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Sam Klein
It’s not so simple. There are pesukim that say not that way. The mishnah berurah says we don’t say full Hallel after the first days of Pesach because it’s focused on kriyas yam suf and the mitzriyim died there. However many explain the contradiction that you can’t say Hallel, as that represents the ultimate joy, but one is able to just feel happy. Ask any mainstream rov and hear what they say. There is for sure no Issur min HaTorah to rejoice over the enemy’s downfall. Maybe it’s not a good thing, maybe it is. It depends, each situation is different.
IDK what to make of this, especially since we need to get the hostages back before we do what we have to in Gaza. This hit was satisfying, but probably also not smart to do before all hostages are back
the vast majority of the Israeli chilonim are animals. now sometimes animals are useful but they remain animals nonetheless. Yes those ppl should not have gone to meron as it is a sakana but to push an old man and kick women like they did is a move done only by animals
The antisemitism bill is problematic, as it equates any, even legitimate criticism of Israel, to antisemitism…I believe as Americans we should be allowed to criticize any foreign country that we want to… Why would it be a normal thing to tell people they can’t criticize another country?
Yes a real BT is not someone who supports toeiva rights, that’s a fact. There are no frum people that support that, and if they do they are not frum. The two are mutually exclusive.
The frum politicians are not a rayah, they just joined that party to advance the goals of our communities, and do not actually believe in their policies. They are still wrong though, as per the horaah of rav Avigdor Miller ZTL and others, who said it’s a chillul Hashem to join that party
Someone who doesn’t think shoplifters should go to jail is an immoral human, and cannot be a baal teshuva. I have personally seen this in out of town communities, where some of these liberal “baalei teshuva” look frum but still think toeiva marriage should be legal and shoplifters should be given a break. The result when they send their kids to our yeshivos is that the kids get depressed, mixed up and at worst they could ruin other kids to think the way of their parents. WE HAVE STANDARDS, we do not want these hashkafos infiltrating into the frum society in the name of kiruv.
What nonsense one guy posted in a previous post here. If a person is a Baal teshuva but still vote democrat then they are not a real Baal teshuva! They are frei in their mindset. WE DO NOT NEED people who say they became frum but still support (particularly the social and moral) democrat ideals. You can’t be frum and be pro acceptance of toeiva. Choose, but don’t you dare say that a person who started keeping Shabbos is frum if they support that.
Unless you are part of left wing modern orthodoxy which is not really orthodox, you are not welcome
ridiculous comment. Of course we are supposed to bring nachas to our parents and rebbeim and continue the heilige mesorah that goes back all the way to har Sinai
It was the leftists and anyone who denies this is in denial that we have enemies from within who will facilitate the Arabs to destroy Yidden
Agreed 100%!!!!
No the movement was designed by ppl who wanted to rebel against the gedolim of the time and didn’t want to be told what to do by rabbonim. BH by now a LOT of their descendants did teshuva and understood that there is no such thing as modern “orthodoxy”
I love it how people are saying it is hypocritical to criticize Chabad but to eat their stuff when you travel. No. That’s not how it works. Just because someone does one nice thing that doesn’t mean you get to get a free pass on something else that is wrong. The problem I have with Chabad is that you look at yourselves as the chosen people within the Chosen People, which is within your rights to do so but it’s just very delusional. Chabad is small compared to other chassidusin plus they had a lot of gedoilim not supporting some things that they did. Satmar and Ger are much bigger and they don’t pretend that their mehalech is the only one…
Also Chabad tolerates even the worst ppl just because they were born Jews. People like Lapid who our gedoilim (like Rav Shteinman ZATZAL) have said Lapid yemach shemo but if you speak like to a lubavitcher he’ll say how DARE you say that on another Jew…
Tolerating evil is tantamount to supporting it, and by refusing to declare the left-wing liberal secular Jews (both here and in EY) as enemies of Klal Yisroel, Chabad has lost its credibility IMO. It’s like bringing in the Trojan horse that opens the door for our enemies to damage us Chas V’Shalom.
Also if you really think Moshiach does not necessarily have to come from the living, why is it not the Baal Shem Tov? Or the Rambam?
Chabad changed so much after gimmel Tammuz… Just look at the matzav of tznius in Crown Heights these days! It’s mamash shocking even to people who grew up there and moved to other Chabad communities (I heard this from a cousin of mine who grew up there).
Credit is due that Chabad did help out to save Russian Jews stay frum and they will obviously get a lot of schar for all that work. But it does not cancel out some other crazy stuff that goes on
To the admin why are you censuring my comment? In order not to hurt these animals’ feelings?
Avi K well the Baal Hatanya says that the tzaddik and the beinoni look the same from the outside, both appear to be frum Yidden only the tzaddik has no yeitzer hora anymore (since his nefesh habahamis takes pleasure in serving the nefesh haelokis). So according to every single one of your opinion you brought down, they are reshoyim. Sure some other ‘frum’ Yidden can also fall into the category of a rosho but this does not mean it’s ok. The leaders of this movement are NOT tinokei shenishba. They looked at the chumash and read what’s there. Moreover there are several poskim in who say there are no tinokei shenishba in EY. But in America there are obviously many, however reform and especially conservative rabbi’s are NOT tinokei shenishba and we have to stop using that term to (in a naive way) cover up for these reshoyim, as R’ Chaim Brisker said: a nebech apikoros is still an apikoros.
Pirkey Avos says: Al Tischabeir L’Rosho! There is no such thing as achdus with people who deny the Ikkarim such as reform and conservative ‘rabbi’s’ etc. since they have removed themselves from klal Yisroel. Of course it is a Mitzvah to bring back the members of these comgregations to Judaism but their leaders are machti es horabim and off limits.
Very simple answer: the Reform movement is not a legitimate form of Judaism. However, at least 60% of the members in these congregations are halachically Jewish. We should never give up hope that they do teshuva, however we can also NEVER work together with them in any way or show ‘unity’ to the outside world with these people chas v’sholom. There is no such thing as achdus with people who deny the Torah, even if they might be tinokei shenishba. Sure, many of their members are tinokei shenishba, but their leaders who are spreading apikorsus to the masses have a LOT to answer for if they make it up to shomayim.
Please spread this poisonous nonsense somewhere else, a Yid is meant to sit and learn, period. Not behave like Esav like what you are proposing…
Anyone with a brain who does not fall for populist rhetoric is called a left-winger on this forum…or a self-hating Jew.
No worries I opened a discussion on zionism
JJ2020 Oh come on, don’t try to put off someone who sticks to Halacha and is not willing to compromise on it as out of touch with reality. I don’t know about Joseph but I personally know plenty of Jews who are intermarried and their stories. From what I have seen, it is simply a matter of priorities. Falling in love is a chemical reaction in the brain. Anyone who wants to marry a Jew can do so, it just depends how much effort he/she wants to put into it. I know plenty of freie Yidden who have made it very clear to their children that they should marry a Jew, so not being frum is not an excuse to intermarry. Geirus is not a way to clean up people’s mistakes, but a way for people who, without ulterior motives, want to become Shomrei Torah u’Mitzvos. Growing up in a community with many converts for the sake of marriage, I can tell you it totally changes the nature of a community and its way of thinking. Most guys will put marrying Jewish off their top priority list as they think they will be able to ‘convert’ any girl they will get into a serious relationship with. Intermarriage is the biggest threat to Klal Yisroel and those who are not willing to call it out as a problem or try to solve it through some loophole that bedieved a geirus for marriage might be kosher are themselves part of the problem.
Joseph: Right, it is truly a shame that many Batei Din are doing these conversions now, as seeing these cases gives the boys in the community the idea that maybe they could marry a non-Jew and convert her later on. The whole chiyuv to find a Jewish spouse is gone in some communities because of this.
Zahavasdad: A ‘marriage’ between a Jew and a goy is not considered to be halachically valid anyway, so converting the non-Jewish spouse is always ‘for the sake of marriage’. It is straight up halacha that we can’t accomodate these cases, one of the reasons is that it is rewarding the intermarried Jew for his/her wrongdoing.
”Kicking people out is not going to work”
It works for the Syrians, intermarriage is virtually nonexistent in their community B”H. We are better off without the people who will still intermarry after all the warnings and education against intermarriage, seeing the harm it has done to Klal Yisroel. Those with Jewish mothers and non-Jewish fathers are Jews and we definitely should be mekareiv them, yet it is statistically proven that they have weaker Jewish identities than those w/ 2 Jewish parents. An example, a friend of mine has a Jewish mother and he didn’t have a bris because his father did not want him to.
I’m truly shocked to see so many people say that we should convert the partner of an intermarried Jew. A conversion for the sake of marriage is completely pasul and even though some Batei Din allow it sometimes this does not mean it is ok. It would be the same as the rabbonim going into the house of every freie yid who eats chometz on pesach to replace the chometz with matzos. It is not the beis din’s task to keep people from aveiros that they have already commited. The Syrian community of Brooklyn does not allow the children of these ‘marriages’ into their yeshivos because they know this will be a trigger for their bochrim to consider marrying a goy as a serious option. The truth is that geirus is only for those who truly have no ulterior motives like kavod, money or marriage. With that said I think we should educate yidden all over the world, no matter if they are frum or frei, that intermarriage simply is not an option. People who do, chas v’sholom, choose to intermarry, are out, simple as that. Intermarrying is the worst of all aveiros as it is not only affecting yourself but it equals cutting off all future generations that would have been born had that person had a Jewish family.