It is Time for Truth

Takes2-
I happen to be mishpacha With Reb Dovid also
And while you having to be right about this one
For virtually everything else shows a dubious connection

ChongRymer,et al

Rav Shmuel Told me albeit several Years ago
the powers are R Aaron Schechter and the NovoMinsker

“Is a recent invention”
False
though it wasn’t relatively realistic until

Rav Yitzchok Elchonon At his hesped was mourned repeatedly
as Rabban Shel Kol Bnei HaGolah

They asked the Maspid “Why did you go at length to say this why didn’t you just say The Gadol Hadar”
Response:
אז רב יהושע לייב ווינט בירושלים

Avi K,
What about the early Mizrahi leadership’s great visions of working together with secularists
or say those who propagate TUM
?

StuartW,

The Prophets didn’t and wouldn’t have agreed

אליהו הנביא: עד מתי אתם אתם פוסחים על שתי הסעיפים

Really trying to bend over backwards tying yourselves in knots??

GH,
common refrain though it is, it is not entirely accurate

The karaites convinced the Nazis that they weren’t to be considered Jewish and indeed they weren’t
rounded up with the others (even though prior they always claimed they were Jews)

also want to reiterate what I’ve stated previously and that is For
the seven noahide categories of Commandments there is no Escape valve of Tinok Shenishbah

Makkos
9
That presumably would apply for Jews also

Rabbi Dr. Raymond Apple, 29/10/18 11:37 | updated: 23:33

Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple AO RFD is Emeritus Rabbi of the Great Synagogue, Sydney. He is now retired and lives in Jerusalem, where he publishes OzTorah, a weekly email list and website with Torah insights from an Australian perspective.

Q. Should people be prohibited from having guns?

A. Guns have wrought immense harm in the United States and elsewhere in the hands of people on a rampage. Hundreds of innocent victims have been killed and hundreds wounded.

Whatever the perpetrators’ motives they have made normal life like going to school and shul vulnerable and unsafe.

There can be no justification for imperiling or destroying human life: everyone, young or old, must be able to “sit under their vine or fig tree with none to make them afraid” (Micah 4:4). Wanton killing is the worst crime there is (Exodus 20:13), even if it is unpremeditated (Numbers 35:11).

The problem with guns is threefold:

1. The gun, which is the symbol of all means of doing harm.

In Jewish law a person must not own a dangerous dog (Bava Kamma 79a). If one owns a dangerous dog it must be kept under restraint at all times (Choshen Mishpat 409:3). Even a dog that is unlikely to do harm must be kept under restraint because it can frighten people (Shabbat 63b).

Hence it is best that nobody should own a gun and if they do they must keep it under restraint. Not only guns but all potential means of harm must be identified and dealt with as if they were guns, though it is admitted that guns seem to have a worse potential for harm than many other means of damage.

2. The motivation: society must train its members to be law-abiding and peaceful and not use violence even if they are aggrieved or angry. In the long term, therefore, moral education must aim for good citizenship…

The community as a whole has this responsibility because no-one should “stand idly by when your fellow’s blood is shed” (Leviticus 19:16). This recommendation does not imply that teachers should be armed. That would be an irrelevant “quick fix”.

Some gun owners will insist that they have valid reasons to possess weapons. This may have an element of validity but there is still something that they can do.

Acknowledging that other gun owners are a threat to others, “decent” gun owners must exercise self-discipline and allow themselves and their genuine motives to be placed on a register and be regularly monitored. Fair’s fair and this is something they can do to alleviate the problem.

נודע ביהודה in his Strong Aversion to hunting

while we shouldn’t say anything so
emphatically it doesn’t mean he’s not correct

That Hamodia is surely affiliated with the agudah should be obvious, although they gave Lichtenstein, a relative of theirs, a longer leash for North American audience

Lipschitz is a little bit more complicated he is pretty much independent

Some 28 years ago there was a realistic opportunity to start in North America , Degel.

There were certain Community figures in NY Who were raring to go and gung ho
Rabbi Pam firmly And emphatically put down his foot declaring that in America There are no factions /divisions That is how it should remain and should not start
That became precedent respected and accepted by all

when a couple years later Deri wished
to start A branch of his faction in America
He was firmly told of this and indeed backed off and declined to do so

בנין נערים סתירה

These Youngsters Will now rend all that asunder

cherrybim,

For How many years YTV were strawmen
of everything that wrong, Delusional ,fictional on modox sites and blogs of American early charediism

cute sleight of hand though probably unintentional

Stick with the gist &
excuse my several typos

Reb Shmuel Berenbaum related
A couple of members of lubavitch were passing through the town of Mir in Europe. In Der Mir, the practice was that students did not wear their tzitzis on the outside of their clothes. On of those fellows asked one of the Mir bochrim “where are your tzitzis?” He received the rejoinder “here we don’t wear tzitzis (at all)”
“Why not” was the query.
The immediate quip was Talmudic diction ” ‘k’dei shelo levayesh mi she’ain lo’
[ in order not to embarrass one who doesn’t have]”

postscript

What followed was a public condemnation of the Mir in chabad circles, circulating that the Mirrers do not wear tzitzis.
R’ Shmuel chuckled and said that already in Europe we had trouble from them.

Little,

Though it was fairly obvious what you were trying to convey, I was giving you the opportunity to walk it back. Instead you just dug the hole deeper.

So saturated by the western zeitgeist, eh?

Find us a source, any source that ” one is my business, and the other is not”!
Tanach (with notable exceptions eg Tehillim) is written in plural. Do you know why?
We are able to be yotzei someone Kiddush because of Arvus. why?

e.g.D’vorim 29:28
or
Ramban on Devarim 27:26
One who shirks their obligation to uphold everyone’s Judaism as much as is possible is “Arur”

If ” you have any clue what these kids are experiencing?” then why
” If an OTD person steals, they should face the consequences”?

Because crime is more destabilizing?

?!

For previous generations
even apikorsim refused to shmad !

A big problem with females in the military
is that they disrupt male bonding.
People in the military die for their friends. They don’t die for a cause or the nation or whatever else is being fought for. They die for their friends. Disrupting male bonding means fewer are willing to die for friends if they don’t consider those in the unit friends because of the disruption of male bonding which happens when females are present in combat and in training .(try running bloody and naked through a river carrying a comrade with a member of the opposite gender nearby)
All female or all male units have been successful in Russian studies, but don’t mix males and females in training/combat/air combat units.

Gh,
Face it
Negiah & the like, is of little value for You to begin with

Gadolh,
Men who have too high IQ are routinely rejected from these fields
as they reportedly
become “bored” and/or are “unfit”
NYPD had a lawsuit a couple years back regarding this

commentors miss the boat
For Many or most e.g arabs
to be arrested by a girl is demeaning ,
and therefore will be resisted more

“Ashkenazi Egyptian Jew
there were those also, in Alexandria

Bestsecret,
fascinating
post more specific details perhaps?

Avi,
Was it a critique of full bodied conservatism or rather degraded conservatism?

As one libertarian put it—with admirable, if frightful clarity—“We’re an economy with a country, not a country with an economy.” Most Americans—thank God—don’t see it that way. They understand that politics supersedes economics, and for a reason. Politics properly understood must be concerned with the comprehensive good, which means with the highest good. There are limits to what politics can do, both practically and—yes—morally in interfering with the market. But indifference is not an option for a civilization that wants to survive.
The modern tech information monopoly is a threat to self-government in at least three ways. First its aforementioned consolidation of monopoly power, which the techies are using to guarantee the outcome they want and to suppress dissent. It’s working. How much does anyone wanna bet that many will come back with “Well, this is all inevitable anyway.” Whose interests does that argument serve? Which is perhaps one reason they push it so incessantly that people now reflexively repeat it, even people who really ought to know better.
Second, and related, is the way that social media digitizes pitchforked mobs. Aristocrats used to have to fear the masses; now they enable, weaponize, and deploy them. Imagine if the Marquis St. Evrémonde could have utilized, rather than having to flee, the Paris mob. The grandees of Professorville and Sand Hill Road and Outer Broadway can and routinely do use social justice warriors to their advantage. Come to that, hundreds of thousands of whom, like modern Red Guards, don’t have to be mobilized or even paid. They seek to stifle dissent and destroy lives and careers for the sheer joy of it.
Third and most important, tech-as-time-sucking-frivolity is infantilizing and enstupefying society—corroding the reason-based public discourse without which no republic can exist. Libertarians cannot see that, not because I am wrong and tech is actually good, but because libertarianism and degraded “conservatism” have no philosophic or moral framework for judging good from bad or right from wrong. To them, these categories do not exist except at the very lowest level. Little else but outright theft and the (non-consensual) infliction of bodily harm are condemnable.
But all the dynamism and innovation that silicon valley and their choir praise only emerge from a bedrock of republican virtue. This is the core truth that libertarians seem unable to appreciate. Silicon Valley is undermining that virtue—with its products, with its tightening grip on power, and with its attempt to reengineer society, the economy, and human life. When and if that virtue is finally gone, it will be an open question whether anything like the high-tech nirvana that so profess to admire can be sustained. If not, well . . .
If it can, it won’t be in a political environment that is republican, much less conservative or libertarian. And we know who will be in charge.

Some are makpid to stand on Yom Kippur during the whole Davening to imitate the מלאכים.
Poskim* say that this Chumra doesn’t apply to women since there are no female מלאכים.
There are other Poskim who say they should not say on Yom Kippur בשכ”מ loud for the same reason.

The **ספר אורח נאמן writes that for the same reason women need not keep their feet together when Davening שמונה עשרה.

*שו”ע הרב – שערי ציון
**(הרב מנחם נתן אוירבך זצ”ל (מחותן של ר’ יוסף חיים זוננפלד זצ”ל

NYT sept 10:
Germany’s Nazi Past Is Still Present
It is often held up as a model liberal democracy that has fully reckoned with its horrendous crimes. It hasn’t.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/opinion/germanys-nazi-past-is-still-present.html