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not sure about pledging, but reciting brochos in shul would be appropriate. MO do it for Israel and IDF, I know some shuls do it for US President and some for US Army, but I don’t think it is wide-spread. All old sidurim have that. I have two that daven for the opposite sides of WW1: Austrian Emperor and Russian Czar. I presume they had to publish those and also say it. I don;;t know whether masses supported it.
Now it could be a great time to ask Hashem to give wisdom to our government…
> are the same people today calling themselves Beta Israel?
seems like grasping for straw instrad of admitting someone has a better argument. Are you saying several Jewish communities existed in Ethiopia and one disappeared? Get yourself an Occam razor.
We need a list. It is important to know who is and is not a real gadol. Chofetz Chaim says you are not supposed to praise a not-100% tzaddik as it invites people to immediately find something negative about him, as we clearly see here.
refuah shleima. In regards to your observations, yahser koach for working in frontline. maybe you were fully protected when you did that, and now you are less careful? You can safely presume that you had it easier due to having a vaccine. If many months passed after the vaccine, presumably your antibody level went down but you still have B/T cells that will deal with the virus after you are infected.
If you and not the kids were the primary vector, your effect on them may have been low. So, I would suggest testing kids first for antibodies before deciding on vaccination. Maybe even if they tested positive on PCR, not sure about this.
Biggest logical error I see people doing is thinking that either vaccine or previous infection fully protects them and stopping all protections. If you are for a long time with an infected person, you will get a huge amount of virus load that will overwhelm your defenses.
I always wondered why recommendations here are similar to each other, now I understand. Try searching.
> some secular Jews that visited them in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
I recall reading that when someone who visited them did not keep shabbat, they questioned his Jewishness.
maybe it would also help if more people will take steps not to get it and not to give it to others
American system works through compromise and has currently two parties, rather than 100 as Israel and Italy have, within each multiple compromises are made to come up with a coherent position. Nobody is 100% happy. Not too many people killed, though, comparing with other countries, for which we all should be 100% happy.
Women were making sure that their husbands and sons are learning rather than shmoozing!
Also, women get their knowledge about the behavior at home from their mothers. First generation needed to learn on their own. They also heard ten commandments.
> When we made aliyah to a yishuv in the Shomron, I switched from davening nusach Ashkanaz to Sfard.
I did not realize it is a thing to switch your minhag based on what the closest shul is. You can have your nusach and daven with a different minyan, reading privately what you can in your nusach. I guess, if you were in Ethiopia, you would be a Falash Murah by now …
TSB> it was not a break-off from Nusach Ashkenaz
?! Sephardi communities are either refugees from Spain or lived for long times wherever they are. Ashkenazi Jews – a small group – came to G-d-forgotten Northern Europe about 1000 years and grew together with Northern Europe thanks to advances in medieval agriculture (possible connection between a new northern European trend of growing wheat and beans to kitniyos)
philospher, you said “Ethiopians” are mostly Christians. So are Americans, as you are. Maybe I missed the context of the discussion.
Avira > use the term sefard because they’re basing it on
this is eactly what I said – “with justifications”.
Health, I mean that the OP did not answer how he came up with the post.
We need to realize how much people are influenced by stupid ideas. There is an important economic indicator called consumer confidence. It is now down from say 80s to 70s. But it is a mixture: before election 95% of Rs thought things are good and 50% of Ds. After election, 85% of Ds thing economy is good and 40% of Rs do. On one hand, you can say that people are actually thinking and projecting their economic theories ahead, so if you expect better things ahead, you evaluate your current position as favorable. That is, if you are an oil-man and gov is planning to tax your job, you rightfully evaluate your position as unfavorable. Still, the magnitude of a switch is mind-boggling: most people’s wellbeing depends on their skills, family, job and do not change that dramatically from an election.
> hopefully your life revolves around ruchniyus not gashmius.
It takes a lot of ruchniyus to deal right with gashmius! or, sometimes, or sometimes not to deal. And this is where I find family needs most direction. Kids can learn basar& halav fine, but prefer to explain humros to their Mother instead of helping in the kitchen.
> your nusach is no one else’s concern
as in an urban legend story of a yeshiva bucher questioning host’s kiddush cup size that turned out is a yerusha from Brisker Rav or something like that.
One thing I do not understand is when Chasidim insist on nusachim. Whole Chasidic thing started as a radical departure from Ashkenaz with various justifications.
Another thing we do not appreciate is where the variety is: all Ashkenaz come from a narrow set of people, both genetically and as nusach and minhag goes, while “Sepharad” represents a multitude of tradition – real Spanish and all other countries where Jews lived for a millennium and more.
See if you or your parents or grandparents have a siddur or a machzor from older times. I usually use one of them for Yomim Noraim, making me juggle between the shul piyutim and the siddur piyutim.
> where President Reagan would be considered a RINO
true, but also any Federalist would be a Republican by now. What would Hamilton say seeing federal government allocating funds to fix bridges in Arizona? A dream come true or will he eat his hat?
At the last election, I tried to register as a Democratic Republican, but they told me I came too late.
Avira> he was not in the top tier of influencers among the already religious.
True, but not a reason to dismiss. We have currently “6 mln” Jews or somewhat Jews in USA (*), of which only 2 mln are on a projectory to survive (with increasing progeny). Is losing 4 mln not a huge tragedy? Is not saving any of them a huge things?! Most shuls do not have this on their radar. Consider late 19th/early 20th century when so many shuls (I guess except yours) had pushkas for EY, even if a small number were actually going there, so many were involved. When I was doing genealogical research, I found info about one relative on wedding lists in a newspaper, listing people who donated to settlers in EY. At which wedding did you recently see people donating for saving Jews in US, Europe, Tel Aviv, Ukraine, Russia?
coffee> I thought ימות המשיח we’ll have servants do everything for us
you don’t have a dishwasher and a car? Still using your horse’s manure on your fields? 99% of what people were dreaming about for Moschiach to bring (in gashmiyus) is here.
farby, you are really looking at very superficial issues. You seem to consider Daf Yomi a biggest modern accomplishment of modernity.
Regarding their lack of many of traditions we have: I heard a claim that they do so because they come from a very early community. Thus, they do not do Purim and Chanuka, etc. Is there any factual basis for this claim? That is, can we look at their traditions and lack thereof and see where they came off?
Do they have full Tanach? Takanot Ezra? 2nd day of yom tov? haftorah?philosopher? I stand by what I said. Most Ethiopians who came to Israel are practicing Christians
You are repeating this without any proof or at least an explanation how you came to this conclusion. There were similar claims about Russians here, I looked at the numbers and they were not correct. I started looking up numbers here and they do not look correct either.
If your claim is based on personal observation, you may be confused by the timeline. Judaic Beta Israel were the first to come to Israel, possibly before you were born. Many of them did not want anything to do with remaining converts. The more time passes, the more remaining ones are those who come from converts. I do not know enough whether they are serious about their teshuva or just opportunists to get out.
Esteemed Mod > Did you seriously think we were going to approve that?
Exactly! For your convenience, I sometimes divide posts in several posts so that you can easily accept or reject some of them without wasting your time editing. Usually, one is obvious red flag, while the other contains the real offensive stuff written in atbash.
Better it should be about your character than my editing. Thanks for the thought though.
> Did you seriously think we were going to approve that?
I would apologize, but it looks like an idea of apologizing for your acts is verbotten.
I don’t know where you got that idea. Other posters seem to have no problem with it.
> Divrei Chaim paskens ..Igros Moshe paskens
so, to respect all opinions, keep your family minhag.
Go hundred years back and think whether people could have predicted current events. Go 200 years back and think whether people could have predicted events 100 years ago.
> When is the last time that you did something good,
Took the garbage out recently. Did not shake a hand with a rashah. Helped feed and cloth several hungry kids today who nobody else would help. Already tired.
You are saying that you deal with these Jewish patients and you have some ideas that lead to frustration only and no action. I am trying to help you figure out a positive way to channel your research.
Yserbius, a minor correction – RR Kaminetsky, Feinstein, Soloveichik came to US before the war. And by looking at current communities, it is hard to appreciate how manhy shuls and schools operated in 1930-50s working with Yidden many of whom lost a lot of tradition. What is true, many of these communities with time became more insular and less interested in reaching those who were not. And also true, that assimilated Jews are moving further away, so Chabad is indeed working with different types of people (Berdichever talking to a guy smoking on shabbos – this is maybe 2nd son from Hagada, intellectuals attracted to early YU – third, and students that Chabad finds now is 5th or 6th …). Also, Chabad was able to sustain this energy over time via their organizational focus. On the other hand, as mentioned, some less-educated Chabadnikim are not aware what else happened in the world and behave accordingly.
Avira > ishah keshereh osah ratzon baalah, not the other way around.
so, you are saying even ish kosher still does not listen. Sounds true….
A little more seriously, if you do not express your ratzon too much, then you will be easily zoche isha kesherah! The way I learned it that the husband should lead in ruchniyus, but not in gashmiyus, so in most daily issues, there is not much reason to express your ratzon, or even to have it (why have it, if you are not planning to express it). To finish the circle, isha kesherah knows ratzon baalah to begin with (see Bina, above), so there is no need to even bother.> Get a wooden beam, make a pear-shaped hole,
you missed one step – your beam should be within running distance from where gorillas live!
>> “So why would someone post sheker? ”
> Because the OP is a Demoncrat.Still does not answer the question. Either a person does not have facts or maybe he feels it is a mitzva to convince others? I wish people here explain what their sources are, it will help us understand what is going on.
> why are most Ethiopians claiming to be Jews and emigrating to Israel practicing Christians?
And when did you stop hacking your spouse?
in addition, you should not publicly daven something different from what others do. If you were told about it, maybe you were too public about it.
There are several groups, like mentioned above, that support multiple nusachim with a BUT that their nusach is available for everyone … I like more Rabbonim who advise a person from a different Nusach to follow the their own nusach rather than Rav’s.
These are separate issues – whether they are halachik Jews and whether they are descendants of Jews following some remnants of Judaism. In regards to the second, there is a remarkable number of opinions here claiming “without evidence” that these people are Christians, Karaims, etc. This would be remarkable if similar opinions would not have been here regarding multiple other groups that are not like a group you are coming from.
Health, I don’t think you are getting the musar:
I am saying certain behaviors by some yidden is questionable and you should somehow let them know. You are saying – I know, but other people behave badly also. How is that a Jewish attitude?you spend a couple of thousand yeas in a jungle and we will see what you will remember. Some people I met are pretty dedicated to what they do. for example, they would not let those relatives who convered to another religion into their dwellings, treating them as tumah.
Yaakov was honest in his dealing with Lavan, despite the deceipt by the latter. Surely, an example not to find a way to cheat.
From personal (Jewish) perspective, it would be an equal aveira to indulge in any other unhealthy behavios and then expect society to pay for your costs. Specifically, to your claims:
ACA allows for insurance companies to charge smokers up to 50% more
Starting in November, Delta Airlines will charge unvaccinated employees an extra $200 a month for the company health plan, citing the high cost of COVID hospitalizations…self-insured companies can more easily increase premiums for unvaccinated employees.
Also, I think currently, ort recently, full costs were covered. Copays can be high:
Still, patients won’t be responsible for the full cost of treatment, which can reach up to $50,000 for a severe case. Fully insured patients hospitalized with pneumonia — which involves similar treatment as for people with COVID-19 — typically end up owing around $1,300, for example.Chess was already mentioned. R Feinstein played as a kid, but stopped at age 9 as he felt e is wasting time from learning. chess has extra benefit comparing with other games: if you all devote about same time to the game, then it is a fair measure of how smart each of you are. In our time of everyone being above average, it is healthy to know how good you are at thinking.
> its always according to party lines!
indeed, when Agudah was forming after numerous other Jewish parties were formed, Chofetz Chaim was skeptical: even if party consists of only Talmidei Chochamim, the power will anyway belong to the Party Secretary.
We try to give Jewish names that are reasonably normal for American ear (ie yes Jacob and Leah, but not Berl or Feiga). In one case, we used a mamash name the way it is spelled in English Tanach, but turns out 99% of the public can’t figure it out. Maybe the kid will need to live among more religious general population. Second names come handy in case first ones do not work out well, but so far nobody is opting for that. Second names also work handy in case of similar names in the same class (unless it is Chaya Mushka).
I recall pennies became popular when Chicago Tribute publisher decided to sell papers by a cent, but nobody had them. So, he convinced merchants to sell things for $0.99 instead of $1.00, and then you would have a penny for the paper. If this is not an urban legend, interesting how papers not only had genivas daas inside but also corrupted the marketplace (as people think for a second hat something is $5 when they see $5.99)
Next topic: ashkenazi Jews have suspiciously similar noses, probably correlated to a small number of Jewish men they come from, while larger variety of non-Jewish women they married. I am pretty sure if Ethiopean Yidden would be the first to settle in EY recently, this would the question they’d raise.
Did you seriously think we were going to approve that?
Look into exercise routines that might help. I saw one UK report from National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, journal Chronic Respiratory Disease may 2021, I am sure there are others
> I never understood why Sleeping in a Sukkah was pinned?
this seem like an only genuine question in this whole thread.
why don’t you organize a group of 20 families and move to such smaller city and settle there as a group?