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Flour and Water all have slightly different tastes.es.
You can look up where they to taste tests of different cities and even bottled water. The minerals and other factors affect the taste.S. Klein,
You are correct. The IDF should be disbanded and all Frum areas should request the police not patrol their neighborhoods.The Holocaust also didn’t happen! Doesn’t every footage of a Concentration Camp look like it could have come from a WWII movie?
The job of Hollywood is to make it realistic but when they make it realistic it disproves the original event.
If you went to Yeshiva please let me know which one so I don’t send my kids there to learn how to learn.Baltimore Shomrim is mostly a mix of Modern Orthodox and Modern Yeshivish with a few from other groups mixed in.
Jackk,
Of course the key during WWII was to stop viewing it as a Jew and view it as a German. Because thinking like doesn’t mean you agree. During the 1930’s hundreds of thousands of German Jews came to America. During the war they were invaluable to the US Intelligence Services. Growing up in Germany (most not Frum) they attended German schools and Universities, knew German slang, read German newspapers and watched German movies. In other words they knew how to “Think like” a German. They provided a ton of Intel to the Allies.
Look up Fred Meyer a German Jew who came to America in 1938. During WWII he parachuted into Nazi Germany were he posed as a Nazi Officer. He lived in a rest home for German officers where at night at the bar he would listen and take mental notes. Later he would write the Intel down and pass it to another German Jew living in the loft of a barn with a radio where he would forward the Intel to HQ. He found out where Hitler’s bunker was, posing as a Nazi officer got the trainmaster to tell him about a large shipment of weapons which the Allies bombed (saving thousands of lives). And convinced the head Nazi in Tyrol to surrender (again saving thousands of lives and shortening the war saving Jews ascwell). How was this great Jewish and American hero able to pull of the impossible? Because he knew how to “Think” like a Nazi.
That’s the scary part about America today. Putin has always been playing chess while Biden is just getting ready to play a game of tic-tac-toe!This is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. How do you know? The key is to stop viewing it as an American and start looking at it as a Russian. Russia views Ukraine as a dagger pushing deep into aRussia. Russia has been invaded before and wants to make sure it doesn’t happen again. What saved Russia from Napoleon and Hitler? Having the strategic depth making them expend a lot of energy and men just to reach the border of “Real Russia” Putin has 3 options. 1. Take all of Ukraine. 2. Take the regions bordering Russia for at least some strategic depth. 3. Work out a deal like Russia had with Finland. In 1939 they went to war. It cost Russia around a million men. The final deal was Finland can stay a free country as long as Finland goes along with Russia. If you look at history that’s what Finland did. They never thought of joining NATO, turned back from buying weaponry if Russia said no, and didn’t speak badly about Russia. If Putin can convince Ukraine to act like Finland did, that would be a win for him. But what would Putin gain by taking Ukraine and killing millions of people? Absolutely nothing except negatives.
As my Ruv always says, “I’m not telling you what they should of done I’m telling you what happened.” The reality is the Levayas of Gedolim have always been planned with maximum attendance over riding an rushing or Zohar.
That was not the “Real” reason it was postponed. It was at best an ancillary reason. When a Gadol is Niftar Kavod Hatorah over rides (within reason) rushing the burial. I don’t know why people need to search for a twisted reason why something was a Kiddush Hashem. That hundreds of thousands of people went to the Levaya to show Kavod Hatorah WAS the Kiddush Hashem.
To inspire my kinderlach I put pictures of Tzaddikim all around my house. In my sons room I have:
Shabbtai Zvi, Karl Marx, and Bernie Madoff.A Modern Orthodox, Yeshivish and big Rosh Yeshiva die at the same time. They’re greeted by an Angel. He says to the modern Orthodox, “You’ve lived a good life. Go to room 22 but be very quiet when you pass room 8.”
Next he tells the Yeshivish man, “You were a big masmid. Go to room 17, but be very quiet when you pass room 8.”
Next he tells the Rosh Yeshiva, “You taught so much Torah. Go to room 12 but be very quiet when you pass room 8.”
The Rosh Yeshiva says, “I understand putting us in different rooms but why do we have to be quiet when we pass room 8?”
The Angel responds, “Because the Chasidim are in room 8 and they think they’re the only ones here.”Lifetime Kollel
You make some valid (and not as valid) points.
Look at history in Asia. There was China, Japan, Russia and the US. There was a balance of power because no one wanted to risk a war weakening themselves to another power. China became a non-power and Japan beat Russia. That left only Japan and the US. The other issue is strategic depth. The US was in the Philippines only a few hundred miles from Tokyo while Japan was thousands of miles from Washington DC. Understandably, Japan didn’t like that. That is why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. To get the US out of the Pacific. They mistakenly believed America would just walk away and let them have it.
It’s similar to what’s going on here Russia is not OK with NATO in Ukraine being a few hundred miles from Moscow while Russia is well over a thousand miles from (forget Washington) London, Paris, and Berlin.I’ve seen Rabbonim who do not allow the Kallah in the chair to be strongly bounced up and down.
It’s fine. People panic way to easily especially those who live off the Holocaust. Look at history Chanukah, the Greek Govt, Purim, the Persian govt, Bais Sheni, the Roman govt, Spain, the govt (King), the Nazis, the German govt, the Soviets, the Russian govt. The only time Jews faced a real threat was when it was backed by a powerful govt.
The most famous Pogrom was Kishniev. There were 50,000 Jews living there and 49 were killed. A tragedy yes, but a real threat to Jews, No.
We are having lone attacks (mostly low level like a punch to the back of the head) by mostly mentally I’ll jerks mixed with a few higher functioning ones like Poway or Pittsburgh. The govt does not support encourage or ignore them. Quite the opposite. A Swastika was found where I’m from and local and state police and FBI all investigated. When the govt turns, then start to worry.I work from 9-5 managing property.
@mrbro
Did you read what they did at the train station? Maybe they need to be reprogrammed and brought into the modern world where you don’t hack old ladies to death because you’re having a dispute with her government.For me its because I read a little about it and don’t know who to believe. I do know a group of them traveled (besides other terror attacks) to interior China far from where they lived and using knives INA train station hacked men, women and children killing and maiming many. Its hard to ask for help based on moral grounds after doing that. Perhaps China trying to knock the extremism which includes violence against innocent civilians is not such a bad thing (though the methods may be to rough).
Post pictures of R’ Shayele along the roads. If it works for mice maybe it’ll work for deer.
When man lands on Mars, what’s the first thing he will see?
A Chabad house.Where I come from if your Rebbe pats your back it’s called a “Tzitzis Check”
It must be tough going through life thinking everyone hates you. I know if I had nothing against people and they kept believing I hated them that would cause me to not like them as in a self-fulling prophecy.
I and my family have many non-Jewish friends.
My mother taught me to act like a Mensch and treat everyone like a Mensch. Try it, you may just be pleasantly surprised.My Rav said due to it being questionable what to do it’s better not to greet or return a greeting on Shabbos. When I told him it comes off rude not answering and besides it creates feelings of shalom, achdus and community to greet each other. He said never the less due to the shailah it’s better not to greet
You haven’t lived til you’ve had my Mother’s Southern Ribs on Yom Tov.
People hate to hear it but its true. Dying Al Kiddush Hashem is only when a person had a choice like converting and choosing not to. Since during the Holocaust Jews were targeted for their race, contrary to what people always say, they were not killed Al Kiddush Hashem.
I don’t know about Charedim but it’s a well known “Secret” in the non-orthodox and Modern Orthodox that many girls get nose jobs in high school. It’s not that their noses are so big (some are) but because of the whole Jewish and big noses thing they’re overly sensitive. No one admits to having a nose job they were all getting a “Deviated Septum” fixed and while already being worked on the Doctor fixes their nose.
This is why the situation in Baltimore is different. This is from an interview with Rav Ruderman ztl.
RR: College gives a person parnoseh. We find that our boys stay with learning longer this way. They don’t have to kill
themselves for a job. In Lakewood, the boys didn’t go to college. But if they don’t do well in business, than all is
lost, for they have nothing else and often don’t have enough time. Anyway, in business, you have less time to learn
than if you’re a professional. Many baal habatim didn’t go to college and they feel frustrated. If you have a
profession you have more time for learning. In rabbonus…well there are less good positions in rabbonus and for
rebbes in schools. We also find that the parents want college…sometimes more than the bochurim. Rav Moshe told
me — no job, no sholom bayis (peace in the household)Maryland has a Frum delegate in the State House.
Dalya Attar graduated Bais Yaakov then became a Lawyer.I heard a shiur on this from an expert. He said Baal Peh never meant it couldn’t be written down. It meant it couldn’t be published. The Amoraim could and did write notes on what they were learning (just like students today, some less, some more). When it came time to officially publish it, the notes from various Rabbonim were put together to make one standardized copy.
I met a Satmar Chasid (fully dressed as one) in Tupelo, Mississippi.
My sons Jewish name is “Aron Dovid” His Non-Jewish name is “Mendel Lipa”
Will Antisemites have to stop telling Jews to “Pick up the pennies”?
Only consider Baltimore if you believe in not judging a person based on their hat (or no hat), clothes, where they Daven or where they send their kids to school but by whether or not they’re a Mensch.
It will never work. Who gets to decide if someone like Ivanka is Jewish? There’s a bigger world than just Charedim.
You’ll also fan the flames of the Non-Orthodox saying, “You see the Orthodox don’t consider us Jews”
Its also wrong to assume across the board non-frum aren’t Jewish. I live in a major Jewish community and Jews married Jews both from here, often related. The intermarriage rate here is 20%. Assuming 10% are women and also Jewish men who marry a Gentile often leave the community, probably 95% of people claiming to be Jews here actually are. To assume their Non-Jewish is both false and highly insulting.My family Farbrengs to very hard rock. We believe in elevating Non-jewish music and infusing it with Kedusha. Besides it sounds really great.
I was going around with an old Yid who tried to negotiate the price on a Slurpee.
A KGB agent walks up to a Jew and says, “Why are you learning Hebrew, we’ll never let you leave.” The man says, “Oh no, I’m learning Hebrew so when I get to heaven I’ll be able to talk to people.” The agent says, “And what if you go to hell?” The man replies, “I already speak Russian.”
When I was a kid they were regular yellow. Now they’re red.
When will Chasidim wear long pants? Their short pants are a distraction to many.
How about you mind you own business?
Ever hear the story about the Rebbe and Talmid in the street and an untznius woman walked by? The Talmud ran and put his face against the wall while the Rebbe kept walking. The Talmid came back and asked his Rebbe how he could keep walking. The Rebbe said, “Better to see an untznius woman and think about a wall than to see a wall and think about an untznius woman.”
This shows you have the problem. Get help.