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Friday, June 13, 2014

Para Adumah recently born, Is Mashiach around the corner?



Yeshivah World prohibits Rolled Up Sleeves on Shabbos without Eiruv for Some but for Others it is permitted???


Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits of KOF-K Kosher Supervision, wrote a column on  Halacha for THEYESHIVAWORLD and has the following question:
"Is it permitted to roll up your sleeves and go out where there is no Eiruv? "
I'm not kidding!
My question: Can you put your Peios around your ear on Shabbos where there is no eiruv? How about wearing a Talis to go home after you finished davening, where there is no eiruv?

Anyway, after reading the "big" Shaaleh, I'm confused.
Will comment after the ruling and footnotes!
 
 
Rolled up Sleeves on Shabbos
There is a basis to permit wearing a shirt with the sleeves rolled up in a place that does not have an eiruv. (40) A person who is rolling up his sleeves because he is not interested in wearing a long sleeve shirt may not walk outside with his sleeves rolled up on Shabbos because the sleeve is regarded by him as a burden and not part of the garment. However, one who would not wear a short sleeve shirt for reasons of modesty or the like, and rolls up the sleeves because he feels it is more proper to wear it that way, may walk outside like that on Shabbos.(41)


[40]Emes L’Yaakov 301:footnote 337, Be’er Moshe 3:62, Shemiras Shabbos K’hilchoso 18:4.
[41] Horav Yisroel Belsky Shlita who heard this directly from Horav Moshe Feinstein zt”l. Refer to Migdal Dovid 4:page 1014:528a, The Shabbos Home 1:page 166:footnote 15

My comments in PURPLE
There is a basis to permit wearing a shirt with the sleeves rolled up in a place that does not have an eiruv.  A person who is rolling up his sleeves because he is not interested in wearing a long sleeve shirt may not walk outside with his sleeves rolled up on Shabbos because the sleeve is regarded by him as a burden and not part of the garment.

How about a guy like me, who hates formal white short sleeve shirts, but I wear my long sleeved shirts and roll them up,it's not a burden, that's the way I wear my shirts, I can't wear that now?

 However, one who would not wear a short sleeve shirt for reasons of modesty or the like,

What does "the like" mean and imply? Does "the like" mean because I don't like the look of formal short sleeve shirts?

 and rolls up the sleeves because he feels it is more proper to wear it that way, may walk outside like that on Shabbos.
So now I can wear it that way? Didn't you start by saying I can't?
Mr. Levovitz.... stick to donuts!


"Monsey Community" Facebook Group Administrator acting like Putin!



There exists a Monsey community group on Facebook called "Neighborhood."
 
Yesterday, a discussion took place, which turned into a lively but completely civil debate. One of the administrators of the group decided that she didn't want the debate to continue, so she threatened to delete further comments and ban anyone who dares defy her.

In response to this bullying, MS.
Gila Kind decided to create a new group called Neighborhood Too.
The  administrator retaliated,  banning everyone who has been added to the new group.
 
That's right, folks:
People found themselves banned from Neighborhood even though they had neither commented nor added themselves  to the new group.

This administrator has every right, I suppose, to do what she did. People are allowed to be intolerant. There is no law that says you must respect others' opinions and allow for civilized debate on the Facebook forums you rule over.

But for those who, like me, prefer more free, tolerant spaces to share your ideas, I encourage you to pack your bags and plan your exodus from Neighborhood.

*The administrator in question did not create the group, and she has previously removed the administrator's rights of the person who made her an administrator in the first place.
Stay tuned! Only in Monsey!
 

Thursday, June 12, 2014

MIT Experts say that Humans learned how to speak from Monkeys and Birds

There is only one problem with this exciting conclusion: Monkeys and Birds don't speak, otherwise it's a great study!

This study wants us to believe that we learned to speak from a species that has yet to utter one intelligent syllable in thousands of years....
Find me one monkey in the entire universe that can say:
"Hiyeh Dooin Buddy" and I'll donate 2x Chai to MIT!

Oh the Parakeet ... forgot about that....
but doesn't a parakeet mimic? If the Parakeet never heard anyone speak, the parakeet won't say "boo", so how did the parakeet teach my grandfather to say "Shalom"???

 Who paid for this study, because I would like to get some of the stuff they're smoking.

Humans learned to talk to one another by copying birds and other primates sometime in the last 100,000 years, experts have said.

Linguists from MIT suggest that human communication could have evolved from older systems used by birds and primates.

Previous research has found that humans derive the melodic part of language from birds. However, the authors also say we evolved our pragmatic content-carrying part of speech from other primates.

Linguist Shigeru Miyagawa said: "How did human language arise? It's far enough in the past that we can't just go back and figure it out directly. The best we can do is come up with a theory that is broadly compatible with what we know about human language and other similar systems in nature."

It is thought human language is unique because it allows for infinite set of new meanings. However, after analysing some qualities of human language, the researchers found we share some of the finite qualities of other animals, suggesting our language is much more similar to other animals than previously believed.
"Yes, human language is unique, but if you take it apart in the right way, the two parts we identify are in fact of a finite state,"

Miyagawa said. "Those two components have antecedents in the animal world. According to our hypothesis, they came together uniquely in human language."
Published in Frontiers in Psychology, the researchers built on previous research that links birdsongs to human speech. They noted, however, that birds only have a limited number of melodies so the development of speech must incorporate another aspect from nature – specifically primates.
"You have these two pieces," said co-author Robert Berwick. "You put them together and something novel emerges. We can't go back with a time machine and see what happened, but we think that's the basic story we're seeing with language."

Yeshivaworld blog permits killing insects! Thank G-D!

THE YESHIVA WORLD has an Halachic Column, and in this column Rabbi Levovitz of the Chof K rules that you can kill the mosquito that's about to sting your toddler! Thanks alot, Rabbi!
In the footnotes, מראה מקומות, they quote Rabbi Belsky!
What is wrong with us? Are we that crazy?

Are you telling me that a guy saw his child about to be bitten by a wasp so he ran to call R' Belsky to get permission to kill the bee?

This question is not a shabbos question, no, it's about killing a spider on a typical Monday!

I want to know which meshiginer asked this Shealeh?

Notice that they write "Many poskim", in other words there are poskim who hold that it is prohibited!

Tell your exterminators to stay home. Let the cockroaches have a field day! Some poskim want them to rule your crib, guys!
Would you eat cholant in a shul where the Rabbi abides by these poskim?

My friends, mosquitoes and roaches are carriers of major diseases; bees can actually kill if you are allergic to the sting!

Read the following and laugh!

During the summer, insects often make their way into homes and bungalows where they can be very annoying. Many poskim say there is no issur to kill insects or flies (during the week) which are bothersome to a person. One is permitted to hang up sticky paper on the wall,[20] or to use an electric fly killer.[21] 


[20] Horav Yisroel Belsky Shlita, see Halachos Of The Country page 13:footnote 23, V’ein Lumo Michshal 5:page 93, Vihiy B’nsoa page 238:1. Refer to Ezer Mekodesh E.H. 5:14, Yad Ha’Levi C.M. 10:page 395.

[21] Horav Yisroel Belsky Shlita, see Avnei Yushfei 1:80:1.

Crazy Jews Still support Hillary Clinton even though she calls Israel an "Occupying Force"

Stupid Jews haven't learned their bloody history, they are still supporting that anti-Israel Hillary Clinton.

Israel was surrounded by Arabs wolves, about to devour her in 1967, and she won the war fair and square.  
And yet the crazy upside down world calls Israel Occupiers!

We have this tiny State, and liberal Jews sitting on their comfortable couches in the USA, continue to support the Arab loving Clintons' who want to cut huge chunks from our G-D given land!
I dare you to find Israel on this map!
Germany last week announced that they have grave concerns with the latest report that Israel issued 1,300 new tenders to the settlements. 
Can you believe that? 
Germany has "grave concerns?"
 Germany would love to see Israel Judenrein!

Remember when England in 1982, sent war ships half way around the world to the Falklands, to secure the Islands, because Argentina  invaded? 
 The Queen even put her son, Prince Andrew's, life in danger, and put him on one of those ships, so that G-D forbid they shouldn't lose a bunch of tiny worthless islands, yet England has the Chutzpah to call the settlements, occupied?

Leftist Jewish Bloggers (who hate Israel) will tell you, 
"well, there are Israelis in Israel that say, Israel is an Occupying Force." 
To that I say .....Bull Shi_ ! T
There are no Israels that feel that way ..... there are only Leftist Israeli Self-Hating Professors and self-hating Jewish news reporters like Haaretz that say that!

I spent a month in Israel just in the past year, and I spoke to the typical Israeli, and 100% of them, don't want to give anything back.

So these sick demented bloggers ask (as if concerned), "what do we do with the Arabs living in Israel?"
To that, I answer  "What do we do with the Arabs in America?" 
If they obey the law, fine, and if they don't we arrest them!

I would give the Arabs living in Israel the exact same rights they gave Jews living in their countries!

So this witch, Hillary writes a book called "Hard Choices" and accuses America's best friend of being occupiers!
Hillary as First Lady  kissing Mrs. Arafat 

A new book takes aim at Israel, angers pro-Israel community. 
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accuses Israel of being an occupying force in her new memoir Hard Choices and claims that the Jewish state denies “dignity and self determination” to Palestinians in the West Bank.

Clinton recalls being surprised by what she termed “life under occupation for the Palestinians,” according to the book.

Pro-Israel officials and insiders on Capitol Hill have called Clinton’s comments tone deaf and said that her claim that Israel is an occupying force reveals a bias against the Jewish state.

“When we left the city and visited Jericho, in the West Bank, I got my first glimpse of life under occupation for Palestinians, who were denied the dignity and self-determination that Americans take for granted,” Clinton writes.

Clinton’s comments demonstrate that she supports the Obama administration’s efforts to pressure and marginalize Israel, which current Secretary of State John Kerry recently accused of becoming an “apartheid state,” said one senior GOP Senate aide, who worked with Clinton when she was at the State Department.

“What we see here is the true Hillary Clinton, no longer muzzling herself for fear of reelection in New York or Senate confirmation fights—the woman who embraced Suha Arafat after smiling through anti-Semitic tirades,” said the former senior GOP Senate aide who for years battled Clinton’s State Department.

The source referred to a 1999 incident in which Clinton sat by smiling as the wife of former terrorist leader Yasser Arafat went on an anti-Israel tirade.

“This should put every American on notice that Hillary Clinton plans to continue Barack Obama’s failed Middle East policy that coddles terrorists and castigates democratic allies,” said the former official. “Clinton knows she lost to Obama in 2008 because she was outflanked by the left—she won’t make that mistake twice and she knows how much the left hates Israel.”

Clinton goes on to take aim at the Netanyahu government for not returning land to the Palestinians that she claims has been “occupied by Israel since 1967.”

Clinton is referring to territory seized by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, in which Egypt, Jordan, and Syria attacked Israel from every side in a bid to destroy the Jewish state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton claims, is not serious about the peace process.

This claim has been echoed by senior State Department officials, several of whom have sought to blame Israel for the recent failure of peace talks.

“Netanyahu has been deeply skeptical of the Oslo framework of trading land for peace and a two-state solution that would give the Palestinians a country of their won in territory occupied by Israel since 1967,” Clinton writes.

One senior pro-Israel official who reviewed Clinton’s comments dubbed them as “troubling.”

“The quotes, which gives insight into Clinton’s thinking, are troubling,” the official told the Washington Free Beacon. “Most Americans, when they first experience the tiny distance separating average Israelis from enemies pledged to their destruction, immediately think of the difficult security situation that our allies have to negotiate. Not Clinton though.”

Clinton has come under fire from a pro-Israel group for not publicly condemning Kerry’s apartheid remarks about Israel, which were criticized by many Democrats.


Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Israel loses strong GOP Ally, Eric Cantor to Tea Party



House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was defeated by a little-known economics professor in Virginia's Republican primary, a stunning upset and major victory for the tea party.
Cantor is the second-most powerful member of the U.S. House and was seen by some as a possible successor to the House speaker.

His loss to Dave Brat, a political novice with little money marks a huge victory for the tea party movement, which supported Cantor just a few years ago.

Brat had been a thorn in Cantor's side on the campaign, casting the congressman as a Washington insider who isn't conservative enough. Last month, a feisty crowd of Brat supporters booed Cantor in front of his family at a local party convention.

His message apparently scored well with voters in the 7th District.

"There needs to be a change," said Joe Mullins, who voted in Chesterfield County Tuesday. The engineering company employee said he has friends who tried to arrange town hall meetings with Cantor, who declined their invitations.

Tiffs between the GOP's establishment and tea party factions have flared in Virginia since tea party favorite Ken Cuccinelli lost last year's gubernatorial race. Cantor supporters have met with stiff resistance in trying to wrest control of the state party away from tea party enthusiasts, including in the Cantor's home district.

Brat teaches at Randolph-Macon College, a small liberal arts school north of Richmond. He raised just more than $200,000 for his campaign, according to the most recent campaign finance reports

Viznitzer Rebbe in New York and Chassidim Celebrate by Drinking Coca Cola!

What happened with Mayim Chaim?
Chassidim finally realized if you are going to drink Cola it's got to be the "real thing"!
The green bottle next to the Rebbe is Sprite! NU?


 

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Rome Chief Rabbi decides Not to join the Pope's Minyan with Peres and Abbas


 
It seems that Peres only likes to daven with "Galachim" and terrorists, but the Chief Rabbi of Rome will only daven with other Jews.
 

 At the interfaith prayer meeting held Sunday at the Vatican with Pope Francis, Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas, one Italian religious figure was noticeably absent – Riccardo Di Segni, Rome’s chief rabbi.

Di Segni had been invited to the prayer meeting but did not attend, stating he had “other commitments” to attend according to reports Haaretz

Di Segni has never been a strong proponent of Catholic/Jewish dialogue. In an interview with Haaretz last month, he said, “from the theological point of view,” Catholics and Jews “have nothing to discuss,” but does support what he calls “good neighborly relations.”



The June edition of Pagine Ebraiche – a Jewish monthly magazine – published another interview given by Di Segni where he criticized the interfaith prayer and described it as, “puzzling and even dangerous.”
Il Foglio, a right-wing daily paper with a conservative Catholic perspective, published another interview with Di Segni in which he stated that if he hadn’t already had other plans to attend to, he would have attended “as a mere observer” and made it clear that Pope Francis did not invite him to the session, but Shimon Peres did.
Not all Italian rabbis agree with De Segni. Florence’s chief rabbi, Dr. Joseph Levi, supports the pope’s efforts to build interfaith dialogue, and attended Sunday’s prayer meeting. The president of Italy’s Rabbinic Assembly, Giuseppe Momigliano, also supported the event.
Renzo Gattegna, president of the Comunità Ebraiche Italiane, the national umbrella organization of Italian Jewry, and leader of Rome’s Jewish Community, Riccardo Pacifici, also attended.


Lady Rebbe, Nadverdner Einikel, Will be a Contestant on "Jeopardy" game Show


Nu Nu, looks like she followed the tradition of her Nadverner Zaidis staying up all Shevuois night, but I'll guess that she was probably studying for the show, Jeopardy. 
I'm not certain, but it seems that  she ate alot of Kreplach, but I won't judge her.

Sari Laufer isn’t allowed to say how well she did on the TV quiz show “Jeopardy” until the first episode featuring her airs Wednesday night June 11.

One thing the 35-year-old Reform rabbi will share, however, is that she was “really determined” to answer correctly the one Jewish question that arose during the game.
“No matter how I did, I didn’t want to be embarrassed, particularly not on a question that my congregants would be like, ‘She doesn’t know that?” she said.

The associate rabbi at Manhattan’s Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Laufer is not the first rabbi — or even the first female one — to appear on the 30-year-old quiz show. In 2011, Rabbi Joyce Newmark, a Conservative rabbi who lives in Teaneck, N.J., won $29,000 on the show.

But Laufer had long dreamed of going on the show, which she grew up watching with her grandmother, an ardent “Jeopardy” fan. She first auditioned for the show as an undergrad at Northwestern University. As a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s Los Angeles campus, she made it all the way to the contestant pool but was never called to tape a show.
Last year, while pregnant with her first child, Laufer got an email from “Jeopardy” inviting her to an in-person interview on the Upper West Side. Again, she made it to the contestant pool, meaning that she could be called any time in the next 18 months.
“I literally forgot about it,” she said, noting that the months after her interview were consumed with becoming a mother (her son Jacob is now 8 months old), closely followed by the loss of her “Jeopardy”-loving grandmother in December.

Because it happened in year marked by critical life events, Laufer said she was able to put the show in perspective and, instead of feeling pressured to win, could relax and enjoy herself.
“I was able to be there and feel like my grandmother was with me,” she said.

Did her rabbinical training help on the show?
“I think more than anything, I’m just totally comfortable in front of a crowd,” she said. “Some people, when they get in there with the lights and microphone, they get overwhelmed. That didn’t faze me.”
“Had I gotten one of those Hebrew Bible categories, it would have been fantastic,” she added.
 
 

Rabbonim attempt to put Lady "Therapist" out of business in Boro-Park

The truth is that this lady (we will not publish her name) calls herself a "mentor". 
But in this poster, the signed Rabbonim say, that no one should consult her because, a) she has no credentials and b) she is "undermining chinuch".

Question: Why was it ok for Weberman, the convicted rapist to be called by Satmar a "therapist" and they defended him, saying that he  was a "therapist" even though he had a zero credentials, but it is not ok for her to be a "therapist" when she has the same credentials as Weberman!

How much "undermining chinuch" did Weberman do when he burned his victims' stomach for his own sadistical desires?