“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Waiting in line to use the bathroom Isn't always fun

 


Learning "Pshat" On Dr Seuss

 

Senate unanimously passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

 

Could changing the clocks twice a year become a thing of the past?

The Senate unanimously approved a bill on Tuesday that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, making the House all that stands between longer winter days and later sunrises in summer.

The bipartisan legislation – known as the Sunshine Protection Act – was introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in March 2019. It was quickly backed by two of his Democratic colleagues, Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Ron Wyden of Oregon.

As the measure passed, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) let out an audible “Yes!” on the Senate floor. 

If the House approves the measure and President Biden signs it, the legislation would not take effect until the fall of 2023 since airlines, railroads and other mass transit operators have built out schedules based on the current timekeeping system.

The US will enter Standard Time in November of this year, when Americans in every state except Hawaii and non-Navajo areas of Arizona turn their clocks back one hour. This past Sunday marked the start of Daylight Saving Time.

USA Today Names Women Of The Year. Here’s One Of Them.

 

USA TODAY announced its “Women of the Year,” and one of their choices was the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Rachel Levine, a biological man.

It's Not a Purim Joke, Unfortunately

USA TODAY boasted:

Every day across our country, USA TODAY’s Women of the Year lead and inspire, promote and fight for equity, give others a place to seek help and find hope.

They are strong and resilient women who have been champions of change and courage, often quietly, but with powerful results. And often despite their own challenges.

Some of the women may be familiar names. Others may be new to you. Each has an inspiring and powerful story.

Of Levine, USA TODAY noted, “Levine, 64, a trained pediatrician, became the nation’s highest-ranking openly transgender official last March when the Senate confirmed her as assistant secretary of health.”

Levine told USA TODAY, “I really feel that everything I’ve ever done, whether it was in academic medicine, in education, in clinical research, seeing my patients in my role in public health, in Pennsylvania and now my role nationally…has all led to this moment in terms of helping the nation through this greatest public health crisis that we have faced in over a hundred years.”

Israel destroyed fleet of UAV aircraft inside Iran

 

Iran’s fleet of UAVs was largely destroyed during an alleged Israeli airstrike on a military base near Kermanshah in western Iran in February 2022, and the incident was reportedly one of the triggers for Iran to fire at least 12 ballistic missiles at the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, Iraq.

According to a report from Hebrew-language daily Haaretz, Israel took the unusual step of conducting an airstrike inside of Iran.Hundreds of drones were either completely destroyed or severely damaged, though the Iranian government at the time blamed the loss of the UAVs on a fire at the base.

Although Israel regularly bombs Iranian assets in Syria, an attack on an Iranian base inside of Iran would be an extremely rare, even unprecedented, move.

Early on Sunday morning, Iran launched missile strikes on the unoccupied American consulate building in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. An Iranian government statement said that the strike was aimed at “secret Israeli bases” in the region.

Although the building and others nearby were damaged, no casualties were reported.

Hezbollah-linked Lebanese TV station Al Mayadeen, however, reported that “four Israeli officers were killed, in addition to seven wounded, four of whom are in a critical condition.”

The station did not present any evidence to support that claim.

Al Mayadeen said that the Israeli army had used the U.S. Consulate as an operative base, and that the attack on Iranian drones in February had originated from that location.

“The same headquarters [targeted by Iran] was responsible for an intelligence and aggressive operation against Iran in recent times,” the report read.

The Kurdish government has vehemently denied that the Consulate compound was being utilized by Israel for military or intelligence-gathering purposes.

Earlier in March, a Channel 12 report revealed that Israel has thwarted attempts to launch armed aircraft and drones from Iran.

An IDF spokesman said that in recent months, Israeli F-35s shot down two enemy aircraft in an air-to-air missile strike, adding that as far as he knew, this was the first time in world military history that such a maneuver had been used successfully.

DIN Criticizes Government of Israel



Israel bringing in Non-Jewish Ukrainians...

Well, seems to be a done deal. I don't mean that our gov't is composed of spineless weasels - that ship has sailed.

But now we can expect an unlimited influx of non-Jewish Ukrainians who don't even pass the required Jewish grandfather clause to make aliyah. As long as they have some kind of relative living in Israel, the doors are opened to them. And no, having a relative in israel does not make one jewish.

Plus, don't think for one moment that if they want to come to Israel that it means they are not Jew-haters. Seriously? That's almost funny.

Life is good in Israel, and those people know that it's a paradise here, especially when compared to the eastern European muck they come from.

In any case, we have enough experience from non Jewish immigrants over the decades who are Jew-hating thorns in our side. What will happen with this new wave is one further step in Dejudaizing the "Jewish" State of Israel. With Ukrainians no less!

Because sending our medical personnel wasn't enough. Building state of the art medical emergency centers there wasn't enough. Sending tons upon tons of humanitarian aid wasn't enough. We have to now open our borders. And to what??

The mental midgets in our country who determine policy can't bend over low enough to please a country that not only has never supported Israel on any international level, but names streets and builds memorials to their home-grown butchers of Jews.

And this Zelenskyy character, a character so foul as to cynically use the Holocaust, distorting the historical account of the Holocaust, in order to manipulate us, while his henchmen, at the same time, threaten us, plan to initiate legal proceedings against our sovereign rule of law, is nothing less than diabolical. Don't tell me how Zelenskyy was born Jewish. Because that just makes him a unique kind of evil. His Ukrainian flag fits him well.

No, nothing has changed with Ukrainians with regard to Jews.
And meanwhile, what does our saintly gov't do for our Holocaust survivors in Israel suffering and living below poverty level?
איזה בושה וחרפה!
I am beyond disgusted.

Charity begins at home! We must first care for our own people with dignity and respect. You don't disregard your own who are in need, while running to curry favor especially from those whose  record against Israel and Jews stand well on its own, and slap a "humanitarian" banner over it.

We have so many people, so many groups, so many communities here in Israel who need gov't assistance, so many issues that require gov't attention that must be resolved and little or nothing is done. We question the validity of Jewishness among the rest of the Ethiopian Jews that need to be saved, and we put a hold on their entry until it can be straightened out. But hey, let's bring in thousands of the non Jewish Ukrainians! Let's bend over further because we clearly haven't been butt-f***ed enough!!!

WHEN will we as a nation find our backbone?!" 

By Zahava Englard Shapiro

Listen to this Israeli tell the truth about Ukraine

 


Zelenskyy is an actor caught in his own show, building a spectacle of horror that could lure the world into a major conflict

 

Western media depict Ukraine as the victim of a savage attack, with Russia specifically targeting helpless civilians and children. I do not think it is wise to accept this narrative. Accepting such a narrative could only make things worse for everyone.

Ukraine is arming civilians and training them to shoot at Russian soldiers. They are fighting in urban areas, firing from residential buildings, and possibly from more sensitive locations, such as nurseries, schools, and hospitals. Russian soldiers will obviously shoot back at them. Civilians will inevitably die.

Why is it important to say this?

If we accept the Western narrative, it will only come back to bite us. Israel has been combating similar narratives for decades, trying to defend itself against foreign accusations. We are called an army of occupation and our soldiers are accused of committing war crimes.

-Hamas hides behind civilians and shoots at us. We fire back and are called murderers.

Hamas operates out of residential buildings, or in buildings shared by the foreign press. We level them and receive bad press.

-Hamas fires rockets from schools and hospitals. We fire back and the world backs them in their struggle against us.

Israel has a moral army, as far as armies go. I would not compare us to the Russians, but we do find ourselves in a similar position. Israel also has a greater incentive to please the world. We cannot afford to dig in deep like the Russians. Our military conflicts often end quickly with us pulling out, unwilling to finish the job in the face of stiff foreign opposition. Russia is different.

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The UTUBE Kabbalist

Rabbi Avraham Shira 
The Rambam in his preface to Hilchos Dei'us, notes that when Hashem created the human being, He created him so that his offspring going forward shouldn't  think alike. In other words every human being should have his own independent thoughts and those thoughts should not be necessarily be the same as his siblings, or neighbors. Because if everyone thought alike we couldn't function as a society.

 For example, we cannot have everyone be a doctor, or everyone be a lawyer. For society to function we need doctors, lawyers accountants, shoe makers, tailors, builders, bakers, chefs, rabbis etc, and of course "Kabbalists" 
But just because someone chose to be a doctor, that doesn't mean that he will be a good one, there are good doctors and they are bad ones. There are good lawyers and there are very bad ones. There are good chefs and there are really awful ones. Similarly, there are holy kabbalists and there are not so holy kabbalists!

Which brings me to Rabbi Avraham Shira who has hundreds of videos of his teachings on UTube. I don't know in what category he fits in vis a vis genuine and holy kabbalists . But what I do know is that he has been alleged to have strange "minhagim" !

Rabbi Avraham Shira 
Rabbi Shira has a bio that describes his journey and his profession as a Kabbalist and a therapist! 

 To whom is he teaching the Holy Kabbalah? 
If you look at the comments on his videos be it on Facebook or Utube, you will notice that they aren't Jewish at all and according to the good rabbi himself, he boasts that his followers are Christians from Africa! 
So this Holy Kabbalist is teaching the deep secrets of our Holy Torah to Christians! 
G-d chose the Jewish people specifically to give the Torah as a gift! Except for the 7 Mitzvois of Bnei Noach, it is prohibited for  any Jew to teach Torah to goyim. We recently learned in the daf that Kabbalah can only be thought to two people at a time. 

This rabbi, the "kabbalist" also has a strange "minhag" and that is hanging out with Yochannan (John) Mahler a publisher of porn that discuses non-consensual violence against women and unashamedly praises pedofilia . This Mahler is an "expert" in BDSM and S&M and other perversions! He also walks around in a "kilt"

Reading this you are probably thinking so what's the proof that the good rabbi has any connection with Mr. Porn Mahler, just because he posed with him , really means nothing!

Correct! Just because someone poses with a guy really means nothing, but here comes the kicker!
In addition to all his "maalis," his attributes, Rabbi Shira, is also a Shadchan! 

 Rabbi Shira convinced an innocent girl from a frum family, a girl who made Aliya all by herself, to marry this pervert. The young girl was learning in a seminary up in northern Israel, where Rabbi Shira was mentoring her. 

Where the good kabbbalist picked up this strange bird, John Mahler, only G-D Knows, but what is certain is that he knew that Mahler was a writer of violent porn when he set them up and married them. And if he  didn't know then, he was informed by the family and given evidence. John Mahler  frequently drives  to this tzaddik to spend time with the "chushivah" Shira family!

The girl had called her family right after the wedding and wanted out, she was exposed to Mahler's perversion and didn't want any part of it . People and family who are close to the situation say that the kabbalist influenced the  young innocent girl to cut off complete ties with her family and encouraged her to remain in this alleged "abusive" relationship! When the concerned family reached out to Shira, the good rabbi stopped communicating with them and refused all contacts! 
In kabbalah there is a concept called אין סוף, but the family does want a סוף to this nightmare allegedly generated by Shira! 
So my readers what are your ideas?



The Strap that Chassidishe Teacher beat their students now comes in a fancy holder.

Great Shaloach Manos present for the sadistic melamdim out there