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  • in reply to: Condemnation of Jerusalem Parade #1788857

    adocs
    Justme22

    actually in the right circumstances not such a bad thing according to the latest research the whole g*y genetic deviant proclivities is a sum total of 1% difference
    therefore if you have the right guy with the right female to put in the effort in many cases
    it may work and it has in the past as well

    Indoctrinated by the Zeitgeist ?!

    in reply to: Frolicking Selichos Concert #1788839

    For all those who
    Selichos is so unmeaningful That we need eg Carlebach,Kumzitz
    My Recommendation is abolish The
    Selichos

    Preferable To have 10 minutes of collective
    [ with obviously all devices off and out of hands reach ]
    silent contemplation

    Presumably if this presently is too disruptively radical
    Hold A Very Abbreviated Selichos

    in reply to: “Lehovin” Jewish Newspaper #1788707

    Joseph,

    ” Presumably the naysayers here would advocate that ”

    agree that things should be different when a majority Subscribe
    to the fact that’s the original paper has veered far from its own original agenda

    in reply to: Can the severity of a sin be learned from the severity of the punishment? #1788702

    “We find raping an arusa is worst than an eishes ish. An arusa is sekula, but an eishes ish is chenek”.
    False
    only a na’ara besula is sekilla
    & even that’s complex

    in reply to: Can the severity of a sin be learned from the severity of the punishment? #1788286

    According to Research Albeit unofficial
    forcing a rapist to marry and then raise children with the victim is a greater deterrent than jail or any other modern punishment psychologically
    it does not matter

    Rabbi shraga Fievel mendelowitz would refer to those who Adhere to the legal obligations of Judaism but prefer to glean their mores and mindset from elsewhere as Disciples of Bila’am
    referencing Bamidbar 22:18

    in reply to: Can the severity of a sin be learned from the severity of the punishment? #1788273

    “..When a 23 year old woman was gang raped, tortured and murdered in Delhi, in 2012, this was known worldwide as the “Delhi gang rape case”. The emphasis was on “gang rape”, not on “murder”. This is typical. Why is rape seen a crime worse than torture or murder? .. . Isn’t it possible that traditional societies value a woman’s honor more, just as radical feminists and left-liberals do, their pretensions to the contrary notwithstanding?

    Why do criminals who severely mutilate their victims get away with it more easily than convicted rapists? Why are women largely let off the hook?””

    “Finally, why do rapist deserve “the harshest of punishments”? Is rape worse than murder? Being beaten within an inch of your life? Suffering lifelong disability after being shot, stabbed or bludgeoned? I think the left with its female-driven agenda has managed to create this special category of sex offenses. Once the public at large buys into the idea that sexual assault is the worst crime you can commit against a fellow citizen, worse even that murder apparently,.”

    in reply to: Can the severity of a sin be learned from the severity of the punishment? #1787489

    “Rape is a wild card.
    It has no proscribed punishment”
    rape is mechuyav in the monetary charges-
    nezek tzaar ripui sheves and boshes like any other permanent criminal assault eg chopping of an arm

    in reply to: Internet: The biggest source of brocha in the last generations. #1786856

    devny,
    Sorry no
    it just takes you out of your comfort zone and not willing to contemplate

    ” It is a construct that has evolved from a myriad causes, many of which relate ”
    So verbose o’dear anything to avoid

    חובות הלבבותStates
    Every step up of technological progress
    parallels with it a commensurate decline Of
    Human stature And humankind

    in reply to: Can the severity of a sin be learned from the severity of the punishment? #1785907

    ub
    if someone rapes An individual And as it happens
    she never knows about it and yes it is possible and she remains essentially unaffected by it
    that is inherently worse than a case of theft And as it happens
    One ruins and wiped out someone’s Financial lifestyle forever

    in reply to: Can the severity of a sin be learned from the severity of the punishment? #1785628

    There’s other things in the algorithm but midrashic statements are not necessarily included

    There are more than a few sources that the pyramidal structure of punishment is the Baseline for our faith t that is besides the fact that the higher punishment always overrides the lower punishment
    and the fact that when it comes to action and inaction the punishment when it comes to weighing that the Judgment of priority is set is the of the gravity

    once more there are other factors And caveats that need to be considered as well

    in reply to: Can the severity of a sin be learned from the severity of the punishment? #1785626

    Much the same crowd once again trying to minimize the seriousness of Judaism
    I will try to answer some for the moment

    Now there’s much to be learned from these serious statements made in our texts regarding slander or haughtiness they’re not meant to be taken literal

    remarkable or not the same non-literalist on other issues are so literal all of a sudden over here for these

    Baseline for Judaism is the pyramidal structure of punishment .however there’s other factors that must be taken into that edifice

    eg, Shabbos even though it is more severe than murder which by the way is decapitation. is not one of the three Cardinal precepts For which for which an individual must forfeit their life for
    Second one must factor in unintentional act as well for to kill unintentional they have to flee in Exile which is not the case for Shabbos
    a kohan who kills unintentionally is not permitted ever more to go up and Duchan

    “Incidentally do you know of any discussions regarding which is worse intermarriage or marrying someone who won’t keep taharas hamishpacha.
    Actually remarkably was discussed it was actually rather topical in the later 70s
    and it was addressed in an article published in the Jewish Observer 1977 from none other than Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky

    in reply to: Can the severity of a sin be learned from the severity of the punishment? #1785629

    ub,etc
    When you lack knowledge of the entire gamut of our teachings you have to go based on the pyramid
    even if it’s not politically correct
    and not based on some spliced statement taken out of context

    in reply to: Internet: The biggest source of brocha in the last generations. #1785530

    Devny
    Some analogy
    more proof to what was written above how Warped it is it is making people
    no one’s debating the fact that this is a reality And needs to be navigated
    Many of us actually feel a sense of relief when my net is down for a day or two And disconnect from the world for a bit

    contemplate any of your ancestors and tell me if you really believe they would have better off rather than how you know them if they live d in the internet age

    in reply to: Internet: The biggest source of brocha in the last generations. #1785183

    it didn’t take us long not even a full generation to start rationalizing . that quick.
    throughout the duration of the past were many developments that were unequivocally negative and yet could be a trace Wow it didn’t lower it didn’t even take us this long not even a full generation to start right or generation to start rationalizing directions that was quick throughout the duration of the past you were many movements and developments that were unequivocally negative and yet y could be a trace of silver lining after the fact
    and people have come and try to rationalize why it’s not so negative
    the internet on the balance of it is bad
    let’s stop trying to rationalize to ourselves
    many of us find many uses for it .Presently it’s the reality & is not going away

    nevertheless some of us are honest enough to admit the world was a better place beforehand prior to it’s advent

    Attempt to
    look back at some of your ancestors and try to Envision with relief that they’re fortunate they didn’t have to live in the internet age
    that should say enough

    ‘האומר לרע טוב ולטוב רע’

    in reply to: Internet: The biggest source of brocha in the last generations. #1785182

    האומר לרע טוב ולטוב רע

    in reply to: Should Chareidim Form a Government with the Left? #1753677

    DrYdd et al

    The left offered charedm better deals in
    1990
    1994
    2009
    Charedm turned them down
    with the one exception of 1999 & they walked out pretty fast over desecration of Shabbat

    in reply to: Star-K Article about Electric Shavers #1753662

    hogwash and dishonest as most of these polemics invariably are even if well-intentioned

    my grandfather studied in he Telz (Telshe) Yeshiva,
    growing a beard was essentially verboten there [he had a mustache it was recommended to grow aby a member of the hanhala)

    ” Rabbi Chaim Ozer [Grodzenski, Rov of Vilna], of blessed memory. He demanded that they place a prohibition on Rabbonim against granting [students who cut their beards] Rabbinic ordination [semichah], on Shochtim against teaching them the skill of ritual slaughtering [shechitah], and on Jewish communities against employing them in any religious position” (Kovetz Yagdil Torah 7:5). ”

    Unlikely. If proof is needed read the episode with the shochet In the Autobiography Of
    Lieutenant Birnbaum

    “Rav Kalmanowitz therefore refused to shave, and the Roshei Yeshiva and his friends respected him for it.”
    This is accurate indeed only because of who he was and his personality

    he himself didn’t approve Or at least never expressed disapproval of the shita against beards of the
    Mirrer Yeshiva Except for those on a much higher level

    rav Rabbi Elya Sve his son-in-law reportedly expounded that a bochur with a beard is like a monkey in pajamas

    in reply to: What’s the difference between protests and parades #1752009

    A.Where Are All The Commentators About The Ethiopian Protests

    B.’ prominent recent event contributing to the reviving of the white supremacy fear took place in Charlottesville, Virginia in early August 2017. Perhaps, some ill-received statements by Pres. Trump brought to the events a prominence they would not otherwise have gained.

    To make a long story short: An ad hoc group convened what was billed as a national meeting to “unite the right.” They also wanted to protest the forthcoming removal of a statue of a Confederate general. They requested and obtained a permit from the city. Some of the protesters wore Klan paraphernalia; some wore Nazi insignia. I think that most did neither. Given the theme of the meeting – “unite…”- it’s very unlikely that most or many did either. It’s hard to tell from the TV footage. Cameras targeted over and over the same handful of colorful and vividly signaling demonstrators. As usual, the reporters on the scene did not try to draw a random (representative) sample of the demonstrators. I don’t expect them to, of course.

    There was a physical confrontation with counter-protesters who showed up without a permit (therefore, acting technically unlawfully) and ready for street battle. Some of those called themselves “antifa” (“anti-fascist,” of all things).’..

    in reply to: Where Are All The Commentators About The Ethiopian Protests #1752014

    What however should be derived from these protests ?
    that there is a time And place for protesting
    it’s all about will
    even when it blocks driveways and even without permits

    in reply to: Where Are All The Commentators About The Ethiopian Protests #1752012

    Op Ed etcetera
    sorry
    Charedm are expected to be on a higher level than Ethiopians and usually are treated that way
    “defining deviancy down” is not a resolution!
    making these parallels score quick political points but are poor & not healthy long term

    in reply to: What’s the difference between protests and parades #1747552

    Being willfully naive .
    no matter how much some want to try to claim otherwise how much the public opinion are behind or firmly resist long runa demonstration will certainly determine the long-run whether or
    not they get a permit
    Take a Civil disobedience page from Martin Luther King jr. and bro’s
    (That is notwithstanding the 1977 the Supreme Court ruling in Skokie Nazi March)

    And all the more so in Israel

    cf.My comment above

    in reply to: Are sfardim from the 10 shvatim #1747346

    YO
    Correct and he was in the minority
    it is a prime reason besides the more obvious ones As to how come Ethiopians are more affiliated with the sfardim
    In bnei Brak There is a Scholar
    Who goes through
    Dissects and tears apart most of His sources

    in reply to: Are sfardim from the 10 shvatim #1746722

    ” Ethiopians are any more or less Jewish than Ashkenazim”

    Rabbi SZ Auerbach Dismissed that assertion Out of hand
    for that matter most leading Authorities agreed

    in reply to: What’s the difference between protests and parades #1746723

    Justice Thurgood Marshall once described his philosophy as this: “You do what you think is right and let the law catch up”

    KJ
    obviously less likely to give permits for these protest
    if it was important enough we would manage to get them somehow

    in reply to: Quebec Secularism -more accurately Neutralism Law #1745083

    yitzm,
    Au contraire

    So happen to be the one who has been proclaiming for some while that we’re at fault for pushing the Muslims into the arms of the left
    Since they are for the most part our natural Coalition Partners

    So You’re projecting incorrectly

    in reply to: Quebec Secularism -more accurately Neutralism Law #1745084

    lakewhut,
    Stick to American or Jersey politics

    in reply to: Sphardim frummer than Sepharadim? #1744932

    & What of the must’arabim?

    in reply to: Quebec Secularism -more accurately Neutralism Law #1744913

    akurperma,etc
    though some jerks Probably were involved in producing this bill,as usually there are
    For the longer run this bill Should have positive connotations
    The media with the left is convincing us to fight against .How shrewd

    Absorbed too much propaganda!

    divide et impera

    in reply to: Quebec Secularism -more accurately Neutralism Law #1744894

    This provincial government CAQ is not necessarily antireligious
    while this bill has some negative connotations for us that was not the goal
    it isn’t even anti-muslim per se

    in reply to: Quebec Secularism -more accurately Neutralism Law #1744792

    this law could breach the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
    However, the Charter contains a clause that says, “Notwithstanding the rights under the Charter, provinces can temporarily override portions of the Charter”
    The clause would have to be renewed every 5 years.

    In addition
    The bill has a’ grandfather clause’
    anyone presently wearing a head covering or the like can continue

    in reply to: Are sfardim from the 10 shvatim #1744771

    ” there is no difference in opinion in the original sources”?

    There is an explicit Mishna for one

    in reply to: Quebec Secularism -more accurately Neutralism Law #1744760

    Additionally,
    we have judged and gave support for our Jewish politicians and government officials more by what’s on top of their head Rather than on inside their heads to for too long

    Second
    This Bill is intended to be a means to restore somewhat a normative public consensus that
    has been on the verge of chaotic collapse If it hasn’t already

    Over the past couple Generations We were given granted immense freedom And opportunity
    Had we proved worthy
    our societies would have brought the world upward
    As we weren’t We may perhaps have to step back a bit to restore A shred of normality

    in reply to: Quebec Secularism -more accurately Neutralism Law #1744753

    Had this bill been exclusively somehow against our community Could have Termed it then anti-Semitic
    that is far from the case here
    Should we feel Pained by this? Probably. Is that so bad
    ?for too long we’ve taken Our exterior appendages for granted
    Possibly this is a means of / Test show how much we Value it!

    in reply to: Are sfardim from the 10 shvatim #1744584

    Milhouse
    Though in the original sources there was differences in opinion
    The preponderance of tradition Through the Ages with very few discrepancies is remarkably consistent
    That is they will eventually went into Exile they are still in Exile and they will eventually return

    in reply to: Liberal conspiracy #1744534

    Quebec Secularism -more accurately Neutralism law

    in reply to: Liberal conspiracy #1744533

    Can’t bring myself to call it a good Law because Some will have to take it off the yamulka
    and possibly snoods
    How could we deem it however a bad law?

    That the secular And non-orthodox organizations Were militantly opposing this from the beginning
    – and they’re not fools, must be something good coming out of it

    in reply to: Are sfardim from the 10 shvatim #1744191

    coffee,
    isn’t difficult
    he has a major ax to grind
    Rationalize lower level of observance And propagandize

    YO,
    Swings & misses again
    There are a couple of sources That German Jews are from the shevet Binyamin
    cf. Migaleh Amukos

    YO,
    If the Sephardic methodology of psak works for you and yours, go for it!
    Although those who comprehend understand it to be Less than Optimum it is good enough
    This shall not expounded upon as
    a. The Forum is not appropriate
    b. it is for those who are worthy

    in reply to: Are you makpid on ע ? #1742083

    YO,

    Besod,
    Sephardic Middle Eastern Jews Pronounce five different vowel sounds which is Babylonian Origin
    ashkenazic non Hasidic Jews make 7 different vowel sounds which was of Galilean origin
    Yemenite make six different vowel sounds which seems to have been of Judean origin

    As They were by and large contemporaneous there’s no proof one is better than the other Though there is sourced basis that the Sephardic pronunciation has more flaws

    in reply to: Are you makpid on ע ? #1742084

    YO,
    For Shema and Krias Hatorah, we do.

    in reply to: “Eretz” Yisroel = Frummer? #1742059

    twisted,

    one of the options Ben-Gurion and Co rejected was..Yehuda/Judea

    in reply to: “Eretz” Yisroel = Frummer? #1741748

    ” It is not correct to call a state as the Land of ——. ”

    Land of( Germanic) Land of( Latin)
    England Bulgaria
    Scotland Latvia
    Poland Romania
    Finland Italia= Italy
    Deutschland= Germany

    Etc. Etc.

    how many other states in existence in 1948 didn’t have ‘Land Of ‘in title [Putting aside Latin America With Borders largely artificial And arbitrary] ?

    in reply to: Are there levels of holiness? #1739600

    Lbrite,
    Absolutely there are
    First Mishna in taharos just to
    start

    So Dr. Gra”ch is Da’at Torah for you [ as he is for many others who stridently deny their belief in the concept]?
    The Dr. is full of preconceived notions and has been before he proved it with Rupture and Reconstruction in ’94.
    a study of Bavli vs Yerushalmi for anyone who is open-minded ought to lean towards the Ashkenazi
    Land of Israel contention.
    Jews have been living in Cologne since 321 ce the latest, with customs far predating Rabbenu Gershom.

    Yabia,et al
    Doros harishonim And the traditions of the Jews of Italy would be a good place to start

    Rational,
    It’s bias
    Israel has been the leading theory since before Halevi
    more importantly DNA is leading in that direction eg yemenite Jews and Palestinian Arabs
    more closely related to Ashkenazi than Babylonian

    Yabia,
    Both of my grandmothers Ironically were German Jews and their families were Western German for centuries
    Both of their families largely or partly originated from Spain or for one the Balearic Islands Prior to expulsion

    Yabia,
    In case you were out to lunch DNA has disproven that one thoroughly
    though Ukrainian, Carpathian ,bukharian Jews may have an admixture of blood

    Yabia=Arthur koestler

    in reply to: Hungarian Yidden #1738117

    Hungarian Jews were generally considered less scholarly than their polish Or Lithuanian Coreligionists
    Hungarian Jews did a better job in keeping their communities and baale batim religious however

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