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  • March 20, 2025 6:20 pm at 6:20 pm in reply to: WZO elections 2025 #2380024
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    SCA explicitly was chartered to *not* deal with any religious issues. And, still, RJBS opposed it.

    March 20, 2025 4:07 pm at 4:07 pm in reply to: WZO elections 2025 #2379825
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    Massive Asifa Held in BMG Against Voting in World Zionist Organization Election

    March 20, 2025 10:22 am at 10:22 am in reply to: Day of Prayer #2379686
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    And all of the above is before, and in addition to, the fact that it is the Zionists who triggered and caused the conflict with the Arabs and Islamic world over the last hundred years. Something the Torah world was always opposed to, from the very inception of Zionism.

    So the Zionists caused a hundred years of wars and terrorism — and then demand those who opposed them in creating these conflicts to then join them in the very conflicts they caused.

    March 20, 2025 10:22 am at 10:22 am in reply to: Day of Prayer #2379685
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    ZSK:

    That Chilonim don’t accept ????? ??????? as a valid exemption is absolutely no reason anyone shouldn’t utilize that exemption, regardless of Chilonim not accepting it.

    By the way, Chilonim do accept the “soldiers” in the IDF who are part of the IDF choir (Lakat Tzahal) or the orchestra (Tizmorot Tzahal) or the band or the honor guard (Mishmor Hakovod), entertainment positions in the IDF, filmmaking , photography, sports, or the radio and media (Galei Tzahal), the IDF theatre group (Teatron Tzahal) and other non-critical, non-combat units.

    Yet, ????? ??????? is less important than to have entertainers, theatre production, filmmaking, orchestra, choirs, etc., who are not fighting in combat. Torah study, of course, is being “parasitical”.

    The mathematical reality is that only a tiny tiny percent of Jews opt out due to Torah. The fact that the majority aren’t religious r”l altogether and even by the religious most don’t value Torah enough to dedicate themselves to it, thereby leaving Chareidim as the main source for the tiny percent of Jews dedicated to Torah, is irrelevant to the fact that means the Chareidim need to mostly be exempt.

    And, aside from all of the above, and as DaasYochid alluded to above, there’s every good reason even for people who are *not* dedicated to full time Torah study to make absolutely certain that they never join the treif IDF. The IDF is well reknown and infamous for its rampant immorality as well as rabid anti-religious fervor, that in order to self-preserve one’s very basic Judaism any observant Jew should stay far away from the IDF.

    And all this is even before getting into the facts that the IDF is not short soldiers that is causing them to lose battles or wars due to a lack of combat personnel. This fact was well admitted to by multiple to IDF personnel before the current war. They don’t want Chareidim because they need them; they want Chareidim in order to make them no longer Chareidi.

    March 19, 2025 9:43 pm at 9:43 pm in reply to: Presidential power #2379489
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    And after the filibuster is gone, expand the judiciary by increasing the number of district judges fourfold and increasing the appeals circuits threefold (by adding new circuits and/or additional judges to the existing appeals circuits).

    And appoint all those new judges to fill these new judgeships in rapid fire form in the Senate, by altering the parliamentary rules if necessary. Perhaps even expand the Supreme Court to twenty three judges.

    March 19, 2025 9:34 pm at 9:34 pm in reply to: Presidential power #2379480
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    End the filibuster.

    Let Republicans modify half the laws on the books and legally destroy the corrupt government systems so much that it would be close to impossible to rebuild the nearly hundred year old system built since Franklin Roosevelt’s terrible “New Deal”, for at least another quarter to half a century, even after Democrats have another trifecta control (whenever that might be.)

    March 19, 2025 9:33 pm at 9:33 pm in reply to: Day of Prayer #2379470
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    ZSK: Were glad you clarified that you think the Gedolei HaDor are simpletons and puppets who simply and merely “rubber stamp” whatever untruths some big shots put on papers in front of them, since you believe they are too stupid to know the truth that intelligent men such as yourself easily know.

    March 19, 2025 9:33 pm at 9:33 pm in reply to: Three Oaths essay from Rabbi Avraham Rivlin of Kerem B’Yavneh #2379461
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    Square: Being that you’re bigger than the Satmar Rebbe ztvk’l and you can easily shlug him up, I think you should put his Sefer V’Yoel Moshe in Cherem and have them discarded anywhere they are.

    By the way, the Tosfos Yom Tov attributed Tach V’Tat (aka the Khmelnytsky Massacres of 100,000 Yidden in 1648-1649) to talking in shul.

    Now, you, Square can shlug up the Tosfos Yom Tov and tell him (and throw out his Seforim) “That explanation MIGHT have been logical, if, at the time of Tach V’Tat there were no Jews abandoning Shabbat, and no Jews eating forbidden foods,
    and no Jewish atheists, and no Jews intermarrying with non-Jews and no Jews doing much worse things than merely and simply talking in shul.”

    March 19, 2025 9:24 pm at 9:24 pm in reply to: WZO elections 2025 #2379389
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    Everyone was opposed to participating in the Synagogue Council of America. Even Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik was explicitly opposed. Certainly the WZO isn’t any better than the SCA.

    March 19, 2025 4:31 pm at 4:31 pm in reply to: WZO elections 2025 #2379040
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    DaasYochid: I’m still not saying that. I’m just saying that if someone is going to reject the Gedolim who pasken that it is forbidden to participate in the Zionist Organization voting, with the argument that it is worthwhile getting some money out of them even if that means partaking in a heretical anti-Torah entity, *at least* keep in mind what I pointed out in my previous comment.

    With that being said, I’ll add in another important factor. The EH is now running for the second time; they won some seats in the WZO in the last election. So we have data to judge their effectiveness insofar as to what they claim to be achieving. And the data from the WZO shows that over the last term in office the Torah community received paltry and negligible additional benefits compared to whatever they received prior to the existence of EH.

    March 18, 2025 10:08 pm at 10:08 pm in reply to: WZO elections 2025 #2378677
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    If you had the opportunity to vote out Hitler ym”s, you wouldn’t?

    (I’m not expressing an opinion about WZO elections, just that your analogy is inapt)

    DaasYochid: The analogy is apt, even if I’m not necessarily going to disagree now with your above point, because when you register yourself as a member of the Nazi party, in order to qualify for voting in the Nazi party primary, with the intention (as you make the case for) of voting out Hitler ym’s, you know that Nazism is evil and murderous. You’re doing what you’re doing in hoping to make some lemonade out of the terrible lemons. And you are always very conscious that this is the only point of that endeavor.

    So too here, even if you buy into the argument of voting in the Zionist Organization elections, the analogy is ultimately meant to implore you to always keep in mind what a evil murderous regime they are, even as you hold your nose and vote in the ostensible dream of cashing in a little gelt to squeeze out of them.

    March 18, 2025 8:55 am at 8:55 am in reply to: WZO elections 2025 #2378247
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    If you lived in Germany in the 1930s, would you vote in the Nazi party elections, since the Nazis are the party in power and the Nazi primaries determine the German government leadership?

    March 16, 2025 9:27 am at 9:27 am in reply to: Drudge now had Yeshiva World link #2376048
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    Yeshivish: About ten years ago they did have a permanent link.

    March 12, 2025 11:51 pm at 11:51 pm in reply to: Day of Prayer #2375357
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    Simcha613: Since you are clearly greater and wiser than the greatest Torah sages of our generation in the form of the collective wisdom of the Gedolei HaDor on the saintly Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, you should fire all those Talmidei Chachonim and replace them with people who know better than them (such as yourself) on when to establish a day of prayer.

    March 12, 2025 12:42 am at 12:42 am in reply to: Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik — A Godol B’Kiruv #2374883
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    HaKatan:

    They didn’t just “disagree with him” as in “eilu viEilu”. They condemned him for his “innovations” and the like.
    Rav Aharon Kotler stated that Rabbi Dr. Soloveichik was responsible for “all the tuma in America”.

    I’m aware of that, but I didn’t address that. I do think they would credit him for saving Jews who otherwise would discard any level of observance and identification with Orthodoxy to, instead, remain at least partially observant and identify as Modern Orthodox.

    As to the main point you were trying to make, had he created “Modern Orthodoxy” as a temporary kiruv stage, then that would have been bad enough.

    But, instead, he claimed (when creating MO) that only his (Maskilic) way would survive, and “separatist orthodoxy” would become a museum-piece. Of course, netzach Yisrael lo yishaker, as we just read, so his prediction would obviously not be possible, but that is even more obvious in hindsight.

    B”H, the opposite has happened (compare the numbers in BMG and other yeshivos versus those in YU, and also note all the “flip-outs” who realize that “Modern Orthodoxy” is absurd, and then go to NIRC or other such yeshivos after being shmaded in YU, and become traditionally orthodox instead of “Modern Orthodox”). BE”H, this will continue to happen until the heresy and idolatry of “Modern Orthodoxy” finally becomes history.

    I don’t disagree. He didn’t make entirely clear that MO was a b’dieved; certainly better than becoming Conservative or Reform but also acceptance of not full adherence to the Taryag Mitzvos.

    But, to his credit, RJBS in his “Five Addresses” said (note the bold) “secular culture . . . . AS LONG AS ONE CAN LIVE WITHOUT IT SO MUCH THE BETTER FOR THE SPIRIT”. RJBS said that the traditional Ultra-Orthodoxy (he refers to them as “isolationist” Orthodox, or “extreme” Orthodox), would theoretically be the best choice. But in America, he opined, it cannot survive. Forced by a new “economic and social order” and high-speed advances in technology to abandon our traditional Torah Orthodoxy, which will get “swallowed” and “completely assimilated”, we must “prepare”. “Preparations” included, among other things, creating a “new type of Talmid Chacham”, who “you will find . . . in the free professions such as medicine, science, law, and also in business” (Five Addresses, p.155), and joining Mizrachi in the building and supporting of the State of Israel, since “we cannot pin much hope on the Diaspora. Assimilation grows daily . . .True, there is a bit of Torah in the Diaspora; however the number of Torah students is proportionately very low, and it is impossible to forecast what will happen in future generations. . . whereas in that very non-observant Israel the future of Torah and traditional Judaism is far more secure.” (ibid p.33) “We reject the theory of isolation as dangerous for the continued existence of the people. The force of circumstances in recent years that lead to the majority of Jewish people being moved to the West and becoming connected, language-wise, economically, and politically with society in general, has rendered the approach of the isolationists suicidal. In such an approach lurks the danger that we shall dwindle to a small sect with little life expectancy” (ibid p.176)

    Yes, Rabbi Soloveichik in his Five Addresses does explicitly acknowledge and admit that Ultra-Orthodoxy is the proper way to live a Jewish life.
    But he thought (and states) that “separatist Orthodoxy” would disappear and only MO will survive. Like you pointed out above, “tourist attractions” he says Chareidim would end up. Clearly he was 100% mistaken. And it was that which he said justified “Modern Orthodoxy” – survival, nothing else.

    March 12, 2025 12:40 am at 12:40 am in reply to: Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik — A Godol B’Kiruv #2374864
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    Ari Knobler:

    Which “Gedolei Yisroel”?

    All of them who stated a position regarding his weltanschauung.

    Since when?

    Do you disagree that he was mekarev many Orthodox Jews who, otherwise, would have stopped identifying as Orthodox, and adhering at least to the minimally basic Jewish laws and, instead, affiliate with the Conservatives (or other heterodox or secularism) and almost certainly dropped most of what was left of their observance?

    What does this mean?

    That in the prewar and postwar periods many Orthodox identifying Jews and congregations (shuls) stopped identifying as Orthodox and mostly stopped observing whatever level of observance they still adhered to.

    RJBS was NOT, I repeat: NOT, the creator of Modern Orthodoxy in the United States or anywhere else.

    That may be so, but RJBS certainly built Modern Orthodoxy into what it became and is.

    March 12, 2025 12:39 am at 12:39 am in reply to: Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik — A Godol B’Kiruv #2374859
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    ZSK: I did not say that RJBS was in any way, shape or form responsible for the Conservative movement. Au contraire. I said that RJBS was responsible for stemming the tide of the Conservative movement taking away many nominally Orthodox Jews and even many full congregations. People and shuls that may have otherwise disaffilated with Orthodoxy and shifted to the Conservatives, as many Jews and shuls were rachmana litzlon doing during those dark periods. As a result of RJBS, they instead remained affiliated with Modern Orthodoxy.

    March 12, 2025 12:39 am at 12:39 am in reply to: Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik — A Godol B’Kiruv #2374857
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    lakewhut: You’re, effectively, agreeing with my point in the OP, above.

    March 12, 2025 12:36 am at 12:36 am in reply to: Drudge now had Yeshiva World link #2374841
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    This isn’t the first time. He had the link already, for awhile , about ten years ago.

    March 11, 2025 12:05 am at 12:05 am in reply to: Napoleon Yam Suf #2374502
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    I thought it was Donald Trump who did that.

    March 10, 2025 3:50 pm at 3:50 pm in reply to: WZO elections 2025 #2374348
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    Treif, apikorsus.

    March 10, 2025 10:44 am at 10:44 am in reply to: How Trump can become problematic #2374169
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    Baruch: He is not taking Russia’s side nor is he threatening to leave NATO. Stop drinking all the drivel and lies you’re being fed by the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CBS and the rest of the false stories they peddle every day.

    President Trump has been an Oheiv Yisroel long before he ever entered politics. And ever since he entered, both during his first term and his current term, he has repeatedly proven over and over that he is the most pro-Jewish and pro-Israel in the history of the United States.

    March 10, 2025 10:43 am at 10:43 am in reply to: The antizionism amongst religious Jews has no legitimate detractors #2374164
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    ZSK: No one needs your patience. The bottom line is even if someone is working or otherwise not a learner or Torah scholar, there is still every reason in the world that he absolutely should not join the Zionist army. Under any circumstances. Staying away from them isn’t contingent on being in full time Torah study.

    March 6, 2025 2:37 pm at 2:37 pm in reply to: How Trump can become problematic #2372901
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    Donald Trump has been an Oheiv Yisroel his entire life. Even long before he ever entered politics. As was his father Fred. And he’s been the most pro-Jewish president in US history.

    March 6, 2025 2:37 pm at 2:37 pm in reply to: The antizionism amongst religious Jews has no legitimate detractors #2372911
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    March 5, 2025 5:41 pm at 5:41 pm in reply to: Bibi Doesn’t Have the Cards #2372491
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    Don’t believe every drivel you see reported in the media. Even if the lying media outlet is called the New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, AP, Washington Post, CNN, or CBS.

    March 4, 2025 9:12 pm at 9:12 pm in reply to: How Trump can become problematic #2372086
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    Menachem: Why is Israel so stupid that they keep committing suicide, as you explained?

    March 2, 2025 7:30 pm at 7:30 pm in reply to: How Trump can become problematic #2371017
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    1. The President is not taking Russia’d side. He is still sending lethal arms to Ukraine to kill Russian soldiers. He is a tactical negotiator and his antics are his negotiating tactics to end the war that has now been going on since 2014, eleven years and with no end in sight without Trump’s intervention.

    2. He is not withdrawing from NATO.

    3. Civil Service (government) employees should NOT have better job protection or employee benefits than private sector employees. And the government workforce is highly bloated and way overdue for severe downsizing to save taxpayer money. The first to go should be the do-nothing employees who sit on their hands all day and do nothing. It’s high time to stop coddling the government politically connected union thugs obtaining things no private sector business would ever agree to.

    4. I agree that tariffs are not helpful and are liable to backfire. I’m hoping, and believe it is reasonable to speculate, that President Trump’s game-plan is to use the threat of them as leverage to obtain terms from other countries more beneficial to the United States before he drops the threat of tariffs on any particular country.

    March 2, 2025 11:49 am at 11:49 am in reply to: The antizionism amongst religious Jews has no legitimate detractors #2370728
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    Chaim87 / 1a2b3c: For Rav Wolfson’s position on Zionism, listen to the recording titled “Rav Moshe Wolfson: Korach was a Zionist”, which audio is available under that title on youtube.

    March 1, 2025 11:40 pm at 11:40 pm in reply to: Hi I’m back 3.0 #2370595
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    Chabad Shlucha: Who is this mysterious person who physically abused you to the brink of death? Was it some anti-feminist upset at your loud and proud public expressions of being a militant feminist?

    February 28, 2025 12:03 pm at 12:03 pm in reply to: The antizionism amongst religious Jews has no legitimate detractors #2370408
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    Catch Yourself: Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch was explicitly and expressly anti-Zionist.

    February 27, 2025 12:29 pm at 12:29 pm in reply to: Shidduch Crisis Idea #2369961
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    Lmaanachai: The problem here isn’t the diagnosis; the problem is the proposed solution. Urging girls to wait and get married older is a non-starter. It goes against Halacha and Yiddishkeit.

    And it goes against the interest of each yochid, each young Bas Yisroel. If an individual girl delays trying to get married, she significantly increases the likelihood of making herself into the victim who eventually won’t be able to find anyone to marry.

    The only real solution is to encourage the boys to marry younger. They should start considering shidduchim, at the latest, at ages 17, 18, or 19. Hopefully they can be married by time they’re 18 to 21.

    The other potential solution, and you’re going to either laugh (like Menachem already did above) or scream (like Gadolhadofi is going to as soon as he reads this), is “plural marriage” (a/k/a polygamy). Non-Ashkenazim (Sefardim, Teimanim, Mizrachim, and any other non-Ashkenazim) can do so immediately. Ashkenazim, of course, have the Cherem. But Rabbeinu Gershom put an expiration date on it — which has passed already. Now, the later Rabbonim decided to extend it past its original expiration date. But just like the Rabbonim extended it then, the Rabbonim can end it now, if they today decide that Klal Yisroel needs plural marriage for our benefit.

    And as the shidduch crisis of there being much more girls than boys in the shidduch parsha makes clear, if a small minority of the fewer boys took two wives instead of just one, it would quickly resolve this shidduch problem for the girls.

    February 25, 2025 9:04 pm at 9:04 pm in reply to: Shidduch Crisis Idea #2369293
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    Mailbag: How To Enforce The New Idea To Help The Shidduch Crisis

    February 25, 2025 9:02 pm at 9:02 pm in reply to: Shidduch Crisis Idea #2369280
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    SB613: Your point does have some logic but it isn’t persuasive since halacha itself says, both, to get married younger as well as to wait for an older sibling. Waiting for an older sibling isn’t a newfangled svara; it is brought down in the seforim hakedoshim. Halacha doesn’t say to get married older for societal reasons. (In fact, as we acknowledged, halacha says to get married younger.)

    (As an aside, it is also interesting to observe that it is usually the same people who will push for getting married older that will also push for not waiting for an older sibling.)

    February 25, 2025 11:18 am at 11:18 am in reply to: Shidduch Crisis Idea #2368992
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    Lmaanachai: How are you going to draw a line between who is “Chasidish” and who is “Litvish”? Many many people don’t neatly fit into only one category. For example, those who are sometimes called “Heimish” could be more Chasidish leaning or more Litvish leaning, but not really either. There’s the Oberlanders, who most are more Chasidish leaning, but not Chasidish and not Litvish. They might even daven Nusach Ashkenaz while wearing an up-hat (or even a shtreimal). The Yekkes are neither Litvish nor Chasidish. Same with the Sefardic. And Teimanim. And Mizrachim. And what about the Yeshivish? A large portion, perhaps even a majority, shtam from Hungarian or Polish or other non-Litvish backgrounds.

    When you have young girls getting engaged, if your proposal became reality, they’ll simply self-identify as non-Litvish.

    My contention is that there’s no real way to implement this idea. If it were tried to be implemented, almost anyone who wanted to get around it would have so many loopholes to blast through.

    And there will be wedding halls that will cater to young Kallahs, without them penalizing them, monetarily or otherwise.

    February 24, 2025 11:29 pm at 11:29 pm in reply to: Sorry, you must be logged in to comment. #2368866
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    Yes, this website (WordPress for the main site and bbPress for the CR) is as buggy as they get.

    I’ve had the same experience for the last few months. Duvi’s probably did some “update” around that time.

    February 24, 2025 1:26 pm at 1:26 pm in reply to: Ya’amod! #2368595
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    Correct me if I’m mistaken, but… I don’t think Reb Wolf ever stopped talking during leining!

    February 23, 2025 5:29 pm at 5:29 pm in reply to: Shidduch Crisis Idea #2368241
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    There’s no way to enforce this idea. The wedding halls won’t go along, because (among other reasons, one reason being the) unless *every* hall agreed then no hall will agree. And every hall will not agree. Chasidim, by design, get married at ages 17, 18, 19 etc. And the Chasidish halls will never agree. And they’ll be other halls, not Chasidish, that will choose to profit rather than agree, by getting more business by not having this rule.

    And, if not, people will open new halls that don’t have the rule. And families with a young engaged daughter will find somewhere else to have the Chasuna. Even at a non-traditional hall.

    Besides, Chazal suggest getting married by age 18, at the latest.

    I vote with Chazal.

    Instead of the idea in the OP, try to encourage the young men to get married earlier, instead of them waiting until 22 or 23.

    February 18, 2025 11:54 pm at 11:54 pm in reply to: The Historic Presidency of President Donald John Trump #2366247
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    Yseribus: What do you have to say for yourself after having defended Joe Biden who pardoned Leonard Peltier, who murdered two FBI officers in cold blood, now that he’s been released from prison in thanks to Senile Joe? That Biden pardon was far worse than all the pardons Trump ever gave, put together.

    February 18, 2025 9:18 am at 9:18 am in reply to: YWN attack on Ami #2365989
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    Mishpacha and Ami are both left-wing rags; though Ami is worse.

    February 4, 2025 8:10 am at 8:10 am in reply to: Unfair tax evasion? #2360275
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    I didn’t read the follow up comments to see if the following point was made yet, but the Halacha of dina demalchusa dina does NOT apply to these cases, since these people do not live in the US. Therefore US laws aren’t halachicly binding upon them.

    February 3, 2025 3:59 pm at 3:59 pm in reply to: Hi I’m back 3.0 #2359917
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    Menachem Shmei:

    I seem to recall that CS has posted on this forum (and I’ve seen similar comments by other Lubavitchers elsewhere, in case I’m misremembering regarding CS), people who were born after the Lubavitcher Rebbe was niftar, saying that had some sort of big/serious shaila and they (somehow) asked the Rebbe what to do, and the Rebbe answered him/her to do X, Y and Z.

    That’s what I’m trying to understand.

    January 29, 2025 4:42 pm at 4:42 pm in reply to: Hi I’m back 3.0 #2358117
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    CS: I don’t quite understand if you have a shaila of, say, should I marry this person, or which Yeshiva should I send my son to, or how should I resolve a fight with my neighbor, or should I dedicate my life to Torah exclusively or should I also take a job, or is this particular job offer the proper hashkafa and tznius (and should I accept it), or how should I enforce tznius standards in my family, etc.

    How does the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt’l answer those questions for you when you ask him shailas similar to the above examples.

    January 28, 2025 9:15 pm at 9:15 pm in reply to: Dangerous scooters #2357667
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    Maybe Yeshivos ban electric scooters.

    January 28, 2025 9:15 pm at 9:15 pm in reply to: Dangerous scooters #2357668
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    Many Yeshivos ban all electric scooters.

    January 28, 2025 6:41 pm at 6:41 pm in reply to: The Historic Presidency of President Donald John Trump #2357449
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    mdd: I agree that the police should have been tougher on them, in general. But in regards to the specific incident of an officer shooting that woman, I believe that was unjustified. Especially using any contemporary standard for police in the US to justifiably shoot to kill a person.

    January 27, 2025 6:33 pm at 6:33 pm in reply to: Hi I’m back 3.0 #2356871
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    CS:

    How do you communicate with your Rebbe? How does the Lubavitcher Rebbe answer your personal questions and advise you on how to conduct yourself on very specific personal issues and questions you have on what to do?

    January 27, 2025 11:46 am at 11:46 am in reply to: The Historic Presidency of President Donald John Trump #2356778
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    Yseribus: I’m referring to the vast majority of the trespassers, not the ones who specifically broke into the inner chambers. The rest of them were not stopped by the police, who at that point were letting civilians into areas that normally are restricted from access. Most of the arrests were of people who didn’t do any more than trespass, often without having known it was a restricted area. The vast vast majority of the trespassers did not commit violence.

    They should have been charged, for sure. But they were vastly overcharged and over-sentenced for political reasons against Trump.

    The Silk Road was primarily a money laundering operation. At its core, it wasn’t built for drug sales even though drug dealers latched onto it. If a drug dealer sells drugs over the phone they don’t charge the phone company. The life sentence was virtually unprecedented. You almost never hear of a life sentence for that kind of crime.

    mdd: Even if she did break into the lobby leading to the chambers, she wasn’t a lethal threat to anyone that would justify shooting her dead.

    January 27, 2025 9:46 am at 9:46 am in reply to: The Historic Presidency of President Donald John Trump #2356740
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    Yseribus: The double murderer who killed two FBI agents that Biden set free was serving a life sentence. Biden cut him free. He would have spent the rest of his life in jail otherwise.

    That was far far worse than any pardon Trump, Obama or Clinton ever gave.

    January 27, 2025 5:00 am at 5:00 am in reply to: The Historic Presidency of President Donald John Trump #2356675
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    mdd: The vast majority of them were simply trespassing and no more. And even that was largely after the police let anyone go past the restricted areas, so the most of the crowd didn’t know it was restricted since the police were letting them through. Trespassing is not a crime police should be shooting at people for.

    Yseribus: His sentence was widely disproportionate to what is typically given to such convictions.

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