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  • in reply to: New book – “HaChareidim V’Haaretz” #2468703
    yankel berel
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    @yaakov yosef

    I could kiss each and every word you wrote in your post to AAQ

    it is time AAQ opens up to reality …

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    in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2468648
    yankel berel
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    @ujm

    my cousin in Belgium tells me that there is one of the nturei karta there – originally from Manchester England

    who travelled to Iran to participate in the holocaust denying conference there

    according to ujm

    he is covered by the staiplers so called ‘love and respect’ letter ….

    ma la’asot …

    this very same neturei karta person continued with his nefarious activities ….

    and initiated legal action against shechita and mila claiming that they are against animal and human rights

    my question to ujm – is that ok ?

    maybe we should use the staiplers letter

    after all the staipler is referring to neturei karta ? !

    who bizhut the letter , enjoy blanket immunity for all their future actions …… ????

    ujm ‘s position is plain ridiculous .

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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2468647
    yankel berel
    Participant

    – form a cybersecurity unit from the computer-educated charedim
    – pass army tests or equivalent
    – propose to the army to deploy you as a unit
    – bonus: include farsi-speaking sefardi charedim
    – extra bonus: perform some action against sonei yisroel on your own to demonstrate your capabilities. There are plenty of hackers who do that.
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    NAIVE .

    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2468646
    yankel berel
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    aaq:

    rav to aaq : we can’t fully understand politics of another country
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    if the nail could talk , he would say: oh , my head hurts , someone banged it so hard …

    seems that this rov knows you well …

    or is zocheh that shamayim put the right words in his mouth ….

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    baruch shekivanti – aaq is not sufficiently acquainted with reality in ey .

    it shows in nearly every second comment he makes about the situation there
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    in reply to: Million Man March #2468644
    yankel berel
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    @AAQ

    aaq, I am disappointed that you repeatedly non-respond to me. ignoring the issue raised is NOT an acceptable response to a clear fact . If you have an answer , gezunte heit, let us know what your answer is. Simple ignoring or change of subject might work when you talk to your close friends, but it is not bringing any clarity to an online argument with people you do not know. Try harder.

    in reply to: Plan B – An Open Letter to Ultra Orthodox Community Leaders #2468643
    yankel berel
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    square seems as brainwashed and closed to facts and reason as somejew and katan ….

    seems that I have to ask mehila from all three …..
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    in reply to: Time to make the popcorn #2468642
    yankel berel
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    @yaakov yosef

    as you rightly point out , many of the activities of the supreme court in Israel are plainly illegal , as is obvious to any astute and objective observer
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    to use their illegal judgement to label non enlistees as criminals

    is the moral equivalent of thieves sending innocent lifesaving ambulance drivers to jail

    not only are they thieves who ought to pay for their thievery

    they also are committing a terrible injustice by jailing innocents and hampering the ambulance drivers’ vital vocation

    and to top it all off – the crooked thieves end up giving a mussar derasha to the lifesavers of the ambulance service

    if this sounds surreal … that’s because it really is ….

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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2468048
    yankel berel
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    Oh hello mr somejew …

    have not seen you for a long time …..
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2468052
    yankel berel
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    @AAQ

    …. yb quotes chazal and his rebeim in a way that sometimes run against my preconceived ideas and I disagree with his logic because of those ideas and I am looking for the logical argument to present.

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    the above would be an accurate self description of AAQ ….
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    in reply to: Million Man March #2468047
    yankel berel
    Participant

    AAQ changes the subject of the argument

    original statement was re comparing enemy civilians’ life vs own soldiers life

    so AAQ changes that to own soldiers life vs other political or personal objectives

    like getting to berlin before the US or a competing soviet general ….

    this is happening too often …
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    in reply to: Time to make the popcorn #2468040
    yankel berel
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    @AAQ

    … this is “nullification of democracy” when both sides reject the others as legitimate. This is not a good siman.
    [aaq]

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    this a very good siman

    this is a siman of honesty and calling things as they are

    instead of politically correct hiding behind feel good slogans

    which have no resemblance to reality

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    this is not a nullification of democracy at all

    this the exact opposite ,

    this the DEFENSE of democracy
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    democracy is translated as ‘will of the people’

    whenever nazi’s , communists or crooks masquerading as judges and attorneys, subvert the will of the people

    then democracy is in mortal danger
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    to reject the abovementioned nazi’s , communists or crooks as illegitimate

    is absolutely life saving for democracy

    your whitewashing of those crooks is the ultimate death knell to democracy !

    you should stop your insidious attacks on democracy
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    in reply to: Time to make the popcorn #2468026
    yankel berel
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    @ujm
    @non political

    the concept of zayin tuvei ha’ir is similar to the concept of democracy
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    in reply to: Time to make the popcorn #2468025
    yankel berel
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    @AAQ

    … could you in return ask people to stop saying “arrested for learning Torah”? [aaq]
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    suggestion accepted.

    we will stop saying that .

    We will rather say the following true and correct statement : “arrested for dedicating their life for Torah”.

    those blatant illegal summonses [or rather kidnapping threats] are the diametric opposite to a life of dedication to torah

    at least in the opinion of 99 % of all torah scholars on this planet , as measured in quantity and quality
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    in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2468021
    yankel berel
    Participant

    seems I am winning my bet here

    ujm is not responding to the clear objective understanding that staipler is not referring to the neture karta as we call them

    not those from once , not those from now

    he is referring to the edah people

    that much is clear from the context

    otherwise mr ujm , WHY IS HE SUDDENLY ADDRESSING THEM in the middle of the letter about voting ?

    WHY IS HE NOT ADDRESSING THE EDAH PEOPLE ??

    who are the ones who are on record to prohibit voting , and who the staipler mentions specifically in his letter ?

    any answer to those questions – mr ujm ??

    or are you made out of the same materiel as your compatriots katan and somejew

    who only speak when their automated answering machine is working and properly preprogrammed ???
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    in reply to: Million Man March #2467548
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @AAQ

    its not a cute proof at all …

    its a gross distortion and no proof whatsoever …

    it sounds more like willful blindness ….
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    in reply to: Time to make the popcorn #2467517
    yankel berel
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    those so called self appointed ‘guardians of the law’ are nothing more than corrupt and self serving ‘distorters of the law’
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    the reason why so many are still falling for their charade

    is that the so called ‘guards of democracy’ , the ‘free’ press , are

    as corrupted as their brothers in crime on the plum comfortable chairs in the courtrooms and legal offices
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    hope that their downfall is imminent

    and will signify the restoration of power to where it legally belongs …. the innocent citizens of this country .
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    in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2467516
    yankel berel
    Participant

    bet that ujm will not address my post above

    because ….
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2467505
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @non political

    in principle I agree with you

    but then again I do not have access to AAQ’s private details

    I know that he regularly distorts hazal and disforms their message by adding his own ‘sevarot keres’ which are against clear torah hashkafot

    but I still cannot judge him re how much is meizid , how much is shogeg , and how much is stam kalut daat

    because of lack of personal knowledge as mentioned

    was giving him the benefit of the doubt

    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2467501
    yankel berel
    Participant

    And AAQ’s classic diversion about negotiating is also irrelevant

    what is his opinion re the status of the draftees until negotiation is finalised ?

    and who says that it will be finalised at all – don’t forget the other side thinks

    it has all the cards , for sure when it has AAQ as opponent …

    should they enlist with the sakana to their entire yahdut over their heads ?

    because of some [nonexistent] laws ?

    because of some vague and privately concocted ideal about ‘half the population’ which has no real source in hazal ?

    AAQ’s position is extremely weak

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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2467499
    yankel berel
    Participant

    am not sure why AAQ insists on ignoring the imperative not to enlist

    i.e. the fact that a significant percentage discards religion altogether

    and that the sakanah of discarding religion is enough to warrant hilul shabat according to the poskim lema’aseh

    showing that this is equal in severity to pikuach nefesh lfi hahalacha

    all his sevarot about laws or other parts of the population are totally baseless in comparison ….

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    in reply to: 770: A Mikdash or a Madhouse? Rabbonim Must Act Now #2467497
    yankel berel
    Participant

    bottom line – habad are wonderful people

    but hopelessly sidestep every issue they encounter …
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2467058
    yankel berel
    Participant

    YY is right – this title IS gross ….
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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2467057
    yankel berel
    Participant

    re graduates from IDF …

    I read a quote in the newspapers , coming from RZ educators themselves , saying that 30 % of their students lose their religion in the IDF

    and that they still encourage their youth to enlist

    because that price [of 30%] is a price worthwhile to pay for such an overarching ideal …..

    I am shivering while typing such a crooked and outrageous statement

    but there you have it

    —- from their mouth themselves : it’s THIRTY PERCENT !!!
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2467056
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @AAQ

    you do not live in EY

    you are not familiar with the mindset there

    I do not blame you that you are naive

    because you have never ‘felt it on your own skin’ ….

    but at least you could have shown some humility here and acknowledge that you do not know

    after all , there exist ‘known unknowns’ and on top of that also ‘unknown unknowns’

    these realities are in the latter category for you

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    there is no need to take offense at being accused of not knowing ‘unknown unknowns’

    because it cannot be helped , and

    no such offense was ever intended

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    in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2467055
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @ujm

    the steipler devoted every ounce of his energy and considerable intellect to one thing : to the master and discover the intricacies of the torah and to write his sefarim

    all the rest – including the public statements re public policy were nothing more than an unwelcome and forced distraction

    he had zero interest in differentiating between the various political positions of various groups nor about their accurate descriptions

    besides , many in those times called the edah people with the title of ‘neturei karta’ …

    any OBJECTIVE and UNBIASED reader of his letter , when considering the context ,

    will see his objective in this letter

    what was the message the steipler was conveying ?

    that those who prohibit voting are chashuv , chaviv and should not change their postion.

    that’s it .

    vetu lo midi ….
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    it seems from ujm’s comments that he does not want to classify as an UNBIASED observer …..

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    in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2466500
    yankel berel
    Participant

    bet that ujm is going to ignore the substance of my previous post re

    the letter of the staipler not referring to NK but rather to the eidah

    how else is ujm going to explain the letter ?

    he is talking about voting – why do the NK , as opposed to the hevrei ha edah , come in there ?

    am waiting for ujm’s explanation ….
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2466499
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @aaq

    you are persisting in your naivete

    because … you really are

    you can have access to all the books and material to be published from sheshet yemei breshit untill the very end of days

    and you will still totally miss the point

    as long as you do not take that one , most important point , into account

    the same point all the so called peace makers in the middle east are missing

    and that is …

    REALITY !

    instead of looking at reality from your own biased , distorted and rose colored glasses

    and predicating your solutions on what you falsely perceive to the reality

    you have to see reality as what it really is , instead of what you wish it to be

    and only then start formulating your responses

    as long as we don’t agree about the facts on the ground , meaning reality as it really is ,

    we will be unable to move the discussions any further

    and I will have to suffice with deploring your excessive [and willful ? ] naivete
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    in reply to: 770: A Mikdash or a Madhouse? Rabbonim Must Act Now #2466498
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @741

    repeat :

    this story – even if true – is totally irrelevant to this discussion

    thats pashut even to a ten year old
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    in reply to: How do we know that anti-Zionist posters are Jewish? #2466322
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @yaakov yosef

    the way I heard – cannot vouch for accuracy

    that the real hasidishe yidden sat by rav kook whereas the ashkenazi yidden sat by rav sonnefeld
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    in reply to: Tiferes Shlomo and the modern State of Israel #2466321
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @somejew

    just as reminder

    everything on the list above comes from hazal and sefarim kdoshim

    nothing is my own

    all of the above is kasher to be used as a ‘shared foundation and starting point’ for discussion.
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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2466319
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @mdd1

    somejew is continuing to equate a legitimate hatsalat nefashot activity to avoda zara

    what planet is he living in ?

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    in reply to: Million Man March #2466292
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @kuvult

    this comment of yours is overflowing with sheker , ga’ava and leitsanut
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    in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2466293
    yankel berel
    Participant

    Why is ujm repeating the same canard again and again , when it is obvious from the whole context of the letter that the steipler was referring to the hevrei ha ‘eda hacharedit ???

    and not at all to any neturei karta

    not from then , and not from now ???
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    in reply to: 770: A Mikdash or a Madhouse? Rabbonim Must Act Now #2466291
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @741

    this story – even if true – is totally irrelevant to this discussion

    thats pashut even to a ten year old
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    in reply to: Million Man March #2465724
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @chaim

    it is clear that the yeshiva bachur when put in a forced framework like the army , experiences a yerida .

    even if , and that’s not a given , if people do learn there and do daven there ,

    that does not mean that they are not experiencing a yerida .

    the intent of the left wing crooks who sit on the plum chairs in the court rooms and legal offices is simple

    they want to remake our future educators and our future heads of households

    closer to their own image

    only a fool or a liar would argue against that

    which in turn will guarantee the following generation

    to be modified even further

    even a thousand heart warming stories about mesirut nefesh on behalf of the soldiers

    will not change these stark facts

    this is a battle of wills

    they can take away subsidies , illegally kidnap our youth , and harrass innocents on our streets

    but they will never break our resolve

    ki am kshei oref hu …..
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    in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2465633
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @ujm

    this is sheker vechazav
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2465632
    yankel berel
    Participant

    AAQ is persisting in his naivete …..
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    in reply to: Million Man March #2465631
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @AAQ

    … you should also understand that the self-serving cries of Torah using non-truthful loshon is not answering the questions people have.

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    its not self serving – its HKBH serving

    its easier to blend , enlist and get a well paying job afterwards

    its easier to turn into dati leumi

    then to be stuck in this “black” mindset

    nevertheless

    they forego normal living and are happy to live bedachkut

    thats not self serving – that HKBH serving

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    its not ‘questions’ which people have

    its ‘terutsim’ which people have

    those people cannot bear to live that way

    and therefore have to find fault with the haredim

    and like rav chaim brisker famously commented

    “I can supply answers to questions

    but I cannot supply answers to teirutsim ….. ”
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2465564
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @AAQ

    I fully concur with yaakov yosef’s post addressed to you .

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    in reply to: Tiferes Shlomo and the modern State of Israel #2465501
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @somejew

    hello

    your requested definition is here
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    in reply to: Million Man March #2465500
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @simcha

    this gzera of forced enlistment and arrests of innocents is plainly illegal and

    renders those commanding the arrests liable as kidnappers

    there is no law on the books authorising those arrests

    and conversely there is a law on the books regulating the deferment of torah learners

    anyone believing otherwise has fallen for a fraud engineered by crooks masquerading as legal experts
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    in reply to: How do we know that anti-Zionist posters are Jewish? #2465498
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @somejew

    @yaakov
    yosef

    it was rav ch ozer rav of vilna , who merited the hakarat hatov from rav dushinsky for his appointment as rav of the edah

    and it was again the same rav ch ozer who r moshe blau the then rosh hakahal of the edah was continually consulting with re the steps the edah should be taking

    interesting facts to consider
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    in reply to: The Steipler Gaon on Zionism and on the Neteurei Karta #2465494
    yankel berel
    Participant

    Why is ujm repeating the same canard again and again , when it is obvious from the whole context of the letter that the steipler was referring to the hevrei ha ‘eda hacharedit ???

    and not at all to any neturei karta

    not from then , and not from now ???
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    if steipler was referring to them , how does that figure into the question of voting which is the sole and clear subject of the letter ???

    it as clear as day that his intent was the chevrei haeda and

    NOT the neturei karta as they are known to us , historical or contemporary
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    in reply to: How do we know that anti-Zionist posters are Jewish? #2465495
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @AAQ

    a psak – means halachik

    which means logically and traceably sourced in shas and poskim

    subject to logical counter arguments and counter proofs
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    whereas an etsah is either intuitive,

    or sourced in the more ‘murky’ part of aggadeta

    or mesorah received ish mipi ish

    not subject to logical counter arguments and proofs
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    in reply to: 770: A Mikdash or a Madhouse? Rabbonim Must Act Now #2465476
    yankel berel
    Participant

    the issur of machloket does not translate into

    an issur on alternative thought , or

    an issur on fact based criticism

    otherwise you reduce all thinking human beings into nothing more than consenting robots
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    so the question of sin’at hinam is totally unconnected to our discussion
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    in reply to: Tiferes Shlomo and the modern State of Israel #2464080
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @somejew

    galut includes :

    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

    that is as far as my mind goes at this moment

    all of the above is included in galut

    and will be restored when mashiach will come , may it be soon in our days
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2464073
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @somejew

    simcha is not an evil man

    simcha is a mistaken man
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2464071
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @somejew

    simcha is not an evil man .

    people who died to save the community in the IDF are on the level of harugei lud .

    thats the written opinion of rav chaim shmulevits zatsal.

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    in reply to: Tiferes Shlomo and the modern State of Israel #2464050
    yankel berel
    Participant

    have not forgotten

    will post bln
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    in reply to: Going OTD in the IDF #2464051
    yankel berel
    Participant

    @somejew

    zionism is not necessarily a heresy

    but that is subject of another conversation we are having on another thread

    where you are still waiting for my response
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