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I read this thread in the Kollel Store where the 3 customers ahead of me are using eBt Cards
When people learn in Kollel all day and take government benefits like Food Stamps and Medicaid, that IS Socialism.
If you don’t belive in Socialism, Don’t take Food Stamps, Medicaid or Section 8
Most of the famous fairy Tales are actually from the Brothers Grimm (Grimms Fairly Tales) Like Snow White, Cinderella etc
Many are famous and some are gruesome, However one of them not so famous was called THE JEW AMONG THORNS. It is one of the most Anti-semetic pieces of literature ever. You can google it and read it, it isnt that long
I think thats a first, that someone actually agreed with something I said
Imagine if they spent their efforts fighting abusers they way they spend their efforts fighting zionism
Nischt
You have never seen a Kindle Fire or the latest Nook, They ARE Android Tablets, instead of trolling why not google them and see what they are
FYI there are many people who have Apps with siddurs, I have one for my phone.
If you could not erase Hashems name, you couldnt use the app and almost everyone has them.
All the tablets basically work the same way.
The differnce between a Kindle and a Nook is the manufacturer. Amazon makes a Kindle and Barnes and Noble makes a Nook
I will make the assumption the questions is about the Kindle Fire (Which is the Android Tablet)and not the regular Kindle since a Nook was also asked about.
There is an common mussar shiur about where ever you are Hashem is watching, So even if you do an averiah in Public and nobody seems , Hashem sees.
Today with Smart Phones, everyone has a portable video camera, Everything you say and do can be videoed and put on you tube. You should always watch what you are saying, you never know when someone is taping you and going to put it on youtube. You should doublely watch your speech and actions.
Unfortuantly people sometimes will only see good and not see evil.
Many times someone will go to a Rav with an issue with someone and the Rav will say that averich is such a mench, there is no possible way he could have done such a terrible thing and not belive it and therefore nothing will be done
Have you ever condemed a Charedi Rabbi and said maybe he shouldnt be a Rabbi?
Dont tell me they are all such Tzdekim?
DY
the problem is there is an assumption that if there is a MO Rabbi he is suspect until proven Kosher, but if he is a Charedi Rabbi he is Kosher until all evidence proves otherwise and even there , still has people who claim he is Kosher.
Your foundation isnt as strong as you think it is, You would not be having so many OTDers and many other events like the warehouse Asifa that was cancelled if it was
Just because there is one tiny insect called a termite that can do damage, doesnt mean all insects can destroy an entire building
Avi Weiss isnt even the Morah D’Asrah in Riverdale. Hebrew Institute of Riverdale is the smallest shul in Riverdale.
Rabbi Morderchai Willig (Sorry I forgot the name of his Shul) is the main Rabbi in Riverdale . I think even Yeshiva Telshe Alumni is bigger than Hebrew Institute of Riverdale
Just because I dont Live directly in Williamsburg, doesnt mean I am not affected by what goes on there
And when a “Psak” about a smartphone comes out, People just say The Gadol didnt really say that or he was misled or the questioner took words of Chizuk into Psak Halacha so they dont follow it anyway. If they went after Agunahs you could not have this vaugueness
GAV and that is why Weiss takes the center stage and why the Moetzess instead of attacking the issue , attacks Weiss.
They are using YCT and Weiss to delfect from their own shortcomings
Dy, you have to understand the difference between the RCA and Moetzes.
The RCA tends to try to convince the laymen to their views and sometimes the lay people will force an issue on them (Like in the Abuse issue)
The Moetzes does not allow any sort of democracy and basically tells its member Its daas torah to listen and obey and does not allow lay people any input on what might be important to them.
You could never have a Kol Korea or an Asifa in more modern communities.
There has been alot of effort and Asifas for Smartphones and The working issue, Where is ANY effort to engage the Olim in Agunahs.
Since the More charedi elements have done little or no effort, they surrended the space to Weiss and he has taken up the mantel. Instead of attacking him, they should grab the sword and take charge.
YCT’s is “increasing rapidly” and are influential. Please give HARD evidence to back up this claim and increasing rapidly does not mean the number of bochrim quadruplies from 5 to 20.
Keep some of those threads coming, My personal favorite what is the proper Hashkafa for Mandela.
Many people lurk on this site and read everything . I saw alot of commentary on that one
Reform won not because laxiety, they won because of a disconnect between the Rabbanut and the Laiety. But instead of confronting those issues, they chose to ignore them and the people on the Margins just left.
I knew one that waited 13 years for a Get
Unfortuantly I know some , One of them has been one for about 5 years 🙁
She cant get one with her life
The conditions were ripe for Reform to succeed. They are not ripe anymore. And Perhaps if another approach had been taken Reform might have not been so successful.
Since you claim YCT has spreasd everywhere, Please tell us how many “Bochrim” do they have.
How many of their “Bochrim” or Rabbat’s have gotten actual pulpit positions.
The answer is very small. Most MO shuls are afflied with either or both the OU and NCYI and both have rules about women rabbis and most of their shuls take their rabbis from Yeshiva University and will continue to do so.
The only people who are affectred by YCT are the people on the fridnges who are not going to BMG anyway. You can either perhaps keep them in the fold with YCT or lose them entirely. Id prefer to keep them even though I am not affliated with YCT and have nothing to do with them and they are a little to liberal for my tastes.
About the Agunahs, Instead of condeming YCT, where is the Asifa for agunahs, Most of us know Agunahs. Come up with an answer instead of complaing. There are Asifas for all sorts of things. You can easily make one for Agunahs.
I know DNA testing is better. The blood type only disproves not proves. I was only explaining about Blood type testing.
I can also say with 100% certainty that the father can influence the kids blood type. There is a even a pregnacy problem when the mother has A type and Baby B type or the mother has Negative and the baby positive (I think its calls RF factor)
DNA testing is 99.9% accurate, It cannot for example always tell which brother is the father
You can use Blood type to “Disprove” paternity, not to prove Paternity.
The main Blood group is the A-B-O blood Group
O is recessive and A-B is dominant.
In the following example the Husband cannot be the father. If the Mother has O type and the Father has A Type and the Baby has B Type, Since neither the Mother or the “Husband” had B type it had to come from somewhere else
A classic double standard. Despite the fact that you are not chassidish and are not personally affected by issues in their communities, you had no problem opening a thread to hem and haw over bicycle banning hearsay; however, you wonder over this thread?
Because of my employment situtation I am forced to defend people who appear on the front page of the NY post.
Those communities are alot larger than the small one in Riverdale.
And frankly I do have close ties to the Charedi community, stronger than you know, so they do affect me more than Riverdale does where I have none.
The Post doesnt care about your boycott, It loses millions of dollars a year and is kept alive because Murdoch wants a newspaper paper in NYC
FYI
While most here may not agree with him, Rav Shecter is a Gadol and Im sure he knows the Halachas too.
If there was a problem, I am sure he would address it
The issue of Mamzer was brought up by others not me, And you can ask if Offspring of say a mixed marriaged (Where mother is Jewish) or a couple who was never married in the first place is a mamzer. We are generally very strict who we will call a mamzer even if there is proof otherwise
A divorce case came up in Israel where the father said he wife had an affair and the kids were not his (He didnt want to pay child support) . A DNA test was taken and one of the kids was not his, and he was still forced to pay child support. the Beis Din refused the evidence of the DNA test in order not to make the kid a mamzer.
I never said throw the whole thing out on conversions. If Avi Weiss’s conversions do not keep the Torah, they are not good. If they keep the torah then you have no argument. There is a big of vagueness that probably needs to be cleared up.
For the record, I do not live in Riverdale and have nothing to do with YCT or Avi Weiss, but I find it fascinating that some are so obessessed with him and ignore issues in their own house. He has no affect on my life, and frankly he shouldnt have any affect on yours. Certainly this was not the biggest issue that occured this weekend.
First off all, a mamzer is only the offspring of an illicit affair with a jewish men and a married jewish woman. If the man is a non-kosher convert (meaning not-jewish) then halachically he is not the father and the child is not a mamzer
If the mother is a non-kosher convert, Then the child is not jewish so they are not a mamzer either.
Most gerius is not a joke, Most people who convert genually want to observe the Torah and mitzvoh, there are some who convert for marriage reasons (Ivanka Trump I belive) , You can prevent some of that, but not always.
Except for the Vaad of Queens , there is no standard conversion. Its basically whatever the Rabbis decides and its also clear that just because someone is a Charedi Rabbi doesnt mean he is Lesham Shamayim either.
Rav Moshe actually wrote about Rabbis who were pressured to do converstions (Im guessing because of marriage reasons) and generally held they were valid.
I do know of cases where a convert married a Cohen. The convert had converted conservative. At some point they became BT’s and they had to convert Orthodox. The couples were allowed to remain married and any offspring was not considered a Mamzer, although they are not Cohanim and there is no Valid Ketubah.
I dont think many people from the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale are marrying many people from Borough Park
DY
You cant really define “Improper Geirus” as like I said Satmar considered Chabad Geirus “Improper” and the example I gave all agree is impoper, but thats only because we heard of him, What if there are other Troppers out there.
And I belvie many Sephardic communuties dont even allow Geirus (Like Syrians?) so in those communities all Gerius is impoper.
If a Weiss Ger lived his life as a Frum Jew, Is it still “Improper”. If a Satmar Ger goes OTD (I know some who did) is that “Improper”
Its really not as big a problem as you think.
I know a few people who converted Chabad and at some point their family became Satmar who did not accept the Chabad conversion and made them re-convert. So people dont always accept others conversion anyway
In general when its found out that someone was not converted properly but was living a jewish life ie they converted conservative or an adoption was not proper. A symbolic conversion is done
I guess converstions by Weiss are invalid, but conversions by Rav Tropper are valid
How many Weiss Gerim really are there?
And I doubt many of them are moving to Lakewood ,Borough Park , Or Bnei Brak either.
There is likely some politics involved, The Rabbanut in Israel have not been totally honest about gerut done in the US and wont even say which non-charedi rabbis they will accept Gerut from .
There is a reason that the Dati-Leumi are moving closer to the Chilonim as opposed to the charedim which should be their natural allied.
Tammuz is the name of a Babylonian God.
Many hospitals in NYC area have Bikur Cholim.Also you might want to contact a local Chabad house or young Israel near the Hospital,Maybe they can help
Stamp Collecting is a hobby not an extra curricular activity.
That is obvious. It is because it is Assur. Only the bums get a heter to play an instrument, because otherwise they might join Nachal Charaidi
HAHAHA
But seriosuly Ive always wanted to have some sort of entertainment capabilities to entertain the Chasson/Kallah at a wedding.
Its truly a shame that nobody here mentioned normal extra curricular activities like playing a musical instrument.
There is a difference between a kid who is violent who a kid who maybe shouldnt be learning 14 hours a day and is acting out because of it.
I dont know if he OP is talking about a Coat or something like getting up for Minyan.
Sometimes you have to pick your battles
Christianity is not monolithic. Different denominations have differnet beliefs. I think most of Judaisms response has been in reference to Catholism but most of the US (Not in Northeast) is Protestant which have differnet belifs. And some might surprise you.
Unitarians for example do NOT belive in the trinity nor do they have icons (Catholics and Lutherans have icons) Southern Baptist, Methodists do not
The yiddish the seniors speak is not the same yiddish as spoken in the frum velt.
I can understand the Yiddish spoken by the older people, I cannot udnerstand frum velt yiddish
(Galacian Yiddish was spoken frequently when I was younger so I heard it alot and recognize that accent)
Stalin killed more civilians than Hitler did. About 13 Million Civilians were victims of the Nazis.About 20 Million civilians were victims of Stalin.
If you blame WW II on the Nazis then Hitler could be at fault for 50 Million. In other words BOTH were bad and Stalin WAS an Anti-Semite, Ever hear of the doctors Plot for example?
England had to give release the colonies, Colonies are actually a drain on resources and only good for prestige. England had been bankrupted by 2 world worlds and could no longer afford them.
Why do you think the Russians are doing so well today. The got rid of the leech places that drained the russian economy to fend for themselves and now cna keep the resources for themselves