Tag: gedolim
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Jewish Life
The differences between cults and legitimate Torah organizations
I'll be honest with you folks, I always thought that by being an Orthodox Jew I was part of a cult, but Cross-Currents just…
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Jewish Life
10 most common Gadol stories
I love gadol biographies, I find myself sitting in shul most every shabbos delving into the stories, lies, fabrications, and mythology surrounding the stories…
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Jewish Life
Knowing a lot of Torah doesn’t make you better
One of the biggest complaints I hear from people going through a crisis of faith is that the community leaders and rabbis are hypocrites.…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Finally a Charedi Rabbi we can all respect
It's rough out there in Charedi land, too many Rabbonom get mixed up in affairs they shouldn't be involved in and end up being…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Just because he’s your gadol, doesn’t mean he’s my gadol!
Matzav.com is stealing all of my ideas, only they take themselves way too seriously. If the gedolim were being respectable, I'm sure they would…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Ben and Jerry’s introduces Gadol themed ice cream
Thanks to my old yeshiva mate Moty Raven for coming up with this piece of brilliance, so brilliant, yet possibly offensive to most folks…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
The Asifa is done: I was fooled
Guest post By Eliyahu Fink originally posted on his blog Let’s make this short and sweet. The askanim I spoke with assured me that…
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Jewish Life
Tehilim emergency
Raboisai, we are living in difficult times. A bunch of gedolim are in the hospital, or just got out of the hospital this week.…
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Israel
Occupy Beit Shemesh: Where are the 99% of Charedim who don’t support this?
I told myself that I wasn't going to be commenting on news this week, but the craziness going on in Beit Shemesh deserves some…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
The pre-internet gedolim are helping us battle the yetzer harah
Sooner or later, all of the elder gedolim will be gone and we will be faced with a crisis, the crisis I speak of…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
The chumra crisis: We need more chumras
You may have also noticed this trend, but I have been alarmed by the fact that no new chumras have been created by the…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Gedolim warn of the dangers of Wikipedia
A guest post by Philo KOL KOREH A GRAVE WARNING FROM OUR GEDOLIM, SHLITA, ABOUT THE ENTRY “GADOL” ON “WIKIPEDIA” BS”D The danger of…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Is Facebook or Smoking more assur?
It’s not another satirical piece by me, it’s actually a fairly lengthy discussion in one of the yeshiva world news coffee room forums and…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Haredi Rabbis Ban Vos Iz Neias
I was wondering when it would finally happen, everyone knew that VIN's sole purpose was to show how foolish the frum community looked when…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Vacations are almost banned
Its been some time since the Charedim have tried to ban something, this is mostly because the riots, the gays and the scandals have…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Rockstar Rebbes and the frum paparazzi
Every week the Jewish newspaper Yated has a Rebbe centerfolds section, with pictures of Rebbes doing everything from cutting a birthday cake, drinking mayim…
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Israel
The latest Charedi riots are a huge chillul Hashem
I can sort of understand rioting because shabbos is being desecrated, but rioting because a child abuser was arrested is completely insane, and a…
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Pesach
Rabbis in Brooklyn finally make a good ban
Vos Iz Neias is reporting that 30 leading Rabbis in Brooklyn have signed a religious ban on price gouging for Pesach items. Sounds like…