Joseph

Which one has more Muslims?

Yekke, the inspectors are testing whether the children support or oppose toeiva marriage? The children, theoretically, may express an opinion different than what taught in school. Thus, regardless of their response to the government inspectors, it wouldn’t necessarily reflect what the school taught or didn’t teach. And as such makes no sense to be used to determine whether the school passed or failed the British Values test.

Rav Avigdor Miller on President Nixon and Fake News

Q:
Did you change your mind about President Nixon now that it has been proven that he cheated on his income taxes?

fA:
If anybody is even a little bit acquainted with the income tax laws, he knows that they have so many nuances of interpretation, that if you get a mean judge, he could convict almost anybody of income tax evasion on technicalities. And that’s besides the fact that he could actually convict most people outright for straight out fraud. If investigations were made on everybody, most people would be behind bars. This is well-known. What are accountants for? Not to give the government its due. An accountant is there to see how much he can keep out of the hands of the government. But even when an accountant is perfectly honest and his report doesn’t hold back anything, still there are so many shades of meaning in the tax codes. You know that many of these cases have gone in front of the courts. Income tax cases are constantly coming up in front of the Supreme Court, which means that the laws are open to interpretation. One court says this and then it’s overturned. And then it’s appealed and it’s overturned again. Nixon didn’t cheat on his income taxes. He had some of the best accountants in the country, you can be sure of that. And their interpretation was one way. But once these eagle-eyes hawk liberals are after him, so anything that he does is interpreted to his discredit. And therefore they forced him to pay. He could have fought it in the courts. Absolutely he could have fought this case in the courts. But he didn’t want to. It wasn’t worth it. That’s why he paid.

Now on the subject of the tapes, we have to realize that America is actually running wild. To take tapes of a President’s private conversations and to broadcast them on the radio for everyone to hear – that means that America has hit a new low. Never before has there been such a disgrace.

And therefore, we have to keep our heads above water. There is a flood of wickedness that is sweeping the country. And it’s a craze. It’s not a rational thing. Just because the Democrats couldn’t win at the ballot box, they’re trying to recoup their losses in Congress, through impeachment.

On this subject, you have to know that the public are nothing but the victims of the media. I have told you many times that you are all the victims of the radio and the newspapers. But if we were able to judge the situation impartially, you’d see that President Nixon is actually one of the great presidents. He is a victim of persecution. And I think that every Jew should speak up. Every Jew should take his cue, not from the mischievous men on the radio and television, but he should take his cue from the Gedolei Yisroel, and he should be מתפלל בשלומה של מלכות. You should pray for the welfare of the President and his government. I think we all ought to write a little note to President Nixon. Address it to President Nixon, White House, Washington D.C. and write: “President Nixon, we are with you.” And put the date on it so that he shouldn’t think that it was a week ago that you wrote it. No, you’re writing it today, after the news came out. “President Nixon, we are with you!” And if you can also write some other notes to his opponents, telling them what to do, then do it. And telling them where to go, then do it.
TAPE # 59

Sam, Ofsted’s report on that school clearly said that the Yeshiva is doing excellent in all other regards and measurements that the British Department of Education reviews and rates schools by, except for the singular issue of their failing to teach little children about the acceptability of toeiva. The report is publicly available online.

Rav Avigdor Miller on Moving To Eretz Yisroel or Chicago

Q:
What should be our attitude towards moving to Eretz Yisroel? Should we be preparing for making עליה to Israel?

A:
What should be our attitude towards preparing to move to Eretz Yisroel? Or to Israel? Well, there’s a big difference between those two.

We should prepare every day to go Eretz Yisroel. Every day you should be ready because when Moshiach comes you won’t have much time to prepare. You should know that the Chofetz Chaim was busy preparing. He wrote seforim on קדשים and the עבודת בית המקדש, the laws that will be in place when we rebuild the בית המקדש, so that we should know what to do when we get there. So this type of preparation surely should be made. You should be preparing all the time for that great day when Moshiach comes.

Now, if you’re thinking about preparing to go there soon yourself, without Moshiach, then it depends on your circumstances. If you’re going to go live in a very Orthodox neighborhood, which will be better than your present environment, then there’s no reason why you shouldn’t improve yourself. Why not? However if you’re just going there, to Eretz Yisrael, because it’s Israel, to settle anyplace, then it doesn’t pay. Because you can move to places in Israel that are just like Chicago, like the bad neighborhoods in Chicago. If you move to Tel-Aviv, to certain neighborhoods in Tel-Aviv, and many other places in the State of Israel, then it’s no different than moving to Chicago. So you have to know where you want to move. But if you have a good place to move to, where it will improve you, then why not? As long as you have parnasa, why not?
TAPE # 9

Neutiquam?

The Dow opened at a record high this morning after unexpectedly strong July jobs report were reported by the Department of Labor for July.

mentsch1, I agree that there should be a work requirement to vote. I’d add, also a literacy test.

I think the voting age is much too young and should be raised to 21.

I think, given the deadly accident rate of young drivers, a driving license should also require attainment of 21 years of age.

NeutiquamErro: Thank you for the update.

Wouldn’t this issue effectively affect every single Yeshiva and Beis Yaakov in the entire United Kingdom? Is every Yeshiva and Beis Yaakov of children under 18, in fact, being threatened by Ofsted with a shutdown unless they teach toeiva?

How do you see this playing out at the end of the day? Best case, worst case and most likely resolution of how each side (Ofsted, schools and parents) will react.

In fact, the government report of their inspection of the yeshivos clearly stated they were impressed with everything else. That the children are receiving a well rounded education, but on this singular issue the yeshiva administration refuses to budge on and thus they are violating British educational law that requires that little children be taught about toeiva.

This is the issue why they are threatening to close the yeshivos. They claim British law requires all schools teach little children that toeiva is okay.

Minimal?! Even one Jewish life lost is not “minimal”. Let alone a constant stream of lost Jewish lives. I don’t care whether it is terror or the wars Israel repeatedly gets into to. Neither are minimal.

Regardless of any comparisons to the US rate that includes drug dealer and inner city black on black crime, both of which are irrelevant to the loss of *any* Jewish lives.

If giving up the State would save even one Jewish life we should give the State up in a flash. Jewish lives come first.

Aren’t you being hypocritical by supporting 18 year olds killing and dying for their country while opposing 18 year olds trained and tested for drinking from drinking?