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AAQ,
WW1 was called the Great War until WW2 startedanonymous JewParticipantWhat’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
anonymous JewParticipantAvira,
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.anonymous JewParticipantThis 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 mindanonymous JewParticipant5TResident, would you like a medal?
anonymous JewParticipantAvira, 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 emunahanonymous JewParticipantJack, 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?
December 26, 2023 1:09 pm at 1:09 pm in reply to: Anyone else long for when restaurants were simpler #2249399anonymous JewParticipantRemember when we had to walk to school uphill, both ways?
December 26, 2023 1:09 pm at 1:09 pm in reply to: Chris Christie – why can’t Jews rally around him? #2249398anonymous JewParticipantWhy do Jews vote progressive Democrat?
anonymous JewParticipantLook at Esav’s parents. So much for yichus
anonymous JewParticipantJack, 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
anonymous JewParticipantJack, 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
anonymous JewParticipantCT, besides everything else, doesn’t Biden’s declining mental health worry you? Each day brings another embarrassing gaffe.
anonymous JewParticipantAvira, 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.anonymous JewParticipantUJM 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?anonymous JewParticipantI totally agree with you. The source is not mystical. Deriving mysticism today is not a problem
anonymous JewParticipantSo, I’m curious. What was the mystical experience of the Greek translation of Judea that led the future formulation of the word Jew?
anonymous JewParticipantNomesorah, mysticism doesn’t change the pshat of the terms derivation and had nothing to do with the origin of “Jew”
anonymous JewParticipantWhat’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
anonymous JewParticipantMenachem, he was called Ivri because he had to cross “over” rivers to get to Israe( Canaan ). Again, nothing mystical
anonymous JewParticipantJudean ( 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
anonymous JewParticipantSometimes 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.
anonymous JewParticipantMordechai was one of the first references
anonymous JewParticipantHulu, technically speaking, “Jew” only goes back as far as toeards the end of the first Temple, not Har Sinai.
anonymous JewParticipantCTL, 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.July 19, 2023 10:24 am at 10:24 am in reply to: Mass shootings, and non mass shootings, must stop. #2209534anonymous JewParticipant5 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.
anonymous JewParticipantIMAX 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.
July 16, 2023 10:22 am at 10:22 am in reply to: Mass shootings, and non mass shootings, must stop. #2208631anonymous JewParticipantA 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
anonymous JewParticipantCommonsaychel, I have no problem reading those publications. My comment was regarding those assuring everything but posting here.
anonymous JewParticipantBut logging onto and reading YWN ( yes, I know not on Shabbos ) is not moshav laitzim and bitul Torah?
anonymous JewParticipantFarfetched, 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.
anonymous JewParticipantBja613, 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
July 3, 2023 7:56 pm at 7:56 pm in reply to: Reason for the Spanish Expulsion & Inquisition: Secular Education #2205306anonymous JewParticipantAvira, 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 ).July 3, 2023 4:09 pm at 4:09 pm in reply to: Reason for the Spanish Expulsion & Inquisition: Secular Education #2205279anonymous JewParticipantIt 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
demandsJuly 3, 2023 1:20 pm at 1:20 pm in reply to: Reason for the Spanish Expulsion & Inquisition: Secular Education #2205205anonymous JewParticipantAvira, 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 )
July 3, 2023 12:08 pm at 12:08 pm in reply to: Reason for the Spanish Expulsion & Inquisition: Secular Education #2205161anonymous JewParticipantThat’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.
June 23, 2023 5:27 pm at 5:27 pm in reply to: Is there a greater meaning to the Titan accident? #2202712anonymous JewParticipantI don’t know which is worse, making fun of the deaths or the egotism thinking how does it affect the Jews.
anonymous JewParticipantSechel, 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
anonymous JewParticipantApparently 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
anonymous JewParticipantAs 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.
anonymous JewParticipantMdd1, 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 centuryanonymous JewParticipantMdd1, apparently you never heard of the Pale, heavy taxation, unfair court system, pogroms initiated by Czars to distract the peasants , forced Russian education etc
June 12, 2023 4:39 pm at 4:39 pm in reply to: Chabad Inspires all Jews to Yearn for Mashiach #2199074anonymous JewParticipantThe 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 .June 12, 2023 9:05 am at 9:05 am in reply to: Grocery that gets rid of all Chometz before Pesach #2198852anonymous JewParticipantMost 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.
anonymous JewParticipantThe 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?
June 8, 2023 10:34 am at 10:34 am in reply to: Grocery that gets rid of all Chometz before Pesach #2197856anonymous JewParticipantJust 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?
anonymous JewParticipantAs 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 postingsMay 31, 2023 8:11 pm at 8:11 pm in reply to: Imagine if Trump removed IRS Teams for Investigating #2194617anonymous JewParticipantIt must also be noted that the Russia hoax and the resulting impeachment pretty much neutralized Trump’s first 2 years
anonymous JewParticipantAvira, 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?
anonymous JewParticipantReb 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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