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“I’m not saying that i think you are, but often when people want to move out of town, they want to be less religious.”
Is it Adar already?
ujm writes: “Is there any reason to doubt that some of our Gedolim today are capable of creating a Golem, if he deems it necessary?”
There is no doubt of this. Not only are they capable of creating a golem, but they are demonstrably capable of creating an entire generation of golems.
Peanuts is not an “alternative” to Tintin. They both happen to have pictures and speech bubbles on paper, but they’re not really vaguely similar beyond that. Tintin is a series of exciting entertaining adventure comic books. Peanuts are short comic strips, sometimes mildly amusing, sometimes with some lesson about life. Kids will love reading Tintin. Peanuts… Not so much.
GadolHadorah:
Ah yes, matzah and potatoes, a food that no Jew had never eaten until well after the time of the Shulchan Aruch.
If you have the expectation that things will be back to normal by the end of June, you will likely be disappointed.
“CS, I said Nazi Germany. That was in very recent times. The Russian pograms wasn’t all too long ago either. Even Tach V’tat is within memory. Crusades is a bit longer ago. When did this great utopian “Western Democracy” that you so love begin?”
… says the guy who can publicly write whatever he wants about the government and citizens and local religion and customs of the country he lives in, without fear of being jailed or beheaded or burnt at the stake or even fined or told to be quiet.
I don’t know when the “utopia” began, but clearly it was sometime before you started using the Internet.
This doesn’t address the original post, but I am dubious of Joseph’s statement that this is some sort of intrinsic difference between the Jewish and Gentile worldview (as if there was only one Gentile worldview!). It is, perhaps, a commonly held view in modern secular society that modern society is more refined and advanced than past societies , and of course this is obviously correct in terms of scientific discoveries in technology.
However, the idea that current society was inferior to the greatness of the past is quite common throughout history. Note that even today it is common to refer to the generation who lived through the Depression and World War 2 as “the greatest generation”.