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  • in reply to: How to prevent dental illness #1420695
    slominer
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    Good oral genes?

    in reply to: How to prevent dental illness #1418707
    slominer
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    I have a family member who rarely brushes his teeth. And almost never flosses. Once in a while he’ll use mouthwash. But brushing only happens about six times a year; twice before going to the dentist (so the hygienist shouldn’t yell at him) and a few other times randomly spread out during the year (maybe before a close chasuna and another random time or two.)

    Her goes twice a year to the dentist for a cleaning and checkup. Yet while the dentist keeps telling him to brush and floss twice a day, the dentist tells him each time his teeth are beautiful and healthy. Despite his having this practice of rarely brushing for probably close to a couple decades now.

    I always wondered how he gets away with that without having dental problems.

    in reply to: What about American Jews? Where can we escape to in case of emergency? #1418657
    slominer
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    The Chofetz Chaim lived to a ripe old age and said many things verbally that weren’t recorded in his seforim. This is a well known quote from him.

    in reply to: He’s Hot, She’s Cold; Windows Open or Closed? #1418502
    slominer
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    I like Yseribus’ solution.

    in reply to: [Fiction] A Nazi attempting to unleash a biological weapon in Israel #1418501
    slominer
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    Real life is stranger than fiction.

    in reply to: What about American Jews? Where can we escape to in case of emergency? #1418504
    slominer
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    The Chofetz Chaim said that America will be Klal Yisroel’s last stop in golus before the geula.

    in reply to: Biking through city traffic safely #1418500
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    akuperma sounds like he doesn’t think city biking is safe. Yet so many young yeshiva bochorim in mesivta bike to Yeshiva through city traffic.

    in reply to: Mashiach > 6000 #1418499
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    Isn’t it sad that we’ll have spent 2,000 bitter years in golus suffering the worst kinds of punishments at the hands of the goyim. Then when Moshiach comes, and everything is absolutely wonderful, it’ll only be for a short time before the Year 6000. So we’ll enjoy 100 or 200 years in Eretz Yisroel after Moshiach and techiyas hameisim until 6000, and then it all ends. 2000 years in bitter golus followed by 200 blissful years with Hashem. How was the golus worth such a short ending??

    in reply to: Project Makom #1418503
    slominer
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    The Chasidish and Yeshivish attrition rate is very small, compared to other Jewish groups. (I saw this in some study a few years back.)

    in reply to: He’s Hot, She’s Cold; Windows Open or Closed? #1417875
    slominer
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    I didn’t intend this question as a joke. While they description might have been slightly exaggerated, it was only by a bit. The point is the couple are really of very different tempatures.

    I was wondering if there were any ideas that could be helpful. Maybe something as simple as him having a portable fan all year and she a portable heater.

    in reply to: Where can Israeli Jews escape to in case of emergency? #1417833
    slominer
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    WTP, you realize, of course, that the safety Hashem provides to living in Eretz Yisroel applies no less to southern Lebanon, trans Jordan, Ramallah, Gaza, Nablus and Jenin (all of which are in Eretz Yisroel) than it applies to Haifa, Tel Aviv, Rishon Letzion, Netanya and Ashdod.

    Would you recommend Yidden avoid living there (S. Lebanon, Ramallah, etc.) due to security precautions? If so, why wouldn’t you acknowledge comparative security considerations be considered for living in other parts of EY?

    Regarding military casualties, there’s a universal draft applicable to all resident Jews that isn’t applicable to Jews in other countries (as well as a violent conflict that hasn’t ended for the 70 years of the state’s existence), so that is certainly a man-on-the-street concern for Israel.

    in reply to: Where can Israeli Jews escape to in case of emergency? #1417741
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    However unsafe America may be, Israel is unsafer, is the point Neville is trying to convey, I think. B’derech teva. What the other side is seemingly arguing is that b’derech nissim they think Israel is safer, even though b’derech teva it isn’t.

    in reply to: Where can Israeli Jews escape to in case of emergency? #1417623
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    WTP, I think you are making some good points while also overstating some facts. Israel was digging graves in Israeli parks? Where’d you hear that? Also, Iraq fired dozens of scuds into Saudi Arabia that went nowhere before they got that one hit (like in Israel.) Where’d you read that Rommel occupying Palestine was expected as a forgone conclusion by the British? If your going to compare violent death rates you also need to count Israeli military causalities since ’48. Why are you only using one specific year?

    Really what I think people find objectionable is the secular claim that the State is created to be a safehaven for Jews everywhere to escape to in time of crisis. What many of the posters here are pointing out is that this claim could be at least just as easily made by America, Canada or Australia. And that there’s no way to predict whether the next golus threat to Jews will occur on Israel or in America.

    As far as concentration, prewar European Jews were spread out over the continent. The State, otoh, is geographically much smaller.

    in reply to: Where can Israeli Jews escape to in case of emergency? #1417479
    slominer
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    Perhaps America can be a safehaven for Israeli Jews seeking to escape.

    in reply to: Where can Israeli Jews escape to in case of emergency? #1417063
    slominer
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    Many Israelis have dual citizenship. Many are American or European by birth or even their parents or grandparents birth there. And are qualified for foreign passports and immediate rights to residency. Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors often have European citizenship whether they’re aware of it or not. And a few years ago some European embassies were reporting a large uptick in applications for passports in Israel.

    in reply to: A person who cannot learn seforim #1416802
    slominer
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    Sam, DY, – How easy/difficult do you think it is for a person described in the OP to be able to self-learn the language?

    in reply to: A person who cannot learn seforim #1416766
    slominer
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    apushtayid – Absolutely not. The yeshivos are doing the best possible for Klal Yisroel.

    in reply to: Who has Kadima at the Amud? #1416648
    slominer
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    So other than when both are the same status (e.g. both are shloshim or both are yahrtzeit), when does a member get Kadima over a non-member? (By non-member we presumably mean a non-regular mispallel.) Or is the only time member/non-member make a difference in Kadima is when both are of the same status?

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1416647
    slominer
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    “While this is getting worked out there is going to be good, sincere people who will be honestly confused.”

    This has been “getting worked out” for the past almost 25 years since the Lubavitcher Rebbe zichrona tzaddik l’vrocha’s petira. I don’t think giving it more time will much change the disputed dynamics.

    in reply to: A person who cannot learn seforim #1416633
    slominer
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    I also wonder how common it is for young men who grew up frum and went through the standard Yeshiva system to have this type of Torah learning deficiency.

    I would venture to guess it is a minority, as most yeshiva products can learn. But is it a small minority or a larger minority?

    in reply to: A person who cannot learn seforim #1416577
    slominer
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    aguywithdetermination: Can you share what cause you attribute to your skill level having been deficient in this, considering your having gone through the Yeshiva system?

    And what Loshon Kodesh Seforim do you most miss being unable to study, and which English seforim do you most focus your studies on?

    DY: I know that he wouldn’t be considered an “am ha’aretz”, but on a sociological level in the Chareidi community would such a fellow be seen as on a lower communal status?

    Another point: How would such a parent assist his children with their yeshiva studies or homework?

    in reply to: Who has Kadima at the Amud? #1416548
    slominer
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    If a non-member r’l lost his father a day ago and is in Shiva while a member is within the year of Aveilus, who gets Kadima?

    in reply to: Halachic principle of משפחה שנטמעה נטמעה #1416470
    slominer
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    Bump

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1416423
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    Sechel HaYashar –

    You maintain the Rebbe didn’t claim to be Moshiach. But the Rebbe said the Beis HaMikdash will be built at 770. Isn’t that a pretty strong hint of him indicating the Rebbe of Lubavitch will be Moshiach?

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1416109
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    “In the case of the Satmar Rebbe his opinion is regarding the Lubavitcher Rebbe is expressed in writing in Divrai Yoel on Parahas Tzav.”

    What does the Satmar Rebbe write in the Divrei Yoel on Parahas Tzav regarding the Lubavitcher Rebbe?

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1416037
    slominer
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    NP

    You haven’t addressed my question to you, above, regarding the Satmar Rebbe and Rav Hutner.

    Regarding the Gedolim, I think that we can all agree that we have it established that there were Gedolim who held highly of the Lubavitcher Rebbe as a Godol and there were Gedolim who were staunchly opposed to the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1415878
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    “I do not agree with what you wrote regarding The Satmar Rebbes and HaRav Hutners position. Their opposition is well publicized. Anyone who is so inclined is welcome have a look and decide for themselves.”

    Where should we look for ourselves? What was the opposition, specifically, from the SR and from RYH (and where did they put it on the record)?

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1415855
    slominer
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    CS

    “* The Bais Hamikdash will not be built in Eretz Yisroel but in 770 and then transported to Eretz Yisroel, since 770 is “the place of Moshiach”

    Yeah but again you need to learn the source for context. See kuntres beis Rabbeinu shebibavel 5752”

    Can you please explain the context?

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1415754
    slominer
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    Can anyone confirm whether the Lubavitcher Rebbe taught the following teachings, that I was told are his teachings…

    * A Rebbe is G-d in a body

    * Lubavitchers, and only Lubavitchers, don’t have to sleep in a Sukkah

    * The Alter Rebbe was on a higher level of Pnimuyus HaTorah than Rav Yochanan ben Zakai

    * The Bais Hamikdash will not be built in Eretz Yisroel but in 770 and then transported to Eretz Yisroel, since 770 is “the place of Moshiach”

    * Not to teach the non-Lubavitch public his shittos that will make the public distant themselves from Lubavitch

    in reply to: Poskim Answering Pikuach Nefesh Shailos #1415708
    slominer
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    Taking someone off a respirator, other medical shailos or taking a job that contain an element of pikuach nefesh for the person doing the job or, if he doesn’t do it, a pikuach nefesh risk for someone else since it isn’t done.

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1415682
    slominer
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    When it’s been pointed out that various gedolim and rabbonim are on the record as opposing the modern theological positions of Lubavitch, many of the Lubavitchers here (and elsewhere) use the comeback that “well, the early Chasidim were opposed and the Rambam was opposed early on, and this is the same type of opposition to Lubavitch’s current doings.”

    But the gedolim and rabbonim also opposed the early Reform movement and the haskala. So who is to say the current rabbinic opposition to the views currently espoused by Lubavitch is comparable to the opposition against the early Chasidim and Rambam. Perhaps it is more comparable to the opposition to the Reform and haskala.

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1415586
    slominer
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    Is the story only known from Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zt’l of YU or do the Brisker Rabbonim also know this story?

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1415562
    slominer
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    SHY, CS, MS and any other Lubavitcher present,

    I asked a few questions, that I think are strong or problematic, that none of you have addressed:

    Post # 1414876:

    Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha

    Post # 1414780:

    Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha

    Are these questions unanswerable?

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1415121
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    Sechel, Burnt, –

    How many Lubavitchers left Lubavitch after (because of) the Rebbe’s petira?

    Why did they leave? And where’d they leave to? You both say few of them left to other Chasiduses; so where did they go?

    And how did the Liozna Rebbe and that Belzer Dayan explain their leaving?

    in reply to: Mashiach > 6000 #1414904
    slominer
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    If 6000 c’v passes without Moshiach having yet arrived, will that cause a large scale question of faith within Klal Yisroel?

    And if Moshiach does come before 6000, what will happen to the world in 6000 and/or after year 7000?

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1414876
    slominer
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    Did the Rebbe say the following…?

    * A Rebbe is G-d in a body

    * Lubavitchers (and only Lubavitchers) don’t have to sleep in a Sukkah

    * The Alter Rebbe was on a higher level of Pnimuyus HaTorah than Rav Yochanan ben Zakai

    * The Bais Hamikdash will not be built in Eretz Yisroel but in 770 and then transported to Eretz Yisroel, since 770 is “the place of Moshiach”

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1414861
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    RSo: For what rational reason do you believe that Avraham Avinu existed, if your answer cannot be based on quoting the Torah as your source?

    couldbe: That isn’t an accurate assertion. Many quotes were provided earlier in the thread of Litvishe-Yeshivishe gedolim saying the Lubavitcher Rebbe was a tzaddik/great man.

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1414819
    slominer
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    I’ve heard of tzaddikim who davened Shachris even after Chatzos.

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1414780
    slominer
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    Why does Lubavitch make such a big deal from winning the machlokes with the Rebbe’s nephew and getting the seforim back in the library, that they’ve turned that day every year into an official Yom Tov? Isn’t it embarrassing to every year revive memories of an internal dispute?

    Also, why does it seem that Lubavitch has had disputes with an unusually large number of other frum kehilos, both Chasidic and non-Chasidic (Satmar, Brisk?, Chaim Berlin, Ponovitch)?

    On a lighter note, how can you tell the difference between a Lubavitcher’s hat and a Yeshivisher’s hat?

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1414773
    slominer
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    “BTW – Do you think the original Heter Chassidim had on let’s say Zman Tfilah is still relevant today?”

    What was the original heter?

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1414099
    slominer
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    If one person, all on his own, has a a clear belief that Reb Moshe Feinstein is vadai Moshiach, is he violating anything or doing anything wrong?

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1413591
    slominer
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    Why is Lubavitch big into pictures of the Rebbe? Everywhere they place, usually huge, pictures of the Rebbe. I don’t see such a custom by any other frum group.

    in reply to: ACHDUS! Chabad And Judaism Are One! Let’s Bring Moshiach Together #1413551
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    Is it historically accurate to say that Lubavitch were the first in America to do a lot of kiruv and all the other groups were Johnny come lately’s who merely followed in Lubavitch’s way, and wouldn’t have gone where they did if not for Lubavitch?

    in reply to: I will explain Chabad messianism 101 #1413515
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    DaasYochid – What exactly did the Brisker Rov say, and what’s your source for that?

    in reply to: I will explain Chabad messianism 101 #1413492
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    Little Froggie – I had some questions for you up above.

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1413490
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    RSo – What’s halachicly wrong if someone believes that, say, Reb Moshe Feinstein will come back as Moshiach? What does such a belief violate other than silliness?

    in reply to: Where did all these Chabad warriors come from? #1413356
    slominer
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    Is Yafutzu some kind of Lubavitch term/code call-for-arms for warriors to gather at a place of battle? (:

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1413328
    slominer
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    “tzaddikim seem to be in short supply nowadays”

    Chabadshlucha: There are definitely NOT a shortage of tzaddikim nowadays. You are looking in all the wrong places if you feel that way. You should definitely ask people outside your circles who the tzaddikim are.

    There are many huge tzaddikim today.

    I’ll ask this again:

    Can anyone, anyone, please quote the exact words (and source) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe saying he himself is Moshiach?

    in reply to: People Without a Rov #1413312
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    If shailos several times per week is what many people are accustomed to, wouldn’t all pulpit rabbonim, or whoever is answering these shailos, be very busy every day answering many many shailos? Especially if they have a large congregation.

    A shul with even just 50 regular mispallelim each calling their Rov several times a week should keep the Rov occupied close to full-time just answering shailos. Is this the common busy-ness of most rabbonim who answers shailos? If he has 100 regulars he probably has to stay up late each night answering all the shailos.

    in reply to: Mesichists Explained by ChabadShlucha #1413272
    slominer
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    Can anyone, anyone, please quote the exact words (and source) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe saying he himself is Moshiach?

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