amer house styles

 

Teddy bear apology

 https://x.com/i/status/2056470490349498560

How a Submissive Woman Actually Controls the Man

 

until i learned

I was bothered by brit milah until i witnessed teething.

I was bothered by throwing a goat off the mountain until i learned that goats fall from mountains on their own

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The Torah is no harsher than life. So the question is why is life so harsh?

no it's no geulah

that Tel Aviv grew a little bit. Countries all over the world have been built up over the last 50 years. Here's Seoul, South Korea:

Romanesque and Gothic

 

art movements

 

sounds like us

 George Conway on Trump: “He invites people to feel as if they are superior by hating on other people. He has created a permission structure for people to be their worst selves. He has taught Americans that it’s okay to be selfish and spiteful and hateful and angry and resentful and that is the most toxic thing he has done to the country”

lunch break

 https://x.com/i/status/2054894010607501452

A Colombian bus driver takes advantage of his lunch break alongside his colleagues. Upon opening the lunchbox prepared by his wife, he discovers, inside, a little note written in her hand. Intrigued, one of his colleagues snatches it, takes a photo of it, then decides to read the message aloud in front of the whole group… and what is written there surprises everyone. “My love, I know you’re going through tough days and that you work tirelessly to give us a better life. Even when you come home exhausted, you always find the strength to smile and take care of our family. I just wanted to remind you that we’re proud of you and that we love you more than anything.” Silence fell around the table. Some colleagues lowered their eyes, others had tears in theirs. The driver, for his part, remained frozen for a few seconds before discreetly pressing the note to his heart. Sometimes, a few sincere words are worth more than any gift.

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America did not invent democracy

  Most British schoolchildren are taught about Magna Carta.

They are taught it was sealed in twelve fifteen at Runnymede. They are taught it is the foundation of English liberty. They are taught it is one of the most important documents in human history. They are not taught what came next. They are not taught about the eighty years between twelve fifteen and twelve ninety-five when ordinary Englishmen forced three successive kings to write down, for the first time in any kingdom in medieval Europe, what English law was, what English liberty was, and how an English king must govern. They are not taught about the Charter of the Forest, which restored the right to graze, gather firewood, and live on common land, and which remained in force for seven hundred and fifty-four years. They are not taught about the Provisions of Oxford in twelve fifty-eight, often called England's first written constitution, which placed the king under a council of fifteen and required Parliament to meet three times a year. They are not taught about the Provisions of Westminster in twelve fifty-nine, which subjected the barons themselves to the same law they had forced upon the king. They are not taught about Simon de Montfort, an earl born in France who died for England, who summoned the first Parliament in English history to include ordinary commoners alongside the great lords. They are not taught about the Statute of Marlborough in twelve sixty-seven, which is the oldest piece of statute law in the United Kingdom still in force today. Seven hundred and fifty-nine years old. If you've ever taken a debt to court in England, you've used it. If you've ever rented a home, you've been protected by it. If a creditor can't lawfully drag your possessions into the street to settle what you owe, that's because of a law signed seven hundred and fifty-nine years ago. They are not taught about the Model Parliament of twelve ninety-five, summoned by Edward the First, which became the shape of every English Parliament since. Eighty years. Three successive kings. The first written constitution in any kingdom in medieval Europe. It was not given to them. It was not handed down from God or king or Pope. It was written. By Englishmen. For England. The British write their own history. They always have. This one needed more than a thread. The full story is in our video, watch it below  

Help us remember who we are. Help us remember every British achievement.  

draw your own conclusions

 On May 7, 1960, the law establishing a 7-hour workday for all workers in the Soviet Union was approved, and 6 hours for the most grueling jobs, reducing the workweek to 30 hours before 1964.

The reduction in working hours did not mean a reduction in wages; it simply aimed to ease the lives of workers and give them more hours of rest to spend time with their families.

I worked 60 hours a week on Wall St. That's 10 hours a day. 

saw recently

 The idea that study will automatically lead to mitzvos only applies if, in the words of Rashi who cites Toras Cohanim, "You shall toil in the study of Torah in order to observe and fulfill [the commandments (Torath Kohanim 26:2)." A recent publication left that part out and went on to laud study. Thus it turned a verse which tells us that mitzvahs are so important that not keeping them will lead to severe punishment into the usual talk about study alone and that kind of talk actually minimizes observance of mitzvahs. 

Europe rocks

 

remind you of anyone?

 Q:

We say נותן לחם לכל בשר, that Hashem supplies food to everyone, so how do we understand that in many countries thousands of people are dying because they don’t have what to eat?

A:

Question:  How is it that people are dying of starvation if Hakodosh Boruch Hu gives לחם לכל בשר?

If a man refuses to go to work, then we have no sympathy with him.  It’s his own fault.

Now those places where people don’t have parnassah, they’re starving, you have to know in most cases there’s a very simple reason.  

Let’s say the tribes in the Congo in Africa, you know what their occupation was? Not making a living.  Their main occupation was fighting each other.  It’s remarkable.  All their poems, all their songs and traditions were fighting their neighbors, killing, killing each other.  It’s remarkable, an ambition of killing.  Instead of building up a civilization that would support them by the yegi’ah kapei’hem, they spend their lives on doing the most wicked things, on shfichas domim, so Hakodosh Boruch Hu said, “For them I’m going to send starvation.  I’m going to send epidemics.  They deserve everything because they’re criminals.”

In the olden days, people didn’t live for the purpose of murdering their neighbors.  But the Indians in America, all the tribes lived for one purpose, to fight against each other.  They used to capture victims from other tribes and tie them up to stakes and skin them alive.  All kinds of achzoriyus and wickedness.  

I saw a photograph of a group of young men in the South Sea Islands were making a war dance in preparation of attacking a neighborhood village and in their dance they were symbolizing what they would do when they would conquer the village, they’d kill the men and they’d rape the women and they’re doing it with such a hislahavus, chas v’shalom lehavdil like frum Jews dancing around the sefer Torah.  That’s their whole simchah.

So Hashem said, “Such sheratzim? That's human beings?  So a kilayah on them.  They deserve everything.”  These are the people who are the ones who are starving.  

But in decent civilizations, people don’t starve.  There’s sometimes a hungry person, yes there are exceptions, but in general the populations of civilized nations live on יגיע כפיהם כי תאכל and אשריך וטוב לך.  

In most cases, it’s their own fault.

(September 1996)

arriage in a nutshell…

 https://x.com/i/status/2051938030961770501

1917

 

feminism

Dale Partridge

@dalepartridge

Wokeness is institutionalized feminism.

Liberalism is politicized feminism.

Transgenderism is sexualized feminism.

Abortion is medicalized feminism.

Mass immigration is nationalized feminism.

Rebellious women are at the root of almost every modern evil. 

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Strashelye (Hasidic dynasty)

Strashelye was a branch of the Chabad school of Hasidic Judaism, named after the town Strashelye (Starasel'lye) in the Mohilev Province of present-day Belarus, where its leader lived. Like all Hasidism it is based on the teachings and customs of Chasidut as taught by the Baal Shem Tov, in turn based on the Kabbalistic works of Rabbi Isaac Luria (also known as the Arizal).

The first Rebbe

The first Rebbe of Strashelye was Rabbi Aharon HaLevi Horowitz, a student of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812), the founder of the Chabad Chassidic school of thought.^[1]

Rabbi Aaron and the second Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch

While both Strashelye and Lubavitch considered Rabbi Shneur Zalman to have been the first rebbe of their respective schools, the former considered Rabbi Aharon HaLevi Horowitz to be his successor. The latter consider Rabbi Dovber Schneuri (the oldest son of Rabbi Schneur Zalman) the second rebbe. In as much as that is the case, the Strashelye branch of Chabad Chassidus began in 1812, when Rabbi Shneur Zalman died.

Disagreement over prayer

While both were good friends, Rabbi Dovber and Rabbi Aharon disagreed about the emphasis on, and correct method of, emotional expression in Chassidic prayer. According to Rabbi Dovber,^[2] the greatest service a Jew can perform in worship is to totally nullify himself before The Creator. Therefore, maintained Rabbi Dovber, a person's meditation can appear to be cold and emotionless on the exterior, where the prayer causes the person praying to feel oneself one with The Creator. To that end, Rabbi Dovber prayed with great D'veikus (cleaving), rather than with Hispaylus (excitement), where the one praying gets excited over the Creator but remains, in his own feeling and understanding, a separate entity and existence. Rabbi Dovber prayed while perfectly still, hardly moving. His outward countenance remained completely unaffected. This mode of davening was something personal to him, as he was able to conceal his emotions, rather than something he recommended for everyone. When the Rebbe DovBer noticed that his chassidim (followers) thought that they should be devoid of any emotional appearance, he wrote a public letter stating that this is wrong. His disagreement with Rabbi Aharon was rather that he felt that there must be an understanding of Godliness and a cleaving, in other words that one's emotional feeling be a lasting one, not one that would evaporate after a short time.

Rabbi Aharon disagreed, maintaining that it is acceptable and even commendable for a Chassid to become outwardly excited during prayer. Rabbi Shneur Zalman himself was known to pound his fist so hard on the wall while praying that he sometimes literally bled from his hand. Rabbi Aharon displayed similar excitement and intensity during prayer. Moreover, he encouraged others to similarly express themselves openly during prayer.

Disagreement over education

Furthermore, the two disagreed about the extent to which the deepest elements of Chassidic wisdom should be taught openly. Rabbi Dovber, in his magnum opus Sha'ar HaYichud (The Gate of Unity), explains the entire spiritual superstructure of creation. Rabbi Aharon, on the other hand, argued that it was dangerous to discuss certain aspects of creation because it could lead a person to inadvertently view God anthropomorphically. Therefore, it is merely enough for a person to know that God is so great that His Existence precludes the existence of any created beings, but that created beings exist, nonetheless. This very paradox is a testimony to the greatness of God. While Rabbi Aharon's teachings involve some of the deepest aspects of Kabbalistic wisdom, they nonetheless entreat the reader to use the deep intellectual wisdom of Kabbala in order to inspire simple love and fear for God. This was the foundation of Rabbi Dovber's doctrine as well, and in fact a cornerstone in Rabbi Shneur Zalman's own Tanya. The difference lay primarily in the outer (Chitzonius) emotional conduct Rabbi Aharon expected of his followers, and the intense manifestation of self-effacement Rabbi Dovber expected of his.

Succession

At some point before Rabbi Shneur Zalman's passing, Rabbi Dovber and Rabbi Aharon had a disagreement. It is not known what the disagreement was about. What is known is that Rabbi Aharon left Liadi (where both he, Rabbi Shneur Zalman and Rabbi Dovber lived), and settled in his home town of Strashelye. After Rabbi Shneur Zalman died, Rabbi Dovber moved to the city of Lubavitch. Seeking to become the leader of the Chabad school, Rabbi Dovber became the Rebbe of the Lubavitch school of Chabad Chassidus. Rabbi Aharon, similarly seeking to be the leader of the Chabad school, became the Rebbe of the Strashelye school of Chabad Chassidus. The two competing schools held strongly to the ideological distinctions between their leaders.

Works

Rabbi Aharon's two books were based on Rabbi Shneur Zalman's magnum opus, Tanya. Rabbi Aharon's first book, Sha'arei HaYichud ve'Ha'emuna (The Gates of Unity and Faith), is based on the section of Tanya of a similar name. In it, Rabbi Aharon argues that the corresponding part of Tanya was incomplete, and that it is therefore necessary to learn his book in order to understand it fully. Sha'arei HaYichud v'HaEmuna focuses on the creation of the universe, and the universe's relationship with God. It develops the concept of pele (wonder), which refers to the paradox caused by God's and the universe's simultaneous existence. It then argues that one will never "understand" God, because God is incomparable with created existence. Therefore, the closest thing man can come to "grasping" God is to meditate on the pele, and to constantly desire to understand God further. The book further elaborates on the relationship between the universe, God, and the Ten Sefiros.

The second of his books is called Sha'arei HaAvoda (The Gates of Divine Service). It is based on the first book of Tanya, which outlines the specific divine service of the Beinoni (the "Average Man"; see the article on Tanya). It was in this book, and in Avodas HaLevi, that Rabbi Aharon systematized his approach to divine service: Rabbi Aharon emphasized the importance of heartfelt emotions as a tool of connecting with the Divine. He argued that, contrary to Rabbi Dovber Schneuri's position, cold and intellectual contemplation cannot lead to true self-nullification. Only by openly and emotionally desiring to cleave to God can one attain something approaching nullification before the Infinite (the highest goal of Chabad Chassidism). Rabbi Dovber, by contrast, called that approach a glorification of the self.

Rabbi Aharon's students compiled many of the oral discourses that Rabbi Aharon gave, and some of the discourses that he either wrote himself or transcribed from discourses given by Rabbi Shneur Zalman. That compilation is called Avodas HaLevi.

While his books are not commonly studied within Chabad circles today, they are widely respected for their scholarly insights and broad scope. Furthermore, the Toldos Avraham Yitzchak Rebbe instructed his Chassidim to study Rabbi Aharon's books. The discourses constitute explanations of passages in the Torah, or concepts in Torah thought, in the light of his Chassidic outlook.

The second Rebbe

After Rabbi Aharon died, his son, Rabbi Haim Raphael HaLevi ben Aaron of Staroselye (d. 1842), became rebbe in his place.^[3][4] However, the dynasty did not last into the next generation. Most chassidim of the Strashelye returned to Chabad-Lubavitch in the third generation, accepting Menachem Mendel Schneersohn as their rebbe.

child support

 

china

 

more masculism

 Only men can feel sadness for the decline of their civilization. 99% of women are incapable of experiencing such feeling. To them there's no sense of attachment, mostly because they have no comprehension of what building a civilization entails, nor do they care.

Lucius - The Prophet Of Decay

@BaneThe76451

Forty years of feminism produced a generation of women who are medicated, childless, and angry, and somehow this is also men’s fault.

Dr. Simon

@goddek

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