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Tzaddik gozer vHakadosh Baruch Hu Mekayem. I don’t think there are many or any stories by the non Jews like the ones we have. Yes there may be some miracles that happen to individuals like miraculously surviving a car accident…but they don’t have Tzaddikim stories.

This was a fun thread.

Hashem can do miracles for anyone who deserves it. Hashem loves all His creations and wants to bestow goodness on all of them. If a non Jew keeps the sheva mitzvos bnei noach he is a tzaddik and deserves miracles. If anything I would say its much much easier for a non Jew to merit miracles.

Sam

Nakba Day is generally commemorated on May 15, the day after the Gregorian calendar date for Israel’s Independence. In Israel, Nakba Day events have been held by some Arab citizens on Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day), which is celebrated in Israel on the Hebrew calendar date (5 Iyar or shortly before or after). Because of the differences between the Hebrew and the Gregorian calendars, Independence Day and the official 15 May date for Nakba Day usually only coincide every 19 years.[

From wiki

Does a clear plastic bag make it non nisalem min haayin?

Check out Ohr Shimshon website. Also aish audio has 41 shiurim of his but both of these places sell the shiurim they aren’t free.

Saysme

It would be beneficial if people knew which college it was so we could know to avoid it and recommend others to avoid it. Not sure why you wouldn’t say the name unless you think saying the name would somehow divulge your identity. If it won’t please share the name of the college for our benefit. Thanks.

His teleprompter didn’t have the word terrorist in it. Neither did it have the word terror by the Benghazi terror attacks which Hillary Clinton took the blame for instead of this sorry excuse for a president.

Which college?

Or how about when you touch something hot and reflexively pull your hand away and then (moronically) touch it again?

Yes and its about time they stopped photoshopping in pictures of Rav Chaim Kannievsky Shlita. He probably never even heard of the organization.

Torah

You really want to annoy someone? Tell someone in their 20s that they are acting like a teenager.

How about when you put something in the oven and either forget to turn it on or turn on lower oven instead of upper or vice versa and then when you go check on it you are all “what why is this cold” and then you realize what you did?

We need more sefarim on the proper way to tie personal plastic bags for kohanim on planes and also what brand sells the best plastic and all the shiurim involved…

SF

Im just not sure what the media coverage is meant to accomplish. If secular Israelis can’t understand the value of sitting and learning they expect the non Jews to understand? I think that media coverage will cause a chillul Hashem actually because none of the non Jews in America will understand the chareidi viewpoint and what will happen is that the chareidim will end up looking bad again.

Gefen

I just checked their website. It looks ok. I would recommend that you find a frum nutritionist and have her help you put together meal plans. I think you would be very successful that way. I know many people who lost weight by going to a nutritionist and keeping to a diet plan. I wish you hatzlacha in your diet endeavors.

Akuperma

So the Agudah wants a photo op and its not really about Tefillah….

People are not aware of this but the kiddusha of Shabbos grows as the day goes on so the mincha of Shabbos is at a much more holy time than the Shacharis of Shabbos and shalosh seudos is the pinnacle of the holiness of Shabbos which is likely why the yetzer hora tries to get people to not take mincha and shalosh seudos on shabbos seriously but rather be chilled and laid back.

Parshas Mitzora: from Revach.net

Rav Moshe Feinstein – Because We Don’t Know As Much As We Think

“V’tziva HaKohen V’Lakach LaMitaher; The Kohen commands the one who is becoming Tahor.” (Mitzora 14:4) Rav Moshe Feinstein says that it seems from here that the Mitaher must be commanded each step of the process by the Kohen. “Where do we find such a thing,” asks Rav Moshe, “where the Torah specifically includes in the process that the person be told by someone else to do something?”

Rav Moshe answers that there are certain mitzvos whose exact details are perceived by people to be outside the realm of dictated halacha and are left to a person’s logical discretion. In those cases, the person acts on his own feelings and not the dictates of the Torah. For example, when giving tzedaka people feel it is their right to use their own judgement, even though there are halachos as to where your tzedaka should go. Similarly, parenting is something that people do without consulting halacha and use their own “good sense”.

One of the reasons for Tzoraas is not lending your possessions to others. This is because a person feels that lending is at his own discretion. As part of his tikun, the Torah teaches him that he cannot make a single move that is not firmly rooted in halacha. Therefore, when going through the tahara process, he has a Kohen alongside of him guiding him on his every move.

Hashem.

Btw you are a little coocoo for talking to a mirror….

Yussel

The premise of this thread is disgusting.

Yit

I disagree. I think that if the world was obviously 5773 years old the scientists and atheists wouldn’t have what to hang their hat on. Hashem purposely makes Himself hidden and wants man to work to find Him. True and deep Emunah comes through mans investigation and being honest with himself.

There is also the approach that Hashem created the world in a evolutionary way and still the count of 5773 begins from Adam. There’s no problem believing that as well and I think it makes sense to say this. Our sources say that the names Shakai means sheamar leolamo dai. So the universe was expanding at a rapid rate and Hashem shouted ENOUGH and it stopped.

However I think Hashem purposely leaves certain things fuzzy to allow humans who are lazy and want to delude themselves to delude themselves. One can read the firs passuk of bereishis and already be a kofer if he ghinks the passuk means that bereishis created Elokim. There are other places where it says “whoever wants to be mistaken let him come and be mistaken. “

There has to be a balance in the world between being able to have Emunah which takes hard work or no emunah which takes the intellectually lazy track. If Emunah were easy the whole system of schar veonesh would be thrown out of whack.

Once moshiach comes bechira is basically out the window. Umalah haaretz deiah es Hashem kmayim lyam mechasim. There will either be no yetzer hora or it will be so difficult to sin it will be as if there is none. Its a mathematical eauation, the greater the revelation of Hashem the lower the level of bechira.