Joseph

Neville:

Yeridos hadoros. It isn’t ideal. We should strive to reach as close as possible as the Halacha b’feirush says we should, even if we can’t completely follow it as is ideal.

There are no embassies in New York. Those are only consulates. All the embassies are in Washington.

GHD: You want to give terrorists a veto over US policy?

The romantic part of the story disqualifies it from being in a frum home.

Wasn’t their an original book from the ’80s that started this story line?

Everyone knows the best scientists are Jews, CTL.

“This time period is galus so it doesn’t matter that we FEEL safe because we are in Gd’s hands only.”

This time period of golus applies to both Eretz Yisroel and Chutz La’aretz.

“How would an eruv cause “mingling in the streets?” Without an eruv, people will mingle in the streets with empty pockets; with an eruv, they’ll mingle while carrying stuff. What difference would it make?”

Most young women with children won’t be out in the streets on Shabbos if there’s no eruv.

“I don’t even understand the problem with restaurants, so I really just don’t know anything.”

Restaurants have been a tznius problem that the rabbonim have been crying to the tzibbur about for many many years.

Neville, get the sefer I cited for additional information on the tidbit I directly quoted.

Rav Chaim Volozhin told Reb Dovid Tevel, mechaber of the sefer Nachalas Dovid, “That the day will come when the pillars of European Jewry will topple, when the yeshivos will be destroyed and uprooted. However they will be reborn in the exile of America, the final stop of the Jewish people before the arrival of Moshiach. The American exile will be the tenth and final exile, following those of Babylon, North Africa, Egypt, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Lithuania.”

Rav Aryeh Z. Ginsburg shlita writes about this in the Feldheim book “Daring to Dream” under “The story of Rav Dovid Leibowitz and Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisroel Meir HaKohein”.

Syag, her comment that the USA “is Golus”, in the context of her implying that Eretz Yisroel is not Golus, is certainly objectionable and wrong. And that needed to be pointed out.

As for the rest, as has been quoted in the other thread, of the Chofetz Chaim saying America is our last stop before the geula and Rav Chaim Volozhin saying the Yidden won’t be persecuted in America, I won’t speculate as to what they meant.

iac, unless they’re kidding around only idiots use that fake French accent to make themselves sound more upscale.

What if the Rov was on a flight to Eretz Yisroel (or whatever else caused him to be unavailable.)

The rabbonim of a city absolutely have the right to enact and enforce a takana above and beyond plain halachic permissiveness.

Rav Shach famously said that had he sung more Shabbos zemiros like his Chasidish neighbor, then his son would’ve become a Ben Torah.

Legally (based on the UCC), when there’s a difference between the numerical dollar figure and the written spelled out dollar figure on a check, the written figure controls and is what the bank must use.

You may wish to inquire from your bank what options exist to correct this.

Footsteps is a boondoggle that has been a huge failure in its goals, in terms of the small numbers of people they’ve actually converted to freikeit/secularism from frumkeit/religion.

ftresi: Nobody is questioning the fact that there are people who would be willing to be MO or not religious at all. The issue is, What is MO and is it the preferable mode of Judaism? The fact that it is, to some, the only version, or the maximum, that they are willing to accept does not address the issue at hand. If Modern Orthodoxy would be a Kiruv stage for people who aren’t yet ready for real Torah life, that would be fine. The problem is that they consider themselves not a b’dieved, but a l’chatchilah – a full fledged legitimate lifestyle. They often even make claims of being superior to Torah Judaism. That is the problem – compromises sometimes have to be made for individuals who are on their way up. But to take those compromises and make believe they are not compromises at all, thereby fooling people who WOULD be able to go higher that they need not, or worse, that they are already the highest, is a terrible crime. While it is true that on an individual, private, level, we are allowed to even proactively cause someone to sin if by doing so we will have prevented him form committing a greater sin, nevertheless, we may never, ever institutionalize those sins, making a b’dieved into a l’chatchilah, making the exception into the rule.

If the only difference were the mode of dress, you might be correct. But it isn’t.

Read the thread I linked to above.

Windows closed, husband outside, in the winter.

Windows open, wife in the attic, in the summer.

You know you made it when other people are dreaming about you.

Australia or Canada.

Rav Elchonon Wasserman said that Zionism is Avoda Zara while “Religious Zionism” is simply religion mixed into Avoda Zara.

Since the establishment of the State of Israel, more Jews have died or been maimed in its defense or for being Jewish in Israel, than Jews have died or been maimed in any other country of the world. Statistically, Israel is the most dangerous country in the world for a Jew to live in (from any country with a large Jewish population.) Even with all the recent violence in Europe against Jews, even Europe statistically has proportionally less violent deaths and injuries against Jews then Israel experiences.

The last thing the State of Israel can claim is that it is somehow a safe-haven for Jews.

Just look at how many Israelis now live in the US, Europe and elsewhere. So many have moved out.

Palestine was safer for Jews before Zionism existed (that’s 1898 for you non-historians) than Israel has been since Israel existed. So the danger stems not from living there per se, but rather from the result of the actions and policies the Zionists have wrought upon it.

This scheme is older than the Gregorian calendar. It was the same under the Julian calendar.

iac: The OP’s question has already been answered to her satisfaction, and that discussion has been exhausted.

NP:

“Halacha does not exist in a bubble. Even if a particular Posek is machmir for himself and his congregation. Even if he thinks HaRav Moshe’s Psak is an error. The issue remains categorically a dispute among the Poskim (about a din d’rebonon by the way). He can disagree but he cannot pretend Rav Moshe’s psak doesn’t exist.”

We can play your game and say – Halacha does not exist in a bubble. Even if a particular Posek is meikel for himself and his congregation. Even if he thinks Satmar Rov/Debrecener Rov/Rav Vozner’s Psaks are an error. He can disagree but he cannot pretend the Satmar Rov/Debrecener Rov/Rav Vozner’s psaks doesn’t exist.

“Now if he brings proofs against Rav Moshe’s Psak AND those proofs are deemed adequate by a majority of contemparary Poskim, AND it becomes the prevalent custom, then there might be something to talk about.”

Now if he brings proofs against Satmar Rov/Debrecener Rov/Rav Vozner’s Psaks AND those proofs are deemed adequate by a majority of contemparary Poskim, then there might be something to talk about.

Bottom line: You’re wrong. If someone is a member of a community or congregation that holds that Cholov Stam is Cholov Akum mamish, then eating CS is absolutely no different than eating CA for those people. There being other poskim who hold differently absolutely does not permit members of those kehilos to shop and use Psaks opposite of their own Psak.