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You failed covert ops 101. Take care of any unintended witnesses.

While we’re at it, whats the best egg matza to use for motzi matza?

WIY I disagree. There is a motivation/image issue that holds back a lot of donateable funds from going to black hole tzedakos and schools as you mentioned. But when there is a real connection between donor and cause and deployment of funds, there is much more money available. For example, when the Mir yeshiva needed funds to stay open a year or so back, a person whom I work closely with dissolved a trust to make a big pledge. His precise words at the time were along the lines of this money makes a difference so I will buy a legacy right away instead of after 120. I was also inspired to send money that was earmarked for something else. Neither of us has shaychus to Mir, and we would both do it again for a cause like that.

There is so much money in the hands of people who believe in and support torah. But donors are sophisticated and want their money to be used well.

haifagirl is cynical. Ergo haifagirl is popa

1. You hurt every Israeli by boycotting, including charedim

2. You want to blackmail the Israeli government into continuing the death spiral? Something has to give here, a stagnant working population cannot financially support a growing welfare population.

3. GAW gave the best analysis of the situation. The chareidim ultimately win by breaking the shackles of receivership. Let them rely on us in America and elsewhere to get the money they need to live, in exchange for the Torah learning that we support unconditionally. We want to support their lifestyle, their countrymen don’t. It would be a tax that I would pay with joy (unlike the taxes I pay to our own governments).

If all the gedolim who’s seforim are on hebrewbooks.org knew their sefarim would be

yutorah.org- would they have ever published them in the first place?

This is why I never published seforim. The bigger shailoh is why the netziv became the netziv when he could have just used this as his excuse in shomayyim. Maybe he didn’t chap until he started to learn?

…she says 3 days later

“Mesorah” is not an ideal

At least you’re open about who you are and your agenda. If you acted like other proselytizers we would have a bigger problem.

DY… sorry for being so convincing. Don’t be ridiculous, of course I don’t believe in this junk. I would hope the gravity thing would have made my intent obvious. With all the talk here about discworlds and magics the audience should have appreciated this more.

SF, I could answer the time zone thing by diagramming a roving spotlight above a flat earth. But first prove to me that time zones actually exist.

As I said, I don’t feel any obligation to present proof. I’ve done extensive first hand research, and I assume none of you have- we don’t count simply listening to teachers as research. The basic questions that you have right now can be easily answered and if you care enough you can find those answers. If you are intrigued, at that point I’d be interested in discussing.

“Mesorah is an inauthentic concept. I hold like the score of rabbis I cited above.”

If we are to ascribe a lack of authenticity here, it would be to yourself. I doubt that the rabbis you cited would endorse the statement you made about mesorah. But you don’t care for their opinion on that do you? You only care to quote or follow the teachings that suit you, jumping from one authority to another whimsically, leniencies adding spring to your stride.

I’ve refrained from commenting on your attitude until now, but it’s enough. I’m not sure what you see in Judaism to begin with, but if your purpose here is going to be to thrust your 20-something year old sophomorism in our faces then I wish you would leave. A person with your background should be asking more, and questioning less. And never lecturing to others what you ill understand yourself.

I believe in many things that the general populace is brainwashed against. Some examples that come to mind instantly are

– The need to conserve gravity. We are fortunate to live in an area of the world that has abundant amounts of gravity, but it is a limited resource. I fear we are nearing “peak gravity” and we should begin conserving before a crisis hits.

– The Earth is flat. Pictures from space are fake, designed in Hollywood. Check out the Bedford Level experiment for scientific data that backs this.

– Republicans and Democrats are the same political party, run by the few richest Americans. The reason for acting as two parties is to give the people the illusion that there is actually a democratic system and that they actually participate in government. This very effectively controls the people and prevents an uprising.

– As I mentioned, I’ve been on the Hollywood set where the moon landings were shot before it was dismantled by presidential order.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist by any means, but an academic and a researcher. I am not easily convinced but I’ve seen enough to prove these. When you’ve done half the research I have we can have a serious debate.

Your girls who come home rolling their eyes are unrealistic snobs. They either need to

1. Come to terms with the fact that those type of boys will not be able to match wits with them

2. Go out with a different type of boy who can match wits with them.

If they are looking down on the boys then they are not machshiv the sacrifice of worldliness for torah, and have no business marrying a learner. So I vote option 2. I hear YCT grads are worldly and mature.

I assure you I never have :p

Joseph, please link to jfems coffee comments to show this torah person what happens by hanging out here.

Quiet, ectoplasm, I have a potential enlightened one here.

Yes benignuman, I am completely serious. There are many truths in this world that would surprise you, this is one of them.

qualcuno non sa parlare italiano…

There is no reason to be proud of being mental. I wouldn’t want to be treated by a health professional who describes herself as mental.

Even those places want YU Semicha, because unlike most Semicha which only focus on

Torah, YU teaches related disciples like Psychology and how to deal with people.

Its more of a professional degree there like a doctor or Lawyer

Maseiach l’fi tummoi.

Mazel tov on your new job, sorry I missed the news if you announced it before.

Also, breaded can easily be replaced by something more abrasive… sandy works.

That is not very convivial, wouldn’t you agree?

The moon landing is a scam. Get a telescope and scour the “surface” for the flag that was shown on tv – you won’t see it. Because it is not there. NASA staged the landing on a Hollywood set it to make JfK’s prediction “come true”. Most likely the moon cannot be landed on (extra terrestrial physics are different) and they didn’t want to admit defeat. The moon is probably a figment, like a rainbow here on earth.

I have to disagree with your first statement, when you suggested two weeks before jumping ship. That is simply not enough time to adjust yourself or to see whether things will get better. This has nothing to do with seminary specifically but is true for most difficult situations. If you are willing to quit so quickly, you will miss out.

Yeah, you’re nuts.