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“We can complain that rose bushes have thorns or we can rejoice that thorn bushes have roses.” -Abraham Lincoln
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ibid
“You aren’t a failure until you start to blame”. – John Wooden
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin
“The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.”
“Life’s problems wouldn’t be called “hurdles” if there wasn’t a way to get over them.”
“To the world, you may be one person; but to one person, you may be the world.”
“The only reward of taking the easy path is that it’s easy.”
“There are no short cuts to any place worth going.”
“Don’t tell God how big your problems are. Tell your problems how big God is.”
“The Biggest Mistake you could ever make is being to afraid to make one.”“Who is rich? One who is satisfied with his lot.”
“Who is strong? One who overpowers his inclinations.”-Ben Zoma Pirkei Avos
If Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.” – Bibi Netanyahu
“The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” -Abe Lincoln
Do not look at the vessel, but what is in it.”
Jealousy, lust, and honor remove a person from the world.”– Pirkei Avos
“Who is a smart man? He who looks into the future.” – Pirkei Avos
“I’ve failed over and over again in my life, and that’s why I succeed.” – Michael jordan
“I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.” – ibid“Yes, there are some worth Satmar mosdos who do incredible work here in hospitals etc., this chilul hashem trivializes those efforts”.
Are you hashem? Do you know what hashem considers great or trivial? How do you that it’s a chilul hashem? If done right it can be a major kiddush hashem…
“Their mindless claims”
The Satmar rebbe was a bigger tzaddik than you or I will ever be even though we may not agree and our rabbanim might not agree that does not mean you can disrespect hashem and those close to him…
“She’ll be trading in the convertible for a married lady’s car suitable for hauling groceries, etc.”
CTL: What’s wrong with hauling groceries in a convertible?
I heard a great vort that can be related here as well imho.
The mishnah says “hevey dan es kol haadam l’kaf zechus” which translates to “you should judge all man favourably.”
The question is why does it say haadam “the” man it seems extra?The beautiful answer is that you should read it as “if you judge the [whole] man it will be favourably.
Meaning…if you saw the WHOLE “person” ( as in his “pekeleh” / life story / motivations etc… ) it would be CLEAR why you shouldn’t judge him.
(It’s much better in hebrew but I can’t type it…sorry)
I think you could apply a similar hashkafah here because we can’t see the full picture by anyone or ourselves but if we did…“This is even the case among frum families where women are permitted to drive.”
Joseph: I know plenty of families that the wife is the primary driver..it’s usually just whoever likes driving more / whoever is more comfortable driving..and that’s how it should be…
No to the details but I’m pretty sure the barclays center doesn’t seat anywhere near 50,000..more like 15,000…
There’s no I in team. But there’s an I in win. – Michael Jordan
There’s no I in team. There’s no U either. – guy I know
There’s no I in team. There is M-E… – guy I know
“I’m not doing nothing I’m DOING nothing.” – Every guy ever…
A rabbi was walking down the street when he came upon a group of about a dozen boys, all of them between 10 and 12 years of age.
The group had surrounded a dog. Concerned lest the boys were hurting the dog, he went over and asked “What are you doing with that dog?”
One of the boys replied, “This dog is just an old neighborhood stray. We all want him, but only one of us can take him home. So we’ve decided that whichever one of us can tell the biggest lie will get to keep the dog.”
Of course, the rabbi was taken aback. “You boys shouldn’t be having a contest telling lies!” he exclaimed. He then launched into a ten minute sermon against lying, beginning, “Don’t you boys know it’s a sin to lie,” and ending with, “Why, when I was your age, I never told a lie.”
There was dead silence for about a minute. Just as the rabbi was beginning to think he’d gotten through to them, the smallest boy gave a deep sigh and said, “All right, give him the dog.”
Two Arabs are sitting in a Gaza bar chatting over a pint of fermented goat’s milk.
One pulls his wallet out and starts flipping through pictures and they start reminiscing.
“This is my oldest son, he’s a martyr.”
“This is my second son. He is a martyr also.”
After a pause and a deep sigh, the second Arab says wistfully, “They blow up so fast, don’t they?”
A rabbi was giving his first sermon at the inauguration of the new shul. The sanctuary had wonderful new stained glass windows, so he wanted to craft his sermon to highlight the new windows, and also talk about how the new shul should serve as an important place to educate the children of the community. The rabbi’s message centered on how each child is like a canvas, a picture, just like each pane of stained glass.
And then he said, “You see each one of you is a little pane.” And then pointing to each child, “You’re a little pane. And you’re a little pane. And you’re a little pane. And…”
“You can’t battle against technology because you don’t have any weapons.”
RY: You have the torah, davening, siyata d’shmaya and yiras shomayim those are as powerful weapons as you can get…
The war is not over! The war will never be over!! As long as there are yidden that care about hashem and his torah the war will not be over!!!!!
We don’t know you and your “various reasons”…also you want a school “for just twelfth graders” ??
I’m no posek but i’m 99.9 % sure that it is ASSUR to use bar soap on shabbos.
Liquid is also a problem so I recommend that you ask your LOR…“Huh? How could you say that?”
meno: For EVERY jew that was not religious and wouldn’t have become (which was a lot) it was the BEST thing that could have ever happened to them!Also like LU said: ” Everything that happens is the best thing that can happen to everyone. ”
Meaning themselves and/or the world…During the holocaust, the Gedolim tried to save as many Jews as they could – they didn’t say, “Great, they get to die al kiddush Hashem. Better they should die al kiddush Hashem now than die later not al kiddush Hashem.”
There is a halacha that you can’t stand idly and watch your brother die (which is any jew) therefore if you have a chance to save them you MUST.
That being said, for a lot (not all) of the jews that died in the holocaust r”l it was without question the best thing that ever happened to them and us…“Another example at the end of vidui on Yom kippur we say “..Mah shechatasi lefanecha mechok berachamecha harabim aval lo al yidei Yissurim….”
ubiq:
Dying al kiddush hashem and having yissurim are NOT the same thing and you can most definitely have one without the other…I’ve seen and used them and I don’t get it…
Shabbos.