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Five Foods that Kill People
from: Yahoo Shine, year 2011
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{1} sodas, colas, sweet carbonated beverages
{2} potato chips and French fries
{3} candy bars
{4} sausages and wieners
{5} fatty meats, especially friedFebruary 16, 2024 12:23 am at 12:23 am in reply to: Biden Working on Creating a Palestinian state #2261723SQUARE_ROOTParticipant“People tend to forget that the doctrine of territories for peace
was used by [Adolph] Hitler in [year] 1939,
when he declared that he would leave Europe in peace,
if territories in Poland that Germany lost
in World War I were ceded to Germany.”SOURCE: Moshe Arens, former Member of Knesset
and Israeli Minister of Defense, HaAretz, 2004/1/22===================================
Retired Lt General Tom Kelly
(Chief of Operations of the 1991 Gulf War) said:“I cannot defend this land [Israel] without
that terrain [the West Bank]…Without the West Bank, Israel is only 8 miles wide
at its narrowest point. That makes it indefensible.”SOURCE: The Jewish Connection Magazine,
2012 January 6 edition, page 14, article titled:
The 2012 Arab Street Driven Security Requirements
written by retired Ambassador Yoram Ettinger===================================
“J-Street and Peace Now and practically the entire
Democratic Party and all of Western Europe take it as
axiomatic that a new State of Palestine would bring peace.Voices who point out that Israel concessions
in the past to Palestinians has brought less,
not more, peace have been drowned out.”SOURCE: article titled: Large majority of Palestinians
say the conflict should continue even AFTER they get a state
ElderOfZiyon dot blogspot dot comFebruary 16, 2024 12:23 am at 12:23 am in reply to: Biden Working on Creating a Palestinian state #2261722SQUARE_ROOTParticipantJonathan S. Tobin said:
“As our Evelyn Gordon wrote in a prescient COMMENTARY [magazine]
article published in January 2010, by signaling its willingness to withdraw
from some territory, the Israelis did not convince anyone of their good intentions.To the contrary, such concessions reinforced the [false]
conviction that Israel was a thief in possession of stolen property.The reaction from the Palestinians and hostile Europeans
was not gratitude for the generosity of the Israelis
in giving up land to which they too had a claim,
but a demand that it be forced to give up even more.Land-for-peace schemes and a belief in two states
on the part of Israelis has always led most Palestinians
to believe that their goal of forcing the Jews
out of the entire country was more realistic, not less so.”SOURCE: article titled: Israeli Peace Gestures
Not Only Don’t Work. They Make Things Worse
by Jonathan S. Tobin, 2015 March 31, Commentary Magazine===================================
Sarah N. Stern said:“Like many Jewish organizations, J Street is seduced
by lofty slogans like ‘pro-Israel/pro-peace’.These words are intended to give the impression that
all that Israel has to do is immediately withdraw from the territories,
and then peace would ultimately break out.This ignores the empirical evidence of what happened after
the withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May of 2000,
giving Hezbollah and their 150,000 missiles easy striking distance to Israel.It also ignores the internally gut-wrenching Gaza withdrawal of 2005,
where the land has been used to launch thousands of rockets*
and incendiary devices launched from kites and balloons,
making life for those on Gaza’s neighboring communities a living hell
and destroying thousands of acres of Israel’s agricultural land.”* NOTE: more than 10,000 rockets
SOURCE: Notes on the J Street conference
by Sarah N. Stern (President of the Endowment
for Middle East Truth), 2019/10/31 www (dot) JNS (dot) org===================================
Abdul Hameed al Ghabin [Saudi writer and political analyst] said:“How can we achieve peace if the Palestinian people
remain without a place to call home? The answer is simple:Jordan is already 78% of historical Palestine.
Jordanians of Palestinian origin constitute more than 80%
of the population according to U.S. intelligence cables leaked in 2010.
Jordan is essentially already the Palestinian Arab state.The only problem is, the King of Jordan refuses to acknowledge this.”
SOURCE: A new Saudi perspective for peace
by Abdul Hameed al Ghabin 2019/8/21, www dot JNS dot orgSQUARE_ROOTParticipantTop Five Foods that make people fat, and ruin their health and shidduch chances:
=====================================================[1] All sugary drinks, which includes almost every flavored drink.
Crystal Light is NOT SUGAR FREE!
It contains maltodextrin, which is even worse than regular sugar.[2] Soda is the worst of all sugary drinks.
It makes you FAT, while attacking your teeth and bones.[3] Potatoes correlate with obesity more than any other one food.
The most unhealthy way to eat potatoes is French Fries.[4] Peanuts and Peanut Butter will make you fat very quickly.
Most nuts are high in nutrients, but they are also high in fat.[5] Food eaten late at night will cause obesity and digestive problems.
February 16, 2024 12:21 am at 12:21 am in reply to: Biden Working on Creating a Palestinian state #2261721SQUARE_ROOTParticipantOVERLOOKED REASONS WHY ISRAEL’S PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WITH ARABS FAIL:
[1] Every time Israel expresses willingness to make major territorial giveaways in exchange for worthless promises, they give new hope to those people who want Israel to vanish completely.
[2] Every time Israel expresses willingness to make territorial giveaways, they convince more people that the land does NOT belong to Israel, because if the land really belongs to Israel, then why would they be willing to give it away to their enemies?
[3] Israel’s willingness to make territorial compromises is misinterpreted by Arabs and Muslims as a sign of weakness; and the perception of weakness inspires Arabs and Muslims to attack Israel, not to make peace with Israel.
[4] In Arab and Muslim culture, written contracts and treaties do not have the same sacred binding character they do in Europe and the Americas. One possible reason for this is the historically very-low-rate of literacy among Arabs and Muslims.
Another reason for this:
Islam teaches that treaties that Muslims make with non-Muslims can be broken, as soon as it is to the advantage of Muslims to do so.Therefore, written Peace Treaties with Muslims are worthless, and only work temporarily, for as long as the Muslims know that they are not able to conquer the non-Muslims.
SQUARE_ROOTParticipant“Rabbi Yisroel Reisman spoke out against those Jews
who plan their vacations for locations like:
Switzerland, France, or Italy where the people hate Jews.”[He said:] “It would be better to visit the Land of Israel
to benefit from its holiness and help our brothers economically.”SOURCE: Flatbush Jewish Journal, 2010/6/17, page 32
February 13, 2024 11:17 pm at 11:17 pm in reply to: Time for Frum Magazines to Change their Standards #2261055SQUARE_ROOTParticipantBelieve it or not, I accurately guessed the topic of this discussion,
even *** BEFORE *** I began to read it!As soon as I saw the title: “Time for Frum Magazines to Change their Standards”,
I *** IMMEDIATELY *** guessed — correctly — that the topic of this discussion
is Frum Magazines showing pictures of women. And I was right!!February 11, 2024 8:14 pm at 8:14 pm in reply to: The Man Inside my Head: A Candid Conversation #2260390SQUARE_ROOTParticipantDear Zaphod,
Assuming that what you say is actually true,
this Coffee Room is probably not a good place
to find the answers that you seek.I humbly suggest that a Frum psychotherapist
is much more qualified to help you, compared
to the random people in this Coffee Room.Sincerely,
SRSQUARE_ROOTParticipantI suggest that this discussion should return to its original topic.
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantI suggest that this discussion should return to its original topic.
February 8, 2024 1:14 pm at 1:14 pm in reply to: Bli Neder no music until all hostages are free #2259868SQUARE_ROOTParticipantNachi Gordon Urges Community Not to Flaunt Lavish Vacations on Social Media
February 7, 2024 by Baruch Green(VINnews) — Kudos to renowned podcaster and media figure Nachi Gordon, who has called out members of the frum community who boast about their lavish vacations on WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, while so many people are suffering in Eretz Yisrael.
In a Twitter post Tuesday, the founder and CEO of Meaningful Minute and the co-host of Meaningful People, pointed out the insensitivity of American Jews posting about vacations while our fellow Jews are at war.
He expressed criticism of “flaunting five star vacations when chayalim are sleeping on the floor in Gaza” and people are “fighting with blood, sweat and tears in Gaza”.
Nachi made it clear that there is nothing wrong with taking a vacation, suggesting that the real issue is flaunting it and lacking proper sensitivity to the plight of so many Jewish brethren.
January 31, 2024 10:23 pm at 10:23 pm in reply to: Minister Gallant Assures U.S. No Jews Will return To Gaza After #2257846SQUARE_ROOTParticipantYechiell: Thank you for your praise. It means a lot to me.
But the comment that you praised was said in the 1980s,
by an Orthodox Rabbi from Brooklyn, who made aliyah,
and became a Member of Knesset),
and was murdered by an Arab Muslim terrorist.January 30, 2024 12:47 pm at 12:47 pm in reply to: Minister Gallant Assures U.S. No Jews Will return To Gaza After #2257394SQUARE_ROOTParticipantFor the benefit of people who are too young to remember,
there are specific words that describe places that have no Jews:
Judenrein and Judenfrei.Both of these words were used by Nazi Germany
to describe places that no longer had any Jews.When Defense Minister Gallant assures the USA
that no Jews will return to Gaza after war, he is
promising that Gaza will be Judenrein and Judenfrei.Why should Gaza be Judenrein and Judenfrei
when 20% of Israel’s population is Arab Muslims?Why should Gaza be Judenrein and Judenfrei
when 20% of Israel’s Knesset is Arab Muslims?Why should Gaza be Judenrein and Judenfrei
when 20% of Israel’s Supreme Court is Arab Muslims?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenfrei
Last but not least, if Gaza must be 100% Judenrein,
then Israel should be 100% Arab-rein and 100% Muslim-rein.SQUARE_ROOTParticipantIn the early 2000s, there was a list of over 100 shadchanim, maybe 200+.
I volunteered to update and correct that list,
by calling each shadchan individually,
and asking if they were still active, or not.
I spent several weeks doing that.I also asked each shadchan questions, similar to these:
[1] What kind of singles do you normally help?
[2] What age range do you work with?
[3] When is the best time for singles to call you?
[4] Do you have more boys, or more girls, or both equally?
[5] Do you work with: Litvish? Chasidish? Modern Orthodox?
Sephardim? Baalei Teshuvah? Gairim? Russians? Divorced?That list no longer exists because its author abandoned it many years ago.
The author of that list is disgusted by shadchanim, and refuses to call them.
No, I was *** NOT *** the author of that list!!!Yes, I really did call 50 shadchanim.
(Actually, I called more than 100, but it no longer matters.)Yes, I really did ask 50 shadchanim:
What are the biggest obstacles that ruin shidduchim?Yes, 50 shadchanim told me the biggest problems are short boys and fat girls.
If anyone here doubts that what I said is true,
then I invite YOU to call 50 shadchanim,
and ask them all:
What are the biggest obstacles that ruin shidduchim?This will take time, but you might actually learn something!
You probably won’t do it, because it is easier
to accuse and criticize, than it is to do something helpful.When I volunteered to update and correct that list,
I did so LeShem Shamayim, to help my fellow Jews.When I started this discussion, in this Coffee Room,
I also did it LeShem Shamayim, to help my fellow Jews.SQUARE_ROOTParticipantAre we Jews required to believe that Chazal [ancient Rabbis and Torah Scholars] possessed complete knowledge of: radio waves and radio technology, television technology, telephone technology, digital cameras, tape recorders, email technology, nuclear energy, solar energy, Quantum Physics, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, x-rays, the Periodic Table of Elements, the ring structure of benzene molecules, BC Calculus & Calculus of Complex Variables & multi-variable Calculus, Differential Equations, Analysis of Variance, Matrix Algebra, Neutron Stars and Black Holes, Microwave Oven technology and modern anesthesia?
Most Charedim believe that all Secular Education is FORBIDDEN.
How could Chazal have complete knowledge of all
modern science and technology, if Secular Education is FORBIDDEN?If Chazal had complete knowledge of all modern science and technology, then they must have spent MANY years studying those things.
If Chazal spent many years studying modern science and technology, then how did they have enough time to master all of Torah? How could they justify taking time away from Torah study to master all of those sciences and technologies?And from where did they learn all of science and technology? Who taught them?
I have been in Orthodox Judaism for 40 years, and many people who know Torah have praised my Torah knowledge. But during those 40 years, NOBODY ever told me that we Jews are required to believe that Chazal possessed complete knowledge of all modern science and all modern technology – until I met Mr. AviraDeArah, in this Coffee Room.
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan [ZTL ZYA] was a genius in both Torah and secular sciences.
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan’s book about Rambam’s 13 principles of Emunah NEVER MENTIONS that we Jews are required to believe that Chazal possessed ANY knowledge of modern science or technology.
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan also wrote another, much-longer book about what Jews should believe: THE HANDBOOK OF JEWISH THOUGHT.
Again, that book NEVER MENTIONS that we Jews are required to believe that Chazal possessed ANY knowledge of modern science or technology.
I read both of those books many times, I know what I am talking about.I started this discussion LeShem Shamayim, to help my fellow Jews.
I do not receive any personal benefit from this discussion; I did it as a chesed.When I was attacked by AviraDeArah, I felt as if I had been punched in the face, as part of a totally unexpected surprise attack. My feelings of shock were so great that I was unable to respond, because I stunned into silence.
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantWhen the Talmud and Shulchan Aruch were written,
people did not know the dangers of eating foods
that contain large amounts of:
sugar, salt, cholesterol, mercury, fat, and saturated fat.Now we know the dangers of eating those things,
but our hashgachah system does not reflect that
new knowledge.Torah requires all Jews to avoid needless dangers,
and eating foods with unhealthy ingredients
is probably a needless danger.January 20, 2024 8:05 pm at 8:05 pm in reply to: Bli Neder no music until all hostages are free #2255121SQUARE_ROOTParticipantI recently passed my 100th consecutive day without listening to any kind of music.
I did this because my inner voice will not allow me to enjoy music, while our people in our land are suffering — not just in one way, but they are suffering in many ways.
I do not know when I will listen to music again,
or even ** IF ** I will ever listen to music again.Even if the war ended tomorrow, and even if all the terrorists surrendered unconditionally, there are still more than 1,200 of our people killed in the initial attack, and around 200 of our soldiers killed in war, and many hundreds with injuries that will never heal, and many hundreds of new widows and new orphans, and people who fled from their homes, and ruined businesses, and ruined farms, and lots of other problems.
Therefore, even if the war ended tomorrow,
I might not be able to listen to any kind of music,
for many years to come. I just do not know.SQUARE_ROOTParticipantFormer NFL star running back Larry Johnson has posted a series of anti-Semitic tweets, one of which blamed “the Jewish cabal” for human trafficking, sex trafficking, pedophilia, ritualistic child torture, perversion [and] human sacrifice/murder.”
NOTE: Larry Johnson is [or was] African American.
SOURCE: article titled: “Former NFL Running Back
Blames ‘Jewish Cabal’ for Abuses in World”
2020 August 4 www (dot) JNS (dot) org=====================================
Hannah E. Meyers said:A few weeks ago, Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving returned to the basketball court after his eight-game suspension for promoting the anti-Semitic film Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America — and initially refusing to denounce anti-Semitism.
Before his NBA reinstatement, Irving gave a 21-minute interview in which he spoke about how the controversy affected him: the discomfort he and his family have felt, how he loves all people, and finally, how he didn’t realize that it wasn’t safe to criticize certain groups.
The “deep apologies” that he did offer focused on how thoroughly he was misunderstood, saying that he didn’t “stand for anything close to hate speech or anti-Semitism or anything that is ‘anti,’ going against the human race.”
But Irving’s trespass did not consist in accidentally comporting himself like an anti-Semite. It involved tacitly promoting ideologies that call for violence and harassment specifically against Jews — such as have already been gaining in the U.S.
Over the past few years, attacks on American Jews have risen by almost a third.
Thirty-two percent of Jewish college students report having personally experienced anti-Semitism. As seen recently in Manhattan’s Central Park and Penn Station, credible threats on Jewish lives are multiplying.
In fact, Irving has neither apologized for any unintended incitement nor even acknowledged the phenomenon of growing animosity and violence toward Jews—especially among American blacks.
SOURCE: article titled: The Need to Curb Black Anti-Semitism
by Hannah E. Meyers 2023 January 5 www (dot) City-Journal (dot) org=====================================
Charles Fain Lehman said:“Black anti-Semitism is nothing new.
It has appeared in the works of black intellectuals since at least the early-20th-century black nationalist Marcus Garvey, as Elliot Kaufman observed in Commentary, and defined politics in New York City — the American metropolis where blacks and Jews most often rub shoulders — for generations.”
SOURCE: article titled: Black America’s Anti-Semitism Problem
by Charles Fain Lehman 2022 December 21 FreeBeacon (dot) comSQUARE_ROOTParticipantAlan Dershowitz said:
In 2016 I wrote an op-ed demanding that Black Lives Matter rescind the portion of its platform that describes Israel as an “apartheid state” involved in “genocide … against the Palestinian people.”
I pointed out that the platform refers to no other country but Israel, despite the egregious records of many foreign countries with regard to police brutality.
It is now four years later and these provisions of the platform remain intact.
SOURCE: Is the ‘Black Lives Matter’ Platform Anti-Semitic?
by Alan Dershowitz 2020 July 9 www dot Algemeiner dot com=====================================
Ben Cohen said:According to [Louis] Farrakhan [leader of the “Nation of Islam”], who pals around with Holocaust deniers among other conspiracy kooks, the Holocaust was just another Jewish swindle. “International bankers financed Hitler and poor Jews died while big Jews were at the root of what you call the Holocaust,” Farrakhan declared in 1995.
[Louis Farrakhan said:]
“Little Jews died while big Jews made money.
Little Jews were turned into soap while big Jews washed themselves with it.”SOURCE: NAACP’s failure to deal with Rodney Muhammad’s anti-Semitism
by Ben Cohen, 2020 August 7, www dot JNS dot orgPERSONAL COMMENT:
Even after speaking many vicious lies against Jews, Louis Farrakhan is still one of the most popular and respected people among African-Americans.=====================================
Melanie Phillips (a columnist for “The Times of London”) said:Anti-Semitism in the black community has been a significant problem since the emergence in the 1960s of the Black Power movement, which blamed the Jews for outrages stretching from slavery to gentrification.
Black Power politicians, as Barack Obama noted in his memoir “Dreams from My Father”, peddled conspiracy theories such as the claim that Jewish doctors were injecting black babies with the AIDS virus.
Demagogues such as Rev. Al Sharpton or Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, have long whipped up black and Muslim communities with their talk of “Hymietown” or “Satanic Jews.”
SOURCE: Anti-Semitism is the ultimate marker of cultural derangement
by Melanie Phillips, 2020 January 2 www dot JNS dot orgSQUARE_ROOTParticipant“The number of African-Americans with
strong anti-Semitic beliefs remains high at 32%.”SOURCE: article by Libby Goldberg in
Hadassah magazine, January 2008, page 57=====================================
Marvin Hier said:“Many Jews have proudly expressed their solidarity for African-Americans in the wake of the horrific deaths of George Floyd and other Blacks at the hands of police.
American Jews, in large numbers, and leaders of the American Jewish community, have been outspoken in their support for racial justice and police reforms.
So we believe it’s fair to ask why there hasn’t been any condemnation or criticism by African-American leaders of Louis Farrakhan’s hateful rhetoric.
Why do they remain silent, when he defames not only Jews but others…”
SOURCE: Who in the Black Community Will Speak out against Farrakhan’s Hate?
by Marvin Hier and Richard Trank, 2020 July 14, Algemeiner (dot) com=====================================
Jonathan S. Tobin said:“Indeed, the recent surge of anti-Semitic comments from some African-American athletes and celebrities like DeSean Jackson, Nick Cannon and Ice Cube were largely ignored by BLM activists rather than condemned.
While there were some blacks who did speak out, like basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabaar and sports commentator Jemele Hill, they were the honorable exceptions who proved the rule and testified to the acceptance of Jew-hatred among many blacks.
Jewish groups, some of which are diffident about confronting African-Americans about anti-Semitism, aren’t likely to rally BLM advocates to confront this issue, let alone seek its sources, such as the widespread influence of hatemonger Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam.”
SOURCE: Want to fight racism? Begin by resisting BLM ideology
by Jonathan S. Tobin 2020 July 16, JNS (dot) orgSQUARE_ROOTParticipant“The far-Left is unapologetic in its embrace of Louis Farrakhan,
who has very publicly described Jews as satanic,
and regularly rants about Jewish power and abuse.Today’s identity politics often calls for unity against Jewish power.
Many college campuses have become extremely hostile to Jews,
with Jewish students being targeted for
both subtle persecution and outright violence.In many arenas and in support of many important causes,
Jews have been called upon to reject their faith.In many far-left circles, being Jewish makes our social justice activism illegitimate.”
SOURCE: Do We Really Want To Return To Normal?
by Cheryl Moore (BA, MBA, BSN), 2018 December 9=====================================
“[Louis] Farrakhan asserts that Israeli and Zionist Jews played key roles in the 9/11 attacks, and that Jews received text messages warning them not to come to work on September 11.”SOURCE: article by Manfred Gerstenfeld, 2018/12/14
Louis Farrakhan: America’s Foremost Antisemite, algemeiner dot com=====================================
Mark Steyn said:“It is embarrassing that this nut [Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan]
is a power broker in the Democrat Party, and the media won’t cover it.”SOURCE: Why don’t the media care about Democrats’ ties to Farrakhan?
by Fox News, 2018 March 8, on YoutubeJanuary 2, 2024 1:46 pm at 1:46 pm in reply to: How Should Israel Thank the United States for American Military and Economic Aid #2250752SQUARE_ROOTParticipantAlways_Ask_Questions:
I never said that Jews should have no gratitude to the USA.
Please read what I said, again.January 1, 2024 8:35 pm at 8:35 pm in reply to: How Should Israel Thank the United States for American Military and Economic Aid #2250534SQUARE_ROOTParticipantBefore we can answer the original question,
we must understand a few things about USA military aid to Israel:[1] USA military aid to Israel is NOT a free gift!
Israel is required to spend more than 90% of USA military aid on weapons that are sold ONLY by USA military companies. Therefore, USA military aid to Israel is really subsidizing privately-owned, for-profit USA military companies, which increases the price of their stock.
[2] Weapons produced by USA military companies are not always compatible with Israel’s military needs. For example, they are sometimes:
too expensive to buy, are too expensive to operate, difficult or expensive to maintain, too big, too heavy, or cannot work together to co-operate with Israel’s other military hardware,
or do not work correctly in Israel’s hot sandy desert climate.[3] When Israel receives military hardware from the USA, the usual result is that Israel sends it back to the USA with many free improvements, which increases the quality of USA military hardware.
December 29, 2023 1:12 am at 1:12 am in reply to: Anyone else long for when restaurants were simpler #2249955SQUARE_ROOTParticipantOver the past 20 years, I almost-never eat in restaurants.
Not even pizza.But I do miss something from the kosher restaurants
of the 1980s and 1990s: Kosher after-dinner mints.They tasted great, and now they are almost-impossible to find.
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantIt is time to permanently close-down ALL American colleges and universities.
They are no longer about education; they are about brainwashing students
into becoming followers of evil murderous thieves and liars like:
Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong-il,
the Former Soviet Union [USSR] and its KGB, Fidel Castro and Yassir Arafat.I am not an opponent of secular education.
On the contrary, I believe that secular education is very important.But our colleges and universities have abandoned secular education
and replaced it with radical Socialist indoctrination and brainwashing.Additionally, our colleges and universities have abandoned Free Speech,
and replaced it with radical Progressive intimidation and harassment.They must be completely and permanently closed down, ALL of them!
December 20, 2023 6:19 pm at 6:19 pm in reply to: Chofetz Chaim says bless those you don’t love, pray they see moshioch #2248309SQUARE_ROOTParticipantתלמוד בבלי מסכת ברכות דף לב/ב
ואמר רבי אלעזר
מיום שחרב בית המקדש ננעלו שערי תפלה
שנאמר: גם כי אזעק ואשוע שתם תפלתי.
ואף על פי ששערי תפלה ננעלו, שערי דמעה לא ננעלו
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Some Jew I Know:Where does the Chafetz Chaim say no Ahavat Yisrael
for a Mechalel Shabbat BeFarhesia Tinok SheNishba?December 20, 2023 5:02 pm at 5:02 pm in reply to: Chofetz Chaim says bless those you don’t love, pray they see moshioch #2248245SQUARE_ROOTParticipantSefer Orchot Tzaddikim, Shaar HaSimcha, (chapter 9):
Every person who performs mitzvahs with happiness receives a reward 1,000 times as great as a person who performs mitzvahs with the attitude that mitzvahs are a burden.
ספר ארחות צדיקים – השער התשיעי
וְכָל הָעוֹשֶֹה הַמִּצְווֹת בְּשִֹמְחָה, יֵשׁ לוֹ שָֹכָר אֶלֶף יָדוֹת יוֹתֵר מִמִּי שֶׁהַמִּצְווֹת עָלָיו לְמַשָּאSQUARE_ROOTParticipantAround two days ago, I encouraged the people in this Coffee Room to look at the world from a different perspective, for a few short moments.
I also encouraged the people in this Coffee Room to be sensitive to the feelings of people who are different from us, for a few short moments.
Sorry to butt in but nothing of the sort was apparent in your post.
THE RESULT: One person understood me.
Everyone else made personal attacks and false accusations against me.
I was falsely accused of being an apikuris, and falsely accused of being a Jew-hater, and falsely accused of being like Haman.Even in my worst nightmares, I never suspected that the people in this Coffee Room were so completely close-minded and so utterly small-minded, that looking at the world from a different perspective, or being sensitive to the feelings of people who are different from us, is totally alien to them — So much so, that they cannot even begin to understand those concepts, and misinterpreted those things as attacks against them.
NEVER AGAIN will I encourage the people in this Coffee Room to look at the world from a different perspective, even for a few short moments, because now I know that they are not capable of doing so.
NEVER AGAIN will I encourage the people in this Coffee Room be sensitive to the feelings of people who are different from us, even for a few short moments, because now I know that they are not capable of doing so.
However, I will encourage them to do teshuvah for the unjustified and false accusations that they recently made against me. Obviously, I cannot force anyone to do teshuvah.
But I can remind you that “all of G*D’s ways are midah-keneged-midah” (Talmud, tractate Sanhedrin, page 90A). Therefore, if you do not do teshuvah for the false accusations that you made against me, then G*D will allow other people to make false accusations against you. Ch”v
Sefer Chasidim, chapter 208, teaches that each person is ridiculed for the same thing that he ridiculed others for. For example: “It once happened that a man ridiculed a cross-eyed person, and his children were born that way.”
Sefer Chasidim, chapter 209, teaches that:
“Gentiles never did evil [to Jews] until Jews did it to each other first.
They did not disgrace Torah scholars until they disgraced each other first.”
Additionally, Gentiles only burned Torah books AFTER Jews burned the writings of Rambam.The point that I am trying to make is that G*D does not allow the Gentiles to make false accusations against Jews, until AFTER Jews make false accusations against each other.
(Sefer Chasidim was written by Rabbi Yehudah HaChasid, who was born in year 1150 of the Common Era and died in year 1217 of the Common Era.)
תלמוד בבלי מסכת סנהדרין דף צ/א
שכל מדותיו של הקדוש ברוך הוא מדה כנגד מדהספר חסידים – סימן רח
מעשה באחד שנתלוצץ באחד שהיא רואה הבית והעליה כאחד, ונולדו בניו כךספר חסידים – סימן רט
לעולם לא יעשו הערלים רעה, אלא אם כן יעשו ישראל תחילה רעה ביניהם זה לזהYour post came across as very hateful. Instead of cursing people out, it might benefit you to take a look at your presentation and wonder why you got those responses, and what you could have done differently. Kol tuv.
December 10, 2023 2:05 pm at 2:05 pm in reply to: Seeking Guidance and Connection: Embracing Traditional Torah Judaism as a Young #2245679SQUARE_ROOTParticipantStay away from Chabad / Lubavitch — far away.
Stay within the Syrian Jewish community, and do not go outside of it,
because they are the ONLY people people who will understand you,
because they are the ONLY people people who will respect you,
because they are the ONLY people people who will want you.The Syrian Jewish community can give you everything you need,
you just must know where to find it.Visit as many Syrian synagogues as possible, get to know them all.
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantThis entire discussion is a total waste of time, and should be deleted.
December 6, 2023 10:20 pm at 10:20 pm in reply to: Bli Neder no music until all hostages are free #2244978SQUARE_ROOTParticipantI am still not listening to any kind of music,
because of the great suffering in Eretz HaKodesh.My question is: What to do about Chanukah?
After thinking about it, I decided that during Chanukah,
I will still not actively pursue listening to music (bli neder),
but if I am in a place where music is playing,
I will allow myself to passively enjoy it.SQUARE_ROOTParticipantWithout Secular Studies, how can any Jew become a:
doctor, nurse, surgeon, pharmacist, optometrist, dermatologist, physical therapist, hospital laboratory technician, dentist, dental technician, x-ray technician, allergist, architect, chemist, chemical engineer, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, civil engineer or lawyer?
Do not tell me that all of these people will be Arabs or Baalei Teshuvah.
December 2, 2023 9:24 pm at 9:24 pm in reply to: More Torah being Learned than ever, yet more Troubles #2243889SQUARE_ROOTParticipantWe learn go though the Torah, but does the Torah go though us?
Does the Torah we learn penetrate our minds and make us better people?
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantI also remember Rabbi Avigdor Miller [ZTL ZYA]
recommending old books, that were written
before the world became insane.David Thomas (a retired newspaper editor) said:
“I read old books because I would rather learn from
those who built civilization than those who tore it down.”SQUARE_ROOTParticipantAccording to an article by Yerachmiel HaLevi on 2023 November 10 on Quora dot com, the Neturei Karta “RAISE MONEY” for Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran.
If this is true, then the Neturei Karta are guilty of all the murders and injuries and atrocities committed by Hamas and Hezbollah — including the murders of Jewish children and babies.
When will we get SERIOUS about stopping the Neturei Karta?
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantWhich Kennedy are you talking about?
In what year did he ruin society, and how did he do that?
November 22, 2023 3:07 pm at 3:07 pm in reply to: Bli Neder no music until all hostages are free #2241675SQUARE_ROOTParticipantEarlier today, I caught myself humming a musical tune.
As soon I realized what I was doing, I remembered the horrible suffering of our people in Eretz HaKodesh, so I immediately stopped humming.
Once again, you are all free people, so you can do whatever you want, and you do NOT need to do what I have done.
I do not know how much longer I can hold by this resolution, because in our times, many of us are very weak, and we tend to not be able to hold by our resolutions.
To RBZS: Over the past three years, almost every Asher Yatzar that I recited has been dedicated to people on my own personal cholim list.
To AviraDeArah: Your comment is logical, but I am eliminating music from my life (bli neder) because that is what I feel I am capable of doing, at this time.
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantCaroline Glick said:
“Over the past several years, Congress made several attempts to amend Title VI to include anti-Jewish discrimination. These efforts enjoyed broad bipartisan support.
But they were all blocked by members of the progressive camp inside the Democratic congressional caucus.
Like the anti-Semitic boycott activists ostracizing Jews on campuses, the progressive lawmakers claimed that expansion of the protections of Title VI to include anti-Jewish discrimination would undermine the free speech rights of anti-Israel activists on campuses.
That is, they said the rights of anti-Semites to preach anti-Semitism superseded the rights of Jewish students not to be harassed.”
SOURCE: Why American Jews slander President Trump
by Caroline Glick 2019/12/15 www (dot) JNS (dot) orgSQUARE_ROOTParticipantJonathan S. Tobin [editor in chief of JNS] said:
“She [Ilhan Omar] has made a name for herself not by talking about the concerns of Minnesotans, but by the outrageous manner in which she has trafficked in anti-Semitic tropes as she pursues her advocacy against Israel.
Along with Tlaib, she is one of the only two open supporters of the anti-Semitic BDS movement that promotes boycotts against the State of Israel. She has claimed that Jews are buying the support of Congress for Israel and questioned the loyalty of her congressional colleagues who are pro-Israel.
Despite this, the Democrats elevated [Ilhan] Omar to a seat on the House Foreign Relations Committee and refused to name her in a resolution denouncing anti-Semitism.”
SOURCE: Is it Ilhan Omar’s Democratic Party now?
Jonathan S. Tobin, 2019 May 22, www (dot) JNS (dot) org===================================
Jonathan S. Tobin [editor in chief of JNS] said:“If even a popular, pro-Israel Jewish Democrat like Adler was afraid to stand up to Ilhan Omar in his own city, then it’s not clear under what circumstance any member of that party would think they could afford to do so.
That means that the battle to quarantine an anti-Semite like Omar to the margins of American politics has been lost.
Not only are she and Tlaib among the young rock stars of their party, they have far greater influence than anyone would have thought only a few months ago.”
SOURCE: Is it Ilhan Omar’s Democratic Party now?
Jonathan S. Tobin, 2019 May 22, www (dot) JNS (dot) orgSQUARE_ROOTParticipantWhen Obama was President, the Prime Minister of Israel was once forced to leave the White House though the back door, which is normally only used by low-level servants, like: security guards and janitors and repair men and cooks.
This was intended to publicly humiliate the Prime Minister of Israel.
In the entire history of the United States of America (USA), the Prime Minister of Israel was the *** ONLY *** world leader to suffer that humiliation, and it was done to him by President Barack Hussein OBAMA.
Prior to that, President Barack Hussein OBAMA and the Prime Minister of Israel were having a one-to-one discussion. Obama just suddenly left the meeting in the middle, leaving the Prime Minister of Israel by himself. This is a very rude thing to do, especially to a Prime Minister.
Considering the intentional humiliation that Obama inflicted on the Prime Minister of Israel , you might think that Israel is an enemy of America and a brutal dictatorship — but Israel is neither of those things: It is an ally of America, and the only democracy in the Middle East.
When Obama was President, people often complained (because it was true) the he treated America’s allies as if they were enemies and he also treated America’s enemies as if they were allies.
November 13, 2023 8:27 pm at 8:27 pm in reply to: Why was the page about a jewish man ripping down posters removed? #2239411SQUARE_ROOTParticipantQUESTION:
Why was the page about a Jewish man ripping down posters removed?ANSWER:
[1] Maybe he is a wealthy donor, or the son or friend of a wealthy donor.
[2] Maybe he has YICHUS.
[3] Maybe he has friends with positions of authority or power.SQUARE_ROOTParticipantDear Jackk,
No offense intended, but you missed the point.
99.9% of people who hear about Jimmy Carter’s book will NEVER read the book — but they will remember THE TITLE OF THE BOOK, which strongly [and falsely] implies that Israel is an apartheid state.
You seem determined to always judge The Democrats favorably, even when the facts do not permit it, and even though there is no Torah requirement to judge them favorably.
I distinctly remember Jimmy Carter publicly stating that his re-election failed BECAUSE OF THE JEWS, even though 85% of Jews voted for him in that election (yes, I am that old!)
Most important of all, Jimmy Carter’s book eventually helped persuade hundreds of millions of people that Israel is an apartheid state.
Most important of all, Jimmy Carter’s book eventually helped persuade many millions people that Israel HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIST, and should be wiped-off-the-map, by any means possible, including terrorism.
Because of Jimmy Carter’s book, any Jew who supports Israel can be ACCUSED OF RACISM, which is one of the most devastating accusations in our times.
Why do you insist on judging Jimmy Carter favorably, even after the devastating damage that he did against Israel’s reputation (and indirectly, against ALL Jews, even those who never visited Israel)?
As I write these words, I clearly understand that you (and those like you) will never, NEVER, *** NEVER *** listen, forever and ever and ever and ever.
But I try to answer your question anyway, just in case a sincere person is listening.SQUARE_ROOTParticipantI was a teenager when Jimmy Carter was President.
In those years, I read 3 different newspapers every day (from beginning to end), and I also watched television news whenever possible. I remember Jimmy Carter very well.
During the Camp David Peace Negotiations, when Jimmy Carter looked at Anwar Sadat [the leader of Egypt], his face was beaming with happiness and approval, like a teacher looking at his best student.
But when Jimmy Carter looked at the Prime Minister of Israel, his face was overflowing with unhappiness and disapproval, like a teacher looking at his worst student who just causes problems all the time.
In year 1980, when Jimmy Carter lost his attempt to get re-elected, he blamed the Jews, even though 85% of American Jews voted for him in that election.
Only African-Americans claimed a higher percentage who voted for Jimmy Carter.
Since Jews were only 2% of the USA’s population at that time, Jimmy Carter would not have won re-election, even if 100% of Jews voted for him; but that did not stop him from blaming the Jews, which indicates that his accusation was not based on facts or logic.
In year 2006, Jimmy Carter published a book titled:
“Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” (ISBN 978-0-7432-8502-5)
which helped to spread the false accusation that Israel is an apartheid state.
This was his revenge against Jews,
because “only” 85% of American Jews voted for him.Somehow the intense racism of Arab nations was never noticed by Jimmy Carter, or the mainstream news media, or the European Union, or the United Nations Organization.
PS: Even Alan Dershowitz has castigated Carter for his anti-Semitism.
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Just one quick reminder of how STUPID “President” Jimmy Carter was:When the value of the USA dollar decreased rapidly because of inflation, Jimmy Carter “solved” the problem by ordering the government to print two-dollar-bills; either for the first time in USA history (or maybe the first time since the late-1700s).
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantWith many goyim, including important political leaders, are marching through the streets of the world calling for the murder of Jews, and clearly not distinguishing between frum or frei, Hareidi or Reform, Israeli or living in golus – then it is not the time to be philosophizing after Zionism or the nature and halachic status of Medinat Yisrael.
SQUARE_ROOTParticipant“Increasing number of Jewish Democrats disillusioned with Obama”
SOURCE: Title of article by Isi Leibler, seen in
The Manhattan Jewish Sentinel, 2014 December 12th, page 3.
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“Nearly a quarter of Obama’s voters were under age 30; a first in American politics.
Two-thirds of voters under 30 cast their ballot for Obama; also a first.”SOURCE: What American Really Want
(chapter 4, page 141) by Dr. Frank I. Luntz, year 2009
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“Barack Obama set the bar for U.S-Israeli relations so low that there’s literally no Israel-related issue on which Trump has been worse than his predecessor.
And there are many on which he’s been not just modestly better, but spectacularly so.”SOURCE: Understanding Israel’s love affair with Trump
by Evelyn Gordon 2018/3/14 www JNS org============================
“Obama’s hostility towards Israel, his repeated intimations that Israel is a colonialist outpost while the Palestinians are the indigenous people of the land of Israel were part and parcel of his across-the-board effort to enable the radical Left to take over the party.”SOURCE: Heeding Dem warnings
by Caroline B. Glick, 2018 May 25 www dot JewishWorldReview dot com============================
“When Barack Obama was elected president, this mood changed.He began to treat Israel as a rogue state, grovel to the Iranians, describe Israeli defenders and Arab terrorists as moral equivalents, and finally declined to veto the most biased and despicable resolution ever passed against Israel by the UN Security Council.
The response by the majority of the American Jewish establishment, who were previously never reticent about raising their voices, was a deafening silence.”
SOURCE: Where Are America’s Jewish Leaders?
by Isi Leibler, 2019/1/31 www dot algemeiner dot com============================
Vic Rosenthal said:The idea of trading Israel’s security for the friendship of Iran continued through the Obama Administration. The Iranians reacted cynically, taking what they could get while still chanting “death to America.” Obama’s Defense Department applied pressure to the Israeli defense establishment in 2012 to scuttle a plan to bomb the centers of Iranian nuclear development, at a time when the window of opportunity to seriously set back the program was significantly wider than it is today.
SOURCE: When will the Snake Finally Lose its Head? by Vic Rosenthal
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantMaybe the simplest way to explain why the Neturei Karta are wrong is to say:
They do not know when to stop.Maybe they had a legitimate argument [shita] 150 years ago, or 120 years ago, or even 100 years ago, but they lost that debate 75 years ago, and they are the only people who do not know that.
I once learned that if a Jew speaks Lashon HaRa, and the person listening is not Jewish, then the speaker is guilty of both Lashon HaRa AND CHILLUL HASHEM.
(I do not remember the exact source for this, maybe someone reading this can give us the exact source.)
Since the Neturei Karta repeatedly speak negatively about Jews, and millions of non-Jewish people listen to them, they are guilty of both Lashon HaRa AND CHILLUL HASHEM.
The Neturei Karta repeatedly show millions of non-Jewish people that Jews are disunited and hate each other, which is also a Chillul HaShem.
November 9, 2023 1:41 pm at 1:41 pm in reply to: Does Hashem approve of voting for a democrat #2238145SQUARE_ROOTParticipant“In January, Pew reported that liberal Democrats side with the Palestinians over Israel by a margin of nearly two to one. Conservative Republicans support Israel over the Palestinians by a margin of more than 16 to 1.”
SOURCE: Heeding Dem Warnings by Caroline B. Glick, 2018 May 25
www dot JewishWorldReview dot com==================================
Keith Ellison, an anti-Israel Muslim, became Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) by a UNANIMOUS VOICE VOTE of DNC members, according to Wikipedia.==================================
“…leading members of the Democratic Party like Keith Ellison and luminaries like Linda Sarsour openly espouse anti-Jewish sentiments and propagate anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, Democrats ignore, whitewash, deny and minimize the significance of the swelling chorus of anti-Semitism within their ranks.”SOURCE: The peril of Politicized Anti-Semitism
by Caroline B. Glick 2018 June 22==================================
“Rising stars in the Democratic Party, including Rep. Ellison and Women’s March leaders Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour along with the Congressional Black Caucus embrace Louis Farrakhan, and defend his notorious, virulent hatred of Jews.
They demonize Israel and its Jewish supporters.”SOURCE: The peril of Politicized Anti-Semitism
by Caroline B. Glick, 2018 June 22==================================
Mark Steyn said:“It is embarrassing that this nut [Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan]
is a power broker in the Democrat Party, and the media won’t cover it.”SOURCE: Why don’t the media care about Democrats’ ties to Farrakhan?
a youtube video by Fox News, 2018 March 8==================================
Sarah Stern (founder and president of
Endowment for Middle East Truth) said:“It is profoundly troubling that there is a recent trend within much of the Democratic Party to tolerate and sweep under the rug voices of extreme anti-Semitism and hatred, and by their sheer presence in highly visible social events bestowing upon them an aura of respectability.”
She continued: “How would these same people react if David Duke were to be photographed seated in the same row as President Donald Trump? Louis Farrakhan is the apotheosis of pure, unabashed anti-Semitism. His speeches use combinations of classical anti-Semitic canards, and bold-faced lies and deceptions.”
SOURCE: Criticism over Farrakhan Singing the Praises of Aretha Franklin
by Jackson Richman, 2018 September 4, from JNS dot org==================================
“Writer David Steinberg identified 105 news stories written in the immediate aftermath of [Ilhan] Omar’s victory [as one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress], and not a single one mentioned that she believed Jewry possessed mind-control abilities or that Israel was evil.No one called on the Democratic Party to distance itself from this rhetoric.”
SOURCE: Here’s the anti-Semitism the Media Doesn’t Want to Mention
by David Harsanyi, 2018/11/11, www dot NYPost dot comSQUARE_ROOTParticipantNo matter how many security precautions Israel makes, those security precautions will NEVER be enough to guarantee safety from terrorist attacks, until 100% of Arabs and Muslims who live in Israel are permanently expelled.
In the 1980s, an Orthodox Rabbi from Brooklyn repeatedly gave the Jewish People valuable advice about Arabs and Muslims who live in Israel: “THEY MUST GO!!!”
If I remember correctly, even Henry Kissinger agreed with this, and he was NOT a friend of Israel, even though he was Jewish.
If that advice had been taken seriously in the 1980s, then Arab terror attacks might have ended decades ago, and only Jews above age 50 would be old enough to remember them.
Send all the so-called “Palestinians” to China (Xinjiang region) with a one-way-ticket.
Then the so-called “Palestinians” will vanish forever, because China knows how to handle Muslim terrorists, and nobody criticizes them for it, not even Muslims!
SQUARE_ROOTParticipant“In supporting the destruction of Israel,
are anti-Zionists unaware that millions of Jews
in Israel would be killed in such a war of destruction?
….
Anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism both would cause
Jews to be homeless, suffer, and die.
And that is all Jews need to know about them.”SOURCE: The Nine Questions People Ask about Judaism
(chapter 6, page 130) by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin,
published in 1975 & 1981 by Simon & Schuster in New York City,
ISBN 0-671-42593-5 * ISBN-10: 0671622617 * ISBN-13: 978-0671622619=======================================
“For some anti-Zionists these differences between
anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism may have some significance.For Jews, however, these differences are entirely academic.
Though some anti-Zionists may sincerely believe that
they are not motivated by hatred of Jews,
THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANTI-ZIONISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM
FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE THE SAME.”SOURCE: The Nine Questions People Ask about Judaism
(chapter 6, page 122) by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin,
published in 1975 & 1981 by Simon & Schuster in New York City,
ISBN 0-671-42593-5 * ISBN-10: 0671622617 * ISBN-13 978-0671622619SQUARE_ROOTParticipantIn year 1970 CE the so-called “Palestinians” attempted to violently overthrow the government of Jordan.
For more information about this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_SeptemberLater, the so-called “Palestinians” took-over Lebanon.
They are violent rebels, and their fellow-Arabs know this.For example:
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Robert Lacey said:“Of course,” says one Saudi prince, “if God granted us a wish,
we would like the Palestinians to vanish off the face of the earth.We know that they are only nice to us because they want our money.
They are dangerous men with Marxist tendencies.But their disappearance would be a second wish.
The first wish is the disappearance of Israel.”SOURCE: The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Sa’ud
(chapter 47, page 455) by Robert Lacey,
published in year 1981 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
New York, ISBN-10: 0006365094 ISBN-13: 978-0006365099===================================
Saudi journalist Fahad al-Shammari
declared [in a television interview] that:“the Palestinians are beggars,” and “have no honor”.
SOURCE: PA and Jordanian | incitement against Saudi Arabia
by Yoni Ben Menachem of JCPA, 2019/7/28 www JNS org===================================
Mr. Pat Condell described the Palestinians as:“the World’s most tiresome cry-babies with a bogus
cause and a plight that is entirely self-inflicted”.SOURCE: The Great Palestinian Lie, a YouTube video
by Mr. Pat Condell, 2011 October 6===================================
Hugh Fitzgerald said this on Jihad Watch dot org:“The Israelis have not marginalized the Palestinians;
it is the Palestinians who,
by their relentless attempts to kill Israelis,
have marginalized themselves.”SOURCE: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Concern
about Jewish “White Supremacists” (Part 1)
by Hugh Fitzgerald, 2019 August 9 www JihadWatch org
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PS : Please copy these quotes to your computer, for future reference.
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