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I’m taking a break.

Can we blame it on Lag Ba’omer?

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מנחות פ”ה א’:

אמרי ליה יוחנא וממרא למשה: תבן אתה מכניס לעפריים?

אמר להו: אמרי אינשי, למתא ירקא ירקא שקול.

It is our job to report on facts and to hold leaders accountable. That is who we are.

We are not fake news.

We are not failing news organizations.

And we are not the enemy of the American people.

Jeff Mason, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association

(Punctuation mine.)

Stop trying to split hairs; let me tell you the answer:

Take Iyov in his toughest moments. His children [seem] dead, his property gone, and his body is wracked with pain. Now imagine a man blessed with children, property and good health who sees all this and knows Iyov ought to have Bitachon in Hashem.

האמונה והבטחון אחת היא, רק האמונה היא המבט הכללי של בעליה, והבטחון המבט של המאמין על עצמו, האמונה בבחינת הלכה, והבטחון בבחינת מעשה

• Chazon Ish “Emuna Ubitachon” 2:2

The second man, at least, has Emuna…

Q: Where did Rabbi Ovadya Yosef first set down his Satmar-based “permission” for politicians to hand over private Jewish soil in the land of Israel to their non-Jewish enemies, to kill them easier?

A: “Shorashim” Torah journal, vol. 91. Even before the known article in “Sinai”. So I hear, anyway. I can’t get ahold of it myself.