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  • in reply to: Are there any limits actually enforced by the moderators? #2442368
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    DaMoshe: Baruch Hashem I’m thrilled that you’ve seen the light and you became a supporter of HaGaon HaRav Eleazar Mann Shach zt’l and shared some of his thoughts. I’m sure you’ll just as much appreciate a few more thoughts from Rav Shach.

    Rav Shach said that secular Israelis are “breeders of rabbits and pigs” who did not “know what Yom Kippur is.”

    Rav Shach said places like Yeshiva University promoting a fusion of Torah with secular studies are “an absolute disaster,” warning that they posed a threat to the endurance of authentic Judaism.

    Rav Shach rejected the Religious Zionist movement, viewing it as a secular ideology cloaked in religious garb. He criticized the movement for attempting to merge Jewish religious identity with nationalist aspirations, which undermined the sanctity of Torah. He related that the Religious Zionists had adopted a secular messianism, attempting to solve the “Jewish Problem” through human means rather than divine intervention.

    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2442615
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2441480
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2441479
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2441132
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    in reply to: Reasons Why Chareidim Cannot Govern Eretz Yisrael #2440701
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    Square, you make clear Chareidim are terrible people.

    I’m sure you advocate that they be placed into Concentration Camps and forced to wear a Yellow Star, to keep them away from good people like yourself and others.

    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2440559
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2440170
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    HaGaon HaRav Ezriel Auerbach and heard the decisive instruction to embark on a relentless ‘battle of rage’ against the authorities until the understanding sinks in that loosening the reins of persecution and oppression of Lomdei Torah has a price.

    Peleg Yerushalmi Declares War: Will Escalate “Battle Of Rage,” 1st Protest Tonight

    in reply to: “occupied” Eastern Ukraine #2440100
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    Kosovo, which is legally part of Serbia, is occupied by foreign forces.

    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2440095
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    in reply to: “occupied” Eastern Ukraine #2440085
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    Some people call Texas as the Occupied Mexican Territory.

    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2439983
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    in reply to: What’s the Halacha? #2439981
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    Just to get into the spirit of CR, as you describe it above, if you’re non-Orthodox like none2.0 and GadolHadofi, the answer to the question at the end of your OP is they make no bracha at all.

    in reply to: IDF’s New Haredi Division #2439977
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    The Czarist Russian army also had a Chareidi/Jewish division.

    The IDF violates Torah laws on a daily basis.

    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2439782
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2439720
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    in reply to: Are there any limits actually enforced by the moderators? #2439579
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    Now you understand why the Gedolim shlita banned the Internet.

    There’s no kashering neveilus.

    in reply to: Source of Artscroll instructions #2439577
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    You should never cast aspersions on a Befeirushe Artscroll.

    in reply to: “occupied” Eastern Ukraine #2439576
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    I still call Western Ukraine (the Carpathian Ruthenia region) as Occupied Northeastern Hungary.

    in reply to: Sharing the burden of Israel’s survival. #2439409
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    What’s so important that Jews constitute a majority?

    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2439043
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    YYA:

    If we used this title to describe Bulgaria, would you object to it as much as you do here? I think we agree you would not. (You likely wouldn’t even object to it at all.) The Zionist State is not any more a Jewish State than Bulgaria, Lebanon, or Jordan (the latter two, like the Zionist State, contains portions of Eretz Yisroel.)

    Indeed, the Zionist State is run by open atheists who are, at best, antagonistic to the Torah and the Torah world. So what exactly, is your objection to, put it lightly, the well deserved (which is an understatement) of the atheist government of this atheist Shabbos-violating, Kashrus-negating State with a Prime Minister embodiment and personification of all that.

    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2439028
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    anon1: Hitler said the exact same thing as you!!

    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2438876
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2438846
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    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2438420
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    At the end of Shmiras HaLashon (Hilchos Rechilus 9:15), the Chofetz Chaim writes that the prohibitions against Lashon Hara and Rechilus do not apply to reshaim and kofrim and that it is, in fact, a mitzvah to mock such persons:

    “מצוה לפרסם דעתם הכוזבת לעיני הכל ולגנותם, כדי שלא ילמדו ממעשיהם הרעים.”

    “It is a mitzvah to make their false opinions public before all, and shame them so that others do not learn from their evil deeds.”

    “החפץ חיים בהלכות לשון הרע כלל ח’ סעיף ה’ – אומר: “אותם האנשים שמכירם שיש בהם אפיקורסות מצווה לגנותם ולבזותם בין בפניהם ובין שלא בפניהם”.

    ובהמשך- “אפיקורוס נקרא הכופר בתורה… ואפילו הוא אומר כל התורה כולה מן השמים חוץ מפסוק אחד…”

    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2438347
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    Keith, my young friend: I’m not sure what your point going off on a tangent able gerim has to do with the Brooklyn Bridge. But the Chofetz Chaim himself tells us that there are apikorsim today; and advises is it is both a mitzvah and an obligation to mock them and their views.

    When the Zionist authorities (be it their so called Supreme Court or Attorney General or Military Police) arrest Beni Torah to stop them from Limud Torah in order to serve their idols in their IDF, which is internationally infamous for rampant promiscuity and worse, calling the Zionists as Cantonists is a gross understatement, especially when we see jackbooted Zionists Storm Troopers viciously beating Bnei Brak in the streets of Eretz Yisroel for non-violently protesting; something you never saw or see them doing to the left wing protesters against judicial reform or any other protesters for that matter.

    in reply to: Chasidishe Sefardim #2438182
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    Is anyone here familiar with the migration trajectory of Ashkenazim, Sephardim, etc.? As in, which came from Eretz Yisroel, which from Bavel, etc. And where the separation formed between Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and others.

    Of course Ashkenazim and Sephardim aren’t the only groups. There’s the Teimanim, Italkim, Mizrachim, etc., who contrary to some popular thought are not Sephardim.

    The Sephardim, of course, are those descending from the Spanish peninsula (Spain, Portugal), hence the name. Which is in Europe, so someone’s earlier comment questioning European influence upon Sephardim doesn’t make much sense.

    in reply to: Chasidishe Sefardim #2438181
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    ZSK: A large portion, indeed likely well over a majority, of current fully Torah observant Sephardim, are religiously observant under Ashkenazic influence. This includes them (or their parents/grandparents) having attended Ashkenazic Yeshivos, etc. A lot of this is the result of the Ashkenazic Torah world having strongly helped their Sephardic brethren remain strongly Torah observant during their transition from the Arab lands to Israel, when the State of Israel spent considerable resources in attempts to secularize the Sephardic immigrants.

    This includes a great portion of the contemporary Sephardic religious leadership.

    You can easily observe some of these influences in how they dress nowadays similar to the Ashkenazic Torah world, etc. Of course this is a superficial point, but it extends much deeper.

    in reply to: Chasidishe Sefardim #2438179
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    YYA: Sephardim were a minority compared to Ashkenazim even before the Spanish Expulsion. In regards to Israel today, according to the Israel Census Bureau, the breakdown is approximately 51/49 in favor of Ashkenazim.

    The Italian Jewish you’re referring to that’s neither Ashkenazic nor Sephardic is Italikim.

    in reply to: The Fourth Reich of “Israel” #2438174
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    Castigating, condemning and censuring the Atheistic State of the Middle East (in fact, the *only* atheistic state in the Middle East) that openly champions, endorses and promotes homosexual parades in all its major cities every year, permits and endorses the operation of public transportation on Shabbos, and has a Prime Minister who publicly eats treif and spits on Shabbos, is a mitzvah and a halachic obligation that anyone who engages in will be awarded by the RBS”O.

    in reply to: Moderation Memos, Posting Tips, and Important Links 📝⬆️🔗 #2437960
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    Mods: You must’ve fallen asleep at the wheel to have let the previous comment through… And it’s up for over a day already.

    That’s a seriously severe oversight.

    I don’t mod very much anymore – what thread are you referring to?

    Nevermind, found it. Ugh.

    in reply to: Alan Dershowitz and Others Speak Truth #2437957
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    Alan Dershowitz should return to observance. He does not have the excuse or alibi that he’s a tinok shenishba. He’ll be held fully responsible for every time he violates Shabbos, Kashrus, and every one of the 613.

    in reply to: Chasidishe Sefardim #2437955
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    Yaakov Yosef: Your wife traded in her Sefardic minhagim for Chasidish minhagim?

    in reply to: Vacation #2437953
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    CTL (you’ll never be ex to me): Am I misremembering that you’re supposed to fly either First Class or Business Class?

    in reply to: עת לעשות לה׳ הפירו תורתך #2437944
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    Rocky: That’s a pipe dream. The average student of those 80 places would have trouble being on the same level as a third rate American Yeshiva designed for those who couldn’t enter a standard Yeshiva.

    in reply to: Vacation #2437749
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    The best vacation is spending a week or two or three full time in the Beis Medrash.

    in reply to: Funny issue with RCA prenup #2437718
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    Ishpurim:

    A “Safek Mamzer” has the worst of it all; he/she cannot marry a regular Jew and he/she cannot even marry a mamzer.

    in reply to: Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch and the IDF (Israeli Army) #2436480
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    HaKatan: Thank you for all your excellent posts fully explaining the Torah’s position on this issue.

    in reply to: Funny issue with RCA prenup #2436477
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    Abba_S:

    Based on that, anytime anyone is considering you marry a BT or even the child, grandchild or great grandchild of a BT, they need to thoroughly investigate the Yichus of that person, specifically all the marriages, divorces, mesader kedushins and gittin, of all that prospective groom or brides parents, grandparents and great-grandparents to check a) whether each and every of the marriages were valid under Jewish Law and b) of the marriage was valid if any subsequent separation/divorce had a gittin that was fully valid under Jewish Law, and if G-d forbid not, any subsequent children from such a woman would be considered to be mamzeirim along with all future offspring of that mamzer. (And thereby render and potential marriages with those offspring as impossible.)

    in reply to: ארץ ישראל and the state #2436178
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    IzoBar: The Jews living in the Arab countries for thousands of years before Zionism, lived there *relatively* peacefully for thousands of years. Yes, there were exceptions every now and then and you cited to examples. But you don’t have that many examples.

    If you want, you can find prominent examples of antisemitism even in the US, the Leo Frank case, Henry Ford, Father Charles Coughlin, etc. Do you consider Americans to be antisemites?

    The truth is we are living in Golus, and in Golus antisemitism is the rule and not the exception. Everywhere in Golus antisemitism is to be expected, from the time our bitter Golus began 2,000 years ago about through today. And that applies everywhere; in Europe (most prominently), in the Arab countries, in the State of Israel and in the United States and elsewhere.

    By contrast, Jews living in Europe experienced murderous violent antisemitism every Monday and Thursday. Not to mention that the Europeans from Rome destroyed the Bais Hamikdash and attempted their first genocide in Yerushalayim and Eretz Yisroel; and not long thereafter Bar Kochba revolt they crushed. And ever since.

    Compare how the Jews in Spain fared. Under Muslim rule the Jews in Spain lived in the golden age; when the Christians took over Spain, the Jews faced violence, forced conversions to Christianity and, finally, expulsion and the Inquisition with Jews being burnt at the stake.

    The Europeans committed the Crusades multiple times, blood libels ongoing for centuries and centuries, expulsions of Jews from almost every European country that had Jews, at one time or another (including England, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, etc.) over hundreds of years, confined to ghettos throughout Europe,, blamed for the Black Death persecutions, murdering 100,000 Jews in Tach V’Tat/Khmelnytsky Massacres in Ukraine, Dreyfus Affair, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, many murderous Pograms, etc. etc. etc.

    And, of course, the biggest of them all, the Holocaust, when Europe murdered 6,000,000 Jews just a few decades ago, with survivors of that still alive with us today.

    Indeed, the whole European Christian Church is explicitly built upon the claim that the Jews killed their “god”; and what on earth can be worse than killing “god”. So the Europeans had a ready-made excuse to justify their centuries and millenia of anti-Jewish violence, murder and genocide.

    The Arabs never came close to the above; not even a drop in the bucket, by comparison. The reality is that Jews lived under Arab rule for thousands of years, prior to the advent of Zionism, *mostly* peacefully.

    Indeed, by comparison, throughout Golus, from all the places that many Jews resided in, those living under Arab rule fared the best; far better than the countries that had many Jews outside the Arab lands.

    Unlike the Jews in Europe.

    in reply to: Learning Torah protects #2436168
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    JV: Although the State of “Israel” claims to be a “Jewish State”, it is anything but. It is an atheistic state, just as much as the Soviet Union was; and it always was so.

    in reply to: עת לעשות לה׳ הפירו תורתך #2436166
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    HaKatan:

    Thank you. Excellent point.

    in reply to: Entitlement #2436163
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    Judaism IS superior in religion.

    And we must conform with Jewish law, tradition, customs and religious Torah Judaism.

    in reply to: Anti-Semitic sufferingby the jews ofm montreal, Que. #2436164
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    You’re right.

    Perhaps emigrate Canada to the United States.

    in reply to: Antisemitism #2436162
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    We are obligated, per Jewish Law, to hate and to mock apikorsim.

    in reply to: Conformity/versus morality #2436161
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    Morality is defined by the Torah. Nothing more and nothing less.

    Conformity is demanded by the Torah on many issues. And on many other issues, conformity is highly appropriate, even if not explicitly demanded by the Torah.

    in reply to: Save lives #2435465
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    The Seforim Hakedoshim say that when Moshiach comes only one in five will make it.

    in reply to: Learning Torah protects #2434982
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    Additionally, everyone has the absolute right to be exempt due to the fact that the IDF is openly and proudly a “melting pot” explicitly designed to turn every enlistee into a pure (read: secular) Israeli. This has been the express case since 1948 through today.

    Furthermore, the IDF is internationally infamous for their notorious well documented and sometimes even openly admitted debauchery, fornication, unchastity, and licentiousness between the two genders enlisted and serving together; especially between male superiors and female subordinates.

    in reply to: Learning Torah protects #2434823
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    “Let’s take it as a given that learning Torah adds to our protection and is a component of our military defense. Personally, I believe this. It’s part of our Mesorah. The big problem is that it’s a very vague statements and WE DO NOT KNOW HOW IT WORKS.”

    So what? We don’t need to know “how” it works; we know it works. That’s enough.

    “what’s the ratio of learners to soldiers?”

    Currently there are far far too few learners. We need to increase, greatly, the number of learners.

    “there is no critical, detailed, analysis of how it works and what we need”

    The Gedolei Yisroel shlita have already long made this analysis. There’s no one more qualified than Gedolei Yisroel shlita to make this analysis. The Gedolei Yisroel shlita are easily reachable. They do not live in Ivory Towers. They do not have security details. The Shin Bet does not keep people away from them. You can easily approach them and respectfully ask them. They will answer you. No need for coffee room threads.

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