tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post4340405541268599480..comments2024-03-18T19:59:12.814+02:00Comments on Life in Israel: Interesting Posts #459Rafi G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00699851287106903971noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-82838002629422677852013-02-21T07:23:58.682+02:002013-02-21T07:23:58.682+02:00Thanks for posting my joke on the Promotions. Here...Thanks for posting my joke on the Promotions. Here is another one to post: Why Did the Chicken Cross The Road? Rabbinical Style (Early Purim Joke) [http://www.mywesternwall.net/2013/02/18/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-rabbinical-style.html] This was one I literally did from scratch. Let me know what you think.<br /><br />Chag Sameach,<br /><br />-Rafi Hechtrhechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03013286672634757014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-73191066174819585252013-02-18T18:03:31.233+02:002013-02-18T18:03:31.233+02:00R' Mordechai - you will definitely like one of...R' Mordechai - you will definitely like one of my morning posts tomorrow!Rafi G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00699851287106903971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-43581930211532167872013-02-18T17:58:08.269+02:002013-02-18T17:58:08.269+02:00The anecdote about Rav Shkop was interesting; but ...The anecdote about Rav Shkop was interesting; but it truly saddens me that this is such a novelty. As Rav Schachter points out, we've taken a measure of piety and turned into an expectation of everyone. In the process, the public has forgotten the halacha; and the Torah is distorted. And, like some other relatively benign issues, this has become the criterion by which someone's frumkeit is measured.<br /><br />The anecdote about Rav Shkop isn't even so unusual. Nor should it be. I was taught this way by my teachers; and I remember several occasions with Rav Ovadiah Yosef and other rabbanim behaving the same way as described with Rav Schkop.Mordechai Y. Scherhttp://www.kolberamah.orgnoreply@blogger.com