All Halocha Shailos and Tefilla Questions

[chessman1]

presumably it blocked it in the category of "religion '

So overbreadth rather than a particular decision?

[Chilla]

Ya gotta give them some slack- Deciding what to block is an impossible to please job, that is guaranteed to get push back- EITHER WAY.
Obviously, they will tend to err on the side of caution, especially since their clientele generally does not want access to m/o hashkafa.
They would probably allow if requested.

[Moshe Green]

So overbreadth rather than a particular decision?

Netfree is an Israeli-Chareidi style filter. They block anything they deem as wrong Hashkaficly as well as Halachikly. That means no RCA, no Mizrachi, no non-Chareidi news sites, etc. etc.

[yfr bachur]

The idea that an internet filter blocks a journal published by the RCA (and in particular an article by a talmid chacham like R' Bleich) is fascinating. Even if one disagrees with the journal's hashkafah, this does not seem like the type content that ought to be blanket filtered.

Netfree is an Israeli-Chareidi style filter. They block anything they deem as wrong Hashkaficly as well as Halachikly. That means no RCA, no Mizrachi, no non-Chareidi news sites, etc. etc.

Also one bad article can possibly get an entire site banned. I would venture that there has to have been at least one article dealing with toe ivah, or single g marriage, or g confusion or the like in the RCA journal in the last decade... not to mention pieces on ni da in a more graphic form than they would allow...

[yfr bachur]

presumably it blocked it in the category of "religion '

Netfree doesnt do categories the way all other filters do.
They started with the premise that all sites are blocked. As people request sites, they check the site and categorise them in their system.
Open, open with changes, blocked etc...
When they started, the first year or so, the filter was totaly free - until they built upp enough of a whitelist.

[aygart]

Netfree doesnt do categories the way all other filters do.
They started with the premise that all sites are blocked. As people request sites, they check the site and categorise them in their system.
Open, open with changes, blocked etc...
When they started, the first year or so, the filter was totaly free - until they built upp enough of a whitelist.

Of course the "free" is still in the name.

[Moshe Green]

Of course the "free" is still in the name.

Free is that you can surf without having to worry about seeing/reading the wrong thing. Its worry free internet.

[mevinyavin]

Free is that you can surf without having to worry about seeing/reading the wrong thing. Its worry free internet.

I always thought it meant free of the net. But yeah, that was always what they meant - not the cost.

[Randomex]

Treif! the sun revolves around the earth!! 

So display that using this set! I am buying this set to show exactly that!

How?

By holding the earth in one place and moving the sun.

Are you actually a geocentrist?

[aygart]

So display that using this set! I am buying this set to show exactly that!

By holding the earth in one place and moving the sun.


Are you actually a geocentrist?

Not in any way that makes a scientific difference

[Randomex]

What does that mean?

[yfr bachur]

Does dina demalchusa dina apply outside the borders of the country?

[Euclid]

Laser hair removal on the throat (under the Adam's Apple) to counteract ingrown hair infections...?

Seems like the Rama is talking about higher up? (If it's even the same as a razor)

[mevinyavin]

Brought in the Sanhedria Murchevet weekly Torah newsletter: the minhag is to add something choshuv to the Shabbos seudah lechvod Rosh Chodesh. Some say too davka have a large meal for Melaveh Malkah, but some say that isn't either nikkur, and so, one should have a seudas R"C on Sunday.

Looking for a mekor for the chumrah to eat a seudas Rosh Chodesh on Sunday when R"C falls out on Shabbos, so that it would be obvious that the seudah is for the sake of R"C. I desperately need this mekor in the next three hours.

[imayid2]

Looking for a mekor for the chumrah to eat a seudas Rosh Chodesh on Sunday when R"C falls out on Shabbos, so that it would be obvious that the seudah is for the sake of R"C. I desperately need this mekor in the next three hours.

ירושלמי מגילה פרק א הלכה ד
See achronim in siman 419

[mevinyavin]

ירושלמי מגילה פרק א הלכה ד
See achronim in siman 419

Thanks, though it wasn't within three hours.
Next Shabbos R"C, I won't be able to take advantage of it. The one after that, I already have an excuse for a seudah on Sunday. But in Iyar 5776, this will be useful to know.

[BESED]

Thanks, though it wasn't within three hours.
Next Shabbos R"C, I won't be able to take advantage of it. The one after that, I already have an excuse for a seudah on Sunday. But in Iyar 5776, this will be useful to know.

Sorry to spoil your seudah but I believe that the Bach clearly states:
 “אין אנו נוהגים כן”!

[king solomon]

Any kashrus issue using a sterno, because there’s steam hitting the first pan that has water in it that the food pan is resting in. So there kli to kli with rotev. I just don’t know what chemicals are in the fuel.

[jye]

Any kashrus issue using a sterno, because there’s steam hitting the first pan that has water in it that the food pan is resting in. So there kli to kli with rotev. I just don’t know what chemicals are in the fuel.

Even if there were some sort of zeiah issues, sterno fuel is poisonous and nifsal me’achilah.

[mevinyavin]

“אין אנו נוהגים כן”!

When has that phrase ever stopped ANYONE who wanted to make a seudah?
That is, except during the nine days?