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Brooklyn has the largest frum Population in the world (Israel is a country not a city or borough) and Is one of the few places than can really handle a large non-relgious population and there is a large non-relgious population especially Russians who are more open to the idea of a Shabbos and totally non relgious hipsters in Williamsburg or Park Slope who might not be open to the idea.

There were alot of cancellations. People did not want to commit to 25 hours. Most of the people who participated were already frum

You can and should ask politely, but if the person says No, dont call them a Secular Frum hating anti-semite. If someone asks for a favor and the person being asks says no, It is rude to be resentful of their answer

There is no Chiyuv to Fly, If your Rebbe tells you that you cannot sit next to a woman and the airline cannot gurantee it, then dont fly. Lots of people rarely if ever fly and they are fine human beings

There is a well known frum website Jew in the City, Its run by a MO Baal Teshuva with quite a following

Before Erev Rosh Hashanah there was a story about this occuring on an El Al flight, Allison Josephs who runs the sight assumed the story was a hit job on religious jews and asked her readers if any of them had been on that flight. One reader who was not on that flight but was on one 2 days before said he had seen a similar incident and the Pilot had to go on the PA system and tell people if they did not sit down they would lose their takeoff spot at JFK and could not leave.

I also heard a Rabbi giving a shiur and he recalled a simialr incident on his flight

English is the one language where nobody decides what a word is

All other languages have a consortum that decides what is and what is not a word in that language

And most new words come from American English

FYI Soccer IS the real name and it comes from Britain not the US

The real name of “European Football” is Association Football, which got shortend to Assoc , which became Soc and now soccer. It was the British who made up the word Soccer, not the americans

Lionel Messi is a Soccer player not a Football player and he is an Anti-Semetic player at that

The Met is not like a normal business, they only get about 60% of their operating budget from ticket sales, the shortfall is made up from the City, Large Donors and corporate donations.

Some of the larger jewish donors were unhappy with the opera and the other donors suddenly became anonymous. Businesses do not want to be associated with controversial things.

The Opera last night did not sell out and there are plenty of tickets for upcoming showings (You can check the Met website and verify this)

And since there is city money as well that could be in danger as well. So in the end this will directly hurt the Mets bottom line. In fact the Met almost closed due to the budget shortfall and problems in making up for it

I know some Chassidim where their Beshow might have destroyed their lives, they felt forced to marry someone had kids and then the whole thing collalpsed and I know more modern people whom a Beshow might have been a good idea for them, they just never got married and such a thing might have enabled it

If a person is starving its easier to give them money

Even if you give the chicken to the poor person as soon as Kaparot is done, very few people today know how to Kasher a chicken. THey have to bring it to a butcher and get it Kashered (and pay money for it)

(Q) Noticeable Anti-Semitism in Brooklyn NY?

(a) Nope .

Its probably more along the following

The Bible is in the pubilc domain and one cannot copyright it, however a particular edition with notes and pictures can be copyrighted.

So a Kugel recipe cannot be copyrighted as its in the public domain, however the particular wording and the pictures and text that goes with the cookbook can be copyrighted

I dont think it was the reform, but rather the maskilim, I dont remember all the details, but its something like this

A Rav wanted to make a reasonable change to something for a good reason (I forgot exactly what it was though) and he wrote to the Chasam Sofer. It turned out the Maskilim wanted the same change and were lobbying the government to make the change. The Chasam Sofer forbid the change because he felt allowing it would have given the Maskilim a victory on this issue.

What if someone said something against Vaccines?

Listings can be suspended temporarity

They likely will not kick you off if you dont answer e-mails in 24 hours

If there are some statements that are provable incorrect, How are we to know which are correct and which are not correct of the rest of the things that cant be easily proved.

Maybe this was theoritical

from Lior

DY, so lets address the situations where that’s not realistically going to happen.

You’re a dayan. A woman petitions the beis din for a Get. She says that she and her husband disagree on too many things in life so therefore they’re not compatible. That’s her basis. You and the other two dayanim determine that objectively her concerns, even if provable and true, do not fit into any halachic category that requires a husband to give a Get if he does not wish to. The husband, in the evaluation of the beis din you’re sitting on, earnestly and sincerely wishes to continue the marriage. He states he is ready and willing to fulfill all his marital obligations to her, as he had until she left. You and the dayanim agree there is no halachic basis to order a Get. What do you do at that stage (soon after she first walked out); order her to stop being a moredes and return to her husband? Is that what halacha requires?

Okay, that was when the case first came to court soon after the breakup. Now it is two or three years later. Literally nothing changed. She still didn’t return and wants the Get – and he sincerely still wants the marriage. They come back to beis din. At this point you’re sure there’s no realistic chance she’ll ever change her mind or go back. But you also see he is sincere in his stated desire to continue the marriage. You think he is being completely unrealistic and perhaps even delusional in thinking that might happen but you acknowledge his sincerity. You and the other dayanim strongly advise him that you highly recommend he give it since you believe there is no realistic chance she’ll change her mind. He politely declines following the suggestion. I maintain halacha doesn’t obligate he give it and he gets no aveira for not giving it (and she is continually sinning by having walked out), and doesn’t even allow beis din to advise him that he is halachicly required to give it or to demand or pressure that he do so.

Do you disagree and maintain that he, at this stage, is halachicly required to give it? Do you as dayan order him to give it? I maintain that if the beis din does order or pressure it, even if he says even though I don’t want to give it but if beis din orders I am obligated to give it, then I will give it on that basis, it constitutes a Get Me’usa.

SL

That is exactly a perfect example

The husband brings home unannounced guests constantly and the wife is tired and doesnt want to serve all these extra people all the time and maybe the food budget is tight and maybe she just wants family time once in a while and thinks when the husband brings home the guests he is ignoring her in favor of the guests, Or just brings home guests to irk the wife because he knows she hates it (All possible scenrios , I dont know specifics) and it irks her.

She decides she wants a divorce as the husband is not listening to her and goes to the Dayan, The Dayan says that is no reason for a divorce and in fact they are doing a Mitzvah and she should stay with such a Tzadik that he loves Hachnasat Orchim. The Dayan Probably just didnt get it that its more than Hachnasat Orchim going on here

Far for me to question a Dayan. But if a Dayan really said that a woman who is unhappy in the marriage situation and is not going back under any circumstances must say with her husband even if its beyond repair and wont go back. The Dayan likely did not hear all the facts or was unwilling to hear all the facts. You should seek another Dayan in that case.

There certainly is room according to many for appeals in Halacha. The Beis Din in Israel accepted it when the British mandated it in order to accept Beis Din decisions and the RCA also allows appeals so there is certainly more than enough room to allow it.

IMO never give mussar to anyone you dont know, not only might they not listen , it might even backfire

I dont know what exactly has happend with Bais Rivka in Crown Heights, The happend this year. Its still in flux so I cant tell you what happend to those girls.

Perhaps someone from Crown Heights knows more info.

I do know it has been in serious financial difficulties from last year so the problem is severe

I heard that the Chofetz Chaim once did an exorcist, dont know exact details though or any other information

Portugese is the 6th most spoken language on Earth. Brazil is a very large country , almost as big as the US in both size and population

If a kid is “undersireble” , but the parents had paid towards the communal funds since they moved into the neighborhood (mabye before he was even born) thats very differnet than a kid just getting kicked out from a non-communal school. By taking communal funds you are accepting responsility for good and bad kids