting the Nazi extermination.
KY: Yes.
Yabia: Because if a Jewish non-frum couple adopted a child, there’s virtually no chance the child was converted properly and hence remains a gentile.
DY: How would you answer your own question?
WB HaLeiVi!
Your question, effectively, is does a Ger have a bashert. And the answer, of course, is yes. When someone becomes a Ger they become, at that time, a “newborn”. And like any newborn, they have a bashert.
No different than from 30 years ago when you’d receive a dozen tzedaka letters in the mail every week.
laskern: Vien and Chasan Sofer, despite being Oberlanders, have become much more Chasidic over recent decades. If I’m not mistaken, both of them have switched to Nuach Sefard.
How do you account for this?
Is the concern with Sefaria’s translation or also with the original Hebrew text?
Why do non-religious people have an interest in participating or owning this?
It’s legal to take pictures of people on public property.
But this is a nutty idea. Nothing will come of the pictures anyways. I doubt anyone will even be taking them.
laskern: You’re an Oberlander or are you an Unterlander?
It seems ever since the Chasam Sofer (ein chodesh etc.), Hungarian Yidden have one of the most intense forms of Avoda in Yiddishkeit.
Yabia: The Khazars lived in a Sefardic geographical area. Additionally, they were kosher Jews. In any event, the idea that they represent most of either Sephardim or Ashkenazim is an anti-Semitic idea. They were melted into wherever (Sephardim, Ashkenazim) as a tiny proportion.
The Ashkenazim came from Eretz Yisroel to France/Germany while the Sephardim came from Bavel to Spain/Portugal.
Because language naturally and rightfully evolves. Any language, that is.
1. We already start marrying late. We should aim to lower the age of marriage closer to Chazal’s recommendation to be married by 18.
2. A thousand years ago people lived into their 60s, on average.
3. In Eastern Europe before WWII, the average frum family had about 10 or more children.
4. Chas V’Shalom to broach the idea of population control in order to reduce high school sizes or town size, R”L.
laskern: Why did you leave then? Did most of the remaining frum community leave at that time as well?
Depends which Mishna you’re dealing with and when it was written. Some were written while the Beis Hamikdash stood while others were written many years after the churban.
What does wearing a white yarmulka show affiliation with? Some of the old timers wear white.
Does anyone know when the last frum Yidden from the prewar Orthodox community in Hungary left Hungary? There were relatively large numbers of Orthodox Jews still living in Hungary at least as late as 1956. But at some point after the ’56 anti-Soviet uprising it seems the vast majority of frum Yidden in Hungary left (mostly to the United States and Israel.)
Are Hungarian Yidden largely responsible for the ostentatiousness in Klal Yisroel?
What about Otzar Hachochma or Bar-Illan?
The Mishna may have been compiled at a certain point and time, but it was written spread out over hundreds of years prior.
Catch Yourself: How did they do it accidentally?
Gamanit: See the Washington Post article I referenced above (two years ago.)
From a halachic perspective, do we say the child brought up as Irish is Jewish and the one brought up as Jewish is non-Jewish? If they had been female, would that have affected the respective Jewish-status of their offspring, even though the error only came to light 100 years later?
Yabia: What types of material represents what type of crowd/affiliation among Sephardim today?
Yabia: Where go you get your information to claim it was only in the 1600s that the Ashkenazic population became larger than the Sefardic? Even today, after the Ashkenazim just suffered a Holocaust, worldwide Jewry is numerically much more Ashkenazim.
In any event, go to any fully stocked Beis Medrash, even a Sefardic one, and simply count the number of mechaber seforim published after the generation that lived in Spain/Portugal totaling each from the Ashkenazim and from the Sephardim.
There’s only the real McCoy.
For Sefardim it may be newer, since many Sephardim didn’t wear a yarmulka the whole day. Some frum Sephardim don’t even today.
Regarding velvet, that’s the historical background.
Velvet isn’t per se “frummer”, but the frummer tend to wear velvet. It was the original default yarmulka. The other types of yarmulkas, i.e. kipa sruga etc., came later originally by people who wanted to effectively make a statement that they’re not like those frummies wearing velvet.
LOT11210: In Europe you won’t find Hungarian or Polish on chareidish matzeivos. Loshon Kodesh only. Not even secular dates or years. America was more modern, especially prewar America before the Chareidim came here in numbers.
Also see laskern’s excellent points on this.
Meanwhile, for the last 500 years it has been Ashkenazim, as a result of this “meshugasim”, have been much much more successful in keeping the Torah flame burning and producing countless gedolei rabbonim and talmidei chachomim. Far far in excess of that seen outside the Ashkenazic world for the past half a millennium.
The meshugasim are working.
“They couldn’t use them in an area with a shoplifting problem. It’s basically the honor system.”
The extra losses from shoplifting is much more than offset by the reduced labor costs.
English on matzeivas is very modernish.
Yes.
Me.
Yabia, after the Inquisiton in 1492, Sefardic mesorah began to change radically integrating with the people where they moved to. Also since 1492 Torah leadership of Jewry was effectively led by vastly numerically greater Gedolim of the Ashkenazic world. No one is saying the Sefardic world had no Gedolim since then, of course, but overall the leadership called from the Ashkenazic world.
After the Sefardim left their countries of origin in the aftermath of WWII, they basically followed the leadership of the Ashkenazic Gedolim in Eretz Yisroel to rebuild their Torah world. Hence the Sephardim adopting the Ashkenazic form of dress (both Rabbinic and lay), going to Ashkenazic yeshivos (including most Sefardic rabbonim when they were younger), etc.