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“The overwhelming majority of American Ashkenazim seem to keep first sfirah.”
This point isn’t accurate at all.
“intermarriage amonst the US Orthodox is highest in the world”
What Kool-Aid are you drinking? The intermarriage rate among the US Orthodox is close to zero.
TGI: The Jews in France, UK and Germany experience less physical violence than the Jews in the State of Israel.
Avi, Germany was the worst place ruchniyos-wise in Europe for Jews. But despite all the points you mentioned, prewar America was much worse than virtually any place in Europe. For a frum European Jew to move to America before WWII, there was an undeniably large risk that they — or more likely their children and/or grandchildren –would r”l become OTD; much more likely than in Europe.
“Houses were built differently”
Many houses, and probably most in many areas of large cities, where built before air conditioning was widespread in residences. Including most houses in the biggest Jewish neighborhoods.
To live in Eretz Yisroel one must be ready and willing to live a life of kulei kedusha. And be able to withstand the threats to Yiddishkeit by the Zionists. If one lives in Eretz HaKodesh without the requisite life of kulei kedusha they are setting themselves up to be far worse off ruchniyosdik than living in Chutz La’aretz.
If you follow Minhag Ari HaKodesh then none.
Stolin, Nikelsburg and Veretzky.
And we were happy people despite lacking it.
The Jews who came to America before WWII had a far far higher OTD rate than the Jews who remained in Europe.
Shtender Bender: How did we survive thousands of years without air conditioning, until for most people until less than a hundred years ago, and for many people until less than 50 years ago?
Rambam (Hilchos Rotze’ach 5:5):
וכן האב שהרג את בנו בשגגה גולה על ידו, במה דברים אמורים בשהרגו שלא בשעת לימוד, או שהיה מלמדו אומנות אחרת שאינו צריך לה, אבל אם ייסר את בנו כדי ללמדו תורה או חכמה או אומנות ומת פטור.
Shulchan Aruch Harav:
…וכן מותר להכות בניו הקטנים אפילו שלא בשביל חינוך תורה ומצות אלא כדי להדריכם בדרך ארץ, הואיל ומתכוון לטובתם וטובתם מוטלת עליו, שהם ברשותו … אם אין בניו שומעים בקולו מותר להכותם אפי’ לטובת עצמו ולא לטובתם כי יכול הוא לכופם שישמעו בקולו כמצווה עליהם
There’s a kashrus problem, as anyone working in those kitchens can likely testify.
ZD: So act appropriately.
If Robert wants people to start calling him Bob, he simply tells them and they do so without a big deal usually. So why should Jonathon wanting to now be called Yonason be any harder?
Wolf, may you be zoche to find your zivug hagun b’karov, Amen! 😉
Neshama became Reform.
What’s the big deal? Women, when they get married, often change their name upon marriage. And Corporate America is more than happy to accommodate their change and recognize them by their new name.
David08271977: I was only refuting the point you made in your initial comment regarding children of Jewish mothers and non-Jewish fathers.
K-cup: Your social responsibility does not include imposing your will on others. It does include Live and Let Live. In the case of rebuking someone committing a sin, that is not your will at all, but Hashem’s will.
Live and let live is a very non-Jewish concept. Jews very much must judge the character and others and reject unsavory characters. Tochacha is an obligation not an option and rejecting those who we must reject is an obligation.
David08271977: In order to be from the Davidic line, a Jew must have Jewish paternity directly back to Dovid HaMelech. That would exclude any Jews with non-Jewish grandfathers.
“Appeals Process in Beis Din came from the Goyim”
Incorrect. Butei Dinim today do not have any appeals process they lacked previously or got from the goyim.
ZD, why would you advocate following the goyim’s example? That’s a terrible idea.
TLIK: If George Soros composed a beautiful niggun you’d be okay singing it at the Shabbos table?
“The OP is not talking about just having peyos and tzitzis, but the very public display of them and going beyond the minimum (e.g., long tzitzis, long curly peyos) in a place where that is not common.”
What to one person’s shitta is beyond the minimum, to another person’s shitta isn’t even the bare minimum.
Why should a Yid be embarrassed to unambiguously dress like a Yid in fully Yiddishe clothing and form of dress and appearance when today every goy in some weird, unusual, luny, foreign dress, hairdo, and form of appearance is accepted in America’s largest corporations as a matter of cultural acceptance.
groissechuchum: Are you also angry at Reb Moshe for publicly publishing his Psak in hundreds of tousands of Seforim in Butei Medroshim and homes throughout the world highly criticizing Mr. Carelbach?
“Regarding the elderly… the determining factor is the man not the woman.”
Why would it make a halachic (or practical, for that matter) difference whether the man is 55 or 80?
Benignuman: Rav Moshe’s teshuva about Carlebach is far from a wholehearted endorsement. It is very critical.
Benignuman: Where are you drawing the line between Yichud d’oraisa and Yichud d’rabbanan, how are you treating them differently and what kulos do you know of being dispensed in this area, for example?
What does “easier” mean, here?
Your premises are incorrect.
What’s Bingo have to do with this?
Avi, in addition to Toi’s point, driving (slow or fast) down a quiet road Waze sent you on, or being stuck in barely moving traffic, coming back from the airport after a red eye flight or whatever other reason or place, easily starts out with innocent intentions.
Avi, it’s pretty easy for a driver to quickly or slowly go down a quiet road or pull over.
I thought we were told we must’nt jusdge Holocaust survivors. Does that not include those that became Christian?
Other than a moving vehicle, what other thing is fairly private, travels too quickly for pedestrians and other motorists to really see what’s happening inside another car while it is driving and/or travels on roads and highways that aren’t busy with pedestrians or others.
CA: I never would have thought you daven in a Modern Orthodox shul.
adocs: because in a car or vehicle you’re enclosed in a private room with just you and the passenger.
CTLawyer is the CR’s in-house expert on all things Connecticut.
And a female English teacher for a Yeshiva 12th grade or a male English teacher for a Beis Yaakov 12th grade?
Hair dresser isn’t a religious position.
So you want the Beis Yaakov to be open to hire men Morahs for the elementary and high school. And frum hair dresser and sheitel machers to hire men. And yeshivos to hire women teachers for high school, not to mention women rebbeim for Beis Medrash.
Stop trying to reinvent Judaism to fit Western constructs. Judaism is a monarchy and certainly not a democracy.
iac: $1500 – $2000 combined or each?
Paying shadchanus is a halachic requirement.
I think homemade/storemade food is exempt from the requirement to put an expiration date on.
When you buy fresh fish at the fish store, for example, it usually has no expiration date listed. Or fresh meat at the meat store.
TOL: “I would also like to add, a person with Narcissistic Personality Disorder will not likely go into treatment…. by choice. However, due to things they may do that hurt others, they may end up in mandated treatment.”
What would someone with NPD likely do that violates laws severely enough that a court would force him into a mandatory program?
Over 50% of the traffic in parking lots are from people looking for parking.