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benignuman: Why do you make a bracha every day of shelo asani isha? Also, the Gemorah in Berachos 17a indicates that women’s Olam HaBah is based on being a support system for their husband and sons learning Torah.

lilmod, correct, I’m saying it isn’t so (LB’s assertion about higher spirituality, which is commonly heard these days in some circles.) I directly made that point, with details and sources, in the second post of this thread citing the Maharal and many others. And you’re also absolutely correct that these posts are not about putting anyone down; after all how could Torah do that to anyone. And it certainly was never my intent. I also though the title could have been better descriptive after I made it (and could no loner edit it.)

Also, nowadays it has become popular in many circles to put men down. In popular culture, on TV programs, in advertisements and elsewhere, it is popular to make the men out to be imbeciles who are corrected and smartly fixed by the heroine. Even in some frum circles if, for example, you go to a sheva brochos you’ll hear jokes at the husbands expense but never the other way. A speaker might advise the choson that the two most important words are yes, honey, though you’ll rarely to never hear that public advice to the kallah in those circles. Even when teaching obligations these days the focus in some circles appears heavily on what his are to her rather than hers to him. Of course both are equally important to know, but if one skips half of it, then it’s sometimes necessary to stress the parts that this generation is often lacking in hearing.

How many Jews in Lakewood were murdered in that timeframe?

They aren’t. There’s a whole thread disproving this apologetic

mw13, why aren’t you finding a new shul to daven at.

We’re speaking of the murder rate, whether criminal murder, terror related or military and civilian deaths in war or peacetime. And we’re speaking of victims in the Jewish community specifically, not the Arabs, African-Americans or Hispanics.

Not in the Jewish community of Lakewood. Not even close.

Lakewood is far down the list. A better rate even than the national rate of the State of Israel.

B&H’s website disables the ability for anyone to place an order during Shabbos. There is a note that no orders can be made during Shabbos.

B&H, which is a major online e-commerce site and one of the most respected names in the world in the photography industry, does not accept any orders during the 25+ hours of Shabbos.

Their retail store, which is packed with customers six days a week (and has a Willy Wonka-like trolly belt moving orders merchandise between three floors around the store from salesman to warehouse to checkout counter), closes for the entire Yom Tov, including Chol Hamoed. After being closed for over a week, the day after Yom Tov there is a line outside their store, circling around a Manhattan block, of customers chalishing to get in.

Lenny, mediation is possible but voluntary. What is agreed to is whatever both spouses voluntary agree to. If there’s no agreement either party has the right to insist beis din determine the outcome. Beis Din can also rule based on their sense of a fair compromise if neither party objects in advance for beis din to rule on a compromise rather than pure halacha. Otherwise beis din uses pure Halacha to determine the outcome. Either party can insist beis din only use pure halacha to issue a verdict. The Halacha is what I described in my last comment. Both parties are required to accept the Halacha as ruled upon by beis din.

In the Chareidi community I would estimate the divorce rate is about 1-2%, r’l.

Alaska spans three time zones.

The secular international date line is irrelevant; the halachic date line controls.

What msg?

The Torah permits nations to go to war to capture land from other nations for the purpose of obtaining the natural resources of the captured lands for the benefit of the victorious nation’s inhabitants.

Of course the people acquired in the captured lands from the defeated nations must be treated humanely upon the cessation of hostilities.

“American history tries to make it sound like it was one-sided the other way – the Indians were all bad and the Americans were all-good.”

When you were a kid that was true. Not anymore. The Politically Correct storm troopers took over and school texts nowadays in American public schools tell you the white European guys were evil and victimized the poor righteous wholesome Indians.

“Same with the British. All the books make it sound like the Revolutionists were heroes. Hello, they were murderers.”

What are you saying about the British? And how were the Revolutionists murderers? The Torah recognizes the legitimate right of any nation to capture land from other nations via war.