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Forgive me; your post is jibberish. What are you trying to say? (and since when does HaShem answer prayers with tears? What does that even mean??
SACT5:
A Freilichen Chanukah and enjoy the Latkes. We would not want you to be turned into chopped liver!! C”V
SACT5:
Why is time with family “one of the essentials” of Chanukah? It’s wonderful to spend time with family but why does this become an “essential” of Chanukah? It seems to me that we have copied this from another religion.
Perhaps now is not the time but once things have settled down he should resign. With great power comes great responsibility. He is the man at the top and he is the man who has billed himself as “Mr. Security”. He must accept the blame and resign. it’s the honorable thing to do
CT Lawyer:
You are right; thank you. I apologize to Reagan for blaming him all these years. BH I was born during the small window of time when exempted me from registration.
I still can’t believe they re-instituted registration. This was done by Reagan. Why do we need it?
You are supposed to listen to chazaras hashatz and answer amein.
yserbius12: In the days of The Rabbi’s Sons, Carlebach, etc. the music was not the way it is today. Even the early Mordechai ben David (i remember when we still called him by his name and not MBD) had more “soul” to it than what we hear today.
I don’t know if it’s goyish but most jewish music produced today is not very good. it’s too loud, too beat-driven, and it’s all from a cookie-cutter mold designed to produce songs for weddings. There’s very little genuine creativity in modern jewish music because (like it’s secular conter-part) it’s designed to be sold as a commercial product to make money.
Yes.
Not easy to find. I think it is better than then ones they did after it. Less stuff on the page to confuse you and it still leaves room for a person to have to learn rather than just spoon-feeding everything.
No.
When did “Asei” become “Essay”?
Yabia Omer:
You might as well be talking to a wall for all the good it will do you. The “worship” of “gedolim, poskei hador, sar hatorah” etc demonstrates the truth of what the Rambam wrote in the Moreh about the difficulty of weaning people off Avodah Zarah.
UNCLE BEN:
DOes a person have to have lived through a particular historical period in order to know anything about it? If that is the case then we can take ALL works of History and biography and throw them on the trash heap.
Because we live in the age of “Gadol Hador” “Sar Hatorah” “Poseik Hador”. Our generation has a nearly pathological need for these figures so we can worship them and give up any individual responsibility for ourselves. No need to do anything when you can have the Gadol Hador decide everything for you.
I didn’t know chesed was measured in pounds/tons. Interesting. How many litres of Torah will they be learning? How many yards of Tefilah?
We are supposed to serve HaShem Yisborach in this world AS IT IS NOW! When Mashiach comes, he’ll be here. Until then, just live according to the Torah and leave the big questions to HaShem.
CHeck the last perek of Megillas Ester. There’s a pasuk there that ends with “divrei Shalom v’Emes”.
Halevi:
As others have pointed out, to claim that a person can have tzaros caused by his fulfilling a Mitzvah is hard to understand.
Halevi:
What does that have to do with my comment?
Perhaps you might want to look up what the Rambam has to say about using the Mezuzah as a “shemirah”.
It’s easy to be idealistic if you are not in such a situation. The fact is that when the parents are divorced, things are not easy for the kids and the spouses of those kids. Making a chasunah when there are divorced parents involved can be a nightmare. Also, every time there’s a simcha, the same problems come up and some people just don’t want their kids to get involved in a situation like that, so they shy away from shidduchim with divorced parents. Let’s not be too hard on these parents. There are REAL issues and challenges involved.
Did the Agudah publish a statement about it? I see that the non-jewish candidates for Mayor of NYC said something, but our American Gedolei Torah can’t seem to bring themselves to say something. Why?
Just one point. I am not sure that men have a chiyuv to daven with a minyan. Men must daven everyday, but the language of the Shulchan Aruch appears to suggest that it’s a good think to try to daven with a minyan but not a “Chiyuv”.
Four replies and only ONE actually answers the question. She’s not looking for Mazal Tov. She looking for useful information.
If this girl was really under her luggage, maybe the yeshiva boys did not see her and thought it was just a pile of luggage?
I agree. Not only the pacing and screaming out the davening, but also during learning. Some guys seem to think that it’s not real learning unless the entire beis medrash, and the whole neighborhood, can hear them screaming, and humming, and signing nuggunim. I can’t concentrate on my davening or learning because of these people. Why does everything in Yiddishkeit have to be so loud??
Falacci died a few years ago. She was very outspoken on the issue of Islam and terror. She got in the face of Khomeini and Kissinger, just to name two.
Great comment by Golfer!!!
How about this (which I hear from the Bais Yaakov girls)?:
“I’m being by my friend this Shabbos”.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Albert Camus. Hans Scholl, Sophia School, Christoph Probst, just to name a few.
simcha613:
Good Point. We seem to be living in a culture that promotes an “I can control everything” mind-set. There’s a shiur or a sefer or pamphlet for every topic showing how we can fix virtually every problem there is. The truth is we have little control over what others do, including our children. The canard that kids go off the derech because we don’t sing zemiros as the shabbos table is just that, a canard. People have the free will to do whatever they want and the most we can do is to try to control OUR OWN behavior.
Great!! True Chochma is kissing the hand that ties you to a beam and beats you. Sounds like psychopathology to me.
Son of Man:
Read Ibn Ezra. He quotes a bunch of pesukim, all of which appear to be written from a perspective LONG AFTER the events they describe. That includes the speech of Moshe Rabbenu.
Son of Man:
The reference IS there, on Devarim 1:2.
Perhaps, if you allow yourself to examine this issue without your prejudices, you might come to a greater level of understanding. Don’t allow yourself to be boxed in by what somebody told you to believe.
Son of Man:
It’s NOT just the last 8 pesukim. It’s other pesukim in other sefarim of Chumash that Ibn Ezra casts doubt on regarding who wrote them. THAT is the mind-blowing part.
Son of Man;
It’s Devarim 1:2.
Son of Man:
I don’t have a chumash with me now, but it’s at the beginning of Sefer Devarim. I think it’s where the Torah says “Me’ever HaYarden”, but I’m not certain. Ibn Ezra refers to the “Sod Ha Yud Bes”, the secret of the 12. The 12 is a reference to 12 Pesukim in the Torah which, according to Ibn Ezra, were not written by Moshe Rabbenu.
I don’t know about that, but there IS a mind-blowing Ibn Ezra which hints at the idea that some of the pesukim in the Torah were NOT written by Moshe Rabbeinu, or even Yehoshua.
BTW, The Be’er Heteiv on this siman in Shulchan Aruch, discussing “sichas Chulin” during Chazaras HaShatz states that one should not sing along with the Shatz.
I don’t recall anybody ever getting too upset in shul when people sing along with the Chazzan.
Mee Von Siach