How To Persuade Jews to Ascend the Temple Mount: Copy Altruistic Organ-Donor Testimonials

Like so (some of these adaptions are meant to be funny):

  1. “I feel like I put my Avodas Hashem into practice.”
  2. “Entrance is completely free, and statistically far safer physically than driving!”
  3. “Many people asked me if I had any doubts…”
  4. “I feel like I won the lottery. This has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.”
  5. “Better and much easier than I expected.”
  6. “I researched the halacha first…”
  7. “I was offered to donate some time and effort on the way to rebuilding the Beis Hamikdash. How could I say No?!”
  8. “OK, well it took some time until my spouse was on board…”
  9. “For me, it wasn’t really a matter of choice; it was what Hashem would want me to do.”
  10. “A friend told me: ‘I still don’t dare, but because of your example I will now do more.'”
  11. “Most were awed. Some thought I was mad. My older brother was supportive.”
  12. “Mother says it’s bad for shidduchim. Well, if someone is that closed-minded, I’m anyway not interested in them!”
  13.  “I have no regrets whatsoever.”
  14. “My life has changed for the better in so many ways. I thank God for the amazing opportunity. May God bless Rabbi Shimshon Elbaum and the rest of the team with all success, and may they merit to see the rebuilding of the Holy Temple!”
  15. “Sounds cliché, but on my birthday I gave the gift of life to the Jewish people.”
  16. “It felt good to make a difference.”
  17. “Everyone should do it too!”
  18. “It was far easier to convince the policeman at the gate I wasn’t a lost Kosel-goer than to convince the kidney donors psychologist of my compos mentis.”

And so on…

Wokism Funded by Superabundance of Govt Giveaways

These days we are seeing a superabundance of govt giveaways and how strongly they are distorting market signals, incentives, and prices. From health to energy to college.
I find it humorous that with the govt lending students limitless funds, school tuition and thus student debt load have gone through the roof.
Standford university has about 17,000 students, 2,000 to 3,000 faculty, and… 17,000 administrators.
The University of Michigan hired 163 diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) officers.
By the way, there has been a major shift from using tenured and tenure-track professors to using part-time adjunct faculty. Costs order of magnitude less… Leaving more money to hire… more administrators.
It’s a Shanda.
It reminds me of a gemora that says if you leave a drunken man to his own devices he falls down on his own.
Shabbos 32a:
רב חסדא אמר שבקיה לרויא דמנפשיה נפיל.
By the way, this corruption of universities is simply a symptom of the general life cycle of nations:
Infancy, adolescence, mature adulthood, the decline of middle age, senescence, feedstock for archaeologists.

David Friedman Hits the Nail on the Head

Riddle of the year: How is a public school like the U.S. Post Office?

Answer: It’s inefficient, it costs more each year than the last, it is a perpetual subject of complaint about which nothing is ever done. It is, in short, a typical government monopoly.

Source: The Machinery of Freedom (1973). David Friedman