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RY23, of course. Don’t be so politically correct.
Disillusioned: According to your formula, the $5 is an “investment”. (In fact, you used that exact term in a previous comment.) Therefore your profit is only $2,995 for which the 10% maaser should be based on.
Gaon, the only reason butei dinim in Western societies don’t use corporal punishment today is because the goyishe government will arrest the dayanim if they do. Otherwise they would. And they used such force in Europe when the local government didn’t intervene in Jewish communal affairs.
TLIK: All your questions are answered in Shulchan Aruch and Rambam. A beis din today is empowered to enforce all that. Obviously there’s no death penalty enforced today but otherwise it is in full force and beis din can substitute lesser punishments.
iac, why do you object to adult men wearing a costume on Purim?
Gaon, Halacha empowers us (meaning Beis Din bzman hazeh) to enforce bein adam lmakom Halachas, even via corporal punishment if necessary.
This is about the time of year he usually pops in?
Respect for in-laws is like Kibud Av V’Eim. You must do it whether it is earned or not.
Nu, you have a spiritual marriage (chuppa v’kiddushin), which as far as the government is concerned is no different than a boyfriend living with a girlfriend. Which has no effect on SS benefits and is entirely legal.
WB to Joseph’s Room, Toi! 😀
iac, totally hypothetical question, but if you had spoken to him about the issue and it didn’t help, what would your next step have possibly been?
iac: In the new gen of chutzpa, what you did could result in your condemnation for “parental interference in the young couple’s lives”.
Disillusioned: In the way you see it, would the winner subtract $5 from the $3,000 win to calculate the maaser? IOW 10% of $2,995.
Part of this discussion needs to be how to deal with invasive mother-in-laws.
“I actually think my daughter(s) are suffering from it”
Perhaps it is your s-i-l who is suffering from it.
Who is “they”?
If it is they, why are you focusing on your s-i-l rather than focusing on the disrespectful/it’s-coming daughter?
Rav Avigdor Miller
Q: What should the reaction of an Orthodox Jew be to someone who wants to have a television in his home to watch sporting events?
A: You shouldn’t watch anything on television! Because television easily and immediately switches from so called innocuous things like sports, to crime and to immorality and to avodah zara. And therefore, the best reaction to a TV set in your living room is to pick up your right foot and give a kick into the glass. Smash your TV set and become a happy man.
Now, I really mean that. It’s not just a figure of speech; it’s the best thing you could do for yourself. Of course, if your wife is violently opposed, then you must use some persuasion. If you can buy her a diamond ring, a two-thousand dollar diamond ring as compensation, believe me it’s a bargain. It’s a bargain to get all those goyim out of the house.
All of the goyim stick their heads through that little window and you’re listening to them gab. Suppose a goy stuck his head into your living room window every evening, and he gabbed. He gabbed and gabbed for an hour or two. “Get out of here! Get out of here or I’ll call the police!” You’d throw a brick at his face if he wouldn’t leave. So take a brick and throw it at his face here as well.
Tape # 48 (April 1974)
Disillusioned: If you object to the first resolution I offered for the reason you stated, ignore it and use the second resolution. I don’t think it is a strong objection but even if you do the objection doesn’t impact the second resolution I gave.
Your last paragraph doesn’t negate anything I proposed in my second resolution. Suppose a mosod decided to give away $5,000 to a random Yid living in Lakewood, no purchase necessary, they just want to generate publicity for their mosod. Your logic would suggest that whoever won the $5,000 would have to automatically give it all to maaser.
If it took 15 minutes you’d be kvetching why it didn’t take 10. If it took 10 minutes you’d be kvetching why it didn’t take 5 minutes.
Disillusioned: Where did I say that the $3,000 win must be given to maaser or that the winnings belong to maaser? I said no such thing.
You’d have to give maaser on the winnings; if you won $3,000 after spending $100 at the mosod’s auction, 10% for maaser on the $2,900 net winnings would be $290. At that point the original $100 is no longer considered to have been given to maaser, since you got it back, so you’d have to give that $100 to maaser (since it presumably came out of your maaser cheshbon.)
Another valid approach would be to consider the original $100 to have been given to maaser, despite your winning a larger amount. And then give 10% maaser on your $3,000 win ($300).
R”L to compare Seforim HaKedoshim to Apple!
TLIK makes up his own deios and falsely attributes them to anonymous “gedolim” that he consistently refuses to name when challenged who those unnamed are.
Disillusioned: I don’t believe your way is halachicly correct.
Disillusioned: I believe what I stated is correct.
Did one of them add a new chelek that the other is missing?
If you purchase Chinese Auction tickets from an organization that validly qualifies to receive maaser you can count that as maaser. If you win a prize in the auction, you’ll need to reduce the value of that prize from the amount you counted towards maaser.
Wiki says they’re unsure whether Chinese auction originated in China.
Are you offended about “Dutch auctions” as well?
TLIK, MTAB is talking about the husband being forced to give a Get unwillingly (Get Me’usa) while you’re confusing his comment with the wife being forced to accept a Get unwillingly. The Torah explicitly says that a husband doesn’t have to give a Get unless he wants to. If he’s forced to it’s a Get Me’usa, which has a large section in Shulchan Aruch devoted to such invalid Gittin.
Sounds like the theory of evolution.
“Joseph, if your work is done 10 years from now, what will you do?”
Then I’ll need to be busy convincing all the Litvaks to become like Briskers and all the Chasidim to become like Satmarers.
Or French Fries?
A discussion about that Harry Pothole stuff?
“Seriously, though, no one has explained why the shlemeil in Hawaii who pushed the wrong button to send out the false alert could not have typed in “false alarm” and blasted it out to the same distribution list used for the initial alarm.”
That’s exactly what was done. A false alarm notification was blasted out to the same devices that got the original false alarm.
This story will be appearing in tomorrow’s New York Times:
Jan. 18, 2018
The Trump administration is moving faster than expected to transfer the American Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv by 2019, senior officials said Thursday… The administration’s plans, following Mr. Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, suggest it no longer cares about cushioning the blow of the new policy, which has drawn angry protests from Palestinians and other Arabs… the State Department has since settled on a more modest plan to convert an existing consular building in Arnona, a neighborhood in West Jerusalem…“Real batei din should do it.”
Real batei din don’t do it because it can’t be done. Your chiddush isn’t a chiddush to them that they haven’t yet considered over the past 75 years.
“2 years to build is fine. But I haven’t seen them start yet.”
It’s been four weeks since the Executive Order to move the embassy. Did you expect a ground-breaking already?
“All they have to do is cross of the word consulate off the building and write in the word embassy.”
They decided to build a new building that is secure and large enough for an American embassy rather than just change the name plates on the small consulate.
What’s the rush?
“I have to ask, and I know this will get me in trouble with some posters, when did the tradition begin of claiming everything Joseph says is radical? The thing that got everyone fired up on that thread was the assertion that “Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionism aren’t Judaism.” I think that’s the mainstream stance of almost all of today’s CR users.”
It took a lot of hard work and posts for me to convince enough posters in the CR of the correctness of my positions until the paradigm changed so much further to the right until, as you pointed out, whereas in the past people were upset at me calling out the Reform and Conservatives and calling me an extremist troll for my all-out-Orthodox advocacy, while now no one would even think of posting such leftist nonsense as to even slightly defend the R/C.
Yet they still call me a far rightist today for my all-out-Chareidi positions advocacy. Give it till the CR’s 20th anniversary and everyone will have by then become Chareidi and we’ll only be debating whether Brisk and Satmar are the most correct derechs for Yiddishkeit.
“would tell either party, you are not acting in accordance with “das moshe viyisroel” and we are going to annul your kiddushin retroactively since you violated the condition.”
The liberal feminists have advocated this for years. In fact they even started “beit dins” doing exactly this. First was Rackman and more recently is Krause.
Why are you assuming that the wife has to accept a Get? The wife has the right to refuse to accept a Get if she doesn’t want the marriage to end, even if her husband wants to divorce her. Rabbeinu Gershom gave this right to all Ashkenazic women. Are we smarter than Rabbeinu Gershom or trying to overrule this edict he issued?
Similarly a man has the right to refuse to give a Get if he wishes the marriage to continue. Whereas the wife’s’s right was given to her by Rabbeinu Gershom, the husband’s right is explicitly given to him by the Torah.
The President said right from the beginning that it will take about two years to build a new embassy and move it. Nothing he said in the last few days is different than what he said from Day One when he announced the embassy move to Jerusalem.
Everything remains the same and on-track to move. No news here.
TLIK, Why so harsh about Reb Zimri? Gedolei Yisroel (the very same ones you cited) say he too was a choleh. Zimri’s childhood rebbi was much too harsh with him. He gave him underserved petch when all Zimri needed was love. Zimri’s rebbi embarrassed him instead of hugging him. No wonder his difficult childhood resulted in what happened later on. He was a baalei aveiroh at all. Zimri was suffering from a dreaded disease. He was reacting with psychiatric symptoms to events and situations that drove him to rebel.
Yet Halacha l’maaisa today is that we now here in America are deputized to be a Pinchos in our times. Check the local copy of your Shulchan Aruch. The very same S”A that tells us that, today, we are to (physically if necessary) punish wayward Yidden who violate בין אדם למקום.
Now about your rosy picture of Moshiach. Have you read the Seforim HaKedoshim about him? It will be a time of great tribulations. The Seforim tell us that Moshiach, even he comes, will expell the Jews who are undeserving. And that can be many, when a majority. Do you remember that by Yetzias Mizrayim fully 80% of the Yidden, bring undeserving, were caused to perish prior to the Geula?
Remove mortal matters from the discussion. Why should greater tolerance be given to one who steals from and curses Hashem than one who steals from and curses his parents or neighbors?
It is immoral for an attorney to cause a danger to society to be re-released back to society. Even if that dangerous fellow is his client.
“Maybe because people don’t end up murdered or robbed?”
Robbing or stabbing Hashem is not as bad as doing it to a human?
Congratulations on being elected as the city’s newest Commissioner!
A very large percentage of OTD return to Torah Yiddishkeit observance.
That said, I don’t know that justifies tolerance of the issurim you mentioned.
50% compatibility sounds difficult.