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Lior, the wise thing to do is ask the manager to balance out the cash register.
The demographic narrative that we will be in a minority if another terrorist state isn’t created has been debunked. Those Chareidim that wouldn’t mind living in an Arab state can do so now, if they choose. Only, their lifespans wouldn’t be very long.
The more Obama interferes in the Israeli elections, the greater Netanyahu’s victory will be.
GolemGorilla: From what I remember he is very good There are many others as well, such as Rabbi Michael Skobac from Jews for Judaism.
GolemGorilla: I’ve seen a few of his debates a long time ago.
GolemGorilla: Definitely so. Counter-missionaries have saved many Jewish souls.
It’s interesting debating these people. Some are very well trained, but if you know how to debate, they are easy to defeat. Most of them have superficial knowledge.
I Davened in a Chassidish Shteibel. There is annual dues of $400 including seats. Depending on the type of Shul, dues can be much higher depending on cost of operation and staff involved. Larger Orthodox Shuls, whether Yeshivish or MO, often charge more.
GolemGorilla: Right and all the more reason for Jews to understand this stuff and know how to counteract it. Knowing their tactics is very important too.
Counter-missionaries protect unsuspecting Jews. Other than a few basics in the goyish testament, you need to know TANACH and how missionaries distort and take things out of context.
Missionaries mostly use the TANACH in their perverse way, since most Jews, even ignorant ones, would just ignore them if they preached their bible.
Every Jew should know the basics of Counter-missionary information.
From a psychological standpoint, people’s desire for something gets stronger when someone is trying to take it away. The knowledge would probably help those in danger of going off the derech.
barlev: The difference is that Yerushalayim isn’t equipped to deal with snow because it’s so rare, but NY allegedly is.
I was once in New England immediately after a major snow storm and the roads were 100% clear. They stacked everything on the curb area leaving parking and a walking path. It was a long time ago, but they knew how to deal with it.
crazybrit: Believe it or not, many men do, especially if they weren’t babied their whole life and actually earn what they have.
Maybe pushing Bochrim off for six months is a good thing. Many need to mature a lot more first, which would lessen divorces.
One of the issues with “Daas Torah,” is that people often give partial information when seeking it.
To really be success in politics, you have to sell your soul to a large degree. You have to be very skilled to minimize that problem, yet it’s hard to get anywhere in politics if you don’t go along with the wishes of your party’s leadership.
I would prefer a like minded Goy to a Frum Jew anytime.
Lior: Raising the threshold is not really a bad thing. Even with doing so, Israeli politics is still a three ring circus.
We live in a dangerous neighborhood and need a cohesive government to function. Whether that happens is still a big question mark.
If a party can’t get a minimum amount of support and the threshold isn’t that much, of what value are they? Also, there is musical chairs between parties and the people in them, so the level of disenfranchisement, if any, is miniscule.
Lior, the last telegraph took place in India a few years ago, in the U.S., I think it was in 2008.
Telex is an offshoot of the telegraph and is rarely used any more.
I have a little different take on this. First, I have no respect for Obama, his actions or his policies. That being said, no teacher should impose their politics on students no matter their beliefs.
Look at the leftist brainwashing taking place on college campuses. The country is raising a bunch of ignorant people devoid of basic knowledge.
Neither side should be allowed to do this.
Bashing of politicians is perfectly acceptable if you speak the truth, not made up drivel.
cg3672: The simple answer is to raise your children right, develop a close relationship and you will probably not have to ask the question to begin with. While there are no guarantees, it sure makes a world of difference.
Once their adults and set in their ways, they will have to figure it out for themselves and from their own learning. You can’t force it. Just treat them with the respect you want from them.
In general, you see children treat their parents the way the parents treat/ed their own parents.
First, you’ll have to find a telegraph machine and then one on the recipients side. Good luck with that.
We as a people have always been resilient. We can go from a Fast Day to a day of Simcha in a blink of an eye. That being said, we are all family and need to look at anything that happens to a fellow Jews as such, be it a simcha or a tragedy.
It’s the emotional maturity not physical maturity that is the issue.
“We don’t take money from tzionim either”
If that were only completely true. Do you use any government services that are either free or subsidized? Do you pay for your own trash to be picked up? Do you go into the grocery and say, “I want to pay the full price for those staples that the government subsidizes? What about health insurance? and on and on.
“Obama’s election in 2008 was with the highest percentage turnout since 1968 and the highest numerical turnout ever. “
Just shows you can fool most of the people, most of the time. What he said, his background and associations meant nothing. A good speech with a teleprompter, a leftist media and his race were the winning factors.
dunno what name: You don’t need to teach other religions. It just involves teaching ours from a standpoint of how missionaries take things out of context. It means teaching NACH better. Most Yeshiva guys learn Novi in bits and pieces through Gemmorah. That’s not enough.
I have found that people who learn these things get stronger in their Yiddishkeit. Also, when they are accosted in the street, they’ll know how to handle it. Missionaries go through Jewish neighborhoods all the time. They don’t bring up their own nonsense. They misuse TANACH to make their points. Knowing these things will also help in protecting others from this evil.
A 15 or 16 year old is certainly old enough to understand and experiences the bombardment of xtion holidays. You can’t shelter everyone 100%.
kj chusid: That’s a common issue if every election, including in the U.S. You choose the best of those running.
The bottom line is if you don’t vote, you get the worst of the worst. Can you say Obama boys and girls?
sm29: 100% on target. Too many schools try to drum as much info into the head, but forget that the learning must be internalized and not just for a test. Working on the head without the heart just creates a human version of a Golem.
Appreciation for what we have and who we are needs to be demonstrated and taught. I also feel that Yeshiva’s and Bais Yaakov’s should teach counter-missionary information. The information is critical, but the psychological benefit is there too. Knowing that someone wants to take away your yiddishkeit will make you want it and appreciate it more. Also, you may find yourself in a position to save someone else. The emotional bond needs to be there, not just the information.
I asked a Shaila on the very same issue where the money was going to a youth program in a church. I was told that since it wasn’t going directly for religious purposes and for darchei shalom, I should give.
Say your the yeshish version of a tuna baygel. The labels get a bit much since they are in the eyes of the beholder. MO has a connotation in people’s minds, as does every other label. Mostly, they don’t really fit.
How about saying your hashkofically somewhere between Young Israel and Agudah?
Everybody who gets tzedakah letter is called Rabbi too.
I didn’t read the book, but the premise has other proofs. For instance, there is a concept that each posuk in the Torah represents a year in the history of the world. BTW, there are less than 6000 Pasukim.
When I heard of this concept, I started checking some key years in recent history. Sorry I don’t have a Hebrew keyboard so I will have to transliterate.
For the year 1938-9, the beginning of the holocaust, the posuk is; “VaYechar Af Hashem…..”
This in no way absolves anyone of the evil they chose to do to us. It just means that Hashem withdrew some of his protection and the barbarians acted as they chose.
The Gog: Unfortunately, that’s an inconvenient fact. It’s obvious the masses don’t care. Sad commentary on the situation in the U.S., with a significant level of ignorance and the opportunity to loot and destroy.
The way I describe it is, that the Democrats are evil and the Republicans are stupid. The Republicans are so afraid of the media that it handcuffs them. Too many people still think the Democrats are the same as they were in the 1950-60’s and they are not.
Go and read the speeches of John Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson, Daniel Patrick Moynahan, etc. and see if this is the same as the current Democratic party, who consist of the 1970’s radical leftist/socialists who took it over.
Then go read the speeches of Ronald Reagen and compare it with the old Democrats and you will see so much similarity. The differences in the past between Dem’s and Repub’s was whether government was the solution or the problem, but they both wanted the same end results. That is no longer the case.
The problem is that so many people have been indoctrinated by the media and academia that they no longer know how to think and evaluate for themselves.
Many people who actually want to make some money take jobs like that while in school and even if that’s what he wants to do, that doesn’t show any lack of intelligence. If marrying a professional person is what you think will make you happy, then he may or may not be for you. Do you know his plans?
Also, he may be the perfect person for you. Are you willing to avoid finding that out? Then again, maybe you are not the right person for him.
That’s the yiddisha Neshama coming through. Even Lapid put on T’fillin during the war in Gaza.
In general, it’s hard to pigeonhole Israelis by look or dress. My daughter witnessed a Chiloni woman who went to the hospital to visit a mother whose son was in a very bad car accident. When asking what she can do, the mother said to just say Tehillim. This Chiloni woman, dressed in shorts and a sleeveless shirt, took out a Sefer Tehillim from her purse and said the entire sefer cover to cover. How many of her equivalent level people in the U.S. or anywhere else would even know what a Tehillim is, let alone carrying one?
I was in a taxi in Yerushalayim and the driver asked how I was doing, after finding out that I was a new Oleh at the time. I answered B”H and he got happily excited that I answered that way. He was also Chiloni. It shows, don’t judge a book by its cover.
Also find out how she feels about the divorce and how it affects her outlook on marriage.
DaasYochid: I’m probably a bit older than you and I have seen, way too often, parents kicking a child out instead of dealing with their issues proactively. I’ve also seen Yeshiva’s doing the same. Most of the time, when a kid has serious issues, there are specific reasons behind it and they can be dealt with effectively.
I guess when you’ve been actively involved in a community as long as I have, you see a lot more than most people.
When I was 8 years old, my first nephew was born. I was pushing his stroller in BP and someone asked me if I was the father.
I think most Chareidim are appreciative of the sacrifices of IDF soldiers. In Bnai Brak and elsewhere, during the summer’s Gaza war, women in those communities were baking Challah and having it delivered to the Gaza area for the soldiers. Many did other things as well. The whole Nations was involved in bringing food, clothing and other personal needs to the soldiers.
I spend a lot of time in Chareidi neighborhood over Shabbosim. From the people I spoke with, the consensus is that the Shuls don’t make a Mishabeirach for the Chayalim for political reasons.
The problem is that it’s the insane actions of the few that are projected on the whole since it makes good headlines, but the reality differs from that.
SARAH Emainu was a Novi and knew what Yishmoel would become. The problem today is that children have become disposable if they have some issues and that some parents get hung up on what other people will think or say. It becomes a self fulfilling prophesy.
The best of parents can have a problem child, but often there are reasons behind a child’s behavior and that needs to be dealt with, not by burying ones head in the ground. Children are not disposable.
I also live in the Shomron. We have a great community. Everyone who comes to visit feels right at home and loves it here.
Har Nof, for the person who asked, is a mixture.
adams: The so-called settlements are just a handy excuse. The real issue is theological and to the Arabs, that means destroying us, all of us, not just Yehuda and Shomron.
vayoel moshe: that’s the most ridiculous laughable thing I’ve heard in a long time. Besides the fact that the so-called palestinians already have a state on 80% of the land originally designated for Jews, and they never wanted another state when Jordan control the territory before 1967, the UN is the last entity we should trust. All they’ve done is aid and abet terrorism against us.
Risk your own life, if you choose, not ours.
adams: Think Gush Katif. What happened after Israel evacuated the entire Gaza, while leaving successful businesses intact? Leaving Yehuda and the Shomron makes the entire country vulnerable. It would only be 9 miles wide at one point and impossible to defend.
Also, did you know that if your neighborhood and others like it, were forced to evacuate temporarily in a war, you would be evacuated to the Shomron?
The areas you mentioned were bought and paid for legally by Jews. There never was an Arab so-called Palestinian state nor history. It’s nothing more than a tactic and means to destroy us.
Our history shows that the world is antagonized by our breathing. We are foolish for buying into their anti-semetic narrative. It’s all in Hashem’s hands. The Land is ours.
No other Country in the world is treated like we are for building on Land won in a defensive war, even when they had no history of ownership of that Land. We have the history here, yet we are treated differently than everyone else.
Please don’t fall into that trap.
Depends on whose box it is. Too many teens go off the derech because the box of acceptability expected of them has gotten so small that many just don’t fit.
Now, if the “box” is Torah and sensible yiddishkeit, then I’m all for it.
PAA, I agree with you. The problem is that people get so fixated on their position that nothing else matters. They just get more and more extreme when things don’t go their way.
The bottom line to me is that the creation and existence of the State of Israel, though it’s current status is certainly not the Jewish ideal, is obviously Min HaShomayim. The nissim that take place here is unbelievable. The stages are being set for the ultimate geulah and we can make it come in the best way possible, with the least hardship to us, if we stop the nonsense bickering.
The secular founders did some horrendous things that are well documented. They also did some good things. They spent, irrespective of their motivations, more money to support Torah learning than ever before in history. Hashem often uses that which appears to be profane to fool the Sitra Achra; such as Yehuda and Tamar, Rus and others such situations. It seems to me that the secular founding of the State is just another such example.
Hashem decided that it was time for us to come home. The secularists were the primary ones to take the initiative to make it happen and they deserve credit for that.
What happens from now on is up to us. The religious world is so fractured with political and control issues, with the Yeshiva world split in to so many self serving factions that its ridiculous.
If the Chareidi and Dati world would join forces with the traditional world, i.e. semi-religious and very spiritual Sfardim, the country would change over night.
So instead of pointing fingers at the secularists or others, we need to reflect inwards and work for the greater good of Am Yisroel without all this petty nonsense.
Hashem Yiracheim if we don’t. We only have ourselves to blame.
I think the spiritual danger issue is a bunch of nonsense. If you go in weak, you’ll come out weak. The IDF doesn’t try to take anyone away from Torah. They even give out Chumashim at the induction ceremony. They as accommodating as possible. Maybe something is wrong with the Chinuch process if people feel their boys are at risk spiritually.
The have been plenty of people become Baalei Teshuva because of the IDF and their interaction with Frum soldiers.
CHAZAL tell us that Noach was lacking. The issue is in what way? The Zohar says that Noach, while he was a Tzaddik, was solely focused on himself and didn’t try to reach out to others. This as opposed to Avraham Aveinu. Isn’t the Chareidi world doing the same thing as Noach? If someone is strong in their beliefs, no one will negatively influence them.
Torah learning is vital for the survival of the State. However, the Chareidi position is that no one should serve, whether they are learning or not. The Yeshiva Bocher statements are used to divide. Not all Chareidi boys are learning and not all are capable of really learning. The mentality is flawed. Boys, who are not learning, are even discouraged from learning a trade to be able to support a family. It’s an unsustainable situation and others are rightfully resenting it and it’s causing a backlash.
If the positions in the Chareidi world weren’t so severe, it would be different.
To Spice of Life: Do you feel it’s ok for other people’s children to risk their lives to protect you, but your children should be immune? All our children are precious, your and other peoples. Without the IDF, we would all be massacred. Don’t say Hashem will protect us without the IDF. Hashem protects us within the framework of our own Hishtadlus. Moshe Rabbeinu wasn’t told to sit back and let Hashem do all the fighting for us. We had to fight too.
Think of Chevron 1929. That’s what we’d be facing without the IDF. No one wants their children in harms way, but what choice is there?
Depending on the issue, ignorance can cause you lots of harm in the long run.
Health, while I have a copy, I never fully read it. I started to read it, but it wasn’t anything I didn’t already know. It’s just factual history that too many younger people don’t know. People just get caught up in the big lie nonsense and take it as fact, with no real understanding.
BTW, for people that don’t know, Joan Peters, the author of “From Time Immemorial” is/was an intellectually honest historian who worked for the Carter Administration. She admits that she was pro-Arab and started writing the book to prove the Arabs right. The further she dug, her opinion changed 180 degrees.
One little addition (actually big addition). You have to set the right example. How are you with your parents? Do you show respect? (not blind obedience). You have to be a responsible adult, respectful and honest. Most of the time, though not always, character flaws that you see in kids are a mere reflection of the behaviors of their parents.
The so-called Palestinian aren’t a real independent people and never were. They assumed that name as a tactic after 1948. Only Jews were called Palestinians prior to that.
History shows, as the Torah says, that the Land will remain fallow until the Jews are about to return. Mark Twain and others wrote of the Land being desolate and barren, almost without people in the late 1800’s. Arabs were nomads, who flocked to the area for jobs after Jews started returning. There were very few of them and some Jews prior to that, but not many. Then at a certain point, Arabs being the “Pereh Adom” that the Torah says they are, started attacking and killing Jews. 1929 Chevron being just one example.
What was called Palestine, was designated for the Jews in the Balfour Declaration. The British took away 80% of that territory and gave it to Jordan as the Palestinian Arab State. That was 80% of the Land that was supposed to be ours. That wasn’t good enough so they attacked. Jordan seized the West Bank from Israel in 1948. The so-called Palestinan Arabs never claimed the land as theirs when Jordan controlled it. The first claim came after the 6 day war. BTW, the PLO was created in 1964 to try to destroy Israel while the Arabs had control of the West Bank.
All this shows is that the whole claim is a fake as a step to try to destroy us. Parshas Haazeinu says, that Hashem warns us that if we don’t follw his ways, he will punish us with a “NON PEOPLE, A VILE PEOPLE.” It doesn’t take much to figure out who those people are. They are vile and a non-nation. They have no distinct language or culture. They are largely a non productive people with no real accomplishment. That doesn’t mean that individuals can’t be decent or productive, but as a whole, they are not.
Why write this? Because people don’t always know history and look at things from a simplified current situation only.
Bottom line, they want to destroy us. That means all Jews, in Israel and in the rest of the world. That is their theology. Are we foolish enough to help them do it? Supporting creating a State within us play right into those hands. Don’t be suicidal.
It starts with a positive loving relationship with your children, that also include proper discipline when necessary with fairness.
Communication is also key. It is important to teach children how to think in order for them to make proper decisions when you are not around. One technique, which works in a general situation, without any danger or immediate action needed is by asking a series of questions that lead them to a proper conclusion instead of just telling them or demanding something.
Children will feel more respected and when they get it, a light bulb will seem to go off. Just be careful, that a smart kid will then try to use the technique on you.
My first inclination is to try to help the friend, but I don’t know your son and if he is capable of handling it. What is your wife’s objection? That may give more insight.
The are many reasons someone may go off the derech, including some kind of trauma. If that is the case, you really need a very qualified person to deal with it.
I find it hard to believe that you can be that bad. I’ve seen too many horrible Israeli drivers. Some make NYC cab drivers look good.
My experience, other than the usual cutting you off with an inch to spare and tailgating, how about darting out into traffic without looking or caring that there are cars in your way.
A few Russian drivers have done that to me. They are the worst of all. We had to take driving lessons and a driving test because many came to Israel with forged licenses and didn’t know how to drive. A driving instructor told me of a Russian, with a Russian license that didn’t even know where to put the key.
Then there is the motorcycle drivers with a death wish.