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zionism was always a failure. And will always remain so.

jdf007: Ukraine decided just two years ago that the spelling of Kiev henceforth must be spelled as Kyiv.

In the 1900s Persia told the world to start calling it Iran. (They didn’t change the name of their country.)

There are more examples as well.

Turkey is a sovereign nation. NATO membership doesn’t surrender national sovereignty.

This isn’t news. The Zionist insured that Gaza, as well as various other parts of Eretz Yisroel, should be Judenrein. The Zionists followed in the footsteps of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

n0m: What old landing page?

Square: You didn’t answer whether all ice cream stores should be banned, have their hechsher revoked and forced to close down.

SR (OP): Should every ice cream store lose their hashgacha?

One of the crystals on the chandelier has a small crack.

The kitchen cabinets aren’t mahogany.

I don’t have a chance to get to the cafe more than three times a week.

I don’t have the best bugaboo like my neighbors.

I haven’t remodeled the kitchen in over three years.

DaMoshe: There’s over half a million children in American Yeshivos and Beis Yaakovs. How many children from poor families, even the most poor of the poor, do you know that can’t get into Yeshiva and went to public school because all the Yeshivos denied them due to their inability to pay?

I’m not sure there’s even one out of the half a million plus. It doesn’t happen. If a family has no money, their children still go to Yeshiva.

Do you think that Chazal were unaware of grape juice or wine for Kiddush and meat for your seudos when they told us pas b’melach?

Is Rav Moshe and Rav Ahron, the two greatest Gedolim in America IN OUR GENERATION, chopped liver, in your esteemed opinion?! Or they’re simply not “modern” (to use your above terminology) enough for you?

Dofi: FYI — I’m not a member of Chazal. I promise. I’m not the one who came up with Kach hi darkah shel Torah — pas b’melach tochal.

You’re right, I was off on the percentages. In 1986 (when Rav Moshe was niftar) 23% of men in the US had graduated college. In 2022 36% of men in the US had graduated college. Nevertheless, even now it is a minority who get a degree. Currently, when college is higher than previously, still 2 out 3 American men do not graduate college. There’s no basis to claim one must graduate college in order to make a living. Unless you want to argue the 64% of American men today who never graduated college are not making a living.

Furthermore, as I keep repeating — Kach hi darkah shel Torah — pas b’melach tochal” — bread, salt and water. If you have that, you have parnasah. You might need college if you want to own a Cadillac or Lexus, but you don’t need college to have pas b’melach tochal. And if without college you’ll live in a three bedroom (or less) rented apartment on the third floor, with all five boys sharing one bedroom and the four girls all sharing another, you certainly should choose that over college. Even if you often end up clothing your children in second hand, hand me down, clothing from your sister in law’s children who outgrew those otherwise good apparel.

Always check.

AAQ: Your comment is not just misleading, it is downright incorrect.

1. The percentage of Americans attending college today is about the same as when Rav Moshe was niftar.

2. The rise in college attendance before this time was due to females starting to attend college, where previously women mainly did not. Male college attendance has actually gone down.

So, it is the exact opposite of your claim and point.

On top of all that, the standard of livelihood required is bare minimum. “Kach hi darkah shel Torah — pas b’melach tochal etc.” — Bread salt and water. If you have that, you have parnasah. The Rambam writes that a typical Baal Habayis works 3 hours a day and learns 8 hours a day.

Why do you need, specifically, this particular Beis Din?

It is illegal for a government employee, such as the mailman or garbage man to accept a tip.

You are around when there were dinosaurs?

The most violent antisemitism in America comes from the black community, very disproportionately.

From a Goys perspective, which is worse after 120: being a Christian his whole like without following the sheva Mitzvos or to convert to Judaism but later revert back to his old ways?

Menachem Shmei: Over here the regular citizens are at risk. as well. as was nebech terribly demonstrated on October 7th with 1,200 casualties and 240 kidnappings, as well as r’l on numerous previous terrorist attacks.

So why would you question a Psak of the Godol HaDor to pray for the welfare of the entire Klal Yisroel in Eretz Yisroel?

Dr. Pepper, I don’t see any purpose in proving it. If either he or yourself would agree to a fresh game of chess with me, I would be happy to oblige. (Aside from the fact that he knows which address I’ve been in touch with him at.) I can contact you at the address we’ve previously been in touch through if this is a proposal you’d consider.

What’s the chiddush? The Shulchan Aruch, Rambam, etc. all say the same.

US Secretary of State and General Colin Powell was a Shabbos Goy in the Bronx. And he was proud of it. He pridefully retold the story of him being a Shabbos Goy for the rest of his life.

That Goy was proud to be a Shabbos Goy while our OP is ashamed to have a Shabbos Goy.

If someone is a Goy, they have only two choices they must choose from:

1. Follow the Sheva Mitzvos completely and very carefully.

2. Undergo Genius and follow the Taryag Mitzvos completely and very carefully.

commonsaychel: Did the SR get the drivel in the OP from Mr. Chanya Weissman? It would fit perfectly into the rubbish he regularly spews.

Among the many other great things Zos Chanukah is known for, it will forever now be associated with the great Neis in our own Dor with the release of the Tzadik Reb Shalom Mordechai decades earlier than the antisemites hoped and expected in line with their corrupt “judgement”.