Hot answers tagged stringency-chumrah
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An intriguing question, but I think you need to split this question into multiple questions. So I'm just going to focus on the first part of the question.
"Why is Judaism comprised of so many precise stringencies in comparison to other religions?"
I can not provide any sources for my answer, because I believe it is a "new answer", however it is one that ...
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This is not a practice unique to Chabad, and did not even originate with Chabad.
The Nitei Gavriel (Pesach vol 2, chapter 39, paragraph 14) mentions this custom, saying that "Many are stringent on Pesach to only eat peeled vegetables".
In the footnote he references the Chayei Adam 127:2 (not a Chabad source) and Orchot Chayim Lifshitz (notes to Orach ...
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Datim is generally the equivalent of Modern Orthodox in the US.
Charedim is an umbrella name for Chasidim, Yeshivish and any other variety of strict Orthodox who try to observe Jewish Laws and customs (e.g. the Shulchan Aruch and early commentaries) to the letter.
Chasidim are in the Chareidi category with an emphasis on minhagim which are largely based on ...
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While there might be some differences in customs and halachic positions, all of these groups believe in following the Shulchan Aruch. I would say that the biggest difference between Dati and Chareidi is that Dati men will generally get jobs to support their families and will join the army. Chareidim, including Chassidim, usually emphasize the importance of ...
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The Aruch HaShulchan - Siman 8 Seif 10 - who to my knowledge was not a Sefardi - writes:
וכן נכון לעשות שלא יהיה בהטלית רק צמר
And so it is correct to do: to make the tallit only out of wool.
It is interesting that Ashkenazim do not seem to be particular about this, yet Sefardim are!
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The technicalities of shechitah create a very fine line between a kosher shechitah and one that results in neveila meat. For example, applying too much downward pressure on the knife, or pausing during the procedure, can totally invalidate the shechitah. It is basically the shochet's call as to whether the necessary parameters were fulfilled. However, the ...
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I don't know. But Rav El'azar Meir Teitz provided some data points (but the hyperlinks are mine):
The comment was made that there is "a minhag amoung many chassidim to not eat anywhere except in their own house."
This… was not restricted to chassidim; it was apparently the norm in Lita as well. My father z"l taught me to take nothing in another ...
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The P'ri To'ar (YD 19:1) in a discussion of the obligation to slaughter a Ben Pekua' (live offspring found in a kosher slaughtered mother which biblically is included in the mother's slaughtering but rabbinically requires its own slaughtering because of chashad -- looking suspicious) mentions this rule of Chanukkah (which also relates to chashad) and notes ...
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You wanted to know, why some people might be machmir on this:
From InstituteforDayanim.com
Kashering a microwave for Pesach is impossible since only metal or wood can be kashered for Pesach. Although one can kasher plastic the rest of the year, one should not do so for Pesach. The inside of a microwave is generally not metal and is thus not kasherable.
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You seem to be confusing Buber's neo-Chassidism and Carlebach's kiruv-Chassidism with actual Chassidism. Both of these authors had an agenda of advertising a secularized version of chassidism to their followers. Original Chassidism was more about adding on to existing Jewish practice by providing commoners with something that they could connect outside of ...
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TL;DR:
Chassidus has already accomplished much of what it set out to do, and has caused significant changes in the "mainstream" of yesteryear, such that the non-Chassidism of today is really a product of both the "mainstream" of yesteryear, and Chassidus itself.
Warning: Serious over-simplifications below.
While it is true that Chassidus has changed ...
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Are you asking why Judaism has so much legal stringency compared to other religions? If so, I think your impression of "orthodox" Islam is mistaken. As for the other, that whole "breaking away from the law" thing was largely the point...
Conversion is a separate question, but it is precisely because of Judaism's many laws that it is not taken lightly, but ...
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According to Eretz Chemda, if he is a "Tinok shenishba", his wine would be kosher. If he isn't (he says he denies Hashem after he investigated the matter) and is Mechalel Shabbos in public (even in front of a Torah Scholar), his wine would be Yayin Nesech.
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Thank you to Leac and Menachem for their research and helpful answers. A few weeks ago, since asking my question, I just so happened to visit an Alpaca farm, where I came across a lady combing alpaca wool, so of course I asked her for information on wool terminology. I'm still no expert on wool making, but based on her answer I now think lashonot hatzemer ...
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According to what is says here, there are 2 stages in which when making the tzitzit have to have Kavana: The spinning and the interweaving. The stage of lashonos hatzemer, as you said, is the stage before the spinning, and according to some de'ot you need kavana from that stage already
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There is no reason it would be obligatory to upvote a question just because you answered it. As Ariel K stated, the answerer is generally helping out the asker anyway. A stronger case could be made for the asker to show Hakarath HaTov to every answerer by upvoting every answer, but that would also be weak. Not every answer is a good one, just as not every ...
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Some questions, such as this one, may have an obvious answer, which the answer-er may decide to write. In addition, some questions may be based on faulty premises. For example, it seems on this SE site, questions are frequently upvoted, so this question might not have much basis. By answering a question, one doesn't necessarily imply that "it shows research ...
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The Tur (Orach Chayyim 402) quotes the Yerushalmi (Shabbat 1:3) with a comment of the Raavyah.
The Yerushalmi reads:
רבי חייא רובא מפקד לרב אין את יכול מיכול כל שתא חולין בטהרה אכול. ואם לאו תהא אכילת שבעה יומין מן שתא.
(Roughly, The great Rabbi Hiyya commanded Rav, if you can eat ordinary food in purity all year long, eat. And if not, eat [in ...
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If the question is interesting enough to answer, it deserves an up vote. If you feel the answer is obvious or if you don't like the question why waste your time answering it!
In terms of Halacha, showing respect to the questioner is of utmost importance, to answer in a rude way of to not take note that the question is good is to show disrespect and that is ...
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If you do not know the minhagim of your parents, or are unsure as to their validity, you are supposed to take on the minhagim of your personal Rav. If you don't have a personal rav, or are unsure what the minhagim are, then you are supposed to take on the minhagim of the place you live. If the place you live does not have it's own minhagim and you do not ...
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There are issues of infestation at times with red/purple cabbage.
http://usours.com/red-cabbage-infestation-839
http://matzav.com/kashrus-alert-infestation-in-fresh-red-cabbage
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I'd always understood a "tongue of wool" to refer to the wool after it's been combed. Since the wool is long and narrow after it is combed, it is referred to as a tongue, which is also long and narrow. The wool is combed in order to clean it, and to prepare it for spinning into thread or yarn.
I'd never actually seen what it actually looks like until I did ...
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