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What’s so hard for you to pick up the phone and call Rabbi Bender?
North Korea is developing ICBMs that can carry nuclear payloads to American cities.
YO: You’re an ignoramus. The Rosh Yeshiva of Chaim Berlin, Rav Hunter zt’l, and the Satmar Rebbe zt’l we’re very close to each other.
“Taiwan is the #1 leader in semiconductor manufacturing worldwide. The US does not want China gaining dominance over such an important market… there is still a serious national interest for the US to defend Taiwan. North Korea isn’t the up and coming rival of the US the way China is.”
Marxist: America’s national interest would be much better served by the elimination of North Korea, via it being absorbed into South Korea, at the trade-off of granting China the benefits of acquiring Taiwan. North Korea is mortal nuclear threat to the world. Taiwan is, by comparison, only an economic advantage.
DaMoshe: Who do you think you’re kidding. You know as well as anyone that Modern Orthodoxy is split between the Left-Wing Modern Orthodox (LWMO) and the Right-Wing Modern Orthodox (RWMO). YU has both, both in the student body and in the faculty. Mr. Avi Weiss is as mainstream Modern Orthodox as anyone. He was a YU Rabbi and RCA member. He was with YU and the RCA as long as he wanted to be. They never threw him out. He only quit the RCA not long ago. Mr. Weiss’s so-called “synagogue” is STILL and official Orthodox Union shul and he an OU “rabbi”. The OO have always identified as MO, from long before the term OO even existed. And they’re claim to being MO is at least as strong as that of RWMO.
Furthermore, the LWMO is larger than the RWMO, in terms of adherents. This is mainly because the right of MO (which is still to the left of traditional Orthodoxy) split over the last 40-50 years, with most members either moving left to LWMO or completely irreligious or otherwise moving to the right, such as becoming Chareidim (most Chareidi shuls and Yeshivos in America have numerous former MO Jews.)
What accomplishments does Mrs. Obama have that anyone should vote for her to hold the nuclear suitcase? That she bakes great cookies?
Avira, Yasher Koach for explaining so well what Torah Judaism and Yiddishkeit really is, as opposed to the charlatans who attempt to redefine it to something other than what the RBS”O wants.
Fool. The Reform don’t have anyone to blame for their rishus, other than themselves.
AAQ: The United States and the United Nations both recognize the Beijing government as the legitimate government of China. The US and the UN do not recognize Taiwan. And the US does not have diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
How many irreligious people became religious as a result?
“Does it ever occur to ask the people in Taiwan, which is a democracy, what they think?”
akuperma: Did the US care that the people of the South wanted to secede and form the Confederacy? Did it occur that the people of Crimea wanted to secede from Ukraine?
If we allow Taiwan to secede from China, there’s no stopping the secessionists today in Spain (where Catalonia has already voted to secede), France, Bosnia (Republika Srpska) and others from seceding.
Everyone, including Taiwan (whose legal name is the “Republic of China”), acknowledges that Beijing and Taiwan are both part of the same country.
The British acknowledged China’s right to Hong Kong when they returned to it to China in 1997, despite the Hong Kongese preferring British rule.
Compromise ideas for the Xi-Biden Summit.
Philosopher, keep up the great contributions. I stand behind all your comments here.
Welcome to Golus.
Avira, some of the big Chasiduses endorsed Hochul for the very reason you’re outlining.
MDD, is your comment directed to the OP/Jack?
#1: Al Gore conceded, Stacey Abrams refused to concede and falsely claimed election fraud.
And Stacey Abrams was the founding election-deniar.
“keep dressing yeshivish”. What does that even mean?
It means dressing Jewish. Jews dress differently than gentiles. And they should dress differently than gentiles.
Buying more than one ticket is a fundamental lack of emunah. And idiotic (even for a goy.)
And regarding playing when the jackpot is $500 million or whatever, when it is “only” a $10 million jackpot that’s not enough for you? The chance of winning is the same.
YO: You never complain about Sefardim wearing a suit and tie is them copying the outward appearance of Europeans or that Sefardim wearing jeans is them copying the outward appearance of American hippies. Your only complaint against Sefardim is them copying the outward appearance of Ashkenazi Bnei Torah.
YO:
1. You’d rather Sefardim wear Turbans and a long dress, as that is the traditional Sefardic dress (especially for Sefardic Rabbonim)?
Yes or No, YO?
2. You are absolutely incorrect about Sefardic gedolim in the pre-state era having any favorable view of Zionism or a Zionist State.
FiveThirtyEight messed up on 2016. They spent months clapping Chotosi.
MDD: Rav Shach supported land for peach with the Arabs. Rav Shach at times supported joining a coalition with the Labor/left. So what are you objecting to?
Students are permitted to be registered to vote from where they dorm, instead of their parents address.
Jackk: You should be making your views subservient to the views of Daas Torah. Yes, even regarding elections in a democracy.
#1 & ubiq: In any specific election Rav Shach may have had reasons not to agree to join the Labor/left coalition. But he wasn’t against joining the left in coalition as a general rule.
Moreinu HaGaon HaRav Shach ztvk”l was the founding initiative who started the Shas Party. HaRav Shach was pro-peace and pro land-for-peace. With Rav Shach as the founding Mora D’asra of the Shas Party, it very much makes sense that the party was in favor of joining left-wing pro-peace governments.
Jackk: After the shiur you surely approached Rav Reisman shlit”a privately and gave him tochacha for having mislead the public into voting for a right-wing abortion-banning election-denying execution-supporting Trumpian politician for Governor of New York.
Right?
Avira, I like it. Talmud Torah K’neged Kulam means always. There is no such thing as a “proper time” for learning, or an “improper time”. The Gemora says that only during a time when “it is not day or night” is the time for learning “not proper.” It’s not a question of right or wrong. The Halachah, as explained by the Ohr Sameach in Hilchos Talmud Torah, is that everyone has to learn an amount according to his level. The more a person understands the value of learning, the more time he must spend on it.
The hardships of Kolel are nothing compared to the pleasures. Like Rav Aharon ZT’L said – that those who support learning might get Olam Habah like those who learn, but they surely don’t get Olam Hazeh like them. Money isn’t everything – even in Olam Hazeh.
Women need Torah, too. Without Torah, you cant get Olam Habah. And so the Gemora asks the question: Nashim b’,ai zachyan – How do women merit Olam Habah if they do not learn Torah? The Gemora answers; Bakroei banaihu l’bei kenishta, ib’asniyei gavraihu bai rabanon – by supporting and helping their husband and sons learn.
CS: Even combined, those two places don’t have more than the Vatican.
yungermanS: Are you saying that a MO person who was brought up being meikel on tznius, Kashrus and Shabbos and continued that pattern throughout his life, and a Kollel yungerman who grew up in a Kollel family and followed that path including being machmir on tznius, Shabbos and Kashrus, and Rav Chaim Kanivesky who grew up in the Steipler’s home and continued in his father’s derech, are all going to get the same Olam Haba since, as you put it, he followed “his level of frumkeit from the way he grew up to his surroundings”?
Related Question for the oilem:
Reuven spends his entire life being machmir regarding Kashrus, he only eats Yoshon, Pas Yisroel, Cholov Yisroel, Glatt Kosher, etc., and only with the best and most reliable hashgochos. If he travels to an area that lacks the best Kashrus, he will always shlep ready to eat food from home rather than compromise his standards while traveling. He strictly follows these principles his entire life.
Shimon spends his entire life being meikel regarding Kashrus. He’s not strict about Yoshon, Pas Yisroel, Glatt, etc. And he uses any known Orthodox hashgacha (Triangle-K, Rabbanut, etc.)
Question 1: Will Reuven get more Oilem Haba than Shimon for his Kashrus practices? (Not overall for their life; the question is only regarding the reward in the Oilem HaEmes for each’s Kashrus practices during their lifetimes.)
Question 2: If your answer to Question 1 is no (or even if your answer is “unknown”), why shouldn’t Reuven immediately stop following his Kashrus practices and switch to the Kashrus lifestyle of Shimon?
Extra Credit: Change the above scenario from Kashrus practices to almost any other issue of Machmir versus Meikel, and answer the above two questions with that slightly modified version.
Being meikel for the reason that it’s easier to be meikel, is inherently worse.
DaMoshe: “we don’t know which one is worse.”
You might not know which is worse. But we definitely know which is worse. Something that carries the death penalty is certainly worse than something that doesn’t carry the death penalty.
And as previously pointed out, a person who never engaged in homosexual conduct even if he had a taaiva to, has historically never been called or considered to be a homosexual. The contemporary reversal of this nomenclature only in the last few decades was a direct result of pressure by the homosexual lobby.
In Eretz Yisroel, before the medina came around, yiddishe shochtim used to schecht animals for the Arabs and sell them the meat. In order for it to be “Halal” (the Muslim version of kosher) the butcher had to say the words “Allah Akubar” before each shechita, which the yiddishe shochtim did in order that it should be sellable to the Arabs.
DaMoshe: Mishkav zochor and Eishes Ish are worse that pedophilia. And, to repeat, if a man has taaivas for children that he never acts upon, he is not a pedophile. If a man has taaivas for men that he never acts upon, he is not a homosexual.
CA: Those percentages are enough to change whether a party is in or out.
Avira, as far as the aveira is concerned, I would think that Eishes Ish and mishkav zochor are on the same level.
The numbers are still in flux and changing. There’s a few left wing parties that may change from being above or below the threshold to get into parliament based on the absentee ballots (military, police, prison, etc) that weren’t counted yet. Such a change will change the number of seats for all other parties.
Sponsor a new building for a Shul and make sure your name is prominently printed in big bold words on front of the building.
Marxist, if it was the only available facility, you’d go into a topless bar to use the bathroom?
A coffee room is an even better idea.
Marxist, what’s wrong with ordering a drink in a topless bar if you won’t look?
Dr. Pepper, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this.
The homosexuals automatically support the Democrats. There’s almost nothing a Republican can do to get their vote.