Reply To: Lo sichanem

Coffee, great question. I don’t think it was because of any love for paroh; I think it was because he knew his family would be in mitzrayim and needed to foster good relations with the king. It’s no different than how we daven for the welfare of our host countries; we benefit, so it’s not b’chinom.

Nom, German jews didn’t believe that their rescue from antisemitism was assimilation? That was the intent of the reform; be a Jew in the house and a German in the street. Be like them, blend in, and they won’t bother us. I don’t know what’s inaccurate about that.

I’m not sure what you mean by keil echad bara’am; chazal clearly teach that jews are a vastly different creation, to the point where the kuzari says that a yid is a 5th level of creation, after man. Are you referring to the medrash about how anyone can be a tzadik regardless of how they were born? That’s true, and there’s a place for chasidei umos haolam, but keeping 7 mitzvos is very different from 613.

The comment was in the article on Jewish public school children being abused. Rather than learn the obvious lesson, that jews dont belong in public school, where they will learn about 10 genders and the their alter zeides were chimpanzees, this commentor decided that to end anti semitism, we need to teach our children not to exclude ainom yehudim from our prayers.

“We must start teaching our children and Bochurom, that all of mankind, adults and children, Yidden and Non-Yidden, are precious in the eyes of the Creator, Hashem Yisborach.”

Chaviv adam, but chavivim yisroel… Much more so, for they are called children.

“Our children should see, that we worry about the well-being of every person and we never exclude any person, from our Teffilohs, when we Daven for Refuah Shleimo. We must never exclude Non-Yidden who are R”L not well.”

Except for the fact that it is against halacha to daven for them, and our prayers constantly refer to yisroel, exclusively.

“That will strengthen our empathy and concern for all Human Beings, for Yidden and for Non-Yidden, regardless of what kind of mother they were born to. That will be M’oirer Rachmei Shomayim.”

So it makes no difference to this person which kind of mother they are born to. Well, to the Torah, it makes a pretty big difference. I wonder what this person would do if their children, following this idea of equality, married ainom yehudim – would they sit shiva, or lovingly accept the spouse into the family, because after all what difference does it make, and they’ll raise the kids “Jewish”?

“HKB”H will, Never-Again, instigate any Hatred or Pogroms or Holocausts against us.”

Actually, this is what caused the Holocaust