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jewishfeminist
what you say about a human baby, whom Hashem breathed life into, as relates to animals makes no sense, however i wont argue it now because:
IF your quotes from R’SRH and the Rama are correct, then i stand corrected.
do you think this is ridiculous:
beyond vegetarians is now FRUITARIANS
they dont believe in harming vegetables
they only eat fruit because it detaches, leaving the plant intact and not suffering.
its not a joke
google it
you dont think the fools of the world are capable of taking it even farther?
without TRUE TORAH guidance, everything becomes possible, fools appear to be wise. Yidden think like goyim.
“feivel:
You’re being ridiculous.”
why do you say that? you dont think bacteria have rights? arent they living entities? are you certain they dont feel pain? are you prejudiced because they are smaller than you?
“P.S. You forgot to mention that you don’t eat anything, because that would hurt the plants.”
youre right! im considering intravenous, Chas’ v’ Shalom, as we speak.
“always remember that animals have nervous systems and can and do experience pain and suffering.”
pain and suffering is a function of consciousness not a nervous system. animals can make motions which appear to as as pain and suffering. perhaps it is, perhaps its not. you can program a robot (ala steven spielbergs creations) to appear to experience pain.
“Yom Kippur is approaching, a day when we may not wear leather shoes. This is because we must have mercy on animals if we expect Hashem to have mercy on us.”
that’s a nice thought but it has nothing to do with why we dont wear leather shoes.
its perfectly fine to wear a leather belt or hat or skirt on Yom Kippur. you can also wear a full mink coat if you like.
i no longer eat meat, or wear leather, my black hat is plastic.
i have begun to be very careful where i step (ants, you know).
i guess if , chas v’ sholom, i should contract an infection it would be mutar to take antibiotics, ill have to ask a shaila of course, it would mean a horrible death of millions just to save my own.
of course, i have resolved to stop using all anti-bacterial soap
gmab:
“The pro-choicers have a point, although I don’t really agree. If she wanted to bear Trig, OK, but if she didn’t, that’s fine with me too.”
i suppose its too late to kill him now.
i imagine it would be interesting to get trigs take on this.
depends on who you are and what you need
good advice ulisis.
but sometimes it follows me to Shul anyway
what is it?
anyone else have any personal advice for making the guf less of a distraction on Yom Kippur?
i saw this time-release prescription on the website of michel segal md:
“Fruit, despite its high fiber content, is worthwhile since it carries a lot of water in a “time-release” form.”
if you take them before the time of the fast begins (which is what they were designed for, if you could take them during the fast they wouldnt need to be long-lasting), yes they are permitted.
some people say they work, i strongly tend towards doubting that.
“torture?
that implies they have consciousness (not just automated responses.) do they? could be, no one knows. can they feel pain? not unless they have consciousness (although their bodies can respond to pain.”
on further thought i hereby retract the above section of my above post
“Sharing a birthday has no meaning unless you want it to.”
i think it does (Hebrew birthday) even in Halachah
(something to do with identifying a mark on a body to conclude the identity of a man to free his wife, maybe you recall the Gemorah, i cant remember where it is)
you probably knew this but forgot.
the marks of course being in black and white in those days
“the latter involves the torture of innocent creatures. “
innocent?
that implies:
1. animals have moral bechira. do they?
2. they can be guilty as well. can they?
torture?
that implies they have consciousness (not just automated responses.) do they? could be, no one knows. can they feel pain? not unless they have consciousness (although their bodies can respond to pain.
there are a lot of questions in your statement that even your strong faith in Scientism cannot answer. you are of course free to believe what makes the most sense to you
i prefer to believe in Chazal, and the Minhagim of the Holy children of the Creator.
dont forget to read the now famous “praying with fire” before R”H
its fun and easy to read and has improved the davening of thousands, including me!
and dont forget to make my chickpea recipe.
i was never suspicious
i assumed it was probably Anivus
at one time i think the public didnt know his name
i heard speculation then, that it was Tzvi Meir
very special Sefer.
very
“I would not hesitate to call the authorities if i see a baby abandoned outside a store”
I think that would be a proper and good thing to do.
but it is a VERY serious act.
anyone considering doing this should ask a shaila from a competent posik first.
you did a brave and caring thing
“May Hashem watch over our children and guard them form harm”
Amen
how can anyone here answer such a question that shouldnt even be asked.
but if you ask it then ask it it one who is qualified to answer, a Godol.
our children tell us as soon as they know
no one else is told, including siblings, until 3 months.
at that point the alter bubby is told first then the siblings then whomever else.
the Gemorah states, in many places, that a woman in general starts to be visibly pregnant at 3 months.
i did go to the website (thank you again)
thats where i saw the two bookstores i mentioned in my last post
i totally believe you
i just wondered why some people, like me, and like at least one book store, are under the impression that the author is unknown
gedalya
on one of the online seforim stores recommended by the bilvavi site it gives the author as HaRav Itamar Swartz
on the other online store it says this about the author:
Works by an anonymous mekkubal from Yerushalayim
do you know what is behind this?
thank you very much gedalya
Ahmain
i often think: “what would the Chofetz Chaim do in this situation?
things like:
would he eat standing up?
would he cross over on someones grass or would he go out of his way to use the sidewalk?
how would he feel if someone pushed him in their hurry to get somewhere?
things like those, that it is somehow quite clear what he would do.
or even a recent thread here with ugly arguing about whether a Yid could walk in the street holding hands with his wife: wheres the Halacha?, wheres the Mikor? who said?…
can you picture the Chofetz Chaim walking in the street holding his wifes hand?
truly a shining light to one who wants to be guided by it.
there is a small, easy to read sefer that many have found to have spurred them on to very deep changes is their lives.
Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh
author unknown
most seforim stores never heard of it
you can purchase it online at mysefer.com
it is for anyone at any level, as long as you truly want to serve the Ribbono Shel Olam, in the best way you can.
there is a nice translation (dont let the awful cover fool you) called “A Sanctuary in my Heart”
in Chovos Halevavos
in the shaar cheshbon hanefesh
he lists 30 attitudes and ideas to consider and contemplate
learn and THINK about one of them each day
start with number one on Rosh Chodesh and learn (meditate on really) one a day
start again the next Rosh Chodesh
you will learn each one 12 times a year
they are powerful ideas
use the english translation if you want, i do, i find his loshon very difficult to grasp clearly
BONUS, this is very, very nice
do this seder before Shachris, (or other times) when no one else is in the Bais Medresh, when it is dark
leave all the lights off
find a secluded corner
*use a candle to learn by*
whenever you feel inspired during the seder, talk to the RibbnoShelOlam, cry to him, real tears if you can, dry tears if you cant.
please try this, it’s worth some sacrifice.
may you have Siyata dShmaya
shindy
marinate in worcestershire sauce and some oil overnight
spread out in baking sheet
sprinkle with garlic powder, onion powder and salt
cook at about 400 degrees until brown (maybe 20 min?)
they should be kind of hard
eat by the handful as a snack, not as good to serve with a meal
“learners, most of whom contribute precious little in anything to the …spiritual life of the Jewish nation. “
ive tried to ignore all controversial threads lately, but i couldnt let this pass.
no i cant post a mikor, no i cant quote a Rav, you can believe me or not, i dont care (well i do care but i know you will not change)
if not for all the “learners” in Eretz Yisroel, either it would be a gihinnom on earth or would have long ceased to exist (as a state)
and were it not for the learners all over the world, the world would have ceased to exist. this is most pashut
thank you yoshi
i havent run in 20 yrs
im starting to get that old feeling again, that craving to run
we’ll see
halhigdon.com
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Even if the hashem created a mature world why would he create bones of thousands of species of animals and remains of human civilazations that either never existed or were never lived in?
they were species that did live. species are always becoming extinct, even today
they were civilizationss that did exist. many civilizations have been destroyed.
how long ago did this occur? (see last post re. carbon and uranium)
there are still stars whos light is just reaching us today (that wernt visable a few yeas ago)
interesting, i never knew that.
and before these things were discovered there were still athiests and apikorsim
obviously, but never even barely approaching the extent of today (see my last post re. the days before Moshiach))
so these things arnt necessary for there to be bechira. besides you have no proof to anything you said: you cant prove that the star light was instantly here less then six thousand years ago
thats true i cant prove that
even though that goes against evreything we know about how the world works, while i by knowing the speed of light and how long it takes fossils ect.
not at all (see last post, did you not understand anything i said?)
Again i beleive all this does not conflict with the torah so why beleive the way with less physical proof backing it up.
i agree it doesnt conflict with the Torah, so why believe science when you can believe your Zadies and their fathers and their fathers, back to Chazal, back to Moshe Rabbeinu, back to Hashem
000646
actually the fossil evidence presents an extremely serious problem for evolution. it shows only sudden appearances and extinctions and no gradual change whatsoever. richard dawkins (a higher echelon famous evolutionist) and his colleagues have freely admitted this. that in fact is what has led to the recent theories of punctuated equilibrium ( a resurrection of the previously discredited “hopeful monsters” proposition), which have replaced darwinism (at least in the higher centers of research, it hasnt really trickled down to the high school level, for the most part)
but that has nothing whatsoever to the the lack of indisputability of your proofs. if you want to believe in fossil evidence, go ahead.
now the following assumes that you believe in a Creator, if you dont i have nothing to say of meaning for you.
the Creator created a MATURE world, in seven days, seven 24 hour periods, (we dont need to say that a day wasnt a day or whatever. you could say that but you dont need to). the Boreh created a mature world.
Adam wasnt a seed, he was a grown man. the trees he saw werent seeds they were mature trees many years old. although dirt is composed of sand and decomposed living matter, modified by bacteria and worms and ants, and other complex processes, nevertheless Adam stood on dirt the day he was created.
and it was an earth full of lead and iron and copper and oil and sapphires and diamonds.
diamonds and oil that take hundreds of thousands of years to create.
they were all there when Hashem created the universe, because he simply created a mature universe.
he certainly may have created carbon and uranium isotopes in a manner of a mature world as well as everything else, just as he placed stars in the world trillions and trillions of miles away. He placed them there for man to see. Adam saw them the first night he was born, he didnt have to wait trillions of years for the light to reach him.
but any scientist using his scientific tools and methods would see a world created billions of years ago, yes?
NUMBER TWO:
im not going to elaborate here. any maimon should know the following already. if you dont understand it i wont be able to teach it to you.
Hashem created the world for man. He created it for man to exercise BECHIRAH.
if all of the evidence of man pointed to the creation being merely 5769 years ago there would be no room for disbelief, there would be little room for apikorsus.
THERE WOULD BE NO WAY TO SEPARATE BETWEEN THOSE WHO HAVE ABSOLUTE EMUNAH IN THE G-D OF SCIENCE, AND THOSE WHO HAVE EMUNAH IN CHAZAL. there would not be the ordeal we must go through in the days before Moshiach, whether we will belive in man or in Hashem.
“the world has been proven to be billions of years old beyond any shadow of a reasonable doubt”
could you give us a brief rundown or just a list of some of the proofs
i would be very interested
perhaps you are referring to uranium or carbon dating?
perhaps the spectrographic evidence of the universes expansion?
the light that is coming from stars thousands of light years away?
the presence of oil deposits (which take millions of years to form from decaying matter)?
are these the kinds of undisputable proofs?
would you like to add some more before i dispute their indisputability?
“the world has been proven to be billions of years old beyond any shadow of a reasonable doubt”
could you give us a brief rundown or just a list of some of the proofs
i would be very interested
squeak
dont try to interpret a statement as negatively as possible
try to have a good eye
no one said “tell her to do whatever your heart says to do!”
nothing like that
the statement, if youll have a look in the context meant that in trying to explain Yiddishkeit to this temporarily reform Yid, if you dont have a good vort then tell her from the Yiddishkeit that is in your heart
may the golus end VERY soon.
heres about 500 people
htttttttttp://dailystrength.org/c/Neurofibromatosis/support-group
remove a bunch af “t” s from the address
“That is beautiful. Whatever you tell her will be fine. Use your heart”
exactly.
much more effective than any interesting vortlach
and your care and concern goes straight to the Neshama
the vertlach have to swim around in the mind for a while, right along with the Yetzer Ha’Rah