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The Averechs told the Bocherim if they won there would be no chulent this week, so the Bocherim let the Averichem win
To the OP’s question, my guess is the maariv minyan never happend since the Jets lost, maybe had they prayed harder they would have won
We should always remember not only is hashem watching you whever you go, there is someone with a smartphone also watching you , looking to catch you tripping up and saying the wrong thing. One should always watch their words in public and realize that even if your audience likes what you say, not everyone will and those people can put the video on youtube making you look like a fool
I’m not arguing with him. He’s arguing with Gedolim; like the Brisker Rov!
The Brisker Rov is not the final Posek on the issue especially when Rav Shteinman and Rav Kanivesky hold differently
On the answering machine, she left the volume on so she could hear a message
The husband did not call, the Laundry place called making the situation worse
I really know a MO guy who was taking the train Home and the train got delayed and he got off the train at shabbos, left his wallet at a laudry mat and stayed up all night. Turns out he actually was in an area with a shul but he didnt know and Shabbos morning he saw some people walking to shul and spent the rest of the day at the Rabbis house.
His wife was going crazy especially after she got a got on the answering machine from the laundry mat
The Bochers vs the Averiachs
Having been in similar circumstance, people begin to panic and I dont think he was thinking properly and a note proably isnt going to happen
2. When you originally presented the story, you said the guy was driving into Manhattan from Teaneck, but the version in the link you provided had the guy driving out of the City to the Catskills.
Frankly when i originally posted the story it was from memory, I later googled it, but frankly it doesnt really matter which way he was going as the driver went to Washington Heights to a friends house.
I dont think its legal to abandon a car on the Bridge, signs say STAY IN YOUR CAR. the reasons are 2 fold one is safety and the other is terrorism (The busiest bridge in the world is a prime target for terrorism)
Is it possible the story was embelished, Of course, but the gist is he abandoned the car and since this is a fairly common occurance you would think the police would have a good idea where the body went when the person jumped
Lots of people claim the talking Fish story is true
In Answer to the Halacha since simiar situations have come up and ive heard it discussed.
Here is what you should do, 1) dont go on the bridge if you dont think you can get across, If a case happens where the bridge shuts down when you are on the bridge and cant get on or off, try to get a goy to drive your car at least until you get off the bridge (I heard this directly from a R’Y)
Do you give the same questions to every “emunah story” that people relate?
And there are some Ive heard that are impossible to have occured yet people insist they occured.
Do you belive the Talking Fish Story? Did you give that story the same 3rd degree. This one very likely happend.
BTW I saw a Sheet from Baltimore on just this very subject it seems people getting stuck on the way between NYC and Baltimore happens fairly often and the sheet gave what to do
Do you belive every story of Emunah that comes up like the one of Rav Kanivesky and the man with the scar who had trouble going on dates? and the next girl was the one he saved?
I belive it because its very beliveable. People jump off the GW Bridge all the time, Getting stuck in traffic right before shabbos also happens all the time on Fridays. And I also belive many people in the same circumstance would do the same thing
The Bridge is not fictional and thats how the police act, if you do a quick google you will see whenever the police suspect a bridge jumper they do a search for the body. Unfortunatly its pretty common people jump off the GW Bridge and there is even a sign on it, saying Life is worth living and the number for the suicide prevention hotline
Avram
the differnce between to Bridge guy and the stadium guy is the Stadium guy was more deliberate in his attention to deciece and he was proably bragging to everyone what a Illuy he was for thinking of it.
The Bridge guy was more of a fool, I doubt he realized they would send divers out to look for him, but he did probably put people in greater danger than the stadium guy
Anybody who votes or takes the Medina $ or goes to the IDF is a Zionist!
last I checked Rav Shteinman and Rav kanivesky voted. Do you know halacha better than they do?
FYI Bas Kol is not Rap, its more a pop music
Classical music can be pretty fast and loud
Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner or
The Overture to Carmen by Bizet
1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky (With Canon)
Are fairly loud and very upbeat tempo
You forgot Wagner, who was a vicious Anti-Semite
I dont know if Beethoven or Mozart were anti-semites or not
Felix Mendelsohn was a min
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While Id love to eat Sushi, a nice bottle of French or Italian wine with a nice thick juicy steak every day of the week, that just isnt happening, doesnt work on my budget or my health.
Joseph FYI i have a thicker skin than most realize, I rarely if ever take anything personally
I belive the Satmar Rebbe forbid people from leaving Hungary/Romania before World War II
Obviously after the war he changed him mind.
In fact most gedolim forbid moving to either the United States or israel before World War II, yet ALL of them obviously changed their minds. It would be hard to find a tshuva forbidding moving to NY and it would sound silly to quote such a tshuva today as halacha
Just because they made an annoucment doesnt mean they were not also pondering a search party, its what security does especially for lost children
I have personally been in a close situtation like that (not on a bridge) and Ive had immediate relatives invovle in a similar situation involving a downed power wire and it involved a somewhat sick person and a 3rd invovling a family Rabbi who was stuck on the BQE for hours and couldnt get on or off due to some oil spill. its very beliveable especially since some people can get careless sometimes (The situations I was invovled with did invovled carelessness, but rather events beyond any sane persons control)
This a a typical shabbos for many frum men
Go to Shul and after Shul there is a full hot kiddish, complete with Chulent, Kugel, Cake really enough for a full meal
Go home and eat ANOTHER full meal including chulent, Kugel , cake, bread and more
meal will finish at about 2, take a quick nap and then
eat ANOTHER full meal before 5:30ish (this time of year) .
And then later eat MORE food at night for Meleva Malka.
You have basically eaten 4 fully loaded meals without any exercise
Why is it people are willing to belive some far fetched story , but are unwilling to belive a story that similar facts have happend to most (travelling close to shabbos and getting stuck). I have heard stories of people travelling to Far rockaway getting off the Subway in Brooklyn and walking, so the GW bridge is certainly beliveable since it is likely it happend
If the Mods allow , here is a link from torah, org for the GW Bridge Story and proof I did not make it up as some might claim
You only rebuke if you think it will work, rebuke is counter-productive if the person will not listen and may even give it back to you.
Rav Ovadiah Yosef wore a black hat many times
Americans generally are overweight, however in the NYC area not as much. NYC living requires more walking and other behaviors the lower the obesity rate. Down south especially people are extremly overweight, until you travel to these places you havent got a clue how bad it is
In previous generations where yeshivas had eating days and people frequently fasted during the week because they had no food, over eating on Shabbos and Yom tov wasnt really a problem. People on the whole were under nourished. Today that isnt the case, nobody strarves during the week
Diets high in fats and Oils and low in vegetables are a receipe for a disaster and too much eating is encouraged on Shabbos and Yom Tov
Frum men are fat not because of Chulent, but because of the general lack of exercise and healthy eating. Shuckeling is not exercise, no matter what your chavrusa says
Calling security and saying a missing small boy does make you a Rasha, these places take missing children very seriously and might send out security people to find them and waste resources that could have been better used for real danger.
Reminds me of a story I once heard, A guy was going from Teaneck to Washington Heights Friday afternoon and was delayed. Shabbos arrived and he was stuck on the George Washington Bridge and he pulled over and walked from there. The Port Authority police seeing an abandoned car on the middle of the bridge though it was a bridge jumper and sent out divers to find him (endagering their lives). he found this out when he tried to retrieve his car from the pound
Also, i noticed that by chillul shabbos demonstrations or letters such as the one in ashdod, only the chareidi rabbanim and people get involved, no trace of dati leumi. Perhaps they want to stay on good terms with hilonim and believe that chillul shabbos in e’y cannot be resolved
The reason they dont get involved in such things is not only do they not work, they frequently backfire.
The was recently a protest against a movie theater opening on Friday night in Jerusalem, not only did the protest not shut down the theater, more people attended , just to spite the charedi protests. More Chilul Shabbos occured because of a protest against it
You have to know which beers to drink, Most large scale brewerly beers like Budweiser , Coors etc are garbage, you have to either drink microbrewlly like Sam Adams or imported beers especially from Belgium.
Just because some plagerize photos , doesnt mean its correct or legal.
And there are laws about doctoring copyrighted photos except for parody (Fair use doctrine), you are not allowed to doctor a photo if it changes the narrative, that is not fair use
I didnt take the test, but I woulndt be surprised that the test was written by the YIVO which has a yiddish different than chassidic yiddish.
You would probably need to be able to read advanced yiddish books from authors like Shalom Alechem and Mendel Mocher Seforim.
How about people who have relatives who cannot go and cannot leave them
Maybe someone has an elderly parent who cannot fly and they cannot leave them
Is CTlawyer anymore snobbish that the video once posted on YWN where someone called Michael Savage and asked him if he ever ate chulent
CTlaywer
The term used was “greener”, but unfortuantly many jews who came to the US before World War I arent so connected anymore
I know jews were arriving in massive amounts in 1900. Jews really started arriving in the 1880’s after the assasination of the Tsar when the pograms and anti-semitism got really bad
Your ancestors came to the US in 1868?
I thought I was a Mayflower jew as my ancestors came to the US around 1900
NK have appeared at protest events on Shabbos more than once and while they did not speak on the Dais, they did stand on the dais at these events on Shabbos. What posek would allow somone to appear on the Dais at an event on shabbos
Orthodox only survived in the USA due to 2 main reasons, one was the 5 day work week making it alot easier not to work on SHabbos (Most people evantually succombed to working on Shabbos when they were constantly fired, people gotta eat and pay the rent)
And in the 60’s when African americans got civil rights, other groups got iot too and it became ok to demand rights too and it became OK to demand religous freedom
I am not sure that a place that would consider hiring a YCT graduate really cares what the Novominsker Rebbe says (one of the signers) or for that matter even knows who the Novominsker Rebbe is.
Ban Gefilte Fish and make everyone eat Sushi instead
A YU Simcha is more comprehensive than most, I have friends who went ther. Not only do they teach public speaking, they teach them psyhchology and other skills needed to council people
DY
You have to know who your audience is,
It can be taken different ways by different people and some might take this as interference in their internal affairs. People are assuming that places that would consider hiring a YCT clergyperson would obey the Moetzes after such a decree, which in most if not all circumstances is not the case.
There are different kinds of Sushi, Different fish has different tastes. Salomn tastes different than Tuna which tastes different than Yellow Tail