besalel

say no to crack

Yussel: after the war. you cannot change horses in midstream.

With the support the Arab and liberal world has demonstrated for Hamas over the past week it is now clear that we are looking at pure evil in the face. Amalek. Hamas is Gaza and Gaza is Hamas. There are no civilians in Gaza, only terrorists, mothers of terrorists and future terrorists.

OP makes a valid point, of course. Hamas are pure liars. They literally recorded their pogrom and had the audacity to come on tv the following day and claim they did not kill any civilians. Propping up Hamas lies as a valid view point is the material support of terrorism, a federal crime for which Talib and Omar must face the mandatory minimum: life in prison.

I am not sure why conversations about whether Jews were treated decently in Muslims lands always turns into a debate about how much worse the European persecution was. Both of these statements are true:

1) Jews were treated terribly by their Muslim rulers.
2) Jews were treated much, much worse in Europe.

And while I admonished those that need to make the comparison, I will add that an argument can be made that Europe also treated its Jews better than Muslim rulers. In Europe, Jews would go through phases where they were loved and cherished by their rulers. Poland adopted special laws to attract and protect Jews. “Paradisus Judaeorum.” Of course, it never ended well and the untold suffering eventually unleashed on the Jews is unrivaled.

Moshe kapoyer: many people who reject modern lubavitch recognize the gadlus is rabbi schneerson. There is no stira.

I obviously cannot speak for anyone else but as for myself, it is the entire Lubavitchers belief system that is dramatic, tragic and fascinating. In my view, so much of Chabad today closely resembles early Christianity and makes me wonder what religion Lubavitchers really practice. It is not a simple machlokes over whether or not you follow shitta a or shitta b but rather a much broader question in my mind whether Lubavitch is even still considered within Machane Yisroel or whether they have formed a new religion. The rebbe question is only the largest symptoms of this and gets the most attention. What makes this harder is the fact that so many Lubavitchers I know do not subscribe to the mainstream Lubavitch views so how can I throw out the entire movement. Also, in my mind, Chabad was so close to perfecting Judiasm before they introduced these crazy ideas I feel like if we can only get back to the way it was we can have a perfect Judiasm. I still go to the Ohel as often as I can. Besach Hakol, i obsess over Lubavitch because it is fascinating, dramatic and tragic at the same time.

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אַל יַעֲלֶה עַל הַלֵּב שֶׁבִּימוֹת הַמָּשִׁיחַ יִבָּטֵל דּבָר מִמִּנְהָגוֹ שֶׁל עוֹלָם. אוֹ יִהְיֶה שָׁם חִדּוּשׁ בְּמַעֲשֵׂה בְּרֵאשִׁית

אָמְרוּ חֲכָמִים אֵין בֵּין הָעוֹלָם הַזֶּה לִימוֹת הַמָּשִׁיחַ אֶלָּא שִׁעְבּוּד מַלְכֻיּוֹת בִּלְבַד.

לֹא נִתְאַוּוּ הַחֲכָמִים וְהַנְּבִיאִים יְמוֹת הַמָּשִׁיחַ. לֹא כְּדֵי שֶׁיִּשְׁלְטוּ עַל כָּל הָעוֹלָם. וְלֹא כְּדֵי שֶׁיִּרְדּוּ בָּעַכּוּ”ם. וְלֹא כְּדֵי שֶׁיְּנַשְּׂאוּ אוֹתָם הָעַמִּים. וְלֹא כְּדֵי לֶאֱכל וְלִשְׁתּוֹת וְלִשְׂמֹחַ. אֶלָּא כְּדֵי שֶׁיִּהְיוּ פְּנוּיִין בַּתּוֹרָה וְחָכְמָתָהּ. וְלֹא יִהְיֶה לָהֶם נוֹגֵשׂ וּמְבַטֵּל.

I agree with SquareRoot – it is anti Jewish to be a kofeh tova and the essence of a Jew to have Hakaras Hatov and Donald Trump deserves a tremendous amount of hakaras hatov. (And Obama also deserves it and BH I have never seen a Yid daven for Obama to suffer). I have always maintained that the best President for the Jews was Trump and a distance but still second place finisher is Obama.

I disagree on the point that Trump bears no responsibility for inflation – of course he does. The handouts started under him. He always talks about the market V that he created post Covid. Well that V caused this inflation.

As for the indictment, I do not understand what was illegal.

It is not illegal to have an affair. It is not illegal to pay off the zona. Some have couched this as follows: he took the payment as a business expense when it was not. I do not believe he is being charged with any tax violations and I am certain he would have been had he evaded taxes. Some have said that the payments amount to a campaign contribution which he should have disclosed. Why does not a person have to disclose campaign contributions to his own campaign? I understand that we need to know which special interests, corporations or countries are making campaign contributions but we all assume that a person use as much and as liittle of his own money on his campaign and it ill not change the influence a person has on himself.

Everyone should be chilled by the idea that a county prosecutor can go after a Federal official and leading candidate for petty crimes. What will stop some county prosecutor in Iowa, Idaho or South Dakota from going after a leading Democrat for petty offenses?

The whole thing looks un-American and wrong both to Trump supporters and to other Republicans, Independents and many Democrats. The American people are not stupid, they can see what is really happening.

coffee addict: are you sure the rioters were not just using the reforms as a pretext to protest losing the elections? if that was the case, no amount of hasbara would have been enough.

jackk: israel is a country of the jews so every jew has the right to meddle (to a certain extent) in the affairs of israel. obviously non-israelis cannot make the place unhabitable with their meddling – but all jews should have some say.

akuperma: what you say about the telavivians being the engine of the economy is true but only because they boxed out the rest of the society who the telavivians see as sub-citizens. As for the army, the telavivians do not serve in combat roles. They go to the army and serve in the choir or sit at some desk. the national religious, the russians and the druze are the combat soldiers.

Jack: one of the things about trump that bothers me the most is that he demands absolute loyalty but offers zero loyalty. What he did to Cohen is disgusting. But we all know that had he committed an actual crime, he would have prosecuted for that crime and not for this nonsense. I’m not even sure why paying hush money to cover an alleged affair -as immoral and gross it might be – is illegal. We all know this is a political witch hunt and we should all be against political witch hunts no matter how gross the target may seem to us.

Jack: he was joking about it and the democrats actually did it making democrats not only hypocrites but evil people.

Jackk: rmo are cow beitzim. There’s a whole section of shulchan aruch how to eat them. They are not eiver min hachai.

I have not followed this trial too closely but I agree with ujm 100% on his sentiment towards the justice system. Although it is better here than practically anywhere else.

sidyid: this can only bother you this much if your “friend” is actually your husband.

**standing ovation**

ujm: i agree with you that this man did nothing wrong and I have every reason to believe he is a complete tzaddik. i have a lot of problem with our justice system, believe me, but I strongly believe that in this case, even without a camera, he would have been exonerated quickly and granted bail. But I am not sure. Unfortunately, mistakes happen and often times the consequence is not fair at all. I am not sure we can create a perfect system that is mistake free.

As for the hanhaga, I want to be clear: the tznius issue is obviously real and is halacha, in fact a deoriasa. but the tznius issue is a problem whether you are passing between women, behind women, on the side of women. it is specifically with regard to the witchcraft/impure issue of passing between two women, palm trees, pigs, dogs – which is not a halacha – that certainly the hamon am’s sensitives need to be accounted for. in other words, i am very machmir on both ve’ahatva lereicha kamocha as it applies to offended women in this case and the issues of avoda zara/emunos tfeilos that apply here as well.

Ujm: I think you are (purposely) missing my point. You point to the six seconds as if that fact exonerates the man. My point is that the six seconds tells us nothing because that is how long an actual abduction takes. What exonerates him isn’t the six seconds you keep pointing to but the fact that he is innocent as shown in the video.

As for second point, it has nothing to do with my wife to your mother. Here is the kitzur, in full, unredacted:

יש ליזהר שלא ילך איש בין שתי נשים, ולא בין שני כלבים או שני חזירים, וכן לא יניחו האנשים שתלך ביניהם אשה או כלב או חזיר

Now read this to any frum, yeshivish, chareidi woman. ALL such women will always have one of the following two reactions, she will either tell you she is offended or she will lie to you.

ujm: i am not sure why the six seconds here and the six second there matter to you so much. How long do you think an actual abduction takes? As for the mesira, are you upset the mom called the cops in this case or would you also be against leiby kletzky’s parents calling the cops? are you against “mesira” in general or do you think that in this case there was no need to call the cops?

Leave the mother alone. She did what she needed to do as a mother. I would rather live in a society where mothers protect their children and occasionally make mistakes than in a society where mothers have to think five times before calling the police. It was the police’s job to investigate before making an arrest and they failed to do so and it was the DA’s job to review the footage before bringing charges. The mother did her job as a mother.

Zushy, ALL the phones being sold at the target store are filtered – all of them – they just do not have the right hechsher.

Our response is: ledidi, the passuk tells us in bereishis 8:22 that Hashem will control the climate for eternity but ledidaichu, at least be moideh to the fact that science tells us that the world is billions of years old and has always had hot streaks and cold streaks, hot climates and ice ages, many of which happened long before humans were even present so what makes you think that all of those climate changes over the millions and millions of years were natural and humans had no power to cause it or prevent it but THIS one is different?

AAQ: I don’t know that he was really racist i think he was just saying it because someone told him its how to get out of jury duty. also, if i remember correctly he said i was once assaulted by a person of the same race as the defendant and that is why i cannot be impartial. he didnt stam say he was a racist – and the judge still punished him for it.

my point is that in practice, in ny, a judge may come down on you if you use racist.

you can argue moshe rabbeinu was an ethical orthodox jew. the gemoro in maseches nedarim says that when he married tzipora, moshe rabbeinu made a neder to stay in midyan and had to do hataras nedurim (hatara done by Hashem himself) in order to be able to go back to mitzrayim, later on. but once he satisfied his orthodox obligation as far as hilchos nedarim are concerned and he did his hataras nedurim he STILL went back to yisro to get his permission to go back to mitzrayim because that was the ETHICAL thing to do even though his halachic limitations were already addressed by the hataras nedarim. Ethical orthodoxy.

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.

jackk: the democrats have been calling for santos to resign which will allow the democrat governor to put in a replacement which will probably be zimmerman. sorry but democrats are trying to overturn an election.