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RoC: Now that Britain seceded from Europe, not only politically but even physically with the English Channel, sorry but you’re no longer European. But not too worry lad, you can always become an American.
Lakewood awaits you.
Wrong. Halacha explicitly tells us the reason and it isn’t what you said.
See the Rambam on the Mishna Horayos 3:7.
“You already know that men are obligated to keep all of the commandments while the women are obligated to keep only part of them, as is explained in Kiddushin (Mishna 1:7) and he is [thus] [a man and a woman] are going to drown in a river, one should save the man first”Anyone for a game of chess tonight?
Your move, squeak.
Rav Avigdor Miller on Yoshkeh’s Frumkeit
Q: The Rav said tonight that Yoshkeh was basically an observant Jew and that it was only the later Christians who created a new religion. But then why is Yoshkeh called a מסית in the Gemara?
A: Yoshkeh was considered a מסית because he ridiculed the חכמים and encouraged the ridicule of the חכמים. And anyone who ridicules the Torah leaders is חייב מיתה. We know that כל העובר על דברי חכמים חייב מיתה – “If someone is going to disregard the words of the chachomim, then he is deserving of death” (Brachos 4b).The חכמי התורה are the light of our eyes. They are the עיני העדה, the eyes of our people. A loyal Jew views the world through the eyes of the חכמים. And if a fellow in the street is walking around with a few bums following him, and he’s making jokes against the חכמים and ridiculing them and encouraging others to ridicule them, then he has lost his right to exist. That’s a מסית.
But did Yoshkeh himself worship avodah zarah? No, no. He wouldn’t even think of avodah zarah. You have to know that he was a Jew. And if sometimes you find statements that are attributed to him that seem to imply differently, those may be due to the later writers who put things into his mouth as if he said it. But it’s not מסתבר that he said it. No, it’s not logical that those are his words. Because we know that he was a Jew. He said the following – and I’m telling you what it says in the New Testament – “If anyone were to oppose even a jot or a tittle of what’s in the Torah” – that means even a yud or a tag – “then that man has no place in this world.”
All Jews were like that in ancient times. Only that he opposed the חכמים. And that we know. We know that he opposed the חכמי התורה and tried to rally people to this cause. And that is a tremendous עבירה, a terrible sin. That’s why we call him a מסית.
TAPE # E-186 (April 1999)
Shlepping to the DMV to get a non-Drivers photo ID, especially when states with ID requirements for voting are waiving the fee, is a very very small request to ask of voters to vote and safeguard the integrity of the vote. ID is required for so many smaller things in today’s day and age.
It sure beats suffering X chromosome side effects!!
In the UK, Europe and Israel it is worse regarding the points you mention. Many British, European and Israeli Jews have moved to America.
Chabadshlucha: Why is the explicit Halacha in the Gemorah and Shulchan Aruch that you save a man’s life first?
He should be put in cherem.
I believe if you walk away from the scanner after it spit it out due to the overvote, after a certain period of short time where you didn’t retrieve the ballot from the scanner feeder it will assume you left and re-swallow the ballot in order to count the valid votes.
As I stated earlier, it is impossible to even know how much voter fraud occurs since it is so easy to fraudulently vote in another person’s name without any ID (and in many states even fraudulently register fake names as voters, although doing that is easier to eventually recognize as a fraudulently registration if they check [which many states do not], unlike actually voting fraudulently, which is almost impossible to later determine occurred, let alone identify who did it in order to prosecute.)
If Kris Kobach got nine convictions just in his tenure in his state, despite the extreme difficulty in even identifying voting fraud when it happens and the difficulty in finding who voted fraudulently, imagine how much more fraud occurred in his state that went unidentified and how much fraud occurred in the other 49 states.
There are thousands of temporary poll workers in every state who work only 2 or 3 days a year for the board of elections with a 15 hour workday, 6am-9pm in some states like New York.I They mostly retirees and get about 3-4 hours of training once a year. They each deal with hundreds of voters each election day, signing them in, etc. In it extremely easy to vote in anyone’s name undetected. Most registered voters do not vote in non-presidential election years. And such fraud can, and does, go undetected that it isn’t even quantifiable how much occurs.
Why so much opposition to asking for ID, just like you’re asked when flying, buying alcohol, opening a bank account, applying for food stamps or Medicaid, renting a house, car or hotel room, or picking up a prescription?
Unless the goal is to permit fraudulent voting.
Btw, I’ve personally been a site administer at a poll site for the Board of Elections, and just at my site I’ve encountered a voter walking in to vote only to find that someone else already signed in to vote in his name. The first signature was in the same name as the voter and the voter who walked in to vote showed ID proving he was who he said he is. I contacted the Board for instructions on how to handle it and they advised to let him vote. I made a notation on the signature book what occurred but I know it was never followed up by anyone afterwards.
And this was just at one random poll site I administered one year. It was never investigated, let alone counted as, voting fraud despite a strong possibility that it was just that.
We should be dancing in the streets with music and great simcha that he’s free and our yearslong efforts at pidyon shvuyim was successful.
Which is exactly why you did see thousands and thousands of Yidden spontaneously dancing in the streets with music and great simcha the very day he was released, even though he was released late in the day. In Boro Park, Crown Heights, Monsey, Lakewood, Toronto, Eretz Yisroel and many other places.
And we must profusely thank President Donald Trump, who was the Ribono Shel Olam’s messenger to deliver this great victory to Klal Yisroel, after the previous President refused despite the miscarriage in justice for Rabbi Rubashkin that was identified by so many non-Jewish high American officials (including AGs, Congressmen, etc.)
Like we’ll read in next week’s parsha: וַיָּקָם מֶלֶךְ-חָדָשׁ…
A Yid mit ah burd never looks like a shlump, regardless of how it naturally grows!
The price of kosher chicken went down after Rubashkin sold the business?
Virginia’s voting scanners IS programmed to reject an overvote, just like New York’s does. It was assumed the voter walked away from the scanner (as many overvoters do) even though it informed him he overvoted, so the scanner kept the ballot in order to officially count his other valid votes.
That statement was only denying the president’s assertion that there were “millions” of fraudulent votes in 2016. That number is obvious hyperbole and of course inaccurate. But that in no way denies that voting fraud occurs in every election.
The very reason that the fraud is so unquantifiable is exactly because anyone can walk into a voting precint and claim to be anyone else and fraudulently vote in their name with no ID. And no one might ever know. When such fraud occurs, the vast majority of the time it goes undetected. Which is why ID should be required to vote. Just as it is required to fly or go into many buildings.
As a practical matter you find that most Ashkenazic adult single women, i.e. high school girls and post high school women, and certainly married women, customarily do not light their own Menorah. You don’t find most frum adult single Ashkenazic women who live with their parents lighting their own Menorah. Most of the divergence is by girls who are children (i.e. pre-bas mitzvah), where some, but not all, Ashkenazic families let them light.
Ah nebech apikorus is oich an apikorus. Both the unaffiliated and the movements (lay and leadership) mostly do not believe Hashem created the world in seven days and do not believe the Torah as true. Thus they are apikorsum.
In Virginia, regarding the House of Delegates election that was yesterday a one vote victory by the Democrat, they found another uncounted vote (that the scanner didn’t count) for the Republican that has now tied the election.
It will be decided by a lottery or coin toss. The Virgina House may remain Republican after all.
Pravda? The New York Times.
“Open Orthodoxy is closer to Judaism than Reform, but presents a greater danger to the frum world.”
That’s probably true. Which is why for the same reason, in a sense, MO is a greater danger than the Conservatives.
RY23, try to keep the message here rather than spreading it across multiple other threads.
Avram, a couple examples of why the Republicans are a poor choice is that they don’t advocate banning avoda zora (Christianity et al) with it carrying capital punishment; they don’t advocate banning the act of toeiva (let alone with capital punishment); they don’t insist on enacting into law the Sheva Mitzvos; etc.
Bipartisanship doesn’t equate to civility. You can have civility while passing legislation on a partisan basis. I’m all in favor of civility while opposing bipartisanship based on its current political definition (that I pointed out above.)
Virtually every election official does *not* say that voter fraud is almost non-existent today. What you meant to say is that virtually every Democrat official says voter fraud is almost non-existent today. And that’s because they don’t want the fraud in their favor interrupted. You need an ID to get on an airplane or even into government and private buildings. There’s no reason not to require an ID to protect the democratic voting process unless you want to protect fraudulent voting.
High rise buildings?
Bipartisanship is overrated. Partisanship usually is a better approach in modern American politics. Bipartisanship, as it’s used today, generally means Republicans caving in to Democrat demands while Democrats stand their ground.
Regarding the voting process, the longtime Democrat approach to it is to vote early and vote often. And when all else fails to litigate so one of their appointed judges can fix things for them.
I would imagine Jordan and Lebanon would not interfere with an American or British Jew entering with whatever personal religious articles they have.
Zos Chanukah, rabbosai!!
Even if a company calls it a “holiday party” it is still a Christmas party. The naming semantics the company chooses doesn’t determine whether it’s a Christmas party or not. If your company suddenly threw out the invitations and reprinted them with it saying holiday party instead of saying Christmas party, that doesn’t change the metzius of what it is just because they gave it a new name on the invitations.
Teire Yidden! Our zeidas and bubbes were killed Al Kiddush Hashem during the Christmas “season” by these mobs of goyim coming back from Mass, having been incited to murder by their priests accusing us of deicide. How can any of us go to a party celebrating this black day, regardless of what your employer names it?!?