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RebE, as of last Thursday, he was not immune.
But B might be criminal if he is proven to cooperate with clearly criminal enterprises of his son and brother who earned money off B’s name. It might be hard to prove, though.
skripka, you can’t hack your way to a win just through the babies. You need to add some less sympathetic enemies to arose enough support from the populum.
but here is your conundrum:
if he is stepping down as CANDIDATE because everyone agrees that he is incoherent,
what is his rationale for staying in as a PRESIDENT?He can’t just say “I want to spend more time with my family” because he is spending most of his time chatting with his family as it is.
low-tech solution for dummies:
put your phone opposite the computer
make sure you are not doing a selfie
play the video on the computer
start recording on the phone
stop recording on the phone
save as
upload to youtube
collect the money
zelle them to YWNGadol (original), the choice is between the mazik we know and mazik we don’t know. I agree that T might do something bad, just by the nature of his unpredictability. At the same time, we see what B does and he, and his advisors, will continue doubling down on the same failed policies. Our (both US and Yidden) enemies know his game as well, or better, than we do and will continue taking strategic advantage. I think you are fair enough to admit that.
Like in drasha of a boiling frog, we are being boiled slowly and predictable. Or, mixing the metaphors, the bankruptcy happens gradually and then suddenly. It is statistically worth taking a chance at T’s mix of unpredictable policies. Most encouraging, he was a similar unpredictable risk in 2016, and performed above expectations (at least, yours but mine also). Is he a bigger threat now, when he knows how to govern and has grudges? Who knows? The debate showed that he can hold himself in and talk reasonably. And I think enough undecideds (maybe 1% of voters) agree with this, so it is either T or a substitute player.
I think halakha holds similarly: an expert is not liable for his professional advice, but an amateur who poses as an expert is.
I think they used to give only female names to hurricanes. But then feminists discovered that it is unfair to name scary things by female names only, and they scared meteorologists more than hurricanes, so the naming system was changed.
re: standards of living – this has to be judged by the income. It is not a problem when a high-paid professional or a businessman lives in a relatively comfortable house, with limits, of course. When a person who does not have earned income and still tries to keep up with the Cohens, then it is a problem.
As to materialism, I’ve seen a number of limudei kodesh rebbes who are very concerned about gasmiyus, just because they are not getting sufficient income and they are trying to find it. At the same time, I don’t know whether most people in MO shuls are materialistic just because when they come to shul they mostly talk about Torah, sometimes politics, sometimes they bring their jobs but in the context of their expertise as relevant to the Parsha or the daf – engineering, economics, history, science, etc. A gemora discussion about fast days will end with Tosofot in a yeshivish place, but will bring way more historical and astronomical material in MO. Again, my sample might be biased.
> more prevalent among the more religious.
can we stop this canard? who opened for you secrets of who is “more religious”.
This is a tricky situation for Dems. First, someone needs to convince the President to step aside,
Second, like meraglim who say “let’s have a new leader” – they do not have one leader. B carefully calibrates between all 10 wings of the D party, and he is still fretting about a group of Arabs in Michigan. Everyone coming fresh will surely eliminate someone in the D coalition and lose the key states.
Third, if B steps away from the election, then the immediate question would be – why is he still a President if his party has no confidence in him. That will make Kamala the face of US gov for a couple of months, surely not something helpful in a election.
RebE, let me follow your criteria:
Both of them are knowingly lying (I am skipping “beating Medicare”). Pres B was multiple times alluding to various statistics that included effect of covid disruption to either make T’s achievements lesser and his stronger. This is not as crime of passion or a rhetorical exaggeration. This is a premeditated murder of truth that was constructed with advisors sitting in a circle and thinking how to present it better.As to relying on advisors. Reagan did that successfully. I hope YWN record will show your admiration for this approach. But Reagan was, among other things, a governor before becoming a President. B was a senator, managing staff of 20 people tasking them to issue self-gratifying press-releases. He has no skills to manage a whole country and a military. It is easiest to see in foreign policy where opposition is clearly seen: time and again, B makes decisions based on certain theories and then is proven wrong. Afghani government will defend indefensible position for 6 months; Putin will be satisfied with a minor incursion if we let him; etc. Domestically, he can’t even give away money for free without violating constitution. T made a great point that B did not fire any of his advisors despite failures.
Dovid, it means that the wife focuses on respect to the husband, while the husband now will show the respect.
Pischei Teshuva in YD 240:24 mentions that.
Also 240:17 also is a little careful – he does not simply say that a married woman is not obligated. It is – she is obligated same as the son, while married she is not able to show kavod because of obligation to the husband, and obligated if widowed or divorced. I wonder whether the main limitation is physicial – it is impossible to be in two places at once. But in our days of airplanes and instant comms, probably the daughter could at least answer whatsapp messages from her mother to make her feel better.
But I agree with Ms. Haley that there should be a variety of tests administered to candidates. IQ, emotional IQ, SAT, LSAT, GRE …
These tests should not be obligatory or decisive. Simply, one of the criteria to get to CNN debate. And if the voters are willing to elect someone with 2-digit IQ or who fail SAT math, they should at least make an informed decision.
Jews respect old people. Don’t laugh at them. Simply arrest for elderly abuse those who tricked him into coming it to the studio and standing in front of the mic embarrassing himself and the country.
> Judges now can second-guess
This is outrageous, indeed. How dare judges interfere with lawful acts passed by Congress!? Oh, wait, no – they can intervene only when Congress did not say anything, but President-appointed agencies made their own decision.
But my problem with the poster is not so much his opinions to which he is entitled, but in his not presenting the facts before posting his opinion. Even meraglim started with reporting the facts.
This sounds like a great solution, It will also make them visible to other population who will appreciate the service and prepare them for jobs in medical field.
Jack seems to support beating Medicare. Where is Jewish respect for elders.
EXCTL, as a lawyer, did you see differences between recommended paths for those with private insurance add-ons v. medicaid? This might show where the medical decisions are biased one way or another?
Edom hated us. Midyan hated us. Moav hated us. And they’re all gone. Bavel is gone and Persia is gone. They’re all disappearing one after the other. But we’re still here. It’s good to hear what a goy says about this. Everybody knows how I always quote Mark Twain. Mark Twain said that “the Jew walks on the graves of all his oppressors.” They’re all gone and we walk on their graves.
for balance, here is from 2000
We are expected to slaughter all of the ideals of the umos ha’olam. You have to slaughter the ideal of literature. Literature is false. The literature of the gentile world is all false literature. It never happened. It’s fiction. People today have accustomed themselves to fiction, to drama and it’s all false! People are being paid to act in a certain way. It’s all false. You have to slaughter their movies. You have to slaughter their music. You have to slaughter all their sports …
It’s a sin to be Americanized. You can be a good, loyal citizen, but don’t Americanize! As much as possible you must rid yourself of the all these gentile ideas1984 Q: Should one allow himself to absorb the apikorsus found in books about niflaos habriyah?
A: I’m not sure I understand this question but I suppose he means this: If you’re going to read books about the wonders of nature, won’t we also find there statements that can mislead people to atheism and apikorsus? And the answer is certainly you will. And I never said you should read those books. But what I do say is that we have a tremendous textbook whose pages are open before our eyes – nature is apparent and obvious for anybody who is interested in seeing it. יודוך השם כל מעשיך. Everything in this world is praising Hashem. There are so many things that are available every day in our lives that you don’t need any books.However, if you’re going to be a teacher, you can read books if you’re capable of understanding the poison and omitting it, skipping over it. But for ordinary people, these gentile books are not recommended.
here is tape 561, aug 1985. Note that in other tapes he mentions sheker of antisemitism in Dickens (Fagin), Shakespeare, etc
q: Should a twelve-year-old girl be forbidden from going to the library? And are there alternatives?
a: As far as the first question, today the library is off limits for anybody. Everybody knows that they have stocked toeivah books and there are other books too like that; and they’re in the children’s section. So letting a child go by herself to a library and looking through the books means that the parent is either entirely ignorant or doesn’t care.Libraries used to be good places. When I was a boy, we could go with confidence to the library. There were shelves of books where you could read about poor boys who worked hard. Horatio Alger books; shelves filled with books about people who worked hard and were honest and they became successful. Inspiring books. Today, all you read is books of criminals and wicked children. You read about a child who murdered his father or who brings a gun to school to shoot his teacher. And besides violence, today the books are filled with immoralities. Terrible things. Libraries are off limits today. They are foul places and I think that even adults shouldn’t go to the library. What’s the alternative? If you must read English books, you can buy old-time books, old-time sets of Mark Twain. Now it’s not that I’m recommending it. Mesillas Yesharim is better than that. But if you must read English books then read the old-time sets of O. Henry. Old-time sets of Dickens. If you like heavier stuff, old-time sets of Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe and other such books. There are plenty of books that won’t poison the mind as virulently as today’s books. There are plenty of books. There are alternatives.
I think the message here is that one should quote both opinions when discussing the issue. You can’t imagine Gemora written with just Beit Shammai, do you? Those who – knowingly – quote just one side – are not worthy discussing with.
I think this complaint is based on his actual experiences – MO school refused to count kids from multiple wives for a total family discount. In more patriarchic school, they ignored different batim, and count just the Head of the Household.
A hard case. For example, he reportedly limit Ukraine usage of starlink when attacking Russian territory. On the other hand, he built this wonderful technology that seems to be useful to Ukraine in areas where service is available. To compare, nobody accuses me of switching off my services, but then I have billion less users than he does. So, it is easy to criticize someone who does something very useful, and he is doing it in several different areas.
Similarly, so many articles about several people dying munching food instead of holding the wheel of their Tesla. But, I presume this technology already saved 1000s of lives and will save numerous more.
He may be allowing weird X users, but then he destroyed what was clearly unhealthy culture in the company.
Dovid, that suggests that SIL can (should?) respect FIL. See Yoreh Deah 240:24 for details.
skripka, I think people here are so harsh on jackkkkk not because he is to the left of Mao, he is not. But he shows strange stubbornness looping over msnbc message of the week to this heilike forum, being unresponsive to any logical arguments. You can, or at least could recently, be a left-learning person of good standing in Jewish community, such as Joe Liberman.
trolling claim went down from $30k to $17k … this is in line what my local yeshivish school (attempt to) charge those who work for the living. but they do teach some decent limudei chol for that price and have small class sizes. Which proves that this is a one of three major sins to charge more and teach chol – at least if this is what market demands OOT.
Theorem: skripka is the humblest Yid in kulo almo on his side of the mehitza.
Proof: if someone else is the humblest Yid, such as Moshe, then skripka could sit near him and be humble than him.
QEDYidden who don’t go to shul are not contenders, as one could not become truly humble without davening for it.
Moshe went to greet his father in law
If I remember correctly he meant Dickens, Tom Sawyer and like. Things that had ethical messages. That were taught in public schools and available in public library up to 60s, I guess.
> The IDF doesn’t want Chareidim
Rather than looking for krum self-serving arguments, just think about it, taking your statement at face value. You are in effect saying that your community is so crooked or lame that the army defending Yidden in EY does not want your help. It is like rain during Sukkos is compared to a master throwing water at the servant, saying “do not want your service”. So, Army can train Ethiopian or Russian olim who are clueless about modern life or Judaism, but has hard time integrating people who supposedly learned middos, Torah, and maasim tovim? Requires some soul searching.
I may live in a “wrong” place, but I often see the opposite: some busy professionals coming late at night to Kollel to learn with enthusiasm, while some school rebbes occupied by thinking where to earn extra cash by tutoring, working evenings, or anything else. It may be, of course, my view is biased as I see those who come to kollel but not those who do not come.
Kuvult, why are you disclosing the secrets!? now, my last row seat will become more expensive!
Us gov has 3 branches that are supposed to keep each other in check. President nowadays operates trillion dollar army, can listen to everyone’s calls. Congress makes weird laws about things that have nothing to do with federal government
Supreme Court is just 9 dudes and gals who get to resolve 100 cases a year. They are not even selecting their own, it is the fault of the other two if an inappropriate person is there.They are the weakest part. They have less lawyers than the other branches. Easiest to to attack. Their only strength is lifelong tenure and not ruled by other branches.
So
1. Give them some slack, their independence is more important than ethics
2. Everyone should give them donations to make them strongerKids need some unscheduled time. Find her a couple of friends so that they can hang around together. Let her read books that you usually do not let her. You can rely on r Avigdor Miller who says to read classics if you must to read in English … parental mental health would be a good justification.
If she is at least 12, she can work or volunteer at a day camp, this would be a great experience. None of our daughters regretted this.
These are hard questions, hope you have someone to guide you through this… note that hospital values may be different frm ours. They can say that a procedure is too risky for an old person. When questioned, they say 30% chance of failure. This is while it is clear that without the procedure the chance of failure is 100% … when posed this way, they reply, the department is not going to take this risk even if you sign off ..
Or they say quality of life will be low. ..
Can’t say whether this depends on the insurance you have
At the same time, it may not be necessary to start heroic procedures that will not really achieve anything but will be halachikally questionable to stop once started.great, so they can guard the terrorists. Maybe teach them mitzvos bnei Noyach.
akuperma, a good point on paintings. Note that early film was also affected.
On one hand, WW1 introduced the war into people’s homes – Brits saw the horrible newsreels and did not like it. At the same time, Hollywood was creating new realities in their movies, and then first Soviets and after them Nazis introduced total deep fake movies, rewriting history and present. Soviets created early movies about heroic history of the country, then about peasants dancing happily in 1930s (while they were actually dying from hunger when government took their grain away). Nazis made newsreel showing Polish mob breaking into Jewish stores and then German police restoring peace (omitting German soldiers who bussed the mob and stood with guns behind the camera).
This underscores Jewish idea of reading and discussing texts. Imagery is avodah zora – when you “see” something, it is very hard to not believe it is real … “I saw it with my own eyes”. Reading lets you think and consider the logic of the events. So, let’s not waste this opportunity to think by throwing garbage texts at each other!
Chaim, “overwhelmed” is also not a good answer. The market is not working.
Even if, B’H, everyone has a lot of kids, the market should respond … Even when pandemic changed everyone’s routines, the toilet paper reappeared in a couple of months 🙂
What would be a reason for shortages? I presume from your writings that your community graduated a lot of people who are qualified to be in chinuch. Say, every family has 15 kids. That, with two parents in each, would make for < 10 kids per parent who can teach. Of course, it could be that parents are teaching in modernishe schools or involved in chinuch, then there might be a problem.
So why there are not enough schools? possible reasons:
– the parents and gov subsidies are not enough to pay the rates same parents are willing to teach for. But what are these parents doing then?
– there are barriers to entry for new schools: they need buildings, maybe some sort of permission from Rabonim and already existing schools.
what do you think?As a note, one of the halachik ways to solve these problems is to encourage competition to benefit parents with choices and low prices, possibly at the expense of schools and teachers. That is, regular businesses can limit competition between each other, you may not be able to open a grocery store that seriously hurts another store, but you can open a school. Your neighbors can object to you banging metal or baking challos in your yard, but they can not object to the noise of children coming to your classes.
So many gedolim, my head spins. I think we need to be realistic about American political system. It is designed to distribute and balance yetezer hara, not to ban it from public life. Justices are not elected, but are put there with a specific role to play. Delegitimizing them from some theoretical, not legal, viewpoints, leads to weakening institutions. You can apply your passion to supporting foundations of American republic. for example, protest all cases where federal government start regulating things that should be better left to the states.
Gadol, if we were to have thousands of ehrliche Talmidei Chachomim learning day 7 night, I personally will be happy to support such a system. But as we see in this and other examples, the participants in this system show questionable middos and lomdus when confronted with life issues, so we are not there yet, unfortunately… hopefully, those who were born & raised into such views, will see from these threads how convoluted and self-contradicting these defenses are when exposed to a discussion, and re-think.
a free advice: if the President would like to dispel fake attack on him, he can simply start having events with press and voters like most politicians do.
no fact checking will convince people otherwise. Jackk, feel free to pass this info beshem amro> wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26.
They forgot to include a provision that these young people wash their own dishes and pay rent. I may sue the senator for the losses.
Chaim, I hear you. I am mostly in the category you described, but I also get occasional discounts when either dealing with a nice principal or with a financial manager who estimates that we have choices (is it gnevas daas to hint that a chassidishe school or a super-modern one is an acceptable option for you :?). As everyone seem to agree, the “full tuition” is set higher than the actual cost.
My point is that the main goal is to create healthy competition, empowering customers (parents), leading to better outcomes. If your system is in the hands of an entity not associated with the school, it might work also. But it will leave parents like me still at the weak negotiating point with the schools.
Chaim, I hear what you are saying. Still, in the absence of evidence, I prefer to keep faith in people. Doesn’t mean that I will drive into their neighborhood, of course. Other than Rahav, I do not have many examples … I did see once, two American yeshivish suit dressed boys quarrelling a little in Old City. A passing by local Arab addressed them in English “Do not fight on Shabbat”. I told him “Shabbat Shalom” and he returned my greeting.
I’ve been in a number of yeshivish shuls and events that said Tehilim in last several months. It is moving except a little funny that they would not acknowledge the country and the army they are davening for. This is, lehavdil, what I heard from Jews in Kyiv that Soviets had memorials at place where Jews were killed by Nazis with signs “Soviet citizens were killed here”.
lebidik, there is a teshuva from R Moshe regarding going to a medical school. I hope I recall this correctly. He seems to say that a doctor needs to go to the best school and then deal with difficulties of being shomer shabbos (presumably, problems are solvable just require an effort), rather than go to a shver school that is accommodating, so that one is the best doctor he can be. Can you apply same logic to IDF? If there is a need to go there – go and at the same time deal with challenges and help soldiers to overcome them. Send packages with mehadrin food. Post Rabbis who give classes on tzniyut. Whatever it takes.
It would be one thing that someone reads a gemorah about righteous behavior and then posts about various politicians who do not fit the standard. With others, it seems that they watch partisan TV and re-transmit this week’s political plan into here. Many of us have treif phones and can watch those programs ourselves if we choose so, thank you. And those who have glatt phones or don’t choose to watch treif, don’t need to come here to get it.
Also, based on sourcing, it feels as productive to talk back as it is to shout back at the TV screen.
here are some quotes from Reb Milton Friedman on public vouchers that are also applicable Jewish education, I think. Keep in mind that it seems also to fit some of halachik principles that allows unrestricted competition between teachers (but in other industries where you are generally not allowed to hurt competition and inconvenience neighbors)
> Reform has to come through competition from the outside and the only way you can get competition is by making it possible for parents to have the ability to choose. … The amount of money spent per child adjusted for inflation has something like doubled or tripled over the last 20 years. …The key word is competition and the question is how can you get competition. Only by having the customer choosing.
Most important, how the system will be set up. Look at public voucher systems for guidance. For example, discounts should follow the family, rather than given out to schools based on current enrollment to facilitate competition. Also, hopefully, the system can be made less invasive. Net income approach invites someone going through everyone’s taxes and even more. Maybe it is better to subsidize everyone equally and avoid hurting self-esteem of community members.
WSJ sent one of their arab stringers to interview the neighbors. Their main complaint is that Hamas should keep hostages underground and not risk their (neighbors’) lives! of course, this might be what they say in public… Anyway, it appears that the houses were pretty flimsy, so neighbors do not sound believable that they “had no idea”. Thus, it well maybe that Hamas members presumed that they can rely on 100% support from their neighbors, but someone still spilled the information.
I am not sure DaMoshe’s mesorah, but some form of “MO” is how most of our ancestors lived for centuries. They all worked, some learned, many went to shul when the shul was accessible subject to working hours. They dressed as others, unless goyim forced some other dress on them. In places where it was possible, some of them got medical and philosophical education, and they got jobs with the government.
I know of a klal that when minhag goyim is based on a sevorah, we are allowed to follow, but not when it is irrational. So, it might depend on a degree:
having a ceremony celebrating ability to become a medical doctor sounds rational. Celebrating spending $200K on achieving bakiyut in gender studies – irrational.