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  • in reply to: Tiferes Shlomo and the modern State of Israel #2479311
    yankel berel
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    @katan

    Square root reminds me of somejew and katan

    just from the other side of the fence

    both sides erroneously think they know better than the overwhelming majority of gdolei yisrael

    both sides hang their shitot on some clearly contorted quotations

    and both sides seriously infringe on their credibility in the process of doing so.

    in reply to: Letter From Bereaved Families #2479310
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @simcha613

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    shalom to you

    feel very bad for the signatories

    they have my deepest sympathies

    so do the fallen people themselves

    and I appreciate immensely their sacrifice

    but all sympathies aside

    they are not neurosurgeons

    so will not ask their advice about matters neurosurgery

    even if they happen to offer their advice unsolicited

    nor will I be swayed if they are misusing their victimhood , their hardship , or their sacrifice or however else one may correctly describe it

    as leverage for me to accept their opinion on matters which they are absolutely unqualified to give advice on, such as neurosurgery .

    to form an accurate assessment about neurosurgery I will consult the experts

    and totally disregard the above attempts at emotional blackmail

    as is attempted by this signed letter

    like I will totally disregard politicians , opinion polls and even full democratic elections

    for neurosurgery – only expert neurosurgeons’ opinions count

    all the rest is nothing more than hevel ure’ut ruach

    vehameivin yavin
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    in reply to: Letter From Bereaved Families #2479309
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @simcha613

    feel very bad for the signatories

    they have my deepest sympathies

    so do the fallen people themselves

    and I appreciate immensely their sacrifice

    but all sympathies aside

    they are not neurosurgeons

    so will not ask their advice about matters neurosurgery

    even if they happen to offer their advice unsolicited

    nor will I be swayed if they are misusing their victimhood , their hardship , or their sacrifice or however else one may correctly describe it

    as leverage for me to accept their opinion on matters which they are absolutely unqualified to give advice on, such as neurosurgery .

    to form an accurate assessment about neurosurgery I will consult the experts

    and totally disregard the above attempts at emotional blackmail

    as is attempted by this signed letter

    like I will totally disregard politicians , opinion polls and even full democratic elections

    for neurosurgery – only expert neurosurgeons’ opinions count

    all the rest is nothing more than hevel ure’ut ruach

    vehameivin yavin
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    in reply to: Is Chabad Sacrificing Their Youth In The Quest For Outreach #2479305
    yankel berel
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    @yedl

    this idea of ‘low benefit’ kiruv does not mean to exclude so called ‘high benefit’ kiruv like the example of your grandfather

    what they did with your grandfather and countless other jews is wonderful

    it means that habad are the only ones who go such extremes and willing to give up so much in ruchniyut, even in cases which ‘yield’ only ‘low’ benefit

    the question – is this somehow connected to their mashiach drivel obsession ?

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    in reply to: Is Chabad Sacrificing Their Youth In The Quest For Outreach #2479304
    yankel berel
    Participant

    interesting

    some people only zoom in on to the positive qualities of habad

    and some people only zoom into the drivel they also propagate

    I cannot understand why those two points have to be mutually exclusive …

    both are true

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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2479268
    yankel berel
    Participant

    COULD THE MODERATORS BAR THIS EVIL DRIVEL ???

    as if this is a genocide …

    massmurder of yazidi’s is … real genocide

    what hamas attempts to do is …. real genocide

    hamas [and a huge part of arabs in EY by the way] want millions of jews to choose between the suitcase and the coffin

    that hero of the arabs mufti husseini is remembered visiting aushwitz in ’44 and meeting hitler in ’41 in support of the good work done there – real genocide

    this is the reality

    and ignoring that reality does not make it go away

    just the opposite

    yankel berel
    Participant

    flamingOTD sounds like a meisit umadiach and a rodef

    he repeats the lies and drivel used to murder his own brothers

    yazidi’s did not practice any so called and false ‘genocide’ …… why were they slaughtered like cattle ? yes like cattle kipshoto ???

    why does he think his own brothers will fare any better ???

    is it because he has severed his own connection with them ???

    is it because he views them as cattle ???

    is it because he thinks they deserve to be slaughtered ???

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    yankel berel
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    flamingOTD:
    Multiple agencies outside and inside of Israel have named this as a genocide. Not sure where the lie is?

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    multiple millions seriously believed and propagated THE LIES that your own grandfathers – if they were at all jewish ….

    drank gentile blood , organized secretly to take over the world in the name of satan , were responsible for deicide [if at all possible] ,

    and were responsible for all possible imaginable ills of society

    before I turn around , you should , in all your naivete [or despicable hate] , oh so ‘sincerely’ proclaim the very same : NOT SURE WHERE THE LIE IS ???

    proof : multiple millions including very prestigious personalities stood behind this evil drivel ……

    the same drivel which was the fuel behind real and repeated unspeakable horror visited on your own flesh and blood ….

    you ought to be ashamed of yourself !!!
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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2478589
    yankel berel
    Participant

    FlamingOTD should be barred from posting
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    in reply to: Proposed Solution to the Arab-Zionist Conflict: Non-Denominational State #2478588
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @flamingOTD

    “They (understandably) harbor (in my opinion) righteous anger against their Israeli genociders. The same way we “hate” Nazis. Is it wrong for a Jew to hate a Nazi? Especially a Jew who survived (or is currently surviving) the holocaust. This is an active genocide … ”

    YOU ARE NOT ASHAMED TO PRINT SUCH BLATANT LIES AND BRAZEN LIBELS AGAINST YOUR OWN BROTHERS AND SISTERS ??????

    I CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW THE MODERATORS ALLOW SUCH DRIVEL ….

    in reply to: Declare Neturei Karta to be Non-Jewish Rodfim and Enemies of the Jews #2478587
    yankel berel
    Participant

    It is DISPUTED halachic reality that Jews were forbidden to have sought political independence and further forbidden from rebelling against the nations and also further forbidden from moving en masse to the Holy Land, all of which the Zionists POSSIBLY violated.

    corrected it for katan —
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    in reply to: Tiferes Shlomo and the modern State of Israel #2478483
    yankel berel
    Participant

    somejew ???

    in reply to: Is Chabad Sacrificing Their Youth In The Quest For Outreach #2478482
    yankel berel
    Participant

    it is clear that habad post 1950 , operates on a so called ‘missionary’ basis

    in addition, converting the unsuspecting into blind believers in their leader is at the forefront of their efforts

    this one of the main reasons why they are controversial

    all their other positive qualities should be irrelevant when we encounter their blind missionizing

    we should call it out without fear or favor

    because we are not chvsh sitting in judgement on the totality of habad

    something which we anyway are totally unqualified to do

    besides the very important principle

    of fix yourself up before fixing others

    but then again – that does not mean we should just silently agree with all the drivel

    people are trying to pass as normative judaism ….
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    yankel berel
    Participant

    @flamingOTD

    you have not answered my question

    the houthi’s , in your opinion – do they hate the jews ?
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    yankel berel
    Participant

    @ujm

    Impossible and unrealistic . Poker game with nefashot and posessions of millions.

    Not even a game , in realistic terms , but a scenario which ends in most probable mass disaster , unmatched since WW2 and tach vetat.

    when was the last time you had a conversation with a yazidi ?

    In an alternate universe – the answer is for sure yes.

    but as we all know – alternate universes are totally irrelevant .
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    in reply to: Chazon Ish [ZTL ZYA] and Military Draft Exemptions #2477848
    yankel berel
    Participant

    AAQ talks about and makes inference from rambams brother’s action , without having ever lived in similar environment and age , nor is AAQ privy to the brothers’ individual personality …
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    in reply to: The Ba’al Shem Tov Today #2477847
    yankel berel
    Participant

    When comparing the baal shem tov and his talmidim to our generation , one should keep in mind the huge differences between then and now .

    not only in the level of the generations , “huge” would be a clear understatement

    but also in chasidut itself

    for the first few generations of hasidut , the son or son in law did not take over

    it was the most suitable hasid or talmid who took over

    and there was no guarantee either that the one taking over, would automatically ‘take’ all the hasidim with him

    the doors were wide open for anyone to travel to someone else entirely

    guaranteeing clear meritocracy

    and dynamism within the movement

    since that changed and it became an issue with hilchot yerusha , brand names , buildings and mosdot chinuch and batei midrash

    and on top of that , all the publicity that goes with every specific hasidut

    it has lost much of its original appeal

    although one can still find to’elet in hasidic courts nowadays

    it is a very far cry from the baal shemtovs talmidim – a different world ….
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    in reply to: Is Chabad Sacrificing Their Youth In The Quest For Outreach #2477843
    yankel berel
    Participant

    A] This extreme, [although positive], emphasis on low benefit kiruv is singularly held by habad from 1950 and onwards

    the price prepared to be paid for this, is unmatched , not to be found anywhere else in Judaism , ever.

    B] the extreme emphasis on mashiach and his specific identity is equally singularly held by habad from 1950 and onwards

    this emphasis is equally unmatched , not to be found anywhere else in Judaism , ever.

    the pivotal question is – are A and B related ?

    or do they only happen to coincide ?

    I do not have a clear answer .

    nor do I have clear proof .

    but it is homer lamachshava …..
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    in reply to: Proposed Solution to the Arab-Zionist Conflict: Non-Denominational State #2477830
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @flamingOTD

    and the houthi’s , in your opinion – do they hate the jews ?
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    in reply to: Proposed Solution to the Arab-Zionist Conflict: Non-Denominational State #2477827
    yankel berel
    Participant

    Impossible and unrealistic . Poker game with nefashot and posessions of millions.

    Not even a game , in realistic terms , but a scenario which ends in most probable mass disaster , unmatched since WW2 and tach vetat.

    when was the last time you had a conversation with a yazidi ?

    In an alternate universe – the answer is for sure yes.

    but as we all know – alternate universes are totally irrelevant .
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    in reply to: Tiferes Shlomo and the modern State of Israel #2477124
    yankel berel
    Participant

    hello r somejew

    am happy to hear from you directly

    let’s continue our conversation

    you were going to explain why zionism necessarily contradicts any of the ikarei emuna

    which one and how

    you asked me to provide what galut means based on the torah and hazal

    so — here we go : galut includes : ein mukdam ume’uchar …

    shibud malhuyot in the form of onerous taxes specifically on the jews

    shibud malhuyot as they interfere with kiyum hamitsvot

    lack of malhut beit david

    dispersion of the yehudim all around the world

    being far from EY

    lacking the avoda

    lacking the tahara engendered by hakravat hakorbanot

    lacking the BHMK

    lacking hashra’at hashechina

    the tsa’ar hashchina

    physical tsarot as a result of shibud malhuyot

    the immense power of the se’or sheba’issa or the yetser hara

    the fact that most of the world’s inhabitants are not aware of the RBSHO and his torah

    lacking the required menucha needed to delve into torah properly

    lacking batei din smuchim

    there might be more descriptions of what we are lacking in galut

    but that is as far as I got for now ….
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    looking forward to hearing from you soon ….
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    yankel berel
    Participant

    @ujm

    the arab world comprises over twenty countries

    can you name one country out the twenty plus — equalling lesss than 5 p/c of the total , where such a system as you proposed is a success in safeguarding a very substantial group of non moslem and non arabs ?

    and why you think that such a system will safeguard your own brothers in the face of overwhelming support within the arab population of hamas goals and methods

    which include offering millions of jews a binary choice between the coffin and the suitcase ?

    and in case of serious threats to the security of millions of your own brothers

    who exactly is going to be ready to sacrifice their own children for their safety in a literal sense ?

    and even if some people or governments will pay the necessary lip service committing themselves to do so

    how many casualties will it take for them to ultimately buckle ?

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    whatever you happen to think about the proclamation of the medina some 80 years ago

    this ship has sailed long ago

    reality now is —

    millions of your brothers are in sakana

    and you [we all] are obligated to do all possible to shield them

    irrespective of the futile blame game some are insisting on

    like hatsala who do all they can to save people

    without looking for someone to blame for this emergency

    and only realistic solutions should be considered
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    yankel berel
    Participant

    lol.

    a viable solution ?

    with all citizens and their possessions’ security , enforced by ujm ‘s posts ….

    quite a secure proposition ….

    bet that ujm himself would not entrust his own security and that of his own children to such a proposition ….

    he will be watching from a very safe distance ….
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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2476634
    yankel berel
    Participant

    AAQ is again moving the goalposts smack in the middle of the game

    the issue is not so much what the SC did

    the main issue is the power the SC has taken without authorisation

    the power to cancel whatever they want

    arbitrarily , and unchecked

    they themselves say this bepeh malei

    as clear as can be

    so polls are totally irrelevant to the discussion

    thats besides the obvious fact that they are many times skewed or manipulated

    why is AAQ ignoring the substance of the discussion ?

    the SC has empowered itself [!] to cancel any type of law just by virtue of being ‘unreasonable’

    even if passed 120 to 0 .

    there is only one description possible :

    illegal , and therefore criminal .

    full stop.
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    in reply to: Chazon Ish [ZTL ZYA] and Military Draft Exemptions #2476097
    yankel berel
    Participant

    AAQ thinks rambam’s brother was a yeshiva bachur ???
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    in reply to: Tiferes Shlomo and the modern State of Israel #2476095
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @ujm

    you probably are lumped together with katan and somejew because you seem to possess the same dictionary as them ….
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    in reply to: Is Chabad Sacrificing Their Youth In The Quest For Outreach #2476096
    yankel berel
    Participant

    Rav yaakov kaminetski is widely quoted characterizing habad as similar to the para aduma

    both are metaher temeim and metame tehorim

    this was way before the mashiach madness started to be included in the yafutsu ‘shturem’ ….

    both the subject of this thread and the shitat chinuch of habad are probably included in his quote ….
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    in reply to: Rabbi Ahron Cohen (Neturei Karta spokesperson) from Manchester, UK #2476094
    yankel berel
    Participant

    yb to katan :
    the secretary general of the arab league in 1947 stated that if the state of israel is proclaimed , the massacres of djengis khan will pale in comparison to what is going to happen in EY …
    multiply october 7 by a thousand, as planned and promised by ‘sweet’ cohens friends …
    and you will have the honored secretary’s prophesy actualized
    october 7 serves as a good reminder as to what the friends of our ‘sweet’ cohen are really up to ….

    katan to yb :
    Yet the Zionists, claiming they had a 50/50 chance of winning the war, chose to go against the UN which wanted to start a new mandate and instead chose to flip the coin and go to war, regardless of the cost in Jewish blood. Because in the Zionist faith, Zionism is above all else.
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    please read the above exchange …

    the question : is katan sidestepping ?

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    did he say anything about the goals of sweet cohen’s friends ?

    did he say anything about the methods of sweet cohen’s friends ?

    why not ?

    does sweet cohen give any legitimacy to his friends goals and methods ?

    is katan giving any legitimacy to sweet cohens friends’ goals and methods ?

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    food for thought ….
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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2476093
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @AAQ

    we do not need any examples when they themselves are clearly proclaiming for anyone to hear

    SC says it clearly themselves —-black on white —- they own the right to cancel any decision , any law , no matter the numbers in the knesset

    even 120 – 0

    whenever they [subjectively] consider it ‘unreasonable’
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    hoda’at baal din keme’a edim ….

    they themselves say this , loud and clear
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    in reply to: Chazon Ish [ZTL ZYA] and Military Draft Exemptions #2476034
    yankel berel
    Participant

    AAQ

    passports taken away, reminds me of the late USSR ….
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    in reply to: Tiferes Shlomo and the modern State of Israel #2476033
    yankel berel
    Participant

    Square root reminds me of somejew and katan

    just from the other side of the fence

    both sides erroneously think they know better than the overwhelming majority of gdolei yisrael

    both sides hang their shitot on some clearly contorted quotations

    and both sides seriously infringe on their credibility in the process of doing so.
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    in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2474803
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @ujm

    read your post

    plan to answer

    do not have the time now

    sorry

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    in reply to: Chazon Ish [ZTL ZYA] and Military Draft Exemptions #2474802
    yankel berel
    Participant

    AAQ :

    …. Clearly Rambam was not against having a driving license – he was supported by his brother, a merchant.

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    does ANYONE see any logic in this statement of AAQ ???

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    What exactly is the connection between being supported by your merchant brother on one hand

    and bachurim in yeshiva not having a license ???
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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2474801
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @AAQ

    baruch shelo kivanta

    my attitude has no implications whatsoever besides the following :

    restore the power to israeli citizens as it was for the first four and a half decades in EY
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    I never claimed to deserve any more or any less power than any other citizen

    I do claim however that the collective citizens in EY have been defrauded

    by crooks and elitists and hypocrites
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    I do not feel any more or less entitled than any other citizen in EY

    what my options are – you ask ? the simple answer is ,

    the same options as anyone else living under a dictatorship …

    but at the very least , we should call it out as it really is , and not make believe as if those crooks and this fraud are somehow acceptable

    like unrealistic AAQ insists on doing again and again ….
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    SC says it clearly themselves —-black on white —- they own the right to cancel any decision , any law , no matter the vote !

    if they [subjectively] consider it ‘unreasonable’
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    hoda’at baal din keme’a edim ….

    they themselves say this , loud and clear

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    only clear to those willing to listen …..
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    in reply to: Rabbi Ahron Cohen (Neturei Karta spokesperson) from Manchester, UK #2474796
    yankel berel
    Participant

    katan to YB:
    His [cohen’s] view that Jews are not responsible for anything the Zionists do or don’t do is indeed a very important one.

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    katan is sidestepping .

    everyone says and everyone knows that Jews overall are not responsible for anything the Z do or don’t do.

    that was not the issue re cohen at all !

    the issue without sidestepping ! is the following , which is unforgivable :

    it is ‘sweet’ cohen’s support of those who literally employ all means, including october 7 barbarities ! to murder our innocent brothers and sisters in EY

    it does not make any difference how they sugarcoat this monstrosity

    they support those murderers , they support those who threaten to repeat october 7 again and again

    until all of our brothers and sisters are driven into the sea chvsh

    when hitler threatened to murder all jews most people did not believe him either

    husseini , this hero of ‘sweet’ cohens friends , visited aushwitz in 1944 in support of the good work done there …

    frum inmates still remembered the guy with the funny hat , who was went by the funny name – ‘mufti’ ….
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    the secretary general of the arab league in 1947 stated that if the state of israel is proclaimed ,

    the massacres of djengis khan will pale in comparison to what is going to happen in EY [chvsh again] …

    multiply october 7 by a thousand, as planned and promised by ‘sweet’ cohens friends … [chvsh again]

    and you will have the honored [and probably equally ‘sweet’] secretary’s prophesy actualized [chvsh again] according to the wishes of this ‘funny hat’ guy …

    october 7 serves as a good reminder as to what the friends of our ‘sweet’ cohen are really up to ….
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    as was the twelve day war in EY when ‘sweet’ cohens other friends

    lobbed busses full of explosives at breakneck speed at our innocent brothers and sisters in EY ..

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    how ‘sweet’ …..

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    in reply to: Million Man March #2474777
    yankel berel
    Participant

    Again – yaakov yosef keeps outdoing himself …
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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2474613
    yankel berel
    Participant

    AAQ to YYA :
    This seems to be the key, necesssary, part of your position: SC has absolute power, thus Israel is not a democracy and there is no way around it. Therefore, we need to fight against the state. I do not agree. I don’t know how to prove that ….

    I know very well why AAQ can’t prove it .

    Because it is impossible to prove something which does not exist ….
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    in reply to: Million Man March #2473943
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @yaakov yosef

    your last two posts responding to AAQ are a pure delight …

    chazak ve’emats !
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    in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2473944
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @ujm

    checked again and am not scared to be modeh

    it is nadler – you are correct in this instance

    not shumer
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    in reply to: Rabbi Ahron Cohen (Neturei Karta spokesperson) from Manchester, UK #2473925
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @somejew

    am not judging the ‘sweetness’ of dovid cohen’s personality

    like am not judging the ‘sweetness’ of rav kuk’s personality

    both of which are totally irrelevant

    what matters is the ideas they promote

    and like you will totally agree with me re rav kuk , that no matter how ‘sweet’ he might personally appear

    nevertheless his views and actions are total anathema

    you will understand that 99% of the people reading your lines

    feel exactly the same way about dovid cohens actions and views ….
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    in reply to: Rabbi Ahron Cohen (Neturei Karta spokesperson) from Manchester, UK #2473920
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @somejew

    @katan


    @dovidf

    Indeed Secular Zionism is a modern, secular movement that contradicts the foundational principles of Jewish faith.

    And Religious Zionism is a misguided movement too , contradicting other principles of Jewish faith.

    However, the belief in advocating for the destruction of the medina which practically al pi derech hateva is the only barrier stopping mass pikuach nefesh october 7 style [chvsh] , contradicts many principles of Jewish faith no less.

    Three wrongs don’t make a right.
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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2473915
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @AAQ

    listen to what you are proposing

    you acknowledged the futility of finding ‘common ground’ with the SC

    instead you advocate ‘finding common ground’ with voters

    not the extreme voters , but the voters in the middle

    I hear

    but what is this going to accomplish ?

    the power does not lie with the voters anymore

    as REALITY has taught us – repeatedly

    finding ‘common ground’ , as you are well aware , includes give and take

    I do know what the ‘give’ will include …

    but there is no ‘take’ , as those voters are anyways powerless to deliver on the issues which really matter

    so, to rephrase your suggestion , in other words

    you advocate for a capitulation , a sellout , give without take …

    very important notice here – we are not talking at all about altruistic giving here

    giving without thought of recompense

    an area in which haredi society EXCELLS …

    am talking about modifying aspects of our children’s education and way of life – for what ?
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    in reply to: Chazon Ish [ZTL ZYA] and Military Draft Exemptions #2473437
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @Avi K

    you asked what’s wrong with a license

    cannot speak for rav shach

    but can offer my own thoughts

    rambam writes that to truly acquire the crown of torah , one should not take his mind of the torah towards other things

    a driver license for a yeshiva bachur, is an opening to many ‘other things’ where his mind could be, and should not be

    if we want to produce students adorned by the ‘crown of torah’ , that is

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    in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2473376
    yankel berel
    Participant

    The fact is that Senate Majority Leader Shumer did quote the religious anti zionists who appear in the media as justification for his speech advocating certain arms deliveries.

    Not Nadler .

    Shumer .
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    in reply to: Chazon Ish [ZTL ZYA] and Military Draft Exemptions #2473375
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @chiefshmerel

    It’s clear beyond doubt that you are correct re Hazon Ish’s position

    He is on clear public record opposing draft of yeshiva boys with every fiber of his being .

    Any attempt to claim otherwise is nothing less than holocaust revisionism .

    SQUARE , by posting such nonsense , is seriously impinging his own credibility .
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    in reply to: Three Oaths Essay by Daniel Pinner #2473373
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @qwerty

    We Jews have the choice to actively reject the NK who join murderers , condemn those evil people who implicitly support violence against our own brothers , and work to teach those Jews who have been misled , that the path of Torah is not the path of NK or any other false substitute for ga’avah and bad midoth .
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    in reply to: Chazon Ish [ZTL ZYA] and Military Draft Exemptions #2472786
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @ujm

    fully agree

    rav shach did not hold army service to be lehathila for any religious person

    but he did not hold it to be universally yehareg veal yaavor for the non learners

    rav shach was also known to tell his talmidim to stand still for the full minute of the siren on yom hazikaron

    but he did rail publicly against zionism

    he made a point of being maspid satmar rav in his yeshiva’s main bet hamidrash

    the lesson of all that is that not everything is black and white , like some posters are trying to portray it ….
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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2472784
    yankel berel
    Participant

    AAQ is Jewish

    that much is sure …

    ironclad proof from AAQ’s posts

    reality stares him straight into his face

    and still , true to the time honored Jewish midah of am keshei oref

    AAQ keeps on ignoring it ….

    he has a magic wand and voila …

    he makes reality disappear …

    he simply says the following magic formula : do not get bogged down in details ….

    what you do not see , does not exist and … shalom al yisrael ….
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    in reply to: opinion about OTD #2472727
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @qwerty

    have no reason to doubt AAQ’s personality

    am referring only to his suggestions and observations
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    in reply to: Three Oaths Essay by Daniel Pinner #2472721
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @somejew

    satmar rav, as far as I can remember, does not address hashmatat haposkim

    please correct me , with his answer and page number ….
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    otherwise we will have to ask somejew the following question :

    are you joking ?

    or did you lose your integrity ?

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