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Breaks and vacation are important for kids.
Playing soccer outside is NOT Bittul torah, its a time to rest up, streech, get some exercise and fresh air.
Its like a re-chargeable battery, sometimes the battery needs to be shut down and re-charged to work 100% again
There is a dress code to the Vatican too.
Ive been to Harrods and to compare harrods to a store on Lee Ave in Williamsburg is laughable.
BTW London was one of my favorite cities to visit outside of Italy (I loved Rome)
Anti-Semitism is not when someone wants to wear a tank top and shorts into your store and spend money , Anti-Semitism is when they go into your area and Beat up and destroy your property or they dont hire you because you are jewish. Or they tell you if you dont work on Saturday you will not get hired.
Just because something might be legal, doesnt mean one should do it.
Ive worked in selling for most of my life and I can tell you its not very smart to refuse a paying customer. Paying customers can be hard to get.
With Chassidic Williamsburg so close to Hipster Williamsburg, these types of clashes will be constant
I don’t believe in government encroachment on the liberties of businesses. If these Satmar stores want to discriminate, that is their business.
Some descrimation is legal, Like ” No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service”
However a sign saying No Blacks, No Jews , No Women or no Gays is not
FYI Lapid wants the Arabs to serve as well
I had never seen a Tzniut sign with specific details until yesterday in the united states (I saw the big general sign in Me’er Sharim once)
In the 1800’s the Tsar put a draft of 25 years on the Jews, Rather than being an individual draft, it was on the community, they community got to choose who was sent to the army. These jews who went were called Cantonists and were obviously lost.
What actually happend in each town, the rich of the town would bribe their way out of their sons going and the Rabbis of the town would also get their sons out of the draft.
In the end it was usually the Orphans and the poor would were actually drafted as they did not have the money or connections to avoid being drafted.
The haskallah and other things were a result of this draft and those who did not serve.
as someone who got drunk on purim, you cant have real simchas purim without drinking.
Would you have real simcha on Purim if you drank a bottle of Tequila or if someone gave you $5,000?
I have see too many Bochrim get drunk on Purim (and once I saw a bunch of them “rolling ciggarettes”) It is not a kiddush hashem how they behave
I am not totally sure Charedim are even ready to run the government
Shas does take cabinet positions, but Yahadut Hatorah (or UTJ) has never accepted a top level cabinet position. their Gedolim forbid it.
You have to be prepared to run a government, Its alot easier to govern in theory or from the sidelines, its much harder from the Prime Minsiter chair
For the record, if the store is not an overtly religous store (Like a Catering hall) , but rather a store that generally sells to religious people but not religious in nature (Like a Kosher restaurant) in New York City and State it is illegal to discriamte based on lifestyle.
So if 2 men holding hands walk into a supermarket on Lee Ave, the owner cannot throw them out.
That’s beside the point. I was pointing out the incongruity of Benignuman’s position
That is my point, the halacha in many cases is ambiguious (Ellu V Ellu). Until this problem is solved one halacha for everyone , it is impossible.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but what if there are several laws that contradict (One Rav says Assur and another says Muttar)
I used to work at a Satmar Store. Many of the employees were not Satmar or even Chassidish. The store was not in a jewish community.
One Day someone came into the store wearing a pride button. The Sales person (He was not Chassidish, He was Yeshivish) behind the counter asked the person (I am not 100% if it was a man or woman, but I think it was a man) about the button and asked if he was one of them.
The person replied in the affimative, and the sales person said YEECH. The customer then went to the store manager and repeated what happend.
The sales person did get a reprimand, but was not fired
You then write, “A sanhedrin would solve that problem since they would be the final arbitor of Halacha”, answering your own question.
I meant to say since there isnt a Sanhedrin and wont be until Moshiach comes. How are you supposed to have a Torah Society?
You have to have one law for everyone , otherwise it doesnt work.
ZD, I don’t get your point. We can have Torah society without a Sanhedrin, we just can’t carry out punishments.
If we had a Sanhedrin, it wouldn’t be up to R’ Shteinman and Chacham Ovadiah, it would be up to the Sanhedrin (they would both likely be members)
So what would be the halachas?
How is someone supposed to know them if 2 Gedolim disagree on them
A sanhedrin would solve that problem since they would be the final arbitor of Halacha
So, if I understand correctly, it’s not okay to force people to keep Shabbos and kashrus, if they would prefer to be mechallel Shabbos and eat tarfus. It is okay, however, to force people into the army if they would prefer to stay in yeshivah. Is that correct?
Whose Shabbos and Whose Kashruth. Can you force people to eat Chalov Yisroel. What if one Rav permits using an Eruv on Shabbos and another forbids it?
Without a Sanhedrin you cannot have a torah society.
You cannot have a Beis Hillel/Beis Shammai Ellu V’Ellu situation
What happens if for example Rav Shteinman say what you did is Chayiv Missah and Rav Yosef says its muttar. Who is correct. It isnt academic anymore if the ability to carry out Skilah is done.
You need to have to same law for everyone
Make that 100%, because once they’re a majority, the chilonim aren’t going to want to live there anymore. Because they’ll make them keep the torah.
Probably true at some , The Non Charedim will leave rapidly .
Then you will have 100% (or close to it) of people not serving.
Charedim are the fastest growing segment of the Israeli (and Jewish population as a whole) at some point in the near future 2030-2050 that will be the majority of the population and soon after that a super Majority (say 70% or more).
The math doesnt work, you cannot have 70% of the population sitting a kollel while the rest do the army, work , pay taxes and support the other 70% while trying to support their own families
The idea of a Chumra is to show Hashem how much we love the torah and perhaps to prevent averiahs.
What if someone is so repulsed by a chumra or minhag that they are repulsed by the torah in general
Languages and cultures are not 100% translatable. Words can mean one thing in one language in one area and something else elsewhere.
Simple example is the word Chutzpah, its doesnt translate exactly into english
or The following question Is Soda Kosher (Soda mean differnet things in different languages and difficult locations) It can mean Selter
We do not know how the question was asked of Rav Kanivesky and what the words meant to him and Gedolim always speak indirectly which is harder to translate
We are reading an approximate translation of an indirect statement making exact understand impossible
Is there ever an example of a Minhag being abandoned?
I am not talking about converts, I am talking about jews from birth, People whose families emigrated to the US around or before World War I
old man: The Chasam Sofer wasn’t Chasidic.
It was claimed here that the Takanah was made in 1670 by the Council of the 4 lands. The Chasam Sofer wasnt born yet. He was born 2 years before the end of the Council of the 4 lands.
The Rabbanut has put on very strict interpretations of who is a jew and for many americans who made Aliyah, they have to Prove they are are jew, rather than they are belived to be a jew.
Many people decide, I am not going to prove I am jew which is tough for most american jews and get married elsewhere.
Most Ashkenazic Jews are cousins, Probably no more than 4th or 5th Cousins and I dont mean in the Philisophical sense, I mean in the genetic sense.
Thats the reason things like Taysachs are a problem
Flashlight (The is probably the most useful app ever)
BMG makes the rules and if you want to stay there, you have to obey their rules
Is it possible somebody is confusing Arba Kehillos with Sheva Kehillos? Sheva Kehillos were 7 communities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. One of these was Mattesdorf, where the Chasam Sofer (Rav Moshe Sofer) had his Yeshiva. This would fit in with the discussion.
Could be since the council of the 4 lands predates the Chasam Sofer as well. It was disbanded in 1764 and the Chasam Sofer was born in 1762
The Vaad Arbaa Kehilot would not have applied to the Satmar , because the Vaad Arbaa Kehilot is Polish, Ukraine, Belaraus (Galacia) areas.
Satmar are from Hungary
Its one the Southbound side (going towards the Belt) and a Grey Brick building and I think there is an empty lot next to it
There is a bais Yaakov somewhere betwwen kings highway and the Belt.
It seems to be a fairly new building.
Just because you never heard of it, doesnt mean it doesnt exist
Traffic laws serve a purpose and not to annoy
I was driving yesterday down Coney Island Ave past a school and people were TRIPLE PARKED in order to drop their daughters off.
I practically had to drive on the wrong side of the road to get past this school. One or 2 cars almost hit me after they dropped their daughters off and tried to get back on Coney Island Ave
Sushi and Travel
A bigger issue is parking in front of someones driveway (and Blocking it) because YOU are late to Minyan
Hashem doesnt create bad things, We might not understand them, but nothing is bad
And that includes Hurricanes and Snow. Snow melting (run off) is very important for Aquifers especially in Rockaway.
I think Rebitzen Jungreis is more famous than her late husband (he was a Rabbi.
If all the best minds go into learning, there wont be anyone going into medicine. So there wont be any frum doctors and you will be forced to see the indian doctor who did go to Med School
Would you rather visit a Frum Doctor or an Indian Doctor?
Sam Adams is the best domestic beer
And nothing beats a few shots of Tequilla
And for the record, I dont think I have ever insulted another poster (or at least tried not to)
The recent issues have been a hot button topic and many people are upset and angry at many people
I dont think so, And when you speak off the website to your chevre, you never have that conversation about certain Kashruth, that you know isnt about Kashruth.
I am not a follower of Avi Weiss, but I did find this statement by Ferd
Avi Weiss is a Reformed Rabbi. In fact he’s far worse.
He want’s people to think that his new warped mehalech is Orthodoxy. That is alot worse and far more dangerous than someone who preaches that they are reformed.
Good, I agree with that. I think he is far worse and more dangerous than a reform rabbi.
If you count Weberman, Ill freely admit to that as I think he is a Rasha and people must be told to stay away from him
To the Mods
I cant belive you allowed Yenta and Ferd to say those things
I can say things back from these Cyber Bullies, But I have not
Actually, I find their argument compelling. Maybe let’s go back and find if there is lashon hara you have posted about people not in your community, and then we’ll see.
I’ll let Ferd do that for us.
I found this
“The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 required all states to raise their minimum purchase and public possession of alcohol age to 21. States that did not comply faced a reduction in highway funds under the Federal Highway Aid Act. The U.S. Department of Transportation has determined that all states are in compliance with this act. The national law specifically prohibits purchase and public possession of alcoholic beverages. It does not prohibit persons under 21 (also called youth or minors) from drinking. The term “public possession” is strictly defined and does not apply to possession for the following:
An established religious purpose, when accompanied by a parent, spouse or legal guardian age 21 or older
Medical purposes when prescribed or administered by a licensed physician, pharmacist, dentist, nurse, hospital or medical institution
In private clubs or establishments
In the course of lawful employment by a duly licensed manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer.
You are doing more to hurt your cause than you realize.