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the thread has not been closed.

and to quote you this time “On a different note:”

this is not a question of someone doing something wrong being in denial as you assert… each person can check with own halachic guide to determine whether or not they should be on this site. I did…

Those that scream L’H and it is forbidden may have already received their psak saying that it is… in that case, they do not belong here – plain and simple…*

If they didn’t ask and they paskened this all by themselves, as soon as they came to the conclusion that it is L’H, by their own decision they have stay away…*

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*to hide under the guise of leto’eles is a flimsy excuse at best being as another requirement is that you have to have a reasonable assurance that it will be listened to. generally speaking it is the same cast of characters that make the same claims… over and over and over again…

When you accuse a website of publishing L’H and you do it publicly and not just to the one who needs to know, even it is leto’eles, it can’t be said…

so to pick from mdlevine’s post “You are defining yourself as a ba’al loshon hora by opening the portal and coming in (whether you comment or not). you can’t say it is leto’eles that you are here because your own post refutes that.”

#1 Jax’s Tuesday DVAR TORAH: KI SEITZEI

The Torah tells us how to act properly when going through war and when going through life. The same situation can be viewed from a perspective of holiness and righteousness or from a perspective profanity and perversity. How we approach daily issues has a profound impact on our lives as the following story illustrates:

Harry was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!”

If an employee was having a bad day, Harry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. One day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Harry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Harry you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.”

“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested. “Yes, it is,” he said.

“Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life.”

Several years later, I heard that Harry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Harry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Harry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I’d be twins. The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door. Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”

“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked.

Harry continued, “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He’s a dead man.” I knew I needed to take action.”

“What did you do?” I asked.

“Well, there was a , nurse shouting questions at me,” said Harry . “She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes,’ I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”

Harry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.

veyatziv – it’s only ~10 minutes, but it seems like it is working. thanks

thanks Kapusta. I will look into it

nooseisko – that was definitely up to par… no questions about it(period).