R’ Menashe Klein in Mishneh Halachot 9:406–409: Various Issues in Providing Initial Guidance to a Baal Teshuvah. What May or Should Be Done to Dissuade a Sibling from Marrying a Gentile. What Was Permitted to Be Done for Soviet Jewry. - Dec 1, 2024 - Charedim in IDF. R' Nahum Rabinovitch & the problem student. Dr. Yaakov Tendler, R' Mordechai Tendler, & R' Moshe. Mishneh Halachot (MH) 9:406: Baal Teshuvah (BT) wants to return to college. R' Elazar Spira of Munkatch: German Jews successfully attending university is no proof for us. Hostility to Agudah. Machon Meir's view is don't run away from your life. Torah observance in Israeli universities is much better now. R' Menashe is against return to college. MH 9:407: Initial guidance for a BT. Noda Biyhudah on תשובת המשקל. Suffering pain as repentance for previous forbidden enjoyments is not effective today. Torah learning is. Sighet Rebbe advises BT in Vienna to grow a beard. BT refuses. Guidance to BT depends on his background. Yiddishkeit requires looking in both directions. MH 9:408: Everything at once for BT or slowly? YU vs. Touro. Shabbat is hard for BT. MH on how BT should daven. Rami Levi's daughter. Provide a family to the BT. Be gracious. MH 9:409: How far should brother go to prevent sibling marrying a gentile? Maplewood: Kohen to marry a convert. What is permitted to save someone's spiritual life? What was permitted to be done for Soviet Jews under Aryeh Kroll.
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