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Simcha: Just as you can’t force secular soldiers to spend 1% of their waking time, instead of 0%, in a Beis Medrash, you can’t force those that spend 90% of their waking hours in the Beis Medrash to spend 95% of their time there.
The CIA predicted the Israeli victory in ’67 before the war started, almost to a tee how it played out.
mdd: The Romans managed to defeat us, destroy the Beis Hamokdash and build great bridges, roads and other infrastructure throughout their empire, making Rome the world power. Was that, too, siyata dishmaya on their part?
Keep in mind that during the Gulf War, when Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was shooting scud missiles into Israel, Israel did not retaliate at all.
Why aren’t you at least as worried, and as demanding, that all Israeli soldiers have their leave curtailed and, instead, all soldiers be mandated to spend one full week in the Beis Medrash — a place most of them never yet entered in their life.
HaLeiVi: It sounds like you are alluding to what Chazal say in the Gemorah regarding the birth of a boy versus the birth of a girl.
AAQ: King Henry VII rightfully executed two adulterous wives.
AAQ: The “key decision makers” in the Israeli regime are well known for making terrible choices. Not particularly the current regime only, but virtually all past Israeli regimes as well.
There’s absolutely nothing jaw dropping whatsoever in that quote from Rav Miller. Yes, Rav Miller would suggest a benign King, preferably an Oheiv Yisroel, such as King Fredrick II of Prussia, King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Emperor Franz Jozef of Austria-Hungary, King Cyrus of Persia, King Christian X of Denmark, King Gustav III of Sweden, etc.
AAQ: The glitches are far more than occasional. Every day innocent people are convicted and guilty people are acquitted.
coffee addict: Thank you.
Avira: I’m not c”v looking for any such. I think my point is a very good one.
Jackk: Thank you for, again, quoting HaGaon HaRav Avigdor Miller zt”l. It’s always a pleasure reading and recounting his holy Torah thoughts. Since you brought Rav Miller up, it is worthwhile reiterating how often Rav Miller implored everyone to vote Republican and vote conservative, because he repeatedly explained how evil the liberals are and how destructive, anti-American and anti G-d the Democrats are. Rav Miller zt”l encouraged people to write to President Nixon expressing the Jewish People’s support for him and explained how Democrat McGovern and the entirety of the Democrat Party was out to spread immorality and destroy anything good. He strongly and publicly held this position from, at least, the 1960s through his petira in 2001.
The OP is a less than zero to publicly berate the Gedolei Roshei HaYeshivos and to give them instructions on how to run their Yeshivos. Does he seriously think the Gedolei Roshei HaYeshivos didn’t ever think of his brainstorm?
It would have been half an issue if he suggested this to the Gedolei Roshei HaYeshivos privately; but who the blazes does he think he is to give a public reprimand or even public collective advice to them on how to conduct their Yeshivos?
Now let’s have the Zionist army reduce time off for all soldiers, secular or not, and have them all spend 20% of their off time in a Yeshiva. Rather than trying to change the less than 10% of the people on how much learning they need to increase, when they’re already dedicating their lives for years of dedicated full time Limud Torah, work on the over 90% who spend zero time on Limud Torah to give an hour a day or even two weeks a year dedicated to Torah.
Good riddance to a filthy murderer. Didn’t come soon enough.
akuperma: Do you turn on a television before Shabbos and leave it on the whole Shabbos so you can watch the game and whatever else interesting is running on Saturday.
Doing so is far far far “less problematic than” riding in self-driving cars on Shabbos.
The Reform started out by making changes that were technically not a clearcut or outright violation of halacha.
Jackk: Everyone agrees, including the hard left and including the leftist New York Times, that the New York prosecution rests on a novel legal theory that was never prosecuted before and is a very weak prosecution.
It is clear without doubt that this is a political persecution of the prosecutor’s political opponent; the kind of thing more commonly found in Venezuala, Russia and Iran.
huju: “That plainly implies that his net worth is less than those judgments, which likewise implies that he is not a billionaire.”
False.
The majority of multi-billionaire Donald Trump’s net worth is tied into non-liquid assets, namely real estate.
There’s no doubt whatsoever that Trump is a multi-billionaire and one of the richest men in the world.
Yankel: That claim is a complete falsehood. His Chasidim bought, and fully paid for, a train ticket out of Hungary from a Zionist Nazi-collaborator by the name of Rudolf Kastner. This Zionist Nazi collaborator was working hand in hand with Adolf Eichmann ym’s to mass murder Hungarian Jewry. Kastner knew Aushwitz was a death camp. Kastner knew Eichmann intended to mass deport Hungarian Jews to Aushwitz. Kastner never publicized these facts to Hungarian Jewry, who was unaware they were to be deported to a death camp for immediate murder upon arrival, prior to the deportations — despite his knowledge of what was about to occur. In fact, Kastner lied to Hungarian Jewry and told them they would be taken by the trains to work camps and released at the end of the war.
Why did Rudolf Kastner help Adolf Eichmann murder half a million Hungarian Jews? Because Eichmann, who was friends with Kastner and used Kastner to keep Hungarian Jews quiet and compliant, promised Kastner that he’d get a train for him to help escape from Hungary anyone he wanted. Kastner filled up a majority of the passengers of that train with his immediate family, his extended family and his Hungarian Zionist colleagues and friends. The remaining minority of seats he sold at full price for his profit, and one of those was purchased by the Chasidim for the Rebbe.
After the war was already over, and the Nazis defeated, Kastner testified in Nuremberg, at the Nazi war crimes trials, ON BEHALF OF NAZIS who were his friends, and succeeded in getting a Nazi officer acquitted at trial. After the war a secular Israeli Zionist killed Kastner due to his Nazi collaboration and responsibility for the murder of half a million Jews.
Coffee addict,
“The lady is a חוטא ומחטיא the guy looking at things on his devices is just a חוטא”
This was addressed to Arso, but to your distinction, lashon hara is the same. And dishonesty in business. So why pick one Mitzvah one another?
CS: How is dishonesty in business חוטא ומחטיא? Regarding L”H, he might be מחטיא the person he’s telling the L”H to (if the person doesn’t stuff his ears), but a woman walking down Eastern Parkway the same way she goes for a swim, is being מחטיא hundreds and hundreds of people every single day, day after day. It is far worse, even simply in terms of quantity, and she will be punished for every one of those thousands upon thousands of people she caused to sin day after day for years and years.
Trump is a multi-billionaire. That’s even before his new stock ownership made a multi-billionaire quadruple his previous multi-billion net worth. Trump is one of richest Americans; in fact one of the richest men in the world.
It’s okay for you to be jealous of his wealth – as long as you stop trying to hide or deny your jealousy.
Regarding his stock in DJT, the Board consists of his son and former members of his Administration. If he wants to sell some of his stock today, all it will take is a phone call to his Board members to authorize him to sell it early.
pekak: Of course not. R’ Yom Tov Ehrlich would likely have made the beautiful lyrics something like this:
שלא עשני אשה
שלא עשני אשה
אט די ברכה טוט מען מאכן אלע טאג אזוישלא עשני אשה
שלא עשני אשה
יעדן טאג דארף מען זיך פרייען זייער פיל אזויטאטע געטרייער
דו ביסט דאך ביי אונז טייער
שווער צו געפונען
ווי אזוי דיר אפצודינעןנישט דא קיין געדאנקען
כדי דיר צו דאנקעןאכט טאג ביים ברית ווי שיין און פּרעכטיג
א קליינע זיסע איד
די ערשטע מצוה עס מאכט אים לעכטיג
,ווייל יעצט איז ער א איד
ביי דריי יאר די פּאות די האניג אפּלעקן
און אויסזען ווי א איד
לויפן אין חדר אויך אָן א שטעקן
.כ’האב ליב צו זיין א אידCHORUS:
שלא, שלא, עשני אשה
זאגט א יעדער מענטש אזוי
שלא, שלא, עשני אשה
זינגט א יעדער מענטש אזוי
אפילו ווען ס’איז שווער
די תורה דאך מ’היט
אלץ אזוי זאגט ער
“!איך בין שטאלץ צו זיין א מענטש”huju: Truth Social has a cherry-picked Board by The Donald (consisting of his son and loyal members of his Presidential Administration) and they are specifically permitted to waive the six month waiting period for him.
“Myself included. I’m referring to when your trolls go off the rails.”
Allow me to address the so-called “trolling” you refer to. Sometimes I’ll utilize humor, witticisms, irony, deadpan, satire or absurdism to creatively highlight a point.
Several times people have thanked me for helping them change their perspective of the issue being discussed.
HaLeiVi: Hopefully you’re not making a brocha of shelo asani isha every day of your life. Otherwise there’s good reason to believe you’re proud of being born male.
Is it okay, in your humble opinion, for a Kohein to be proud he was born a Kohein? (Is it okay to be proud that you were born with your Zaida being Rav Chaim Brisker?) Can a freeman be proud he wasn’t born an eved?
I heard that Mordechai Ben David comes here once in awhile. Hopefully this will get his attention.
I’ve changed people’s mind.
The singers who composed tunes for a song to shelo asani goy should do the same for shelo asani isha.
The common denominator we can all agree to is to daven for the peaceful dismantlement of the State.
And Moshiach establishing a Jewish Kingdom under the Davidic Dynasty.
Rabbosai, it looks like huju might have had a point. The Donald’s “wealth” (to use huju’s scare quotes in context) has gone down $1 billion in net value just today, as the value of his DJT holdings are now “only” worth $4 billion instead of yesterday’s $5 billion.
Anyone who so rapidly lost $1 billion in so short a period is worthy of our Tzedaka. Please donate to The Donald’s presidential campaign to cover his expenses.
Or simply buy up a lot of DJT stock with your favorite online brokerage firm.
This way DJT will go up again, allowing President Trump to cash out a few billion dollars to reinvigorate his presidential campaign, as candidates are legally permitted to put as much money into their presidential campaigns as they want to.
Tizku L’Mitzvos
Just go to any Jewish cemetary. Many tombstones for women will list her first quality as having been a Tzanua.
CS: “Similarly, throughout history, when communal standards fell in a certain area, even very important areas such as sota and murderers, the response was Sanhedrin shutting down, not executing however many Jews were unfortunately involved. Same with the Rambam I just mentioned.”
The Rambam writes that if a Beis Din needs to execute 100 people per day, they can and should do so.
CS: You don’t realize that a woman dressing non-tznius in public is far worse than someone else who sins in private? Like coffee addict pointed out, she is being חוטא ומחטיא while the other is just a חוטא. She is causing hundreds of people who see her, even inadvertently (let alone advertently) to sin every day. She will be punished for the thousands and thousands of other she caused to sin.
LF: Are you still in touch?
“Most people would say it’s a great development for the Jewish people, if not for being predisposed not to like it.”
Most Jews would say it’s great that Jews can get a cheeseburger at McDonald’s on their drive to work on Shabbos.
“You can’t ignore the Gemara in Sanhedrin 98 that אין לך קץ מגולה מזה, that the land is bearing fruit and it is a clear sign of the impending Geula. Oh, and that’s a good thing.”
The land was bearing fruit before 1948 at an increasing rate.
HaLeiVi: How can you subscribe to “2”, considering the fact that Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria were never given to the State of Israel by the UN resolution or any other international or national authorization?
In fact, the UN and the world has consistently and always stated that Israel has no right, and never had any rights, to continue to occupy any areas outside of the Green Line.
And regarding your last point, you seem to imply that you think the State is a “great thing” Why?
And, as mentioned other times, the RBS”O also wanted to happen and allowed the Holocaust, Tach Vtat, the Crusades, the Churban, the Inquisition, multiple expulsions and blood libels. The fact that “it happened” doesn’t demonstrate that we’re happy about it and it’s great.
Another day, another billion. Truth Social rose 15% today, Wednesday, and is now valued at $8 billion. That means The Donald’s 60% ownership portion of the now public company is valued at $5.2 billion, making The Donald worth over a billion dollars more than his net worth as of yesterday.
Democrats support Hamas.
Another day, another $2 billion. The Donald’s stake in Truth Social has risen in value from $4 billion on Monday to $6 billion on Tuesday, with today’s debut of Truth Social on the NASDAQ stock exchange where Truth Social rose 60% in value, all in one day’s work.
Between Friday and Monday the value of The Donald’s portion of Trump Social has risen by $500 million, from $3.5 billion to $4 billion.
One man, half a billion richer over one weekend. Not shabby at all.
The Donald is about to become about $3.5 billion richer, just about today or Monday, with his Truth Social going public. The $3.5 billion will be his portion of the ownership.
Even if he was “only” worth $3.5 billion, he’d be super rich (and could more than payoff any lawsuits.) But, of course, with his existing real estate and financial holdings, he’s already one of the wealthiest Americans even before his new $3.5 billion windfall.
“Of course it’s important, just not something you exclude someone from a community for, any more than say lashon hara which is actually an explicit lav. There is no section of Gemara or anywhere else discussing tznius dress, whereas forbidden speech is.”
CS: So if a Chabad Shulcha regularly goes shopping in non tznius clothing, they’d be no consequences and she’d be allowed to continue representing Lubavitch? What if she regularly ate in public chicken-and-cheese sandwiches? There’s no explicit lav against eating chicken-and-cheese. What if she regularly drove to her Chabad House on Shabbos?
Where are you drawing the line? Why a bathing suit no but a short dress TMI in public when she sits, walks, edited or perhaps even when she walks has no repercussions regarding her representing Chabad?
all bold are edits for the benefit of those who are/should be careful with their ears
HaLeiVi: Huh? Are you misdirecting your comment intended for someone else? I have no idea what you’re referring to. I have constantly been unambiguously polite with everyone