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Aaq,
I don’t care how she got these wacky opinions.
The posts are so wacky that there can’t even be a conversation about them.
It is like arguing with someone about whether the earth is flat.
Nothing will disprove them.
La terre est platte !Nom,
I would also give him a chance if he ran for Senate, House or Governor.
He is educated and sounds articulate.
Nm,
He is running for president as his very first.
It is hilarious to think that he has a snowball chance in Gehenom.WeloveourMesorah,
What do you find incorrect about my post?
Regarding ujm,
Hillary ran for Senator from NY and was immediately the party nominee. She knew she was going to be nominated from the start and was drafted by the Democrats.Only after being the first lady for 8 years where she was active in many parts of the administration including healthcare overhaul, Senator for NY for 8 years, Secretary of State for 4 years, did she run for President.
Only the republicans will nominate a non-politically experienced person for president and expect that it will turn out good.
Why would a political nobody run against an incumbent President? Just because of his last name?
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Rep. Jim Jordan and others for what the prosecutor says is a brazen and unconstitutional attack by members of Congress on the prosecution and investigation of former president Donald Trump.
Lawyers for Bragg’s office and private law firm Gibson Dunn filed the 50-page civil complaint in U.S. District Court in Manhattan seeking to interrupt an investigation launched by Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Jordan and his committee are trying to obtain confidential investigative materials compiled during the district attorney’s criminal probe.
Among other things, Bragg is asking a federal judge to invalidate a subpoena from Jordan’s committee to former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who split with Bragg’s office early last year following a dispute over how the case should proceed. Pomerantz’s subpoena demands he appear for testimony on April 20.
This is the first count.
There are 34 of these.
THE GRAND JURY OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, by this indictment, accuses The defendant of the crime of FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE, in violation of Penal Law §175.10, committed as follows:
The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017,with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission
thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated February 14, 2017, marked as a record of the Donald J. Trump
Revocable Trust, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.To all the MAGA supporters :
Please prepare a list of all the people connected to this trial (judge, jury, lawyers, etc …) that you have already decided are democrats, or biased, or soros backed, or trump haters and those that you feel will give Trump a fair trial.Dbrim,
Influence peddling is not a crime. If it was, Ivanka, Jared, Jr and Eric would have been indicted a long time ago.
Trump will be indicted for what many other people were convicted of and are currently sitting in jail for. It’s not a novel crime, nor a novel indictment.
CA,
Then we agree.
Have a Chag Kosher V’sameach.CA,
Please explain why YWN wants to know this info ? This is not an election where everyone gets to vote and the result of the poll is worthless.
CA and Besalel,
Anonymous posters who don’t live in Israel and don’t have to deal with the current situation, need to realize that their vote on this matter is not on the same level as Israelis. The poll results are thus inconsequential until you divide the Israeli’s and non-Israeli’s.
The opinions of anonymous non-Israeli’s are nowhere near the level of actual decisions that Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir, who are responsible for what goes on in Israel, had to make.
I am sure Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir are laughing at the poll.I want to know how many of the responders are Israeli.
If they aren’t, then please stop meddling into Israeli politics.As others have mentioned that the phrase Et Tu Brute refers to betrayal, I would posit that a better phrase for surprise would be “הֲגַ֥ם שָׁא֖וּל בַּנְּבִאִֽים”. This is an ancient Yiddishe Mashal and is brought in Nevi’im.
Shmuel Alef , Kapital Yud.
“When all who knew him previously saw him speaking in ecstasy together with the prophets, the people said to one another, “What’s happened to the son of Kish? Is Shaul too among the prophets?”
But another person there spoke up and said, “And who are their fathers?” Thus the proverb arose: “Is Shaul too among the prophets?”It is better to ask Rav Brog what he meant. I am sure he will have a great answer for you.
I have heard many of his shiurim. Always filled with Taam Vdaas.There is a famous story of the Brisker Rav’s minyan, when he lived in Jerusalem, waiting during Chazaras Hashatz for a Kohen to come and bentch Birkas Kohanim . Asked why he is makpid and will wait so long until they find a Kohen ,he said that people wait on line a long time for brachos from Tzadikkim, so Kal V’chomer for a Birkas Kohanim.
Menachem,
The logic of “However, I think the justice system system should leave it up to us to decide that. ” and “Don’t they trust the American citizens to elect the right person?” was used by Republican Senators – specifically Mitch McConnell – who refused to impeach Trump the second time.
That is EXACTLY why he is being prosecuted by the justice system. The republicans did not have the courage to impeach him which would have prevented him from ever holding public office.
The republicans who despise him now should regret not having begged their Senators 2 years ago to impeach him and that would have been the end of him.After it having been proven that there is one murderer in the Murdaugh family, the Smith family is going to dig up Stephen Smith who died under very suspicious circumstances .
It was a “hit and run” with zero signs of a hit and run.
This time it is connected to Buster Murdaugh.You can go to Jewish Moments in the Morning with Nachum Segal: Playlist from December 13, 2021
It is the first song of the day at 10 minutes in.Milhouse,
I am not trying to argue with your reality, I am trying to understand your scenario.
Please lead me through what happened according to you.It sounds like Arabs planned a pogrom and Israel was doing nothing to prevent it . Why?
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ISSUESNEWS: Sanders Statement on Silicon Valley Bank
March 12, 2023
BURLINGTON, Vt., March 12 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday issued the following statement on Silicon Valley Bank:“Let’s be clear. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank is a direct result of an absurd 2018 bank deregulation bill signed by Donald Trump that I strongly opposed. Five years ago, the Republican Director of the Congressional Budget Office released a report finding that this legislation would ‘increase the likelihood that a large financial firm with assets of between $100 billion and $250 billion would fail.’
“Unfortunately, that is precisely what happened. During the debate over the legislation I said: ‘Are our memories so short that we learned nothing from the 2008 Wall Street crash? Have we learned nothing from the Savings and Loan disaster of the early 1990s or the thievery of Wells Fargo over the last couple of years or the dishonesty of Equifax or the accounting fraud at Enron and Arthur Anderson or the failure of Long-Term Capital Management or the billions of dollars in fines that financial institution after financial institution has paid out for illegal or deceptive activities?’ Sadly, the Republican Congress and the Trump Administration answered all of these questions with a resounding NO.
“Now is not the time for U.S. taxpayers to bail out Silicon Valley Bank. If there is a bailout of Silicon Valley Bank, it must be 100 percent financed by Wall Street and large financial institutions. We cannot continue down the road of more socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for everyone else. Let us have the courage to stand up to Wall Street, repeal the disastrous 2018 bank deregulation law, break up too big to fail banks and address the needs of working families, not the risky bets of vulture capitalists.”
SK
Is your real name Yehudah or Shalom or Sam?
You copy/pasted from this site directly to another one with a video of Ira Zlotowitz under multiple names .The bank tanked because after being flush with billions extra in cash, it made a terrible decision to buy securities and bonds that lose value when interest rates go up.
They lost that bet because the economy needed to raise interest rates due to inflation. They rolled the dice with investors money and lost it all.Regarding #1, “Hashem promises anyone etc…”
There is no such promise. Do not speak for Hashem or make things up.Re#2, Your words are taken out of thin air.
You are not a Navi . You do not know why things happen, nor how to rectify them. Every Yid can make their own cheshbon hanefedh and increase their Torah and Mitzvos.The economy is not bad. One bank tanked.
Yidden do not bow down to money. But we all realize the need for parnassa which allows us to support our families and communities.
Re: 3, True emunah and bitachon is hard, but does not take 30 years .
It takes constant daily repetition and living with Hashem and Tefillah.
Hashem has many ways to wake up Yidden. We pray that he always does it by giving us extra good , so that we experience tremendous gratitude to Him that leads to closeness and love of Him.
Besalel,
Rmo are from live castrated bulls.Rocky mountain oysters is ever min hachai and is served at Colorado Rockies baseball games.
It also has other names and is served in Canada too.Everyone has to use their own Da’as to use the obligation of “l’bsumey ad d’lo yada” to bring them closer to Hashem and not as an excuse to get drunk and act in a way which is the complete and total opposite of Purim and Kol Hatorah Kulah.
He killed his 22 year old son. Just consider it a late term abortion and all Republican’s should demand capital punishment.
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In Slabodka I had two rebbes, zichronom livrocha, and boruch Hashem they were both inspirations to me. I will describe to you how different their behavior was on Purim.A:
On Purim it was a minhag of the bnei hayeshiva to go to all the roshei yeshiva and menahalim of the yeshiva. We went to the homes of the roshei yeshiva and to the mashgiach and we went to all the important people of the yeshiva. And these two rebbes of mine were different in the way they behaved on Purim. Pay attention, because the ways of tzaddikim we have to learn; both of them are ways in avodas Hashem.One rebbe—I won’t tell names—when he sat at the head of the table and the yeshiva people were dancing around the table, he was watching to see who was a little wild, and those were the ones he gave wine or a glass of schnapps to. He poured fuel on the fire in order it should burn more brightly!
The other rebbe was an old misnaged type; a cold misnaged. When we were dancing around his table, he looked at the boys suspiciously to see if somebody was ungeshikert, intoxicated, and anyone who was drunk and a little wild, his face turned unhappy and sour. That was the other rebbe.
Now, which rebbe I followed you can understand yourself! The rebbe’s face that was sour, that’s the one I followed. And this rebbe said two separate schmoozen. One schmooze was that you shouldn’t get drunk on Purim; you should drink but don’t get drunk. Because gedolah deiah – how great it is to have daas! It means Awareness of Hashem. It’s always good to have daas. You drink עד דלא ידע – until you don’t know. עד means עד ולא עד בכלל; it means just before you lose your deiah, that’s when you stop. You should drink עד דלא ידע – until you don’t know. When you reach that stage, you’re yotzei already the mitzvah, more than that – stop. That was one schmooze; that whatever you do, you shouldn’t lose your deiah on Purim.
Because Purim is a time of deiah; Purim is time to gain Daas Hashem, Awareness of Hashem. נודע השם משפט עשה בפעל כפיו נוקש רשע – Hashem becomes known when He does justice; when the wicked is ensnared in the work of his hands. So when Haman was hung on the same eitz that he made for Mordechai, it was בפועל כפיו, it was the work of his own hands, נוקש רשע, that ensnared the rasha, and that’s when נודע השם – that’s when you get daas Hashem awareness of Hashem. That’s when you get real emunah. When you see בור כרה ויחפרהו ויפול בשחת יפעל, that the wicked falls into the same pit that he himself made for somebody else, that’s when people get daas of Hashem.
So Purim is a time to recognize Hakodosh Boruch Hu from what happened on Purim and to be mifarseim the nes, to publicize what Hashem did for us. And therefore Purim is not a time to lose your deiah, no. On Purim you have to have deiah, you have to acquire deiah. Only you drink up till then, as we said before, in order to get more hislahavus in deiah; more enthusiasm in this knowledge of Hashem.
However, the other time we went to him he said as follows: Since Purim is a time for deiah, therefore we have to know that there’s a rule that the Mesillas Yesharim teaches us: החיצוניות מעוררת את הפנימיות – The outward acts of a person awaken up the inner thoughts. By doing certain outward actions, you stimulate your inner machshovos, your emotions.
“Therefore,” he said, “on Purim when we dance—we were dancing around his table—every stamp you make on the floor—the floor was shaking from that—every stamp you make, you have to know that you’re stamping emunah into your neshama.”
Don’t think it’s not so! You may be thinking also of a good time; why not? You like the exhilaration of dancing; you can let go on Purim. But if you’re doing it with a little bit of lisheim shomayim, you have to know that you’re imprinting emunah onto your neshama. That’s what you’re doing. “Every klop that you knock with your foot,” he told us, “you’re knocking the emunah into your neshama more clearly.”
From the Rav’s Purim Mesiba, תשמ״ה, March 7th 1985Q:
What should be our attitude towards those who become shikur on Purim?A:
We have to know that the purpose of our lives is to acquire da’as, not to lose da’as. When a person becomes very intoxicated so he is already b’geder beheima, he’s in the category of an animal, and that’s no praise for him at all.However, sometimes in order to raise the airplane off the ground, you have to put high octane fuel into the tank to help get liftoff. And therefore, in order to make yourself more enthusiastic it’s the proper thing, there’s nothing wrong with imbibing a certain amount. But to get out of control, that’s a mistake. It’s not a kiddush Hashem; you make yourself look disgusting. No, I don’t approve of that, it’s very wrong, very wrong.
And therefore, although it’s a mitzvah on Purim nichnas yayin yatza sod, you have to be very careful that nichnas yayin, the wine should come in to you, and yatza sod, and the secret of the Jew comes out. יין is gematria seventy, and סוד is also gematria seventy. So the seventy of wine comes in and it pushes out the secret that the Jew keeps inside him.
So the Jew has in his neshama a love of Hashem, only that he’s too bashful to talk about
it. He’s enthusiastic for the Torah and mitzvos but he’s embarrass to show it. But when the wine comes in, so the truth comes out and it shows his real pnimiyus. When he’s a little bit intoxicated the Jew shows the real enthusiasm that he possesses, things that he never showed before.So therefore, Purim is a great opportunity for people to demonstrate their loyalty to the Torah, their emunah in Hakodosh Boruch Hu, that He’s protecting us at all times, and that eventually we will conquer, we will outlive all of our enemies. All this and much more we can demonstrate on Purim; and we are able to do it when we evoke, we elicit, the greatness of which we are capable. We have it in ourselves! And a little bit of mashkeh helps out, no question about it.
Of course, Purim is a great day of da’as in general. And we should try to make it as much as possible important in the eyes of our children, and in our family and in our community. Make a big fuss out of Purim! And the Purim seudah should be a very important affair, a very important seudah. And by making Purim very prominent in our lives, then it becomes one of the jewels, one of the most beautiful tachshitim on the luach of the Jewish year.
TAPE # 867 (March 1992)Q:
How do I utilize drinking עד דלא ידע in order to serve Hashem?A:
עד דלא ידע בין ארור המן לברוך מרדכי. I’ll tell you one peirush. It means עד ולא עד בכלל. You drink up to the point of losing your da’as. You drink just enough. But not enough to lose your da’as. On Purim you have to have da’as. You have to have more da’as on Purim, not less.Now, a little bit of da’as can be gained by drinking. A little bit. Oh yes; it’s like an airplane that needs high octane gas to get up in the air. A little bit of alcohol helps your spirit go higher. Yes, a little bit of mashkeh. But too much alcohol will sink you. And therefore, there’s no use in falling asleep in the middle of Purim like a drunken goy and then they have to call Hatzalah. On Purim you should be gaining da’as and if you utilize the day properly, it’ll be a day of da’as. And you won’t be gaining any da’as lying on the floor waiting for Hatzalah to come.
TAPE # E-225 (March 2000)UJM,
As a talmid of Rav Miller zatsal, you certainly know that Rav Miller was the happiest person alive on Purim , but was nowhere close to drunk.
FYI – He was probably the happiest person alive the other 365 days of the year too.For those who follow Daas Torah, here is their message
An Appeal to B’nei Yeshiva & Ba’alei Batim
TO ELIMINATE DANGEROUS DRINKING ON PURIM
“One is obligated on this day [of Purim] to have an abundance of simcha, and to eat and drink To contentment. However, we are not commanded to become drunk to the point of diminishing ourselves through the simcha, for the simcha that we were commanded to have is not one of frivolity or foolishness but one of spiritual pleasure that brings us to the love of Hashem and praise for the miracles He performed for us.” (Meiri, as quoted in the Bi’ur Halacha, Orach Chaim 695.)
In recent years, the problem of dangerous drunkenness on Purim, especially among b’nei yeshiva, has reached alarming proportions, and has led to sakonas nefoshos and chilul Hashem.
Medical doctors as well as representatives of Hatzolah have reported numerous instances of bochurim having to be rushed to hospital emergency rooms, some of them even placed on life-support systems, because of over-drinking on Purim.
To address this intolerable situation, we call upon the entire community that seeks to fulfill the mitzva of Simchas Purim properly, and especially our dear yeshiva bochurim, to take special care in drinking practices, and to adhere to the following suggested guidelines.
1. The mitzvah of “Chayav adam l’v’sumei b’Puria…” is preferably fulfilled with wine, as is stated In Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (142:6). Unrestrained use of whiskey and other alcoholic beverages is entirely inappropriate and absolutely contrary to da’as Chachomim.
2. Ba’alei Batim should not serve any alcoholic beverages, including wine, to groups of bochurim visiting their homes.
3. Those who drive under the influence of alcohol endanger not only themselves but also their passengers and other members of the public. Drivers must therefore not consume any alcoholic beverages, including wine, and must take extra care to drive safely, observing all applicable Laws and safety procedures.
4. Nobody should enter a car if there is reason to believe that the driver is under the influence of alcohol, and all appropriate steps should be taken to prevent such an individual from driving.
In the merit of fulfilling the mitzva of Simchas Purim properly, may we be privileged to see haromas keren Yisroel.
Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum
Yeshivas Mir
Rabbi Eliezer Simcha Lieff
Yeshiva Gedolah of South Monsey
Rabbi Yehoshua Schiff
Mesivta Bais Shraga
Rabbi Chaim Boruch Wolpin
Yeshiva Karlin Stolin
Rabbi Mastisyahu Salomon
Beth Medrash Govoah, Lakewood
Rabbi Yisroel Plutchok
Yeshiva Derech Chaim
Rabbi Shmuel Mendlowitz
Mesivta Bais Shraga
Rabbi Asher Kalmanowitz
Yeshivas Mir
Rabbi Akiva Grunblatt
Yeshiva Rabbi Yisroel Meir Hakohen
Rabbi Yisroel M. Kagan
Yeshiva Toras Chaim, Denver
Rabbi Yaakov Abramowitz
Yeshiva Gevoha D’Chassidei Gur
Rabbi Chaim Leib Epstein
Yeshiva Zichron Melech
Rabbi Simcha B. Ehrenfeld
Mattesdorfer Rav
Rabbi Dovid Kviat
Yeshivas Mir
Rabbi Shloime Mandel
Yeshiva of Brooklyn
Rabbi Mordechai Rennert
Yeshiva Derech Chaim
Rabbi Yaakov Schnaidman
Yeshiva Bais Moshe, Scranton
Rabbi Yoseph Rosenblum
Yeshiva Shaarei Yosher
Rabbi Moshe Wolfson
Yeshiva Torah Vodath
Rabbi Dovid Schustal
Beth Medrash Govoha, Lakewood
Rabbi Yeruchim Olshin
Beth Medrash Govoha, Lakewood
Rabbi Moshe Green
Yeshiva D’Monsey
Rabbi Yitzchok Paler
Yeshiva M’kor Chaim
Rabbi Yosef Frankel
V’yelepoler Rebbe
Rabbi Yehuda Svei
Yeshiva Gedolah of Philadelphia
Rabbi Zecharya Gelley
Khal Adas Yeshurun
Rabbi Chaim Stein
Yeshivas Telshe, Clevaland
Rabbi Moshe Glustein
Yeshvia Mercaz Hatorah, Montreal
Rabbi Yekusiel Bittersfeld
Yeshiva Harbotzas Torah
Rabbi Yitzchok Feigelstock
Mesivta of Long Beach
Rabbi Aharon M. Schechter
Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin
Rabbi Eliezer Gross
Yeshiva Gedolah of Los Angeles
Rabbi Aharon Feldman
Yeshivas Ner Yisroel, Baltimore
Rabbi Yitzchok Sorotzkin
Rosh Yeshiva, Telz Yeshiva, Lakewood
Rabbi Chaim Steinwurzel
Yeshiva Shaarei Yosher
Rabbi Avraham Chaim Levin
Yeshivas Telshe-Chicago
Rabbi Eliezer Eichler
Tiferes Mordechai Shlomo, Boyan
Rabbi Elya Ber Wachtfogel
Yeshiva Gedola Zichron Moshe
Rabbi Eliyahu Kanarek
Yeshiva Ohr Hameir, Peekskill
Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz
Yeshiva Rabbi Yisroel Meir Hakohen
Rabbi Shmuel Miller
Yeshiva Gedolah Bais Yisroel
Rabbi Aryeh Malkiel Kotler
Beth Medrash Govaoha, Lakewood
Rabbi Naftali Jaeger
Yeshiva Shor Yoshuv
Rabbi Yisroel Perkowski
Yeshiva Bais Hatalmud
Rabbi Yechiel Perr
Yeshiva Derech Ayson
Rabbi Chaim Dov Keller
Yeshivas Telshe, Chicago
Rabbi Shimon Alster
Yeshiva Gedola of Cliffwood
Rabbi Binynomin Zeilberger
Yeshiva Bais Hatalmud
Rabbi Tzvi Spira
Bluzhover Rebbe
Rabbi Lipa Margolis
Yeshiva Torah Temimah
Rabbi Yaakov Busel
Mesivta Rabbeinu Yaakov Rabbi Yosef Eichenstein
Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yaakov Yosef
Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky
Yeshiva Gedolah of Philadelphia
Rabbi Dovid Harris
Yeshiva Rabbi Yisroel Meir Hakohen
Rabbi Reuven Feinstein
Yeshiva of Staten Island
Rabbi Levi Dicker
Yeshiva Mercas HaTorah, Belle Harbor
Rabbi Yaakov Bender
Yeshiva Darchei Torah
Rabbi Yochanan Zweig
Yeshiva of Miami Beach
Rabbi Shmuel Shmelka Leifer
Yeshiva Toras Chesed
Rabbi Dovid Feinstein
Yeshiva Tiferes Yerushalayim
Rabbi Refael Gettinger
Yeshiva Toras Chesed
Rabbi Meir Stern
Yeshiva Gedolah of Passaic
Rabbi Yaakov Perlow
Novominsker Rebbe
Rabbi Yosef Harari-Raful
Yeshiva Ateret Torah
This message is published as a public Service by Agudath Israel of America,and has been publicized regularly for close to twenty years.This is the current sad state of the republican party.
Let’s make fun of Black History Month because there is no white history month.Do you feel a need for White History Month?