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There are no Chareidim in the IDF. Only former Chareidim gone bad.
TLIK: If your personal preference of attire happened to be a T-Shirt and jeans, that’s what you’d wear as that would be no different than a white shirt and dark pants?
Which video?
You know the Halacha about the King who interrupts the Yid in middle of Shemona Esrei?
iac: “One of my son’s did attend Mesivta at the main branch in Queens. Today he is in chinuch and only wears white shirts, even on his days off.”
Why does your son only wear white? I thought white was just a mishugas and non-white is just as fine. Why doesn’t your son go to his chinuch job in a blue shirt?
“The CC yeshivas also in general cater from out of town communities and therefore for recruiting reasons allow white shirts as they may scare potential more modern families from getting involved in the yeshiva.”
Are you assuming that families in OOT communities are more modern than in-town families?
1. What is Reiki and similar therapies?
2. Who uses them?
3. I haven’t heard this is a thing in any frum community.
SHY, CS, aww:
What do a) you and b) most Lubavitchers think of Rav Shach zt’l?
And why do you think the better boys felt discouraged from enrolling in a Yeshiva with colored shirts?
SHY: From the previous discussions here I seem to recall that you acknowledged that many of your positions are a minority within Chabad and many of CS’ positions are more in tune with the majority of Lubavitchers.
iac: 1. That was one of the considerations. What were the other considerations? 2. Why was there a “huge” disagreement? 3. Why did the white side win the argument?
“That’s why they need white shirts.”
You’re saying that white is a higher level.
Chofetz Chaim yeshiva in Brooklyn requires white. Brooklyn is held to a higher standard.
Do not wait for a job to start shidduchim or to get married.
LC, did you look inside? The Seforim HaKedoshim say they shouldn’t see each other even if they’re in the same town and close by.
Wow, not only am I right, we’ve already identified a potential shidduch just four hours after the OP went live!! After all that worrying about how hard it would be! Mods, can we put the mother of the girl in touch with the bochor?
Schneubs: What I told you in my first response is true.
Ruach Hakodesh.
Don’t worry, you’ll have no problems in shidduchim. The only problem you might have is picking from too many choices looking for you.
mentch1, Do you retract calling it a modern romanticized made-up minhag or would you rather dispute Rav Shach, Rav Moshe, Rav Elyashiv, Rav Shternbuch, Rav Yaakov and the aforementioned Seforim HaKedoshim?
CS, aww, SHY:
1. Why do you attribute all these things to the last Rebbe and not to the Baal HaTanya? Why don’t you address your bakoshos to the Baal HaTanya (or to the Frierdike Rebbe) and hang his picture all over the place like you do the last Rebbe?
2. How does the Rebbe answer your questions that you ask him? Do you get a letter in the mail from Shamayim? How does the Rebbe write letters to Chasanim that are read at Lubavitcher Chupas?
3. Why is there a thing called “Chillul Lubavitch” (and what is it) but we never hear of Chillul Bobov, Chillul Brisk, etc.?
The frum can legitimately argue that most graduates of their institutions go to learn Torah (and pay taxes, but that’s a side point), while most graduates of secular institutions don’t.
Where is the secular gratitude for the frum? Especially for those who engage in Limud Torah full time.
And as stated, the seculars receive far more government monetary benefits.
Phil, that’s factually incorrect. Chareidim receive far less higher education shekels proportion to both their population and in proportion to their taxes than the seculars who receive far far higher government subsidies per student at their universities than the frum receive per student for kollel. That university students receive far more than kollel students is easily verifiable information from Israeli government data and laws.
But lets put aside your mistaken facts and assume you had been correct that Chareidim get more in proportion to the taxes they pay. You could say the exact same point about the poor. The poor receive far more government subsidies in proportion to the taxes they pay than the middle class do. So Phil’s “solution” to that “problem” would be to take away government subsidies to the poor, things like food for children, housing assistance, etc., in order to make it “fairer” to the middle class who don’t receive as much government monetary assistance; especially in proportion to taxes paid, as the middle class pay more tax shekels than the poor pay in taxes.
Great point, Phil. Not to even broach the additional subject of your complete and utter ignoring what Torah learners, especially those who learn Torah full time, do to support and protect Israel and the Jews. Any one of they do far far more in one day than any university student does in four years at college.
Oceanview: All it takes is “one word” to print kefira. And if it isn’t actual kefira it still only takes one word or a few words to print halachicly and/or hashkafically destructive content. So, yes, unless a big Talmid Chochom is approving every word then people need to regard anything printed in the paper as being potentially wrong from a halachic and hashkafic view.
That’s just about the articles. The same point applies to the advertisements as well.
It’s the other way around. The username cannot be changed; the screen name can.
CS, when do you intend to address my questions? Thx
Phil, Israeli universities are subsidized by the government far far more per student than Israeli Kollels are. The Chareidim are getting a raw deal. Their same taxpayer shekels subsidize the universities while their own Kollels receive far far less.
Phil, Israeli universities receive far far more financial aid, proportionally to their population and in terms of real shekels, compared to the frum community and yeshivos. So yeshivos in Israel are already being shortchanged. The universities and their students are the ones that should be thanking the frum, who don’t use those schools yet are taxed for them all the same while their own yeshivos receive less.
HaGaon HaRav Elimelech Bluth shlita, a talmid muvik of Rav Moshe, says in the name of Rav Moshe that before the war engaged couples did *not meet at all*, and that the current minhag of them only not meeting during the last week of the engagement is a new kula that developed due to yeridos hadoros.
Nisuin Kehilchaso mentions the minhag of a Choson and Kallah not seeing each other from the conclusion of the shidduch until the Chupa. His sources include Shu”t Maharshdam, Pele Yoetz and Elah Hamitzvos. The minhag of not seeing each other after the engagement is recorded to have existed in many communities at least dating as far back as 1228 and in Yerushalayim in 1730.
Rav Shach and Rav Shternbuch have said that engaged couples today should not meet more than once every three or four weeks. Rav Elyashiv ruled that during the seven days before the wedding the Choson and Kallah should neither see each other nor speak on the telephone.
The three children of Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky did not see their future spouses the week before the wedding. And a fourth, Rav Avraham Kamenetsky, reported that when he asked his father about speaking to his kallah on the phone during the week before his wedding, he was advised against it.
“A ben sorer umorer also ate kosher food, made brachos and benched.”
Mazel tov.
So did a zekan mamre what does that have to do with anythingGood point, apy.
Ubiq, the manner of the consumption of food is an integral part of the problem with a ben sorer umorer.
If the Israeli government subsidizes secular schools and universities with tax dollars, frum Israeli taxpayers have every right to expect the government to similarly subsidize yeshivos and Kollels. That is equity for taxpayers, nothing more than their own tax dollars going to support their own schools just as the secular tax dollars go to support secular schools. Anything other than the government giving money to yeshivos while they give to secular schools would be government theft from the frum. That they aren’t thieves doesn’t make the government especially righteous.
If the weeklies don’t have a Rov approving every word printed, I’m not sure how they are any different than the Coffee Room or many websites.
Jersey Jew: You didn’t answer my two questions. Is it because there is no answer? Are the supposed rabbis approving of Hamodia and Yated anonymous or non-existant? Do they not approve every word printed every week?
aww, CS: Why don’t Lubavitchers believe that the Baal HaTanya is Moshiach and is alive and everything in the same sense that many hold of Rav Menchem Mendel zt’l?
DaMoshe, never in Jewish history have most Jewish men been “illiterate”. Never. Jews have been the most literate people throughout history. It’s in our DNA and it is our railson d’etre.
Joseph, you had a sincere question and I’ll be happy to answer. You always phrase things appropriately in my experience.
My expounded questions are in the third post of this thread. If you care to answer it presumably I need not repeat it. Thanks.
Mentsch1, don’t call a Minhag Yisroel a made-up minhag. You can tell me it isn’t your minhag; but it is 100% a valid and holy Minhag Yisroel for many if not most frum Yidden and has been for millennia. (Meaning the Choson and Kallah refraining from seeing each other for X amount of time before the Chupa.)
Jersey Jew:
1) Who are they?
2) Do they vet and approve of every word that’s printed every week? Not to mention every advertisement.