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Dear Simple,
In yeshiva the one who is learning most of the day does not need any reminders. It is the one not in yeshiva who makes the white shirt into a levush.

Dear Ben,
If you are a conservative than it should be an intrinsic part of who you are. You should not have much knowledge or interest in what goes on in liberal circles. And your views can not be based off of countering liberal views. It does not work. You could spend a century fighting liberal views, and the liberals will convert you. You would have to move a few degrees to the left every decade just to keep up with them.

PS We had the Democrats are atheists point before. Nobody named one.

Dear Akuperma,
An enhanced mutation of the flu is enough to warrant a shut down on any municipality it hits. Even in the event the politicians would not do it, it could still shut down whole states just from natural progression. Do you also deny that measles has been wreaking havoc across the globe. and that Ebola was within a hair of overtaking Africa twice this decade?

Dear The little,
Nobody is obligating anyone to learn all day. But those who are should not be interrupted for the advancement of everyone else. Kollel is a drop below level for the average single bochur. That is why there is elite kollelim. I did not say anything about what our Torah accomplishments amount to.

Dear Som,
Where is this overwhelming data? (And, is the data all in caps?)

The President has started a new brand of sarcasm, the type where there is not even a hint that he is joking at the time. Somewhere in Arizona Dan Quayle is slapping his forehead.

Dear Milhouse,
I do not walk around with a mental list of Black people who were shot by Police. I do walk around a lot. And I see the way this Great Country interacts. You seem to have this long list of Blacks, that in your mind were in the midst of attacking when they were shot. Just a royal shame that these hapless Police Officers cannot defend themselves in a street fight, without resorting to their guns.

Now, about the lies and lies, and the exalted lies. It surprises me that you would have difficulty with a statement that is basic to logical systems going back hundreds of years. It can be a lie for one person, but not for another. Consider this statement. I am Milhouse.

Dear Milhouse,
Thank you for clarifying just how specifically displaying a flag would have to be done, to violate the law. Go look back at the OP and tell me if it makes sense that he meant something like that. Personally, I do not mind the Confederate flag. I do not mind my neighbor’s swastika, either.

A lot of mixed messaging in the US. Who would you suggest is supposed to be the great unifying voice?

Dear Opinionated,
Those who are designated to learn Torah, can only be an asset to the kla at largel when they are left alone until they mature.

Dear Charlie,
That is my point. Jews are aligning themselves with conservatives policies. Maybe they think they will be seen as more ‘American’ or maybe they want the ‘right’ to lie them, or perhaps they are scared of the ‘left’. Whatever it is, they force themselves to take political positions that are completely opposed to the typical Jewish stance of yesteryear. [And they think they are Conservative by doing an about face! The absurdity of it is, the neocons change their positions just as fast as modern day liberals.] The facts that they pontificate do not matter to them. As long as they can cozy up to some magazine, they feel better. (American? Protected? Empowered?) Frum Yidden have yet to learn, that America does not care if you cozy up to the right or to the left. It is a non discriminatory melting pot. As much as we are not going to assimilate, we must remain independent.

Dear Shimon,
How do you get a Rebbe? The Rebbe ‘gets’ the Talmid. Write it like this. You should be gotten by your Rebbe. Doesn’t seem like such good advice when it is written this way.

Dear Som,
“It is unconstitutional to …..” Seriously? The most vexing issue of 1787 was how to protect the right of citizens everywhere to bear face.

“The anti-malaria drug has proven effective.” If you know someone, is what constitutes proof, I can prove that there it is safe for people to drive while smoking marijuana. In the scientific world, there has been a lot of mixed results, and it has been the most studied treatment. Researchers are sick of it. Things that have showed up much stronger in the data, are getting less research and funding. Why did any medication have to be discussed by the general public?

Here is the President’s observations on the science. It is very important to keep in mind his clarification from the next day. “I was asking a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. But it does kill it, and it would kill it on the hands, and that would make things much better. That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to the reporters.

Here is the full quote:
A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you (William Bryan) said you’re going to test that, too. Sounds interesting, right? And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful.

That our President can have such a deep understanding of science, together with being an intelligent wit with cutting edge sarcasm, on top of his intense preparations for these public briefings on the pandemic, indicates what a true genius he really is. He also said he was a great baseball player. wow…..

Dear Lower,
The OP said that there are some on the right who are not voting for Trump, Circle stated that everyone is enthusiastic to vote for him. I pointed out that this enthusiasm is not reflected in the polls. Let whoever is better for the country win!

PS I do not rely on the current polls, or the current president to tackle the current pandemic.

Murder with an ideology is more of a story. For the same reason that this thread exists.

Dear Opinionated,
That is a lot of words, but not a clear opinion. Are you trying to say, that because Police have are not held accountable to anyone specific, it should be defunded?

Dear Ben,
“Let’s be clear” That is a great idea! So, why did you follow with a bunch of tilted statements.

Dear Whats,
The ‘Eretz Yisroel is for personal development, and the same growth in Torah is probable in the Diaspora’, is the great secret that must be hidden from our society at all costs.

Dear Simple,
Thank you for the info on CC.

I think what we choose to identify with is not a metzius. It is an indication of a metzius. When there is a change that takes the essence out, and only the shell remains, than the levush becomes the actual metzius, because nothing else remains to be more real than the levush.

I meant to say that levush works as a significant factor, when there are very little other factors to compete with. One who is sitting by his gemara day and night, does not the white shirt to mark him as a yeshiva guy. One who cannot sit by a gemara at all, will not be marked as a yeshiva guy even with a white shirt.

Dear Kgn,
Not living in Eretz Yisrael comes down to ‘living’ factors. Not so much halachic or political conditions. Those will change much faster than the conditions that we created for ourselves.

Dear Pekak,
It is hard to identify people in Germany 200 years ago. Let alone trace their descendants through all the persecution. Going by the most famous family/ies, they are still around and they are highly educated. It would be amazing if they did not know the history of their own last name. Which was a major part of nineteenth century Europe.

Are they Jewish? Who knows? Their ancestors were probably comfortable with where their children ended up. They advocated for assimilation, intermarriage, and even baptism.

But in general, we do not associate groups of Jews with children. It is about disciples and followers.

Dear Insert,
The first obligation, is to discern any parts that you may be adding into His message. See the beginning of Yirmiyahu, and Zechariah at length. What was seen or sensed at the time of this message?

Dear Simple,
The conflict would be, if some kids would join a no hat community, and some kids would be in say, Lakewood. His descendants would have to contend with that they took of their hat, which was the family minhag. But if he does not put it on, they hat wearers would say, Abba always wanted to wear a hat. He couldn’t because we grew up in …..

My point was to answer the questions in his posts. Nothing else. There is an ongoing thread about clothing.

Dear Reb Eliezer,
Trump always had an attachment for Israel. His emotions run high a lot. He is not a cold, calculating, looking out for only himself, type.

Dear Luna,
I campaigned on other threads, that comforting the mourners, tending the ill, etc comes before finding a minyan or reopening shuls. I wondered if we are better off without them. But the dead and the ill are not the worst of the pandemic. People always cope and move on.

Let me share about three people that I know well. I consider these the hardest hit.
Someone who moved his family here and there to support them. This year they finally bought a house and settled into a community. He then took his savings and started a business. That is now shut down.
A child has returned home to family situation that they spent years getting out of.
An adult that beat mental illness and had it under control for years, but is now slipping.

These are things one has to figure out. They cannot be coping or just move on. I call this the hardest, because the unknowable nature of a pandemic leaves them unsure of where to place their next step. Considering that they invested years just to get were they are now, is what makes these stories into ‘karbanos’. These are isolated stories. But if we would look for one group to call in crisis, it would be Yeshiva Bachurim that were transitioning. About 400 new guys come to BMG every summer. And more than that go to EY. And that is just a fraction of the full picture.

Dear Mesivta,
All the time. Do you have a source for this? It sounds overdone.