העורך Editor

Check out what Mises.org is doing:

We want all of you, fans and supporters of the Mises Institute, to know we are well positioned to survive purges by platforms and hosts. Without giving too much detail, here are the basics:

• We maintain and own (not rent) internal servers and backup servers, while also maintaining storage offshore;
• We are moving to a very local internet service provider (ISP) with beefy broadband;
• We have alternative domain registration providers in place to protect the use of mises.org;
• We have “hot standby” sites in two foreign jurisdictions in case of a denial by our web host;
• We have all video, audio, and graphic content housed on our backup servers in case of a denial by our cloud provider;
• We sync and mirror all YouTube videos on alternative platforms, including Odysee (started by a Mises Institute fan);
• We have registered the Mises Institute name with every new or alternative social media possible, with the expectation that Facebook and Twitter will remove us eventually. Fortunately, in one sense, only about 20 percent of our site traffic arrives via social media click-through (which is not the case for many newer sites). Also, less than half of mises.org traffic arrives via organic Google search. So while we would hate to lose views if Google “disappeared” our search results, enough people come to mises.org directly through their browsers or from subscription emails;
• We have moved away from using shared internal Google docs;
• We have moved toward encrypted email vendors;
• We keep strict security over our donor database and back it up frequently using internal storage;
• We moved our email/subscription lists to an alternative vendor after reading accounts of Mailchimp reviewing user content; and
• We have taken steps to maintain alternative payment gateways and diversify our banking providers locally, nationally, and internationally.

As for Hyehudi, well, we have fewer visitors…

אמרתי לאחד שכפר במעשה בראשית (הכל אצלו חלות “דינים”) מכתובות י”ג ב’ “אף לזו יש עדים שהרי כריסה בין שיניה”. חזינן, שהמציאות לא גרע מדין עדות.

השביעני לענה, שגם הכרס דין עדות בלבד, וא”א לדמות מילי אחרינא לדוגמא של ר’ יהושע, ולא מפי המציאות אנו חיין.

אני חושש לענות עוד.

We once mentioned reading Birkas Kohanim three times as a Segulah for a burn.

I later found a source in the Chida (Avodat Hakodesh, Kaf Achat).

This is also quoted in Peleh Yoetz (ערך כוויה):

“ואגב אגיד לדור, שיש סגלה לכל מין כויה, לומר הנכוה או אחר יאמר עליו ברכת כהנים שלש פעמים בכונה, ויועיל, והוא בדוק ומנסה.”

But isn’t this a violation of “לוחש על המכה” (Y.D. 179)? Easy to make up answers (here it’s the merit of Torah learning, etc., but: וכי מפני שאנו מדמין נעשה מעשה?!)

Feel free to write in…

רבינו יונה באגרת התשובה (בסוף היום הראשון):

ולא ישעה בדברי חולין בבית הכנסת וכל המספר בעסקיו בבית הכנסת כל זמן ששליח צבור מתפלל תחת בו גערת הברורים וגם כל הקהל חייבים להוכיח ולחשוך אותו מחטוא לשם יתברך עדי עד וכל היצורים נבראו לכבוד השם יתברך, ואם יפנה לבבך ולא תשמע בשעה שמשבחים לפניו ומספרים תהלותיו ועזוזו ונפלאותיו, איה הכבוד ואיה המורא, אף כי המספר בעת ההיא שיחת חולין גדול עונו מנשוא.

גירסה שונה מעט כאן.

A reader writes to the editor:

[re Corona etc.] “… I’m doing my best to hang on. I do not think this ends until the entire fiat monetary system collapses into dust. At that point, the “constitutional” law systems of the goyim will be obliterated completely and their societies will disintegrate as they will have nothing culturally to fall back on.

“And we will have to fall back on the Torah. In a very real way, The Torah is the only thing that can keep this country together. The zionists will fall with the rest of the paper money, and we will have to figure out what we are going to do.

“Geula is scary as hell.”

So, we all need a Doula’s New-Mommy Course!

• You need to deliberately “lean into it”.
• View the pain as the direct price for the upcoming gift (or “baby”).
• Utilize the breaks in between contractions to the maximum.
• Stay present (try to refuse\delay extreme drugs…).
• Keep breathing deeply by the clock.
• Express your fears.
• Remember the Adrenaline.
• Etc.

Don’t let the natural fear confuse you!

(Not that I’m any better at following these instructions than others! Still, I feel obligated to use this platform to state the obvious.)