Joseph

There are friendly moderators here?!?!

Another of the Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach is for them to setup a court system and establish laws. Therefore that legal mechanism can be used to establish what is considered divorced or what not.

You misread my comment. I didn’t comment on the Eruv question. I only addressed the narrow point about counting a halachic majority of shittos.

HaLeiVi: What do you think would be the best way to educate children about other communities?

The main thing is to wash on hamotzi and to sing zemiros.

Lightbrite, the way it works — according to those who give presents on Chanukah — is to put the Chanukah presents in the sock and hide it under the beautiful lit up (for the festival of lights) Chanukah tree. When the kinderlach wake up the first morning of Chanukah, they are all surprised by what present the old Yid, Reb Simcha Klutz, with his big white beard and long red reckel left them after dropping in the chimney.

“The answer to your question is that there is a small percentage of the population (1 or 2%) that has a very strong Parotid gland that nourishes the teeth better than the other 98%.”

Those are the 2% that needn’t brush?

Gaon: Are you arguing that Rav Moshe’s Psak against an Eruv in Manhattan or Brooklyn would be applied by Rav Moshe to Radun and Mir as well?

YDS: Psak Halacha doesn’t work by counting (for majority or what not) seforim/sh”ut that were long lost but recently found, but were not considered by the corpus of responsa by the gedolei poskim of the intervening centuries.

Has anyone wrapped up their Christmas shopping before Chanukah, yet?

“you know why he is not so known?”

Please tell us, Gaon.

The Chareidi attrition rate is possibly under 1%. The high end of the estimate is just below 2%, but it is closer to the lower end of 1%. The so-called alternative lifestyle is a minute fraction of a percent -well below a quarter of a percent.

The MO attrition rate is about 25%, according to preeminent MO Rabbi Steven Pruzansky. Clearly far more people don’t fit into a MO lifestyle than a Chareidi one.

Why do people assume blondes are stupid?

The paleontologists were dirty blond.

When they come to my Chabad House the rebbetzin does the ladyfolks while I do the menfolks.

A lot of people got happily married through meeting their spouse in a bar or at a coed dance as well, I suppose.

WB, Josh. I haven’t seen you in a while.

Surely, on the same token, you are also arguing that Modern Orthodox parents should encourage and facilitate their sons to a lifetime of intense Avoda of full time learning and long Davening as Bnei Torah, for those sons who are suited for that.

Correct?

Getting married without the involvement of a shadchan is potentially problematic, depending on the story line.

litvisherchosid: You are still confusing Sephardim (i.e. those who come from the expulsion from Sephard) with Mizrachis (i.e. those who were in the Arab and African lands even before the Spanish expulsion.)

Syag, why does this information about Carebach disappoint you more than knowing MBD used non-Jewish tunes?

akuperma: Under the UN resolution creating Israel and partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab countries, Jerusalem was supposed to remain an “international” city not part of either Jewish or Arab control.

I’ve been mekarev all types. From construction workers to rocket scientists.

Donald Trump is and has been known for many decades, much as his father Fred has, as an Oheiv Yisroel.

Kvitlech.

Of course.

Donald Trump and his father Fred Trump have long had excellent friendly relations with Jews. Fred donated a Shul to a Brooklyn Orthodox congregation. And Donald has had high ranking Orthodox Jewish executives running parts of his business for decades.

Ashkenazi kohanim and Sephardi kohanim have the same male DNA.

Gaon: The 50% conversion rate to Christianity is a historical figure known to Klal Yisroel for centuries. It isn’t under dispute or controversial. (Incidentally, I think secular accounts also use this approximate figure.)

Regarding Reform, intermarriage and commitment to Yiddishkeit, the weak among the Sephardim already converted to Christianity, so the Sephardim that are left are the strong ones in terms of Yiddishkeit since their weak already left. The Ashkenazic weak left Yiddishkeit hundreds of years after the Sephardim, when the Reform/haskala came to town.

There are many millions of more Ashkenazim today than Sephardim.

None of this, unfortunately, is shocking. 80% of Klal Yisroel was wiped out in Eretz Mitzrayim during the makkos, for being too weak in Yiddishkeit. And when Moshiach comes they’ll be another cleansing with 80% again being wiped out. The seforim say this.

Regarding the looks, who is to say whether the “Ashkenazic look” today closer resembles the look of Yidden during the time of the Beis HaMikdash, or if today’s Sephardim are a closer semblance. No one knows. Assuming even there’s much of a difference in looks. Frankly, most people couldn’t tell whether a Yid is of German Ashkenazic extraction or of Syrian Sephardic extraction, if both are wearing the same black Borsalino and suit.