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Some generalizations are accurate.
Mammele: The marriage law there was changed in both 2015 and 2017.
You can’t expect any country to assume law breaking based solely on media reports from their foreign enemies who have a history of peddling exaggeration and falsehood.
CTL, what did your sons do after having been a guest at the same home so many times?
First explain the difference between special relativity versus general relativity, and then you’ll understand the answer to your question.
You’re absolutely correct, Avi. Liberals and Democrats accusing their opponents, Republicans, conservatives and others who oppose their leftist positions of anti-Semitism is a farce.
Liberals, especially liberal Jews, are the reason real Anti-Semites are able to shrug off accurate accusations of anti-Semitism due to liberals misuse by making false such accusations for political purposes and gain.
Syag, here are some possibilities:
1. The “facts” reported in the article includes a lot of fiction, including ages and actions.
2. The father approves of his child’s activities and has custody under Guatemalan law.
3. Guatamalan law deems marriage at the ages of the couple to be legal and doesn’t deem any of the actual (not reported) activities of any parties to be illegal.
Rav Moshe writes (Igros Moshe O.C. I #33) that anyone who has even simply seen or heard about religious Jews or the Torah is not considered to be a tinok shenishba.
Rav Moshe zt’l defines tinok shenishba the way I described above.
When our family stays over at the CTL compound, we always leave an antique as a gift in a show of appreciation. By now they have an entire antique collection. One day when the collection had already served its purpose the CTL family will consign the valuables to Sotheby’s and donate the funds raised at auction to their favorite Jewish charity.
To be a tinok shenishba a person has to be totally and completely unaware of Judaism.
Toi: This week’s issue of Lehovin had a picture of Rav Chaim shlita and news from him.A few weeks ago it had the same about Rav Aharon Leib zt’l. These are just two of many examples. You’re completely incorrect about it being limited to only certain rabbonim.
And my earlier point about Rav Aharon shlita is accurate. When Peleg split from Degel there was a movement among American rabbonim to take one side regarding the dispute in Israel. Rav Ahron singlehandedly insured that the American Gedolim did not take any sides and continued honoring both sides in Israel as Gedolei Yisroel. It is almost an exact replica of what IITFT related regarding the story of Rav Pam zt’l having insured the American Gedolim didn’t take a side when the Degel rabbonim broke off from the Agudah and formed their own Moetzes, newspaper and political party. In both cases (decades ago during Rav Pam’s time and a few years ago under Rav Aharon) those pushing to take one side wanted to side with Degel. And both times, in the end, the Gedolim in chutz l’aaretz continued to equally honor both sides in the disagreement in Eretz Yisroel without siding with one over the other.
Doctors also sometimes lead people to kill.
I republish my editorials from The Vues in it.
Randomex: Do you have evidence that this new paper is associated with any political entity?
Would you ascribe the U.S. Yated as being affiliated with Degel and the U.S. Hamodia as being affiliated with the Agudah?
There ought to be a law outlawing all social media services, from treifbook to gab.
IITFT: Another interesting tidbit regarding your historical account of how Maran HaGoen HaRav Pam zt’l prevented an American split following the Degel splitting off from the Agudah in Israel, HaGoen HaRav Aharon Schechter shlit”a prevented a similar American split in the past decade when Peleg split off from the Degel in Israel.
CTL: Shhhhhhh, privacy!
IITFT: Fair enough. So even according to your opinion Lehovin is no better or worse than Hamodia. Both Hamodia and Lehovin simply added another Jewish newspaper where one already previously existed.
As far as Hamodia vs. Yated is concerned, I’d probably argue that in reality Yated is the breakaway even in the U.S. since Hamodia started much earlier in Eretz Yisroel and Europe while Yated came much later as the official paper of the breakaway Degel movement, even though they branched off with a special US edition first.
apy: What do you do with the unsolicited FJJ thrown at your door? Consistent with your first comment above about unsolicited materials left at the door?
IITFT: This is a newspaper not a political party or community group. So your comparison is completely off.
If you’re concerned about their being another newspaper, you should be just as upset that there’s a Yated when we already have a Hamodia. After all, your argument is against another branch. Yated represents the Degel breakoff from the Agudah (which is represented by Hamodia) and yet Degel/Yated publishes in the United States despite your insistence otherwise.
Geordie: I’m all for repealing the 2nd Amendment.
CTL, can we let the oilem in on our little secret and tell them about your sweat shop, err suit shop, in Boro Park?
The FJJ has more paper waste for that purpose.
I don’t carry an expectation that my guests should thank me in any way.
This must be the first time in CR history that a question was officially withdrawn.
The modification needed on the First Amendment is the elimination of special perfection for the press. The media should be treated no differently or preferentially than any 18 year old blogger or social media poster.
And if the press publishes national security secrets leaked to them by a traitor in the government, the government employee who illegal leaked the secrets along with the reporter and all his editors should all be prosecuted and imprisoned together.
Now that’s a First Amendment (partial) repeal worth supporting. Now let’s start lobbying Congress for this Constitutional Amendment.
This week’s issue was very interesting.
1. The citizens of Lakewood out of their own free volition and choice decided to follow the vote recommendations of the Vaad. As American citizens that is their right to do, your criticism notwithstanding.
2. A bloc vote is very powerful when virtually the entire community votes together in sync. This is demonstrated by various Chasidish kehilos who carry great political weight, far beyond their numbers, due to their disciplined bloc vote.
3. The citizenry of Lakewood is very happy with the enormous population growth קײן עין־הרע of the frum community in Lakewood and the requisite housing and building boom that comes with it. This is easily demonstrable by their consistent re-electing the very public servants who enacted the regulations allowing this growth.
סוף כל סוף we need to say an enormous ברוך השם!
The American dating system isn’t wrong per se, given the unfortunate circumstances we live in during golus, yeridos hadoros and the madreiga the klal here is standing at, but the Eretz Yisroel system is a greater ideal and standard.
Yseribus: Do you have a shred of evidence that it was done by anytime associated with the right or holds rightward views?
If not, do you equally denounce the mainstream media for implying or associating it with the right?
Welcome Back Charlie Hall!
Is Facebook taking up the time you used to spend here? Or are you unto the next mesechta in Yerushalmi?
It has been devasting or destructive for a very large portion of lottery jackpot winners.
CTL and Amil: Permit me please to repeat what I wrote above to Winnie:
Notice my above comment referencing “the *traditional* goyish way of dating.” Meaning, when the American yeshivish dating system was inaugurated in America, decent goyim would typically go to the girl’s home to pick her up for the date.
I am aware that the goyim have degenerated since then, as you pointed out, where today that system has mostly gone into the trash and replacing it is a system where they date for fun (as you mentioned) and worse rather than for marriage with the parents mostly having been kicked out of the equation.
It’s time to move back into small homes, stop dining out, do away with fancy vacations and be happy with little things instead of big things.
RY23: No it isn’t.
ChadGadya. The Halacha of kana’im pog’im bo is certainly alive and in effect today and it is a mitzvah to carry out today, including in the hypothetical example you gave.
ubiq: You’re Chasidish and this thread is dealing with the Yeshivish system.
In what way does YTV differ from BMG or MYRCB? In whatever ways they differ it surely is closer to those two yeshivos than it is to RIETS.
CS: How would you explain the difference between saying that Yishai Schlisel did an act of Pinchas versus saying that Yishai Schlisel is like Pinchas?
Meno, is it your contention that the Yidden in Eretz Yisroel today (let alone all the doros and doros of Yidden before America) don’t respect women?
Winnie: Notice my above comment referencing “the traditional goyish way of dating.” Meaning, when the American yeshivish dating system was inaugurated in America, decent goyim would typically go to the girl’s home to pick her up for the date.
What you described about Israeli yeshivish dates meeting by someone else’s apartment (grandparents, shadchan, etc.) sounds closer to the Chasidish dating system than to the American yeshivish dating system.
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That’s a brave position to say, CS, since the liberals (including the ones who self-identify as Orthodox) are sure to attack anyone expressing it. Bravo.
RY23: I’d still like to hear your short version, please.
Phil: False, again. Sima suggested the Chasidish system is better. I replied that it is ideal but realistically we need to deal with the fact that most people don’t use that shidduch system. At no point had I suggested it sinful, as you falsely attributed, to not use that system.
DY, if you want to have folks answer your posts, let alone get the masses of replies my comments engender, instead of you starting a new thread and then pathetically waiting over 10 hours with no replies before you finally answer your own OP out of desperation, you should take lessons from the master, *cough* *cough*, and follow in his proven ways.
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iac: That sounds like a beshow.
takah: I take it your family follows the aforementioned way it’s done in Eretz Yisroel.
RY23: Why/how so?
CS: The American way is a pretty close copy of the traditional goyish way of dating.
Shopping: In America, unlike Eretz Yisroel, if the guy doesn’t have a car then he’ll rent a car for the date or otherwise procure a car specially for the date.
GH: The way it’s done in America is relatively new to the frum community. There aren’t any historical precedents for it in the frum community over a hundred years ago.
Meno: How might you think that the system in Eretz Yisroel *is* in any way adopted from the goyim?
Phil: That’s false. I’ve never said that or anything resembling that.
Venture Capital.
Perhaps it’s a Lubavitcher minhag to purchase a lottery ticket, but that doesn’t relate to other kehilos.
laskern: You also have no control over picking the correct numbers on the ticket you buy. So the point is the same buying or finding/gifting.
CS, your point is to compare Pinchas to Yishai?