Year: 2024

Mishlei 24:10-12:

התרפית ביום צרה צר כחכה. הצל לקחים למות ומטים להרג אם תחשוך. כי תאמר הן לא ידענו זה הלא תכן לבות הוא יבין ונצר נפשך הוא ידע והשיב לאדם כפעלו.

If you have become lax, on a day of trouble your strength will be weak indeed. If you refrain from rescuing those taken to death and those on the verge of being slain will you say, “Behold, we did not know this”? Is it not so that He Who counts hearts understands, and He Who guards your soul knows, and He will requite a man according to his deed?

It’s the “Season” all over again. The shemad of immigrant children, the Gerush, Corona crimes, et alii ad nauseam all over again.

The army is killing Jews to make Biden happy. Get out of there!

I liked Arthur Schopenhauer’s essay “On Thinking for Oneself” (1851).

Find one version here…

Here’s an hilarious article by Woke RationalWiki:

Woke might refer to:

• A term in African American Vernacular English to refer to awareness of danger, injustice, and racism
• A political term originating in feminist circles indicating awareness of social justice issues
• A term appropriated by the Alt-right used as a smear against one promoting a socially progressive message; later re-appropriated by Republicans, Christofascists and other conservatives as a generic snarl word against pretty much anything they don’t like or in some cases, outright stated to be what it is, in brazen contempt of civil rights.
• A term used by conspiracy theorists to refer to themselves; see Wake up
• The past tense of wake
• Having a functional conscience and sense of empathy^{[citation NOT needed]}

These types of usage of the word originally derive from African American Vernacular English. This word is nearly a century old.

Rashi on Rus 2:5:

למי הנערה הזאת, וכי דרכו של בועז לשאול בנשים אלא דברי צניעות וחכמה ראה בה. שתי שבלים לקטה שלשה אינה לקטה, והיתה מלקטת עומדות מעומד ושוכבות מיושב כדי שלא תשחה.

Try this at home!

Does a woman wearing a skirt covering her knees, or even halfway between the knees and ankles (as the lying liars of Beis Din Mishmar Hatorah recommend) act modestly by crouching? Or does the skirt actually ride up, instead? The person facing them in front would see everything!

The truth is, “Shok ba’isha ervah” refers to covering the woman’s calves, not thighs.

See more on this here.