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Quite frankly, I had no idea CHABAD was resettling the Ukraine and I still have no idea why. Before I give anyone any money I want to know what I’m gods name were you doing there.
besalelParticipanti’ll admit i am a novice to this dispute and am learning as we go but I really have a hard time understanding any of OP’s points. Ukraine made a political decision to align itself with the western world. no one in the western world and no one in ukraine was an actual physical threat to russia. russia could have given ukraine a better deal than the west and tried to win their favor. instead, it decided to erase the country from the face of the world. how is that not a war crime? the only excuse i heard from the russians is that “well ukraine is not really a free, independent country anyway. it should be part of russia anyway.” that sounds like literal crazy speak. its like if mexico opened war on the usa because of texas.
February 3, 2022 1:53 pm at 1:53 pm in reply to: Why Whoopi Goldberg’s asserion was hurtful #2057383besalelParticipantavram: maybe she meant that there are other evils in this world besides white v black. not that white/white evil is lesser than black/white evil. If there was any priors with whoopie and anti-semitism (like if it was AOC who said such a thing or Ilan Omhar) then I get why everyone would rightfully assume the statement is designed to minimize the atrocity but why do we assume whoopie meant it that way?
i think this whole tumhult exposed a very simple fact: there is no such thing as race. it is a made up word that people use to divide and hate on one another. race cannot be the pigmentation of the skin because Moroccans, african americans and dominicans all run the same color but are three different races. how are indians and chinese both of the same race – asian? it makes no sense. there is no such as thing as race and i wish people would stop using the word. i know i long ago refused to answer any questions anywhere on race. as a child, already. i never imagined that “sex/gender” would get eliminated before race.
besalelParticipantThe article did not bother me and actually touched upon a point I feel strongly abouit. I think we in the Orthodox world have to be more vocal about the fact that unaffiliated American Jews or those who are Reform (and probably Conservative, too) are not actually Jewish. We need to treat them and consider them non-Jews – unless there is evidence to the contrary.
The fact is, most Americans who consider themselves Jewish (but are not Orthodox) are not the child of a Jewish mother. They may have a Jewish relative or they may have a relative who converted into Judaism under a non-orthodox “conversion” but that is about it.
And long gone are the days that non-orthodox Jews had something, anything, Jewish about them. A majority do not believe in God (and that goes for their rabbis, too). They don’t care about kosher, pesach, nothing. The last vestige of Judaism they held on to was Israel but that is not the case any more, either.
So to recap, they were not born Jewish, they do not believe in Judaism (or any religion for that matter) and have no connection to Israel. In what way are they Jewish? The answer is, they are not.
So thankfully intermarriage is diluting these people – more and more every year – but the time has come to stop looking at them as Jews, at all.
Now, I do not hate them in any way. I am delighted the rabbi and his congregation were saved. Unlike R’ Avigdor Miller who says he hated reformed, I do not. But I do not hate people just because they are not Jewish. They are not Jewish. Full stop.
God willing, if more Jews take this approach, we can stop hearing about “Jews for [insert liberal/anti-Torah phrase here]”, women of the wall, etc. We can stop hearing about these goyim masquerading as Jews and supporting all sorts of anti-Jewish and anti-religion causes.
I wish them nothing but the best, as goyim. We do not need them and do not want them. Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.
January 12, 2022 3:41 pm at 3:41 pm in reply to: What Steps Will the Charedi World Take to Try to Prevent Abuse #2050763besalelParticipantuser176, i am somewhat offended by the idea that the parents of victims are to blame. and even more than the abuser? come on, man.
ujm: a little tricky since sharing links us forbidden. Maybe you can do a google search for “Eida Hachareidis Bans All Chaim Walder’s Books” and look for the blog entry dated june 17, 2021.
January 12, 2022 12:50 pm at 12:50 pm in reply to: What Steps Will the Charedi World Take to Try to Prevent Abuse #2050664besalelParticipantIt is interesting to note that the Edia Charedis Yerushalayim banned Walder books about six months before the allegations about him came to light in a written publication. The reason for the ban at that time was very murky. Something to do with the fact that he writes in a goyishe style. I really do wonder now whether the Eida was privy to the allegations and were doing what they thought was best to remove him from his position of power.
besalelParticipantAviraDeArah: I meant in children. Flu is more dangerous, hospitalizes more, kills more.
Ubiquitin: ive long ago been a supporter of legalizing marijuana. I don’t know if you are doing covid mandates any favor by defending them with marijuana laws that society today recognizes was a giant mistake.
Yankel der ganaf: you’re missing the point. i am pro-vax. I got vaxxed, my parents are vaxxed and my children are vaxxed. the point is if someone wants to be an idiot and not vaccinate thats their problem. they might die but that is the choice they made. why should it bother me or you.
besalelParticipantubiquitin: i think the point is that there seems to be no single rule. for example, it is much more important, for children’s safety, that every child get vaccinated against the flu every year – yet society has long ago accepted that we can’t force parents to do that. why is it that when it comes to covid, all societal norms, morals and ethics have gone out the window without any real debate on the issue? higzimu.
December 29, 2021 11:57 am at 11:57 am in reply to: My Poasts/Comments are not getting Approved. #2046049besalelParticipant“2 – Loshon Hara will not be tolerated at all. We are not and will not become Lashon Hara central (keep this in mind when starting a thread).”
Now, I don’t care who you are: that’s funny right there.
besalelParticipantthe little i know: i loved your response.
besalelParticipantRepublican: DeSantis and then Haley
Democratic: Tulsi GabbardbesalelParticipantabsurd. come on, man.
besalelParticipantI would need some more evidence of authenticity including proof of chain of custody. A few questions: the letter is dated April 17, 2019. How did it come to light now? (mendy said he left the cult in 2018) In the recording the woman is telling us they were commanded to slaughter the children. The letter seems to suggest poisoning. When was the recording made?
An actual news article looking to inform the public would have included some of these facts.
I am not looking to defend Lev Tahor but i would like to know more before reaching any conclusions. We know that one individual at the head of the hunt of lev tahor also called the goy from lebanon/texas a hezbollah terrorist and we now know that this was not true. Can we hold up a second before we rush to judgment? This letter could very well be authentic and if it is, there are no words to describe the evil and horror but can we just make sure that it is, please?
November 20, 2021 10:25 pm at 10:25 pm in reply to: The most unexpected place where you met yid. #2031118besalelParticipantCommon saychel: I’m pretty sure you can inn hike that stretch.
November 18, 2021 11:02 am at 11:02 am in reply to: The most unexpected place where you met yid. #2030332besalelParticipantcommon saychel: was he thru hiking? i always wondered if its possible to thru hike the at as a frum jew.
besalelParticipantujm: there is no evidence of that at all.
besalelParticipantanonymo usJew hit the nail the head. I will add this: all music you hear today evolved from other music. ALL. no exceptions. full stop.
besalelParticipantubiquin really hit it on the head. I will add the reverse also: there are virtually no studies which discuss the vaccine’s correlation to causing alzheimers. there are no studies comparing whether or not the vaccine causes muscular sclerosis or lung cancer.
besalelParticipantOrech, osteopathic medicine believes you can treat one part of the body to heal another. The discipline has been at “war” with pharmaceutical medicine about your very question over the past 150 years. It will not be resolved by a bunch of us dummies here in the coffee room.
besalelParticipantI don’t think too many non-chabadnicks interpret it as literal as you charge. The concept is kabbalistic in nature and therefore, obviously, not literal. Except for chabad and maybe some other chassidut.
besalelParticipantQuite frankly, the unconstitutional silencing of certain point of views (e.g., anti-vax) actually hurt the sane arguments on the other side.
Let me explain:
First of all, it is unconstitutional. I know, I know. Twitter, Facebook are private. But when private companies have swallowed up 75%+ of the public discourse arena then constitutional protections must extend to them, as well. Its plain logic.
More importantly, as a free society we encourage public discourse – partly because of its evolutionary ability to sift out the garbage. It does not happen right away but eventually, nonsensical arguments like those espoused by the anti-vaxxers are exposed for the utter garbage that they are. Without the dialogue, this will never happen and the garbage arguments will forever remain hidden beneath the surface waiting to trap its next victim.
Free Speech NOW!
besalelParticipantwe should all prepare for elections to take place around chanuka time.
besalelParticipantshomershabbat: i agree 10000% with your comment.
As for the vaccines, I do not seriously fear them for my kids but I really do not see the point of having healthy children vaccinated for a disease that does not affect healthy children. There is virtually zero risk to children from COVID and those who are at risk are getting vaccinated.
All of my children have always been up to date on all vaccines but I just do not see any medical benefit in having healthy children vaccinated against Covid.
Now, there may be social benefits to having the kids vaccinated and since i do not fear the vaccines I most likely will have them vaccinated if that’s the only way we can fly without masks or get into certain countries or venues but from a medical standpoint I really do not see the need at all.
besalelParticipantessmeir: avraham burg also wore a kippa. Gilad Kariv also wears a kippa. Have you forgotten about Tzvia Greenfeld? Please.
besalelParticipantCome on, if you think Yishai’s goals are any different than his father’s you are sadly mistaken. Yishai just knows how to present his platform to the public in a package more readily received. Tommy was a boor and Yishai is Hollywood. That’s the only difference. That rat-toothed punk Bennet knows this too. He simply does not care.
I hope that after Sharon, Olmert and now Bennet/Shaked, religious Jews have learned their lesson to never trust a secular rightist. A secular rightist is either a fascist, a Xenophobe or, in the best case, a leftist in disguise. If nationalism means that much to the religious voter, they have Smotrich or Otzma to choose from. Otherwise, vote chareidi. Stop getting suckered by secular rightists.
besalelParticipantHealth. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Israel always stands a chance because of hashem. There are some politicians who spit on Torah learning and many more who cherish it and as a result there is more Torah being learned today in Israel (with substantial governmental subsidy) than there ever was. Look we are all upset that rat faced bennet showed his true colors but seriously, relax. Hakol Tov veyihyeh yoter tov mizeh.
besalelParticipanttommy was the father yomach shemo. this move will only strengthen likud in the next elections.
besalelParticipantThe time is as follows: the (very leftist, pro-Arab) Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the 1956 takeover of a Jewish home by Palestinians in Sheik Jara was illegal and its tenants are squatters. In response to a legal ruling, the Arabs of Shiek Jara resorted to violence and began stoning Jews from Beit Yisrael and randomly beating Yeshiva students in public. That caused a jewish organization called Lehava to come to the defense of the yeshiva boys. In response, Arabs in Al Aqsa started firing fireworks and throwing rocks from inside the mosque at jewish worshippers at the kotel below. All these videos you see of weapons explosions in Al Aqsa are arabs firing fireworks not israeli law enforcement officers. Hamas then began bombarding Israel with rockets even though it knows that it has no means of stopping retaliatory strikes. Hamas, essentially is willing to concede Arab live in Gaza in order to gain popularity in the streets.
besalelParticipantGH: your comment is way out of line. To blame Israel for having rockets fired on itself is a shameful, immoral and unethical take on what is happening there. Shame on you.
besalelParticipantujm touched upon an important point. The Hareidi world has always recognized female rabbis (Reb’ Yemima Mizrachi, for example. the woman mentioned by yserbius, another example). We simply used the term we already had in place for the wives of Rabbis and applied it to female rabbis. Is the difference between the Hareidi world and the open orthodox world on this issue just a matter of semantics?
besalelParticipantFrom what I have read, in a public setting, Israel told Iran that Israel has run hundreds of operations in Syria. Was this information not known to anyone and everyone in the world?
besalelParticipantcatch yourself: very well said.
besalelParticipantWith respect to the death sentence, many liberals I know believe that in a world operated by the sanhedrin we can have the death penalty (once every seventy years) but in this terribly flawed justice system, the death penalty should never play a part.
besalelParticipantthe beaver brand is (ironically) usually made of low quality rabbit. borsalino has a beaver line as do many others. i believe every roche is a blend of mostly beaver + some rabbit and they also do a pure beaver.
besalelParticipantThe truth about hats: hats are made of a natural material – fur- so it is very hard for a company to mass produce and keep quality the same year over year. Some years, one brand may find a good fur provider and other years a different brand will have found the best provider. Therefore, brands do not matter. Instead, first you need to ask, is this beaver fur? rabbit fur? Beaver is usually better than rabbit but not all furs are the same. Feel it with your hand. Run along the felt and test its snap and thickness. I have seen gorgeous borsalinos and ugly ones. Gorgeous Roches and uglies. Same for every brand.
besalelParticipantNetanyahu has been great but having someone serve as prime minister indefinitely is not good for the country no matter how great that person is. In a country of 7.5 million Jews there is no one else that can be prime minister. Come on. Now is the time for Bibi to plan his successor.
besalelParticipantcoffee addict; i think you are correct but it makes no sense. I love him and he has been great but there are other talented people in israel. he needs to be thinking about a way to end his legacy on a high and this would be the perfect way. plus he will rule for another 3-4 years. i don’t get it.
besalelParticipantThis deadlock can easily be overcome. New Hope and Likud have the same exact values. The only reason New Hope exists is because of a personal problem with Netanyahu. If Netanyahu makes the following offer to New Hope; join us and I promise to never run again in another election for the rest of my life, New Hope will get what it wants: an end to the reign of King Netanyahu. You will then have a right-wing government as follows: Likud 30 + Shas 9 + Yamina 7 + UTJ 7 + New Hope 6 + Religious Zionist 6 = 65.
Netanyahu can then “leave on his own terms” and work over the course of the next government to set up his chosen successor. New Hope would achieve its goals of ending the Netanyahu run, the people of Israel who have now voted over and over again for a right/religious government can get what they want, Lieberman will become irrelevant and disappear overnight – its a win/win/win/win.
besalelParticipantujm: so would it be true then that when organizations and people target a person for not giving a get, what they are really doing is targeting him for being a msareiv but essentially they are permitted to target him? would it not also then be true that if, lets say, a mother of a “get refuser” is given a hazmonos beis din but she is msareiv (or is it msarevet?) beis din then the mother must suffer the same negative consequences?
besalelParticipantujm: what if the husband refuses to go to beis din? because that is what happens in 99% of aguna cases. then how long after he refuses to go to beis din is he considered a “get refuser?” or he plays the system by agreeing to one beis din and then setting a trial date and then not showing up and arguing that he wants a different beis din (which is not even permitted by halacha). what then?
You gave a very nice halachic explanation but it is not very practical.
besalelParticipantsyag: whats more, a lot of women who first enter the world of divorce are very frightened that they will become agunas and this fear, perhaps, causes them to jump the gun so to speak, and start howling about a get, long before the time comes. ive seen that happen a lot.
besalelParticipantCTLawyer: lets not pretend art had anything to do with the music. He was a tag along because of his golden voice. You’re quoting Paul.
besalelParticipantBaltimore Maven: I havent looked at the crc article being cited here by others in a long while but i remember a footnote in it saying r’ heineman was mattir although i think in practice the star k does not allow it in order to placate the kanoyim.
Also, I have previously heard the arguments by those who claimed that r’ moshe was not really mattir and did not find them very compelling at all. I have a longer list of those who were mattir but I only write those that it was publicized that they were mattir.
Harambam hilchot Maachlot Asurot 11:15 is clearly mattir. The Gemoroh Avoda Zara, daf chaf tes, which he bases his ruling on also is pretty clear that it is permitted. The S”A in siman kuf lamed zayin, sif daled also is meikil.
Gadolhadora: that is not how halacha is made.
besalelParticipantaccording to rav moshe, rav miller, rav heineman, rav ovadia (and others) it is ok. according to rav belsky it is not ok.
February 9, 2021 7:18 pm at 7:18 pm in reply to: Where is Yeshivas Kodshim of Lakewood located? #1946750besalelParticipantSan Francisco.
besalelParticipantcharliehall: we have seen two giant assaults on our democracy this past week. a bunch of hillbillys committing the low level crime of trespass and the four largest tech corporations banding together to silence thought. Which was, in your view, poses a greater threat to (1) liberty and (2) yidden?
besalelParticipantAn Israeli Yid: Its funny because I know a number of american chareidi gedolim who wear tekhelet under their clothing and hide it away for the same reason R’ Belsky mentioned. I find it funny when I hear their talmidim go off the rails defending the (really nonsensical, imo) position that its assur to wear it. I do not divulge what i know in honor and reverence of the gedolim but i still find it hysterical.
December 30, 2020 5:54 pm at 5:54 pm in reply to: President Trump Releases Jonathon Pollard From Parole to go to Israel #1933804besalelParticipantujm, trump is a good man and a great president but he had nothing in the world to do with this. pollard served his full 30 years and then his full 5 years probation. i have found no evidence, anywhere, which supports your claim that it was “widely” expected that pollard’s parole was going to be extended – nor did I hear anything of that sort mentioned at any time in the past – and this is an issue that is close to my heart and which i follow closely.
besalelParticipantparticipant: to avoid the fine, no one will get tested and people who could have been treated early will die because they did not get tested.
that is the shortest reason among a very long list of reasons why this may be the worst idea i ever heard of in my life to address any problem ever. The worst.
November 18, 2020 12:56 pm at 12:56 pm in reply to: Massive Pennsylvania Supreme Court Defeat for Trump’s Incompetent Legal Team #1920955besalelParticipantAbba S is right on point! I was thinking the same thing.
OP wrote: “Time for the Trump cult to admit that it lost. Badly” – i do wish trump would stop with the stolen election nonsense BUT those people you call the “trump cult” are actually half of the population of the US and 75-80% of Jews in this country (please note, i do not consider most american jews to be jews -as they are not halachic jews nor do they have any affiliation to judaism nor do they practice any religion- hence the 75-80% number). they are not a cult. they are half of america and most of the people you associate with. they include intelligent, smart, rational, caring men and women. they are your chavrussa, your shochet, your doctor, your neighbor and your rabbi.
Trump did not lose badly by any measure. 10,000 votes here and 10,000 there. statistically, it was a tie. it went to game 7 and biden won in extra innings. half of this country will feel like they do not have a president for the next four years just like half of this country did not have one the last four.
OP, like many democrats and republicans alike, has a very difficult time acknowledging the strength and popularity of the other side. The failure to acknowledge the existence and legitimacy of the other side is as dangerous to the future of this country as trump’s failure to acknowledge that he lost. People like OP (and Trump, for that matter) need to stop tearing this country apart at the seams.
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