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laskern: Why girls more than boys?
Neville: Nusach Sephard is based on (and largely composed by) the Arizal.
A new Election 2018 thread appeared this morning and then disappeared after an update I posted based on additional election results. Is this an error? Thanks
Just wanted to make sure you’re paying attention. It’s back now
The Coffee Room software is buggy.
In a midterm it is natural for the president’s party to lose seats. Almost always.
I think they’re restricted by law from making endorsements.
Predicting elections is about as accurate as flipping a coin. You have a 50% chance of getting it right even if you know nothing. If you get it right you can boast about it for four years. Otherwise you don’t mention it again and everyone moves on.
Daas Torah is Emunas Chachomim.
Every day I ask my Rov shlita what to eat for breakfast that morning.
You have to know how to fine tune the verbiage to pass muster.
The employee doesn’t have to sign the agreement; alternatively he can choose to not work there. That said, I’ve never seen an employee agreement (outside Israel) that specifies a Beis Din in advance. It probably exists but is likely quite rare in the U.S.
Yabia: Sephardim also have kanoim like Pinchas who will stick a dagger into someone who befarhesia stampedes against Torah law.
Yabia:
So don’t agree or sign an agreement to use that Beis Din.
Takes2: You have no idea what you’re talking about. Rav Dovid and Rav Aharon are almost always on the same page, more than anyone else in fact. Indeed, it was Rav Aharon who brought Rav Dovid unto the Moetzes.
Make sure you check out who a Beis Din is, and any potential conflict of interests, before you agree to use that Beis Din.
Toi: Rav Miller shlita is considered to be one of the biggest kanoim as well.
On the Moetzes Rav Aharon, Rav Dovid, Rav Wachtfogel, Rav Feldman and Rav Kotler are generally on the same page with each other.
Apparently this world be a close approximation of which paper is closest to which party:
Hamodia – Agudas Yisroel
Yated – Degel
Lehovin – Peleg/Bnei Torah
Jewish Press – Religious Zionists/MOToi: Foremost posek doesn’t always make one the foremost godol hador. Rav Shteinman wasn’t the foremost posek but was the foremost godol.
Rav Moshe paskens that today in communities that do not have a single Beis Din that has authority over the entire community (which includes the vast majority of non-Chasidish communities around the world) either party has the right to insist on using a zabla Beis Din where each party to the dispute chooses one Dayan and the two chosen Dayanim choose the third Dayan.
In general when the plaintiff opens a Beis Din case he can utilize any Beis Din to file it with against the defendant. But once the defendant gets the hazmana he can respond to it and state he’s choosing a different Beis Din to adjudicate the case.
Of course if both parties had agreed in advance before their transaction that they’ll use such-and-such Beis Din in case there’s a dispute, they’re bound to stick to using that Beis Din. But I don’t see how any frum company can force you to sign such an agreement in advance. You can always refuse to agree to that before you do business with them or if necessary choose to do business with another company.
Uncle Ben: Sometimes they issue a statement. Generally they don’t make it public. But even when they don’t some folks are usually privy to it nevertheless.
Toi: Rav Aharon added Rav Dovid to the Moetzes and Rav Dovid generally aligns with Rav Aharon (who apparently is the most powerful voice) on it.
Skulener Rebbe.
1: And I said that your question isn’t even a question in the absence of absolute unassailable proof. Otherwise it’s just your speculation or hypothesis or assumption. We don’t hang or fire Yidden for that.
1: What’s your absolute unassailable proof that he’s dishonest?
Chazal forbade Gezel Akum.
The death penalty only fully works if it is automatic. Not up to a jury or judge. Rather once he’s convicted of murder the sentence is automatically death. The court should only decide upon guilt or innocence, not upon the sentence.
Even Texas only executes a tiny portion of their murderers. If all 50 states automatically executed every convicted murderer (upon the exhaustion of his appeals, which itself must be done swiftly) the murder rate in the United States would drop percipitously. This has never occurred yet since the death penalty has only been applied selectively.
That said, the death penalty should be applied for reasons of justice, not merely determent.
Rav Moshe zt’l petitioned New York State Governor Mario Cuomo to reinstate the death penalty in New York. It is in the Igros Moshe.
Halacha prohibits a Yid from going after another Yid’s job to take it away from him. There’s no exception to this Halacha regarding elected positions.
There most certainly are Gedolei HaDor today in America.
Rashi’s daughters did not wear tefilin or tzitzis. It is a bubbe maaisa (pardon the pun) that originated relatively not that long ago in some fables tales.
DMB: Once you’ve earned your Ph.D in physics, you’ll understand
The issue is the president is falsely accused of supporting them. He needn’t denounce every group his political opponents and media haters demand he denounce based on their false insinuations of his support.
Are you making the argument that “all Nazis aren’t bad”?!
Avram, suspecting President Trump of the type of wink wink anti-Semitism you describe by implication without explicitness is absurd given Trump’s proven track record both long before he ran for office as well as since he’s been in office of being an overt Oheiv Yisroel who has a consistent record of taking action, not just words, in support of Jewish causes.
This is not to even mention his supportivness of his daughter’s Jewish conversion and supportivness of his Jewish son in law in business and in office. Or his father’s track record supporting Jewish causes.
When Moshiach comes there will be an accounting much like when 80% of the Jews were left behind in Egypt rather than being redeemed during Yetzias Mitzrayim.