need evidence

A yeshiva guy told me that a certain gadol said if a goy doesn't punch you in the face, consider yourself lucky (or say a bracha). I said, maybe he meant in the old Ukraine. Guy said, no in Monsey.

Now I ask, has anybody been punched in the face in Monsey? You have no right to make such statements even about gentiles if there's no evidence of it. What good does it do to terrify people or to fill them with contempt about the world?

Do we know the gadol really said this? No, a guy said that he said. Maybe the guy misheard. But maybe the gadol  was exaggerating for some reason. Or maybe he said something foolish. Of course, I couldn't say that to this yeshiva guy. 

Jews or God?

Why are Israelis obsessed with anti-Semitism? Every time an Israeli official talks he or she accuses somebody of anti-Semitism. The Israeli press is obsessed with anti-Semitism. The JPost especially is obsessed. I will go to their website right now. I guarantee I will find an article about anti-Semites, that or the mythical self-hating Jew. And here we go.

Four articles, and a section of the paper dedicated to the topic.

What don't I see on the JPost? I don't see any outrage over, concern over, or mention of heresy. Israelis don't care about that. They are not interested in God. They only claim to care about Jews. But do they? Another article tells us that 20,000 soldiers have been wounded in Gaza. So it's  not that they care about Jews, but they use Jews for an identity. Their identity is built around having a nation of Jewish people, which means people who have some vague association with people who have some vague connection with some kind of indication of Jewish something or other. Even though Jews became a nation at Har Sinai where they accepted the Torah, the state of Israel is built around having a nation of people who rebel against the very thing that created a Jewish nation in the first place. It's crazy stuff.

They are not interested in God. They are not interested in the mitzvos that connect us to God. They are just interested in having some kind of national identity. And they have bamboozled most of Jewry to obsess about Jews, to think that Judaism is all about Jews, and being near Jews, and saying the word Jew 100 x a day, rather than saying Hashem even once!

Better to live on an island of nice goyim while keeping the mitzvos than around 10 million Jews who do not!

Jews are not automatically sacred.

Jews are not automatically sacred. Jews without mitzvos are nothing. After Chet haEgel, God said I'm writing them out of My book. Why is this? It's because the mitzvos are the command of God. If you don't care about His commands, what are you? Chosen nation means we chose to obey God. We are not just chosen because we can get into Harvard or become billionaires. Secular Jews are no longer chosen. Israelis are not chosen. They threw that away. We are people of the covenant. We are not born privileged. We are not entitled. We are given the opportunity to keep the covenant. If you blow it, you lose. If the gentiles had agreed to accept the covenant they would be the chosen ones. It was offered to them. 

The state of Israel is nothing. "We are not a halachic state," said the PM who gets elected again and again. You want to say Gazans elect Hamas so they deserve what they get? Israelis elect Netanyahu so they deserve what they get. This is not a Jewish state. Jews keep halacha. There is nothing Jewish about the state of Israel. It is anti-Jewish.

You must live your life in a way where you can keep halacha. Is it Israel? To keep the mitzvos you need to be normal. It's hard to be normal around crazy people. That means Israel is out because every single person in the country is crazy. Is it NY? Not for those who can't afford million dollar homes.

If you are only willing to live near masses of Jews, even though that obstructs Torah observance then you are confusing Jews with Torah observance, which means you are a product of secular propaganda, Zionist propaganda actually because the Zionists build everything on Jews. It's a secular populist movement that doesn't care about God. Zionists worship themselves!

Don't confuse Jews with God. The goal should be to be near God. You do that through mitzvos, not through being around Jews. If being around Jews helps with mitzvos fine. But the main thing is the mitzvos. If you'll keep them better around goyim then live near goyim. All you need is a minyan, a mikvah, a school, and a pizza shop. There are 50 cities in the USA that qualify. 

Goyim are much saner than Jews in our times. They are not holy, but they are not so crazy. You won't get normal via therapy, or medicine or herbs or journaling or energy healing if you are living around crazy people. The first move is to live around sane people, and you will not find any in Israel, and you won't find many in NY, not among Jews.

Why are Israelis obsessed with anti-Semitism? Every time an Israeli official talks he or she accuses somebody of anti-Semitism. The Israeli press is obsessed with anti-Semitism. The JPost especially is obsessed. I will go to their website right now. I guarantee I will find an article about anti-Semites, that or the mythical self-hating Jew. And here we go.

Four articles, and a section of the paper dedicated to the topic.

What don't I see on the JPost? I don't see any outrage over, concern over, or mention of heresy. Israelis don't care about that. They are not interested in God. They only claim to care about Jews. But do they? Another article tells us that 20,000 soldiers have been wounded in Gaza. So it's  not that they care about Jews, but they use Jews for an identity. Their identity is built around having a nation of Jewish people, which means people who have some vague association with people who have some vague connection with some kind of indication of Jewish something or other. Even though Jews became a nation at Har Sinai where they accepted the Torah, the state of Israel is built around having a nation of people who rebel against the very thing that created a Jewish nation in the first place. It's crazy stuff.

They are not interested in God. They are not interested in the mitzvos that connect us to God. They are just interested in having some kind of national identity. And they have bamboozled most of Jewry to obsess about Jews, to think that Judaism is all about Jews, and being near Jews, and saying the word Jew 100 x a day, rather than saying Hashem even once!

Better to live on an island of nice goyim while keeping the mitzvos than around 10 million Jews who do not!

building a life with a woman, what kind?

 

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every time?

 

Who is the rudest celebrity you have met, and who would be the nicest?

While attending graduate school in Manhattan in the early and mid 1970s I drove a cab. I interacted, though briefly, with numerous celebrities and with only one exception they were either quite pleasant or neutral. The only one who was rude was Howard Cosell, as obnoxious in person as he was on radio and television.

My favorite encounter was with Duke Ellington. I delivered an order of Chinese food to his and his wife’s apartment. It was mid-winter and rather chilly outside and even though I only had to walk from the sidewalk to the building entrance (he and his wife lived in a high-rise building near Lincoln Center) he invited me inside, offered me a glass of water, asked me if I was okay and was generally absolutely congenial.

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Cosell was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,^[1] to accountant Isidore Cohen and his wife Nellie Cohen (née Rosenthal); his parents were Jewish.^[5][6] He had an elder brother, Hilton (1914–1992).^[7] The grandson of a rabbi,^[8] he was raised in Brooklyn, New York City.

Duke Ellington

Who doe these adjectives describe?

Who do these adjectives describe?

Misanthropic, nihilistic, cynical, heartless, racist, ignorant, obnoxious, arrogant, crude, selfish, faithless, unrepentant, and boring.

Hard to imagine all that being in one person or describing one culture, that is until you see it. 

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How to act when speaking to a Litvish rabbi

 

Otherwise you are a chutzpah!

gentleman

 “This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”

-William Lyon Phelps

berkowitz reveals

Why say he wasn't one of us? He was human. We are human. "We are part of humanity at the same time we are alone." (R. Soloveitchik) Beyond that he is possibly a righteous gentile. Why at this sad time stress that he wasn't in our club? If he has good values, he is with us. As for liberalism, is it completely empty or does it have problems? Conservatism also has problems.

Answer is, because he is operating a kind of cult. Us vs them where we are the ones with meaning. They have nothing. That's a cult. 

As for freedom speech, Israel is more the cause of suppression of speech than anything else. But R. Berkowitz isn't going to say that or even consider it. 

 

Litvaks are the root cause

 The problem starts with the Litvacks. They taught us to drop life and do nothing but study. We learned from them to neglect life, to sleep under a mattress in the NY winter for Torah. At that point, the Zionists can come along and say drop everything and move to Israel. So without examining if it's a good decision naïve fools move to Israel because they don't even know how to evaluate life anymore. The biggest villain isn't even the Zionists. It's the Litvacks because they claim to have the mesorah and Zionists so obviously don't. 

When I die, which could be soon, I don't want to be buried here. Because this place killed me. But really Litvacks killed me. 

Jews without mitzvos

 

Jews without Mitzvos

 What actor or actress passed on a script that could have made them a powerhouse in Hollywood?

James Caan, who recently died at 82, had a bad habit of turning down roles that made others a star, often earning them an Oscar or an Oscar nomination.

For instance, he turned down 3 roles that Richard Dreyfuss took, including “Close Encounter of the Third Kind,” “The Good Bye Girl,” and “What About Bob?” He also passed on the Oscar-winning role that earned Jack Nicholson an Oscar in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Another such role was Dustin Hoffman’s lead in “Kramer versus Kramer.”

Caan was originally considered to play Michael Corleone (the studio wanted him or Robert Redford) but ultimately moved to the Sonny Corleone role. Other roles that it was said that Jimmy Caan did not get were the role of Han Solo in “Star Wars.” Caan was asked about appearing in “Apocalypse Now” only to have his agent say he would do so only if they paid him $1 million to read the script. That role—-a small one—then went to Harrison Ford.

When Jimmy Caan was offered the lead role in “Misery,” he took it because Jack Nicholson had just turned it down, and he remembered the previous mis-step in not taking “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” I cover more on Jimmy Caan’s uncanny ability to shoot his undeniable acting prowess in the foot on my WeeklyWilson blog.

Caan was born on March 26, 1940, in The Bronx, New York City, to Sophie (née Falkenstein; 1915–2016)^[3] and Arthur Caan (1909–1986), Jewish immigrants from Bingen am Rhein, Rhineland, Germany.^[4][5][6] His father was a kosher meat dealer.^[7]

Sadia says

 “Expectations should come from our lived experiences. If they are coming from vicarious experiences that you’ve seen online, they are not realistic. Just take them out of your mind because they’ll keep you single.”

careful now

 If you don't prepare for a career that's to your liking, if you spend every penny on yeshiva and all day in 'learning' you might wind up like this:

jews without mitzvos

 Arthur Miller was a cold-hearted intellectual who never loved Marilyn Monroe.

He never even bothered to show up at her Los Angeles funeral.

——-“To me it was meaningless to stand for photographs at her graveside.”——-

Miller did not want to be part of the media frenzy that developed around her funeral.

He was disgusted by the attention that came with a movie star on Marilyn Monroe’s scale.

Over the years, there have been suggestions that Miller married Marilyn for her money or for the good publicity to counteract his refusal to name

Communists to The House Un-American Activities Committee.

On the other hand, Joe DiMaggio was inconsolable at her funeral, weeping uncontrollably, leaning over Marilyn’s casket, kissing her on the lips,

and whispering,———-“I love you, I love you”.

The grief stricken baseball star ordered 6 long stemmed roses, three times a week to placed on her grave….forever.

To Marilyn Monroe fans, it is a long, heart-breaking subplot, a tale of two very different ex-husbands.

nice goyim

 I owned a carpet cleaning business in the 2000s. i cleaned a house and the womans son had just died in the marines in the middle east. she asked me if i liked comic books because her son had a collection and she had no use or interest. i askerd her how many he had, she said ALL OF THEM. she to me to a room and it was filled. all 4 walls and islands in the middle. i asked what she was going to do. she was an older lady and was gonna just give it all away. i asked her to please not do that. i called a friend and he called a friend, the old girl got over 100k for all of it.

nuts

The response of the typical frum person to any criticism of israel even in Gaza reveals the insanity that plagues the yeshiva world. In case you didn't notice, they are insane about everything. There is no area where they are normal whether it be the cold bloodedness of shiduchim, marriage as happy wife happy life, i.e. indulging the wife, dating resumes that tell you only where the brother learns, this mad notion of having a rav to run your life when he knows nothing about you, pilpul as the only acceptable Torah study, not studying Hebrew as a language while telling you to do nothing in life other than study, not having a way of earning a parnassah even though you need $200,000 a year to survive, excommunicating anybody who disagrees with them, boys wearing a hat on top of their tefillin, the boring clothing of the men, sitting the bochur across from the wife at the shabbos table, the oversized black hats, unhealthy diet with no exercise, having young men marry at 23 when their sex drives are roaring from age 16 even as masturbation is regarded as the worst sin, shiurim consisting of a guy reading from a book and doing it by racing through the Hebrew and then the English, school principals who don't work with parents but simply announce that "I consult with gadolim," the entire idea of gadolim as these perfect all-knowing beings, labeling every rabbi as a gaon, parnassah without any regard for job satisfaction, pushing away mitzvos and making the entire religion about pilpul, leaving the young women with nothing to do but sleep until noon on Shabbos, religion devoid of consciousness of God, pushing the average guy to study 16 hours a day, telling each boy that if he only tries hard enough he can be a gadol and if he isn't a gadol it's because he didn't try, $80,000 weddings, regarding the entire human race and most of Jewry with disdain, relentless verbal abuse by rabbis particularly of anybody with a question, interfering with the religious derech of anybody who doesn't want to be yeshivish and even those that do, viewing themselves as superior to every baal teshuvah and convert despite the evidence of who really is superior, constantly contradicting people and arguing with them, pretending to know the insides of people that there's something wrong with them, not having any sense of humor, obsessing about barely existent anti-semitism and exaggerating 'esau soneh yaakov into an absurdity, having 3 hour Shabbos meals which consist of lingering at the table and playing with food remains, insisting that everybody live in NY or Israel when houses cost $1 million, taking 1/2 an hour for weekday Maariv, burying the young women in homework and trying to turn them into yeshiva guys in any way they can outside of learning Gemara, being ignorant about the dangers of aliyah or in the case of Modern Litvish pushing everyone to move there. There's no area where they are normal, so why would you expect normalcy when they talk about Israel and Gaza?

Why are they like this? It's because they don't have mitzvos and don't have Hashem. For them, Judaism is lomdus only, so they go mad. Mitzvos give you a sane life. Hashem gives you a focus. 

be this

 

RABBI PINCHAS HIRSCHPRUNG - Chassidic Torah giant

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notes from a chat

The line that Judaism is 100% proven by evidence is not true. We can say that the lack of certainty is an expression of Divine concealment.

A framework of yiddishkite that Hashem is a loving father is quite different from the you are mechuyav kiruv god. 

jews without mitzvos

 

Who was the rudest celebrity you’ve met?

Before college I was a flight attendant for Continental Airlines out of Newark, NJ for 4 years and I had my share of VIP passengers. But the distinction of rudest celebrity (or in this case celebrities) was The Beastie Boys from Newark to London.

Upon boarding they were all on their phones and I was greeting passengers as they boarded and one of them threw their coat into my arms, didn't say a word, Never made eye contact and went to his seat.

I was working coach but the first class flight attendants remarked that they were needy but unappreciative and at times rude to the point of making one of my colleagues upset to the point of needing consoling.

Kinda ruined the Beastie Boys for me.

The Beastie Boys were an American hip hop and rap rock group formed in New York City in 1981.[1] They were composed of Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz (vocals, guitar), Adam "MCA" Yauch (vocals, bass), and Michael "Mike D" Diamond (vocals, drums).

Diamond was born in New York City^[3] to Harold Diamond, an art dealer, and Hester (née Klein) Diamond,

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Yauch was an only child. His father Noel was an architect,^[4] and his mother Frances was a social worker.^[5][6][7][8] Yauch's mother was Jewish and his father Catholic, but he had a non-religious upbringing^[6] in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn.^[9

Jews without mitzvos

https://www.quora.com/Which-celebrities-turned-into-jerks-after-becoming-famous

Which celebrities turned into jerks after becoming famous?

Here’s an interesting candidate…

Kirk Douglas. He broke into Hollywood after World War II, and had this exchange with gossip columnist Hedda Hopper after his movie “Champion” (seen above) made a splash:

Hedda: Now that you’ve got a big hit, you’ve become a real son of a bitch.

Kirk: You’re wrong, Hedda. I was always a son of a bitch. You just never noticed before.

Mr. Douglas was born angry. Or at least, that’s what he says …

There was an awful lot of rage churning around inside me, rage that I was afraid to reveal because there was so much more of it, and so much stronger, in my father.

Kirk Douglas’s father was a tough, illiterate, Russian-Jewish immigrant who was distant from his kids. Kirk D., well aware of his family’s meager resources, worked a series of menial jobs to support himself in college. The anger he felt toward his situation, his father, and society at large manifested itself in different ways. 

After college, Kirk went on to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he (unsurprisingly?) bore a grudge against his acting instructor for never casting him as an owl in an acting exercise. But his anger and focused drive carried him a long way. After brief work on Broadway, he made his way to Hollywood, where co-star Robert Mitchum (no slouch in the “difficult” department) found him over-bearing on the set of Out of the Past. And Jane Greer, Past’s femme fatale, had a few issues:

Douglas and Jane Greer

Kirk Douglas … bruised my arms grabbing me. And my face was roundly slapped. How he did Champion without maiming his partner is a miracle. …

By 1950 Douglas was a front-rank movie star. He started his own production company, top-lined blockbusters in various genres, philandered robustly on two wives. Along the way he acknowledged:

I’m probably the most disliked actor in Hollywood. And I feel pretty good about it. Because that’s me, I was born aggressive, and I guess I’ll die aggressive.

Few of his peers would have disagreed. As Kirk’s longtime co-star Burt Lancaster noted at a tribute to Douglas at the Academy of the Dramatic Arts:

Kirk would be the first person to tell you he’s a very difficult man. And I would be the second.

Whatever sins you pile on Kirk Douglas, pretending to be someone he wasn’t couldn’t be considered one of them.

what about me?

 

NY or Israel

When you enter the frum world you will mostly likely be pushed to live in New York or Israel. Why is that? It's largely because the frum world has come to devalue mitzvos and to focus nearly exclusively on Torah study. I'll explain what I mean. Note, I'm talking about the Haredi world. I'll discuss the Modern Orthodox world in a bit.

I'm not just talking about Litvacks. I watched a few interviews recently of Chassidic men who left Judaism. As they talked about their childhoods, each one reflected on how they were good boys which meant they learned (i.e. studied) well, were masmidim (diligent students), and were knowledgeable in all aspects of Torah. The latter point is not true as their education was narrow and focused mostly on Talmudic pilpul and a bit of Chumash, but that's a topic for another day. The topic for now is that Judaism to them was defined as study. It's no wonder that they left mitzvos as the importance of mitzvos was not stressed to them.

So what's the connection to living in New York and Israel? Those places by far have the most yeshivas, so they present a SUPERFICIAL allure for those who value study. You see yeshiva building after yeshiva building and assume this must be a good place for study. New York has the added advantage of being a place with financial opportunities, or at least people who talk about money all day long, and Torah study requires money. Israel has the advantage of having the "air that makes one wise," or at least is thought of that way.

But are New York and Israel the best for study? They have more yeshivas but it's not as if each yeshiva has a specialty that will help you to get a broad education if you spend time at each. Quite to the contrary, they mimic one another. They all focus on Talmudic pilpul of yeshivishe mesechtas and all study the same mesechta each zman (semester). They don't join together to create a group enthusiasm. Quite to the contrary, they compete for students, donors, and instructors. They don't pool their funds and build a big central library. Each has its own library with nearly identical collections. Most men associate with one shul and one yeshiva for their entire lives and never or rarely step foot in another. How does it help you to be around 20 yeshivas and 100 shuls whose doors you never enter? What advantage is there to studying in New York or Israel? 

I argue that other than the superficial appeal of seeing lots of yeshiva buildings, there are many disadvantages. The biggest of them is that you'll have less time for study there. Housing in New York and Israel is expensive. Starting at $800,000, the housing is so pricey that, unless you are rich, you'll need to work 50 to 60 hours a week to pay for it and for the expensive tuition that pays for the expensive houses of the yeshiva staff. You'll also need time to recover from the more stressful jobs and life in general that are characteristic of NY and Israel. The most important thing for your Torah study is studying. If you have less time for it in NY and Israel, then you are better off living where you have more time for it.

So even according to the view that "nothing else matters" but study, NY and Israel are not best for study. But there is something that matters even more than study, or at least as much. I'm talking about mitzvos. Shlomo said, "The sum of the matter: fear Hashem and keep the commandments. That is the sum of the man." (Koheles 13:12) It's amazing that I can be looked at almost like a heretic for quoting Koheles and emphasizing the importance of mitzvos. That's how far we have fallen. At Sinai, we said "we will do and we will hear." The Sfas Emes says that this shows the primacy of mitzvos! Of course, study is a mitzvah, and you need study to know what mitzvos to do. But mitzvos are essential.

Are New York and Israel good for mitzvos? Well, it's harder to do many of the mitzvos there. Hospitality to guests is harder because of the lack of space, particularly in Israel. Chesed is harder because people are less friendly and tend to compete with each other. In Israel, they wage war with one another. Honesty is business dealings is harder because of the financial pressures and corruption, particularly in Israel. Contemplating Hashem is harder because of the emotional stress and work pressures as well as the constant talk about money in New York and internecine strife, politics, and war in Israel.  

And then there's middos. If you look at the works of the Rishonim they talk extensively about middos. NY and Israel are middos deficient places. Maybe you want to live in a place with more Jews, but that's not going to help you if those places are middos deficient.

There's no rule in the Torah that you must always live around the most Jews. Many of the tzadickim of the prior generations came from small shtetls that had little contact with other shtetls. I'm talking about gadolim like Rabbis Moshe Feinstein, Yaakov Kamenetsky, Aharon Kotler, Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, and Joseph Soloveitchik and Admorim like those of Satmar, Lubavitch, Tosh, and Rivnitz, and many others. They all came from small villages!

Now what about the Modern Orthodox? Well there, obviously the pressure is to move to Israel, even though it might be harder to observe the mitzvos there, as explained, particularly with the requirement of military servitude. Most Modern Orthodox olim go down in mitzvah observance in Israel in part because the Dati Leumi world is antagonistic to the Haredi world whereas in chutz they are positively influenced by them. 

And then there are other factors, such as what culture you are used to, where family and friends live, what weather you are used to, what nature you like to be around, etc.

Thus, people who value mitzvos and who look deeper into the matter of study will not necessarily direct you to live in NY or Israel. 

So beware of this pressure to move to New York or Israel. Rav SR Hirsch says that the carrying handles of the Aron were permanent unlike those of the shulchan and other implements. This teaches that Torah can be observed and studied anywhere. You do not need to be in NY or Israel. And if living in those places makes it harder to observe the mitzvos, to contemplate Hashem, and to work on your middos, then don't live there.

happy with one's lot

 

"What I did when my son left the Hasidic community"

 

goyish kop?

 Those goyim, so dumb, goyish kop, not smart like us.

The flight deck of Concorde

cruel switch

 They trash your life and pressure you to replace it all with Judaism, but a Judaism devoid of spirituality or sense. 

You know who you are

 

advice to new bts from a chess grandmaster

 

In a room with concrete walls

Imagine that you find yourself in a room with walls of concrete. It's like a bomb shelter in Israel. Before you is a concrete wall, but it has no door or window. On it is written, "Nothing else matters but study." You think to yourself, but that can't be. The Talmud itself talks all about mitzvos. You turn to the right looking for a door, but there is no door, only a wall with no door or window. On that wall is written, "We have the mesorah. We have all the gadolim." You think to yourself, but that can't be. I know so many scholars from other groups. So you turn right again looking for another door. You are now 180 degrees from the position in which you started. On that wall is written, "You are not allowed to think." You silence your mind as ordered, but a posuk forces its way into your consciousness. It is from Solomon the King. You whisper it, "The sum of the matter is to fear G-d and observe the commandments." You turn to the fourth wall. On it is written, "We listen only to the leaders of our generation."

You have faced all four walls now. There appears to be no exit. You fall to the concrete floor and cry to yourself. Then you cry out to G-d. An opening appears on the floor. You climb through it disappearing into a tunnel that takes you through the four worlds, through the sefirot. You pass angels. You enter ether.

Suddenly, you are back in the room where the walls explode and shatter. Around the rubble are Jews of old, the Rebbes of Chabad, Rav Nachman of Breslov, the Imrei Emes, Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch, Chasidei Ashkenaz, Sephardic Rishonim, Sadia Gaon, Yehuda HaNasi, Rabbi Akiva, Hillel, Shammai, Ezra, and Solomon the King. Solomon is smiling. He says to you, "the sum of the matter is to fear Hashem and observe His commandments."

You look to your right and see tefillin on a table. You roll up your sleeve and get to work. 

Moshe Idel

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Idel

Moshe Idel (Hebrew: משה אידל; born January 19, 1947) is a Romanian-born Israeli historian and philosopher of Jewish mysticism. He is Emeritus Max Cooper Professor in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

He points out that the kabbalists were in a battle with the Rambam to expand Judaism from pure philosophical thought. 

Jews without mitzvos

 

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Arthur Fried exposes himself to 12 year old Shirley Temple while Louis B. Mayer does the same to S. Temple's mother

Shame on France

 France gathered 400 Muslim scholars and decapitated them with machetes; during the occupation of Chad in 1917. 

When France entered the Algerian city of Laghouat in 1852, it killed two-thirds of its population and burned them alive in a single night. 

Between 1960 and 1966, France conducted 17 nuclear tests in Algeria, resulting in an unspecified number of casualties, between 27,000 and 100,000. The effects persist to this day. 

When France left Algeria in 1962, they had left more mines than the entire Algerian population of that time: 11 million mines. 

France occupied Algeria for 132 years. The French exterminated one million Muslims in the first 7 years after their arrival and 1.5 million in the last 7 years before their departure. 

French historian Jacques Gorky estimated that the total number of people killed by France in Algeria, from its arrival in 1830 to its departure in 1962, was 10 million Muslims. That is French historian not Arab. 

France occupied Tunisia for 75 years, Algeria 132 years, Morocco 44 years and Mauritania 60 years. 

When France entered Egypt during its famous campaign, French soldiers entered mosques on horseback and raped women in front of their families. They drank alcohol in the mosques and turned part into stables for their horses. 

Note, I didn't verify every detail of this account, but I have seen alarming data on French atrocities in North Afria. 

 

bravery

 In the early morning of September 5, 1986, Pan Am Flight 73 was hijacked while on the ground in Karachi by four armed Palestinian terrorists.

Amid the sudden panic and confusion, 22-year-old senior flight attendant Neerja Bhanot acted with remarkable composure. Without drawing attention, she managed to alert the cockpit by discreetly punching in the hijack code. Thanks to her quick thinking, the pilots escaped through the overhead hatch, ensuring the aircraft remained grounded and preventing the hijackers from using it as a deadly weapon in the sky.

Over the next 17 tense hours, Neerja displayed unwavering bravery. When the terrorists began seeking out American passengers, she quietly gathered and hid their passports — slipping them under seats, tossing them down chutes, and even flushing some away. Her efforts disrupted the hijackers’ plans and likely spared dozens of lives. Throughout the ordeal, she stayed calm, offering strength to the terrified passengers and working tirelessly to shield the vulnerable.

In the final moments of the standoff, as violence erupted and bullets flew, Neerja chose courage over safety once more. She opened an emergency exit, guiding passengers out of harm’s way. As gunfire raged, she used her own body to shield three children, sacrificing her life so others could live. Neerja Bhanot was just 22 when she died, but her selfless actions saved more than 350 people. She was posthumously awarded India’s highest peacetime honor, and her legacy endures as a symbol of fearless compassion in the face of unimaginable danger.