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It’s difficult to equate pre-Holocaust positions to what Reb Elchonon Wassermanmight might have held had he survived. One of his sons , David, relocated to Brooklyn and sent his eldest son, who was named after Reb Elchonon, to a Zionost MO yeshiva ( Yeshiva of Flatbush ). I know this to be true because my wife was in his class.
It’s President elect because he currently is not the president
To prevent U.S. from warning Hezbollah, Israel didn’t notify U.S. until jets were in the air and about to strike. Biden had no role
So, let me get this straight. I’m involved c”v in a car accident where I sustain $5000 in damages and the other , frum guy , is 100% at fault, I’m not supposed to file a claim ? Where is he going to get the money?
Ex ctl lawyer. Good thing I’m not in your history class. Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, not 1942
Ujm, non jews aren’t going, especially not in those numbers
Ujm, did Zionism cause the Crusader and blood libel massacres and the Holocaust?
With all due respect, not every one holds him with the same high esteem, certainly not as the gadol hador
It would help to know where you live
Unfortunately. 5town is a good example of making up an issur that isn’t there and then looking down on both the Rav and the mispallilim. At “best”, it’s a chumra.
Our chevra kadisha, like others, gives cushioned chairs for shiva that are low to the ground. There is no requirement for discomfort. I can’t imagine what it was like years ago to sit on those cardboard boxes for hours with no back support.Get a life
It’s not just frum people. There are youtube channels dedicated to why/how people get thrown off planes and have yet to see it happen to a frum person
Everybody lies, but Democrats and the media are taking it to new heights. Despite ample video and textual evidence, they are trying to gaslight Americans by denying Harris was the border czar. Did they forget the interview with Lester Holt where he asked why she hadn’t been to the border?
Ujm, you can request but cannot demand segregation based on gender.
When asked, I comply 7nder the following conditions:1. The seat must be an aisle seat
2. Seat cannot be near an infantJust curious as to why site appears to be updated Just once a day
Jackk, the laptop was verified by the FBI and was used by the Department of Justice to help convict Hunter Biden.
Former partners of Hunter have testified before Congress regarding “the Big guy” i.e. meetings with Hunter’s source of income that Joe Biden has denied ever happeningJust one note. There is a difference between hospice care in a facility and hospice at home. The hospice that my mil used offered both. The overall patient satisfaction rating was only 3 out of 5 stars , with in facility ( where my mil was ) getting 5 stars and at home getting 1 star. Why the difference? At home you still were responsible for hiring 24 hour aides, with all the complications if an aide cancelled . Similarly, doctors and nurses didn’t always show up on time. However, those issues never arise when you are in the physical hospice , where my mil received great care.
Ujm, as usual, you make grand assertions with no facts .
Exctlawyer is exactly right. I don’t know where people like JD get their information from.
Patients aren’t forced into hospice, it’s their ( or their health care proxy’s) choice.
Doctors don’t give up; if anything they refuse to give up and want to to administer more powerful drugs or invasive surgeries.
Hospices don’t starve patients; that would be murder. My mil was on an IV. The goal of hospice is to make the patients last days as comfortable as possible. It’s difficult to be comfortable if your conscious and starving.Hospice care doesnt mean you are taking or ending your life. That is fear mongering.
What it does entail is making your final days as comfortable, and as pain free as possible. My mother in law was admitted to hospice dying from a failed heart valve ( she was frail, age 99 ) and couldn’t have survived valve replacement surgery. She received good care, never regained consciousness and passed after 4 days. Nothing was done to hasten her death.People have this misconception about hospice care. If you’re not terminal,with a life expectancy of less than 6 months or if you want care that will possibly prolong your life, you do not belong in hospice care.
Hakatan,
That Israel achieved total surprise in its attack on the Arab air forces in June 1967 was anything but conventional. Only an ideologue such as yourself would deny reality.Somcha613,
I know you, and others mean well, but neither armies of military soldiers or learning soldiers have any guarantee of protective value. From recent times ( Holocaust, pogroms ) to ancient times ( Menashe, Herod and the Romans slaughtering thousands of chachomim and tens of thousands of other Jews) and times in between ( Crusader massacres, blood libel massacres, Inquisition, forced conversions ) learning hasn’t protected us. There are those who say that there were other events that learning prevented. Even if true, they couldn’t have been much worse than those that did.Avira, I appreciate the explanation but how did the chametz get into the milk? From the cow or the carton ?
How does chometz “revitalize” itself?
AAQ,
WW1 was called the Great War until WW2 startedWhat’s the point of sheduchim resumes etc if you’re not allowed to tell the truth. I’ve also never understood why protecting consumers by airing that a contractor was dishonest and did shoddy work was loshon hora
Avira,
Here’s the crux of our differences. Believing in Chazal’s knowledge of all science is not central to yiddishkeit. Not believing it is not denying chazal or Tanach. There is no proof of it other than their sayso.This is addressed to hotel naysayers.
Nobody is forced to go to a hotel. Many people have valid reasons for not going. They include hashkafic, financial,familial and simply not enjoying it. So, why does it bother you if someone does have valid reasons to go and enjoys it? I’ve never seen a comment criticizing someone for not going.
So, please stop the critiques as they will not change anyone’s mind5TResident, would you like a medal?
Avira, you seem to have picked up some progressive tools. They try to shout people down by calling them racists, homophobes etc, you do it by calling anyone who disagrees with you an apikores.
You actually present no evidence. How do we know that chazal
knew all science? Because chazal said so. Where are the inventions, discoveries, cures etc? They don’t exist because of convenient stories provided by chazal ( I. E. Shlomo hid the car,
Chazal didn’t want to upset the world order etc.).
What I really don’t understand is why it’s so important for you to believe they were all knowing regarding science. Believing this doesn’t enhance one’s emunahJack, please, for once look at things thru neutral glasses. Everything she’s attained was based on 50 ( so far ) instances of plagiarized material, even her doctoral dissertation. If you condone this, then how can you punish a student for plagiarizing? And, her actions say she’s antisemitic. Would condemning a group advocate mass murder of people of color, would that require context?
Remember when we had to walk to school uphill, both ways?
Why do Jews vote progressive Democrat?
Look at Esav’s parents. So much for yichus
Jack, NYC regulations had made it almost impossible to own a gun or get a carry permit . Criminals, of course, were not affected by the regulations
Jack, technically , you’re right. But until recent court decisions striking them down, most Democratic states and cities had such restrictive regulations that made gun ownership impossible
CT, besides everything else, doesn’t Biden’s declining mental health worry you? Each day brings another embarrassing gaffe.
Avira, try explaining your “history” to the American Jews 75 years ago who learned Chimash with Rashi.
The current kolel system did not exist in pre war frum Eastern Europe there was no social welfare system to support it and Jews by and large were poor. The vast majority of Jews basically had a cheder education and then , except for the superstars, had to go to work. The average shtetl Jew did not have much knowledge and this was evidenced by how many , in Post ww1 Eastern Europe abandoned Yiddishkeit willingly. Prior to 1800, this was not a problem the gedolim had to face as Jews were barred from universities and many professions and ” non religious ” was not an option as the only way to not live in jewish areas was to convert. The gadolim were not prepared for a world that afforded Jews options and entry into the secular world. . The Misnagdim and Chassidim were so busy fighting each other that they didn’t realize, too late, that more Jews were becoming not religious.UJM and Avirah
Why do you both care? UJM, your questions, besides being very condescending, betray an intentional pseudo ignorance as this subject has been discussed here ad nauseum. Avira, do you actually believe there is a single mesorah? Is it the Yemeni, Iraqi, Italian,North African, Sfardi, Bucharian, Ashkenazi, Chassidish mesoras?I totally agree with you. The source is not mystical. Deriving mysticism today is not a problem
So, I’m curious. What was the mystical experience of the Greek translation of Judea that led the future formulation of the word Jew?
Nomesorah, mysticism doesn’t change the pshat of the terms derivation and had nothing to do with the origin of “Jew”
What’s interesting is that the terms Jew, Jewish, and Judaism all derive from a Greek translation of Yehudi in the 3rd Century BCE. Biblical Hebrew doesn’t have a J sound but the Greek Y sound was often pronounced as a J sound. It was that Greek translation that carried forward and led to the term Jew
Menachem, he was called Ivri because he had to cross “over” rivers to get to Israe( Canaan ). Again, nothing mystical
Judean ( Yehudi ) did not equate to being from the tribe of Yehudah. First, the tribe of Benjamin was part of the Judean Kingdom and many Israelites fled south into Judea after the destruction of Israel by Senncherib
Sometimes a tree is just a tree. Yehudi simply referred to someone from the Kingdom of Judah. In English the person was called a Judahite. There were no mystical attachments.
Mordechai was one of the first references
Hulu, technically speaking, “Jew” only goes back as far as toeards the end of the first Temple, not Har Sinai.
CTL, on more than one occasion Biden clearly stated that he knew nothing of Hunter’s business dealings, never met about them, never discussed them.
It is now apparent that those statements are false.