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some > because you love the kofrim so much you will shecht kosher yidden.

I am not sure what this refers to (and do not want to know), but this might come sometimes because we (and Torah, and Hashem) has different requirements for people at different levels. We ask less from people who were born outside of Torah or even worse inside anti-Torah movements, comparing with people who learned all halochos, but sometimes do not live up to them.

jewish unity, thanks for these great references – and for your service. Is your experience similar to what is described in the 2nd article?

Also, note if you click on a link in the first article, you’ll see another one with quotes from R Schach, Steipler saying that those who are not in full-time learning (meaning no other occupation at all), should be in the army, otherwise they are rodfim on those who are. Any other opinions about these quotes – are they correct or taken out of contxt, or there is more in the sources?

I thought capitulation refers to a recitation of a capitul of tehilim.

please,
there are often complicated questions. Even R Yohanan was not sure whether he was correct minimizing his request to Vespasian. Upheavals of last 200 years, and especially last 100 are probably unprecedented, more than times of BM2 churban and Spanish expulsion. Did anyone know exactly how to respond to assimilation trends 200 years ago? Some tried to translate chumash in German, some tried to establish yeshivos, some tried to teach both secular and Jewish studies, some wanted to teach girls chumash, there was no one answer and no one “gadol” who knew all the answers. We are at a little better state now (not counting millions of Jews that we are not reaching), but still there are several different approaches that survived from this great struggle. Is it not our responsibility to investigate the issues to our best ability. And I mean here at least people who have sechel, information, and learning for that. As I just posted in another thread, if you were born in Kletzk, and I was born in Pinsk, does this mean that your emes resides in Kletzk?

Again, there are different minhagim, but there are also issues that we all are thinking about and should be listening to each other.

Aside of the stupid opinion on charedim, this tactics is still being used by the Russian army right now in Ukraine, sending former prisoners, minorities, foreigners, etc forward. The only change is they are not sending 1,000,000 people at a time into the line of fire any more, but usually in small groups, one group after another. Soldiers reported walking over bodies of previous groups.

please > What bothers me is the complete disregard for this fact that as long as one is following Halacha from his Rabanim, he is doing Ratzon Hashem.

We do not currently have a Sanhedrin, that we should follow – and if Sanhedrin makes a mistake there is a Torah-prescribed procedure for karbonos, so it even a mistake by a Sanhedrin is not an unthinkable situation. So, as we have multiple groups of rabbonim makes different rulings, at some point you become responsible for your decisions. This should especially apply to modern charedi community where many people spend years learning and, in addition, can access variety of other opinions with modern communication tools, starting with this CR. Respect for Rabbonim is great, but a large community of Talmidei Cahchomim should be able to ask questions of those Rabbonim – and, at the end, Rabbonim are indirectly elected by the community itself: you decide where to send your shailos, where to send your children to school, which Rebbe’s tisch to attend.

Menachem > The same applies to Torah learners and physical fighters:

The problem is that partnerships are agreed upon (same applies to Issachar/Zevulun). It seems that learners and general Israeli public (ranging from loony left to traditional to observant-zioni to sephardim) do not fully agree on this. Surely, both sides are to blame, and probably there is not much can be done to appease the anti-religious left. But if many observant and Israeli traditional public is not happy with the arrangement, it may be that the learning-only community is at fault i their midos, learning, attitudes towards army, etc. Rather than saying “no” to any kind of engagement, they should be looking how they can help in any possible way.

Shaszeri > but they are at least contributing to some extent by learning Torah and becoming תלמידי חכמים

I am more worrying about quality of Torah Learning than of lack of soldiers in Tzahal. If students are subjected to distortions of Torah for political reasons – on either side of all these complex issues – then it is not a real Torah they are learning. This “learning” might solve the social role keeping a community observant of many of the mitzvos, but I don’t think it is a learning that keeps integrity of Torah. So, people end up spending their lives at a shtender and miss the mark. We see it here sometimes with posters being rude, obnoxious, ignorant, and dismissive of truth, while at the same time being “learned” in gemora and poskim.

You don’t need to judge T’s future policies by campaign. He already has a record. And so does, sort of, K.

T’s pattern is – as Gadol says above – transactional. It has both a positive and a negative sides. Positive – he is looking to resolve the issue, get a better bargain, including getting feedback from his advisers. Negative – his calculus might change. But I don’t think this is so different from others, he is just less polished, or cares less, about niceties.

K’s pattern is – to say anything. She accused Biden of not letting her (daughter of two academics) to get on a bus to school. Then, she becomes his VP and has no visible impact on his policies. Then, she does not notice that President has mental problems. She seems to have been on both sides of any issue, except abortion, thru her life. Based o just this one issue, one can presume that she is liberal at core.

So, is there a risk with T? Sure, more in Ukraine than in Israel. Some suggest that he was listening to advisers more earlier but may be more self-assured now. But there is an upside also. With K, there is only downside.

Some Jew I don’t know says that lost children are not something to focus on, klal yisroel needs to move on and have a peaceful shabbos or two.

yankel > RAMBAM versus Ptolemy, Einstein and Newton , has zero bearing on “interpreting gmara and rishonim

I understand what you are saying in terms of technique. As R Steinsaltz used to say – if you want to know what pipe was Abaye smoking (Rav was a smoker himself up to some point, I believe) – ask the archeologist, if you want to know what he is saying – ask Rabbis …

Still, in this case, I am addressing the substance of Rambam where he writes about science. He himself studied astronomy, etc both from ancients and from contemporaries (I think both in Spain and when he was on the run in Fes where there was the famous Fes madrasa that some call “first modern university” before English and French). So, you would need to know the subject to appreciate what Rambam is saying. Of course, you can pretend that Rambam of halakha is a different persona than Rambam of science.

pekak > we accept that they will take care of things for us.

So, this is what is done “in town”. I presume even those here who are tzadikim gemurim and practice defensive and kosher driving, still heard about other people getting in trouble. So, do people rely on insurance or go to B’D? say, one person’s daas Torah is for insurance path, and another – for B’D – do we get a B’D to resolve this?

Also, in reality, many people often pay off the other side to avoid going thru insurance or sometimes do not have it – are these cases going thru B’D or people simple settle on their own?

some > was that we are talking about a rasha who is no longer part of klal yisroel.

I missed that, and when I am re-reading this thread, I still do not see that. This started with Tzahal that has different types of Jews. If your statement of the doctors is limited to rashayim, presuming we agree on the definition, this is different. But your statement reads as unqualified applying to any doctor, except “frum” by your standard.

yankel > Like a non frum doctor who happens to excel in his field, patients should be referred to him.

R Soloveichik writes that in Lita towns where non/anti-observant people were not tolerated, they would still have a non-observant doctor and pharmacist – because there were no others, and people needed them. He says that in his experience (1950s) it was better to talk to a non-Jewish doctor when there was some religious sensitivity (kashrus, fasts, family issues) than to a non-religious Jewish doctor. From that, he suggested (l’hathila) that YU medical school will be useful: non-religious Jews who would come there might not become religious, but at least they’ll come out with appreciation of the views that religious Jews hold.

Lay off the mods, they are doing a hard job. And you don’t want to this be your last approved post either!

Also, some mod decisions may be delayed while the mods are consulting Alter Rebbe to clarify unclear passages in Tanya.

I am thinking you re going to Beis Din that might suggest filing the claim. But in town people should tell us how they do it.

I think hashgaha on beitzim is definitely in order right now, I heard three are counterfeit ones coming from lebanon.

Chabad House at American University in Beirut is offering free mezuzah battery checks to Hezb Allah members.
Page 770-770-770 to make a reservation today.

Current weapon sharing system in democratic countries has a flaw: on one hand, cooperation is working out great, different countries/companies specialize in certain things and then exchange. The power of that was already recognized by Adam Smith and David Ricardo, BUT then any participant can veto the use of their stuff in a specific conflict for various political reasons. If Hungary provides coffee cups for F-35 pilots – they won’t be able to fly against Russia now? This got to be written in the contracts that the users can use on their own.

It will be easier to recognize Hezb commanders in the street, as they’ll be wearing sunglasses and gloves.

Somehow, this kochi discussion comes up every time Israeli army does something. When your kid gets a good grade in school, do you also remind the kid that he is not getting any cookies so that he does not develop a kochi attitude?

One pattern is that this issue is raised by people who themselves are not at risk of being accused of achieving something themselves. For example, Pres. Obama had a similar frum attitude when he told Gov Romney that Romney “did not build his businesses”.

I absolutely have. I actually wrote here before about Biden claiming (justifiably) that he is different from Obama’s people – the latter seeing Israel through progressive lenses as “occupier”, while Biden has experiences of Yom Kippur War and understands Israeli vulnerability and a need to act.

But note, please – when Biden does act, whether fully or partially or after a long delay, he is following the centrist position – as most in politics support Israeli self-defense, defense against Russia, border control, etc. T’s action above, and some others, were unusual, and maybe even risky, acts against the opinion of establishment. This only compares with Reagan’s “tear down this wall” speech – wherer these words were crossed out twice by speech editors, but he used them anyway.

so what is happening in practice? did you not ever have a fender bender in Monsey?
If you have a beis din, you don’t even need to touch a machlokes, let beis din to deal with that.

qwerty > It’s also Halacha that one doesn’t learn Kabbalah until he’s forty years old and has mastered Nigleh.

Yes, I was eager to hit forty and then … I discovered that there is so much left in Nigleh, I’ll let those who don’t understand Nigleh spend their time on Kabbalah … If you saw my posts defending Chabad actions, they relate to their practical work. What kabbalistic paths it took them to care about so many lost neshomos is between them and their rebbes.

> Whoopee doo.

Yechiell, thanks for actually answering this claim. Usually, most anti-Ts here just avoid mentioning T’s actions. I presume you will have a similar, ungrateful, response to other T’s achievements – Abrahamic accords, recognition of Golan, killing Iranian top general – so I am not even asking.