Month: September 2016 – י״ח באלול תשע״ו

Quit Kollel and Buy Your Son Nosh!

There is a very important thing that must be done to prevent child molestation, perhaps more important than uncomfortable explanations about bodily privacy, and that is ensuring the child has enough candy, so he is not available for seduction. Rabbi Nochem Rosenberg often stresses this point. Adults might be capable of “learning Torah in poverty (תורה מתוך הדחק)”, but this may not be imposed on children to such an extent their lives and religion are imperiled!

The brazen title is not brazen enough.

Light is Better Than Dark, Jew Better Than Non-Jew

From the weekly portion (Parsha):

This day, the Lord, your God, is commanding you to fulfill these statutes and ordinances, and you will observe and fulfill them with all your heart and with all your soul.

הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ מְצַוְּךָ לַעֲשׂוֹת אֶת הַחֻקִּים הָאֵלֶּה וְאֶת הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים וְשָׁמַרְתָּ וְעָשִׂיתָ אוֹתָם בְּכָל לְבָבְךָ וּבְכָל נַפְשֶׁךָ

You have selected the Lord this day, to be your God, and to walk in His ways, and to observe His statutes, His commandments and His ordinances, and to obey Him.

אֶת יְהֹוָה הֶאֱמַרְתָּ הַיּוֹם לִהְיוֹת לְךָ לֵאלֹהִים וְלָלֶכֶת בִּדְרָכָיו וְלִשְׁמֹר חֻקָּיו וּמִצְו‍ֹתָיו וּמִשְׁפָּטָיו וְלִשְׁמֹעַ בְּקֹלוֹ

And the Lord has selected you this day to be His treasured people, as He spoke to you, and so that you shall observe all His commandments,

וַיהֹוָה הֶאֱמִירְךָ הַיּוֹם לִהְיוֹת לוֹ לְעַם סְגֻלָּה כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר לָךְ וְלִשְׁמֹר כָּל מִצְו‍ֹתָיו

and to make you supreme, above all the nations that He made, [so that you will have] praise, a [distinguished] name and glory; and so that you will be a holy people to the Lord, your God, as He spoke.

וּלְתִתְּךָ עֶלְיוֹן עַל כָּל הַגּוֹיִם אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה לִתְהִלָּה וּלְשֵׁם וּלְתִפְאָרֶת וְלִהְיֹתְךָ עַם קָדשׁ לַיהֹוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבֵּר

הוא היה בהלויה שלי

כשהרב שך זכרונו, ה’בעל מחלוקת’ הידוע, נפטר מעולמו, הרב חיים גריינימן זצ”ל השתתף בהלויה.

שאלו אותו, והלא הרב שך רדף אתכם חנם, ומדוע זה גומל לו חסד של אמת, ומשלם טובה תחת רעה. הרב גריינימן השיב: נו, הוא היה בהלויה שלי…

הסיפור אמת – מידיעה. הרב גריינימן גם השיב עוד תשובות לאותה שאלה לאחרים ששאלו.

How to Pray for Peres

A LEADER AND A STATESMAN

12 Elul 5776

Some men achieve greatness in this life – as it is measured by the world. Some people are dazzled by this perceived “greatness”, the celebrity of such men, whether they be successful businessmen, statesmen, politicians, or anyone who commands headlines in the mass media. Every kind of grace is granted to such a person in situations where a lesser man would be held to a different standard.

One such man is the former Deputy Defense Minister, former Minister of Immigrant Absorption, former Minister of Transportation, former Information Minister, former Minister of Defense, former Prime Minister, former Minister of Finance, former Foreign Minister, former Minister of Regional Cooperation, former President of Israel, founder of the Peres Center for Peace: Shimon Peres.

Director General of the Defense Ministry during the Ringworm Children Affair and the Yemenite Children Affair, the Prime Minister of Israel who ordered the betrayal of Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli Foreign Minister who secretly (and illegally) negotiated with the PLO and signed the Oslo Accords, who brokered the transfer of Jerusalem to the Vatican, the Vice Premier of Israel who enabled the Expulsion of Jews from Gaza, Retired President of Israel who advocates the expulsion of Jews from Judea and Samaria, promoter of a World Religion with the Pope at its head: Shimon Peres.

Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, recipient of honorary knighthood, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George from Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace in London, who is suspected of having a hand in the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin as well as the false accusations against and unjust imprisonment of former President Moshe Katsav: Shimon Peres.

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From Tomer Devorah, here.