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November 21, 2021 3:49 pm at 3:49 pm in reply to: Chasimas Hatalmud: How did it come about? #2031474anonymous JewParticipant
It was possible because Talmud Bavli wasn’t written down until about 500 c.e.
anonymous JewParticipantUjm, name the studies
anonymous JewParticipantI’ve only one comment to make on this gilgul sheep story: BAAAH
anonymous JewParticipantThanks Biden
Highest inflation in 30 years
Rampant crime
Southern border out of control
Afghanistan
Gas prices
High heating costs
Critical Race Theory
Broken supply chain ( not Trump’s doing
Helping the rich ( eliminating the SALT tax cap )Et al
November 11, 2021 11:42 am at 11:42 am in reply to: Isreili police treat chareidim with underserved brutality #2027124anonymous JewParticipantHakatan et al,
Zionism didn’t need a state in order to shmad. Betwern socialism, communism, and a whole slew if isms ( of which zionism was probably the smallest ) Eastern European Jewry was well on it’s way in the late 19th century to abandoning Yiddishkeit.anonymous JewParticipantWhat are you smoking?
anonymous JewParticipantDo we have to go through this again? There is no such thing as a Jewish tune! Throughout our history we adapted local tunes for our purposes. That’s why, for example, the music of Iraqi and Syrian Jews sounds Arabic, Bucharian Jewish Music sounds like all Bucharian music . The major difference between current Jewish music and older music is that we don’t remember the goyish song it was adopted from.
anonymous JewParticipantCan someone rationally explain how the mother’s name is a tznius issue?
anonymous JewParticipantWhat ive found most distasteful are the post election commentaries on MSNBC, CNN and the networks , particularly Joy Reid. From the extended clips that I’ve seen, ths loss by the Democrats was due to racist voters. Education was a dig whistle for white supremacy. What none of them mentioned was that the “racist” dog whistling voters also elected the first black woman to state wide office ( L t Governor ) in Virginia history.
BTW, Reb Eliezer before you call someone a liar re Critical Race Theory, make sure you’re not getting all your facts from CNN.
anonymous JewParticipantGH,
Yes, the 2020 stolen election claims should be forgotten. But why has Stacy Abrams been able to build a career on claims of a stolen election and Hillary has kept calling her 2016 loss fraudulent?anonymous JewParticipantIt’s not necessary to search for mystical reasons for multiple, sometimes contradictory , opinions in the Oral Torah. For an accurate transmission of anything as extensive as the Oral Torah you need a stable environment. King Menashe’s 50 year reign of terror saw nany chachomim murdered and others forced into hiding. The Babylonians and Assyrians slaughtered hundreds of thousands and exiled others. The Romans did the same, creating an environment making it difficult to accurately remember. Just look at Masechet Succah. Much of the gemarah deals with the fact they couldn’t remember how many walls were needed nor the minimum or maximum size, and that was only 3 centuries from the churban.
anonymous JewParticipantIn golus one can move to either Florida or Arizona, bith of whom subsidize private school tuition, including parochial schools
October 22, 2021 12:13 pm at 12:13 pm in reply to: What is the real reason for banning Jews from Israel? #2019731anonymous JewParticipantI don’t know what you’re talking about. Several of my friends have been to Israel recently.
anonymous JewParticipantSyag, I’ve observed some odd behaviours at shiva houses. A friend and his father were sitting shiva for his mother and shadchanim came to check out the father. Real estate agents came to a friends shiva in Far Rockaway ( with his mother’s passing the house was going to be sold ) and handed out cards. Miahulachim from Israel came to our Rav’s shiva to sign their letters so they could go collecting in the community
anonymous JewParticipantReb Eliezer,
With all due respect, do you really believe these fantasy tshuvas?anonymous JewParticipantReb elieze,
Oh please
anonymous JewParticipantGH, you have to admit that Democratics denigrating Republican claims of fraud, legitimate or not, are somewhat hypocritical. Afrer all, Stacy Abrams gained prominence in the Democratic Party precisely because she never stopped claiming, without proof, that she was a victim of voter fraud. Hillary still calls Trump the illegitimate president.
anonymous JewParticipantAAQ, you’re avoiding the question. There weren’t enough people to warrsnt cities
anonymous JewParticipantThere was considerable publicity when this went to affect, both by the city and then the negative reaction .
anonymous JewParticipantReb Eliezer, I hope you don’t mind I don’t take your dor haflaga comment literally
anonymous JewParticipantHis nephews davened in my shul. Zebulon’s brother lived in Kabul before his death. Like the old Jewish joke come to life, they were the only hees in Kabul but each brother davened in a different shul ,refusing to go to the other shul
anonymous JewParticipantNoone has ( unless I missed it ) the 2 major reasons for wives going to work:
1. The kolel system. Unless one or both parents are providing support, somebody has to bring in income while the husband is learning
2. Yeshiva tuition. In my experience, yeshivas are reluctant to grant reductions in tuition to enable the mother to stay homeAugust 2, 2021 8:57 am at 8:57 am in reply to: Temple Beth-El of Borough Park, what do we know about its history? #1996330anonymous JewParticipantThe shul’s website has extensive information
anonymous JewParticipantCTlawyer, we disagreed on most issues but I hope we agree on the most important one. 5 years ago I was losing my eyesight and my doctor told me to get used to it. I found another ophthalmologist who discovered what was wrong and, after 2 difficult surgeries, my eyesight is 20/30. I wish you a similar successful outcome!
anonymous JewParticipantWhat was the sin of Banks and Jordan? They wanted to ask questions as to why pleas of the Capitol police for more help was ignored ( by Pelosi ). Pelosi only wants committee members who think like her, which will result in a lack of any belief in the accuracy of its findings. Recent polls have shown that the % public having confidence in the committee is dropping
To GH and jackk- had the unarmed protestor shot dead by the police been BLM , would the two of you still be so quick to exonerate the cop?anonymous JewParticipantI agree that we need the truth, but you unfortunately won’t come close to getting to it with the group that Pelosi empaneled.
anonymous JewParticipantThis commission is a far cry from being impartial. Pelosi rejected Jordan and Banks but included Adam Schiff, a hyper political politician who repeatedly lied about having ( but never presented) damning evidence about Trump? She included 2 anti Trump Republicans. In many respects, this is simply Pelosi’s third attempt at impeaching Trump.
anonymous JewParticipantAn example of a kashrus overreach. About 25 to 30 years ago, the Vaad of the Five Towns decided to add a second page to their hashgacha posted in store windows. Right side dealt with. Kashus in the store. The left side dealt with how the owners lived at home ( i.e. tznius, hair covering, did wife wear pants, did man daven with minyan etc ). All the stores refused, saying their personal lives were none of their concern . The Vaad backed down
May 24, 2021 9:02 am at 9:02 am in reply to: Women Entering the Workforce and the Calamitous Declining Fertility Rate Effect #1976800anonymous JewParticipantKolel life, not likely life
May 24, 2021 7:22 am at 7:22 am in reply to: Women Entering the Workforce and the Calamitous Declining Fertility Rate Effect #1976746anonymous JewParticipantUjm, ironically, likely life forces the mother out of the home to work. Someone in the family has to bring in money
anonymous JewParticipantGH, the Palestinians are fomenting the violence, period. Are you calling the final enforcement of a court order to evict arabs illegally squatting for 40+ years an inept act? Your friends Sanders, AOC and Warren are blaming only Israel, citing the LEGAL eviction.
anonymous JewParticipantReb Eliezer,
How many people remember a death beyond a week , let alone a year unless the person had a connection to the gadol
RBZS,
You have no standing in telling how a parent/grandparent should feel on this kind of loss. You can only speak for yourself and hopefully you should never be in this situationanonymous JewParticipantCommonsaychel, the large majority of the descendants of those 12 million yiddish speakers who left the Pale no longer speak Yiddish .
GH, I’m surprised you didn’t get the obvious. Some of the Chassidishe yeshivas intentionally keep their students functionally illiterate in order to deter them from going off the derech.
anonymous JewParticipantCA, please. PEEP PEEP!. I agreed with Trump and I agree with Biden. We have no business staying in Afghanistan. All we are accomplishing is creating more severely wounded soldiers.
Hiw can CNN call itself objective when after months of non stop Gov Cuomo they ignored all of his scandals
anonymous JewParticipantOD, the Taylor Force Act, passed in 2018, says the US can’t make payments to the Palistinians as long as they continue to fund terrorists who’ve killed Israelis.
anonymous JewParticipant20 years ago the yeshiva my great nephew told my niece that he was ADD . Basis for the diagnosis? They expected him ,at the age of 7, to sit at his desk from 9 to 6 with virtually no recess and 1 hour for lunch. To the school’s surprise by 3 pm he would get antsy, lose concentration and would get hit by the rebbe for not knowing the place.
Instead of medicating, my niece found another yeshiva that was more accommodating and by the time he was 9 he had the zitzfliesh to sit and not get antsyanonymous JewParticipantAdditionally, the use of the term Jim Crow by Biden cheapens the term. I know how I feel when non Jews use Holocaust to describe relatively mild situations. Actual Jim Crow entailed lynchings and severe restrictions on voting rights, civil liberties ( i.e. separate white and black bathrooms, water fountains, schools, lunch counters)
anonymous JewParticipantGH, I would venture to say not one ballplayer has actually read the law. They very likely are going by the calm words of our great uniter, President Biden, who dishonestly called it a Jim Crow law.
The President was awarded 4 Pinocchios for his distortions by the left wing Washington Post. For example,the President said that the polls would have to close by 5 pm.
If anything, it is the Democrats and people like GH who are the true racists. After all, they are alleging that black and Latino voters lack ID’s and the intelligence to be able to understand what it takes to acquire one. BTW, is it racist for Delta to require a picture ID to board a plane? For the Post Office to require and ID to pick up your mail? To get a passport?
Major League Baseball is being very hypocritical. Rob Manfred, the Commissioner, is a member of the Augusta ( Georgia ) National Golf Club and plans on attending the Masters Golf Tournament this week. Until recently only white men were allowed to be members but this doesn’t bother Manfred. Baseball has also formed business relationships ( as has the National Badketball Assoc ) with China, which has put 1,500,000 Uighurs into concentration campsanonymous JewParticipantujm, Staten Island has had a large community for over 50 years
anonymous JewParticipantCharlie, Robert Byrd was a member of the Klan and a U.S. senator. No Democratic Party? Who do you think established and enforced the Jim Crow laws?
anonymous JewParticipantThe language didn’t change, just the alphabet. Noone really knows why the change was made. Some of Bar Kochba’s minted coins have Paleo-Hebrew on them. I sometimes wonder when I hear a crush based upon the Aramaic letters in the Torah since that’s that how the Torah was written for centuries . How do we know that sifrei Torah had been written in Paleo-Hebrew ? The Sanaritans, who copied everything we did when the Assyrians brought them in, still write their sifrei torah in Paleo-Hebrew.
anonymous JewParticipantUm, I know about the Arizal changing the minhagim. But all the people who subsequently became Chassidim changed their minhagim and nusach to do so. Did they all do ateras nedarim? Ask their fathers permission? My point about the chassidim is that they are an example of when minhagim were subject to change
anonymous JewParticipantReb Eliezer, you picked a poor example. We’ve had a calendar for approximately 1700 years so the reason is extremely unlikely, if not impossible. to reoccur.
I also wonder how Chassidim were able to abandon centuries of minhagim, to the point of even changing nusach and th ed definition of zman tefilah. I’ve heard the reasons but all it means is that you can’t change/abandon minhag except when you want to.anonymous JewParticipantScenario: you’re at your doctor and he’s just given you your eighth refill for a powerful antibiotic. You worriedly ask, how sick am I?
He responds that you’re healthy, the infection is long gone. So, you ask, why the refills. He replies that even though the original reason for the antibiotic no longer applies, it’s now become your minhag and you have to keep taking it.anonymous JewParticipantHere’s what I find fascinating. Liberals and leftists fight against any measure that requires a photo ID for registration and voting. They base it on the belief that it somehow discriminates against people of color and poor people. Yet there is no objection when it comes to air travel as the truth is anybody can easily obtain, and in fact already has, as an ID
anonymous JewParticipantMost airlines require a photo ID ( usually a driver’s license ) and it has to match name on ticket. An upgraded form of driver’s license ( or non driver ID) called Real ID will be required to board any domestic flight as of October 1, 2021
anonymous JewParticipantCharlie, the South was NOT extremely hostile to states rights. For example, in 1832 South Carolina, under the doctrine of states rights, threatened to secede over 2 tariffs passed by Congress.
anonymous JewParticipantGH, I find it hard to believe you were a regular listener of Limbaugh
anonymous JewParticipantBored guy, states rights was Confederate post-Civil War propaganda. If you examine prewar Southern newspapers and speeches, particularly those by Jefferson Davis, states rights was very low on the list of reasons. Slavery was number 1. It was only after the war, as people were trying to recast their images, was states rights highlighted as part of the “Lost Cause” fairy tale.
anonymous JewParticipantSome facts:
1. Cuomo required nursing homes to take back patients
2. Cuomo forbade nursing homes from testing the patients for Covid or refusing to accept them.
3. The nursing homes were not prepared to deal with Covid
4. Cuomo’s Dept of Health supervises the readiness of nursing homes. Of 600 nursing homes, 100 are rated one star ( out of 5 ) only because you can’t be rated no stars
5. The Javits Center and the Navy hospital ship were available April 7 -
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