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Rabbi Shteinman: Don’t dress up baby boy as girl
Moshe Heller
Published: 15.03.14, 11:20
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1. Reminds me of the story of when I was about to get married.
Al   (03.15.14)
I was quite religious at the time and so I teamed up a Rabbi to teach me the laws of Nida. At the time another young man came to see the Rabbi and he shown him a cloth of sort. I was curious as to what that was all about so I asked the Rabbi as to what it was the man was showing him. He told me that the man showed him the vaginal secretions of his wife and whether it was permissible for him to have relations with her at that time. I was surprised..I didn't know I would need permission form the Rabbi to have relations with my new wife.Silly me all I though I had to do was ask permission from my wife to have relations with her. Yessiree keep on listening to the Rabbis. My late mother would always say. "You have to have your own sechele." People get a life, put the Rabbis in their place and live your lives. These power hungry trippers will wreck you up everyday but Sunday.
2. Careful, they will circumcise her-him & make her a kaliker.
Michael ,   California, USA   (03.15.14)
3. Rabbi Snooze Button says, "ZZZZZzzzzz"
mea   (03.15.14)
4. Al Thanks to the laws of purity
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (03.15.14)
religious couples stay attracted one to another until the end of their life.
5. to #2
iselin ,   oslo   (03.16.14)
What is a kaliker?
6. Crossdressing
Sherlock Holmes ,   London England   (03.16.14)
It's a mitzvah to get drunk on Purim. Therefore for men to dress and women and women as men could easily lead to immorality. On what authority does Moshe Heller say Ashkenazim cross dressed on Purim?
7. #6 Sherlock , how much do i need to drink?
Haim   (03.16.14)
You say that excessive drinking could lead to immorality? How much do i need to drink exactly?
8. #6's pilpul is just perfect 4 our peace negotiating team...
just saying ,   Israel   (03.16.14)
seems to me he will do way better than P.M. Netanyahu et.al.
9. YU came out with an article on this
Mordechai   (03.16.14)
Modern Orthodoxy's YU in its Torah To Go publication for Purim came out with an article on this issues and it was quite clear in it that this is a mainstream normative position
10. @4 so y r there ultra-orthodox battered women's shelters?
a learned Jew ,   Israel   (03.16.14)
and y r there divorce courts? and y is it that soooo many religious couples are infertile? in other words, dear dreamer, Ora...reality reality reality is far better than a propaganda of daydreaming!
11. Number one. Taharas Mishpacha
Danny ,   London England   (03.16.14)
If you learnt the Laws of Nidda you will know that certain spots make the wife Nidda, but others do not. If the husband is not sure he then asks a Rabbi a shailoh.
12. Reply to number 9.
Joseph ,   London England   (03.16.14)
Does YU give any specific Poskim who consider crossdressing normal on Purim? I'm as Ashkenazic -- Litvish and Yekkish -- as they come and I've never seen or heard of such an opinion. I've just walked the length of Golders Green Road, full of youngsters in Purim costumes, but I didn't notice even one crossdressed.
13. 10 Learned Jew, go back to school
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (03.16.14)
You will learn that exceptions confirm the rule. Proof,orthodox societies have four times more children than secular societies. Purim Sameah,not so learned Jew.
14. #5, It means "handicapped"
Michael ,   California, USA   (03.16.14)
It's a Yiddish word adopted from a Polish word "kaleka" which means a handicapped person. I think everybody in Neu Yauk knows what it means, but I am not sure about the spelling in English. Hopefully, this will help you to set some Norwegian slang terms there in Oslo.
15. #13
JDE ,   Boston   (03.16.14)
"Proof,orthodox societies have four times more children than secular societies." Right, and the fact that people are told to have that many children by their rebbaim doesn't enter into it at all.
16. #13, Hiding the truth elevated to a form of "art"
Michael ,   California, USA   (03.16.14)
Almost nothing among the Haredim is as it appears to the naked eye except for poverty and misery. Everything is done for making improvisations which are then cleaned up by saying "bli eyn ha'ra" (or kanaynehore in Yiddish), meaning not to blaspheme. Very artistic, is it not? Right there along with schnorring.
17. Ora you switched from happy marriage
HIstory nut   (03.17.14)
to having many children. Of course you were coming to the rescue of the "religious." Were you defending the cross-dressing or the "joy" that a man may feel when he dresses as a woman like the article says at the end? Both are indefensible. Stick to defending the few things the ultra religious do that have merit. By the way, the costumes probably originated when Ashkenazim assimilated into European carnival in the middle ages. The Temani have no such custom. They shoot off fireworks.
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