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Apr 16	comment	Playing with a pet on Shabbos I heard that that t'shuva was emended by someone other than R' Moshe, and that R' Moshe himself did not mention an exception for pets.
Apr 12	comment	100% Polyester or Silk suits requiring checking You could also ask, as a precursor to this question, whether you can establish a safeik of shaatnez to begin with (i.e. if you can establish that there is sometimes wool and linen in those kinds of suits). If not, there's no need for a ספק ספיקא. At the other extreme (for example), if there generally is linen in the lining, and wool is sometimes mixed in, that might be considered a single safeik (just from the wool) if you can establish a chazaka that linen is in those suits.
Apr 11	comment	Shiur of “Miut Hamatzui” @Yehoshua The generally cited mekor is the Mishk'nos Ya'akov (Vol. 1, YD § 17).
Apr 9	comment	Relations with messianists @Danield R' Ahron followed up with a letter saying his signature was appended to a letter that he did not write and did not agree with. See DoubleAA's earlier comments. He did not agree with the notion, stated in the letter, that legitimate sources support a resurrected person being moshiach.
Apr 9	comment	Relations with messianists @Danield - But couldn't someone who thinks the Rebbe will (likely) be the moshiach be considered an "anti-meshichist"? My understanding is that an "anti-meshichist" is just someone who believes that the Rebbe didn't want Lubavitchers to make the issue of his messiah-ship a primary and public issue.
Apr 9	comment	Relations with messianists ... In fact, R' Ahron had previously implied (in 1994) that the very reason he did not consider Lubavitchers heretics was because he thought "the overwhelming majority" of them did not subscribe to the view that "the Rebbe will be resurrected as the Messiah" (which, though you can argue about nuance and semantics, is essentially incorrect and would nowadays be naive).
Apr 9	comment	Relations with messianists -1 I downvoted exactly on the basis of the above comment by @DoubleAA - the letter produced above is a borderline forgery. This letter was written by a Lubavitcher without R' Ahron's knowledge or consent, and use of the letter is disingenuous, even mendacious. All R' Ahron knew was that they were going to sign his name to a letter saying that he held that Lubavitchers with that belief are not heretics.
Apr 9	comment	Eating Matzah of Tevel or Heqdesh @DoubleAA Yes, but in the case of tevel at least, Rashi interprets the gemara as saying (incidentally to the point you mentioned) that the mishna only meant to say it is assur, not that you are literally not yotzei.
Apr 9	comment	Relations with messianists @Ariel "No one believes the Lubavitcher Rebbe is the Mashiach." That depends on what the meaning of the word is is.
Apr 9	comment	How to handle cadavers related: judaism.stackexchange.com/q/10976 and judaism.stackexchange.com/q/5104
Apr 9	comment	Eating Matzah of Tevel or Heqdesh See P'sachim 35b, which explains that the tevel referred to in the mishna is tevel mid'rabbanan (e.g. from an atzitz she'eino nakuv), from which one is yotzei b'di'avad (see Rashi 35b, s.v. t'vul mid'rabbanan). The hekdesh referred to is hekdesh that was redeemed al gabei karaka, which I guess perhaps R' Ovadia miBartenura holds is not fully hekdesh. Alternatively, maybe he used the expression "shel tevel oh shel hekdesh" but only meant referring to "shel tevel".
Apr 9	comment	What is mainstream Chabad's view on Elokists? @Daniel A disciple of his once came to town collecting for his organization, and a local (mainstream) Chabad rav encouraged his congregants to donate. Either the rav didn't consider it a problem, or he was ignorant of the fact that it is an idolatrous organization (in which case he was being seriously negligent in promoting that organization).
Apr 8	comment	What is mainstream Chabad's view on Elokists? There is also another subgroup that would not call the Rebbe "Elokeinu" or the like, but at the same time redefine the expression "עצמות ומהות מלובש בגוף" to justify specifically davening facing a picture of the Rebbe (my brother personally witnessed this in a main minyan at K'far Chabad years ago), and refer to the Rebbe as "kol yachol" literally, referring to a type of omnipotence beyond the standard "tzadik gozeir v'HKBH mekayeim." Would such people be halachically distinguished from those few who explicitly refer to the Rebbe as "Elokeinu"?
Apr 8	comment	What is mainstream Chabad's view on Elokists? @DoubleAA - Such an answer would also do well to define the beliefs of "official" and "official meshichist" vis-à-vis the status of the Rebbe (e.g. don't even most non-meshichists consider that the Rebbe is/will be/likely is/likely will be be b'chezkas Moshiach or Moshiach?) and it's ramifications for practical conduct (e.g. reciting Yechi after davening, wearing Yechi yarmulkes). This way, people know what groups are being referenced. Such an answer should also to justify the claim that "non-meshichists" are "offcial" (there has been a great deal of vying for "official" status in the past).
Apr 8	comment	Rabbi Akiva's 24k students died because of interpersonal issues, but he said Veahavta Lireacha Kamocha is a Klal Gadol? That conclusion would be an answer; perhaps you should edit it in explicitly.
Apr 8	comment	Rabbi Akiva's 24k students died because of interpersonal issues, but he said Veahavta Lireacha Kamocha is a Klal Gadol? I'm not certain that this answers the question, which seems to ask for an explanation of why R' Akiva's students apparently did not adequately absorb the central teaching above, despite their differences.
Apr 8	comment	Can a man marry a woman with the same name as his mother? (Or vice-versa?) How? @BruceJames I think the point was that adding names introduces confusion and increases the likelihood that something will be recorded incorrectly or incompletely. Here's part of the quote that I earlier replaced with ellipses (I didn't include it before due to SE's character limit on comments): "Even if they do call him Avraham Mordechai, what are you going to write on the get? This causes a major headache for mesadray gittin." Anyway, I think the stuff I quoted was from a talmid's notes, but you can probably hear R' Bleich discuss this directly on YUTorah.org.
Apr 8	comment	Can a man marry a woman with the same name as his mother? (Or vice-versa?) How? @msh210 Rabbi Bleich's opinion is mentioned here: "Rav Bleich suggests that we should be very hesitant to add new times at any time. For, after the ksubah is written, and they give the Chasan an aliyah... he will say his name is Avraham ben pluni, and not Avraham Mordechai ben pluni. Also, it is questionable if the ksubah is good.... Even if they do call him Avraham Mordechai, what are you going to write on the get?... Therefore, why create problems when you really don’t have to?"
Apr 8	comment	Can a man marry a woman with the same name as his mother? (Or vice-versa?) How? @msh210 Citation for R' Moshe's opinion: Igros Moshe EH vol. 1, § 4.
Apr 8	comment	Can a man marry a woman with the same name as his mother? (Or vice-versa?) How? See this article by Rabbi Yaakov Klass.