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  • in reply to: Mordechai & Esther’s Graves #2271857
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    AAQ,
    WW1 was called the Great War until WW2 started

    in reply to: lashon hara how bad is it #2264753
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    What’s the point of sheduchim resumes etc if you’re not allowed to tell the truth. I’ve also never understood why protecting consumers by airing that a contractor was dishonest and did shoddy work was loshon hora

    in reply to: Ethics and Entenmann’s #2261798
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    Avira,
    Here’s the crux of our differences. Believing in Chazal’s knowledge of all science is not central to yiddishkeit. Not believing it is not denying chazal or Tanach. There is no proof of it other than their sayso.

    in reply to: Pesach Vacation 2024 #2261688
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    This is addressed to hotel naysayers.

    Nobody is forced to go to a hotel. Many people have valid reasons for not going. They include hashkafic, financial,familial and simply not enjoying it. So, why does it bother you if someone does have valid reasons to go and enjoys it? I’ve never seen a comment criticizing someone for not going.
    So, please stop the critiques as they will not change anyone’s mind

    in reply to: Pesach Vacation 2024 #2261638
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    5TResident, would you like a medal?

    in reply to: Ethics and Entenmann’s #2261605
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    Avira, you seem to have picked up some progressive tools. They try to shout people down by calling them racists, homophobes etc, you do it by calling anyone who disagrees with you an apikores.

    You actually present no evidence. How do we know that chazal
    knew all science? Because chazal said so. Where are the inventions, discoveries, cures etc? They don’t exist because of convenient stories provided by chazal ( I. E. Shlomo hid the car,
    Chazal didn’t want to upset the world order etc.).
    What I really don’t understand is why it’s so important for you to believe they were all knowing regarding science. Believing this doesn’t enhance one’s emunah

    in reply to: Is Claudine Gay’s Resignation Good News? #2251151
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    Jack, please, for once look at things thru neutral glasses. Everything she’s attained was based on 50 ( so far ) instances of plagiarized material, even her doctoral dissertation. If you condone this, then how can you punish a student for plagiarizing? And, her actions say she’s antisemitic. Would condemning a group advocate mass murder of people of color, would that require context?

    in reply to: Anyone else long for when restaurants were simpler #2249399
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    Remember when we had to walk to school uphill, both ways?

    in reply to: Chris Christie – why can’t Jews rally around him? #2249398
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    Why do Jews vote progressive Democrat?

    in reply to: what’s the yichus of yichus? #2249397
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    Look at Esav’s parents. So much for yichus

    in reply to: Record number of Jewish gun ownship #2238127
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    Jack, NYC regulations had made it almost impossible to own a gun or get a carry permit . Criminals, of course, were not affected by the regulations

    in reply to: Record number of Jewish gun ownship #2236504
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    Jack, technically , you’re right. But until recent court decisions striking them down, most Democratic states and cities had such restrictive regulations that made gun ownership impossible

    in reply to: Biden or Trump #2227379
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    CT, besides everything else, doesn’t Biden’s declining mental health worry you? Each day brings another embarrassing gaffe.

    in reply to: The Modern Orthodox “Mesorah” #2218150
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    Avira, try explaining your “history” to the American Jews 75 years ago who learned Chimash with Rashi.
    The current kolel system did not exist in pre war frum Eastern Europe there was no social welfare system to support it and Jews by and large were poor. The vast majority of Jews basically had a cheder education and then , except for the superstars, had to go to work. The average shtetl Jew did not have much knowledge and this was evidenced by how many , in Post ww1 Eastern Europe abandoned Yiddishkeit willingly. Prior to 1800, this was not a problem the gedolim had to face as Jews were barred from universities and many professions and ” non religious ” was not an option as the only way to not live in jewish areas was to convert. The gadolim were not prepared for a world that afforded Jews options and entry into the secular world. . The Misnagdim and Chassidim were so busy fighting each other that they didn’t realize, too late, that more Jews were becoming not religious.

    in reply to: The Modern Orthodox “Mesorah” #2215636
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    UJM and Avirah
    Why do you both care? UJM, your questions, besides being very condescending, betray an intentional pseudo ignorance as this subject has been discussed here ad nauseum. Avira, do you actually believe there is a single mesorah? Is it the Yemeni, Iraqi, Italian,North African, Sfardi, Bucharian, Ashkenazi, Chassidish mesoras?

    in reply to: Jew vs. Jewish Person #2215140
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    I totally agree with you. The source is not mystical. Deriving mysticism today is not a problem

    in reply to: Jew vs. Jewish Person #2214605
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    So, I’m curious. What was the mystical experience of the Greek translation of Judea that led the future formulation of the word Jew?

    in reply to: Jew vs. Jewish Person #2214449
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    Nomesorah, mysticism doesn’t change the pshat of the terms derivation and had nothing to do with the origin of “Jew”

    in reply to: Jew vs. Jewish Person #2214393
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    What’s interesting is that the terms Jew, Jewish, and Judaism all derive from a Greek translation of Yehudi in the 3rd Century BCE. Biblical Hebrew doesn’t have a J sound but the Greek Y sound was often pronounced as a J sound. It was that Greek translation that carried forward and led to the term Jew

    in reply to: Jew vs. Jewish Person #2214368
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    Menachem, he was called Ivri because he had to cross “over” rivers to get to Israe( Canaan ). Again, nothing mystical

    in reply to: Jew vs. Jewish Person #2214353
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    Judean ( Yehudi ) did not equate to being from the tribe of Yehudah. First, the tribe of Benjamin was part of the Judean Kingdom and many Israelites fled south into Judea after the destruction of Israel by Senncherib

    in reply to: Jew vs. Jewish Person #2214322
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    Sometimes a tree is just a tree. Yehudi simply referred to someone from the Kingdom of Judah. In English the person was called a Judahite. There were no mystical attachments.

    in reply to: Jew vs. Jewish Person #2213848
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    Mordechai was one of the first references

    in reply to: Jew vs. Jewish Person #2213742
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    Hulu, technically speaking, “Jew” only goes back as far as toeards the end of the first Temple, not Har Sinai.

    in reply to: The democrats he who must not be named #2211112
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    CTL, on more than one occasion Biden clearly stated that he knew nothing of Hunter’s business dealings, never met about them, never discussed them.
    It is now apparent that those statements are false.

    in reply to: Mass shootings, and non mass shootings, must stop. #2209534
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    5 teenagers were shot in a 12 hour period NYC yesterday. The shooters were also teenagers. One factor discussed was the decision by the NY Legislature to raise the age of legal responsibility to 18. There is longer any consequence for a 16 or 17 year old for carrying a gun, and using it in the heat of an argument.

    in reply to: IMAX at the aquarium #2208962
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    IMAX is a movie projection system. It has a huge screen ( best to sit as far back as you can ) and is best suited for nature type films , not conventional story telling.

    in reply to: Mass shootings, and non mass shootings, must stop. #2208631
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    A simple solution is to reinstate stop and frisk laws. Murders in NYC were at a record low because criminals stopped carrying handguns. And, before you tell me the courts banned it, the Federal Judge who made that decision was actually reprimanded because of the number of overt and biased rulings during the trial. It wasn’t appealed because Mayor DeBlasio wanted the ruling to stand.

    Again, legal guns aren’t the problem; it’s the illegal handguns

    in reply to: Ads in Jewish Publications II #2207607
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    Commonsaychel, I have no problem reading those publications. My comment was regarding those assuring everything but posting here.

    in reply to: Ads in Jewish Publications II #2207497
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    But logging onto and reading YWN ( yes, I know not on Shabbos ) is not moshav laitzim and bitul Torah?

    in reply to: Ads in Jewish Publications II #2206921
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    Farfetched, why do you think the papers are distributed at no cost? Because of the advertising. Noone is forcing you to read the papers on Shabbos.

    in reply to: Summer camps #2206404
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    Bja613, by the time your watchful chinuch eye discovers that your child’s new rebbe or morah has no clue on how to teach children, it is usually too late and has caused more damage than a summer counselor can cause

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    Avira, what has always annoyed me are those who claim to know the specific avairas that triggered the Holocaust.
    However, a survivor can never be judged. .My wife had an inlaw who came from a very large chassidish family in Europe. Out of 70+ parents,grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles, only he survived. He never set foot in shul again the rest of his life and raised his children with no knowledge of Judaism. The only exception he made was when we visited him in Israel. He kept a set of dishes for us, observed shabbat while in the house and walked me to shul ( he waited outside ).

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    It was the 1390’s conversions that paved the way for the Expulsion. The thousands of New Christians provided all the skills and assets that Ferdinand and Isabella had relied upon,so they
    no longer needed those still Jewish and agreed to Torquemada”s
    demands

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    Avira, unlike their counterparts in England and Germany, they were the first large Jewish community where many thousands chose conversion over death in the 1391 massacres ( at set up the eventual Expulsion )

    in reply to: Reason for the Spanish Expulsion & Inquisition: Secular Education #2205161
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    That’s one view. The first mass conversions took place during the brutal pogroms of the 1390’s. Jews were given the choice of conversion or death and as many as 100,00 did convert.
    After the violence died down, the Church had a problem. It had never espoused forced conversion yet had no way to undo the conversions. So, they looked the other way as many of these Jews remained among the Jewish community and lived as Jews. Others, however, were happy to now live as Catholics as it meant that all the laws restricting Jews no longer applied to them.
    The Inquisition was established in 1478 to uncover New Christians still practicing as Jews but without much success. Torquemada, to justify his failures, said it because of the support that the Conversos were receiving from uncoverted Jews. So, he convinced Ferdinand and Isabella to expel the Jews.

    Ultimately, that was the reason for the Expulsion.

    in reply to: Is there a greater meaning to the Titan accident? #2202712
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    I don’t know which is worse, making fun of the deaths or the egotism thinking how does it affect the Jews.

    in reply to: Kollel life with no parental support #2201578
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    Sechel, it’s funny but you don’t mention the largest reason for the need for a second salary. Yeshiva tuition!!.

    Thirty years ago, a close friend , a civil servant, applied for a reduction in tuition from a major litvish yeshiva. He was denied because his wife didn’t work

    in reply to: RCA Statement Regarding Chabad Messianism #2201011
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    Apparently there were two JTS’s. The first , Orthodox JTS, was organized in 1887 by Rabbi Mendes, but it failed in 1901. A second JTS, led by Solomon Schecter, was founded in 1902 , with the financial backing of Jacob Schiff, with the ideology of Conssrvatuve Judaism. At that point, many of the Orthodox rabbis of the first JTS left. Rabbi Mendes founded the OU in 1898

    in reply to: RCA Statement Regarding Chabad Messianism #2200899
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    As usual , ujm gets his facts wrong. The Conssrvatuve movement had it’s origins in the 1883 treife Reform banquet where shellfish and pork was served to emphasize their abandonment of kashrus. The more moderate reformers left and, in 1887, founded JTS in an attempt to unite all Reformers who were not radical. JTS was never Orthodox.

    in reply to: Commemorating the 20th of Sivan #2199158
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    Mdd1, the pale of settlement? The pogroms launched after the death of Alexander were promoted and spurred on by the Russians but did take place largely in Ukraine and Poland because that’s where the Russians confined the Jews!
    The ferocity and savagery was so severe that it prompted the great Jewish emigration to the U.S. The pogroms continued into the 20th century

    in reply to: Commemorating the 20th of Sivan #2199087
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    Mdd1, apparently you never heard of the Pale, heavy taxation, unfair court system, pogroms initiated by Czars to distract the peasants , forced Russian education etc

    in reply to: Chabad Inspires all Jews to Yearn for Mashiach #2199074
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    The minhag/halacha about not eating before shacharis was based upon totally different circumstances than today.
    In the alte heim, there was no electricity or refrigeration. Even preparing a cup of coffee was a major deal. You had to rebuild the fire, grind the beans etc which took time and caused genuine concern that you’d miss shacharis. Today, flip on the light in the kitchen, pop in a kcup and in less than 5 minutes you have your coffee and can daven with a better frame of mind. And, it’s not gaava if you drink the coffee at 5:50 and the next minyan is at 6:30. You’re not delaying davening .

    in reply to: Grocery that gets rid of all Chometz before Pesach #2198852
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    Most supermarkets operate on a very thin profit margin. If a shomer shabbos grocery can afford to throw away everything in his store, he has to be marking up the wholesale prices considerably.

    in reply to: Commemorating the 20th of Sivan #2198676
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    The common response on his site to a distinct day of commemoration for the Holocaust has always been no, it’s included in Tisha B’Av. What makes 20th of Sivan different?

    in reply to: Grocery that gets rid of all Chometz before Pesach #2197856
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    Just curious. Do those who hold with the Gra’s position on selling chametz also hold with his position that there is nothing wrong with eating gebrochts on Pesach?

    in reply to: Why אחדות is a condition for קבה”ת? #2194871
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    As a people we’ve never had achdus, especially the few centuries. The Misnagdim and Chassidim were bitter enemies thru the 1840″s They didnt declare a truce until they realized that they were fighting each other over a smaller pie as Reform was making inroads. When I was growing if a Lubavitch wandered into Satmer territory, ( or vice versa ) they were physically assaulted.
    And, further proof, just look at random YWN postings

    in reply to: Imagine if Trump removed IRS Teams for Investigating #2194617
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    It must also be noted that the Russia hoax and the resulting impeachment pretty much neutralized Trump’s first 2 years

    in reply to: German Products #2193688
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    Avira, the difference is whether you believe midrashim are historical or stories ( that are often contradictory) intended to make a point. Germania was named by Julius Caesar centuries after the fall of the Assyrian Empire and the disappearance of Amalek. Why would Amalek travel nearly 4000 miles to Northern Europe?

    in reply to: German Products #2193644
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    Reb Eliezer, so does learning in English make English holy?
    Yiddish was simply the everyday language of East European Jewry, nothing more, nothing less. It was also the language Jews used to curse in as Hebrew didn’t really have vulgarities.

    Avira,
    Germans were descended from Northern European ( Scandinavia) tribes, not Amalek. Amalek disappeared before the Assyrian Empire arose and there is no connection between the two, other than for midrashic drasha purposes.

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