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Simcha: I always get a chuckle when a non-Orthodox Jew who attends a Reform Temple, like qwerty613, calls Torah Jews antisemites and lies about their positions. The inversion is ironic.
We mourn on this day and c”v do not listen to music or make weddings.
It depends if you are the baker’s assistant, the baker’s husband, the baker’s neighbor or the baker’s customer.
(Aim HaBanim Semecha…continued from last comment):
Anyway, the following is R. Teichtels explanation of why The Minchas Elozor was against Yishuv HaAretz. I promise I am not making this up:
First, he tries to establish that whether the redemption will come miraculously or slowly and naturally depends on whether Moshiachs coming will be because we deserve it (zachah) in which case it will be miraculous, or because Hashem sent it to us despite our not deserving it, in which case it will be natural. Then he says, quote:
And with this we have an open response to the entire objection of our master and rebbi, the holy scholar, the Minchas Elozor ZTL of Munkatch, regarding being involved with building the land. For I myself was one of his group, and I knew that his entire objection was base don the fact that the redemption is going to come miraculously, not naturally But his honor remains intact, for he on his high level believed that the entire world is on the high level where they deserve Moshiach, like he was. But the truth is that this last generation, unfortunately, not deserving of Moshiach, and therefore the redemption will come couched in natural methods. Aim Habanim Semechah p.98
I promise I did not make that up. In other words, the Minchas Elozor mistakenly and naively thought the whole world was Tzadikim like he was, but in reality he didnt understand that the world doesn’t really deserve Moshiach.
Now never mind how R. Teichtel decided he can judge the world and decide whether they deserve Moshiach or not; never mind that he has not one Halachic shred of evidence to back up this position of his; but to say that the Minchas Elozor naively looked at the whole world as much more righteous than they actually are, as deserving of redemption when in fact they dont deserve it, is beyond ludicrous. Its downright absurd, and for anyone who knows anything about the Minchas Elozor, totally dishonest. If there was one person in the past hundred years who we would say is not guilty of over rating the world, it could very well be the Minchas Elozor. If hes not first on the list, hes second.
And to attribute such an attitude to him of all people, is nothing less than the stuff of la la land. And thats besides the arrogance of saying that he is more able to discern how deserving Klal Yisroel is of greeting Moshiach than the Minchas Elozor. This is a Halachic treatise? Nope. Sorry. It would have been one thing if they would have left it as a sermon or a drush, but because the Zionists dont really have any serious Halachic backing, they took this sefer and made it something of an icon. Its a big pity.
BTW, R. Teichtels sefer comes without any Haskomos (approbations) form anybody. But he did want Haskomos, so what he did was I am not making this up either, I promise – he took Haskomos out of another sefer, and printed them in his sefer, saying that the Haskomos would certainly apply to his sefer too, since the two seforim generally say the same things. But none of the rabbis of his time not a single one wrote him a haskama.
Another note: Aim HaBanim Semechah speaks basically about building the land. The topic of creating a sovereign state which was the major objection to Zionism is almost completely ignored. Perhaps this is what the Lubavitcher Rebbe meant (told to the author’s son, quoted in the introduction, p. 21 ) when he told the son of author to publicize that your father was a G-d fearing Jew who was far away from Zionism. I would think this is because in his sefer he never argues in favor of a Jewish State, but rather in favor of building up the land.
Aim HaBanim Semecha doesn’t contain anything new. It’s a collection of all the old Zionist arguments that have long been disproven. The truth is, his position stood no chance to begin with, because even though R. Teichtel was a talmid chacham, he was opposing the collective Torah knowledge of the greatest Torah giants, including but not limited to Rav Chaim Brisker, Rav Samson Raphael Hirsh, The Chofetz Chaim, the Rogachover Gaon, The Lubavitcher Rebbe (Rashab), the Belzer Rebbe (R. Yisachar Dov), the Chazon Ish, the Brisker Rav, Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzensky, all who were opposed to Zionism and the creation of a State. So he was really quite outgunned from the start. The most extensive work on this topic is of course the Satmar Rav’s Vayoel Moshe, which disproves just about every Zionist “proof” ever conceived.
Aim HaBanim Semecha is not even taken seriously outside of Zionist circles, because it is mostly emotional sermons and discourses (droshos), rather than a serious Halachic analysis. Its an emotional outcry in response to the holocaust (he dates the introduction Parshas Tetzaveh 1943) and its clear that he was talking out of desperation for finding a safe haven for Jews, which many felt Eretz Yisroel would be. He confuses his personal feelings with Halachic methodology, Rebbishe vertlach with Halachic rulings, and so is not at all compelling.
Example: On page 147 he addresses a powerful statement in Ahavas Yonason by R. Yonason Eyebuschitz ZT”L that it is absolutely prohibited for Jews to take over Eretz Yisroel before Moshiach, even if all the nations want them to, which is kind of a problem for a religious Zionist like R. Teichtel. This is his response: “You should understand that the words of Rav Yonason only apply when there is no sign from heaven that we should all abandon the lands of Chutz Laaretz, meaning, when Jews can live peacefully outside of Eretz Yisroel … but not nowadays, when the words of the prophet came true, [that Jews will be hunted down by goyim]. So when the nations give us permission to return to our land, can there be any doubt that it is the will of Hashem that we return to Eretz Yisroel? I am certain, that if Rav Yonason Eyebushitz was living with us today and saw the terrible golus that we endure, he himself would say to us: ‘Brother Jews! The time has come for you to go to Eretz Yisroel, for this is the will of Hashem, for it is not coincidence what has happened to us in Golus, but rather it is the finger of G-d pointing to us to rise from golus…”
Ok. Now, of course, even in the days of Rav Yonason (about 250 years ago) Jews were persecuted, and all throughout Golus they were, too. Yet R. Teichtel decided that he knows how to quantify the measure of suffering that Jews are expected to tolerate in Golus, and what on the other hand is a sign from Hashem” for them to return. He decided that he can read Hashems signs and that this, for sure, is what our suffering means. Where did he get this scale? Nowhere. He decided it on his own. He and only he decided that this “sign from Hashem” tells us that the Golus is over.
Well, he can read whatever he wants into “signs from Hashem,” but this “sign from Hashem” has no Rashi or Tosfos to tell us how to interpret it. Nor did Hashem tell him how to read history, nor does he have any sources that his is the proper reading. Since when do we pasken sheailos based on personal feelings? Its a nice sermon, but Halachicly it means nothing. Yet to him, not only is it Halachicly binding on everyone, but it “there is no longer any room for doubt”.
And it gets much, much, worse. This attitude that “everyone has to interpret the world the way I do” often passes the line into the realm of the absurd. On page 98 he deals with the Minchas Elozor, who was a vehement opponent of Zionism. He was vehemently critical in general, actually, when it came to protecting the Torah. And nobody was beyond his scrutiny. Here are some quotes:
Whoever becomes an leader in this world becomes evil in the next world (Rambam, Tur). The world explains this to refer to the lay leaders, like presidents of congregations, which in many congregations this is true. But if were going to talk about our generation and our days, it can be referring to the Rabbonim as well, unfortunately. Divrei Torah III:47
Whevener there are Reshaim in the world, there is suffering in the world. Who are Reshaim? The robbers. (Sanhedrin 113b). This is referring to the fake leaders who rob the truth form the people, because they act like Tzadikim and act for their own benefit. They prevent the redemption. Hashem should save us from them. ibid 58
There are Rebbes (admorim) who are fakers, they make believe they are Tzadikim, are meyached yichudim, and dress like Rebbes or rabbis. This is all the doing of the Satan in order to bring the public (followers) to sin. ibid V:82
The reason why Jews in Germany can learn heresy and still remain religious is because they are like the people who are immune to poison because they are used to drinking it and so have so much of it in their system. So too the German Jews, they are soused to the poison of secularism since they are habituated in it from childhood little by little, that this does not hurt them. That is why they are immune to the bad influence of the Mizrachi and the Agudah as well. ibid IV:93
And you shall love your neighbor like yourself – this means, just like there are different parts of you that you care about more for instance, you care more about heaving your head than your feet so too we love the Tzadikim more than we do others. The lowest level is those who are like our fingernails, also part of us, but we clip them off and discard them. These people too are like fingernails that need to be separated from the rest of us, and this is for the benefit of Klall Yisroel. ibid II:39
The tradition of many Torah observant Jews is to wear sackcloth on this forlorn day.
Unfiltered access, for one thing.
in 2025 the IFSW held a vote
The International Federation of Social Workers is a communist front. There website today is expressing solidarity with Iran.
The Zionist State only desires to have a membership in these organizations based on the old Zionist principal expressed shortly before 1948 that they want a state to be like all other states; just as other States have robbers and killers, they want robbers and killers in their Zionist state.
Rescue:
Can you clarify your question to me? How is what different? I was pointing out that qwerty613 has repeatedly proven himself a perjurer and fabulist. Now he’s stooping to insisting that he did more than cleaning Rav Moshe’s grandson’s teeth. Maybe he did a root canal for him; but he ignored the point that Rav Moshe’s grandson told him directly that he’s a Chosid of HaGaon HaRav Avigdor Miller ztvk”l. That was the posters own previous description of what the grandson told him. Then, a few comments back, he downgraded Rabbi Plutchok from being his “present Rav” and “current Rav” — his own words only a few weeks ago on this forum — to being ‘only’ one of whole bunch of Rabbis he picks and chooses, depending what answer he wants to hear. For mixed swimming permission he has another rabbi, apparently. And, now, in his most recent comment above, Rabbi Plutchok was further downgraded from three days ago being one of several rabbis of his (unlike in January when he was his current and present rabbi) to being a former rabbi who he already dumped in 2023 when Rabbi Plutchok moved to the Five Towns. Now he rarely sees him. Give him another few weeks, and by June he will “dislike” Rabbi Plutchok. Because, after all, Rabbi Plutchok said that he considers Rav Miller a Gadol — a big no-no with this root canal purveyor. But, fear not, he won’t hate Rabbi Plutchok, only dislike him, because even though Rabbi Plutchok said that he considers Rabbi Miller a Gadol, it is “not a Gadol like Rav Moshe, Rav Yaakov etc.” But he’s a lucky-ducky fellow, because he’s a member of some religion where “one does not have to listen to what his Rabbi tells him”, as he aptly put it. Maybe he got that from the New Testament. I wouldn’t know, since I never read it.
The Shulchan Aruch explicitly rules a husband must prevent his wife from acting non-tznius. That’s but one of many explicit examples in Halacha. The same obligations applies regarding a father to his children.
The State of so-called Israel “is embracing Torah values” as much as North Korea is doing so.
qwerty613: So when you started learning by Rav Miller, you didn’t even know how to learn Gemora, as per your previous posts. But now you not only hate him, you just falsely made up that Rabbi Plutchok dislikes him — even though you’ve previously posted Rabbi Plutchok holds Rav Miller ztvk”l is a godol hador.
Your entanglement in your web of lies continues.
Until your last post, you referred to Rabbi Plutchok as “My current Rav”, “As my Rav”, “My present Rav”, “my Rav”, etc. When one has a Rav he’s obligated to follow his psakim. But in your most recent comment, when confronted with these uncomfortable truths, you downgraded Rabbi Plutchok to merely being “one of my Rabbis”. Apparently, now, you have a roster of rabbis in your rolodex to ask specific “shailos” to, depending what answer you want to hear. Rabbi A, he permits TV, that’s who I’ll ask the TV shaila; Rabbi B, he permits mixed swimming, that’s who I’ll ask the swimming shaila…
You’ve also written that Rav Moshe’s grandson who comes to you to get his teeth cleaned is a Chosid of Rav Miller.
I hope you don’t mess up your patients teeth as bad as you mess up everything else.
Now you can go back to playing imaginary chess, with you comically ending 50% of your comments with “checkmate”.
Dr. Pepper — she was a moderator and had the ability to delete her comments. Her account still exists (along with a tiny number of not deleted comments if I recall).
Btw, she made a personal backup of her comments before deleting them.
qwerty613: You keep getting caught up in your web of lies:
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/censership-and-conformity#post-2509218 (post-2509218) You said: “As my Rav, Rabbi Moshe Plutchok said…”
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/empire-chickens#post-2507847 (post-2507847) “My current Rav, Rabbi Plutchok…”
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/is-chabad-sacrificing-their-youth-in-the-quest-for-outreach/page/5#post-2502198 (post-2502198) “My present Rav is Rav Moshe Plutchok.”
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/yud-tes-kislev#post-2485286 (post-2485286) “my Rav, Rabbi Moshe Plutchok”
I can give you more if you need.
As far as your disingenuous, phony, two-faced question, the Gedolim established TAG specifically to filter use of the internet to block inappropriate material while allowing other material to be used.
But now your throw poor Rabbi Plutchok out with the bathwater. Why? Becuase he doesn’t fit your narrative, so he is no longer your Rav for this purpose and you no longer follow him.
Even after when virtually all the leading Gedolei Yisroel of our generation said, and signed their names to, that television is vulgar, un-Jewish, obscene, indecent, perverse, full of depictions of wanton murder and violence, immorality and nihilism, mockery of faith, corruption and licentiousness and that the day will come when each of us will have to account for having a television, with gehenom, when we are instructed to excrcise restraint and to distance ourselves from it; and that we must free ourselves and our children, once and for all, from the addictive task-master – the television set, eliminate from our homes this spiritual pollutant that toxifies the very atmosphere and that it is incumbent upon every man and woman, every family and circle of friends, to purge television-viewing from their homes.
And you blatantly lied that it was “only” HaGaon HaRav Avigdor Miller ztvk”l that said all the above, when in fact as I linked above in this thread, these exact verbatim statements was written and signed to by all the leading Gedolei Yisroel from the Litvish, Chasidish and Sefardish Rabbonim of our generation.
P.S. I called Rav Shmuel Fishelis, the new name you’re trying to falsely throw out as approving television viewing, but I wasn’t succesful in reaching him. The person that I got hold of and spoke to said he can’t speak in Rav Fishelis’ name but from what he knows (he seems to be close to the Rav), as Menahel Rav Fishelis in Mesivtha Tifereth Yerushalayim prohibited the talmidim from having televisions in their homes, and that while it is theoretically possible he gave someone a heter bshas hadchak to have a television (speculating that such a person might have engaged in worse activities, otherwise, in his opionion), thus giving such an individual and individual dispension, he certainly wouldn’t say it is generally acceptable. (Don’t worry; I’m not going to ask you what untoward and/or sacrilegious activities you are drawn to.)
Rav Moshe Feinstein ztvk”l was a primary signatory alongside other Gedolei Yisroel such as Rav Elazar Shach ztvk”l and Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky ztvk”l on a famous public letter banning television entirely.
P.P.S. I’m not bothering Rabbi Plutchok a second time for your vanity and purposeless request. You’re free to speak to him directly.
Little Froggie: Any advice?
qwerty613: I spoke to Rabbi Plutchok, who you falsely claimed to be a follower of, and he unequivocly paskened l’halacha that watching TV is forbidden.
Or did you shop for another “rabbi” to tell you what you want to hear? Did you google her positions before asking her for her “psak”?
This website is designed for Orthodox Jews; I’d suggest you find a site geared towards Reform “Judaism”.
qwerty613:
I found the “Crusade”, as you ineptly put it, against television by the Rabbis “decades ago”. Except that it wasn’t by “a certain Rabbi”, but rather by over 40 of the most eminent Rabbis of the generation. Here’s partial list:
Rabbi Avrohom Pam
[Yeshivas Torah Vodaath]Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Levin
[Yeshivas Telz, Chicago]Rabbi Aaron Schechter
[Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin]Rabbi Binyomin Paler
[Yeshiva Mkor Chaim]Rabbi Binyomin Zeilberger
[Yeshiva Bais HaTalmud]Rabbi Chaim Baruch Wolpin
[Yeshivas Telz, Chicago]Rabbi Chaim Epstein
[Yesshiva Zichron Melech]Rabbi Chaim Stein
[Yeshivas Telz, Cleveland]Rabbi Elya Fischer
[Kollel Gur]Rabbi Elya Svei
[Yeshiva Gedola of Philadelphia]Rabbi Gavriel Giinzburg
[Yeshiva Ner Yisroel, Toronto]Rabbi Henach Leibowitz
[Yeshiva Rabbi Yisroel Meir]Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan
[Yeshiva Toras Chaim, Denver]Rabbi Joseph Rosenblum
[Yeshiva Shaarei Yosher]Rabbi Leib Bakst
[Yeshiva Bais Yehuda, Detroit]Rabbi Levi Krupenia
[Yeshiva Kamenitz, Toras Emes]Rabbi Lipa Margolis
[Yeshiva Torah Temima]Rabbi Malkiel Kotler
[Beis Medrash Govoha, Lakewood]Rabbi Meir Stern
[Yeshiva Gedola of Passaic]Rabbi Mordechai Gifter
[Yeshiva Telz, Cleveland]Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum
[Yeshivas Mir]Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky
[Yeshiva Gedola of Philadelphia]Rabbi Shimon Shwab
[Rav, Khal Adas Yeshurun]Rabbi Shmuel Faivelson
[Bais Medrash LaTorah, Monsey]Rabbi Shrage Moshe Kalmanowitz
[Yishivas Mir]Rabbi Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld
[Mattersdorfer Ruv, Yeshiva Ch’san Sofer]Rabbi Simch Schustal
[Yeshiva Bais Binyomin, Stanford]Rabbi Tuvia Golstein
[Yeshiva Emek Halocho]Rabbi Yaakov Perlow
[Novominsker Rebbe, Yeshiva Novominsk]Rabbi Yaakov Schnaidman
[Yeshiva Bais Moshe, Scranton]Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg
[Yeshiva Ner Yisroel, Baltimore]Rabbi Yechiel Perr
[Yeshiva Derech Ayson]Rabbi Yekusiel Bittersfeld
[Yeshiva Zichron Shneur]Rabbi Yisroel Perkowsky
[Yeshiva Bais HaTalmud]Rabbi Yitchok Feigelstock
[Yeshiva of Long Beach]Rabbi Yosef Harari Raful
[Yeshiva Ateret Torah]Rabbi Zecharya Gelly
[Rav K’hal Adas Yeshurun, Yeshiva Rabbi S.R. Hirsch]Rabbi Zelig Epstein
[Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah]But, thankfully, we here have the anonymous “Posek HaCR” qwerty613 who is far smarter, far more qualified, and far wiser than not only any one of the above Rabbis, but of all of them combined.
Unless coffee addict was correct in 2023 when you showed up at YWN.
In case anyone cares to read the text of the “Crusade” qwerty613 referred to, here it is:
Television: A Cry of Anguish and Appeal to Our Jewish Brethren ?
Minhag K’Halacha. No one has a right to forgo their father’s minhagim.
Welcome to Golus.
Goyim are anti-semites.
When were you born?
P.S. Zionists and their State have been the biggest internal cause of anti-semitism over the last 75+ years.
You’re a member of the wrong religion. Judaism does not comport to your ethos.
Get a grip.
This OP, above, is plain amartzus and absolutely false, without a shred of truth to it.
The minhagim are far far older than 100 years.
And, regardless, no one has the right “to do what you feel would be better for you.” Everyone is obligated to honor, continue, fulfill and do their father and grandfather’s minhagim.
It looks like the frum community can confirm that Satmar, again, got it right. It was worthwhile and necessary to build bridges with Mayor Mamdani. Satmar did it before the election, so they’ll, once again, have a better relationship with the NYC government. And the rest of the frum community started building their bridges with Mamdani now after the election.
Dovid: Thank you for throwing the inquirer off the trail.
On another note, an unmarried person shouldn’t be driving, since they aren’t yet fully immersed in the value of life.
Sounds to me similar to a shomer chinum situation. (Don’t quote me on that; ask your LOR.)
Yes, absolutely. This is an open secret.
The reason the frum community in Eretz Yisroel doesn’t elect to gain (on the books) employment is because the Zionists passed laws making it illegal for frum people in Eretz Yisroel to work unless they first join the Zionist Army. And the frum will not join the army since the IDF will shmad them into Israeli goyim.
If they would me allowed to legally work without enlisting in the Israeli army, you’d see them working legally. But the frei don’t let the frum work.
The Mayor attended the major annual pre-Pesach Chasdei Lev food distrubution organized by the Frum community.
We can officially confirm the Mayor is no longer The Big Boogeyman he was made out for by the Zionists.
IzoBar: The Zionists made the area they operate in and or control the most unsafe places for Jews to live in since the times they’ve operated in and seized control of.
The Chasam Sofer writes that the reason Jews do not speak Loshon Hakodesh as a speaking language is because it is inappropriate to use a holy language while enveloped in Tumah, which is our current status. The Rambam writes that a love song in Hebrew is more repulsive to Hashem than the same song in Arabic, for instance, because the pollution of the Holy language is an additional crime. If someone wants to store smut in his house, thats bad enough. But to store it in the Aron HaKodesh is unspeakably worse. So to cause Loshon HaKodesh to be used as a street language, complete with all the disgusting ways it is used today in Israel, is just more of a reason why we should make sure it never gets into the streets. For our Creator to look down at the world and see His holy language – or even elements of it – used in magazines such as are sold in Kiosks on Yaffo or Dizengoff Street, or spoken by the lowest of the low trying to make a sale, is not something that he or we are happy about.
The Kuzari writes that Avrohom Avinu, therefore, spoke 2 different languages. One for holy speech – that was Loshon HaKodesh, and the other for mundane speech – that, the Kuzari says was some non-Jewish language that Avrohom Avinu took and changed around a little on his own. And thats the idea behind Yiddish. It is a non-Jewish language that we took and twisted a bit in order to make it exclusive among us.
Even though there are Yiddishistin who speak Yiddish, they took it from us, not vice-versa (as is the case of Modern Hebrew), and since we do not live in a country or society dominated by Yiddish-speaking shkotzim, there is no benefit of Lo shinu es leshonam by not speaking Yiddish. But there is such a benefit by not speaking Hebrew.
Other reasons why Modern Hebrew is not the “language of the Jew” are:
(a) Its origin is actually anti-Jewish. The creators of MH did so because “it is not possible to be a nation without a national language” (see Eisentein’s encyclopedia, ‘Ivrit’). This of course is Apikorsus, because Jews are a nation not like other nations – whereas other nations need a common spoken language, we only need the Torah to make us a “nation”. We are no more or less an “am” if we have or do not have a common language, common food, or common geographic boundaries. The idea was that MH will make us into a “nation like all nations”, in the same way that some fool may say that all Jews should eat bagels and lox because without doing so, we will be less of an “am”. And even though those who speka MH in Bnei Brak today do not subscirbe to this heresy, we do not consider this language the “Jewish language” because it was created to actually change the definition of what “Jewish” means. In The golyon Maharsha, quoted by Rav Reuven Grozovsky in “Bayos HaZeman”, there is brought a responsa of Rav Yaakov Sasportes, a great combatant in the fight against the Shabse Tzvi y”s. He says that Shabse Tzvi actually intorduced some positive, even obligatory practices into Judaism. Performing Birkas Kohanim daily, even in Chutz La’aretz, was foremost among them. But, says the Ohel Yaakov, even though this is a good and positive practice, and perhaps even obligatory according to Halachha, since its origins came through Shabse Tzvi, we should not do it. The same applies, all the more to making MH our “national language.”
(b) The changes in Loshon HaKodesh that were made, both in accent and content, are unacceptable. The changing of accents from Ashkenaz to Sefard for Ashkenaz Jews is wrong. Rabbeinu Bachye writes that if you change even a komatz to a Pasach in the language, it will lead to heresy. Also, certain words in Hebrew are definitely against the spirit of the Torah. (Ben Yehuda once said that he designed the language specifically to “shtoch” the religious). Example: “Chashmal”, which means electricity in MH, comes from the Loshon HaKodesh word found at the beginning of Yechizkel which is the name of the Angel of Fire. The idea of taking the name of the Malach of AIsh and using it to mean “electricity” was the implication that whereas in the olden days we believed in angels as explanations for things, today we believe in technology. It would be the same as calling penicillin, for instance, “Rephoel.” The Debreciner Rav ZT’L actually discusses if it is permitted to use this word.
MH does have its roots in Loshon HaKodesh, but its adjustments of it make it the worst of both worlds – since it has Loshon HaKodesh elements we dont want to use it for our mundane purposes – and since it has non-Loshon HaKodesh elements, we do not want to accept it as our national language. So to speak MH is one thing, but to say it is the “language of the Jew” is just not so. Neither is Yiddish the “language of the Jew”, any more than a black hat is the “clothing of a Jew.” But just as the purpose of the hat is “lo shinu es malbushayhen” – we want to dress differently than the seculars – thep purpose of Yiddish is “lo shinu es shemom” – we want to talk differently than the seculars.
There is no Mitzvah to speak in Loshon HaKodesh. Without the modernizations, its not much of a speakable language (we don’t have that many words). And if you do add in a bunch of words and tweak it, youll just end up with another Yiddish, but based on Loshon HaKodesh, which is only a bad thing, not good, as per above. Plus, the Responsa Chavtzeles HaSharon (I:OH:10) writes that Loshon HaKodesh is only Kodesh if its used exclusively for holy things. Once you start using it to speak mundane things, its not holy anymore. It’s like an Aron HaKodesh – once you use it to hold your model racing car collection and not Sifrei Torah, its not an Aron HaKodesh anymore.
The Radak (Sefer HaMichlol, introduction) writes that Loshon HaKodesh is all but forgotten to us, and all we have left is what is in Tanach.
Modern Hebrew is not different than Turkish or Farsi – it is the language of a secular culture complete with all those things that we want to stay away from. The fact that some of those who speak Modern Hebrew are religious Jews is not different than the language of any country Jews are in where they speak the language of the land. The point is to stay away from the language of the land and only talk the language of the Jew.
The Chasam Sofer notes that while Chazal used many words and phrases borrowed from the Greeks and Romans, they never coined a new word, as has been done in modern hebrew, for in their holy opinion it was preferable to use other languages rather than create even a single new word that did not have its like, its example, in the Torah, since it could not be rooted in sanctity.
The Chasam Sofer EH 2:11 says that in ancient times Jews used to use a modified version of the non-Jewish languages for everyday (divrei chol) talk, similar to what Yiddish is. The Kuzari writes that Avrohom Avinu, therefore, spoke 2 different languages. One for holy speech – that was Loshon HaKodesh, and the other for mundane speech – that, the Kuzari says was some non-Jewish language that Avrohom Avinu took and changed around a little on his own. And thats the idea behind Yiddish. It is a non-Jewish language that we took and twisted a bit in order to make it exclusive among us.
The Rambam writes that even in the days of Ezra they had a translator to explain the Torah readings to the people – clearly, they did not speak Loshon Hakodesh, even before the Churban.
Maran Hagoen Rav Elazar Shach told American educators that Yeshiva boys should be taught Chumash in Yiddish, even if the boys speak English amongst themselves. He furtermore said that both boys and girls should learn to be comfortable in Yiddish. He also said that Yiddish is spoken by “all jews” (that is his phrase). He referred parents to send their children to Yiddish teaching yeshivos. And there is good reason why Rebbes and Rabbonim give ma’amarim in Yiddish.
I would suggest shortening your domain name. Using dashes in a domain isn’t the best practice (for people to remember). The same is available without the dashes. And you might consider dropping the last of the three words altogether, to keep the domain name even shorter and easier for folks to remember.
More safe than the State of Israel. London didn’t have an October 7 or terrorist attacks and wars every Monday and Thursday.
Since you know that Eretz Yisroel is the safest place on earth, you are highly encouraged to move to Southern Lebanon, Eretz Yisroel, since Southern Lebanon has the kedusha of Eretz Yisroel.
You need to specify whether you’re referring to Loshon Kodesh or referring to Ivrit.
Ivrit is nothing more than the language of the Zionist State, in the same sense that Farsi is the language of the Islamic State of Iran.
The frum community stands fully behind in complete support of ICE in their commendable strong efforts in enforcing United States immigration laws, as well as the laws protecting law enforcement officers, such as ICE officers, carrying out their law enforcement duties in the field, against thugs interfering with said law enforcement operations.
Does investing by Heimishe folks work differently than investing by non-Heimishe folks?
What’s the problem with the general investing sites?
Which part of Florida?
Florida is bigger than most countries.
Herzl and Zionism were just as okay to have Uganda as their Zionist fantasy playland as they were to have it in Palestine.
Shall we make an offer you cannot refuse?
Milhouse: This isn’t the only post of this OP/posters comments that can easily be ascribed to being similar behavior as the nochrim.
Would you rather roll the dice to see if you’re right or wrong until Iran drops a nuke on Tel Aviv?
Clinton didn’t get authorization or give notification for his illegal war against Yugoslavia in Kosovo as well his war in Bosnia. And he ignored the 60-day deadline of the War Powers Resolution of 1973. As did Obama in regards to Libya. And Bush I in Panama and Reagan in Granada and Libya.
Nothing new here.