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Rabbi Gershon Bess Forbids Consumption Of Most Fish
I wonder if the RCC will force all their restaurants to stop selling fish? An Orthodox rabbi tells me about Rabbi Bess and the RCC: “These people don’t know what they are talking about when they prohibit these things. The … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Orthodox, Orthodoxy, R. Gershon Bess, RCC
Tagged 5tjt, fish report, rabbinic leaders, rav elyashiv, selling fish, shulchan aruch
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Intellectuals Go Nuts Over Rav Soloveitchik
But the ordinary Jew has not been affected by the Rav. Those who get drunk on the Rav’s theories are intellectuals who love theories. Yes, the Rav ordained more rabbis than anybody in history. But the Rav did not make … Continue reading
Posted in Marc B. Shapiro, Orthodoxy
Tagged chatam sofer, Marc B. Shapiro, orthodox rabbi, shulchan aruch, soloveitchik, torah in motion
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Love The Convert
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed writes in the Jewish Press: The laws regarding converts to Judaism are among the most astounding in the Torah. They teach us that any non-Jew who truly and earnestly seeks to join the Jewish people may do … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion
Tagged ancient culture, anti semite, converts to judaism, despair, deuteronomy, extreme difficulties, first glance, inner strength, insult, jew, jewish law, jewish press, melamed, nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp, rabbi eliezer, rich tradition, rsquo, shulchan aruch, Torah, truth of the matter
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The Tape & The Talmud
From the New York Times: Four days before his first North American Boxing Federation title defense, Yuri Foreman sat in the basement of a Brooklyn brownstone studying Shulchan Aruch, the code of Jewish law. By early afternoon, he would be … Continue reading
Posted in Boxing
Tagged american boxing, arum, boxing career, boxing federation, brownstone, code of jewish law, jewish leaders, knockouts, new york board of rabbis, New York Times, observant jew, potential danger, puncher, rabbi joseph, risk and reward, rsquo, shulchan aruch, world champion, Yeshiva University, yuri foreman
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Let’s Talk About The Right Of ‘Bameh Dantoni’
It’s in the Shulchan Aruch. It means that if you lose in a Beit Din (Jewish law court), you have the right to ask the judges to explain why they ruled as they did. When you take a case to … Continue reading
Posted in RCC
Tagged cloaking device, hearsay, jewish law, objections, RCC, reluctant witness, shulchan aruch, statute of limitations, testimony, Torah
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