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I love the way the first two parts of Popa’s

last post set up perfectly for the third one.

1. I agree that that would be nice.

2. Such sections probably wouldn’t be updated often

enough to motivate people to check it themselves.

3. Trolls would not use a section designated for them, and this whole “bored” is just that. I think threads generally get at least as much attention as they deserve.

4/5. The general inability to contact another poster about something that isn’t a thread topic without posting in a thread is annoying. However, I don’t know if bbPress even

supports private messages or profile messages, and I highly

doubt the mods want the burden of deciding whether specific

private communications are safe.

Perhaps there should be a stickied thread for non-topical messages,

and everyone would check to see if anyone had

left a message for them every once in a while.

twisted:

Clarification (possibly unnecessary): The possibility that I assume you would not have considered in that case is that I was using “Chareidi” as a pejorative.

(Also, I wrote “if the mods approve it” because

a previous response had been rejected.)

I did not cover the option of leaving in the face of foreign

demand because I just didn’t think of it at the time, and I

realize now that it’s a good thing I didn’t mention it.

I’m not done with you yet (unless the mods say so, anyway)…

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Sam:

Having thought it over, I assume that by “pre-Chanukah-like tragedy” you meant a desire by Jews to be accepted by and/or

similar to the other nations.

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zahavasdad:

Weren’t the Chareidim (and everyone else) unaware of the full threat in 1939? Also, it is a spiritual response that is called for in the face of a physical threat in the chareidi mind.

(Theoretical aside:

I doubt one from Europe’s chareidi minority alone would have been enough, and wonder whether by the time the war started it would

already have been too late.)

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For a premise to be flawed, it must be illogical, not merely not

have usually been the case before. Also, if when there wasn’t a

religious majority they took up arms, why couldn’t they do so if

they were the majority?

Or am I not getting something?

Did you perhaps mean that this situation would not be

the same as the one at the time of the Chasmonaim?

In case you haven’t seen it, I’ve responded to an old post of yours here:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/nechama-cohens-new-single#post-550522

(I’m not sure you’d check that thread without this notice.)

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Popa:

I considered questioning your use of “gymnasium,” but

according to You-Know-What, Israel has five of them.

To answer your question about Herod, I’d revert it. And seeing

as I don’t know how reverts are counted for the three-revert rule, if it was locked on your version, I’d check the edit

history and cite the primary source instead.

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oomis:

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Mods:

Please delete only the specific section(s), if any, you deem unfit for publication. You wouldn’t make me break this into six parts (seven with this) and wait 60 seconds between putting up each one, would you?

Lior:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/suc-grand-master-member-list/page/3#post-550551

Discipline ever tell you how evil auto-complete programs are?

Speaking of your past, were you joking a couple of years

ago when you mentioned writing a book about it?

(I was looking through old threads trying to

find as many musicians as I could, because of >this<.)

I also want to THE NEW SEMINARY. 😉

But seriously, do those ads not tell you how you

can ask them (instead of us) about their program?

Here’s what I was talking about:

Haifagirl: Go to YouTube and search for “fast Jewish music.” There’s plenty.

Cozimjewish: I can’t access YouTube…..

Me (the next post): She probably won’t see that post either. : 🙂

The first post she didn’t see, of course, was the first time

you said that you didn’t have access to YouTube.

(I had considered putting her name in my post.

I’ll have to err on the side of caution in future.)

PAA:

This time, you mistook me as being serious.

To clarify my view in this discussion:

Hashem fights for our physical survival (this does not mean that

there’s no rule of “Habo l’harg’cha hashkeim l’hargo”), and we fight when He presents us with a violent challenge to our Yiddishkeit. (That’s the ideal, anyway – see Logician’s post.)

“[T]o preserve or restore Jewish sovereignty” is not something

Chareidim believe in fighting for as an ideal, and historically

speaking, lack of a Jewish government in Eretz Yisrael has not

prevented us from living there, so the country in question being

Eretz Yisrael doesn’t matter.

So, were a foreign power to give a Chareidi government,

in Eretz Yisrael or elsewhere, the option of peacefully

surrendering to them (becoming subject to foreign taxation, etc.),

I think we’d take it. Does anyone here disagree?

The possibility should not have entered your mind any more

than I assume it would have if I’d posted the following:

“Why would Zionists fight to keep kollelim in operation?

That’s a Chareidi ideal…”

A self-governing Jewish country is something that

Zionism believes in and believes in fighting for.

I don’t think it’s possible to disagree with that.

(Supports:

1. Did anything other than Zionism motivate the fight

for Israeli independence?

2. The term used in Hebrew for Religious Zionists literally means “Nationalist Religious.”)

Here’s hoping not to look ignorant…

Sam, what did you mean by “a pre-Chanukah-like tragedy?”

Hey, you’re back! You had me a little worried. 🙂

Re: Yossi Green

Here’s what A 600 Kilo Bear, the late great Creedmoorer Roov,

had to say, about what I assume was that interview, in 2008:

Yossi Green as a composer is no more of an authority on music than a butcher is on hilchos schechita. Or should I respect

I think it happened because you actually were talking about subtitles.

She probably won’t see that post either. : 🙂

Oh, and SIDI, I was blocked. I think I’m being made to use this account (which I had made to ask to be unblocked with) instead as punishment.

Not as a punishment, as a reminder to follow the rules. It is apparently not working.

I forgot to say – I would probably see anything you wanted to say to me much faster if you put it on my profile instead of in a post. Or is that difficult/inconvenient?

EDIT: Should I not have assumed this was one of the old technical support threads? I didn’t read it before posting.

Once more, if a post is deleted, do not try to resubmit it in any form. Your final warning.

Patur (and anyone else interested), how would you explain this line of the Radak (from your first quote)?

???? ??? ????? ????? ?????? ??? ???? ????? ????? ???

My question is, how is ????? ??? connected to their wives being beautiful? (It also needs to make sense for ???????? ???? ?????,

unless you want to explain that differently.)

as being about complexion, and ??? ???? as about the shape of the face.

one for men and one for women.

I thought of explaining ????? ????? ??? as about

Do you have any more possible explanations, or perhaps

a better understanding of one of mine?

And I would further extend it to any insult.

Take that Me, you mean – Zelig was the one who was putting

health first, and you argued for the precedence of safety.

Someone had already agreed with you, though – me! I’ll do it again:

If “Dept. of Health and Safety” is a precedent,

“Safety first!” is a well-known principle!

Take that, Zelig (who isn’t reading this, otherwise I wouldn’t say it)!

Then you should have mentioned him to begin with.

Cozimjewish doesn’t have YouTube access, so you might want

to find an alternate location and post it in her thread.

I don’t know Shir HaShirim either.

That’s not good, but what’s the big deal?

[Achievement Unlocked!] (Where’s my dollar?)

Patur, you should be able to find a string of text

unique to that page to post here, but you needn’t

bother. Just tell me if any of them say “Nishtanu

hat’va’im,” or state categorically that there are

exactly 613 seeds in all healthy pomegranates.

Shir HaShirim is an allegory, not a euphemism (as Oomis said).

It is not meaningless when read literally, but the literal meaning is not the intended one. (In fact, it is assur to translate it literally, not that that stopped some Jews… ArtScroll describes their own Shir HaShirim

as “an allegorical translation based upon Rashi.”)

Okay, many more Jews speak Hebrew and English

than Yiddish, but how many non-Jews speak Yiddish?

It certainly does. I just didn’t remember it.

(I know that I saw it before my previous post because

my post in that thread is older than the one here.)

Correction:

“I assume he mentions the bracketed part because we can assume that”

should read “Presumably,”.

Also, I forgot to mention that in the future, I think you should mention when the teshuva you’re quoting is by a Modern Orthodox rav, as I’m sure some of us would not give such an opinion as much weight.

Do you think I should read the rest of the teshuva, Patur?