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He was the best of the (realistic winning) available choices on election day. And he’s done some good things. Regarding your point, former Pres. Clinton was no better.
Just as the players have the legal right to punch America in its guts by disrespecting the anthem, the President has the right to protest against the players, severely criticize them and call for a boycott against the NFL.
The same thing that would happen if he were to enact into law any Halacha, say, required all of Israel to separate Terumah and Maaser.
What would happen in either with slavery or with Terumah and Maaser is that the frum Yidden would be very happy and celebrate whereas the westernized non-frum Israelis would be angry and protest.
And since there unfortunately are more non-frum than frum, Bibi being the political animal he is will do the politically expediant thing and not enact the halachicly correct law.
After coffee addict kicks those traitors in the knees, they’ll all be in wheelchairs. Then we can involuntarily wheel them into Mexico.
Q:
Why do we wish our fellow Jews a כתיבה וחתימה טובה or a גמר טוב? Does that really help the other person?A:
It depends. When you say to somebody כתיבה וחתימה טובה will it help him? It depends. It depends with how much sincerity you are saying it. If you’re just saying it מצות אנשים מלומדה, without thinking, then it’s worthless. Mamash worthless. But of you’re thinking when you say it, and when he walks away you say it a second time – yes, when he walks away you should say it a second time – then it means something. You hear what I’m telling you? When he walks away, say it over again slowly. כתיבה וחתימה טובה. And even better – add your own words. “רבונו של עולם, please give this man a year of happiness and parnasa and שלום בית.” He doesn’t hear you. But now you mean it.When you do it that way, הקדוש ברוך הוא listens. Hashem listens to tzadikim, and you’re a tzadik if you pray for him in that way. ותן כבוד השם לעמך. Hashem listens. Certainly He listens. When tzadikim give you a bracha, it means something. Of course it means something. Tzadikim can help by giving a bracha.
And same thing with שבת שלום. When you say it the first time it doesn’t mean a thing. So when he walks away, repeat it. Say “שבת שלום. Have a wonderful Shabbos. Enjoy the chulent. Hashem should give you a good nap.” Ohhh, now you’re talking! That’s something; that’s an achievement!
(Rav Avigdor Miller)
Just like the royalist supporters left America for Canada.
iac: Two wrongs don’t make a right. His error doesn’t justify yours.
iac: How can you have an opinion unless you were once there to compare it to wherever else?
Baruch Dayan Emes
Don’t swallow everything the media feeds you. He hasn’t done any terrible things — though he has done a number of good things.
Rambam Hilchos Ta’aniyos 1:2-3
This is of the paths of repentance, that when disaster strikes and they cry out on its account and sound the trumpets, all will know that they were harmed due to their evil deeds … and this will bring the removal of the trouble from them. However, if they do not cry out and sound the trumpets, but rather say, “What occurred to us is the way of the world and this disaster is mere happenstance,” this is a grossly insensitive reaction and will cause them to cling to their evil ways and the disaster will be compounded by additional disasters. This is what is written in the Torah: “And you shall act towards me with keri, and I will act towards you with the wrath of that keri.” In other words, when I bring a disaster against you so that you shall repent, if you say it is keri (happenstance), I will add the wrath of that keri.
We know the churban was because of sinas chinam and pritzus (per the Gemora), Tach V’tat occurred because of talking in shul (per the Tosfos Yom Tov), the holocaust occurred because of zionism and secularism, etcetera. Our contemporary Talmidei Chachomim, just as with Tach V’tat and the holocaust, are uniquely qualified to tell us what a disaster represents.
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Kesiva V’Chasima Tova!
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JJ, if they know what they’re doing before they do it, why are they doing it? Are so many girls really that crude and come to chasunas dressed like that to cause sin?
Please read this teshuva — and when done let me know whether anyone still thinks the Shevet HaLevi would be happy to disseminate a photo of his wife – or any other woman, for that matter:
Rav Shmuel HaLevi Wosner (Shevet HaLevi 4:1.2):
Question: Concerning the topic of tznius (modesty) regarding the fact that women learn and regularly drive cars.
Answer: From experience I learned that this is something that is proper to clearly forbid. That is because learning to drive has already caused and continues to cause pritzus (immodesty) and this is diametrically opposite to the Jewish value that the honor of the Jewish woman (princess) is to remain inside (Tehillim 45:14). Similarly the driving itself is absolutely the opposite of the Jewish value that the honor of the Jewish woman (princess) is to remain inside (Tehilim 45:14).The woman who exposes herself through driving in the market and streets before the eyes of everyone is actively and passively causing others to sin. “And it is not the normal way of a woman to be riding” (Pesachim 3a-b). And even though the reality of a riding on an animal is not totally equivalent to our topic of driving a car – nevertheless it is not the normal way of a woman and the two are similar in many ways that it difficult to explain in writing.