interjection

Spread the truth, if your Shita is that the evil Zionists conquered Israel against God’s wishes and that they are the Satan and Moshiach cannot come until the State of Israel is eradicated, then yes we are in huge trouble over here.

However, if your shita is that the fact that we have Eretz Yisroel in our possession is a huge Nes, especially considering that the country was conquered by Holocaust survivors (merely three years after it was over), in a defensive war against every surrounding country. Whether or not you agree or are happy with the government, if you view everything about Israel’s existence since then to be a Nes, you can definitely sleep a lot better at night.

Civil disobedience is wrong to society and it’s wrong for the participator himself since it turns him into a bully.

Civil disobedience is bullying. The entire goal of civil disobedience is to tantrum enough that the law enforcement runs out of energy and instead gives into the demand.

Believing in a cause doesn’t give you the right to be a bully.

If the reason these boys are all engaged in these protests is because it is bein hazmanim, I have two suggestions.

1) Either cut short bein hazmanim. Clearly the time is not being spent productively. The elementary schools have all resumed so let the older grades also keep the same schedule.

2) Teenage boys need action and physical activity like sports. Maybe if their yeshivas actually allowed them to play soccer, they would all be on the field instead of in the streets. At least once a month there’s another mini hafgana in these neighborhoods in yerushalayim. I’ve spoken to multiple parents whose kids participate in the protests because they either “think it’s fun” or they “think it’s funny”. Of the parents I’ve proven to, their kids definitely don’t care about the cause. Maybe it’s time the Israeli yeshivas installed basketball hoops and they stopped these chillulei Hashem.

I was curious to know what this event was all about so I googled Barclay anti Zionist event and only a handful of articles showed up. One of them was written by “Israel vs Judaism” and it was sick and full of lies with a few half-truths thrown in.

crazybrit: those aren’t equal comparisons. An appropriate example would be to compare how many times a driver is texting and he ends up in a car accident.

ubiquitin: I believe you need ID to pick up the ticket to prove that you didn’t steal or forge the ticket. So finding the winning ticket on the street would unfortunately not earn you any money.

Nfgo3 because now Israel is forced to stop it. Israel will bomb Iran without support from any other country in the world. Whether or not Iran has a nuclear bomb at that point Israel risks her survival by attacking Iran but there won’t be a choice anymore other than to rely on an open miracle.

Israel already said they will attack if need be. Bibi said “we are not bound by this deal and we will defend ourselves”. The choice was to stop it through diplomacy or to let it get to the point that Israel bombs Iran. When that happens everyone will be mad at Israel and our tiny little country will be alone.

All I can say is I’m very happy that i have a safe room in my apartment and that it comes with an air neutralizer.

because there are many there who engage in actions they are not supposed to do, it makes it more risky the Hashem will remove everyone there via the land spitting them out. It is exactly as the Pasuk says.

There is so much kiruv happening in Israel, so much more than anywhere else in the world. I think Hashem has a lot more patience than we think because so many of us are trying to do the right thing. Yes, everyone does aveiros and some are more blatant than others but with the nissim that happened during the war this past summer, I think it’s pretty clear that Hashem has faith in us.

Instead of putting your faith in the “self-sufficiency” of “one of the best military’s in the world” put your faith where it belongs. And recognize that during golus whatever could happen to you in Europe could happen to you in Israel.

It’s not by accident that Israel has one of the best militaries in the world. I see it so clearly as yad hashem that a country as young and as tiny as Israel, somehow manages to have one of the greatest militaries in the world.

Joseph: There’s a halacha in the SH”A that a man is required to walk in the street with his head bent so low that he can see at the most, 4 amos in front of him. Do you know anyone nowadays who doesn’t think of that as minhag chassidus?

Yes, I have.

Syag lachochma.

Why should their family lose out? I don’t know who you’re talking about but in such a situation, their father is an idiot and they have to live with the shame but why should they also have to live without food?

Op.

The same question goes for someone who smokes. Their kids know that the father would sooner spend money on his cigarettes then buy them bread. If he only has enough money for one, he will buy the cigarettes. How can you refuse this person money knowing that his kids will be the ones suffering bec your idealism of not giving money to someone who smokes?

golfer: Why are the other husbands looking?

Most women who know that their husbands are already ogling every other woman on the street, feel that there is no need to dress special for their husband. Many do anyway, because their tzidkaniyos but they resent that they feel their husbands don’t deserve it.

If the rabbanim want the women to dress more tzniusly, they should talk to the men about shmiras einayim, at least as much as they talk to the men to convince them to bully their wives to not wear A-line skirts.

Ironically, it was the zionist agitation that caused the British to restrict Jewish immigration to Palestine.

Except that now the state allows any Jew to make Aliya for the sole reason that they happen to be Jewish.

if not for Zionism millions of people wouldn’t have been become frei in the first place

That was then. Now almost half of all the world’s Jews live in Israel and the biggest Kiruv organizations are in Israel bringing hundreds of people to be chozer bitshuva every year. The seculars are no longer on a mission to bring the chareidim to become secular. The secularists want the Chareidim to get jobs and to join the army. The secularists want them to get jobs so they don’t have to direct such a large percentage of taxes to a segment that isn’t giving back and they want them to join the army so it won’t only be their children whose lives are at risk.

The Accountant: You should dress and act to attract the type of women whom you want to marry. If you want to marry a girl with yeshivish hashkafos then you should act and dress like someone with yeshivish hashkafos. If you want to marry someone with totally different hashkafos, you should dress to attract that other type of girl.

Obviously, regardless how you dress/act you should be straight up with both the girl and the shadchan of which direction you want to be heading.

You and I both grew up in open minded homes, by which I mean to say that we were exposed to secular culture somewhat. So when some random dude would ask us if we want to study for a test with him, we would know how to politely refuse. Whereas a sheltered BY girl that has never spoken to a male other than her immediate family members would find themselves unable to turn the guy down (guys can be persuasive of need be…)

Most BY girls would’ve avoided having any discussion with a male in the first place but they would definitely avoid studying with him one-on-one. Unless a large part of the reason they went there in the first place was to get male friends and they were dishonest about their motives.

The same would occur if someone would ask a BY girl a question on Judaism. Firstly, she most probably wouldn’t know what to answer, as BYs generally don’t give kiruv classes to their students, and second, she would end up getting into a conversation, and possibly an eventual relationship, with whoever asked her the question.

That’s a problem with BY education, not with college. Why would someone spend thousands of dollars on their daughters for 12 years to get a Torah education if that education doesn’t teach them the basic tenets of Judaism. You’d think that at some point in 12 years they would have taught “mah shetashiv le’apikores”. If a secular kid knows more about hashkafa than they do after having spend 12 years learning about Judaic hashkafa, that’s not exactly a compliment about the way BY education is set up.

And she’s going to end up in a relationship because they had a conversation? If she was really all that frum she would’ve avoided the conversation to begin with. If she was really all that truthseeking she would’ve called a rabbi to find out the truth.

I thought he was going to end off saying that it’s better for the husband to also get a job than for the wife to go to college.

Outside of real Yeshivish circles, in the last few years, I havent seen a girl get a date, unless shes willing to give a picture, if asked. If the girl doesnt give a picture, they’ll find many other pretty great quality girls who will.

I’m far from yeshivish and when I was in shidduchim, between 2-3 years ago, I was even further from yeshivish. I refused to send in a picture. All my more yeshivish friends sent in pictures because they were afraid of staying single forever but I told the shadchanim if the guy cannot go on a date without seeing a picture first then I’ll find someone else. I refused to degrade myself by reducing my worth to a picture. Besides, even if the guy would get the picture and say no to a date, there’s no guarantee that he’s getting rid of the picture.

I’m married now btw. I met my husband through a shadchan who recommended I send in a picture.

Why is cropping better? Is it important to the story where she was sitting or standing?

Yes. It is rewriting history to present a picture as factual and to alter the picture without informing the audience.

It bothers me just as much when ywn posts pictures of certain events and it’s the same picture every time (ie. obama golfing). Either the picture is as true as the story or don’t include a picture.

No one would have complained if they chose a picture with (a) microscopic women or (b) a picture that happened to have not contained any women.

Altering a picture shows that you cannot be trusted to give over a true unaltered story.

It would’ve made more sense to use a picture that didn’t have women in it or a picture with too many people in it that the women would have been too tiny to make out.

I won’t bother discussing point by point, because I’ll say the same for all of them: you remain outside the realm of reality.

When you raise your kids to (a) have certain ideals and (b) to not be able to think for themselves, you can’t complain when your kids get burned by others who have those same ideals.

Golfer: the reason no one has responded is because you’re preaching to the choir. Anyone who likes the idea of pictures before agreeing to date, will continue to do so. Anyone who is against, will continue to be upset about it.

Oomis: I looked up her measurements and I checked those measurements on Nordstroms website and those measurements are a size 00. She did wear baggy clothes so I estimate her clothes to be a 2-4. In the past 20 years, clothes sizing has changed due to ‘vanity sizing’, meaning that people like knowing that their clothes are a smaller size so the manufacturers changed the numbers for each measurement. Marilyn Monroe was a size 14 in vintage sizing but nowadays she would be a size 8.

The Gemara (I believe Eruvin 13b) says that human beings were better off not being created. Therefore, none of the Brachos start She’asani (She’asani Kirtzono is quite a discussion) because we cannot thank Hashem for actually creating us. We can only bless Him that once He created us, we were created in a fashion that has more opportunities to do Mitzvos.

This might be the first answer that actually somewhat worked for me.

In the Yesod Malchus siddur, the bracha for women is “baruch (ata hashem….haolam) she’asani kirtzono”, meaning that God’s name is in parenthesis. It always bothered me because it’s saying that it’s not really a bracha and I assumed chazal made up that bracha so women can feel good that we have a bracha. Now I understand why the bracha was seemingly against women and why the women’s bracha is tooting our own horn, considering it might have been made up by women.

I’m still left wondering why, if the purpose int the man’s bracha is because he has more mitzvos, why it can’t be more explicit in the bracha. Why can’t the bracha have been written in such a way that it doesn’t degrade females.

I don’t think it’s the shidduch system that has flaws. I do think people corrupt it but then again, if you avoid those shadchanim and groups of people, you don’t have what to worry. I personally would never send a picture so I would avoid a shadchan who said they needed a picture and I would tell a shadchan that if the mother/boy needed a picture then she should redt him to someone else. As for everything else, if you think what someone is asking for is stupidity then chances are that person isn’t for you.

Something rankles me when women are deemed fit to work, support their families, pay taxes and vote, and otherwise do as they’re told, but are considered unsuited to stand for public office.

This is why they’re fighting for it.

If a kid is not listening to your rules, there’s always a reason. Kids don’t act up because everything was rosy. By kicking out the kid you’re ignoring the problem instead of fixing it so whatever problem made the first kid go off, even if it wasn’t the parents fault (could be the school, shul, a neighbor) that problem still exists and has potential to turn off the other kids.