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1) the law of diminishing returns doesn’t apply to spiritual things (the torah discusses this) especially not to kiruv
2) as a continuation to the above if one views the jewish soul at its true value one wouldn’t care how much “waste surrounds the gold” (spiritual harm)
3) Chabad dosent endanger jewish life. otherwise the Lubavitcher Rabbi wouldn’t have invented shlichus.
4) there is a recording of the Lubavitcher Rabbi (talking about the mitzvah trucks) whare he says that the whole point of Shlichus is to be as loud and attention grabbing as possible, so that is by design.
in your case the kaf z’chus is simple: its the non jews fault.
since the left turning lane is almost always empty. that means that is wasn’t necessary to build a dedicated left turning lane in the first place. that space would have been better served as a regular road (both straight going and turning)
since the non jews have decided to implement חוקי סדום on the roads, any fighting between jews that result from this is on their heads.
ABSOLUTLY NOT!!!!
anyone watching what’s going on in Israel, and outside of it,understands that Israel is about to become a very rich country.
and i don’t just mean money, i mean water (especially water) and other natural resources too (finding more of those by the day).
Israel buys a lot of American dollars (currency) as part of the American Israeli alliance; if not for that, the New Shekel would be worth AT LEAST as much as the dollar by now. the shekel has real economic value (comes from actual economic growth) while the dollars value is artificially maintained.
as for land (real estate) Israel has more untapped potential more that any western country currently.
there is also a project right now in Israel to get most if not all of the wealthy jews from all over the world to come to Israel, and its working well.
why would anyone want to leave at all?
lets not forget that Jewish people are the only people in the world capable of doing real Chesed and not “ill give you just to stop you from complaining and rebelling against me” but out of the continuity of kindness itself.
yet another reason to go and live in Israel.
correct me if I’m wrong but i think Israel has officially become a stratocracy.
the ultimate unity of the jewish people that will be in the times of machiach is referred to as קיבוץ השלמים = the gathering of the “compleate ones” (the righteous )
new york is already in the process of passing a rounding law.
the National Conference of State Legislatures has released some guidance despite the treasury not doing so.
there are some concerns about the Nickle becuse its even more expensive to produce reletive to face value than the penny. so logically speaking, the nickle also has to be eliminated.
here is something practical you can read. it helps a lot with communal issues:
written by the ramchal
פָּתַח בִצְלוֹתָא וְאָמַר, רִבּוֹן עָלְמִין, אַנְתְּ אִיהוּ פְּנִימָאָה דְּכָל פְּנִימָאִין, וּבְרָאָה דְּכָל בְּרָאִין, דְּאַנְתְּ מִלְּגַו וּמִלְּבַר וְלֵית אֲתַר בְּעָלְמָא בַּר מִינָךְ. אַנְתְּ כְּלָלָא דְּיִחוּדָא, וָבָךְ אָת מְקַשֵּׁר כֻּלְהוֹ סְפִירָן דִּילָךְ בְּיִחוּדָא חַד, וּבְהוּ אַנְתְּ מְנַהֵג עָלְמִין כִּרְעוּתָךְ. וְלֵית מִלָּה דְּנָפְקָא מֵאוֹרְחָא כְּלָל, אֶלָּא כֹּלָּא בְּשִׁיעוּרָא שְׁלִים. וְאוֹרַיְתָא כְּלָלָא דְּכֹלָּא יְהִיבַת לְעַמֶּךָ קַדִּישָׁא, לְאִתְתַּקְּנָא עַל יְדֵיהוֹן תִּיקּוּנָא שְׁלִים. יְהֵא רַעֲוָא קֳדָמָךְ לְגַלָּאָה נַהִירוּ דְּאוֹרַיְתָךְ דְּתַנְהִיר בְּעָלְמָא, וְיִתְנַהֲרוּן מִינֵּיהּ כָּל בִּרְיָין דִּילָךְ, וְיִתְהַדְּרוּן כֻּלְהוֹ לְפוּלְחָנָךְ. וּבְשִׁבְעִין תִּיקּוּנִין אִלֵּין יִשְׁתַּלִים תִּיקּוּנָא עִלָּאָה לְאִתְקַשְּׁרָא כָּל דַּרְגִּין בְּקִּשְׁרָא חֲדָא, וְיִתְעַטְּרוּן כֻּלְהוֹ בִשְׁכִינְתָּךְ קַדִּישָׁא, דְּאִיהִי מָאנָא דְּכֹלָּא קִשְׁרָא דְּכֹלָּא יִחוּדָא דְּכֹלָּא וְכֹלָּא יִתְקַשַׁר בְּרֵישָׁא דִּבְּרַךְ יְחִידָאָה מַלְכָּא מְשִׁיחָא, לְשַׁלְּטָאָה בֵּיהּ עַל כָּל עָלְמָא, וּלְאִתְגַּלָּאָה נְהוֹרָךְ עַד סוֹפָא דְּכֹלָּא. וְכָל רַע יִתְעַבַּר מֵעָלְמָא, וְיִתְהַדַּר כֹּלָּא לְאִשְׁתַּעְבְּדָא קָמָךְ. וְיִסְתַּלֵּק יְקָרְךָ עַל כָּל סִטְרִין דְּעָלְמָא, כְּמָה דְּאִתְּמָר “יְהִי כְבוֹד יְהֹוָה לְעוֹלָם יִשְׂמַח יְהֹוָה בְּמַעֲשָׂיו”
one of the interesting things about the baal shem tov is the he himself never wrote any books.
however there is a book sold today called “baal shem tov al hatorah” which is a collection of letters written by him,(in hebrew) organized by the parshah.
the book is transcribed on the Sefaria website (and translated to english) so you can see it if you want.
with all the debates going on chasidut these days its helpful to understand the seed torah which started it all.
hope this helps.
the rebbe himself promised that the children of shluchim will not be harmed.
you can find this recording on youtube