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Let’s see, around 3,700 terror victims since before Israel’s founding. That’s still safer than New York.

You wouldn’t even know the murder rate of Arabs against Jews in Arab lands since they were hardly prosecuted. Now, I want comparing Israel to Europe, America or the Arab countries. Compare Israel to Israel. It is much safer now to be there than it ever was.

To say that your chances of being attacked in Israel is more than that of Europe is completely off track.

Besides, quality of life for millions of people does have a value. When the early colonists fought the British they were not fighting for their lives. The British were not attacking them. The revolution was totally about quality of life, issues that are trivial by today’s troubles. And yet, they killed and died for it and nobody thought it unreasonable. To point to a few violent byproducts while the successes stare you in the face is not being truthful.

Who cares about not being able to live in Arab countries today? Jews fare a lot better these days in Israel than they have in thousands of years. We can safely fall to the ground and recite ???? ??? ?????. Sure people got killed over the century. People get killed in New York as well.

Unfortunately, in the quest to promote a Shita, people use all sorts of logic that would be repulsive to themselves in any other context. One example of this is the making light of any Ness that took place in EY, or its founding and wars. The arguments sound like any you would hear from the typical local Apikores. They can be applied to the story of Purim and Chanukah as well, and easily enough to many Nissim mentioned in TaNaCh.

Hashem is not your secretary or your banker. Again the Mashal of a child asking from his father comes to mind. If he says, give me this and that the father is less likely to give it. When he speaks with his father about how he needs something and why it is beneficial that he has it, the father will very likely relent. Besides for the fact that he explained his need and his father agrees, there is another issue. The fact that it was discussed makes this give and take a relationship. This deserves a response.

We can also learn from the story of the man in the dessert that Hashem wants to answer every Tefilla. When the person is not deserving and He can get away with answering the literal words, Hashem will rather do that than ignore it.

And, to say that you Daven just for the exercise of speaking to Hashem and you aren’t expecting change, is to not believe in Tefilla. For some reason every discussion of Tefilla turns into something about ‘no’ also being an answer. While it is nice and important to realize that we can’t twist Hashem’s arm, that is not the core of Tefilla. Hashem does listen, He does answer, He is ??? ??? ?????, and He answers Tefillos in the real sense of the word.

DY, they aren’t getting upset they are getting riled up. The first is what someone else does to you, the latter is what you do yourself. They never cared all that much about Har Habayis. When Jews started coming they turned it into their third holiest site. Now they can enjoy playing basketball on their “third holiest site.”

The only mistake with regard to the Har Habayis was to hand it to them after the six day war. Like the Medrash says, whoever tried making peace with them landed up with embarrassment. This has been proven over and over. We are forced to pretend we have hope for peace as long as the Western world thinks there is hope. We might have to go along with the proposals but we already know the outcome.

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You Daven earnestly and Hashem listens. ??? ??? ??????? ????. Certainly there are certain things that aren’t good for you. Do you think Hashem will punish you for Davenning by giving you what isn’t good for you? Obviously, your Tefillah will be put away for another time and it won’t be granted. But this is not the case for most things. Most things you Daven for were simply waiting for you to Daven for them.

Where it comes into play is that you shouldn’t press on when you see it isn’t being granted. You can ask again and again but not by pushing. Chazal teach that we learn from ?????? that we can keep on asking. Yet still, they tell us not to press.

Now, most important of all, while the reason Hashem created the situation that we must ask to get is indeed to be able to connect to Him, to be eating from His table, the immediate reason we are asking is in order to get. The more you will be ??????? ???? the more you will see ???? ?’ ??? ??????.

People spend most of their Tefillos on those things of which Chazal say ??? ?????? ???? ??? ????? and then wonder why they don’t get answered. We should learn to be ???? ?????, to express what you need and why and how you will use it.

As I and many acquaintances who’ve paid attention have seen, Hashem listens to our Tefillos. Most requests from a child to his father can be met but not if it is either dangerous or too big. But even when it is too big of a request, a good enough child might be able to get his way.

Well a question can be assuming a definitive heretical viewpoint.

As far as doing hobbies (at night, Bein Hasdorim, etc.) Bochurim are definitely free to do these. Obviously they won’t be considered Masmidim by drumming three hours every night, and they shouldn’t be. Perhaps there is this ???? ?????? that’s keeping people from doing hobbies.

I happened to have managed more than one hobby, and come to think of it, even my own Limudim during certain free time.

Mashgichim of some Yeshivos would try to discourage other activities in their quest to turn you into a Masmid. Usually, once they realize that a particular Bochur won’t become a full time Masmid they stop discouraging him from doing his hobbies.

Barry, if that oven doesn’t have the ignite between low and off, you can shut it even without Sakanah.

We’ll, my personal expression took the form of not giving a hoot to all those telling me I should rather be learning this that or the other thing. But yes, ?? ???? ??? is not practiced and encouraged and it should be.

But the goat is supposed to be in the oven, not on the stovetop.

You forgot the semicolon. ™ should give you ™

Theoretical question from Gittin? Oh, the Chovos Halevavos speaks about it in his introduction.

One way of coping is to know that it is not what you feel when things actually go wrong.

Isn’t this the Chinese year of the troll?

Since when does a celebrity have Chein?

What’s black and white and animal all over?

Isn’t that the same as B♭ Major?

But once the teeth are out of us not part of him anymore. So if you go ??? ??? it won’t be Chaburah. And even about paying for it, can’t you say ??? ??? ??????

I don’t know where you saw that Pshat. The only Chiluq I’ve seen is between ????? and ???????. If your Chiluq is true then the Gemara would have found a difference between ??? ?????? and ???? ???? other than for Leining Krias Shma. I mean, you don’t say the same about ??? ?????, do you?

The Gemara didn’t use your Pshat to explain Rebbe Gamliel when he made the Bracha ???? ?? ??????, either.

Your Chiluq might work for a ?????.

As for that story, it was probably what Chazal call ??? ?????? ???? ????.

I’m there two hours early — but then go home to prepare for Shabbos. The rest is mystery.

Me too. A picture is the equivalent to coming up close and staring the person in the face, without the creepy part. Those who don’t look into the face women they are conversing with would choose not to have a picture in a paper placating to them. Instead of having to focus away and be conscious and on the lookout, they finally have something they can comfortably read without all that.

If it were up to me, I’d be Mechaleq between a picture of one person and of many, which is not like looking the person in the face.

So what do we wish each other, have a meaningful Nittel?