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Actually, the smell of fresh garlic does not repel people.
You all keep talking about the NK as if they’re a monolithic group. About ten years ago I read an article that explained how the NK have splintered 16 times in the past 50 or so years. Each group splintered off to claim another Gadol HaDor is an apikorus, and to lambaste the other NK members who didn’t agree with them. There are now at least 16 different groups of NK, and probably as many as 20 by now. They all believe in slightly different things, although they all look the same to us.
I fear that Klal Yisrael has many more evils to undergo before Moshiach comes. But I believe he CAN come today or tomorrow, as we are ,mechuyav to believe. I will be amazed if it happens, but not shocked.
Even if they have a point, why has the existence of the State of Israel become the most important Halachah in all of the Torah? They claim that it is the biggest danger in Jewish life, when Zionism is dormant. It’s illegal to create settlements in most of Israel now, and the government has given so much land to the Arabs. How is it the biggest danger? The Neturai Karta’s stance is a DAAS YACHID in the Gemara, and plenty of Rabbonim have already said it is no longer nogeah today. To which the Neturai Karta answers, “Those Rabbonim are apikorsim.” And they follow no Gedolim.
As to their stance today, on how the war in Gaza is Israel’s fault entirely, and that Israel should stop their war, how does this make any sense? Just forget the 1,400 dead, and the 222 hostages? If they ever had a point, it’s been long swallowed up by common sense and facts.
@ujm: Today that’s true. But I’m old enough to remember when newspapers were proud of their neutral stance. That was in the days before Nixon, before the Internet, and before influencers.
I suppose we could consider the suggestion, as soon as we figure out what “optionary” means.
I’ve been Yeshivish (now I’m Chassidish) and I have now idea what your brother-in-law was saying. Probably just some fad nowadays, using the word “rishus.”
AAQ: I know of people who call themselves Orthodox Jews who do not keep kosher except at home, and keep Shabbos only because of their wives and kids. It’s a terrible statistic these days, but they exist. My sister had a neighbor IN WILLIAMSBURG who told them that he eats at McDonald’s all the time, and only builds a sukkah because of his wife and kids. Plus people in Williamsburg know of others like that, and I’m sure Williamsburg is not exceptional. For these people, the geshmak has left Yiddishkeit, sadly.
Not only does Ben Gvir call them anarchists, but so do Honenu attorneys Adi Keidar and Moshe Polski.
Ben Gvir, the National Security Minister, refers to them as anarchists. I saw it on Arutz 7. I don’t know if it is allowed to cite other websites here, if not, I apologize. Please edit it out. This is what I found
Asked why he insists on calling demonstrators protesting against the judicial reform “anarchists”, the minister replied, “The majority of the public that I know and see support my statements and understand what I meant. There are those demonstrators who cry out from their hearts and that is important. As someone who demonstrated for a long time, I understand them and will fight for their right to demonstrate. Who are those anarchists I’m talking about? The ones who harassed the Prime Minister’s wife at the salon, who we saw throw an iron fence at a policeman or who dismantled roadblocks. They want to bring about anarchy and I make no apologies to them. I will continue to call them anarchists and it only saddens me that Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz, instead of condemning them, encourage this behavior.”
Others have been said to make a golem. The Gra, for instance. And various people in the Gemara. The ones in the Gemara can’t be doubted.
The title is Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but no more mention is made of the color of the hair thereafter.
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They’ve had a fire in Stolin at least in the past 55 years. I’m 60, and I remember it ever year. But I happen to know they had t earlier as well, and I remember when we were the only people in Boro Park who did it at all. I can’t speak for Boston or Detroit, though.mb10
That’s why I said 1924. Since the Detroiter came in 1923, after Shavuos, he would have made his first Lag Ba’Omer hadlakah a year later, in 1924. But it’s possible he didn’t after all.Okay, if he was the one who started it, it would have been in 1924.
I believe that in Stolin they had a fire since 1910 or earlier. I’ll have to check the exact year.
The Navi says that bi’ito achishenu,” “in it’s time I will hurry it up.” Chazal say that there are two ways we will be rescued from galus: “b’ito” and “achishenu.” It will be either one or the other. If we are zoicheh, we will be hurried out of galus and we will see open and great nissim. But if we are not zoicheh, it will be slow, as it says b’feirush in the NAvi, and there will be only hidden nissim.
It seems to me that unless all Yidden do teshuvah we will be rescued from galus the slow way. And I cannot imagine all the Yidden in the world doing teshuvah. We will not be zoicheh to our houses or our shuls flying through the air to Eretz Yisrael. We will enter the slow way, as we are entering it now. Or else Hashem may kill 99% of us and declare the remainder tzadikim.
Let us all hope and pray for a better geulah to come to us. But look at all the nevuos and midrashim about the geulah. Hard times are ahead of us. Have a good Shabbos!
Rav Yosef Albo zt”l in his Sefer Ha-Ikkarim wrote why brachos work. I should think that if he wrote about it, it has merit.
They stopped teaching Tanach to children around the time of the Reformers/Enlightenment, because 1) it is too confusing and misleading for children, and 2) the Reformers pushed the study of Didduk and Tanach over Torah Sh’baal Peh.
@ fghij : I don’t understand. what derech halimud do your boys learn and what derech halimud do the Brisker Yeshiva boys learn?
That’s ridiculous. That Rosh Yeshivah is saying that bochurim make policy, but by Chassidim it’s married yungerleit that make policy and minhag, not bochurim.
It’s a fact: Everyone hates the Jews and everyone wants to BE the Jews.
@rightwriter: Yes. It is said that Eisav traveled around the world and laid seed with every nation in the world, and thus every nation is part of Eisav.
I am also an ainikel of the Rebbe Reb Zusha. Not a worthwhile ainikel, but an ainikel nevertheless.
The Noda B’Yehudah paskens (and I have heard that Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l confirms and okays it) that 100 Kolel Yungerleit are also good for a Heter Me’ah Rabbonim. But I would check that out, since you hear a lot of things from Rav Moshe that never existed.
I saw in meforshim that Shlomoh Hamelech understood from the way they spoke (one saying “It is mine,” the other saying “It is not yours”) to whom the baby belonged, and did the test only to show the people there who the baby belonged to. I believe I saw this in the Maayanai Shel Torah some 40 years ago.
Shrug. Rav Avigdor Miller z”l said it was a hoax.
Basically, because in Halachah it says to say Tachanun most days. You need to ask the question: Why do Chassidim hardly ever say Tachanun? I’m a Chosid and I don’t know the answer to that.
Why don’t you ask a Rov? Why do you ask the rank and file who hang out on the internet?
I believe the makor is the Shnai Luchos Habris, the Shelah, who first taught about staying up all night and learning. He did it both nights.
Always_Ask_Questions – That was Reb Shraga Feivel Mendelovitch. The story may have happened with Reb Yaakov too, for all I know.
Huh? Moving his body will cause his neshamah to move? I don’t see how that is.
What issur karais are they committing?
As far as I know, getting help from the sitra achara is a Christian idea, not a Jewish one. Where do we find such an idea in Chazal?
No, he’s saying that they are ovair arayos a lot.
The Israeli army has plenty of frum, erlicher Yodden in it.
Zaphod, who is Joseph at the end of your bio?
I agree that the Israeli government is and always was immoral. But who are we to judge who Hashem is with? Hashem was with Achav and the Yidden in his time even though they worshipped avoidah zarah. The Midrashim and Rishonim say that ikvisa dimishicha there will be an immoral government in Eretz Yisroel. This is bad, bit it is leading to yimois haMoshiach.
Raiken shebahem milaiyim mitzvos keirimon. Who are you to judge who Hashem is with or not?
Don’t panic.
GadolHadorah – So where can I get glatt kosher venison in Monsey?
@Gadolhadorah — What’s “RMC?”
“Irregardless???”
Deer in Ramapo have no natural predators, as we have killed off the wolves and other animals. That’s why they’re reproducing at such a high rate. They’re only natural predator now is the car.
It is forbidden in Rockland County to fire off a firearm at any time. Hunters of deer use Bows and arrows to kill them. I am not kidding.
My Rosh Yeshivah, Rav Chaim Boruch Wolpin zt”l, told me, but I forget in whose name, that there is a “chelek” in Oilam Haba, and there is a “ben” Oilam Haba. A ben Oilam Haba can ask for any chelek he wants, unlike someone who has just a chelek. He compared it to a guest at a meal versus the host’s son at the same meal. The son can ask for whatever portion he wants.
@boruchbrown123 As a matter of fact, not being influenced by alien philosophy is as old as the Torah itself. It was the reason many at first assured learning the Rambam, as they mistakenly thought he was influenced by Greek philosophy. It was fought against by the Chashmonaim. For the Torah says “Ki hi chochmaschem uvinaschem l’ainai ha’amim…”
Yes, I have seen it a few times.
We don’t sing by davening in Karlin-Stolin, and we daven rather quickly, so I don’t see how that would help him at all.
Well, for Chanukah there’s an answer, although it’s a joke. On Chanukah we do many things for a zaicher. Yeshivos give off to remember “lihashkicham Torasecha.”