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I didnt read the either book, however the reality is there is very litle personal information about Rashi or any of the Rishonim and even the Achronim until very modern times
Since there isnt much personal information (In fact we dont even know in many cases how many or even the names of their children)
Because there is a dearth of real information, most books about them use poetic license.
zdad- stopbeing thick. look up the poskim. you have an agenda and are being thick to further what you want to be true.
If you call honoring and respecting those who saved Jews (And Wallenberg saved 100,000) and Torah an “agenda” then yes I have one.
Have you even looked up several Shittos and seen MAYBE there are other opinions on this matter.
Many of you have heard this story. When the Kasner train was escaping Belsen (The one with the Satmar Rebbe on it) , It was supposed to go to Switzerland (and the safety there) . The man in charge of letting trains go through from Germany to Switzerland got a telegram not to let the train go through.
The Man telegraphed back the train had already left and was in Switzerland when it fact it hadnt arrived yet.
I dont know the name of this man nor do I know if his name is even remembered. Dont you think someone who help save over 1000 jews including the Satmar Rebbe deserves some kind of kovod and thanks
NY is also one of the few places where you can walk down the street on Shabbos is see mos of the stores closed.
Yes there are shuls and communities OOT, but the shopping strips are still open (for the most part) and you dont get the same feeling
Id like to remind people Papa gave a rough translation
You cant exactly translate 10000% Hebrew to English or for that matter english into hebrew.
Maybe you can translate the words,but some of the inflection is lost and “fight words” dont exactly have the same meaning of emotion
No but its worth having a great selection of Kosher food, i can pretty much find anything Kosher (That could possible be kosher) without much difficulty
There is a much greater selection of Schools to send your kids
Your kids will more likely have frum kids to play with
Employers are much more knowledgeable of jewish holidays and customs than they would be elsewhere
You get what you pay for
The first thing I would cut out is my subscription to the Forward.
The Forward doesnt have much of a subscriber base. It isnt even the largest English jewish newspaper, the Jewish press is
Toi do you accept the idea that some Poskim do not think this assur is D’Araysa
I cant find the YWN article off hand, But the article in YWN said the Rav Yosef said these things without even meeting him and got on the facts of what he was told by his advisors.
We all know that Kanoim always tell the straight truth
$200,000 is not so ridiculus
You can only live in certain areas which tend to be more expensive. You almost have to live in the NYC area rather than cheaper parts of the US like Texas or TN.
Yeshiva tutions can really eat up your salaries.
Food Chumras can cost alot more. Only eating Hemish brand and shopping at Hemish stores cost more than shopping at Waldbaums and buying empire chicken there. Chalov Yisroel does cost more than Chalav Stam especially Cheese and Ice Cream.
A 15 Passenger van for your children, Which arent cheap and they get terrible gas mileage
JF is correct, Posters should not be able to out themselves like that
Oomis you are free to give me all the Dry Wine you get as gifts
Its probably not a good idea to give a BT a comparison from a obscure character in the Tanach. He likely wont get it and very well will take it the wrong way
Sodastream is owned by an Israeli
Why would anyone want to? What’s wrong with drinking the same wines our parents and grandparents drank?
Because they are disgusting
Drink a Nice Merlot and then drink that garbage called Malaga and you will see the differnce in a second
Las Vegas?
Thats one place I could never live.
I remember the first time I was there, you get off the plane and the first thing you see is the Slot Machines. The Slot Machines are everywhere there even the Gas Stations and 7-11’s
Its a little too much. Its a nice place to visit but I wouldnt want to live there
Kosher food is actually fairly difficult to get outside of certain areas. Even stuff taken for granted is hard to get.
We are always debating about ice cream here, In NY all Ice Creams are kosher, however go outside the NY-NE area and the only kosher brands are Breyers and Dreyers (Eddys)
Bread is also mostly kosher in NY, not elsewhere in the US
And forget about Europe, Europe its almost impossible to figure out.
Should one be accustomed to eat Stale Bread and water.
All food requires some acquired taste, and wine is no different
Actually there was a candidate for Congress in NY who was a Wiccan and he was endorsed by much of the Orthodox Jewish community (He lost the election)
In general its best to bring your own food ,I personally cant stand L’Bruit stuff. The Meal mart stuff is a little better.
I went to Bermuda once with premade meals from Meal Mart (Not the freeze dried stuff) and The customs agent almost confiscated it. He to beg for him not to take it away.
When dealing with BT’s or potentials BT’s you need to use the Carrot more than the Stick. Perhaps you were brought up with the Stick more and think that is better, however using the stick with the wrong audience will not get the desired result.
You also need to pick your battles carefully.
Unless you are willing to change to this reality its probably better you seek other venues
A certain frum website had an ad for a non-kosher restaurant
You are at the age when you want your independence and your mother will have to let go of her baby.
Its perfectly natural for there to be a clash there.
The RCA has gotten bitten recently because of the actions of a Rabbi who is a member. Thats why it went into the front burner.
If Christine Quinn becomes mayor how long will it take before she is invited to visit a Yeshiva in Borough park
The upcomning RCA convention will have a resolution against child abuse.
Its fun to shoot a gun
just goes to show you that smicha can mean nothing. the man is married to a non jewess. thats bad.
And neither Gweneth Patrow and Gabrielle Gifford are Jewish, yet they are decended from the Taz and 33 generations of Rabbanic Dynasties (Paltrovich), Goes to show that Yrusha means nothing either
Krusty the Clowns father is Jackie Mason
While you can commute from Lakewood to NYC, and many people do its a bit on the exburb side and the commute is long to the city via bus
Expect to spend over an hour each way on the bus commuting to the Port Authority and then add a Subway ride from there
Bloombergs mother is jewish, but his daughters and his current companion are not
You have not proven that EVERY Shitta says its forbidden to honor and admire a rightous gentile. There certainly are shittos that its permitted, for less of a person that a righteous gentile.
Someone did bring up that the Rambam admired Aristotle. We can debate what the Rambam meant, but its not totally clear its “D’Orasya” that one should NEVER admire a gentile especially a righteous gentile.
Bieber is much better than some of the many American celebrities who have gotten into jail and have done drugs more times than I can count on two hands.
Without even looking , Ive seen to many articles about some of the stuff her has done. He is definatly going rouge
Halacha is not driven by emotions. It is silly to think so.
Imagine the following scenerio, C’V You come home one day and discover R’L you child was a victim . You then go to your Rav and tell him what happend. he then tells you not to go to the Police and if you do, you are a moser. You then find out nothing was done.
Do you accept the Psak and do nothing
Use your “emotion” and get another Psak
I dont know who Toi will look up and I dont know what the result will be. I am sure there are some who will say one should not admire any Goy , but there are others who will say you can admire a Goy of even less a stature than a Righteous gentile and certainly a righteous gentile
Be careful
The airlines are not too fond of this and may cancel your miles and boot you from the program
BTW
What I say about Irina Sender, also applies to Wallenberg , Sugihara, Schindler members of Zegota and anyone else who saved even one jew at great personal risk.
Irina Sender had a long life and lived to 99 and almost nobody had heard of her until recently and I bet almost nobody has heard of Zegota (many of its members were tortured and killed for trying to save jews)
Gratitude is not a silly emotion. If you are ungrateful to this woman who risked so much (BTW she walked with a limp the rest of her life because of the torture she received when they broke her feet).
You very well might find a Rabbi who say you shouldnt be inspired by the woman, but you will also find those who ARE inspired and think we should put “righteous gentiles” (People who risked their lives to save jews during the holocaust) on another level and should honor them., and its more than proper to do so.
While normally I would not say to shop for a psak, I think in THIS case you should shop for a Posek who thinks its proper to honor righteous gentiles.
Biber is canadain, you need to take back your property
Stam commenting on them finding favor in your eyes is pashtus an issur di’oraysah.
If you think is an Issur D’Oraysa to think a woman named Irina Sendler who smuggled 2000 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto was eventually caught by the Nazis, Was tortured (including having both feet broken) was sentenced to death (Only to be saved by a bribery before the firing squad) and had to be on the run during the rest of the war because the Nazis were looking for her doesnt deserve our Admiration, then I think your posek is wrong on this one
How they must have suffered, living such an abnormal life.
How did they survive it?
Unfortunatly many did not
Many jews either were killed in events such as the Crusades or Chemneski
Many jews were expelled from their homes Like the Spanish Iqusition
And many jews just converted to other relgions (In Portugal there was no choice to emigrate in 1497, you just had to convert)
I think I heard somewhere that approximately 25% of Spanish people (People in Spanin) are decended from Jews
Kinda weird seing the 600 Kilo Bear posts here
I think you missed the Point, that , that word was chosen means something. Obviously some think being frum is the opposite of “Frei”
I did not write no, the Mods did, but I cant help you any further
You have to contact Ptach yourself (Or your parents)
If they dont have a place for you, they will direct you to a place that can help you
(Mods Please let this through)
1689 East. 5th St
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You are not allowed to contact each other on this blog
My best advice to you is contact Ptach in Brooklyn or Cahal in the 5 towns/Far Rockaway and they can give you advice on how to proceed. What you need to get and how to get it.
You will need to go to your local City Board of Ed district to get that IEP (They go into yeshivas all the time)
Ptach can also probably give you suggestions on tutiton help, it is available
Before anyone says the NO NON JEWS Inspire then. Would you say that Wallenberg doesnt inspire you?
Just remmeber Canada your most famous resident is Justin Bieber
There is no way to really keep people on and there isnt one reason why people leave.
I would like to suggest a key clue is the word FREI. The choice of words is powerful.
P’Tach does not have a dorm that I know of
They also require an IEP (That I keep talking about) and a psychological report. Unfortunatly I dont think you can get these things by Septemeber. An IEP requires classroom observation as part of the report.
Unfortunatly this kind of research for a special school really requires research really done in January (or even before) rather than June.
I dont know much about dorm yeshivas, but I suspect they arent that cheap either. Dont forget they have to house and feed the students which isnt cheap and they also have to hire extra help to watch the boys at night from safety issues (Like keeping out intruders) to making sure the boys dont cause any trouble by hanging out at the movies or with girls.
IMO your best bet for the fall is probably a private tutor
Not everyone who considers themselves frum keeps everything
I think Ive heard a term Shomrei Mitzvas (Or something like that) to distunguish between an orthodox person and a charedi person.
There are plenty of people who go to Orthodox shuls who do not keep Tacharas Mishpacha, Plenty of women who dont cover their hair or wear pants.
There are plenty of men who do not go to shul everyday, Wear Tzizzit or Tfillin everyday
There are frum people who cheat on their taxes (Many Openly) who commit other kinds of Thefts
There are yeshivas who launder drug money
The point is there is much averaihs going on.
Let Hashem Decide
The IEP Can get you related services paid for by the state, that isnt as hard to get as tutition re-imbursement. However you cant pick the people who do it (Although its usually pretty easy to get a frum person who does it)
They do provide services to high school students. You are thinking of a different program that does 3-5 year olds
After age 5 its done by the school district rather than private providers. It is not called SEEIT, It has various names depending on grade level.
I never said tution reimbursement is guranteed if you have the IEP, I never even spoke about the issue, but since you brought it up, Its possible if you hire a lawyer to get YESHIVA tuition reimbuirsement, but you need the IEP to even attempt it.
Of course I havent done a evaluation of the OP. You cant do one over the internet, you need to monitor the student in the classroom to do it and they have several experts doing it.