Torah & Hashkafa Questions (PC Free For All)

[Yehuda57]

There is a time-honored minhag going at least back to Kalev (if not the medrash about Rochel Imeinu's kever) to daven AT kivrei tzadikim. There is a machlokes if asking the tzadik for help is permitted, but let us say (for argument's sake) that you go with those who permit it.
The problem here is not that he left the kosel and went to Rashbi. The problem is "even when Hashem Himself doesn't give a yeshua, Rashbi has the power." If you don't think that is kefira, I can't help you.

I didn't see the original, but what it is likely saying, perhaps clumsily transcribed or clumsily misunderstood, is not that Hashem can't help and the Rashbi can, but that Hashem had decreed it one way, and the Rashbi interceded and asked Hashem to change His decree.

[dm123]

You don't think it went without saying that what it meant was when Hashem apparently decided not to grant the yeshua, Rashbi had the power to overturn the gezeira and get Hashem to grant the yeshua?

Yes, the nachash Moshe made was broken because it became a problem. You think we currently have a problem that people forget the source, or perhaps people take it for granted that everyone understands that's what they mean? The people I'm around would be horrified if they were misinterpreted that the True Source is missing, perhaps it's not a relevant sample and most that say R Shimon saves or R Chaims brocho protects do forget the Truth C"V, but I find that hard to believe.

[aygart]

Sorry. I forgot Vaad Harabanim/Kupat Hair has the trademark on salvation.  ::)https://thechesedfund.com/vaadharabanimprojects/coin?aff=43

FTFY. Click your heels, donate to either one, and you will be back in Kansas.

[bochur22]

FTFY. Click your heels, donate to either one, and you will be back in Kansas.

You missed their latest campaign. For $360, 40 Talmidei Chachomim will Daven 40 Nights for you at the Tziun of the Shitah Lo Nodeh L'mi

[imayid2]

Bad translation. The original says אכיר להם טובה

Also all “will”s should be replaced with “should”

[yfr bachur]

You missed their latest campaign. For $360, 40 Talmidei Chachomim will Daven 40 Nights for you at the Tziun of the Shitah Lo Nodeh L'mi

which was just after the campain where for just $666, 12 talmidei chachamim will play chess for you on nittle nacht

[EliJelly]

Technically, through the mechanics of צדיק גוזר, והקב"ה מקיים the tzaddik has a Koach, but ultimately, it is all Hashem, and if that is not understood, then, OUCH!

[yelped]

Of course, but some people only remember the first part and not the second.

[mevinyavin]

Wasn't a bad translation, y'all. What was written was kefira. What the writer meant, we hope was not. (I assume not.) I should have been clearer, perhaps. (As an editor, I have seen kefira in seforim I was working on three times so far. It wasn't actually meant in any of those.)
Zechus of tzadikim is a wonderful thing. Even if talking to them is a machlokes, it is certainly the minhag to do so. ("Uber ich zug nein!" like Rav Chaim Shmulevitz said.) Unfortunately, the way that this concept is expressed in adverts and the like often has what to be desired, and the less educated may misunderstand.
In the words of my Rebbe, RYB, "It sometimes smells like avodah zarah."

[aygart]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/nyregion/brooklyn-observant-jews.html

[Definitions]

First thing that came to my mind when I saw the title about the strollers of all things. I remember learning a very long time ago that according to the rashba wheeling a carriage isn't considered carrying as long as it's not lifted a tefach ( going over a curb could be problematic).

Although I don't remember it clearly at all so... yeah

[EliJelly]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/nyregion/brooklyn-observant-jews.html

So much PC there. Paying for a goy to push the stroller.. mindboggling how many have no clue about אמירה לעכו׳׳ם ומעשה שבת. Could be his case taking the toddler to shul was a צורך גדול, who knows. ("He remembered that, as he left for synagogue, his son, who was not yet 2, would cry: “I want to go shul, I want to go to shul.” “It was heartbreaking,” he said"..) Reminds me of the hotel valet parking guy who told me how Jewish people ask him to buy for them Starbucks coffee on Shabbos and paying him after Shabbos. 

[drosenberg88429]

So much PC there. Paying for a goy to push the stroller.. mindboggling how many have no clue about אמירה לעכו׳׳ם ומעשה שבת. Could be his case taking the toddler to shul was a צורך גדול who knows. Reminds me of the hotel valet parking guy who told me how Jewish people ask him to buy for them Starbucks coffee on Shabbos and paying him after Shabbos.

There's an eruv... (PC explodes.)

Seriously, the carriage is probably batul to kid, who is חי נושא את עצמו, so שבות anyways, no? AYLOR, obviously.

[EliJelly]

There's an eruv... (PC explodes.)

Seriously, the carriage is probably batul to kid, who is חי נושא את עצמו, so שבות anyways, no? AYLOR, obviously.

??שבות דשבות לצורך

[aygart]

Seriously, the carriage is probably batul to kid, who is חי נושא את עצמו, so שבות anyways, no? AYLOR, obviously.

This. שש"כ says this is dependent on minhag.

[drosenberg88429]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/nyregion/brooklyn-observant-jews.html

Lol, the article is takeh about the eruv. Oy. 🤦🤦🤦 Of all the anti semitic articles the NYT likes pushing just to stir the pot, this has got to be from the more vindictive. It's like the Israeli politicians that have chareidi affairs advisors that know how to play inter chareidi politics against each other and use that as leverage.

[EliJelly]

Lol, the article is takeh about the eruv. Oy. 🤦🤦🤦 Of all the anti semitic articles the NYT likes pushing just to stir the pot, this has got to be from the more vindictive. It's like the Israeli politicians that have chareidi affairs advisors that know how to play inter chareidi politics against each other and use that as leverage.

Lol, one can think after reading it that recognizing the Willy Eiruv is split along the the two satmar lines.

[yelped]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/nyregion/brooklyn-observant-jews.html

I don't understand why this is here? The beginning of the article is a little off, but the rest of it is simple. There is now a kosher eruv surrounding Brooklyn.

[imayid2]

I don't understand why this is here? The beginning of the article is a little off, but the rest of it is simple. There is now a kosher eruv surrounding Brooklyn.

FTFY

[EliJelly]

I don't understand why this is here? The beginning of the article is a little off, but the rest of it is simple. There is now a kosher eruv surrounding Brooklyn.

Interesting we learn of this Brooklyn Eiruv from the Times. Who's initiative is it? Who's overseeing it? Weird story.