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“Not you or me, that’s for sure.”
So if the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah decide to make a Torah world event (Siyum, Asifa, rabbinic meeting, protest or whatever else) unifying the various segments, kehilas and communities in Klal Yisroel including Litvish, Chasidish and Sefardic, but there’s no official MO leadership participation or invitation, then we can presumably assume the Tzadikim on the Moetzes made an informed decision resulting in the inclusion that was selected.
The US has no national interest in spending significant American blood to defend Taiwan. Taiwan and Beijing both agree they are part of the same nation. They only disagree who should govern it. This isn’t America’s fight. Just like we’re not going to send American troops to defend the Ukraine from Russia, we shouldn’t pretend we’re going to go to war with a nuclear armed China to defend Taiwan.
And who judges the level of adherence to Halacha of the community’s Rabbi?
I don’t keep up with the antisemites. But all the attacks on Soros I’ve seen have been well deserved and not antisemitic.
I’ve seen the left and media describing non-antisemitic attacks on Soros as antisemitic. It is one of the left’s tactics. They do the same things by falsely accusing their political opponents of racism.
CS: All the well deserved attacks on Soros, and they are all well deserved, are because they are well deserved and not because he is Jewish.
Just like the Democrat and left-wing attacks on Trump, Bush, Reagan, Limbaugh, etc. (Except, in those cases, they are mostly not well deserved.)
I can’t speak of any other SNs, but all I know is that this one was never used by Joe.
HaLeiVi, can you expound on how Yeshiva administrations during Covid demonstrated more than their usual selfless dedication to Chinuch under pressure?
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chiefshmerel: Is it anti-Christian to blame Trump, Bush or Reagan for everything you don’t like? Then Democrats must be almost universally anti-Christian.
“And if those two rabbis had accurately reflected the Torah perspective, I wouldn’t be either.”
Charlie: Just to reiterate, if the Torah supports slavery, then you don’t support the Torah.
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RW: Who said the Rambam said that?
AAQ: So if I’m keeping good count, you’ve got OO, Lev Tahor, Shuvu Bonim, Brisk, Peleg Yerushalmi, Neteurei Karta, Satmar, Lubavitch and Ponoveze included in the achdus but Conservative affiliated people are out.
AAQ: Why are you excluding OO, while including all the other groups? Where is your line being drawn — why is OO excluded? If you exclude OO, how can you object to others excluding other Orthodox claiming groups?
AAQ: Jewry presumably includes OO (which was founded by a YU rabbi and it identifies itself as part of MO), Lev Tahor, Shuvu Bonim, Brisk, Peleg Yerushalmi, Neteurei Karta, Satmar, Lubavitch, Ponoveze and even Conservative Judaism.
Are you similarly upset those Yidden were not included in the achdus of the event you’re discussing?
Reb Eliezer: Open Orthodox claim they’re Orthodox and uphold the mesorah. Other groups also claim to be Orthodox and follow a mesorah. Who should judge which Orthodox-claiming groups are really Orthodox and correctly observing the mesorah versus which are Orthodox claiming but really anything but, and thus excluded from your call for achdus?
CA: Are you trying to say “Love the sinner, hate the sin”??
Reb Eliezer, is Open Orthodox enough Orthodox? If not, when is it enough?
Soros is a lowlife scumbag. Anytime anytime criticizes or mocks that fool, the far left in the media and politics falsely call it antisemitism.
Achdus with whom? Conservative? Reform? Open Orthodox?
Yseribus, why are you opposed to the Torah and the Torah’s authorization of having Eved C’na’ani?
No one knew there would be trespassing. The official plan was to head to the Capital for a legal protest outside on public grounds.
Other aspects of nature that changed are there used to be extremely tall people, people at one time could live hundreds of years, etc. Historians, archaeologists and all the secular professionals deny these facts.
P.S. The moon landing doesn’t count.
Completely agree with the OP, Zaphod Beeblebrox. The claim that the moon landing really happened has been so thoroughly discredited that it is a bore to keep hearing about the conspiracy theory that a man actually went to the moon.
AAQ, there’s no need to try to feel superior. We are superior.
HaLeiVi, if you are making no gender distinctions then we are in agreement.
“George Washington is probably rolling in his grave at the total lack of slaves and the fact that Jews can be part of the government.”
George Washington was an Oheiv Yisroel.
“Do you think that the concept of slavery as it existed in the US 200 years ago resembles our concept of Eved C’na’ani?”
If it wasn’t then it should have been modified and corrected to bring it to the proper standards required by the principles of Eved C’na’ani.
Changes of nature that occurred during Yaakov Avinu’s lifetime aren’t documented by contemporary historian’s accounts. Another example is that there was kishuf (“magic”) by Pharoh’s time (which is after Yaakov Avinu’s time) and there was magic still in the world in much later times of world history, yet professional historians are in denial over these (and many other) facts.
Avi, did he go to the Mikva, too? Was he makpid on Cholov Yisroel?
It’s literal. It was “medically accurate” before the time of Yaakov Avinu.
Democrats are hypocrites. What else is new? This has been the case for the last 75 years, already.
HaLeiVi, now you’re singing a different time, one I agree with you on. No one implied or suggested, that I know of, that anyone not hold the door open for everyone/anyone and, rather, let the door “slam shut” (as you described it) in the next person’s face. Of course hold the door for everyone. The issue only is when one makes gender-based distinctions on whether to hold the door or on which gender should hold it for the other.
We can be honest, the door holding discussions invariably revolve around the issue of gender. Whether it is being discussed in the context of shidduch dates or more generally. Rarely is it being discussed in the sense that everyone should be holding the door open for anyone in front or in back of them, regardless of their and the other party’s gender.
If you failed to see that fact then you’ve been running around with your eyes and ears closed.
Syag, why would you find an insertion of a Chazal into the conversation as “odd”?
HaLeiVi holds that it is a “Kiddish Hashem” to act in a manner that induces PETA supporters to say בריך אלקהון דיהודאי.
“If you cannot differentiate between ideals that we clearly do not hold by and sensitivities that formed over time”
It is just as clear that we (i.e. Yidden) do not hold by that a man should hold a door open for a woman moreso than a woman should hold open a door for a man, as it is clear that we do not hold by vegetarianism.
You cannot makeup for yourself what “ideals that we clearly do not hold” and what “we” do. There’s nothing to differentiate vegetarianism from the other so-called “ideal” that you imagine.
“ujm, thanks for straighten him out.”
If anyone ever needs to straighten someone out, that’s what I’m here for. Just give me a holler. 😂
b_t: Take a 200 mile cross-state trip to Bentonville and I’ll hook you up with my executive contacts at America’s largest employer and retailer so you can be Walmart’s preferred kosher chicken supplier.
CA: RE’s father married Sister 1 and had children. The Nazis ym’s murdered Sister 1 and her children Al Kiddish Hashem. RE’s father then married Sister 2 (sister of Sister 1) and had our beloved RE.
Reb Eliezer, Chasan Sofer and Vien aren’t Chasidish.
They call their partisan hackery as proof.
Biden wasn’t cured from his loss of mental faculties over the last two years
HaLeiVi: He can wear kosher tzitzis, too, since he isn’t obligated in it and therefore it is carrying for him.
The “commission” are a bunch of political hacks with an outcome predictable before it even started. It’ll be meaningless.
Biden is senile.
“Who does that impress? Who will say בריך אלקהון דיהודאי because of that?”
If becoming a vegetarian, to avoid killing animals, impresses Goyim who then say בריך אלקהון דיהודאי, you think that’s a Kiddish Hashem?
HaLeiVi, why is it/isn’t it a Kiddish Hashem for a woman to hold open a door for a man?
Avi, how will “the problem eventually go away”?
What is “honoring freedom”? And being against racism isn’t a Torah value; in fact, au contraire.
Glasgow, Montana
I cannot fathom any topic or comment submitted by the gentle, considerate Talmid Chochom beloved by us all and known as der heilige Reb Eliezer ever being anything other than automatically approved as soon as the mods see who submitted it.
Gadol, I understand that the heavenly HVAC provider only services those who led a proper life.
Ash, what you mean is a shidduch with a Ger or descendant of a Ger.
Let’s restore the censored Gemorah’s to the standard Vilna Shas.
Regarding the Christian/European Church censoring parts of the Gemorah, are any of the parts of the Gemorah that were forcibly deleted by the censors completely lost to us today or do we, essentially, know all the missing passages?
The question is interesting because the Gemorah originated outside of Christiandome and the Gemorah always was present outside of Christian lands. So it would stand to reason that regardless of what the Church censored, Klal Yisroel always had and never lost the uncensored version of the Gemorah.
And a Kohein is intrinsically holier than a Yisroel? Or a Talmid Chochom than a layman?
I think the same principles apply. They all become holier through their avoda.