know any rabbis like this?

 Whenever I dive deep into the origin stories of The Beatles, I am always struck by the profound daddy issues that plagued the band. John Lennon was abandoned by his father; Paul McCartney lost his mother early, leaving his father to shoulder an immense burden. But Ringo Starr’s story holds a beautiful, often overlooked counter-narrative, all thanks to a gentle, softly spoken Londoner named Harry Graves. As a fan, I firmly believe that without Harry’s psychological support and profound empathy, the Ringo Starr we know and love might never have existed.

Ringo’s biological father walked out when he was just a toddler, leaving his mother, Elsie, to raise him in the gritty, impoverished streets of the Dingle in Liverpool. When Elsie finally remarried in 1954, Ringo was an incredibly fragile teenager, emotionally and physically scarred from years of life-threatening illnesses that had kept him in hospitals and robbed him of an education. Enter Harry Graves. In a rough working-class culture where stepfathers could often be stern or resentful, Harry was a revelation. He didn't try to discipline the sickly Richard Starkey; instead, he showered him with unconditional warmth and patience. Ringo affectionately called him his "step-ladder," a testament to how Harry elevated him. Harry possessed a deep psychological intuition. He recognized that Ringo, who struggled with literacy and immense insecurity, desperately needed an outlet. He didn't push the boy into manual labor or berate him for his lack of schooling. Instead, he paid attention to Ringo’s innate sense of rhythm. It was Harry who scraped together the funds to buy Ringo his first real drum kit. He traveled all the way to London and brought back a second-hand, £10 drum set, lugging it back to Liverpool just to see the boy smile. That single act of paternal support changed musical history. Harry provided a safe, nurturing environment where Ringo could pound away his frustrations and build his shattered confidence. Harry Graves proved that family isn’t always blood; it is the person who steps up, sees your potential, and buys you the tools to change the world. Whenever I hear Ringo’s joyful, steady backbeat, I send a quiet thank-you to Harry Graves, the sweet, supportive stepdad who gave the quietest Beatle his voice.

during and after yeshiva

 The bear "Sinotchuk" spent nearly 9 years inside a cramped metal cage, no larger than 4 square meters

9 years of torment… during which he was forced to perform in circus shows, traveling in vehicles, deprived of his most basic right to freedom An entire life stolen from him, just for entertainment at the expense of his suffering But the moment of his rescue was the beginning of a new life… After being transferred to his new home, everything changed He became a happy bear, exploring, playing, and living as he was meant to live "Sinotchuk's" story is a painful reminder that animals are not a means of entertainment, but sentient beings who feel and suffer Compassion for animals is not an option… but humanity

https://x.com/Alsharway/status/2064920561697116447/video/1

bt yeshiva be like this

 

A man who doesn't care anymore was once a man who cared too much.

 A man who doesn't give a fuck anymore was once a man who cared too much.

oh those goyim

 A Chinese tourist shopping in Vietnam spent a total of 29 dollars on purchases but gave the shop owner 16 $20 bills (totaling 320 dollars).

Instead of staying silent and pocketing the money, the shop owner showed no greed at all and, by doing the proper calculation for the tourist, immediately returned the excess amount. The female shop owner is a wonderful person thanks to her kindness and empathy

https://x.com/srkntnyldz/status/2064737948621312468/video/1

 

Xianity

 

It's surprising and refreshing to hear an Orthodox Jew recognize that there's good in Xianity. Usually, they dismiss it wholesale which is lazy and simplistic.

The war against boys

 A psychotherapist spills the truth on Steven Bartlett's show:

"We're diagnosing boys with ADHD... just because they act like boys."

Between 3 and 6 years old, huge testosterone surge: they NEED to run, jump, wrestle, move nonstop.

Instead, we stick them in classrooms where we reward... sitting still, staying quiet, and controlling their emotions.  

Behaviors that come naturally to girls.

Result? We label them "sick" and pump them full of meds.

Boys' schools have figured it out: short lessons + multiple recesses during the day.  

Regular schools? Nope. They're built for just one type of kid.

We've built a school system that punishes masculine nature... and then we're shocked when boys break down.

We're no longer letting boys be boys.

https://x.com/BlackBondPtv/status/2064446851072344081/video/1

THIS GOES ON IN YESHIVAS JUST AS MUCH AS ANYWHERE ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How I came to make aliyah

There are two steps in this saga. The first is that Yeshivists, or as I like to call them Shivists, turned my life and my mind into mush. They did that by telling me to drop out of college, leave my home, and disappear to Israel where I would "learn Torah" as if it cannot be studied anywhere else. The rabbis at the yeshiva filled me with terror about society, about gentiles, and about myself. They disparaged anything that wasn't exactly them, including Chassidim, especially Chabad, Rabbi Soloveitchik, and the derech of Rav Hirsch, all of which appealled to me. They ordered me not to get job training, not to take part time jobs, and to not contemplate ever earning a parnassah. They taught nothing about God other than He punishes for the slightest infraction and He approves only of Talmudic scholars. They discouraged going on shiduchim for now is the time to "learn Torah," even though I was long past the maximum age outlined by the Talmud. Worst of all, they trained me to shut off my mind and obey. 

As a result, I wound up poor for a long time then stuck in painful jobs for which I had no training or appetite. Worst of all, the Shivist disparagement of people who earn a parnassah haunted my mind. Getting married took forever because I started so late. I was spiritualty starving and wracked with fear.

When I first met Zionists I didn't take them seriously, particularly after I landed in Israel. Their insistence that their strife ridden dumpy little country full of angry people was the "flowering of redemption" and the "future for the Jewish people" was laughable to me. But after twenty years suffering in the Shivist world I reconsidered the Zionists. They weren't quite as opposed to secular studies or working for a living as long as you did it in Israel, the dumpty little strife ridden country full of angry people. Because my mind was mush, because I was trained to trust blindly and obey, I started to absorb their ideas without sifting through them. Who am I to question their rabbis? 

With two decades of Shivist diatribes against Gentiles in my head, I succomed to the ridiculous Zionist predictions of the imminent collapse of Chutzeh l'aretz and Holocaust part II. Holding on to the belief that there must be some hope in life, I fell victim to their salespitch about the booming Israeli economy, the subduing of all the country's "enemies," the Israeli spirit of brotherhood, and the future for the Jewish people being in Israel. I have been here now for ten years, and I can tell you that none of that is true! None of it! Jobs here, particularly for olim, are the pits, low wage, unstable, with bad work conditions. Small apartments cost $1,000,0000. Whether or not Israel actually has enemies, the government and people act as if everyone is the enemy and bomb somebody or another every single day and insist that every Jewish youth be a cog in its killing machine. As for Israeli brotherhood, I have never lived in a place where people express as much hatred for one another. I also have never lived in a place with as much venom against religious Jews. And the future? There is no future for my children if apartments cost $1,000,000 and salaries, if you can get a job after surviving the army or escape from it, are similar to those in Albania. 

I titled this how I came to make aliyah, but it's an aliyah only in name. Effectively, it's been a yeridah, a massive one on every level. It started with the Shivists, and then came the Zionists, most of whom are products of Shivism. 

Now you have the rest of the story. 

the British

 THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TESTED NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON ITS OWN SOLDIERS.

🚨In the 1950s and 60s, thousands of British servicemen were forced to watch nuclear explosions.

🤯They were simply told: "Cover your eyes."

💥The flash was so intense that they could see **their own bones through their closed eyelids**. Then the heat and shockwave hit them.

Years later, thousands of them died from leukemias, cancers, and tumors. Almost none died of natural causes.

The government used them as human guinea pigs, without real protection, without information, and without taking responsibility for the consequences.

Even today, many survivors are still fighting to be recognized.

A state that sacrifices its own soldiers on the altar of nuclear testing… how far would it go with the rest of the population?

https://x.com/brain_stimulus/status/2063534381596078526/video/1

they love to talk about money and becoming rich!

 "when your friend wins the lottery, or gets the best

boy in Yeshiva for a son-in-law, or he becomes rich,

or if he becomes a big Rosh Yeshiva with lots of

Kavod (which you don’t have); it won’t bother you."

Bitachon Weekly, Bamidbar, 5786

Interpretation of Baruch Shem Cavod...

Baruch (full of blessing) is the name (saying and doing of ) of the glory (Torah and mitzvos) of His Kingdom (into) forever until (the world that is hidden that will be revealed).

What religion is this?

 

They claim to be Modern Orthodox. They appear to be Israel Orthodox. 

hope it's not true

 https://x.com/i/status/2061627065313710178

Let’s talk about real heroism for a second. ​On the Iron Shark roller coaster at Galveston’s Pleasure Pier, a massive mechanical failure left eight charter school students trapped. ​They were dangling nearly 100 feet in the air, facing dead skyward under a baking Texas sun for four straight hours. ​The Galveston Fire Department showed up and immediately put their lives on the line. ​They extended a massive 105-foot tower truck to it’s limit over the water, scaled the structure in the extreme heat, and manually strapped each terrified student into safety harnesses to pull them out one by one. ​The ride is completely shut down and under federal investigation before it ever opens again. ​But these first responders didn't hesitate. They just showed up and did the job.

https://x.com/i/status/2061218626028343566

But now we are hearing that one of the women claims that a fireman touched her innappriately while rescuine her

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8WhsSEkP8xA?feature=share

this is how insane women in our generation have become with their accusations

the lack of gratitude is mind blowing

don't be the hero and raise someone else's kids

This man has been a girl's stepfather for over 17 years, since she was a baby. Now it’s time for graduation and she chose her absent biological father, who just came back, over him. There's only one ticket available and the teenage girl gave it to the biological father. The stepfather doesn't object to the biological father attending but wants to attend the graduation of the girl he raised and supported. He is being excluded. He calls the mother who condones the exclusion of the stepfather. 

https://x.com/i/status/2061467840364830735

What we are seeing here is the Western woman of today. She doesn't so much as get married as find a man who will pay her bills and sire and raise her children. She isn't married to him, isn't joined to him, doesn't love him, doesn't care about him. She enjoys saying the phrase "my husband" to her friends. It's a status. But he isn't really a husband. He's a meal ticket. And now that he raised her daughter, he isn't needed anymore. You'd think that the daughter would feel a warmth towards this man who foolishly raised another man's kid, but she has been raised with the post-feminist contempt for men. 

Don't think that this doesn't happen also in the Orthodox Jewish world. It happens with the same frequency as it does in the Gentile world. Many of the young women in the OJ world marry for the same reasons: status, children, and money. The man is a tool for this. The BT women nearly all do this because they were raised in the post-feminist world and are taught in seminary that men are inferior. They wind up hating men even more than the Gentile women do.

don't stay in school

 You went to school to memorize facts you never use. You were trained to raise your hand, wait your turn and follow instructions.

Then they told you, get a job, work 40 hours a week, give half of it to tax, retire at 67 if you're lucky. Escape the matrix.

“Women are disproportionately destroying this country.”

 Psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald is going viral after appearing on The Edit Alaverdyan Podcast and making what many people are calling one of the most controversial statements of the year.

His claim? “Women are disproportionately destroying this country.” But that's only the beginning. According to McDonald: • America has become afraid to criticize women • society constantly calls out male flaws but ignores female ones • weak men are enabling the problem • fathers are failing to step up • and what he calls “toxic femininity” is driving some of the most destructive cultural trends in the country McDonald argues that many of America's biggest problems aren't political at all... They're symptoms of a deeper imbalance between masculine and feminine influence. The comments immediately exploded: • “This man just said what millions are thinking.” • “This is one of the most controversial takes I've heard all year.” • “He's identifying a real problem nobody wants to discuss.” • “Blaming women for society's problems is insane.”

https://x.com/i/status/2061309793965670877

ספרי דברים מ״ג

 דָּבָר אַחֵר: וַאֲבַדְתֶּם מְהֵרָה, וְשַׂמְתֶּם אֶת דְּבָרַי אֵלֶּה וְגוֹ׳, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁאֲנִי מַגְלֶה אֶתְכֶם מִן הָאָרֶץ לְחוּצָה לָאָרֶץ – הֱיוּ מְצֻיָּנִים בַּמִּצְווֹת, שֶׁכְּשֶׁתַּחְזְרוּ לֹא יְהוּ עֲלֵיכֶם חֲדָשִׁים. מָשָׁל לְמֶלֶךְ בָּשָׂר וָדָם שֶׁכָּעַס עַל אִשְׁתּוֹ וּטְרָפָהּ בְּבֵית אָבִיהָ, אָמַר לָהּ: הֱוִי מְקֻשֶּׁטֶת בְּתַכְשִׁיטַיִךְ, שֶׁכְּשֶׁתַּחְזְרִי לֹא יְהוּ עָלַיִךְ חֲדָשִׁים. כָּךְ אָמַר הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא לְיִשְׂרָאֵל: בָּנַי, הֱיוּ מְצֻיָּנִים בַּמִּצְווֹת, שֶׁכְּשֶׁתַּחְזְרוּ לֹא יְהוּ עֲלֵיכֶם חֲדָשִׁים. הוּא שֶׁיִּרְמְיָהוּ אוֹמֵר (ירמיה לא כ): ״הַצִּיבִי לָךְ צִיּוּנִים״ וְגוֹ׳ – אֵלּוּ הַמִּצְווֹת שֶׁיִּשְׂרָאֵל מְצֻיָּנִים בָּהֶם, ״שִׂימִי לָךְ תַּמְרוּרִים״ – זֶה חֻרְבַּן בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ, וְכֵן הוּא אוֹמֵר (תהלים קלז ה-ו): ״אִם אֶשְׁכָּחֵךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָם וְגוֹ׳ תִּדְבַּק לְשׁוֹנִי״ וְגוֹ׳, (ירמיה לא כ) ״שִׁיתִי לִבֵּךְ לַמְסִלָּה דֶּרֶךְ הָלָכְתְּ״. אָמַר לָהֶם הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא לְיִשְׂרָאֵל: רְאוּ בְּאֵלּוּ דְרָכִים הֲלַכְתֶּם וַעֲשׂוּ תְשׁוּבָה, מִיָּד אַתֶּם חוֹזְרִים לְעָרֵיכֶם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ״שׁוּבִי בְּתוּלַת יִשְׂרָאֵל שׁוּבִי אֶל עָרַיִךְ אֵלֶּה.״

ספרי דברים מ״ג

A Wife's Story of Accountability That Saved Her Marriage

 

Billy Joel sings for Baalei Teshuvah

 

[Verse 1]

We met as soul mates on Parris Island
We left as inmates from an asylum
And we were sharp, as sharp as knives
And we were so gung ho to lay down our lives

[Verse 2]
We came in spastic like tameless horses
We left in plastic as numbered corpses
And we learned fast to travel light
Our arms were heavy but our bellies were tight

[Verse 3]
We had no home front, we had no soft soap
They sent us Playboy, they gave us Bob Hope
We dug in deep and shot on sight
And prayed to Jesus Christ with all of our might

[Verse 4]
We had no cameras to shoot the landscape
We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes
And it was dark, so dark at night
And we held on to each other like brother to brother
We promised our mothers we'd write

[Chorus]
And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes, we would all go down together

[Verse 5]
Remember Charlie, remember Baker
They left their childhood on every acre
And who was wrong? And who was right?
It didn't matter in the thick of the fight

[Bridge]
We held the day in the palm of our hands
They ruled the night, and the night
Seemed to last as long as six weeks
On Parris Island
We held the coastline, they held the highlands
And they were sharp, as sharp as knives
They heard the hum of our motors, they counted the rotors
And waited for us to arrive

[Chorus]
And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes, we would all go down together

Chinese wife

 

Timeline of Jewish History

Hi why does the Timeline of Jewish History by Mattis Kantor

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3915966/jewish/Timeline-of-Jewish-History.htm

include so many entries about the state of israel?

The Rebbe said the following:

 אמנם צריכים להיות נגד הציונות, אך את האנשים המחזיקים בה באופן אישי יש לקרב, כלומר: מקרבים כל יהודי מאחר שהוא יהודי, אך לא מקרבים יחד איתו את הציונות שבו ח"ו

שיחות קודש תשכ"ז ח"ב ע' 407

It is true that we must be against Zionism, but one should still engage in outreach with the people who cling to it. That is to say, one should do kiruv with every Jew because he is a Jew. However, the Zionism should not be brought in along with him.

Lubavitcher Rebbe

Sichos Kodesh, 5727, p. 407

Country's ugliest building- every time

 

Boston City Hall

Architecture firm	Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles (primary architect)

Kallmann McKinnell & Wood is an architecture firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It established in 1962 as Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles by Gerhard Kallmann (1915-2012), Michael McKinnell (1935–2020), and Edward Knowles.^[1]

Kallman was born to Theodore and Olga Jarecki Kallmann in Berlin, Germany, on February 13, 1915.^[1] His family was Jewish and intellectual.

Porto

 Porto is the type of city that makes Lisbon feel a little too polished.

 

Steep streets, blue-tiled churches, old wine cellars, river views, and a rough-around-the-edges beauty that makes it one of Europe’s most soulful cities.

https://x.com/i/status/2059267204357533830

Zionism comes from here

 Hegelian nationalism refers to a political philosophy derived from the ideas of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), particularly regarding the relationship between the state, nation, and individual freedom. For Hegel, the state represented the highest embodiment of ethical life (Sittlichkeit) and the rational organization of society.

Key aspects of Hegelian nationalism include:

1. The state as the realization of freedom: Hegel believed that true freedom wasn't individual independence but participation in the rational institutions of the state.

2. The nation-state as historical necessity: Hegel viewed the nation-state as the culmination of historical development, where universal principles find particular expression.

3. The primacy of the state over individual interests: While respecting individual rights, Hegel emphasized that the state's interests ultimately transcend individual concerns.

4. Historical destiny: Hegelian nationalism often incorporates the idea that certain nations have historical missions or destinies to fulfill.

5. Organic conception of the nation: The nation is seen as an organic entity with its own spirit (Volksgeist) that develops through history.

This philosophy has been interpreted in various ways throughout history, influencing both conservative and revolutionary movements. Some critics argue it can lead to authoritarianism when the state's interests are placed above all else.

If this is true, wow

New Chinese apartments have balconies and high cielings mandated by law.

90% of adults in China own their own home. 80% have no mortgage of any kind. The average Chinese has no debt and saves 40% of their income.

old world better

 

Ostend, Belgium

Jamestown, NY

Tonhalle concert hall in Zurich, Switzerland