Happy new year

How come no one ever mentions me?
im really insulted – i work so hard getting attn

@huju
you’re right. money is what lasts long term(usually), not much else.
Beauty, Middos and all that other stuff changes

I would answer the Q like this:
start making money young (as a skill or business) and invest young.

The chashmonoim who fought the secular jews (and eventually the Greek empire which supported the secular) were not the same ppl as those who killed the rabbis. That was their grandchildren, who were mad at the rabbis for paseling them from kehuna because of their mother being a captive.
And I’m not condoning murder, especially a random girl who did nothing. Pick on someone your own size

All I’m saying is that it’s possible for such a thing to actually be a massive kiddush hashem, in certain specific circumstances, with those who oppose actually creating the chillul hashem.
Where and when is the major question. Most corruption in religion stems from a misapplication or misunderstanding of an underlying truth.
Definition of kiddush hashem, showing that torah and hashem is important. Chillul hashem is the opposite. Doesn’t bother you? That might be a chillul hashem…….

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Adam knew everything. He saw from one end of the world to the next. Hinduism just happens to be an ancient expression of ancient religions, but you could say the same about most ancient Middle Eastern ones as well.

MDG nad ujm, look at tosfos yevamos 47b – if a master gives up hope (and every jew has inheritors [and the possessions of a ger who dies becomes hefker anyway]), then it’s like he’s mafkir him, and hamafkir avdo yatza lcherius – if you are mafkir a slave, he becomes fully jewish

@coffe addict
i wanna cry over how close you are. The rabbis told Agripas, his grandson, not to cry because he is “our brother in commandments” – in other words, a slave is still better than a goy. But, they were wrong for pandering to him in a way which against halacha. Rashi says his Agrippas’ mother was jewish, but as tosfos (yevamos 47b) asks, then there should have been no problem with him being a leader, so Hordus’ wife must have not been jewish.

Rav Kaufman, i dont mean to kauf with you, but what you are saying is what secular historians say, who KNOW NOTHING OF BASIC JEWISH LAW OR CULTURE, but yet they feel the right to talk about jewish history!
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FORCED CONVERSION – PERIOD! IT DOESNT WORK!
Yochanan did NOT convert the inhabitants of Edom (SEE BELOW**), but rather forcibly ENSLAVED (which is worse? idk….) them, which is fine in Jewish law. The Gemara says MANY times that Herod and his family were SLAVES!
From a secular historians perspective, enslavement LOOKS like forced conversion – forced Milah and forced following of commandments – but to say “forced conversion” is simply a LIE and a perversion of jewish law and culture, instead say “forced enslavement”.

(**who were NOT edomim, btw, as the Assyrians had mixed EVERYONE up centuries earlier. The real Edomim were moved to a province in modern Turkey which the Assyrians called Idumea. From there, refugees during the Trojan war (which is controversial itself) moved into Europe, all over – like all Phoenicians who founded European civilization, but specifically founded the city of Rome (Remus and Romulus – sons of RED Mars))

do they have minivans?

REAL yeshiva ppl, are NOT on the internet!
GET OFF!

@Reb Eliezer
with all due respect – that is not right to say.
you are also only doing it as a custom of your fathers.
and its not true at all. at least not today (maybe then).
most of them came to this AZ themselves – they have a tayva for it – just like in the old days –
IT WAS NEVER BATEL a total lie! dont tell me chazal say it was batel.
with all due respect, it was never batel. AZ is just as much alive today as ever (obviously excluding the appx 35% of the world who is Muslim; [atheists 100% believe in AZ, they just dont worship it – they overpowered the gods of nature]).
i dont know what chazal meant – but definitely not the simple explanation.

@Menachem Shmei
first of all, most rishonim and the gemara holds it IS avoda zara for all – bferush. (any svara to be mchalek????????)
Second, if the overwhelming shitas hold the world is flat – does that make it flat?

the fact is that shituf is denying God ENTIRELY and is the SAME as ANY ancient avoda zara who viewed the god (sun, rain etc….) as manifestations of the supreme power.
if god is a creation, then how do you know he exists – who created him? He must be the creator of all creation. if you think he is a creation – you are ENTIRLY DENYING the creator – exactly as ALL ancient avoda zaras.

@cofee addict:
The sinas chinam of 2nd temple was NOT between Rabbis and tzadoqin.
We are SUPPOSED to hate the Reshaim – and even put them to death if that is according to the law of G-D.
rather, the sinas chinam of 2nd temple was BETWEEN Torah observant jews and each other.
kamtza and bar kamtza and the bal habayis were all frum jews

lets first get cell phone and internet service in Ocean County, NJ – then we could about upstate boondocks

They had the ashes of the Parah for 300 years after the churban – it was only after the cursed Christians expelled us from the land that we lost the ashes – and MUCH more etc…

my Q is: when it’s the right time to build – how will we? the mishna in Parah says that by 2nd Temple they had ashes from that had been brought to Bavel and back (big sugya).
If we need to build in order to have parah, then we have no choice but to go up btuma. and if we DONT need Miqdash for Parah – then why cant we do it now?

I hope it happens quick – so we can start the recovery already. The next 10 15 years should as amazing the last.

Alot of ppl focus on the husband not following halacha – but few focus on the wife (if supported) not being allowed to spend ANYTHING on her own EVEN IF SHE EARNED it, without his permission.
Nowadays, when many women CAN work – THEY WANT to! so that they can spend their money as they please

@maskildoresh
your internet works in the bathroom? lucky you!

in lakewood, the chassidim say tachnun even if it’s an hour after the first shkiyah.

@sensibleyid: we dont pasken like rebbi that tchelis is me’acev.

The askenazi rishonim pasken like Rava that all minim are d’raysa, but the Sphardi rishonim pasken like R Nachman and Tana Dbei R Yshmael that only Wool and Linen are D’oraysa.
(FYI, the Gaon wore Linen – not cotton, big difference! because his other undergarments were linen and he didnt want shaatnez – but linen is also d’oraysa for sure;
but Rabenu Tam held wearing linen is Assur mdrabanan because might wear tchelis (wool) on it on a nighttime garment – which wont be doche the lav of shaatnez)

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and the truth is that ALL MAN MADE religions started as cults 100%

The ONLY difference between one and the other is that G-D HAS a true WILL –
once you find that TRUE WILL – you will know the difference between man made CULTS which became respected religions over time – and the true WILL of G-D will can AND will have major consequences for those who don’t follow it (if they are supposed to…..)

And while there SHOULD be discussion about the what the TRUE will is, there should NOT be discussion about if it matters or not, once it is proven to be true.

@jews4biden
ATHIESTS are just as religious as anyone else – they are polytheists %100.
They worship the gods of Creation – and their belief system is just as religious as everyone else.
just as radical as everyone else.

Dont try to make it sound like they arent religious – that is PROPAGANDA!!

@huju
btw, many jews had long peyos way before chasidim – just like jews wore long coats and spoke yiddish way before them. in fact, most of what we “call” chasidish today, is actually what mot jews had all along. (so “chasidish” is actually reffering to something else entirely)

The yeminite jews have had peyos for a long time, and the LITVAKS and graniks (cant get any less chasidish than that) had peyos and STILL have peyos. it was the modern yeshivas in the 1800′ that took it all off.
Thank You for the history lesson!

@Shimon Nodel:
it seems you are suffering from severe PTSD

Obviously, we all know that lemech killed kayin, if you look in Koheleth Rabbah 6:3 it only says that the mabul washed away his body so he didnt have kvurah