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Chaim, you seem to look at things from political point of view. This is currently a military situation, requiring experience and dedication. You seem to casually compare a prime minister with wealth of military and political experience at highest world level with someone who bio seems to consist of being a lawyer and a politician.

same for BY1212, you do not address all previous successes that Bibi had. Just think of current muted reaction by most moderate Arab countries – that are due to improved relationship under Bibi/Trump that Bibi worked on for a long time. I mention just the recent events, skipping things lioke post-Oslo that may have happened before your bat/r mitzva.

> One cow in Palestine is worth more

I don’t think anyone disagrees that there were a lot of things wrong among the Zionists, as well as many non/anti-Zionists of the time (to include bundists, communists and all other isms and parties of the time). I presume if you lived during BM2, you would be against BM because of tzedukim there ..

Akin to cherems on Chasidim, we probably need to look at what is happening now, and also trace current ideas, both positive and negative, to the previous ones. The only difference between 2 issues is that more time passed after Besht than after R Kook, so it is hard to have a fresh look.

ujm > Now never mind how R. Teichtel decided he can judge the world and decide whether they deserve Moshiach or not;

thanks for extend quotes from the book as well as your commentary. I think you under-estimating impact of the tragic events that were happening at the time – you dismiss them as irrelevant to halakha. Instead, maybe give credit to someone who was responding to events in real time, whether he was always correct or not, in your opinion.

From what you quote, obviously, he is talking from the position of these events that Munkachever, and many others, did not fully foresee. For an example, when R Yochanan b Zakai establishes Yavne – is he contradicting his teachers who upheld Yerushalaim, just because of a little fact that Romans destroyed the latter? same here, he is trying to interpret his Rebbe in light of the events.

It seems that a Persian hackr broke into a esteemed poster’s account and besmerched our heimishe anti zionist with bad Russian spelling and geography.
This silly person probably doesn’t know between lviv and lemberg

funnybone, chochom lomed mikol adam?
and Kiddushin ~70 daf yomi talks about a cherem for someone who goes to another town and does not show verbal respect to the Rav there

PS in my town, everyone came together in one shul to daven for refuah, shevuyim, chayalim, regardless of what they usually do intheir shul.

Okok, I didn’t mean to attack blonde Jewish Americans.
Maybe someone in town can conduct an experiment Counting
blonde prevalence on two sides of the mechitza, with and without wigs. Ctl, bshaa tova

sechel, you need to stop for a second and organize your education. You quote things left & right, but then before you never heard of major gedolim, now you never heard of major historical figures 100 years ago. So, you hope that you can convince people about what will happen with the world, while you don’t know what happened in that world in both physical and spiritual domains. I would even ask – if you care so much about Hashem’s ways – why not study what was already revealed in history before speculating about mysteries of the future.

whatever we are saying, Arab propaganda news is continuing with the story that (a) Israel bombed the hospital, (b) Israel is now lying about it “as usual” … at some point, their “news page” showed both articles with the above theory and a lesser version that Iron dome hit the incoming missile and parts fell on the hospital.

On the facts, the question is – what actually exploded? probably, explosives that were kept in/under the hospital

Pn propaganda, I am afraid but it may be very effective on arab population that will continue to be inflamed and outraged.

the question is not only prevalence in a community, but also whether it is addressed properly. In general, insular community tend to keep things under the rug and sometimes preventing treatment and making family members suffer.

Consider taking some time to learn your father’s minhagim… if you stop some of your chumros, he can afford to spend some time with you and fulfill the suggestion to teach kids between 17 and 22. At the same time you can get a pt job to pay for the seminary of your choice.

Maybe this article from the front page gives you a hint:

HaRav Zilberstein wrote: “To my dear brothers and friends – I heard that there are bomb shelters that are filled with various belongings, including Sukkah parts. In our many sins, the Midas HaDin is dominant now and bomb shelters must be available – it is a matter of pikuach nefesh.”

“Therefore, I turn to you, dear brothers, at the order of the Mara D’Asrah, to immediately evacuate the bomb shelters – within 24 hours – and it will be pleasant for those who heed this. And if [some residents] chalilah don’t do so, the Vaad HaBayis [building committee] has permission to clear the shelter against their will.”

Avira, I don’t want for this to sound like bickering and your post has a lot of good points, but for the benefit of those who might use your example the wrong way: if you happened to be in a place where people make fun of the emergency siren, you should have learnt in a more religious neighborhood. And you know what I mran: having a hat is not the only sign of religiousity; having a working head and respecting challenges Hashem sends is required also.

I don’t know what was edited out, but overall we seem to be discussing what happened rather than blaming, and Chaim’s points are informed. There is a lot of data in public domain right now to have a reasonable discussion. You can’t stop people from trying to comprehend the tragedy and it is better to have an informed discussion here, under your watchful moderation, than listen to inane rumors. What is true is that official inquiry will have to wait.

“I don’t know what was edited out…” Exactly

Chaim, agree with your list, add to that
4) interpreting enemy exercises near the wall as political events, given that there were peaceful gestures at the moment

Whether there is Bibi’s fault is not very important. If he were a untested leader, this would be a determining event. Given that he is an experienced leader, the question might be – did he lose his abilities due to age, changed environment, too much politics, etc. If not, then he might still be the best person to fix things going forward. And as we know from the story of Rabban Gamliel, dismissing a distinguished leader is not that simple, even when he is not always right. I mean here people who appreciate his service, those who disagree with him are in their right to vote for someone else, of course.

A lot of preceding events were about not accepting other Yidden as brothers because you disagree with them. So, try the opposite. In my town, we had people from different shitos coming together for tehilim – those who usually say tefilos for Tzahal and those who do not.. I wonder whether any shuls that do not – took upon themselves to say such tefilos at least temporarily. Anyone?

this is not a random attack, events are continuing, and it is time to all work together, especially when a leader has experience, whether you agree with that experience or not. There will be commissions after to learn the lessons.

Chaim, answering briefly for Same reason.. as gemora mentions, there is a difference between a professional skill and a business. Businesses come and go and create a lot of opportunities for aveiros. If people are afraid of seeing inappropriately dressed people, what about being locked in an inappropriate business relationship? What about businesses where everyone else hires cheap illegals or underpays taxes, you’ll have to be competitive?

I am very much enjoying intersection of high tech and business, but I mostly value the business part for freedom from annoying bosses. I think any profession where you can run an honest small business is good.

I am not a navi to say which jobs will be good in the future, I work in data analysis and machine learning before ai became cool (again), and while there is hype, there are a lot of real products also

I posted earlier something here that I was not sure is appropriate and seems that mods kindly agreed with that (unless the post was eaten by software). The conundrum here is – on one hand, some info may be considered Lashon Hara. On the other hand, pretending that everyone is on board here is also Hillul Hashem.

I am not sure how to resolve this. One possible solution would be not to mention questionable personalities at all, but that would keep their personality cult continue growing under the radar.