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As I will not be in Crown Heights for kappores this year, I will not be able to shlug PETA moiser Philip Schein who will certainly be there taking videos from a distorted angle to show what he wants to show. Perhaps I will see if I can use the closest avian alternative to the desteemed Mr Schein – a turkey!
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🙂 nice story, Da – I take it you mean Ana avda dekudsha brich hu..and yes that would also be a candidate for our “national anthem”!
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No. Source: From the fact that Noach was only permitted to kill animals because he spent many sleepless nights over the welfare of the animals, so they were indebted to him.
Sorry but this is completely krum. Where in the world did you get this from? A quote out of context from a medrash? You know full well that we do not pasken or hold according to anything remotely related to this.
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Which clowns? Ku Klux Karta? If so then no – they are not doing much damage because by now everyone knows who they really are.
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The protest lost steam because of the political scandal. Protests do little anyway; indeed the ugly little Homon loves attention and the best thing is to let him get it from his buddies of the Ku Klux Karta while the rest of us add in mitzvos and learning to nullify him and everything he stands for once and for all.
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I have explained why the Korban Pesach was allowed – we took good care of the animals,
so they owed us their lives.
Source? Medrash Shtussim Rabim perhaps? I would mention what letter goes before tzaddik in the siman that you need to look up in said sefer but this is a G-rated site.
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These “lo matim” (profil 24 which gives no reason for rejection – actually the precise term is ee-hatama – as opposed to 21 which is mentally unfit and often obtained illegitimately) guys whom I know and see every day are very successful Chabad shluchim abroad. They are healthy, strong men in every sense.
They are lo matim precisely because they are now shluchim; the army was afraid they would influence others toward Yiddishkeit as they now do outside E”Y.
If the army allowed for proper standards of Yiddishkeit (and Nachal Charedi may be the answer for some) then the army would be an option. But the army, besides being an army, is meant to be a social equalizer and indoctrinate certain values. As such, no charedim can serve unless they are very well grounded in Torah from previous intensive study
On the other hand, charedi organizations (Zaka, Ezer MiTzion, Yad Sarah, Ezra Lamarpeh, Meir Panim, Kolel Chabad etc etc), shoulder much of the social service burden after the incompetent government does the bare minimum for the ill, poor and disabled. It is only proper that service in such an organization is counted as national service.
Charedi girls marry early and national service is not an issue. Many Chabad girls, who do not marry quite as early, in fact travel abroad for a year of community service before marriage; they do a lot more than those who fill the often make-work desk jobs in the army and Sherut Leumi (though the latter is still more productive and morally safer than the army for girls).
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We must be thankful to this tzoirer for taking the Teheran Six out of their home communities for a week, and for sparing the Vienna kehilla the pleasure of seeing and hearing Freeky Freedy sound off for a whole summer.
If you truly believe what you say, you belong in Cheirem.
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Not cheirem, Chelm.
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For ten points, what is a five letter word of scatological origin, that means low quality or shoddy merchandise?
Contestant 1: D**ck
Contestant 2: Vista
And the winner is, contestant 2, who gets a whole year’s supply of rancid galle from Vista Caterers, I mean D**ck Caterers, of Olde Triangle!
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Yeshivas HaShalsheles is a new remedial yeshiva for incorrigible offenders. A project of Ku Klux Karta International, its goal is to reconcile the holy law of sharia with Judaism.
As its name implies, the chain saw is not spared when sharia punishments are carried out for offenses such as petty theft. Our talmidim are guaranteed never to offend again after they are put through our rigorous system of character building at our new campus in Tranquility Bay, Jamaica.
Yeshivas Shalsheles NewsFlash: We recently had the pleasure of welcoming the great Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to our advanced shiur, where he spoke about how the same chain saw that is used for sharia amputations can be used to literally remove the Zionist entity from the map. When he demonstrated just how it could be done, not realizing that our wall maps are sanitized to not show any countries that are not within dar ul-Islam, he inadvertently removed three fingers from his own left hand and mangled two of our hyliger Rosh Yeshiva’s toes when he dropped the saw…..
(Needless to say, physical discipline has no place in any yeshiva as it is about as legal and productive as sharia. Physical discipline within reason is the province of parents, and in fact rebbeim should be careful what they tell parents if they suspect an abusive home where a parent will abuse the child based on a discipline problem in school, or if the child is acting up in school because he has no breathing room at home.)
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So kindly explain the prosperity in charedi communities in the US. True it is not across the board – but there are many national and international businesses owned by charedim who have no secular education. The problem is the forced kollel system – army or kollel are the only choices for most – and that is enshrined in the law. Now some charedim want to serve – and they are not wanted because the army is afraid they will spread Yiddishkeit. This is what happened to most of my friends from E”Y – they were ambivalent toward service and would have gone in if they had to but they were rejected as “lo matim” with no explanation even for abridged service after marriage.
Charedim in poverty is very good for the state. The burden is not all that big because some is picked up by contributions from abroad. Povertu makes the lifestyle look unattractive and keeps the charedi despised by society.
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And after vehicle attack #1, a proud Jewish state would have required all Arabs in East Jerusalem to pass checkpoints or to identify their vehicles – or not to be allowed to drive into Jewish areas except to and from work with proof of same. But our medine must be politically correct – so the one who has to pass a checkpoint is me – for bringing tefillin into Center 1 on my last visit – after all I am a despised dos, and a soft target who the guard knows is as dangerous as a stuffed animal and who will never complain let alone detonate himself chas vesholom.
And needless to say I did not commit anything remotely resembling a terrorist attack or crime (or even put tefillin on) in Center 1. But is this now the THIRD vehicle attack carried out by a resident of Arab East Jerusalem? The victims should have a refuah sheleima.
So should the sick nefashos of those who run the medine.
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What caused the mass secularization in Europe was false messianism – Jews believed that the ridiculous ideas of the haskila especially as expressed through socialism and communism were the secular replacement for Moshiach chas vesholom.
Reform was not much of a factor outside of Germany until said malignancy was exported to the US. The Jewish communities elsewhere were probably more like the one where I live – all believe or at least identify with the main Jewish community which is frum, some of the wealthiest cannot observe because of social and business obligations but they support frum institutions and would not hear of Reform, some are learning from scratch and settle anywhere along the spectrum of observance from traditional to very charedi; most are traditional and respect Yiddishkeit. That is because they remember what was – from stories handed down, from former refugees who return to spread Yiddishkeit etc.
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No, I am very clear. IF the state HAS to be, and since it IS at this point, it HAS to be at least for the near future, then it must do what has to be done to protect Jews and stop causing anti-Semitism abroad. It would be better that the state would not exist anymore and if it could be peacefully dismantled without Moshiach that would be perfect.
However, FDR the rosho YMS did not allow Jewish refugees into the US during the way. Therefore, the world felt a medine was necessary even though after the war other countries could have absorbed the refugees. The state also created its own Jewish refugees in the Arab world (and their descendants are leaving E”Y to join their more prosperous brethren in the US, France, Australia etc). Therefore, this travesty occurred but still it does not have to continue in its self-destructive and harmful folly.
The Jews who I had in mind who were secularized were those arriving from countries such as Yemen and Morocco. I know full well that tzioinus was part and parcel of the same folly as Communism, haskalah etc and it was imposed on many who were brought to EY against their will or had no other place to go.
Why are the same proud Sefardi names, in some cases those of our greatest sages (Azoulay, Ben-Atar etc), found on successful business and professional offices in Paris, New York, Florida and LA, …and on the prison rosters of E”Y???
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In addition I blame the corrupt framework of the medine for charedi poverty – they could have allowed alternative national service from day one so that charedim could properly enter the workforce – but then the charedi community would resemble the ones in the US, UK, Belgium (of old) etc and probably control too much of the economy of the country given its small size.
And with this control would come real political power for the Torah world instead of the sad system that exists today. It would have meant the end of the present frum parties who really do not do much but perpetrate the system, whether out of a desire to hold on to their own power or out of a sincere desire to make sure “vehaya machaneicha kodosh”
And again – the hakoros hatov for the support of Torah goes to those who bankrolled the medine for so many years – the US taxpayers. This, too, did not have to happen if the medine were not the last Bolshevik outpost in the post-Soviet world.
The medine = Enron. My admiration for those who set up the medine is the same as my admiration for the founders of Enron who had no product whatsoever and fleeced everyone who came into contact with them.
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And in any case, the real hakoros “hatov” goes to the US taxpayer for footing the bill while the tzioinim “play state” the way kids “play house”!
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Their “work” led to the secularization and deracination of over a million Jews who they took from their home countries by creating anti-Semitism.
Their “work” causes Jews abroad to suffer anti-Semitism – because of the shlimazel state that can no longer make peace or war and instead endangers its population and does not take definitive steps to end the threat.
Their “work” led to the ugly “I-raeli,” from the rude illegal tourists in US malls hawking defective garbage, to the gangsters in Prague, Budapest and Bucharest who control illegal gambling, to the non-Jews in E”Y who now make it a place where intermarriage can, will and has become rife. E”Y is one of the centers of illegal trafficking in women – Herzl OLBM of course would be very proud but as a Jew, I am ashamed that this is going on in artzeinu hakedoisha.
And all of this is going on because a secular state in E”Y is an abomination that cannot succeed – but if Hashem were to let it fall to the Arabs, Jews, most of whom are tinokois shenishbeu, would be wiped out. If the medine would at least be a proud Jewish state, the goyim would RESPECT us as they did for a short while after 1967 – but the morons who lead it gave the tzoirerim rights instead of kicking them out as they did to Jews after 1948.
What is more, now that Jews are free everywhere but in Iran, we do not need the medine. More Jews are returning to the former Soviet Union than leaving it for E”Y (and hopefully that includes some of the non-Jews as well but I doubt it because they do very well on bituach leumi). South African Jews go to Australia, the UK and the US, and even the occasional Jew who gets out of Iran wants to join his successful and proud brothers in LA and NY, not become a ridiculed “Parsi” in the medine.
Unfortunately, we are stuck with it, and only Moshiach can peacefully dismantle it. That is, unless the oil situation becomes so dire that the Arabs force its dismantlement using the oil weapon.
I am not better off with it. It is a shame and an abomination to me. It had potential “on paper” but it squandered all of the brochos and kedusha of E”Y and instead defiles the holy Land!
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R’ Uriel Zimmer A”H was a chossid of the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZY”A and was very close to the Rebbe.
And yes, “zionism” is dead. It has been replaced by vacuuous post-Zionism, in which even an “I-raeli” identity does not matter but rather the goal is to have a good time and do whatever you can so that you yourself can get ahead and have an easy life.
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Itzik, Sometimes a Chasidus took a non-descendant as Rebbe (I think Karlin-Stolin after Rebbe Ahron Hagodol comes to mind).
Yes – but again, we have no one who comes even close and when you add the risk of the wrong person getting control of the name Chabad and what it means today with all the moisdos, the possibilities of things going even worse than whatever problems we have now are astounding.
I guess we, along with the divided chassidus’n, will have to wait for Moshiach. And at the end of the day, that is the best and the only solution!
rabbiofberlin – I refuse to wrestle with you in the mud anymore. No Ignore function here, but consider yourself ignored.
Whoever referred to the kedoshim – that is Godwin’s Law in reverse! Some of the kedoshim (rightfully in their minds and understandably so) held pork and chilul Shabbos in very high regard. Besides that was in 1945 when no one knew what the medina would do to mistreat survivors (a survivor was seen as chas vesholom a sucker in the macho “sabra” culture of the day). Finally, that version, though I think it was the alcohol-induced spilling out of regrets of a man who left Yiddishkeit but could not return (much like when, on Purim or Simchas Torah, someone will spill out their life’s story), is NOT the version with the “Satanic Verse” that is the main objection to the present version.
And what would be most interesting would be to find out where those heliger survivors ended up after the war…some just may be in Williamsburgh for all we know.
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If not for His intervention, there is no way Israel would be able to protect itself from the 100 million Arabs that surround it.
If the six day war cannot be seen as a ness and a ringing endorsement of the State by HKB”H, then people are either blind or naive (I’d prefer to say stupid, but I’ll just get a lot of flak for name-calling in Chodesh Elul C”V).
Sorry – no logic here. The ness happened to protect JEWS in ERETZ YISROEL, not the institution of the medine. The mess of 1973 proves that all too well – where it was so clear that only Hashem’s intervention prevented a complete disaster chas vesholom.
And the only reason the medine will not collapse until Moshiach comes is that if it did at this point, six million Jews would lose their lives chas vesholom. Shoimer petoim Hashem – Am Yisroel made a terrible mistake with the medine, but Hashem protects its inhabitants because they are Jews in E”Y.
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(Offhand, I forget if you sit shiva for him as well.)
I looked into this once and every answer I got indicated that sitting shiva for a relative who intermarries is a folk practice with no basis in halacha. I’d be interested in knowing if that is indeed correct.
What I wonder is if you sit shiva for such a relative when he is gone. I would think the answer is yes.
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In terms of a secular Jew being able to write something like that (not that it is really much better than some of today’s less than inspiring Jewish pop lyrics – part of the appeal is that the language is so much better than today’s Ivrit) – keep in mind that the secular Jews of that era were but one generation from their roots bekedusha – and many knew that they were wrong for being prikei oyl malchus shamayim and therefore longed for Yiddishkeit (to which they could not return because, in today’s lingo – it wasn’t cool).
BTW Imber was known for his abuse of alcohol – and he died in chutz la’aretz. He died in New York in 1909 from chronic alcoholism.
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But those ARE NOT the words of what is sung in the medine. “Lihyot am chofshi beartzeinu” was added later if what you have is the original text.
And sorry to say but every Chabad Chossid has nothing but contempt for the medine especially after Gush Katif (and if he keeps it quiet it is because he has to do so in order to get more important parts of Yiddishkeit across).
With the exception of one menuval who was thrown out of Chabad by the Rebbe ZYA (a VERY difficult achievement that I believe was shared by only one other person, a violent mecharcher riv whose name I cannot share because I know only his surname and confusion will result if I post that), I am not putting down other Jews.
If you feel that bringing sources against an entity that has done so many negative things to Jews is putting down other Jews, then you must feel very insecure knowing perhaps that you mistakenly support the medine only because it is “politically correct” to do so, or that Rav Kook ZL really does not have much of an halachic leg to stand on (most of his writings are very emotional in nature) and that in any case few people really follow in his ways especially after the Gush Katif disaster that showed what the medine really does to protect Jews by giving up land won bederech ness and letting Kassams rain down on the poorest of its citizens.
Gut shabbos everyone – I am in the same timezone as that entity which means that Shabbos will soon be here.
“Question: Who has anything pro-Obama to say?”
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I do. He would make a great ex-Senator from Illinois in a couple of years’ time!
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Call it what you want, but unless I have to deal with the state bureaucracy when I visit E”Y, I don’t need to desecrate the shem hakodosh of Yisroel by associating it with the medine. However, that is my personal practice and I don’t care nor have I the right or knowledge to care if someone wants to use another term.
Regarding why there is no 8th Rebbe – it is a little off topic but my own feeling is simple – there was and is no one to appoint, and appointing the wrong one would be a disaster for Chabad not only as a Chassidus but as a worldwide organization. The one physical descendant had no interest and was at odds with Chabad (and he has passed away so had it happened that he was appointed and had never broken away we’d be back to square 1 anyway). Better no one than more than one or no one who is universally accepted, as that is the very sad situation in another Chassidus that was once so free of anything even remotely resembling machloikes.
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Then again, there are studies saying large amounts of coffee (not sure if decaf will also do the trick) may prevent either Parkinson’s or Alzheimers.
And it depends who you are – some people have more tolerance to caffeine than others.
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The freaks will continue to grow like an onion as their children frei out one by one, confused as they are and should be by their parents’ mix of a little Tanya, some Likutei Moharan, a bit of Carlebach, crystals, aromatic oils, the ones who we are Grateful that they are Dead and who knows what else! I remember these freaks all too well from my days in Crown Heights.
No, I am not a “Chabadnik” unless you happen to be speaking E”Y slang which is not my language of choice even when visiting E”Y – I am very proud that my Ivrit slang is about 25 years out of date. I am a LUBAVITCHER CHOSSID or CHASSID CHABAD, not a wannabe who hangs around and learns a few snippets of sichos and a sentence or two of Tanya.
Now, if you are really in Berlin, ask Rabbi Teichtel what the Rebbe ZYA’s view on Zionism was – and while you are at it ask him if his grandfather HY”D (or is it great grandfather), who wrote Eim Habonim Smeicha, held by tzioinus. You’ll be in for a real surprise.
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Not just his music but his conduct….
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Rabbiofberlin, thanks for the laugh. The only credit I can give you is that you may have been exposed to the unfortunate “Chabad-lite” nonsense that some New Agers are pitching in the Rebbe ZY”A’s name these days. The shluchim from abroad, including many acquaintances of mine, were sent because the Rebbe ZYA wanted to bring Jews closer to Yiddishkeit. Chabad soldiers serve just as Gerrer soldiers do – to defend Jews, not the medine.
And don’t forget for one moment that the Rebbe ZYA sent Carlebach packing because of his krum methods of kiruv and low standards – those who add Carlebach to their new-age Chabad-lite (and Breslov-lite) potpourri conveniently forget that fact.
Re what language Reb Amram spoke on a day to day business, I will ask one of his relatives if he knows as I am not sure. He may have used loshon hakodesh at times because there were actually Sefardi hahamim with whom he had contact and who were part of the old yishuv that opposed the medine.
Finally, no one, not the small remaining group of real followers of Reb Amram ZYA, or whichever of the Reb Arelach splinters is the most “kanoi”, or even Mishkenos HoRoim supports the five and a half choilim who went to Teheran.
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The various SPCA’s raised the issue of animal cruelty long before the freaks at PETA reared their ugly heads.
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Gillette itself was an American company and never had any connections with Germany. By the time Gillette bought Braun, Germany was far too high cost a labor market and the shavers, food processors, electric kettles and gadgets were being made in the Far East.
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There is a well known discount store chain in NY that had a sign on its branch near Macy’s and J2 announcing that they are in compliance with halacha when they open on Shabbos.
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Joseph – yes, but Siemens is Siemens with a majority German shareholder base. Degussa, former and perhaps present manufacturers of Zyklon B (it is still available for use by professional exterminators), are another one to be avoided for the same reason.
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I would hope you were tested for Lyme Disease but after my year of collecting useless creams due to a subjective medical error, I would always triple check. Sometimes even the most thorough doctor can miss something or use incorrect judgment when diagnosing an illness.
Off the top of my head, yes, the organism that causes Lyme does cause skin problems as part of the disease process.
Swimming is probably the best exercise for you because it has the lowest impact on your already compromised joints.
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Yes, Gedalya – Harav Farkash’s son is married to a Blau relative and it is his son who is named Amram. R’Amram Farkash is in either Oregon or Washington IIRC.
Regarding the klipos hatmeiois and kedusha (and I guess what you are getting at is how it applies to yenne medine), I have a response but I need to check it over before I post it as if I don’t check the sources it will be both rambling and inaccurate. Will try to do so by Sunday IY”H B”N.
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I’m no expert on Brisk, and although I very much admire Satmar and Reb Yoilish ZY”A I am not sure that what I know about Reb Yoilish’s position is accurate or just the “pop” version (I would like to learn or at least “go over” Vayoiel Moishe but have never found the time to do so, nor do I have the sefer with me). So I am not really qualified to answer your question. I do know that the Rebbe’s opposition was never formally tied to the 3 oaths and is a continuation of the Rebbe Rasha”b’s viewpoint which is said to have influenced Reb Amram ZY”A and the real Neturei Karta.
The one difference is that Chabad Chassidim in E”Y try to engage the medine when necessary, such as with educational funding for “kiruv” schools, and pay taxes and are part of the bituah leumi system. That is mostly because the medine does exist and there are six million (?) Jews living there who need to be , and even the worst klipa (the internet, for instance, as well as the medine!) can be converted or at least used for kedusha. I would say in terms of interaction with the medine, we are closest to Ger except that Ger is part of Aguda.
In any case, I raise no eyebrows when I sing Hashem Hu Malkeinu on Shabbos with friends, and many of Reb Amram’s relatives are part of the core of Chabad in Yerushalayim – at least one Yerushalmi Lubavitcher, now a shaliach on the West Coast, is named Amram for his relative (great-uncle?).
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Back on topic – I live in Eastern Europe and German products are unavoidable here, so I make a distinction between small day to day purchases like an $2 bottle of a personal care product that I can’t do without and that is made by a German firm, and capital purchases which I define as anything over $75 or anything that someone sees me with every day.
The one time I didn’t – well, I got a nice reminder. Bought a Siemens cellphone before they sold the division to a Chinese firm – it was the worst phone I ever owned – and it met its end when it fell into the throne which the king sits on alone! A fitting end and I realized immediately while it happened.
Bosch is now part of Siemens. Yes, Robert Bosch tried to resist but I do not know whether his heirs still own any part of the company and Siemens was about the worst offender during the Nazi era. Braun is part of Gillette now and hardly has any connection with Germany anymore.
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Re: Lyme Disease – if you are under the care of a rheumatologist he should have tested you for it regardless of your living in a city – someone could have gone to the country and brought a deer tick back with them and it then got to you somehow. Ask him if he did and if he did not insist that he does. If it turns out you have indeed had Lyme for 4 years then it is best treated by an infectious disease specialist. Refuah sheleima – ksiva vachasima toiva!
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Yasher koiach Mordechai – but chances are that the car has been sold or junked by now and the original owner hardly remembers or cares about what happened. Still, you have provided a really great example for all of us! A gut gebensched yohr!
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Joseph – yes they are, kind of under the surface, especially since Gush Katif. Our concern is only for Jews living there since the medine is unfortunately a fait accompli; we do not see any significance to the medine and the Rebbe ZY”A was said to refer only to Eretz Yisroel and never even once referred to the medine (I am not sure if this can be confirmed).
Pashuteh – you forgot tachat haEropeiim tachat haAmerikaim which is the state of yenne medine today.
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I think bochurim should wear sak ve’efer and girls should wear burqas starting from the age of three.
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I don’t see any posters here as really porkei oyl malchus shamayim or pro-freiheit; just that some are on the edges of what is within the 4 amois of Torah. And when one of them in particular gets out of line, he rants and raves and demonstrates to those of us who are not on the fringe “ashreinu ma toiv chelkeinu…”
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They reduce human life to the same value as animal life – while they sanctimoniously dispatched tens of thousands of cats and dogs at their facilities. Their ideology is “mutar bein haadam vehabeheima ein..”
I don’t even bother hating them; they are beyond contempt and a fringe movement that unfortunately gets headlines from time to time.
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Indeed, though, this is not the anthem of the Jewish people – it is the anthem of bnei Torah in Eretz Yisroel and a protest song.
The anthem of the Jewish people indeed could be any one of a number of psukim from Tehillim that can be put to music; the motto of the Jewish people is Shma…echod.
For the anthem of the frum community in NY, I humbly propose Lipa’s GELT song :-)! Then again, except that it is in Yiddish and acheinu bnei Yisroel who are not of European origin could not relate to it, Sheloi Asoni Goy from A Poshuter Yid could be the anthem of the Jewish nation….at least on Purim!
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Indeed, though, this is not the anthem of the Jewish people – it is the anthem of bnei Torah in Eretz Yisroel and a protest song.
The anthem of the Jewish people indeed could be any one of a number of psukim from Tehillim that can be put to music; the motto of the Jewish people is Shma…echod.
For the anthem of the frum community in NY, I humbly propose Lipa’s GELT song :-)! Then again, except that it is in Yiddish and acheinu bnei Yisroel who are not of European origin could not relate to it, Sheloi Asoni Goy from A Poshuter Yid could be the anthem of the Jewish nation….at least on Purim!
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I refer to it as yenne medine – a state it indeed is (one of Obama’s 60 perhaps considering that it receives so much US aid that it no longer needs at this point), but one that I can’t call by its name as it is a desecration of that name which is a Torah name that also contains one of the names of Hashem.
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A mensch darf ken’n vus iz a 2 by 4, nisht vus is a size 2.
(A man needs to know what a 2 by 4 is, not a size 2)!
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Arthritis caused by Lyme disease can be partially or totally reversed but if you had so many tests I would hope that was one of them. But remember doctors are but human and often very subjective in their diagnosis and treatment.
I was prescribed the wrong creams (plural, as in at least 3 different ones) for a very minor skin condition that I called “insurance related dermatitis” because of all the money the group practice I went to made from my insurance company on that nonsense. Then after a year and 50 odd tubes and bottles of incorrect medication I saw another doctor and she prescribed the right one – and the first doctor admitted to me that she did not give me that right off only because she herself is sensitive to it!
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Can Lyme disease last for almost 4 years?
From what I read, YES – if untreated it becomes chronic arthritis.
Refuah sheleima.