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HaKatan said: “Which poskim rule that they are not halacha?”
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ANSWER: The Three Oaths are an Agadic Midrash,
and therefore they are not Halachically obligatory,
because Agadic Midrashim (as opposed to Halachic Midrashim)
are not traditionally understood as a valid source for Halachah.Stated simply: Midrashim are not Halachah.
SQUARE_ROOTParticipant“Soda (both regular and diet), Snapple (both regular and diet), and iced tea are high in acid and damage teeth.
If you must drink these liquids, then use a straw.”SOURCE: Dr. Jacques Doueck DDS (a dentist in Brooklyn, NY) Community Magazine, January 2010, page 66
February 25, 2024 11:25 pm at 11:25 pm in reply to: Did Russia warn Ukraine before attacking? #2263945SQUARE_ROOTParticipantIf Russia wins in Ukraine, then their next targets for conquest are:
Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, etc, etc,etc.For that reason, Russia must not be allowed to win in Ukraine.
If Russia wins in Ukraine, then China is more likely attack Taiwan,
and North Korea is more likely to attack South Korea, etc, etc,etc.For that reason, Russia must not be allowed to win in Ukraine.
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantThis question is for an expert in Choshen Mishpat, which very few people are.
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantSeven Most Unhealthy Snack Foods:
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candy bars, cheese, granola [especially bars],
muffins, peanuts, potato chips, soda.SOURCE: Connie Roberts MS, nutrition editor for the Harvard Heart Letter
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantRabbi Jonathan Sacks made this statement 13 years ago,
but even after all those years,
his words are still 100% true and 100% relevant.SQUARE_ROOTParticipantYWN Moderator said to me:
“Just curious – do you accept these as fact because you read them online?”
MY RESPONSE:
I have read dozens of books about nutrition and health,
and I have taken detailed carefully type-written notes
for ***ALL*** of the nutrition books that I read.Everything that I said in my previous message can be verified;
not just once, but multiple times, if only you invest the effort
to study many books about nutrition and health, like I did.The fact that you could even question the very-well-known facts
that I reported in my previous message is an irrefutable proof
that my previous message was desperately needed.If you live near a public library, then you should
be able to borrow an read nutrition books for free.you cut and paste clips from books and websites instead of having conversations. I was just wondering if you consider all this valid because you read it online.
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantFive 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 friedJust curious – do you accept these as fact because you read them online?
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Quick Tips: Which foods are healthier?
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{1} Brown Rice is healthier than White Rice or pasta.
{2} Oats are healthier than Brown Rice.
{3} Black beans are healthier than other beans.
{4} Flounder is healthier than tuna, and salmon is healthier than flounder.
{5} Sweet potatoes are healthier than regular potatoes.
{6} Pure water is MUCH healthier than: soda, tea, Snapple or alcohol.
{7} Eat no more than one whole egg each day; more white parts are safe.
{8} Brown eggs are not healthier than white eggs, just more expensive.
{9} Fresh eggs sink in water; bad ones float.
{10} Olive oil is infinitely healthier than butter. (OxygenMag 2011/8/16)
{11} Herbs and spices are much healthier than salt. (ibid)February 22, 2024 8:26 pm at 8:26 pm in reply to: Who gains by flooding the US with millions of Illegals?? #2263291SQUARE_ROOTParticipantPresident Joe Biden has permitted 7.3 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS to enter the USA.
They all receive, at taxpayer expense: free housing, free food, free electricity,
free water, free money and some receive government jobs.All ILLEGAL ALIENS have received debit cards with $5,000 pre-loaded onto each card.
They are also intended to receive free Driver’s Licenses, so they can vote.
Can you calculate how much money this is costing the unfortunate USA taxpayers?
Since the 7.3 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS are NOT being investigated in any way,
it is extremely likely that their numbers include many tens-of-thousands of:
illegal drug dealers, gang members, spies, terrorists, and convicted felons,
including: murderers, car thieves, home burglars, rapists, kidnappers and con artists.Can you image how many billions of dollars this will cost the unfortunate
USA taxpayers, when the criminals need to be arrested and jailed?Can you image how much this will cost the unfortunate USA taxpayers,
when the terrorists plant bombs on: bridges, buildings, buses and subways?Can you imagine being told that your local hospital emergency room
cannot help you any time soon, because doctors are busy helping ILLEGAL ALIENS?But the cost of their medical treatment will be paid-for by the unfortunate taxpayers.
But none of that matters, so long as the 7.3 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS
vote for President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party,
because that is the reason why they were permitted to enter the USA.February 21, 2024 5:13 pm at 5:13 pm in reply to: Who gains by flooding the US with millions of Illegals?? #2263003SQUARE_ROOTParticipantGiving government jobs to non-citizens, especially non-citizens
who are ILLEGAL ALIENS, is a super-massive insult-and-attack
against millions of law-compliant tax-paying citizens,
especially those who are unemployed or under-employed.Why should anyone who lives in the USA even *** PRETEND ***
to obey the laws, when ILLEGAL ALIENS who are obvious
law-breakers are given: free housing, free food, free electricity,
free water, free money and government jobs?SQUARE_ROOTParticipant“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
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Andy Heller said:
The State Department is backing up President Obama’s assertion
in an interview with Vox that the victims of a terrorist attack
on a kosher deli in Paris last month were targeted at “random.”The lead spokesperson for the State Department, Jen Psaki, said Tuesday:
“They were not all victims of one background or one nationality.”Psaki emphasized that the store was a Jewish grocery
but the people inside were targeted individually.
Psaki is wrong, though:
All four victims were Jewish (and buried in Israel).Furthermore, gunman Amedy Coulibay called from inside
the store to a broadcast news outlet and said:“I have 16 hostages and I have killed four,
and I targeted them because they were Jewish.”SOURCE: State Department Spokesperson Unaware Jews Killed in Paris>
by Andy Heller, 2015 February 10 matzav (dot) comSQUARE_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.============================================
“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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It was President Barack Hussein Obama that used the IRS
as a weapon against pro-Israel organizations.It was President Barack Hussein Obama that gave $150 BILLION dollars
to terrorist Iran, which is the world’s #1 sponsor of terrorism,
and constantly shouts: “DEATH TO AMERICA!! DEATH TO ISRAEL!!”It was President Barack Hussein Obama who betrayed Israel in the United Nations.
It was President Barack Hussein Obama who insulted Israel’s
Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, with the most humiliating
disrespect that was ever inflicted on any leader who visited
the White House, in the entire history of the USA.It was President Barack Hussein Obama who served as
Prayer Leader for Muslim prayer services in the White House,
after claiming to be Christian many times.SQUARE_ROOTParticipantWhat ex-President Barack Hussein Obama Gave to USA:
(1) The American people elect a black president with a total of 142 days experience as a US Senator from the most politically corrupt state (city) in America whose governors have been ousted from office. The President’s first official act is to order the close of Gitmo and make sure terrorist’s civil rights are not violated.
(2) The U.S. Congress rushes to confirm a black Attorney General, Eric Holder, whose law firm we later find out represents seventeen Gitmo Terrorists.
(3) The CIA Boss appointee, Leon Panetta, has absolutely no experience, has a daughter Linda, we find out, who is a true radical anti-American activist and a supporter of all the Anti-American regimes in the western hemisphere.
(4) We got the second most corrupt American woman (Pelosi is #1) as Secretary of State; bought and paid for.
(5) We got a Treasury Secretary who did not properly file his own taxes for 12 years.
(6) A Commerce Secretary nominee who withdrew due to corruption charges.
(7) A Tax cheat nominee for Chief Performance Officer who withdrew under charges.
(8) A Labor Secretary nominee who withdrew under charges of unethical conduct.
(9) A Secretary HHS nominee (Daschle) who withdrew under charges of cheating on his taxes.
(10) Multiple appointments of former lobbyists after an absolute campaign statement that no lobbyists would be appointed.
SQUARE_ROOTParticipantIn the 1990s (or maybe the very early 2000s), one of the “Frum” magazines revealed that Orthodox Jews [at that time] spent an amazing $250 million every year on Pesach vacations! $250 MILLION DOLLARS!! Just for Pesach vacations alone!!! Think about that for just half-a-minute.
Over 20 years, that adds-up to $5 BILLION DOLLARS!!!! Think about that for just half-a-minute.SQUARE_ROOTParticipant***********************************
Quick Tips: Which foods are healthier?
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{1} Brown Rice is healthier than White Rice or pasta.
{2} Oats are healthier than Brown Rice.
{3} Black beans are healthier than other beans.
{4} Flounder is healthier than tuna, and salmon is healthier than flounder.
{5} Sweet potatoes are healthier than regular potatoes.
{6} Pure water is MUCH healthier than: soda, tea, Snapple or alcohol.
{7} Eat no more than one whole egg each day; more white parts are safe.
{8} Brown eggs are not healthier than white eggs, just more expensive.
{9} Fresh eggs sink in water; bad ones float.
{10} Olive oil is infinitely healthier than butter. (OxygenMag 2011/8/16)
{11} Herbs and spices are much healthier than salt. (ibid)SQUARE_ROOTParticipantFive 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.” -
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