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My understanding is that prayer is a service of the heart not of the lips. When you see people run through the amidah as fast as they can that’s sad. I’m not sure TBH it even counts as an amidah. I think it’s like going to a fancy dinner and your host pulled out all the stops. The first course you linger. WOW! The best soup I’ve ever had! You spend half an hour enjoying it. How it feels on your lips. The taste, the texture, etc. THERE’S MORE!?!? Then comes an appetizer. Later a salad. Later something to freshen your palate. And so on. This person who went to such trouble to make such an elaborate meal, do you rush through? It’s an insult. Now too often I DO in fact rush through. And it’s sad. I know it doesn’t make G-d happy the way sitting and really talking with Him from my heart does.
Another thought I had. The line where something is lashon harah is it generally clear, but not always crisp and clear. If I am about to do something on Shabbos and it is not entirely clear, is it allowed or is it prohibited, it is a big deal to violate Shabbos. I will not do it. If there is a piece of food that I want to eat, and it might be kosher, but it might not be. It is a big deal and I am not going to eat it.
Lashon hara or motzei Shem ra is the same. You need to be very very, very certain that what you are doing is perfectly righteous. If there is any doubt would violate Shabbos? Would you eat something not kosher? This is worse than that. Someone who violate Shabbos or someone who eats not Kosher can have that action not only disappear but actually become a merit through teshuvah.
If this indeed is bad speech there is no forgiveness for you. It is impossible for you to do teshuvah. You would need to find every single one of the millions of people you said our equivalent to Nazis and ask their forgiveness. This is like the moshol of the Baal lashon harah who asked the rabbi how to make teshuvah. The rabbi said take your down pillow to the center of the city and cut it open. And I think you know the rest of the moshol.
This is very dangerous stuff. Worse than eating not kosher. Worse even than violating Shabbos. Those can be forgiven through teshuvah. This cannot be forgiven through only teshuvah.
UJM – you are announcing that everyone who is not Torah-observant in the state of Israel is the same as a nazi. I am probably a lot older than you and I can tell you that at my age I realize there are a lot of things the younger me was sure about and quite strident about that as I became older I realized there is the possibility I might not be as right (or as righteous) as I thought. I learned that anger is a tool to be used when appropriate but it is very, VERY rarely appropriate and kindness and love is nearly always the right choice. In that case I learned when I am going to express anger I need to be VERY certain that is the correct choice because nearly always it is the wrong choice.
And even then, when anger should be expressed – certainly when giving tochacha – it CANNOT be expressed out of anger but rather only out of love. I do not get the sense that you love these poor Jews who were never exposed to Torah. Do you think when our Father in shemayim looks down he hates them and longs to strike them down or – like the poor Yidden stolen from their families in Russia to be sent to serve the czar, forced away from Judaism – he cries for them and longs for their return?
Do you think there is ANY chance that when you call them nazis they will think to themselves “you know what, UJM is right. I am going to do teshuvah?” That is not what kiruv does. That is certainly not what Chabad does. They will never return to their source without love. It seems to me your job is to love them and bring them back to Judaism.
My two cents. My understanding is there is no such thing as apokorsim today. Those who oppose Judaism do so out of ignorance. It is not our job to slander them. It is our job to inspire them and love them and bring them back to their Father who loves them more than we can possibly know.
These people are not R’ Acher. They do not know Torah. These are the Cantonists, removed from Yiddishkeit with Jewish neshamos. Love them. Don’t push them farther away from Torah. It’s hard. And calling them names feels so good. But in general calling people names feels good which is among the reasons we are forbidden and we destroy ourselves in the process.
I know I’m posting this all over the place but it’s because it’s true. Please read Chofetz Chaim. Please learn the laws of lashon harah. Is there a clear useful constructive point of saying such things about many of the Jews of Israel? It almost seems like Jews that consider themselves to be religious would never put something non kosher IN his mouth but does not care about all the even more dangerous non kosher coming out of his mouth.
We are delaying the geulah with such words.
It must make one wonder what kind of Torah does one learn if he’s so comfortable saying such things about Jews never exposed to real Torah. If this is what a yeshivah education causes … if this is the way of Jews who keep Shabbos and kosher but not lashon harah – what kind of education is that? Is it a kosher education?
My friends and brothers – the likelihood that any of us will solve this problem. Here is close to zero. The likelihood that we are slandering each other in our brothers and sisters, who have never been exposed to to Judaism is great. Please be careful with lashon harah. Many here are slandering holy Jews they have never met, assuming things about them that they simply do not know. I bet it is just as likely that we are delaying the geulah as much here in this discussion with ourslander as much as any Israeli never exposed to torah Judaism is by violating Shabbos.
Look for a shul that loves Jews.
Chabad anywhere welcomes all Jews regardless of their current level of observance. Their work is to inspire yidden to make mitzvos and love G-d.
If we want moshiach we have to love our fellow Jews whether they are already observant or not observant. And a reminder to some on this board – we are judged middah kneged middah. I hope I get to be judged with Chesed. I know I’m not pure enough to be judged with din.Somejewiknow – “There is NO place for loving apikorosim or minim or mechalilei shabbos b’farhesia in our Holy Torah.”
I would bet that at least 90% of world Jewry does not keep Shabbos. This is because they were never raised in proper yiddishkeit. So are we to throw away 90% of Jewry? They were never exposed to Torah Judaism. Not in any meaningful way.
Few people on any American college campus keep Shabbos or kosher. Few in any high school. Should we do away with outreach? All those holy yidden involved in kiruv should stop because it is forbidden to love our ignorant brothers and sisters? What about the holy yidden in Russia stolen from their villages and forced to work in the czar’s army?
Everything chassidism stands for is wrong? Kiruv is wrong? Is there not a pintele yid in every Jew longing to return to his holy Father?
I would caution everyone – H-shem LOVES the worst sinner in klal yisroel more than we’ve ever loved anyone ever in our entire lives. and He longs for him to return. The responses here have been very disappointing. Is our job to love klal yisroel and bring those not yet mitzvos observant back to our loving Father, or is our job to hate those H-shem loves – His children?
It is my understanding that there is no such thing as real apikorsim nowadays because those who are not yet mitzvah observant were never educated in yiddishkeit. They are simply ignorant. We can hate them and condemn them but that is NOT what H-shem does and not what He wants. If He hated them he could simply eradicate them. He longs not for their destruction but for their return to His ways.
How can we hate H-shem’s children who were simply never exposed to the beauty of yiddishkeit? He loves them. How can we hate them? Do we know more than Him?
Obviously hating our brothers and sisters is completely antagonistic to the Lubavitcher rebbe and all the Lubavitch movement and frankly the Besht so it seems unlikely we have followers of the Baal Shem Tov here … but imagine after 120 sitting in front of the Heavenly Court so proud that you rejected everyone who does not keep Shabbos and kosher how proud you will be and how shocked you will be when you see tears streaming down H-shem’s face “Why didn’t you love my children?” “Why did you cast them away and teach them My service is bitter when you could have loved them and brought them back to Me?”
9 Av just passed. I don’t see that Klal Yisroel will build the Beit HaMikdash anytime soon if we castigate and berate our brothers and sisters when we could love them and show them how beautiful it is to be a Jew.
HaKatan – ” A Jew needs to be among Torah Jews, not among heretics.”
Don’t tell the Lubavitcher Rebbe or any Chabadniks. Or Aish. Or Ohr Somayach.
There is a massive wave of baal teshuvah the last 20-30 Y. You can argue about why spiritually but from a practical perspective it is because of Chabad and Aish and similar that religious Jews are not condemning their brothers and sisters because they do not yet keep Shabbos but rather ahavas chesed, ahavas chinam, that they love their brothers and sisters – they love the Eibishter’s children – and long to bring them to yiddishkeit.
I would caution everyone here to avoid lashon harah. There is certainly a smell of it in this thread. The first temple was destroyed because of the three cardinal sins and yet was rebuilt only 70 years later. The second temple was destroyed because of sinas chinam and two thousand years later it is still not rebuilt BECAUSE we continue with sinas chinam and lashon harah. It would seem that lashon harah is even WORSE than murder, inappropriate relations, and idolatry. For those actions we were without a temple for 70 years. Because of sinas chinam and lashon harah we have been without a temple for over two thousand years.
I ask everyone please be careful with your words and please do not slander H-shem’s children, whether they keep Shabbos or not, whether they are Zionist or not. It is said there is no apikorsus in this day and age because those who disbelieve were never exposed to yiddishkeit. Please 9 Av just passed and we continue to spit on the temple. Please let’s do no more lashon harah.
I want moshiach. You’ll get no lashon hara from me. Half the people who post here really need to be careful what they write. They are delaying our redemption. The reason we do not have king moshiach now it’s not because the people are eating, not kosher. It is not because people are not studying enough Torah. Is because of.lashon hara.
It’s really not something most people see if you’re not on a college campus. Just keep your eyes open and head on a swivel as everyone should everywhere in the world.
This is all basic situational awareness and self defense training. Not karate but mostly situational awareness. Obviously the police are not there to stop crime. They are there to I imitate bad guys not to commit crime. But where the government encourages crime and does not prosecute – eg New York and California – the police don’t even perform that role.
I was raised Jewish but not fully Torah observant and became fully Torah observant but I recall there is a Gemara that says a father is obligated to teach his son a trade and how to swim which is to become self supportive and situationally aware and the skills to execute. It seems to me in the absence of an effective police force we each should take some self defense courses – not karate but to learn situational awareness and vehicle defense.
I work as a surgeon. There is no such thing as nutrition science. In medical school what we were taught was settled nutrition science the beginning of the semester was cast out by the end, replaced by a new for timed science. Eat a good healthy diet. Mostly fruits and vegetables and get protein in. Minimize processed foods. Aerobic and strength Exercise daily. It’s the same formula as it has always been. Be skeptical of any diet. Just eat healthy.
I just wrote the following to him on a separate post. I think he should really learn the news before posting. I think he does not learn about what is happening before posting. At least that’s how his posts read.
Fnadango – if you want to be informed you should start paying attention to the news. I’m not saying this is something for us to be informed about but if you want to be informed you should learn more about it.
Iran has been working on nuclear weapons for decades. Everyone said “isn’t it terrible,” and no one did anything about it. AND NO American president would let Israel do anything about it. Not GWB, Certainly not Obama who hates Israel, and certainly not Biden who was clearly incompetent his four years with the government run by Obama officials. In fact Obama and Biden advocated FOR a nuclear bomb for Iran. They took away sanctions, agreed not to allow inspections of their military nuclear facilities, and gave them billions of dollars to facilitate building a nuclear weapon as well as to facilitate terrorism.
These are all things you would know if you followed the news. I’m NOT saying you should follow the news but if you are going to comment you should.
It was Trump that freed Netanyahu’s hands to kill the killers. It was Trump that moved our embassy to Jerusalem. It was Trump that authorized weapons to Israel, when Obama and Biden each refused to send weapons to Israel when it was in a hot war (before and after Trump). And finally it was Trump who authorized Netanyahu to destroy Iran’s air defenses, air force, and nuclear proliferation sites, with Trump actually bombing and wrecking Fordow.
If you want Iran to have a nuclear weapon you vote for Democrats. If you want Iran NOT to have a nuclear weapon you vote Republican. And daven.
I also heard that the rebbes amount of connection to HKBH or the attachment to Torah is proportional with the rebbes need to impart Torah to his talmidim. So being a rebbe you get a gift of Torah bec it’s necessary to impart to your talmidim. The spies saw that moving from the midbar to EY would disrupt that and they would no longer be the spiritual leaders of their tribes and lose their connection.
In your example tho I see it more like when the Jewish people would go to war and there were something like 10000 warriors 10000 helpers and 10000 learning and davening for the warriors.
In that case the learners are doing their job similar to but of course less moser nefesh as compared to the warriors.
He advocates for “globalize the intifada” which as I understand it is attacking Jews. Sounds pretty Jihadi to me.
HaKatan – the point you make is far, far too subtle for the gentiles. Meaning – the gentile sees someone dressed like an orthodox Jew advocating for destruction of the Jewish state and standing with the mullahs encouraging them to kill Jews. Do you think they conclude that the secular state of Israel does not represent Judaism? Or do they conclude that even the Jews say we should destroy the Jewish state so let’s kill more Jews? When the secular world and the gentiles see what looks like orthodox Jews advocating for killing Jews they conclude “so it’s not so bad to kill Jews.”
In this day and age where there is so much ignorance about Judaism within the Jewish world and I’ve been told there is no such thing as apikorsus because people are too ignorant, anyone who advocates for killing Jews in general is not part of the Jewish people to my eyes. I can’t imagine HKBH looking down on them approvingly when they advocate for and support killing Jews in general.
I know there are people here who oppose the state of Israel and I appreciate the argument. I think they don’t appreciate that the state of Israel is the main way Hashem openly protects the Jewish people. We can agree to disagree. But any person or group who advocates with those whose goal is to murder jews is evil. Saying that there should not be a secular state of Israel before moshiach comes is very different than standing side by side and supporting terrorists with Jewish blood on their hands. Anyone who suooorts NK is not a follower of Avraham yitzchak and Yaakov and I can’t imagine Moshe would recognize him as a member of the covenant. On the day of judgment I can’t imagine HKBH recognizing someone who supports Hamas and Arafat as His son.
Yeah this aged well. My point about kanoiy is either he hates Israel’s supporters or he loves our enemies and it appears both. When he supports those who tell Israel they can’t attack Hamas, they can’t go in and rescue hostages. He supports those who give billions to Iran and look away as they build a nuclear bomb. This is who he loves. The enemies of the Jewish people. And who he hates is the guy who just took out irans nuclear program.
It reminds one of the old joke:
a talmid chacham ask his rebbe if he can smoke during learning Torah. “Of course not!”
He returns the next day and asks “is it OK for me to learn Torah while I’m smoking?” “Of course!”
I don’t know enough to comment about the original question but it seems like the alternative is to tell women they should spend their time studying secular subjects even if they desire to study what is holy. That doesn’t make sense to me.I didn’t see who posted it. Of course it’s crazy kanoy. I am by no means certain he is Jewish and doubt he is an obersvant Jew. He clearly is a leftist from all of his previous posts and clearly hates conservatives and conservative values which is why I doubt he is an observant Jew.
Ummmm this person or that person is not what is important. And Candace Owens is like a Nation of Islam person now. What’s important is not individuals but polls showing support. Recent polls show the vast vast majority of both republicans and maga support Israel attacking Iran. I think over 80 percent. And clear majorities – I think almost 60 percent support America bombing I Iran. In contrast it’s a small minority of the left including democrats that support Israel.
You really need to pay attention. Support for Israel in America is broad and includes the center and the right but the left is the party of AOC and ilhan Omar. They hate Israel and hate traditional America.
I don’t understand the anti Zionism. Can’t we just love Jews? Sinas chinam is the reason we don’t have moshiach. Ahavas chinam is the solution. And of course it was king David who said G-d is with me through my helpers. G-d seems to want to protect the Jewish people through the IDF. What a lack of koros tov not to be thankful to them for acting as G-ds shluchim. A chutzpah.
1- do you have an link? President trump was president for four years and the most pro Israel president in the history of the United States based on his actions not his words. I could list many of the accomplishments but it’s a long list and we all know them.
2- you are of course well known as a democrat that opposes everything conservatives do so … I take it with a grain of salt.
Ex lawyer –
I don’t disagree there are two schools in the United States that can provide an education at reasonable cost. I’m talking about every other state school. I’m confident you can find another exception or two but I’m talking about where nearly all the other students go. Community college can be useful for vocational school but does not provide a useful certificate many companies require for a job. Nearly all public and private schools in USA have a bloated administration and new luxurious accommodations for students that is specifically the reason college is so expensive. Also with the government backing the loans there is no reason for them not to do this and charge ridiculous amounts. And the kids are getting a certificate not an education and this has been the case for at least 20-30 years outside of stem. Even now stem is getting infected by dei where they are beginning to accept aboriginal mythology as equivalent to science!
Ex-CT Lawyer – the difference is a) back then a college education meant you were educated. Today much of the curriculum is nonsense. b) Dorms were spartan the emphasis was on education back then. Since then there has been great numbers of new hires but these are mostly administration (eg DEI VP’s and similar) that provide nothing to improve education as well as very expensive construction (large luxurious dorms and gyms) and so the cost was minimal when your parents went to school, very reasonable when I went (30Y ago), and outrageous today. c) Most college graduates are not working in the same fields as they obtained their degree.
The bottom line is college costs an enormous amount of money, the education obtained (outside of STEM) is questionable at best and probably detrimental in most cases, results in individuals suffering under enormous debt for a piece of paper that no longer indicates a real education, and is irrelevant for most as most are not working in their studied fields.
In that case I’d say the individual who wants a college certificate – education is by no means certain – should by all means pay for it and go but I should not pay for my neighbor’s certificate.
Hi. I would respond that we are living in an era of unprecedented prosperity. In the past poverty and famine, insufficient food and shelter, were mankind’s primary problems. Now in the first world, neither is a meaningful problem (in the absence of drug addiction and mental illness). Obesity is America’s greatest social problem probably which would have been inconceivable to our grandparents. 2000 years ago when the world could not produce enough calories to keep soul attached to body it would have been difficult to support Torah study as we can today. The prosperity in the world is unimaginable 40 years ago much less 2000 years ago. The idea that a successful businessman can support Torah is I think the purpose G-d sent him such prosperity. I would say the prosperity we see in the world today obligates the financially successful to support Torah. And I bet few Kollel families are driving BMW and Mercedes and going out to eat. They are still I bet mosir nefesh for Torah. And the businessman gets to share the Torah of the Kollel man.
The author of the post reliably makes leftist posts so take it with a grain of salt. Biden just warned Israel they may not attack any meaningful targets – he forbid attacking their nuclear program or oil. Harriet said Israel is committing genocide in trying to rescue the hostages and attack Hamas. Biden and Harris also forbade Israel from attacking Hamas effectively – they denied permission to attack rafah and withheld munitions necessary for Israel’s war.
So Biden and Harris, the left and crqzykanoiy are well documented as forbidding Israel from defending itself effectively and attacking its wbennies effectively.
What about trump? Well we have a record. during his four years as president he is on record as supporting Israel in action more than any other president in history.
Then as posted on this website just today:
Donald Trump has urged Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to act independently and make his own decision with regard to the IDF’s planned retaliation attack against Iran over the latter’s recent ballistic missiles barrage at the Jewish State.
In an interview with Saudi state-owned news outlet Al Arabiya, Trump was asked whether he would back Israeli airstrikes inside Iran in retaliation for Tehran’s missile barrage on Israel earlier in the month.
“Well, I think [Netanyahu is] going to do what he wants to do. And I think he has to do that,” Trump replied. He emphasized that Netanyahu’s decisions should be autonomous, free from influence by the Biden administration. Trump added that President Biden’s foreign policy record has been “historically horrible” and “incompetent.”
Crazy, your posts are reliably and every time pro-leftist and supporting leftists, and generally misleading. Although I think everyone who reads this knows this. In USA antisemitism and certainly anti-G-d is largely a leftist phenomenon that affects the leadership of the left. There are of course a few crazies on the right but this disease affects the leaders and the lay on the left whereas in contrast everyone on the right, everyone conservative condemns these crackpots. Supporting leftists is supporting removing religion from society, removing religious freedom, freedom of speech etc.
Crazy – you are incorrect. He is the one who authorized our military to fight and destroy ISIS. Before him they were extremely limited in their rules of engagement. You forget that the Iran uranium agreement did not allow any observation of their military facilities which is where the purification is really happening and under the previous administration they were free to do whatever they liked and were given billions of dollars to strengthen Hamas and Hezbollah. It was under Trump that crippling sanctions were delivered, bankrupting Iran, and under Biden that the sanctions were removed. I think your language is unnecessarily inflammatory.
Like the leaders of Yisroel in Mitzrayim, the IDF puts their lives on the line to save the Jewish people. Particularly at this time – with the Jewish people in danger worldwide and much too much sinas chinam and no Temple – I think it behooves us all to make as much ahavat chinam as possible and as much gratitude as possible.
Actually, my understanding is Isreal is not telling the United States anything about their operations until it is too late for the United States to do anything about it because they are worried they will leak information. I don’t believe the United States was aware at all of the operation until it was completed or in progress.
David hamelech said G-d helps him through his helpers. He acknowledged that G-d is behind everything but also acknowledged hakoros hatov for those that chose to sacrifice to help him. It seems to me if you’re on the level of Reb Zusha who saw reality so clearly that he saw G-ds blessing in everything or – I forget who – the story of the Tzaddik who needed a train ticket and saw G-da hand behind everything maybe your hakoros hatov might be muted bec of how clearly you see reality. If you are not on the level of Reb Zusha it seems to me hakoros hatov is foundational to the existence of the universe. That is to say, if every morsel that you put in you mouth, you legitimately rejoice that G-d Himself Designed, created, and sustained this entire existence just to be able to provide that bite of food for you. Perhaps your gratitude for humans might be muted, but for me, I strive to be on that level, but I am not there so I have a degree of gratitude for everyone who helps me.
MorrisHertz –
When Donald Trump was President, the economy was incredible, unemployment (real unemployment) negligible, inflation negligible, Iran was pushed back on its heels, Europe began supporting its own defense, North Korea and Russia were afraid to start trouble, Arab nations sought peace with Israel, our border was secure, millions of illegals were not flowing – including terrorists, rapists, etc. – across our borders, our friends were supported and our enemies were afraid. They made up lies about him and he defeated every one of them. They tried finding anything that would stick. Eventually Covid became a thing and they (the swamp) managed to shut down the world’s economy sending the world into chaos as they realized perhaps Covid would finally be the thing that defeated him. And the swamp finally managed – barely – to find enough suitcases of ballots to manage to expel him.
The world was as calm and successful and productive as I remember during Trump’s presidency until the swamp/media arranged to convince the world Covid was the plague instead of the flu, shut down the economy, and plunge the world into chaos.
I would love to have him managing the world again and his policies. Right now we live in chaos.
Yechiel-
1- it’s munitions. Israel was at war and running low on war equipment. US equipment was in Israel stored but not released for them to use. Normally US releases it when Israel needs it. It belongs to USA until released though. Obama explicitly blocked its release when Israel needed it.2- isreal depends on smart munitions or precise munitions. To a great extent match with it was using in Gaza to limit civilian deaths. Biden’s administration blocked it. Eventually, he released them but only after great delay.
3- as regards what he may or may not do the good thing is he was already president. He was already in a position of responsibility and did more for the state of Israel than any president ever in the history of the United States.
All of this is easily checked fact.
Trump was the most pro Isreal president in the history of the United States. Democrats have always taken the Palestinians sides and whatever the problem always blamed Isreal. After every reported terrorist event, the United States response under Democrat presidents was always Israel is the blame and has to give up more. It was exactly the opposite under Trump. Democrat president Israel is not terrorists. Under Trump, they were encouraged to kill as many terrorists as they could. Democrats no effort was ever made to acknowledge Jerusalem as the Jewish capital and other Democrats it was expected that Jerusalem would be divided and offered to the Muslims. It was the exact opposite under Trump. In fact, Trump moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem. Trump invested a lot of resources in engineering peace between Israel and its neighbors. Under Democrat presidents support for Isreal was always reluctant and the nations Expected no benefit from making peace with Isreal.
When Isreal was at war and Obama was president, he instructed the government not to release munitions necessary for Israel to continue the fight and Israel was running out of magicians. Joe Biden did the same thing. It would be inconceivable for Trump to do the same. The Harris campaign said, cutting off supplies to Isreal is a possibility in her administration.
Obama not only did nothing to hinder Iran from funding terrorism and performing terrorist attacks, but encouraged them to do so and funded them to do so. Trump cut the legs off of Iran and Iran was in great danger from Trump’s policies.
For anyone who cares about Isreal there really is no debate as to who to support. If you support Isreal, you support Trump. If you support Harris, you do not support Isreal. It is as simple as that.
Square root – soda is only dangerous if taken to extremes. Same as alcohol. Same as all things. Soda is not inherently dangerous. It should be enjoyed in moderation as with everything. Eating steak is not bad for you. Eating 10 steaks for breakfast, 10 for lunch, and 10 for dinner will probably result in a heart attack at some point. Everything in moderation. Donuts are not healthy. A single donut will not kill you. Eating nothing but donuts will probably make you fat and then a heart attack. Enjoy life has to offer but in moderation.
I’m going to stop reading this thread bec I’m worried it is going to start entering sinas chinam and logon hora territory.
With that said –
Moshiach has not yet come. Why not? Our avodas H-Shem is insufficient. Probably mostly bec sinas chinam. Who cares who Moshiach is? That’s irrelevant. There’s not a single person here who the answer to that question is meaningful.
So…
Perfect your avodas H-Shem! Don’t worry about the other persons! He davens different from you? Not your business. He wears a shtreimel? Not your business. Your business? Serve G-d!
As it is said – most people spend a lot of time worrying about their own gashmius and their neighbors Ruchnius. That’s backwards. Worry more about your own ruchnius and have more concern about your neighbors gashmius.
Telling other frum yidden that they have the same beliefs as goyim is not bringing Moshiach.
I’m BT and as a kid you guys all looked the same to me!
Now that I’m older I have to ask myself why don’t we have moshiach? Is it bec this group doesn’t daven like the other group and HKBH says we should all daven like them? Or bec this group learns differently from that group and HKBH wants us to learn like the other group?
Do both groups believe in one borei haolam? Yes. Do both keep Shabbos? Yes. Kosher? Yes. Etc.
Why don’t we have moshiach? Sinas chinam. And 80-90 percent of yidden have no connection to yiddishkeit. I see occasionally people fight about this stuff that almost looks like Israel on October 6. People arguing and arguing when our father wants us to love each other. Personally, whenever I see Chabad they seem to love all Jews everywhere all the time regardless of their observance or how they observe. They seem to be the embodiment of Ahavas chinam.
It’s not like one group is saying you can eat non kosher or not keep Shabbos. You are talking about two groups that agree on 99 percent of everything and some people in one group think their rebbe was or is moshiach. How does that affect your avodas H-Shem? Is this argument really what your father who is in heaven and who holds back king moshiach wants? Or does he want us to perfect our avodah and love Jews?
Just a quick and small thought from an ignorant yid who loves H-Shem and longs to make mitzvos.
Good morning!
First of all I’m sorry to hear you are suffering in your struggle.
I am BT so some things are easier for me and some things harder. Obviously we all know this in our heads but sometimes we forget in our hearts. H-Shem loves each of us more than we can possibly know. He knows the challenges we face. Every single one of us makes mistakes and H-Shem loves us so much before the mistake and just as much after the mistake. You are loved more than you possibly can know and He knows the temptation and struggle he makes in you and understands all of your mistakes and my mistakes and everyone’s mistakes.The recommendation to speak with a chabad rabbi/Rebbetzin is probably bec they deal with people with questions routinely. I mean they go out in the community and people who are struggling or thinking that they are the only ones with such and touch problems come to them. They are generally very sympathetic and understanding. Your community might be the same but some are more and some or less. I find that chabad is universally, thoughtful, understanding, and loving and nonjudgmental. If you have a good relationship with your parents, they would probably be the first ones to speak with but it’s possible they might not have so much experience also in which case and experienced Rabbi or Rebbetzin might be better. Personally, I found that Chabad has just been really easy to talk to.
Personally, living in the Los Angeles valley, I’ve had at least two and possibly three or four shots/sports jackets that were Shatnez. I think all but one or two could be corrected (eg collar lining removed) but the suit didn’t look as nice after. One was inherently Shatnez and I had it checked when it was too late to return so I gave it away to a gentile.
I have been reading this website for a while and only rarely comment. I am middle aged, raised traditional, and gradually became fully observant. It seems to
me from reading the comments that the vast majority if not all the commenters here are ffb and raised in a very narrow and religious upbringing. Not saying that’s bad but that’s definitely a small minority of the jewish population. The first temple was destroyed because of the three cardinal sins and rebuilt shortly thereafter. The second temple was destroyed despite great Torah learning bec of sinas chinam. The second temple won’t be rebuilt except through ahavas chinam. The reality is that the vast majority of Judaism is estranged from the religion. Torah learning is great but is insufficient to rebuild the temple. Ahavas chinam is necessary. So the question we should be asking is of course we need to learn Torah and make mitzvos. But without reaching out to the vast majority of Jews who know nothing about it … it’s almost like what’s the point? I mean of course do mitzvos. But what does it take to being in our estranged brothers and sisters? Whatever we need to do to bring them in we need to do. That’s why chabad is so fantastic. In contrast to many here they don’t try
To alienate our not-yet-observant brothers and sisters. They are working to expose them often for the first time to the beauty of Judaism and so bring them nearer to HKBH.Jackk- see figure two. The Rand paper says the ban caused decrease in homicide rates but if you look at the data – figure two – you see that the homicide rate continuously decreased from 1980 to 2010 with the exception of the spike. It looks like it is about 1996 or 1997. Otherwise it is a long progressive downward trend in curve. The rate of decrease appears know more after the ban as compared to before.
Jackk- the murder rate in Australia was decreasing before the mean and continued decreasing exactly the same right after the ban. I don’t believe anyone believes that a change to be changing the murder rate. I just continued the same trajectory it had before.
Jackk – oh my point was that many if not most Democrats want to ban us from having rifles in from full capacity magazines. My next point was that rifles are responsible for relatively few murders in this country. Firearm murders largely are caused by handgun not rifles. In fact as I showed more people are murdered by knives by far than by rifles, so the Democrats goal of banning rifles and Hook about to be magazine will result in very little increase in murder. If they were more people are murdered by knives by far than by rifles, so the Democrats goal of banning rifles and book about to be magazine, will result in very little increase in murder. If they were serious about taking away firearms because of murder, logically they would want to take away handguns. That was my point. Now in their hearts, almost for sure, they do want to ban all firearms. Hillary Clinton called for in Australia, like policy where the government sees nearly all guns from the population. She is one politician that said it explicitly. Others have also said they want policy like Australia where the government took nearly all Firearms from all citizens.
FYI here is many us senators calling for banning rifles. Joe Biden also called for banning them. As well as full capacity magazines. Also red flag laws that means if someone is accused of being problematic or threatening, they do not receive due process but rather the court can see is their weapons. So if a disgruntled ex girlfriend or employee or ex spouse is angry with you, they can complain to the police and the police will seize your weapons. No due process is what red flag laws mean.
https://www.pbs. org/newshour/amp/politics/what-action-should-be-taken-on-guns-we-asked-every-senator
https://www.whitehouse. gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/14/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-reduce-gun-violence-and-make-our-communities-safer/
Jackk – as I mentioned rifles are used in a relatively small number of murders. I showed the statistics. By far and away handguns are the guns of choice. So, if you say that, seizing firearms from law, abiding citizens will decrease the murder rate you are really talking about taking away handguns not rifles. Knives are responsible for more murder than rifles. So if knives are responsible for more merger than rifles. So if you really want to address murder, logically it would make sense to make knives illegal. Of course, only law-abiding citizens not criminals would obey those laws. So you would have just removed the ability of guys to defend themselves, leaving weapons only in the hands of criminals. That doesn’t really make sense to me. If you said the police were going to seize the weapons of every criminal, and after they were all disarmed then we could talk about disarming the law-abiding citizens I would say well let’s at least start with disarming the criminals. But it doesn’t make any sense to disarm the law abiding citizens, and leave all the weapons in the hands of the criminals, which is what any law would do.
Lostspark – it has been made abundantly clear to anyone with eyes that the government is not there to protect you from harm. We had riots and civil unrest for two or three years now. It is self evident that the police are not there to protect you from attacks. at this point only someone willfully blind, who intentionally closes, his eyes believes that the police will be there to protect you from attacks. We are, each of us, responsible for our own self-defense, and for the safety of our families. Any law, restricting firearms will be honored only by law, abiding citizens, and not by criminals, of course. if you agree that individuals are responsible for his own defense, and that laws regarding Firearms will only be obeyed by law-abiding citizens, and not criminals the obvious next thought is that you should take whatever actions necessary to be able to provide the best defense for you and your family. In the year 2023 that means Firearms. of course we all have emunah and bitachon but – G-d gave us saichel and sense. We are permitted to use doctors and expected do use the natural order of things in our daily lives. We are expected to live with emunah and bitachon but still exploit how G-d designed the natural order of things. That means when it comes to safety we must use common sense. We are not permitted to stick our fingers in the electrical socket. We are not permitted to make a fire in the middle of our house, where the fire could burn down the house. Similarly, we are responsible for our safety and the safety of our family. I don’t know how many people live in Brooklyn and Manhattan, but come on. If the last three years have taught us anything, it’s that the police are not there to protect you, and the government doesn’t care if a Jewish community is attacked. I don’t understand why someone knowing this would not take reasonable precautions to keep his family safe.
Ctlawyer – I don’t know enough about the first two cases you cited, but I am not aware of any serious person who believes Roe versus Wade was decided correctly. They just kind of made stuff up. As far as I recall, there was never a citation of the constitution that supported roe versus wade. The current court did the right thing which was, if such and such power is not granted by the constitution, it goes to the states. Roe versus Wade was always an abomination. In aggressive court, seizing power, it did not have. The constitution is supposed to give Ltd enumerated powers to the federal government. Everything else belongs to the states. That power is now where it belongs. Liberal states get to have unlimited abortion. Conservative states get to put restrictions on it. If you don’t like what your state is doing, you can convince your neighbors to elect representatives to vote differently. Or you can move. This never should have been of any federal interest.
With that said, the number of times the Supreme Court has overruled itself on any major decision is tiny. Unless the court makes a radical mistake as it did with Roe v Wade it should instead maintain precedence and so hopefully the current understanding of the bill of rights alluding to individual not group rights will stand for a long time.
Jackk- are you serious about there being no evidence politicians want to take away guns? Hilary said in a speech she wants gun confiscation. Beto said he’s coming for our rifles. Biden said he wants to ban them too. You can’t possibly be serious. If you watch the news for an hour or read a single newspaper, it is filled with left-wing politicians talking about banning guns. You really genuinely can’t be serious, right? Or are you not allowed to read newspapers, or watch television news? Most Democratic politicians who have made a statement about guns has said they want to ban rifles and full capacity magazines. I mean I don’t know how to discuss this any further. It is like it is noon and I say the sun is out and you say no it is dark outside. this really is not a controversial topic. Democrats generally want to ban citizens from having guns. Conservatives generally want people to take responsibility for their own safety with the best tools possible. That means guns.