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cherrybim: The vast majority of frum Jews who come from a frum yichus have nothing to worry.
WB Goq!
DY: If Rabbi A issues a ruling on an issue no other rabbi addressed, his ruling isn’t universally binding.
You can’t assume anyone disagrees, true, but you can’t assume anyone agrees either, in the absence of them so saying.
I didn’t see anything about Rav Belsky commenting on this issue. But even if he did you can’t assume other poskim who didn’t comment on the issue necessarily agree with him.
“15% went away in the 1980s. 20-25% of the pre tax bill is a proper tip in 2018.”
This is inaccurate. 15% tipping was still commonly recommended in the early 2000s. Then they got greedy and raised the recommended tipping percentage. And they also started about that time to recommend tipping for workers that previously never expected a tip.
“Also if the waiter/Waitress doesnโt do a good job & you feel they donโt deserve a tip or less of a tip you are mechuyav to tell the Waiter/Waitress that you are not tipping them because of their bad service this way they know why you didnโt tip them & would avoid the chillul Hashem.”
That does nothing to reduce the alleged chillul Hashem. The waiter will hate you, or Jews, all the same if not more if you tell him to his face that he provided shoddy service so you’re not tipping him, then if you simply walked out without a tip or a comment.
Furthermore, your idea of telling him why you’re not tipping does nothing to alleviate many of the above reasons given in this thread as to who tipping is allegedly mandatory.
The smoking boys are getting married, so that can’t be it.
IOW, yechiell, in Israel we should go back to turbans.
Someone like Bolton.
He’s too liberal.
“The fact is that waitersโ salaries are based on the assumption that they will be supplemented by tips. This is not the case with other employees.”
Why is the customer responsible for the salary level or compensation level of employees at a business he’s only a consumer at? Logically that’s entirely the responsibility of the business owner, not his customers.
Philosopher: Thank you for your comment. When people call me that (or any other name for that matter) I chuckle and move on to the next comment. It means that the poster has no counter-argument but his heart wants what his head knows is wrong.
FTR, in the other thread my arguments were 100% sincerely held as a matter of Jewish law and life as practiced throughout the ages. (And, no, contrary to your concerns I maltreat no one, not even a fly.) Despite the heated rhetoric in the course of arguing I think you’d even agree my position there was well sourced, and even if you disagree with it you’d have to admit it is a valid, strong and legitimate position, based on Torah sources. I might even yet reply on that thread if there’s something more to add. ๐
I appreciate your sincerity.
Not to many women would want a woman rather than a man to carry her out of a burning building, if G-d forbid that were necessary. And not too many women would want women in the front lines fighting ferocious enemy fighters.
Women shouldn’t be policemen, firemen or in the army altogether. (Or as the PC crowd would put it, police officers and firefighters.)
Wolf: Please do not assume someone broke the law on the basis that he was arrested or even charged.
RY23: Men shouldn’t use female doctors since there are sufficient quality male doctors that it is therefore unnecessarily and unjustified for a man to use a female.
Who’ll insure that the safe deposit box enjoys it.
Many of the Sephardim who moved to the Ashkenazic countries of Europe following the Inquisition, their descendents became Ashkenazic in the centuries that followed. There’s a Chasidic dynasty whose Rebbes shtam from Sephardim. There’s also a famous Sephardi who lived in Poland and immigrated to the British colonies and financed the American revolution.
Rav Moshe has three psakim reiterating not to make a ceremony.
1. Why should you and/or do you care about getting honored by a Yeshiva? Run away from honor.
2. Why do you care who a communal organization endorses? Ask you own Rov who to vote for and vote per his instructions. Not per a press release.
Ashkenazic and Sephardic Kohanim share a DNA profile that non-Kohanim lack.
Tipping is totally optional.
You won’t be taking your jewelry to the next world, so don’t get too attached to it.
Buy low, sell high.
Rav Moshe has a psak assuring making a bas mitzvah affair.
The DNA tests do tell you what purported percent your ancestry is Ashkenazic Jewish.
It depends on my schedule.
Babies should come with a manual.
Ordinary citizen supporters of Republicans should hunt and find scores of women who, with strategic timing before close elections, accuse Democrat senators and congressmen of abusing them 30 years prior. They only need to make their case leaked to the media. And once their are a few accusers per politician, there’s “a credible pattern of abuse”.
That should also put the final nail in the coffin regarding using abuse claims as a political weapon.
Ask ybl”c Rav Chaim shlita directly. What’s so shver?
Mammele: The housing pricing issue is the case for all of Brooklyn’s frum neighborhoods.
The claims against Ted Kennedy are indisputable facts.
Putting2cents: In Flatbush very very few people use the Eruv.
There’s no halachic significance to the unmarked border line between Brooklyn and Queens. What applies to one side of the line also applies to the other side of the artificial line.
iac: Your response has nothing to do with Neville’s question.
Did all Jews move out of Bed-Stuy, East Flatbush or Brownsville?
Did they present both sides equally well and at the same depth?
WB WTP!
“Had this boyโs parents been tested and their mutation carrier status identified, they presumably would not have married and this boy would not have been born. But he has lived 20 something healthy, productive years, presumably bringing his family nachas, doing mitzvos, learning Torah. Should all of that not have happened?”
Excellent point that is not stressed often enough. The same principle applies to when a couple r”l divorces and some people unfortunately express regret over the fact that they ever married, not considering the beautiful Yiddishe children they brought into the world.
How should names be forwarded to you?
Milhouse: On what basis do you assert that the Bnei Sephard do not descend from the Roman Empire whereas Bnei Ashkenaz do?
KotonHadorah: You’re free to lookup every source I provided. If you know how to open a Sefer it is very easy with the very specific citations I kindly provided.
Philosopher, your facts are absolutely incorrect as I’ve repeatedly proven with multitudes and multitudes of Torah sources (with many many more saying the same, if you so care for real actual meforshim, Chazals, Rishonim and Achronims.)
Gut Yur to you and your mishpacha. (And please treat your menfolk in a Torahdik manner.)
P.S. As I’ve answered already above, I mean simply and only exactly what the Shulchan Aruch, Rambam, the Torah itself and the others I’ve quoted, and others that yet remain to be cited stating the same, say. Nothing more and nothing less.
Why did Hashem call a husband his wife’s โืืขืโ in Loshon Kodesh? That means master/boss/etc.
The bottom line is that a bfeirush posek in the Torah HaKedosha clearly tells wives that their husband will rule them. Tehillim adds, as explained by the Menoras Hameโor, that a wife should not view her husband as an equal but rather as her master. The Rambam clearly writes al pi Halacha that a wife should fear her husband and view him as her ruler and king. The Shulchan Aruch paskens that a wife is so subservient to her husband that she no longer has obligations of Kibud Av V’Eim since she must serve her husband instead of her parents. That’s a major chiddush that she’s absolved of one of the Aseres Hadibros, a m’doraisa, on account of her duties to her husband. These are halachos; obligations of hers.
None of this is contradicted or disputed anywhere in any Torah sources, period. And, in fact, we can early find dozens of more meforshim, Rishonim and Achronim all saying the same. And that, despite 21st century Western values, is the bottom line as far as Jews are concerned. I mean them all in the same context the poskim and meforshim said them; I merely cited them as close to verbatim as I could.
How else do you explain why a wife’s obligation of Kibud Av V’Eim is eliminated whereas a husband’s obligation of Kibud Av V’Eim is not eliminated? Or that Rambam, Menoras Hameโor, Ben Yehoyoda, and numerous numerous other poskim and meforshim rule that a wife must view her husband as her king/ruler/master while not reciprocating that all encompasing obligation from him to her. And that no poskim disagree with these halachic rulings. Yes, they very much mean she must do her husband’s bidding. Rambam says this very explicitly. And how else do you explain that in Loshon Kodesh the very word for a husband is “ืืขืื”!
No one is saying or ever said that a husband doesn’t have duties to his wife. But they are not equal. So please stop adding that red herring. One is subservient and the other is not, despite as objectionable that concept sounds to contemporary Western ears. Slavery also it’s objectionable to modern people yet is very much supported, and rightly so, as a Torah value.
And the aforementioned poskim and meforshim do cite the pesukim in Bereishus that I cited as the basis for these halachic obligations. (No, not merely a curse.)
To summarize, after we’ve been going in circles, wishing both ChabadShlucha and Philosopher, as well as all my many fans, admirers, plain readers and observers as well as my detractors, a happy, healthy and ruchniyos good year and ah gutte kvittel. And with the womenfolk happily accepting their proper subservient role in life and the menfolk treating their wives and children as a Yid is expected to with the utmost love and respect bringing up Yiddishe doiros in the derech as our zeidas and bubbes have for thousands of years. (Not as slaves of 21st century goyishe values.)
Ah gutte kvittel!
Philosopher: My previous comment was addressed to CS, not to you. See the very first word in the post. Secondly, you don’t provide sources because none exist, so you have none to provide even if you wanted to. See the thread I linked to in my last post titled “Women’s Bina Yeseira”. It provides many actual Torah sources that contradict what you’re claiming without sources. Especially the canard that any legitimate Torah source says that women are spiritually superior. Again, see the thread I linked to refuting that canard. My arguments in this discussion about subservience is the *only* one supported by the Torah and Torah sources. Thirdly, I very much appreciate your kind words regarding my comment in the other thread we mutually posted in. Fourthly, as difficult as it may be to believe, I completely love every poster here (excluding heretics, which applies to no one in the current discussion), including those who vociferously and strongly take issue with my comments, as complete brothers and sisters.
And fifthly, I am correct about what we are arguing about here. ๐
P.S. If you think I am mistranslating anything you are free to easily look it up with the very specific and direct citations I kindly provided. You will then find otherwise.
Avi, since he surely held these and other heretical views at the time he purported to convert, his conversion is invalid on that basis alone. Furthermore, since his so-called conversion was conducted by other like-minded heretics in the groups that he associates with, that is an additional reason it is invalid.
It is no different than a Reform or Conservative conversion.
Any one of the President or the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General can end the probe or fire Mueller.
CS: You’re contradicting the Torah. I brought you numerous Torah sources which all say the same thing. You’ve brought a grand total of zero Torah sources that contradict even one thing in any of the numerous Torah sources I cited. Zero, zilch, nada. All I did was cite the Torah and explicit Torah sources. You’re telling us that your bubbe heard a maaisa that somewhere is some rabbonic source that you can’t quote, or done remember where, it says the opposite. Well, I’m challenging you to directly quote <b>verbatim</b> what it says and where it says it. Because you can’t. And the reason you can’t is because it doesn’t exist.
You’ve been influenced by 21st century Western goyishe values. Without those values you wouldn’t have gotten all bent out of shape by simply having the aforementioned Torah sources cited to you.
But, yes, go ahead and bring down specific Torah sources from the Rishonim or Achronim about bina yeseira, women being smarter, or whatever else you think or imagine that they say. I’m not sure why you’re harping on this superior point. No one said anything about being superior. The only point made is that the Torah says women are subservient. And the point was made directly citing numerous Torah sources. It is mentioned directly in the Torah, Chazal and ruled as Halacha by Shulchan Aruch. There are no dissenting or opposing views, period. Nowhere in the Torah or in Torah sources.
Are you similarly bothered when it is mentioned that Yisroelim are subservient to Kohanim?
Bereishus:
ืื ืึถืึพืึธึฝืึดืฉึผืึธึฃื ืึธืึทึืจ ืึทืจึฐืึผึธึคื ืึทืจึฐืึผึถืึ ืขึดืฆึผึฐืืึนื ึตึฃืึฐ ืึฐืึตึฝืจึนื ึตึืึฐ ืึผึฐืขึถึืฆึถื ืชึผึตึฝืึฐืึดึฃื ืึธื ึดึืื ืึฐืึถืึพืึดืืฉืึตืึฐึ ืชึผึฐืฉืึฃืึผืงึธืชึตึืึฐ ืึฐืึืึผื ืึดืึฐืฉืึธืึพืึผึธึฝืึฐ:Shulchan Aruch:
ืืื ืืืืฉ ืืืื ืืืฉื ืฉืืื ืืืืื ืืืืืจื ืฉื ืื ืืื ืืื ืฉืืืฉื ืืื ืืืื ืืขืฉืืช ืฉืืื ืืฉืืขืืืช ืืืขืื ืืคืืื ืืื ืคืืืจื ืืืืื ืื ืืื ืืขืืื ื ืฉืืื ืืื ื ืชืืจืฉื ืื ื ืชืืืื ื ืืืืืช:Kibud Av V’Eim is one of the Aseres Hadibros. One of the absolutely core obligations of every Jew. A basic tenet of our very being. Yet a wife is halachicly absolved of one of the very Ten Commandments because her obligation to serve her husband takes precedence over her obligation to serve her parents. The reverse is not the case for a husband, whose obligation of Kibud Av V’Eim takes precedence over his obligations to his wife.
Halacha doesn’t care which side of the Brooklyn-Queens border the eiruv is. Halacha doesn’t differentiate whether an eiruv is in Brooklyn or whether it is in Queens.
The difference is not based on artificial local intracity borders set by a government. Both are part of the same city. And the border is virtually meaningless.
RY23, if I’m the only one who cares, why has the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah come out with multiple statements against OO/YCT? They too seem to care what those apikorsum are up to.