Hyehudi.org

I love the comments you make on current events, movements and conventional wisdom, especially the short and simple articles, like the recent one pointing out that sometimes there IS an objective truth (viewed as uncouth to postmodern sensibilities), brief reminders about forgotten or misunderstood mitzvas, and the quips and jokes that are both funny and drive points home (like the litvaks learning Gemara instead of karbanos, LOL). Some of the links are helpful too, like the recent one to the simple halacha site.

Your site provides for me with the closest thing I have found to a Torah bouncing board (could I say a taste of modern prophesy?) for the social and political and halachic chaos I feel we live in, and helps me make sense of it, based on impressively thorough research. The Editor articles are obviously extremely well thought out and refreshingly real and uninhibited, without sounding arrogant or dogmatic, which allows for trust and credibility in the author.

The longer ones like the links in Hebrew I am embarrassed to say often push my attention span or intellectual level beyond what I am willing to invest, but I am sure they appeal to readers who have more time or understanding at that level.

השאלה אינה אמורה בספרי חשק וע”ז חלילה, אלא בספרים חיצונים המקוריים, כבן סירא.

עיין ריטב”א בבא בתרא דף קס”ח ב’ דמשמע שמותר מעיקר הדין לעיין בדרך עראי, בתנאי שלא יקרא כקורא בתורה, ע”ש.

עדכון: כן משמע גם במדרש קהלת רבה פרשה י”ב י”א, ויותר מהמה בני הזהר מהומה שכל המכניס בתוך ביתו יותר מכ”ד ספרים מהומה הוא מכניס בביתו כגון ספר בן סירא וספר בן תגלא ולהג הרבה יגיעת בשר להגות ניתנו ולא ליגיעת בשר ניתנו.

Speaking of always following the truth, as versus the idolatrous “following the Rabbanim”, see Rabbi Karelitz’s own example in his Chut Shani Niddah p. 143, sub voce Ulefi zeh, and idem p. 151 s.v. Vehineh Hevi.

Indeed, Rabbi Karelitz tries to claim in one of the above examples he doesn’t really mean it…

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.