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To note, kids commonly ignore cars and drivers and continue to ride their bikes and scooters and bimbas weaving in and out and around the cars trying to carefully maneuver through the lot. Granted, the driver has to always be extra cautious, but the kids are way too flippant about the dangers. The parking lots are made for cars but are also used as playgrounds by the children of the adjacent buildings and this causes an inherent danger. As I once heard said, pedestrians may generally have the right of way but it doesn't help much if they dont want to spend months recuperating from an injury or have to undergo operations and needless to say if killed.

That being said, back to the psak, so a couple rabbonim got together and issued a psak saying drivers need to drive slowly and carefully paying attention to their surroundings and residents and children and parents of children need to be careful and recognize that the parking lot is dangerous and kids should not be there playing unsupervised. Drivers should make sure to install in their cars whatever safety features and sensors that are available and can even pay for them with maaser money.

The family of fallen soldier Moshe Noll walks from their house in RBS through what has become the traditional flag escort flanked by Rabbis, community leaders and community members, on their way to the funeral of Moshe

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Rav Yitzchak Zilbershtein, rav of Ramat Elchonon neighborhood of Bnei Braq, does not like the trend of the cholent shops people go to on Thursday nights to sit and enjoy some chulent... in Hebrew they are called Cholentiyot or Chontiyot.

Rav Zilbershtein really has two problems with the Thursday night cholent places, and they are not what I expected before reading the details.

Rav Zilbershtein was asked by some yeshiva bochurim about the appropriateness of going out for cholent on a Thursday night considering that cholent is a food that was specifically invented for the purpose of being eaten on Shabbos. Also, the cholent is not being eaten as preparation for shabbos, to make sure the cholent is good for Shabbos like people who taste a bit on Friday, but to enjoy a good dish on Thursday night, and now some have extended it and are opening earlier on Thursdays and even earlier in the week to serve cholent. And they put up big pots of cholent, not to sell cholent for shabbos but to eat during the week. So the question asked is if eating a shabbos food like cholent during the week is ok or if it is a problem and some sort of slight to Shabbos...

Rav Zilbershtein went through the potential issues and sources showing that it is important and preferred to designate a food to be special for Shabbos and one should not eat such foods during the week so as to properly honor the Shabbos with these designated foods.

Rav Zilbershtein mentioned people who had special foods for Shabbos and refused to eat them during the week, like the Arizal who wouldnt eat kugel during the week, and the Baal ShemTov who wouldnt eat "tzibbel" during the week, and the Chasam Sofer who wouldnt eat tzimmes during the week. And regarding cholent specifically which was actually invented to be specifically a shabbos food, for sure should be kept for Shabbos.

Rav Zilbershtein added that cholent is really not a healthy food and rabbonim over the years considwered that perhaps it should not be eaten but concluded that eating it on Shabbos is ok because Shabbos adds special bracha to the Shabbos food and provides protection from the unhealthy aspect of it. That bracha and protection only happens on Shabos, but if you eat cholent during the week, or other unhealthy foods, you are not protected and your health will be affected.

To conclude, Rav Zilbershtein pasked not to eat cholent during the week because:

1. it is important to keep the food designated for Shabbos enjoyment

2. it is unhealthy to eat cholent during the week because it does not get the protection awarded on Shabbos.

source: Hamechadesh

what if you dont usually eat cholent on Shabbos? Ok, you'll have to contend with the halacha about eating hot foods on Shabbos (which cholent was meant to satisfy), but you can eat other hot foods. If you designate a different food for Shabbos instead of cholent can you then eat cholent during the week? it might be unhealthy but is it really worse than ice cream or skittles or chocolate cake or fried foods, especially if only eating one portion once a week or once every few weeks?

why would you expect them to no longer be "messianic", whatever that means, just because they have now been drafted to the IDF? I would even suggest that the army is the best place for messianism to flourish rather than to be quashed...

this got left behind and might be thought of as irrelevant at this point but I think it is still an interesting topic and in Israel we have these types of issues and concerns on a fairly regular basis, even if on a somewhat smaller scale..

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Israel's Minister of the Interior Moshe Arbel announced that Weiss will not be allowed into Israel ever again, revoking his visa. Arbel said that he would not allow anyone who works against Israel and identifies with its enemies to enter the country.

Good move, but I am curious. If one day Weiss wakes up and says he wants to move to Israel, to make aliyah.... will he be allowed to or will the ban still stand? The Law of Return assures every Jew (or descendant of Jews) the right to make aliyah. Does Arbel's decision override the Law of Return or will that be his joker?

An avreich from BMG was arrested after he tried to hire a 15 year old to clean the carpets of his car. The teen snapped a picture of him and flagged down a policeman claiming the man was soliciting him. The man, Binyamin Kubani, was arrested without being given the chance to tell his side of the story, and the Lakewood community is seething and has been holding prayer vigils on his behalf.

Either significant details are missing or this is just a crazy story. With the amount of frum Jews in Lakewood and the influence they hold, is it possible for an avreich to be railroaded like this?

Do you know more about this? Did I miss any important reports that have been added to the story that make it make sense, at least somewhat?

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