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TLIK: Halachicly Goyim do not have to follow halachic process of evidence, etc, when trying their own. But halachicly except in very exceptional cases, as noted, the Goyim do not have jurisdiction to judge Yidden. Even if they assert they do with their laws.
iac: A) Most insurance plans contractually do not allow doctors to waive co-pays and deductables and B) Medicaid doesn’t have co-pays or deductables altogether (at least in NY, where the OP is asking about), so waiving them doesn’t help Medicaid patients.
I remember in the early days of the CR some of the posters posting left-wing garbage while claiming to be frum were found posting on Shabbos. One guy when busted claimed he was in Hong Kong, which was about the only place it wasn’t Shabbos at the time of his post. Unfortunately for him the mods pointed out he posted from a NJ IP Address.
DY: Sell him as an indentured servant.
TLIK: Halacha and S”A, by far, treat the situations where it is permitted to report to secular authorities as exceptional times representing a fringe minority of circumstances whereas the prohibition of mesira being applicable in the vast majority of times and situations. You, otoh, talk about it being applied across the board and minimize the issur of mesira with comments like regarding various white collar crimes “when this would be debated among poskim”. Err, no, if a yid bounces a very large check to you, as bad as he may be even if he did it intentionally and refuses to pay up, there’s not even a hava amina in the S”A or poskim that you might have a heter to press criminal charges against him.
GHadorah: Good post.
Whereas apples keep the doctor away, cookies keep the doctors busy.
Definitely Pence ’24. Haley can be his secretary.
Yes, Syag. I appreciate your being dan lkaf zchus.
Homeless people are potentially eligible for jury duty, especially if they have a mailing address such as a PO Box. Shikurim are certainly not ineligible and many in fact unquestionably serve on juries. Virtually any low life is eligible to serve on juries and as long as they’re over 18 and weren’t convicted of a crime they can and do serve on juries.
Imagine that. 12 potential shikurim being paid $15/day. Those that couldn’t finagle their way out of jury duty or those that $15/day is a good day’s pay for them or those trying to wrap up the case ASAP so that they can get back to their real jobs paying more than $15/day, deciding the life of a potentially innocent man in a system that has a 97% conviction rate that can literally send people to jail for decades.
Every day we hear more stories of people getting out of jail after finally being proven innocent after spending decades imprisoned on a false conviction.
You trust such a corrupt system?!
TLIK, do you care to share your understanding of the applicability of the halachos of mesira and pidyon shvuyim? I mean according to how the Shulchan Aruch rules, not according to how you’d have written the Shulchan Aruch. Because the S”A is in conflict with your explanation. According to you, unlike according to the Mechaber and other Rishonim and Achronim, mesira and pidyon shvuyim has been repealed from Halacha in the modern 21st century Western world and have been effectively rendered null and void and inapplicable.
Furthermore, even if he were guilty (which he isn’t and it is impermissible to believe — see above), Halacha does not provide for jailing as a punishment for crimes. As such there is further imperative to engage in pidyon shvuyim to save him for the unjust punishment.
A non-Jewish court conviction has no validity in Halacha and the Yid remains as innocent in the eyes of the Torah as he was before he was accused.
Aside from the standards of acceptable proofs of evidence being much lower in non-Jewish courts than in halachic courts, oftentimes what the accusations entail aren’t even crimes under Halacha.
And that’s before even getting into the point of taking 12 people off the street, who can easily constitute drunkards, homeless, unemployeds, people rushing to get done with the case paying them $45/day while they’re losing their salary, to decide the guilt of the accused. And prosecutors and judges looking to convict not because of actual guilt but so that the DA or judge can get re-elected and enhance their political career as being tough on crime.
Plagarize someone’s valedictorian speech from the internet. No seminary will know the difference.
The first topic was skipped as the CR went straight to the second topic. (Kinda similar to how every Mesechte starts with Daf Beis instead of Aleph.)
In your first example it seems he’d be halachicly obligated to give a divorce. Clearly he should give it. And if he doesn’t and Halacha permits coercion then he should be coerced.
Your second example is a bit vague. Halacha has situations where he must give it and can be coerced if he does not. Halacha has other situations where he’s halachicly obligated to give it but the Beis Din is halachicly prohibited from applying coercion. In such a case he’s a rasha if he fails to give it even though the rabbonim cannot apply pressure and can do no more than tell him to. Then there are cases where (Chazal and) Shulchan Aruch say he does not have to give a divorce his wife is asking for and B”D is to tell her to return to his home and their marriage. Chazal, the Mechaber and others enumerate such situations.
No lack of sympathy was expressed. Criticism was expressed for those that exert pressure for a divorce in situations where Halacha and S”A rule that one needn’t be given and pressure is kneged halacha. And when the term aguna is inapplicable even though it is bandied about to create secular pressures that are a severe violation of manifold halachos.
An aguna is defined in Halacha as a wife whose husband was lost at war or at sea and his whereabouts and whether he’s alive is unknown. There is a lot of halachic literature on this.
These days the term has been hijacked for political purposes to often refer to wives who want a divorce, and their husband does not want to divorce, even when the wife is halachicly not entitled to a divorce.
TLIK, how are you in a position to know better than them that it may be appropriate in Eretz Yisroel but not in America? Perhaps your assessment about America is wrong and theirs is right?
Freddyfish, you sound like you’re on it.
Sounds like James Carville and Mary Matalin. What usually happens if the marriage lasts is that the wife slowly but surely changes her views to be less disagreeable with her husband and is no longer as publicly outspoken expressing her premarital views. Like what occurred with Matalin.
Haleivi: which side of the issue did the podcast host take?
The podcast sometimes has real rabbonim on the show (I think he gets them on by making a donation to their mosdos) and sometimes he has on the show clowns who use the title rabbi.
The kid looked like he didn’t know what the meshugana was saying. The kid didn’t start crying.
What happened?
RY23: “What?”
Uncle Ben: “Translation please.”סוג זה של תחרה רחב תחרה נראה די הגיוני וזה שיער אדם פאות
עשוי מסרטים מעולה חומר קבלת פאות לנשים שחורות
מראה ייחודי. לא רק זה נותן כל דמות טבעית שיער אדם פאות
זה להעיף מבט אופנתי על הפנים. השיער שלך עם פאה זה בדרך כלל אפשרי כי זה יכול להיות פיתוח מתוך השיער הנותר ופיזור דומה פאות לנשים שחורות
. כמה יצרנים כרגע מנסים להפוך את הסרטים שלהם למעלה אמיתי שיער אדם שיער חתיכות סבירים כדי להבטיח נשים הדורשות זה עשוי למצוא את הכסף כדי לקבל את זה.
בכל פעם אלה חתיכות שיער נוטים להיות לעשות שימוש בדרך האופטימלית, זה יהיה באמת לתת לך פאות אורגני לנשים
תראה. מסיבה זו זה יהיה חשוב לגבי הלקוחות לדעת את דפוסי כמה בהתחשב כי hairpieces הם בדרך כלל תקועים סביב קו השיער הטבעי כולו והוא יכול שיער אדם פאות
גם דבק ישירות לתוך הקצה עם שיער מתולתל.Rivash 251 and Beis Yosef DH v’Nir’eh: Beis Din can punish according to the needs of the time, even without proper testimony. However, we are more apt to punish when there is greater testimony. We would cause a murderer to die (by locking him in a cell – Sanhedrin 81b) when there was not sufficient testimony against him. Some say that this is when the witnesses did not see each other, or there was no warning, or the witnesses disagreed about minor details. No one says that we do so based on one witness or women or Pesulim.
Call the Yeshiva’s main office and ask for the number.
Hadorah: Your sechel is insufficient to replace Halacha.
ZD, NASI doesn’t charge money.
Haimy: Specifically what histadlus do you think will help towards fixing this problem you described in your last comment?
Mentsch1: My idea doesn’t require pre-approval from your existing spouse(s). So you needn’t accept her conditions. 😉
“Litvasher-Chasddisha? A litvashe girl wants a husband like her father-home on Shabbasim, close to his daughters as well as his sons, and also his wife. And so many other differences, which can’t be mentioned here. The girl will be very sad and lonely. Here in E.Y. we hardly see such “mixed” marriages. And there are so many older Chasidisher boys, it’s really too bad.”
So the Chasidish boys are going to become alte bochors and the Litvish girls will become old maids because they’d rather be alone all their life than marry a Chasidish boy or a Litvish girl?
Why would it be more of an issue than a Yeshiva guy walking in the street with his wife?
Winnie, I agree with you. Which is why I think the proposed solution in my first comment above, implemented in a limited and regulated way, may be the only real solution.
ZD: How would *you* have presented this message?
Takes2: In NY the legal age to marry is 16.
Winnie, Chareidi Israeli native girls learn English in Beis Yaakovs?
It may be that the only likely solution to fix the problem is again permitting polygamy in the Ashkenazic community.
Chazal answer this question:
Shemona Esre L’Chuppa.
“What about minhag hamakom?”
Yidden are Yidden not Romans.
Because they’re anti-Semitic/anti-Chareidi.
Why cows over cats and dogs?
How are dead animals bad for the environment?
Neville, a huge portion of baalebatim go by the second sefira.
Hadorah: Apparently those bugs got to you. 😉
Agreed with the OP, RY23.
If pigs can be killed and eaten then cats, dogs and horses are no better.
“The consulate in Jerusalem provides services for residents of Jerusalem and the West Bank only.”
Winnie, presumably you’re referring to Israeli non-Americans in that regard. (i.e. for Visas.) American citizens should be able to use the consulate in Jerusalem regardless of where they live. Indeed, American visitor don’t live in Israel altogether; but even if they do it shouldn’t matter which consulate they use.
Hadorah: You’ve been drinking spiked Kool Aid. Yeshivos and mosdos have absolutely not increased women teachers in boys yeshivas; au contraire. Some of the few that had it years ago no longer do. And men have not been secular studies teachers in Beis Yaakovs and still aren’t.
They want to avoid Yichud problems. It’s assur for a man and woman to work alone together. Hence the correctness in hiring only a specific gender,
Hello Joseph–can you please elaborate on who precisely are the Zionists you are referring to? Is it all political parties, Likud only, Labor only, etc.
Eli, the ones in the government, knesset, military, draft offices, universities, television, newspapers, immigration absorption personnel, etc.
Avi, what can I tell you. I suppose you see that Rav Moshe Feinstein, Rav Ahraon Kotler, the Chofetz Chaim and most of Chazal themselves were like someone who has no god and were able to do a”z in purity.
TLIK: If a case c”v occurrs that the above Rambam refers to, you will support the father in being pattur?
Yes or No question, TLIK. No fancy non-answer. The question is regarding a case that that Rambam describes. And please don’t finagle that it can’t happen; the Rambam gave this Psak as Halacha L`Maaisa.
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