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Rocky > The printing company is going to print it and make a profit; no matter what, all the donors are doing is giving the printer more money.
If there is competition, then the printer’s profit will reflect the donations and the sale price will be lower.
Probably, a more effective way to do tzedokah would be to donate money directly to the buyers – a voucher upon presenting a receipt for the siddur.
jackk > You do not find a single exception with President Joe Biden.
Jackk, Pres Trump already answered your question if you watched the debate. He asked whether Pres Biden ever fired anyone. I’ll add to that, none of people who work for them are independent actors, most of them came up the hierarchy serving previous bosses. They don’t want to, and can not complain. Congress member who have some independence started complaining.
yechiel > he did EXTREMELY WELL at that news conference. Ignoring that, eh?
At the first glance, I thought this was sarcasm and double-checked whether I was the one who wrote it. I actually watched this conference to do my own diagnosis. Even at 2x speed, President’s thinking was painstakingly slow. I felt bad for the old man embarrassing himself. Someone @ WSJ tried to defend Pres B by describing how Reagan was deteriorating during last year. This op-ed has about 2,000 comments all saying the same thing: Reagan stepped down from the high level, Biden is sliding from the unremarkable level he was when he was younger.
Also, NYT headline writers are off their rockers. Latest one: Dems push Biden to xxxx – Last thing a stumbling old man needs is a push!
EXCTL>Being honest:
We like to live amongst our own kind
We vote for Jewish candidates
We look for and use Jewish professionals (medical, legal, accounting, etc.)
We shop at Jewish owned businesses.Does this make us racist?
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On one hand, I agree with you. At the same time, I skipped voting for a Jewish VP candidate despite respecting him … another relative of mine used to avoid meeting that candidate’s mother for years, as she was always asking whether he voted for her son …I am not the only one trying to vote for the good of the country. USA is doing somewhat better than other countries avoiding narrow voting for personal interest. For example, dem strategists are complaining for years that Americans are voting down “death taxes” despite 99% of them “benefiting” from such re-distribution…
How could R convention be preceded in a short order by – an opponent bumbling debate and a half-hearted attempts to fix them; a failed bullet producing an iconic defiance picture; and a prosecutor dismissal? It is either a well-timed conspiracy or a yad Hashem ….
the only argument against the conspiracy is the near-miss of the bullet, who would risk that even if Wilhelm Tell was shooting. Unless, it was paint and not blood. Your thoughts?
If you don’t change – do you know anyone who does.
Show of hands – anyone here who plans to vote for a different party this year? Or change between voting and not voting.
The Camp Drama is an excellent point for research. a year from now, compare development of kids who did not get to the camp with their classmates who went to a different camp. Let’s see any differences in middos, learning, health.
ExCTL > The descendants of slaves idea is one only considered by the elite, not the masses
So, you are saying masses are plain racist? It could be, but more likely simply emotional and following the flow.
As an example, gallup has a “poll” about “immigration” – scary quotes because they do not use “illegal” in most questions, conflating legal and illegal immigration, while clearly referring to illegal in other questions, like “closing the border” . So they have these 2 questions, approximately:
1. would you give citizenship for the immigrants who are already in the country if they follow certain (undefined) conditions – yes 80%
2. would you agree to immediately deport everyone who is currently in the country illegally. yes 40%So, at least 20% answered yes to both questions, although these answers are incompatible. Well, maybe they just want any resolution, just want to debate to end?!
ujm, indeed, the best is to sponsor kiddush and havdala and be mentioned in yakum purkan (that seems to support your idea omitting those whose names are on the building walls).
Sir, when you have a 50% chance of divorce for _a_ wife, your chance to keep at least one out of your three wives is staggering 87.5%!
This presumes independent interaction with each of them. But if you are not able to afford three houses, then they might all walk out as a group on you.
We need to define MO before we argue about it. See the text above I just posted. For me, this is MO, and I think many gedolim would agree to it, r Soloveitchik, R Schwab, R Auerbach. Not sure about R Kotler.
However, we are still very far removed from the ideal. And so
are all other yeshivos and mesivtos which employ for their “English” department non-Jewish or irreligious Jewish teachers. If only the secular teacher would be endowed with ידבוע become toneshamos Jewish mechanech and desire to be hashkafaha proper ! Then he or she would not only manage to impart a masterful secularםשה education with results which would impress the parents as well as the authorities, but every secular lesson could be turned into a genuine Jewish experience. Rather than subjecting the students of a yeshivah to the schizophrenic jolt of switching over in the afternoon from kodesh to chol, and exposing them to the fascination of a foreign culture and non-Torah values, the ideal Torah im Derech Eretz teacher of the secular department would be capable of serving the whole . ןילוח לע תרהט שוקה to the students as menu of secular knowledge First of all, the secular teacher would impress his or her students with the concept that a first-class general education gives the student the wherewithal to make a kiddush Hashem in the outside world. Secondly, as a true mechanech, he or she would control the library, and all required reading of English literature would be discussed from a Torah viewpoint, clarifying where our Torah ideology differs from the philosophy of the author. The compositions written by the students should discuss the ideological Jewish interest contained in the literary masterpieces: what we can accept, and what we must reject.
This “black support” thing is really a mental aberration, and a racist at that. Neither Barrack nor Kamala are descendants of slaves in America. They are both in part high-privileged (white or Brahmin, with a touch of slave owners), and part African, unrelated to US. How do they redeem any slavery sins of America, real or imagined? The only legit salve descendent who lives in the WH was Michelle, but she did not like it.
A good example is R Huna’s intervention into malfunctioning food markets:
farmers were bringing food from villages and then whatever is left at the end of the week was lost. So, the farmers started bringing less to avoid losses, leading to shortages and higher prices. Classic market failure.
R Huna started buying leftover food at the end of the week to increase supply. But he did not give away the food for free – this would create a “great society” welfare system, with poor expecting handouts, not buying, and destroying the market again. Instead, he sent that food down the river – not to be destroyed, as this will be asur, but to be picked up by downstream poor who will not distort the local market.
I wish Pres Johnson learnt this Gemora …
skripka > . You must hate the tannaim who established socialist policies such as burying everyone in plain wood caskets,
I agree, maybe we should tune in more into what halachik sources actually say? I think, they generally prefer market solutions and user fees, while at the same time providing safety net and human dignity when needed.
For example, we give food upon request, but investigate whether they really need clothes. We give based on residency and based on minimal daily food requirements. We collect payments for security services proportional to the benefits to either lives or property.
R Schwab (what year?) > break off your professional relationship with those who, for instance, consider Yishu HaNotzri merely a failed moshiach
Great language on unity in these words, but can someone clarify when did RCA have such a relationship with other religions? R Soloveitchik paskens that it is possible to meet with other religions to discuss social/political/world issues, but _no_ discussions about theology. When someone asked about an invite to the Vatican congress where they decided to rescind their anti-Jewish doctrines in 1960s, he paskened not to attend: if they want to do teshuva, great, they should deal with that. We have nothing to do with that and should not even come and thank them for that.
> And it was that which he said justified “Modern Orthodoxy” – survival, nothing else
This is not the justification I saw in R Soloveitchik speeches and letters. Maybe there are several and I paid attention to the one that speaks to me.
This is the one I read, my paraphrase:
The world is changing very fast and we are exposed to new challenges. If we, Jews, claim that we have eternal Truth from Hashem, then we should be able to address these challenges. “Hiding in the caves” is not an adequate response to challenges that Hashem is sending us.Re: YU, he writes, I think, in 1940s-50s, probably while considering or just after starting at YU, he proposes a goal of streamlined curriculum that mass-produces Rabbis who can lead communities: say a parsha dvar Torah, organize davening, do correct marriages and know enough of gittin to refer to more knowledgeable people. He contrasts it with Litvishe yeshivas that he knew from the old world, where people could be studying esoteric subjects for years without giving back to the community. He is not, obviously, against learning lishma, he just felt a need to produce Rabbis for multitudes of Yidden, especially those who were arriving. As he already lived in US for a couple of decades, he was probably a good observer of the social changes.
Was he able to produce Rabbis that would reach those who were rapidly assimilating? I don’t know. But the direction looked reasonable. This is about same time Chabad was starting their efforts. Separatist O had great strides in protecting and growing their own community, but I don’t think it found enough confidence to deal with other Yidden until maybe 1980s.
maybe Dean Philips can win CT primary absent other contenders and get a leg up on delegates?! Any other primaries left?
There is a mitzva (for _you_) to teach your children Torah. There is no mitzvah to send them to the forest with some other wilder chayos.
Kuvult, Rashi suggest best time to teach is from 16 to 22, so after that, they might be ready to go to the streets.
Disclaimer: most of our children are currently in labor camps. (that is, laboring in camps, leaving no time for shtuyot).
Thanks for these quotes. I think they are railing against something what was MO in 1930s to 50s. I never heard a “modern” MO quote Graetz or Dubnow or having O-R collaboration in issues of religion (R Soloveichik paskens that it is osur to enter a non-O place of worship even at the expense of not fulfilling mitzva of shofar).
I will not go as far as Dr Pepper to consider every D voter an ignoramus or pasul, but I am very confused when people reject reasonably clear facts, whether they are Ds or Rs or Is. It seems to me that Ds suffer more from this, but I could be biased.
Some of such things include things that were good under T (economy, support of Israel, pressure on China, Russia, NATO payup) and things that are not so good under B (inflation, illegal immigration, Afghanistan, Ukraine).
It also includes wild manipulation of data. During the infamous debate, B showed clear mind when “quoting” statistics, conflating results of Covid disruption with normal economy. He was in clear mind at those moments, those were well-prepared and well-remembered mis-representations, not memory lapses. I understand why a politician will do that. But I am at a loss when a fellow Yid says similar things. Maybe this is cultural assimilation where we use “freedom of speech” to try to convince our brothers instead of following Jewish values of following the truth and staying away from falsehood.
There are articles now how power people around the world are preparing for T presidency, which they didn’t do last time around. Their biggest concern is unpredictability that they don’t like in their nature. Their preparation includes (1) doing things T might like and that they found made sense – increase NATO budgets (2) find contacts close to T (3) try to create defenses against decisions they don’t want in case T goes there – transfer Ukraine support from US to NATO. So, the world seems to learn how to live with T, so I suggest you do too.
A good point. We need to read a fine print in three oaths: what are we supposed to do if another group of Yidden violates the oaths. Surely, this was a consideration. And if it was not – it is a classical case for oath annulment: did you expect X to happen? No. So, those who feel bound by the oath, should convene a beis din and get it done. We all can join, so that they don’t feel so bad about it.
would Josh Shapiro be a centrist candidate who can carry PA and out-of-nowhere become a first Jewish Pres?
T’Ch are also expected to provide protection to others.
Makkos 11 discusses Kohen godol caring guilt for unintentional murder. Even when a lion ate someone 3 parsangs from Yehoshua b’ Levi, Eliahu did not visit him for 3 days. I do not know, though, what to make out of such temporary punishment.
That Bava Basra gemora raises a lot if questions. One would be – what kind of T’Ch are deserving such protection in terms of learning and behavior.
Maybe we can use Ravina’s approach when he tried to force his poor neighbor Runia to pay up for the fence: he sent a worker into Runia’s field to prentend to pick up dates, and when Runia started shouting at him, Ravina said – so, you do need protection?! So, if we have T’Ch who showed that they do not need physical protection or financial support from amei haaretz, then they should be left alone. As in Bava Batra, when T’Ch refused to pay up a Roman tax (which was more like a one time gezera rather than dina d’malchuta, if this matters) and merchants threatens to leave the city, T’Ch saud – ok, leave and this worked out. So, current T’Ch should be ready to live near the border and refuse protection from Tzahal.
skripka, telling people that you can run the country but the elections is not a winning proposition with non-partisans.
Abortions might be effective during midterms when the voting rate is very low and increasing partisan rage gives you an advantage. Not so in Presidential elections, when middle of the road voters matter more.
Ubi, yes.
I don’t know what BY thinks, but I external (in power in other countries) and internal (useful idiots) commies are the same danger. The weaker a country is internationally, the easier it is for internal commies to become popular.Note that US was very much an outlier in 20th century in terms of lack of popularity of commies comparing with European countries, and heopfully will stay this way.
Most of debate discussions are, understandably, about whether constitution bars senile people from running, but note that T presented a simple and coherent theory of foreign policy:
– B had several failures; Russia advanced during Bush, O, and B presidency but not during his
– This is not random: B is a bad leader, as he did not even fire people responsible for failuresIn post-mortems, B says that he understands that he needs to speak less about foreign policy and more about domestic (giveaways). That seems
to be a tacit admission that he has nothing to counteract that argument.I think jackk needs to take a break from politics and get involved in some pareve discussions on parsha and daf yomi. You can be 200% shomer kashrus, but if some solid Jewish texts do not enter your mind, you can’t expect to have “Jewish” opinions on contemporary topics.
And davening for his teshuva and release is ok, I guess, but those who were continuously demanding his release and blaming Regan officials were contributing to the damage caused by him.
Right, I am of the same opinion as your professor. JP might have had best (or at least good) intentions, but he did grave damage to US security; to Israel-
US relationships (and, thus, to Israeli security) and to Jews who work on security issues. One thing to note that, as much as he believed that his contacts were from Israeli services, it is entirely possible that they were not, or that Israeli services were infiltrated. He played the game that was way over his head, did not and still does not admit to what he did.coffee, just because GH is saying something, does not mean tht he is necessarily wrong.
Just look for a crooked pattern: you see posters trying to defend Biden resort to saying “even dead Biden is better …”; you defense of JP is similar – alleged lower sentence than other spies is not a proof of innocence.
Ubi, President needs to lead, especially in international crises. See the discussion between Yidden and Shmuel regarding the King.
So, when President can not act, commies and other enemies can use it to their advantage.RebE, it is a zechus of Moshe that he did not push his children into leadership, and did not go to them for the advise.
RebE > Through the SCOTUS ruling what happens to CHecks and Balances on the president
I think Constitution is pretty clear that the main way to check president is thru impeachment by Congress. It was always the main weapon.
It seems the only reason this was not clarified before is that there were no suits against Presidents.the fact that we have state prosecutor going after a president is a sign that presidential powers are not what they used to be … even journalists did not disclose that FDR is crippled, forget about courts.
And also it is a truism that a sign of a 3rd world country is when the next government arrests the previous one. As ^, it is reasonable to sue Biden for having as many covid deaths as under Trump, despite having inherited the vaccine. Think about it, T was able to develop vaccine in 9 months, while B was not able to distribute it in the same time period. So, let’s settle on having political punishments for political crimes.
This was the most hilarious headline in the new yok tzeit:
In a Staring Contest With Democratic Voters, Joe Biden Hasn’t BlinkedAnd I thought not blinking was at the root of the problem to begin with!
Maybe it is up to advisors – Blinken blinks, Drinken drinks …Surely we can more reliable sources that Mr. Pollard. As we see now that US-Israeli military is so important and very fragile, his contribution is duly noted.
RebE, as of last Thursday, he was not immune.
But B might be criminal if he is proven to cooperate with clearly criminal enterprises of his son and brother who earned money off B’s name. It might be hard to prove, though.
skripka, you can’t hack your way to a win just through the babies. You need to add some less sympathetic enemies to arose enough support from the populum.
but here is your conundrum:
if he is stepping down as CANDIDATE because everyone agrees that he is incoherent,
what is his rationale for staying in as a PRESIDENT?He can’t just say “I want to spend more time with my family” because he is spending most of his time chatting with his family as it is.
low-tech solution for dummies:
put your phone opposite the computer
make sure you are not doing a selfie
play the video on the computer
start recording on the phone
stop recording on the phone
save as
upload to youtube
collect the money
zelle them to YWNGadol (original), the choice is between the mazik we know and mazik we don’t know. I agree that T might do something bad, just by the nature of his unpredictability. At the same time, we see what B does and he, and his advisors, will continue doubling down on the same failed policies. Our (both US and Yidden) enemies know his game as well, or better, than we do and will continue taking strategic advantage. I think you are fair enough to admit that.
Like in drasha of a boiling frog, we are being boiled slowly and predictable. Or, mixing the metaphors, the bankruptcy happens gradually and then suddenly. It is statistically worth taking a chance at T’s mix of unpredictable policies. Most encouraging, he was a similar unpredictable risk in 2016, and performed above expectations (at least, yours but mine also). Is he a bigger threat now, when he knows how to govern and has grudges? Who knows? The debate showed that he can hold himself in and talk reasonably. And I think enough undecideds (maybe 1% of voters) agree with this, so it is either T or a substitute player.
I think halakha holds similarly: an expert is not liable for his professional advice, but an amateur who poses as an expert is.
I think they used to give only female names to hurricanes. But then feminists discovered that it is unfair to name scary things by female names only, and they scared meteorologists more than hurricanes, so the naming system was changed.
re: standards of living – this has to be judged by the income. It is not a problem when a high-paid professional or a businessman lives in a relatively comfortable house, with limits, of course. When a person who does not have earned income and still tries to keep up with the Cohens, then it is a problem.
As to materialism, I’ve seen a number of limudei kodesh rebbes who are very concerned about gasmiyus, just because they are not getting sufficient income and they are trying to find it. At the same time, I don’t know whether most people in MO shuls are materialistic just because when they come to shul they mostly talk about Torah, sometimes politics, sometimes they bring their jobs but in the context of their expertise as relevant to the Parsha or the daf – engineering, economics, history, science, etc. A gemora discussion about fast days will end with Tosofot in a yeshivish place, but will bring way more historical and astronomical material in MO. Again, my sample might be biased.
> more prevalent among the more religious.
can we stop this canard? who opened for you secrets of who is “more religious”.
This is a tricky situation for Dems. First, someone needs to convince the President to step aside,
Second, like meraglim who say “let’s have a new leader” – they do not have one leader. B carefully calibrates between all 10 wings of the D party, and he is still fretting about a group of Arabs in Michigan. Everyone coming fresh will surely eliminate someone in the D coalition and lose the key states.
Third, if B steps away from the election, then the immediate question would be – why is he still a President if his party has no confidence in him. That will make Kamala the face of US gov for a couple of months, surely not something helpful in a election.
RebE, let me follow your criteria:
Both of them are knowingly lying (I am skipping “beating Medicare”). Pres B was multiple times alluding to various statistics that included effect of covid disruption to either make T’s achievements lesser and his stronger. This is not as crime of passion or a rhetorical exaggeration. This is a premeditated murder of truth that was constructed with advisors sitting in a circle and thinking how to present it better.As to relying on advisors. Reagan did that successfully. I hope YWN record will show your admiration for this approach. But Reagan was, among other things, a governor before becoming a President. B was a senator, managing staff of 20 people tasking them to issue self-gratifying press-releases. He has no skills to manage a whole country and a military. It is easiest to see in foreign policy where opposition is clearly seen: time and again, B makes decisions based on certain theories and then is proven wrong. Afghani government will defend indefensible position for 6 months; Putin will be satisfied with a minor incursion if we let him; etc. Domestically, he can’t even give away money for free without violating constitution. T made a great point that B did not fire any of his advisors despite failures.
Dovid, it means that the wife focuses on respect to the husband, while the husband now will show the respect.
Pischei Teshuva in YD 240:24 mentions that.
Also 240:17 also is a little careful – he does not simply say that a married woman is not obligated. It is – she is obligated same as the son, while married she is not able to show kavod because of obligation to the husband, and obligated if widowed or divorced. I wonder whether the main limitation is physicial – it is impossible to be in two places at once. But in our days of airplanes and instant comms, probably the daughter could at least answer whatsapp messages from her mother to make her feel better.
But I agree with Ms. Haley that there should be a variety of tests administered to candidates. IQ, emotional IQ, SAT, LSAT, GRE …
These tests should not be obligatory or decisive. Simply, one of the criteria to get to CNN debate. And if the voters are willing to elect someone with 2-digit IQ or who fail SAT math, they should at least make an informed decision.