Month: April 2017 – כ״ד בניסן תשע״ז

מבוא המלך

בס”ד

“ויאמר אלהם הוציאוה אל מבית השדרות וגו'”, (דברי הימים ב’ כ”ג י”ד). מפרש רש”י “השדרות – מקום מבוא המלך מביתו לבית ה'”.

ואומר אני לשון שדרה, החוט המקשר בין המלך לבוראו, שכשם שכשיש נתק בחוליות שבשדרת הגוף, אין האדם יכול לעמוד, כך הוא כשהקשר בין המלך לקב”ה אינו איתן, עם ישראל אינו יכול להתקיים.

ד”א, מארמית לשון שילוח, שהמלך נשלח לבית המקדש בשליחותו של מקום.

ד”א לשון סדר, שמסדרות קבוצות הבתים ומחלקות רחובות העיר כתיקנן. ובמלכים ב’ י”א פס’ ח’ וט”ו לפי מצודת דוד נ”ל שהכוונה לסידור מערכת השומרים לאורכן.

Human Religious Weakness Is a Fact of Life

The Mishna uses the following parable for this world (Avos 2:15):

.רבי טרפון אומר, היום קצר והמלאכה מרבה, והפועלים עצלים, והשכר הרבה, ובעל הבית דוחק

Rabbi Tarfon would say: The day is short, the work is much, the workers are lazy, the reward is great, and the Master is pressing. (Translation.)

Now, some Jews wonder, gritting their teeth, why the workers are lazy. Ach, if only they could force-feed Mussar to everyone… But there is nothing strange about this.

Take the worldly equivalent. There, too, the workday is short and the work long. This is because all resources are scarce, and time, too, is a resource. And while salaries can be impressive, there is an inherent Marxian “contradiction” between the worker and the “capitalist” employer. The employee gets a check, not the fruit of his “alienated” labor, so his motivation is necessarily weaker (פוק חזי כמה בטלני איכא בשוקא)…

And yet, even without the fantasy “Marxist man”, whaddya know? Bridges are built and software sold. Could things be better? No. There must forever be hires and HRs. (Why? ‘Tzei ulemad’.)

A Modest Proposal, by Rafi Farber

Kim Jong Un for President

Donald Trump or Kim Jong Un, they are both whackjobs with nuclear arsenals. Here’s a novel idea for peace. Trump should fly to North Korea, prostrate himself to Kim Jong Un, and offer him the Presidency. Sure, that’s not constitutional, but neither is anything else Trump has done as Overlord.

Kim Jong Un would be appeased, become president, and nobody in the US would listen to a word he said.

It’s similar to taking the fears of the lefties and righties in Israel to the ultimate extreme. Annex everything and watch the Arabs outvote the Jews and 61 out of 120 MK’s are Arabs and vote to “drive the Jews into the sea”.

So what? Will the Jews say “Well, they have 61 votes, and according to our constitution which doesn’t exist, that means we have to follow everything they say because the State is Holy and We Are All Religious Zionists Now.”

No. Because as much as people believe that nonsense, when it comes to their actual lives, they will throw it out because it is, all, nonsense in the end.

What would really end up happening is that nobody would listen to the Knesset, finally, that would be that.

So Kim Jong Un for president. It would solve all the war tensions and solve a lot of problems with all the Trumpheads following his every command. Nobody would listen to him. He’d be a figurehead and we’d all ignore him.

Disclaimer: I am not a supporter of Kim Jong Un.

From The Jewish Libertarian, here.