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THANKS

M.A.R. AKA. MI KEAMCHA YISROEL

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am I getting old, or did mybat say s/he lives in Mexico? There are two posters in Mexico? That seems a bit unusual.

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amen, very nice! thank you for sharing, Jax.

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postsemgirl, what are you doing here so bright and early?

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g’nite and g’nite! (someone had to be last)

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did the mod disappear? and I was just getting started!!!

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me too until I decide to put my head down. (mind you I’m in bed right now…)

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oh yay! a cholent party! what could be better for 3:38 AM?

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jphone, dunno why but you just reminded me of the relative who had to bring in something for show-and-tell and prepared something for the letter N which he forgot, so when his teacher asked him what he brought, he promptly replied, “nothing!”

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see ya folks later! Have an easy fast (whatevers left of it)

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hmm, I understood the question as if Shikur is taking a poll. I answered the question…

something wrong?

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squeak, heres where you start googling about the different types of wallpaper glue… 😉

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I.

I’m trying to beat Joseph at giving good answers. 😉

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mybat, with all due respect, why did that have to say specifically “kapusta and everyone?” why not mepal and everyone??? of all people to choose…

lol

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squeak, rotfl!

I still want an answer… no one?

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maid of the mist!!!

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for the sake of everyone in my shul, I certainly hope not. 🙂

seriously, there is a thing to stand. I would just like to know why.

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mepal, don’t worry. Anyway, it would probably just be kapusta out of the freezer… (and you wouldn’t catch me eating it willingly either)

I was in the beginning, but I think I nailed it now.

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mepal, you owe me one.

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I once saw a recipe for something called a “free soup”. Open your freezer and put in anything inside and presto! Dinner!

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sounds good. wheres my invite?

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mepal, good, a little hungry but not too bad. 😀

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kapusta’s DT for monday

Unstoppable Force

by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky

The final song of Moshe’s life is read this week. Appropriate as a prelude to Yom Kippur, it talks about the great potential that the Jewish nation has within its very essence. Moshe tells us to “Remember the days of yore, understand the years of generation after generation. Ask your father, and he will relate it to you, and your elders, and they will tell you” (Deuteronomy 32:7-8). He reminds us of the glory days, when Hashem asked us to be His chosen people, accepting the yoke of Torah observance. But Moshe does not stop there. Using our tremendous capacity as a role of responsibility, he warns us of the calamitous effect if we waste or misuse our talents.

Despite the harrowing foreshadowing of disaster, however, the verses of misfortune contain a message of hope as well. Moshe once again warns us of Hashem’s potential wrath; yet a blessing lies within his curse, defining the very essence of the physiological indestructibility of the Jewish nation.

In predicting calamitous repercussions of sin, Moshe speaks for Hashem and declares, “I shall accumulate evils against them. My arrows I shall use up against them.” What does that mean?

Rashi explains the verse according to a Talmudic explanation in Tractate Sotah. “My arrows will come to an end, but they themselves will not come to an end.”

The question is obvious. Is G-d’s quiver limited? Can the L-rd ever be bereft of ammunition? How is it possible that the Heavenly arsenal, equipped with more power than an atomic armory, will spend its ammunition without achieving total annihilation?

Reb Yosef Friedenson, editor of Dos Yiddishe Vort, tells the story of how he and a group of friends were in a smithy shop in the iniquitous labor camp in the town of Starachowice. The camp was notorious, and though the overseer of the factory in which they worked, a man named Pape, treated them kindly, one mistake meant that a German guard would treat them as saboteurs and shoot them dead.

Assigned to the Herman Goering works one Shmini Atzeres, they were not told what their job was for that day. And so, to fulfill their holiday spirit, they broke out in a traditional song, Ain Adir kaHashem, Ain Baruch k’ben Amram (There is none as powerful as Hashem nor blessed as Moshe, the son of Amram).

Pape was shocked. Despite the torture the humiliation, and the endless poison-tipped arrows of the Holocaust, these people were singing!

Noted scientist Isaac Asimov compiled a book of 3,000 interesting facts about the universe, history, and science. In it he deals with a longstanding question: “What would happen if an irresistible force met an immovable body?” Asimov explains that the question is ludicrous. He simply explains a physical fact. “In a universe where one of the above conditions exists, by definition the other cannot exist.”

And so the Torah tells us something about the promise that Hashem made to His people. They are an immovable object. Hashem’s unremitting commitment for his children has declared Judaism impregnable. And so the physical arrows He may send to chastise them cannot forever continue. They must eventually expire. As long as we understand the immovable body of the Rock of our faith, we are assured that there no longer exists an irresistible force to budge our eternity.

taken from torah.org

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Jax, amen.

Thank you for sharing.

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