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Yeah thats the book and the direct quote, thanks
DY now we are talking about semantics, No he didnt use the word assur, but he did not to deviate from a minhag (and Minhag is more stringent than Halacha). so we interpreted the statement differently.
I do have a question for you, You said before why should I care when someone makes some chumra that I dont follow and disagree with. How come when someone uses a kula and those condemn these cula or being makil and Ive even seen people use “LIfnei Evir”. If I eat Hagan Daaze Ice cream, Why should it bother you.
However when one shows examples of chumras on the right not only do we disagree with , but think are downright wrong you answer. It doesnt affect you so why do you care.
I care because I truly believe that its damaging to Yiddishkeit to make such chumras as Hamaser or this no Pizza at Melava malka is as damaging or worse than YCT. There are many people who even follow these rebbes who really shouldnt be following these chumras and at some point reach the point of Dayenu and just leave (And I belvie its getting worse) One can bury themselves in the sand and think it isnt happening, but it is.
If you are an elected official you are sworn to uphold the US constitution and the State constitutione even if they are diametrically opposed to the torah failure to do so is grounds for removal.
While toievah marriage is not in the US or NY State constituion, Legalized Abortion IS in the NY state constituion and you are legally obligated to uphold that law not matter what any one else says (If you disagree, then dont run for office)
There are more Non Frum population than Frum and even in Lakewood I think its only abouyt 50/50 and thats one of the highest.
Ok Maybe it wasnt bounty (I dont remember exactly which brand it was, it hought it was bounty) , But it definatly was a cheaper brand than the Hemish Brand that did not have the corn starch (Or whatever the glue used to paste the Paper towel to the cardbord tube)
Just for the record, he was the one who gave misgivings about the Blumenkrantz book
He said he was once in the supermarket and saw some poor woman ahead of him . She had a bunch of Peasach stuff that included some food and Paper Towels. She had read the the Blumenkrantz books said not to certain paper towels because of possible kitniyot on the last towel. So she got rid of the bounty and got a more expensive brand of paper towel that did not have the corn starch (Or whatever it was) and also put aside some food because she did not have enough money for both the more expensive paper towels and the food
My Shul has a Pizza party for the Kids after Shabbos, so in this case its obvious what the Rav Holds (His kids even go sometimes) I dont have to ask.
I dont ask the Rav about Stuff I might see in a book.
He is also a teacher and has 7 kids. Those are important too. He has many resposibilities and I dont think its proper respect for him to be at my beck and call whenever I have a minor Shaaliah.
It definatly said it was assur to eat Pizza at Melava Malka and that one must eat Hemish Foods at Melava Malka
The book also spoke about the holiness or something like that of food like Gefilte Fish (Yuch) and Challah (Which I also cant stand) (I eat other kinds of bread when I have a choice like a Bagel or other breads with similar doughy insides).
I do know there have been “issuirim” about eating such things as sushi (because its not a “Jewish Food”) , I dont think this book mentioned eating sushi. I dont remember if he mentioned sushi at Melava Malka or not (He might have though and not in a positive light)
I found it like any other Halacha book , but written more in a spiritual way as opposed to straight halacha, I dont normally ask the rabbi what I see in a Halacha book , I dont ask a shaila on every single thing I see in a book. The rabbi is too busy for that
I dont remember the title of the book or the author, but it was an unusual book. I couldnt tell if it was a Halacha book or a Chassidus book. It was written in english for english speaking audiences with ideas from Chassidic rebbes not usually followed in the Anglo world like the Satmar Rebbe and the Belzer Rebbe.
When you publish in a Book , Its differnet.
Its one of the critisisms of the Blumenkrantz book, He published lots of chumras that people assumed was the Halacha and followed them even though they should not follow said chumra.
And the book that published this hemish food chumra was in english, not yiddish, It was not meant for a chassidic crowd
Seriosuly I saw some sefer that maintained that it was assur to eat Pizza for Melava Malka and one should eat “Hemish Food”
People have to stop making chumras and imposing them on others, If you dont want to eat Pizza on Motzei Shabbos and want to eat Kugel, fine . But dont tell others that
Lashon Harah?
If you dont shovel you are a Rasha Gamor. People fall and get hurt
But you do have 4 hours after the snow to shovel.
I think he meant on washing and cleaning the Sheitls not selling them. Cleaning Sheitels is not 100% profit center.
I dont meant to be a killjoy here, but I dont want people to be in some fantasy lala land that you will make a decent income , Its hard to make a decent income required for a frum lifestyle and while a degree is no gurantee for success, it will likley help. A person with an MD usually makes more money than a Morah at a gan
Nobody makes 100% profit. You need equipment to clean the Sheitels (Shamppos etc) and you need business insurance (What if you damage the sheitel, You have to pay) Electricity isnt free and there are other costs as well.
If you are an CPA Accountant you can make more, Quickbooks mastery is a dime a dozen
A Morah at a Gan doesnt make that much money and neither do any sort of child care workers. The only way to make money as a morah is either to own a fairly decent sized school or to be a public school teacher (and that needs a degree)
Everyone knows someone who was successful without a degree. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg never got a degree however if you get one the odds increase dramatically that you will make a decent living and no $10 an hour is not a decent living espicially if you want to live the frum lifestyle
Obama is to pro Israel for me to like him
I think this is the first time ive ever heard that said before
How many $400 Sheitels do you think a Macher sells per week? Of course they dont make $20 per Sheitel, but they dont sell many of them either
You also dont compute the cost of customer acquisition, its costs money to acquire customers. Im sure someone like georgie makes good money, but she has the customer base to warrant it
If you are new to the business you need to acquire the customers and that takes time and money
How much do you think a quickbooks bookkeeper makes? $10 and Hour $12 an hour, thats what I see them advertised for. $10 an hour is $400 a week, $1600 a month before taxes. last I checked rents in Borough park were $2000 and up.
I actually have my own business and know the economomics and how difficult it is to make money. Between inventory advertising and competiton the margins just arent that great. There are lots of Sheitel machers in Brooklyn and lots of competition to drive the prices down
Lets get the actual economics of being a sheitel macher. Lets say you make $20 a Sheitel ($20 is actual profit, not what you charge customer) . Now lets say you want to make $52,000 income (not alot of money) which is $1000 a week. If you charge $20 a Sheitel, you need to get 50 Sheitels a week to make that $1000 and thats every week so you need hundreds of customers and you are competing against other Sheitel Machers for the same customers and some women do it themselves
Want to get into Real Estate and you dont have, you need rental properties which costs $1 Million and up, at 5% down (and thats a BIG if if the banks will let you) thats $50,000 and you need more than 1 property to make money
Want to get into retail, In Borough Park the rents of a small retail store are at least $10,000 a month plus you need about $50,000-$100,000 in inventory
Want to get into Diamonds, we all know what diamonds cost, they arent cheap
So if you family doesnt have any of these things , its really hard to break into them without any money and you need significant amounts of money to get in
And many Are “Programmers” meaning on government programs .
Jut go to the supermarkerts in Borough park, More people use eBt cards than are able to pay cash
And I don’t see why most people on this thread think that unless one has a degree, they can’t succeed in life. That’s awfully closed minded!
While its true one can succeed without a degree, having a degree increases the chances of success. If you come from money and get into family business you can succeed without a degree, but if you dont have a family business and need to get ahead on your own a degree to get a better job.
In general “Jewish Jobs (Rabbis, Chinuch, Shteitech, Masghichim etc) ” dont pay very well, you need to work with the greater society to make more money.
Of course you will find people with degrees who are failures and people without success. But take 100 of each and see where the majority of the people are
You can just buy pie filling in the store
They will check you out though
They dont want to set someone up and find out later they robbed or did worse to the family (Or vice versa) alot of people dont like the aspect of the site, but in the 21st century you gotta be careful
Sound like a spaghetti principle
If you throw a plate of spaghetti on the wall, some will stick
I would have had no problem if they didnt print ANY Picture. Its only when they doctored a picture especially a well known picture
DaMoshe +1
Sometimes people just need to look in the mirror and ask themselves do I give off a positive view of the torah lifestyle or do people look at me and say , See that jew, He is a disgrace because he doesnt know how to act properly
The backlash against Milah is not the same, its mostly a few crazies
One does need to seperate between constructive critism and spiteful critism out of hate. Not all critism aimed at charedi communities is spiteful and hateful. Some is constructive. Its not that hard to figure out which is which
I do not wish to debate Milah issue, but one needs to seperate the issue of Bris Milah from Meziah B’Peh.
Nobody says you cant avoid a Bris, there are many who say you dont need Metizah B’Peh and even the same Mohels will do the Bris either way depending on the parents wishes.
How many people on the right have “Religious tolerance” for Orthodox Rebbein more to the left
How many times here have I seen disparging remarks made about Rav Kook, Rav Yosef Ber Solevichik , Rav Stav or Rav Druckman
I didnt call it a Chilul Hashem because I didnt like it, I called it because I saw what other people thought of it.
One should always try to protray Yiddishkeit in a positive light that people will say, Look at those Yidden, they are truly a holy people.
That did not happen in this story and the total opposite occured.
An even bigger Chilul Hashem is trolling a person on the internet
Very simple if they dont want a picture of women, dont print one
They could have easily just not published this pictures and done. Once they decided to publish this picture they had no right to edit it
As far as I know there is no open orthodox Hashgaha. If they serve regular hashsghcha’s like the OU or OK why not trust them
#pleasetypenormal
Yeah it was a typo Warranted not wanted
Should have said
The criticism was warranted and deserved. They have made a terrible Chilul Hashem by some Chassid Shoteh chumrah.
Rav Forst lives in Far Rockaway where the only Hasgacha is the 5 towns Vaad which gives the Hecher on at least 2 Dunkin Donuts.
The criticism was wanted and deserved. They have made a terrible Chilul Hashem by some Chassis Shoteh c humrah.
Just because someone lives a frum life and does something he thinks is correct doesnt mean it is
If Hamavaser had just not printed any picture, nobody would have cared, but once they doctored the picture they opened themselved up to deserved critiscm
<en> mixed dancing in my opinion is Assur as shomer negiah comes into question if you have to dance with a partner.
There would no problem of Shomer Negiah if its with a spouse or Offspring
The economics of a seperate gym probably just arent there
I do think its wrong to say a specific thing is preventing Moshaich from coming. Its one thing to say its assur and quite another to say its preventing Moshiach from coming
We lost a real Baal Tzdekah this morning because of the Ice
Rav Dovid Winiraz, He gave alot of Tzedaka to alot of people whom he didnt even know
There is a sign saying dont buy egg sandwiches for 2 hours after shabbos
Some DD have signs like dont buy egg sandwiches on Saturday Night.
In my local dunkin donuts Ive watched them make an egg sandwich and they dont make the eggs fresh, they make them in batches and put them in some sort of draw. I am guessing here, but they main fryer that makes the eggs is lit by the Masgaich and that is why they are ok
I call em as I see em , and they clearly are Chassid Shoteh
When I am forced to explain and defend their chumras, It does affect me (I work in non-jewish world and people have asked me specifically about this photos and other chumras)
I am very aware what bothers people and what doesnt
If it’s a chumra you don’t want to keep, that’s fine, nobody’s forcing anything on you, but don’t be so intolerant of others’ ideals.
I see lots of people intolent of “kulas”, Nobody is forcing others to Drink Chalav Stam for example
CA
By that measure, one shouldnt even walk in the street.
They also make fun of kashrus (even worse than rob does), taharas hamishpacha, milah, and other mitzvos. Should we give these up as well?
Those things are clearly in the torah, this is not, this is some chumra.