Always_Ask_Questions

Avram > And I don’t expect a rebbe to know the background of every talmid’s grandparents and great-grandparents.

I was not clear – I meant he could encourage kids to ask parents about family history. But, frankly, thanks for the thought: the Rebbe obviously needs to know where the kid comes from in order to influence him in the right way. This is like a surgeon not reading X-rays before operation.

But this goes hand-in-hand with the overall theory of schooling: if the teacher is sure that he is “frummer” and he just needs to save kids from the parents’ aveiros, then there is no need to inquire.

DaMoshe, exactly, but current students do not know that to the degree that having such an opinion is considered disrespectful.

Here is a quote from a book by a yeshivish Rav who both uses the hats but sees the limits: a boy comes to me and says that he is not comfortable with hat, etc. But I need to ensure that the school has it. One way would be to tell him that hats are right, and you are wrong, and you need to follow the rules, possibly destroying the kid. Another is to tell him honestly: look, I think it would be not a problem for you to dress differently, but it might be a problem for some others. So, I would like to ask you to do it even you are not comfortable and do not really need it, but do it for the sake of others.

Ze> No one is going to back your “deep state” reasoning.

I don’t think I referred to any deep state members. Maybe I was not clear – I based my thinking on research papers from multiple countries that quote statistical data collections – some times by country; some times – in a specific area or even a hospital. In some, not all, cases data is even available to verify. Do you think that deep state is working on real time modification of various databases over the whole world. I think we saw that deep state can barely manage giving money to several contractors to produce vaccine on time – companies needed to talk to T and his SIL to make the deep state do the job.

And I asked you nicely what makes Kennedy more credible than others and you did not even try to answer.

Ze, there are a lot of permissive psakim for people dealing with powerful people, and if they are not nice, there might be more permissions. You may not have learned those because you were not yet invited by Charles or Vladimir. If you know a rav who has powerful congregants, ask him

> clothes do indicate how the wearer wishes to be identified.

Either someone needs to police their uniform. That would mean cherem or similar to people who do not live up to the uniform ideal; or devalue the uniform. That is, when everyone dresses like a Talmid Chacham – how do we see who is a T’Ch and show respect? So, now T’Ch needs to wear a bigger hat and a hairier shtreimel, and the circle goes on. Soon, all limited resources are spent on clothes.

this is often a result of google-bombing: a group of people jointly click on their favorite answer and it rises to the top. Looks like there are more anti-semites than philo-semites in the world, or at least they are more active.

How hard is the sevorah that it is harder to subjugate armed population? I think I even brought Chofetz Chaim who used this is a moshal that when the country is in danger, they give guns to everyone (the nimshal being that in 1920s Poland everyone should try to increase learning in their own community).

Here is what wiki puts as maalos of this iluy, do I need to continue further, or can I stop here.

Career: In 1982, Kennedy was sworn-in as an Assistant District Attorney for Manhattan.[10] After failing his bar exam, he resigned in July 1983.[28] That September, he was charged with heroin possession,[28] and pleaded guilty in February 1984, when he received to two years’ probation and community service.[29][30] Following his arrest he entered a drug treatment center and during his probation volunteered for the Natural Resources Defense Council. His probation ended a year early.[31] In 1984, Kennedy joined Riverkeeper as an investigator, and was promoted to senior attorney[32] when he was admitted to the New York bar in 198

YS > If you have to get this abstract to talk about a very real and very pressing topic,

in other words, you are saying: let’s focus on what is happening right now and ignore longer-term consequences. With the same logic, we should take money from all rich people so that we can feed all poor this year; let’s eat all grain this year, not leave anything for the next year harvest, etc.

Politics always allowed kulos. R Akiva and others travelled to visit Roman Emperors …
As long as the President follows the local chief Rabbi rulings, there should not be any problems.

RebE: firing people – bad

It is not. See the administration where best minds were shown to be clueless during Afghanistan exit. Nobody was fired and the same Nobody developed a great strategy how to convince Putin not to attack by not offending him by an early reaction and giving him a stern warning … Maybe firing those inkens and livans and getting someone like Bolton on board would have prevented the events.

> What do you see as terrible if she becomes the president?

She is the person who quit the primary while on track to have support of 1% Dems. And it was in line with her qualifications, not because of some controversy.

Ysiegel, do you have specific references where your rebbe refers to professionals? Cs doesn’t seem to appreciate your words

CS, a good point. One of the halochos of tochacha is that if are unable to do it properly – privately, showing your love and care for the recipient, then you are exempt.

RambaM lists a mitzvah to know Hashem rather than believe, right?

Ze,
could you explain what makes you truth this RFK Jr person? Do you know him personally? Or anyone from his family? Did someone you trust recommended him? What are his credentials? As far as I know he did not achieve much in his life to be listened to, but I am willing to learn.

I think we got to a conclusion – this thread is more about what is in the mind of the OP than of the objects. Avira seems to suspect that everyone who is not thinking like him is an apikoires, and the fact that the person read or quotes some T’Ch not approved by Avira as the definite proof.

We indeed have a mishna that lists cases where we correct shaliach tzibur when he _expresses_ inappropriate beliefs, I just don’t see tanna going as far as Avira does.

ok, I take back “minor”, that was inappropriate, but it is only “major” as proportion of US population (20+ mln), not in absolute scale. Just the Napoleonic wars had 3M soldiers and 1-3M civilians killed…

As you are saying, the N/S conflict existed for a long time and was somehow managed most of it. But that is only N/S. There are no other divisions? Just ponder why NY and NJ did not fight as France and Germany …

Op indeed mentions atheists, but this is not what orthopraxy usually is. At Least in our times. It is usually people who didn’t thimuch about why they do what they do. It is exactly like students whose inside is not like outside. I don’t think any Tanna I’m in the Mishnah are in that category, the question was whether to admit such students. You might be insulting Tannaim by your assumption

Ys, I am trying to look at a bigger picture 📸 and this necessarily involves longer time frames. It is a Jewish thing to look at history as you probably know. Chachamim yodea itim is not just about Rosh hodesh

Your examples show how we can get confused with day to day news. I am aware of effect of these on American psyche, but even taking the most anti American interpretation of these, they will still be minor skirmishes

Americans do seem to be more violent by gun statistics. But some observations over the time frame of US existence:
1) other nations had way bigger outbursts of violence – wars, prosecutions. French could not even do a revolution without killing each other; Germans thought of themselves as most civilized until they did not; all of the European empires brought a lot of misery to different parts of the world (together with some rule of law), while American founders ended up being friends in later years; one “minor” civil war

2) in international side, US had wisdom to stay outside of European wars until they became world wars – and then consistently ended as the leaders on the right side of the history in all major wars – WW1, WW2, Cold War …

Are these things connected to second amendment? maybe not directly, but somehow. for example, Brits write during both WW1 and WW2 that Americans came unprepared, did not listen to their sage advise, then repeated same mistakes Brits did, then made ten times more mistakes until they figured out the right way to fight and then won … Brits were both irritated by this approach but also admired the speed of change and learning that Americans demonstrated. for example, I would think that Americans had more officers to go through trying to find the right ones as they all came from gun culture and had experiencewith weapons even when country did not have a big army.

Gadol, there is also a shaila whether one can leave EY for a spurious reason. So, it could be Hashem’s will that he gets back to West Bank ASAP.

not sure what this leads to, but I see the pattern: a well researched post with multiple sources supporting author’s position. So, either everyone supports that or the author omits those who disagree.

Z, I mean papers in research journals that compare health statistics on people after taking a vaccine with others who did not. A number of of them uncovered elevated risks from the vaccines, like myocarditis in young males. Europeans changed recommended vaccines for younger population based on some of this research. There was also a finding that having more time between two vaccines was safer. Etc. Also, when you put even worst estimates of the vaccine risk v. virus risk, for all groups, risk from virus was higher. Researchers by now have access to millions and millions of health records, and conclusions seem to be pretty definite.

As to sudden deaths, I think those are attributed to the damage from the virus itself. Virus seems to be affecting various organs in the body, leaving lasting damage. this might be especially true in communities that were totally uncareful and people were exposed to multiple versions of the virus (wuhan, delta, omicron).

What Pfizer executive admitted What? Please clarify.

Also, by now, there’s so much research published from multiple countries, such as UK and Israel, and multiple hospitals, each using their own data, are you claiming that someone contacted all of these research teams and changed their results?