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It is not clear from his hesped but Rav Kook held that either Herzl or the secular Zionist movement in general was MBY. In “Kol HaTor” Rabbi Hillel Rivlin says in the name of his rebbe the Gra that the job of MBY is kibbutz galuyot and the material building of EY.
After seeing the results of an investigation by Rav Avraham Steinberg Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach came to the conclusion that “The communicative method used for severely mentally retarded or autistic people (facilitated communication) should be used as a limited clinical tool but should not be abused for mystical purposes” (Assia, no. 57-58, 1996 pp. 12-13.). In fact, many medical experts consider FC to be nonsense and that the practitioners put words in the children’s mouths (see the Skeptic’s Dictionary on the subject).
BTW, Rav Mordechai Eliahu said that WW2 was Gog uMagog. When some people came to him and tried to convince him otherwise he told them that if it did not already occur they would have to experience it. They accepted his ruling.
DY, thye are much less dangerous than American cities and malls. however, if someone feels that another community is more appropriate for him ain hachi nami he should live there. Rav Kook said that just as Am Yisrael can only develop spiritually in EY an individual Jew can only develop spiritually in his portion.
Sam,the boundaries of EY are a subject of much discussion. Apparently they depend in large part on settlement. The first mishna in Gittin gives Akko as the northern boundary and David considered Gat to be Chul (Ketubot 110b). However, in the time of the Tanach southern Lebanon was part of EY (Laish) and it is definitely part of the Promised Land.
Joseph, Eilat was conquered by Shlomo HaMelech (Etzion Geber) and later by the IDF. Both were kibushei rabbim.
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Joseph, Lebanon requires US citizens to obtain a visa. According to the State Department “travelers who hold passports that contain visas or entry/exit stamps for Israel will likely be denied entry into Lebanon and may be subject to arrest or detention. Even if their travel documents currently do not have Israeli stamps or visas, persons seeking entry into Lebanon who have previously traveled to Israel may still face arrest and/or detention if this travel is disclosed. The Government of Lebanon has the authority to refuse admission to U.S. citizens and to detain U.S. citizen travelers for further inspection”.
DY, c”v. In fact, I live on a settlement. I am also in favor of settling all other parts of EY. In fact, some of my best friends do not live on settlements.
Joseph, we cannot enter Lebanon so the question is academic. Why be afraid of entering Jordan? The Jordanian authorities very much want tourism so there is a large police and military presence. This means very few terror attacks and little crime (although women travelling alone might have problems). of course, if one is a resident of EY one should know where EY ends so as not to be over on leaving for no good reason. In any case, I do not think that there is a mitzva to cover every millimeter of EY. In fact, there were anshei maaseh who never left Yerushalayim and today there are roshei yeshivot who almost never leave their yishuvim.
Quacky, how much depends on the individual’s level. Rav Kook once told someone that the first war Am Yisrael fought was against the king of Cheshbon to show that one must get rid of his cheshbonot. On the other hand, Rav Soloveichik asked a talmid how he would earn a living. Today some people do pilot trips and most speak to counselors at Nefesh b’Nefesh.
M.A., not to mention the fact that Ramban famously says that mitzvot are only obligatory in Shmutz laAretz so that they will not be forgotten.
Zahavasdad, then Rabbi Rechnitz should have made his speech to the gevirim? Actually, it might be easier to convince a few gevirim than many regular Jews. If York University pulls its mural it will be because of Paul Bronfman.
Health, are you paid for being a spy or is it volunteer work? Here the government subsidizes Tora institutions. When Lapid wanted to add a few basic secular subjects in order to give the kids a chance at getting out of poverty (c”v – to whom would the favored few give mattanot on Purim?) he was demonized. Meanwhile, in the UK Jewish schools must teach another religion and respect for toeva. While the US does not go that far in many states Blaine amendments prevent state and local authorities from giving a cent even for secular subjects.
Reb Yidd, Yogi Berra said that nobody went to a certain restaurant because it was too crowded.
Sheker, so far as I know there is no source for that statement. Certainly iut cannot be according to its simple meaning. I did hear that in the time of Mashiach we will be able to live according to middat hadin alone.
Joseph, if someone received a benefit by falsely claiming to be a member of the clergy he can be prosecuted for fraud. If he received a tax break (and there are) he is guilty of tax evasion. The big question is who is clergy. An on-lie dictionary defines it as people (such as priests) who are the leaders of a religion and who perform religious services. It would be interesting to make a claim for a yoetzet halacha or a woman who leads of women’s Tehillim group.
As for male teachers, at one time many were misters. When this began not to sit well with parents they were given the title “rav u’manhig”. Even someone who has “Yoreh Yoreh” may not serve as a dayan unless he also has “Yadin Yadin” (see Sanhedrin 5a that there was also a semicha for allowing bechorot).
Ubiquitin, all are equal before the law. A cohen gadol and a mamzer receive the same punishments for aveirot.
Sheker, neither was ordained. In Pirkei Avot (4:20, the former is mentioned without a title. The latter was either an ordinary mamzer (Sanhedrin 67a – uncensored version) or talmid (ibid 107b) who went OTD. Maybe both. Some historians believe that Yushki was a composite (note that Ben Pandera’s mother was Mary Magdalen[ashaya]).
WM, they opposed favoring or disfavoring a particular denomination and supported freedom of worship. However, except for Hamilton who was a blasphemer, they believed that law must be based on religion. John Adams said that the US Constitution is only appropriate for a “religious and moral people” and Washington said:
“Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?”
Gavra, did you know that the “sainted” Louis in question was the one who burned the Talmud in Paris?
Queen, for that matter all American universities required their students to study Tanach in Hebrew. Hamilton wanted it to be the official language and Madison was fluent in it. However, today almost nobody fights for it, not even Superman.
Sepahradim use “Rabbi” (pronounced “rabbee”) as a title of honor similar to the Yiddish “Reb”.
Health, how is the US better? Almost every day we read about some anti-Semitic attack. Not to mention the atmosphere on campuses – and a few years down the road these will be the people in professional positions
Health,
1. On the contrary, this will grant them their wish to completely separate from Israeli society. It might even have other salutary results. Both Georgia (in the American South) and Australia started as penal colonies.
2. I scream when people try to take the law into their own hands. I would also scream if some group would kidnap extremists and plop them into the middle of the Negev.
3. That is what these aggrieved women have tried to do. However, with Chareidi control of City Hall on the basis of one tombstone one vote a court suit is necessary.
Tirtza,
1. If the detainees in Guantanamo are POWs then they should be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention.
2. Why believe the lawyers? They also have an interest. If the court finds that the confessions were coerced they will be thrown out just as in the US.
3. I agree that here should be an independent investigation in order to clear the air. Either way it will be for the good.
Health,
2. What difference does it make if vigilantes violate rights without governmental interference? This did much to keep Jim Crow in place.
Queen,
1. No place is 100% safe. In America one cannot even go to a shopping mall or an office party without fear. Not to mention home invasions. The fact of the matter is that the intentional homicide rate in Israel is much lower than in the US – and much of it is “family honor” killings among Arabs. Americans, however, have come to accept their situation as normal. When the first Gulf war broke out the hevruta of a friend of mine received a frantic phone call from his mother. When she calmed down she said very matter-of-factly “BTW, last week your brother was held up at gunpoint”.
2. Ramban says (Sefer HaMitzvot – mitzvot that Rambam “forgot”) that there is a Tora obligation to live in EY in our time.
Queen, Rav Ovadia said taht without the IDF there would be no yeshivot. Obviously Hashem gives them the strength but they do the hishtadlut. The Zohar says that Elisha asked the widow to borrow utensils and supply some oil because a beracha cannot come on emptiness.
Avram, very often grandmother herself has relocated to warmer climes (or to Israel in the case of frum Jews). In any case, what is more traumatic, relocating of having to live on charity? Not to mention the fact that the welfare state encourages break-ups of families and a culture of dependency that spans generations. Eventually it implodes as there is no one left to pay. A far better program would involve job re-training, incentives for employers and paid national service work for those who suffer from age discrimination, which is the largest cause of unemployment among those who want to work. This would also benefit the public as older workers will not leave after a few years for higher paying jobs in the private sector. Besides leading to a stable civil service this will obviate the problem in regulatory agencies of employees feeling that they have to kowtow to those they are ostensibly regulating in order to get plum jobs in a few years.
Gavra,
Health, the laws are supposed to be the laws of the state. However, a vigilante group is trying to prevent women from walking on certain sides of certain streets or stand in certain places. They are turning Bet Shemesh into a version of your pronunciation – Base Shemesh.
Joseph, Rambam says the opposite about the Hasmonean state. Kal v’chomer our beloved medina.
It’s either denial or an attempt to soothe a guilty conscience for not making aliya.
HaKatan, more nonsense. In fact, if not for the British the Zionists would have been able to get out all of the Jews in Germany who would have been willing to come as well as large numbers of Polish and Romanian Jews. Up to almost the beginning of WW2 all three countries were only interested in expelling their Jews but there was no place to which to expel them. This led to the victory of the faction in the Nazi party that saw Zionism as part of a plot for world domination over the faction that saw it as a movement for separating Jews and gentiles.
Tirtza, TY for the clarification. There is a dispute among those “in the know” as to whether there was actual torture of “special measures” (e.g. sleep deprivation) which were only used because of the severity of the charges (in “price tag” attack they were not used because these were only property crimes). These were not only used with the approval of an AAG but also with the approval of courts – and it is the “Jewish way” (see Baba Metzia 24a – which I quoted in a post of two weeks ago). If you find that scary, what do you think of what goes on in Guantanamo?
Health, as they are attempting to enforce it is an abuse of basic human rights.
Moi aussi, the Left says that they are racist right-wingers who persecute Arabs. YAWN!
Tirtza, did you ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, they are guilty. Documents have been found containing plans for terror attacks.
Health, basic human rights? What about the rights of women to walk on certain sides of streets or stand in certain places in the ultra-Chareidi sections of Ramat Bet Shemesh?
Joseph, Iran is a tightly controlled totalitarian state. No one is killed without official permission. Is this the kind of state in which you want to live? If so, all you have to do is join the US Navy and ask for asylum after you are captured.
HaKatan,
Stuff and nonsense. The Jews in EY were constantly at the mercy of some ruler’s whims. Just to give a few examples, Ashkenazim were forced to wear Sephardic dress as the Moslems would grab any Ashkenzai they could find for the debts on the Hurva synagogue. During the Peasants’ Revolt under Muhammad Ali of Egypt’s occupation, Jews were targeted in the 1834 looting of Tzefat and the 1834 Hebron massacre.
You can fulminate in denial all you like but the fact of the matter is that the establishment of the State of Israel has not only been a great blessing, and was greeted as such by almost all of the gedolim, as a restroation of national independence (see Rambam at the beginning of Hilchot Chanuka regarding the Hasmonian state, which after the first generation was largely controlled by the Tzaddukim) but, as Rav Soloveichik noted, pulled Am Yisrael out of the national depression that resulted from the Holocaust (which according to Rav Teichtal in “Em HaBanim Semeicha was caused by opposition to the return to EY brought about by the sin of the spies, a sin which apparently is still reverberating).
If its good zivug so she changes her sheetot as the wife takes on her husband’s minhagim. BTW, Nechama Soloveichik, granddaughter of Rav Aharon, is a BY alumna and she is a freelance media consultant for conservative Republican candidates, which sounds pretty modern to me.
As for mainstream, it depends on which stream.
Avram,
Almost forty years ago there was a program called CETA which paid municipalities to hire welfare recipients for clerical jobs. At the time I worked for the City of NY (I was civil service) and I personally knew CETA workers who eventually took exams and became full-fledged employees. Of course, if there would not be welfare recipients the bureaucrats who administer the programs would then have to work for a living.
As for relocation, people in America do it all the time. I knew several people who left NY for other areas in order to advance their careers.
Mammele,
Actually polls show that Israelis are becoming MORE religious. In fact, secularists have been wringing their hands over an imminent religious takeover of the IDF for the last several years (in fact, already a majority of those in junior officer courses are religious). The garinim Torani’im (groups of DL avereichim and their families who set up communities in weak reas) have had great success in kiruv – including secular families sending their kids to religious kindergartens.
As for olim from France, they go where they please and send their children to those schools they choose. A large number, in fact, go to yishuvim (including mine). The newspaper you cite is simply publishing non-factual statements.
Health, then you screen name is sagi nahor? Refua sheleima.
Anti-Zionism is the yetzer hara. It is also a psychological phenomena known a “denial”. The Mayo Clinic says:
Refusing to acknowledge that something is wrong is a way of coping with emotional conflict, stress, painful thoughts, threatening information and anxiety. You can be in denial about anything that makes you feel vulnerable or threatens your sense of control, such as an illness, addiction, financial problems or relationship conflicts. You can be in denial about something happening to you or to someone else.
When you’re in denial, you:
Refuse to acknowledge a stressful problem or situation
Avoid facing the facts of the situation
Minimize the consequences of the situation
Rav Tzvi Yehuda said that the term “religious Zionist” is a redundancy. Being religious means being Zionist and one cannot truly be Zionist without being religious.
Crawley,
You write like some anti-Semitic blogger.
1. The bachurim in Geula were rioting (and davka against their own neighborhood). Why weren’t they in seder if they are such big learners?
2. Nonsense. Ethiopian Jews in fact are beneficiaries of affirmative action.
3. How do you define poverty? Except for the mentally ill the poverty described in the Gemara does not exist here. If you want to make things even better come and open a business.
4. More nonsense. Those professionals are not the ones engaging in terrorist activities.
5. Since when are you and your ilk running the country?
Health,
There were signs, such as Hebrew graffiti, that it was done by Jews. One of the young men in administrative detention put out papers describing this and other measures to be taken in an attempt to forcibly overthrow the governmental system.
Joseph, the Mechaber only permits polygamy where the current wife agrees (it is a clause in the ketuba). In fact, true Sepharadim (= descendants of gerush Sepharad) have not practiced it. Some of the Eidot HaMizrach, in particular Yemenites, did, but not all. The Ben Ish Hai, for example, only had one wife, as did his rebbe Rav Abdullah Somekh.
A person who takes money to learn and goofs off is just as much a robber as an employee who goofs off.
This e-mail was sent by the Chafetz Chaim Heritage Foundation:
Day 117 – A Good Job
SEFER AHAVAS CHESED ? Part II Chapter XXI
To strengthen a businessman who is faltering takes savvy, and it takes money. Not everyone is positioned to be of real help in such situations. That does not mean, however, that the commandment to strengthen one?s faltering brother is out of reach for the average person. There are many situations in which even a middle-class person with no money to invest has the opportunity to perform ? and reap the rewards ? of this life-giving mitzvah.
The Chofetz Chaim points out that those on the middle and lower rungs of the economic scale often live in constant danger of falling into dire straits. A car-service driver, a handyman, a woman who helps with housekeeping or baby-sitting, the owner of a small store ? any of these individuals may be one job or one bad business week away from disaster. Patronizing their businesses, employing them and using their services fulfills the commandment to strengthen one?s brother just as completely as does the act of investing in someone?s thousand-man factory. Even a person who has the wherewithal to be of help to a large business enterprise is obligated to help the simple, struggling worker to stay afloat as well. He is not relieved of the burden of looking around him at the everyday people who cross his path, simply because he is putting a large sum into saving his neighbor?s business empire.
Even if using the services of a struggling fellow Jew will cost a person additional money, the Chofetz Chaim says, one should do it nonetheless. The additional cost is simply money spent on the mitzvah, money which Hashem promises to recompense at some point, in some way. Whatever a person seeks to accomplish, Divine assistance is the essential component for success. One who chooses his employees or contractors with attention to their need for the income channels Hashem?s help into the endeavor. Conversely, saving money at the expense of a Jew in need will not, in most cases, save any money at the bottom line.
Helping people who are locked permanently into a financial struggle can be a discouraging experience. People who have few assets with which to cushion their setbacks may find themselves in need again and again, creating a sense of futility for those who help them. The Chofetz Chaim sees this factor as no reason to cut off one?s help or support. As many times as a person stumbles, one is obligated to step in and prevent his downfall. Even if one saves the same person?s life a hundred times, each and every time he acts, he is saving a life.
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According to reports the baby was shaken violently. This can result in shaken baby syndrome (SBS).
In a din Tora two witnesses and warning would be required. However, the secular authorities may execute murderers even on circumstantial evidence See http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/capital-punishment/page/3 . As for an autopsy, a Swiss team has invented a non-invasive “virtopsy” conducted with scanning and imaging technology. This should solve the halachic problems.
According to Faranak Margolese (“Off the Derech”) the main cause is negative experiences with religious figures. However, the Arizal says that there is no tzibbbor without the three letters of the root: tzaddikim, benoni’im and reshaim. So there will be OTDs no matter what. Anyone who learns the responsa literature knows taht some hair-raising aveirot were committed in the holy shtetlach.
Akuperma, Cruz does not swear at people. In fact, he handles hecklers very well. You are correct, however, that Rubio has the “establishment”. The question is whether he can attract the Fundamentalists. On the other hand, he will do better with Hispanic voters but could lose anti-immigration hardliners. Perhaps a Rubio-Cruz or Cruz-Rubio ticket would be good. Another possibility is a deal whereby Cruz will support the nominee in return for an important judicial appointment. It should be noted that four of the current justices on SCOTUS are over eighty or will turn eighty during the coming term. While he is bit young and has no judicial experience he is an outstanding attorney. The Repubican establishment might just support him to get him out of the Senate.