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god’s unwritten law

May 31, 2007 By: Yhosephus Category: drugs 5 Comments →

can somebody either post/comment a list of all the halochos lmoshe m'sinai or at least point me somewhere where they're listed? thanks.

-shitalphin

Best Missed Connection I’ve ever seen.

May 31, 2007 By: Y-Love Category: Ruckus 1 Comment →

From Craigslist. If anyone was by Rosenberg's wedding, maybe we can make a shidduch for a casual encounter.

Rosenberger's Wedding in Viznitz Last Week - w4m
Reply to: pers-341591028@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-05-30, 8:25PM

Saw you by the men's sweet table. You saw me by the mechitzah. We locked eyes.

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idiots stay away

May 31, 2007 By: Yhosephus Category: torah 57 Comments →

CHULENT UPDATE:

This week's class will be given by Atgate231. The second in a two
part series.

This week's topic- Chasidic Karma: Our world, our selves.creating and
recreating.

The class will start at 9:00 PM

i went to his last lecture and it was fantastic. besides being jam-packed with fascinating info from obscure sources atgate231, thankfully, lacks the slickness of a professional public speaker which makes this incredibly erudite lecturer very human and accessible.

-shitalphin

chief rabbi eliyahu says all israeli civilians legitimate targets

May 31, 2007 By: Yhosephus Category: torah 5 Comments →

 All civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.Eliyahu ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings.

The letter, published in Olam Katan [Small World], a weekly pamphlet to be distributed in synagogues nationwide this Friday, cited the biblical story of the Shechem massacre (Genesis 34) and Maimonides' commentary (Laws of Kings 9, 14) on the story as proof texts for his legal decision.

According to Jewish war ethics, wrote Eliyahu, an entire city holds collective responsibility for the immoral behavior of individuals. In Gaza, the entire populace is responsible because they do nothing to stop the firing of Kassam rockets.

The former chief rabbi also said it was forbidden to risk the lives of Jews in Sderot or the lives of IDF soldiers for fear of injuring or killing Palestinian noncombatants living in Gaza.

Eliyahu could not be reached for an interview. However, Eliyahu's son, Shmuel Eliyahu, who is chief rabbi of Safed, said his father opposed a ground troop incursion into Gaza that would endanger IDF soldiers. Rather, he advocated carpet bombing the general area from which the Kassams were launched, regardless of the price in Palestinian life.

"If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand," said Shmuel Eliyahu. "And if they do not stop after 1,000 then we must kill 10,000. If they still don't stop we must kill 100,000, even a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop."

In the letter, Eliyahu quoted from Psalms. "I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them and I will not desist until I have eradicated them."

Eliyahu wrote that "This is a message to all leaders of the Jewish people not to be compassionate with those who shoot [rockets] at civilians in their houses."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180527966693&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

profound quotes from musicians, relevant to our situation as –Journalists I guess

May 30, 2007 By: hanktherank Category: Good vs. Evil, comparative religion 10 Comments →

'My Lord, I should be sorry if I only entertained them; I wished to make them better.' (George Frederic Handel)

'Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.' (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.' (Richard Wagner)

–yo

Why are you so bad?

May 30, 2007 By: hanktherank Category: Ruckus 7 Comments →

'No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.' (Mary Wollstonecraft)

–yo

city of david and jonathan

May 30, 2007 By: Yhosephus Category: Ruckus No Comments →

Jerusalem proudly presents

Ministry of Tourism's next target: Bringing gay and lesbian tourists to Israel. The means: A campaign featuring a same-sex couple on a camel, two men in yarmulkes kissing in Jerusalem

Nurit Felter

Published:  05.29.07, 13:54 / Israel Travel

 

The proudest campaign ever was launched by the Tourism Ministry in cooperation with the Association for Civil Rights and the Israeli Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Association (the “Aguda”). The goal: To encourage GLBT tourism to Jerusalem.For the past few years, Tel Aviv, along with Berlin, Barcelona, and San Francisco, has established itself as a GLBT friendly city and a popular vacation site for the community's members.
From the campaign (Photo: Eitan Tal)

As a result, the Tourism Ministry decided to launch a new campaign aimed at attracting "proud visitors" to the Holy Land. The campaign focuses on scenes from the Israeli gay community's lifestyle.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3405955,00.html

girls come back we’re emasculated

May 30, 2007 By: Yhosephus Category: shabbos 18 Comments →

Hey,

Why was the poem i sent not posted? Maybe if we had more such posts the
girls won't run away…

Yehudit Kafri:
Potiphar’s Wife

What really happened
between Joseph and Potiphar’s wife?
What canal did he dig for her
in the desert?
What secret blue water flowed between them?
Maybe he blew his words gently into her ear
or maybe his eyes told her.
A woman doesn’t simply ask a man
to sleep with her. Something
happened between them,
but the Bible doesn’t tell.
Sure, Joseph was thrown into a pit.
Sure, he suffered, but he always
climbed to the top.
This dreamer of dreams,
who reached the highest position in Egypt,
was so practical he sold
his people as slaves to Pharaoh,
sold even the fields and cattle.
He gained wealth and power
and married Asenath,
daughter of the high Priest of On.
He was a respected man, apparently,
but what happened to Potiphar’s wife
when she was found in bed
with his robe in her hands?
What happened when she was left
with Potiphar?
I can’t even begin to tell,
though I know.

– translated by Jeff Friedman and Nathan Schwartz
  Literary Imagination, Volume 6; 2 p. 262.

atgate231

Man Invents Beer Launching Fridge

May 30, 2007 By: zoroastroyid Category: Ruckus No Comments →

RALIEGH, NC — An inventor has come up with a fridge that throws cold cans of beer to lazy drinkers.

John Cornwell spent $3000 creating the Beer Launching Fridge, and his invention is attracting lots of interest since videos of it in action were posted on the Internet.
The fridge is activated by a remote control which sets off a lift mechanism in the fridge. The lift delivers the can to an electronic catapult, which rotates until it is lined up with its thirsty target.

It then hurls the beer up to 10 feet to the drinker. It can hold a full 24-can crate — 10 beers in its magazine and 14 more in reserve.

John, 22, a recent college graduate, said: “The idea was conceived when I was sitting on the sofa having a few beers. I thought, ‘What if instead of me going to get the beer, the beer came to me?’

“About three months later I have a fully automated, remote-controlled, catapulting, beer-launching mini-fridge. There is a slight danger of being hit in the head with a flying can but this danger decreases the more you use it.”

all the way at the bottom

-mohammed

Nature is Dependant Upon Chazal. “boruch atem chazal shehakoyl nihya bidvaram”

May 29, 2007 By: Yhosephus Category: Ruckus 1 Comment →

ืืžืจ ืจื‘ื™ ืื‘ื™ืŸ (ืชื”ื™ืœื™ื ื ื–) ืืงืจื ืœืืœื”ื™ื ืขืœื™ื•ืŸ ืœืืœ ื’ื•ืžืจ ืขืœื™ ื‘ืช ืฉืœืฉ ืฉื ื™ื ื•ื™ื•ื ืื—ื“ ื•ื ืžืœื›ื™ืŸ ื‘โ€ื“ ืœืขื•ื‘ืจื• ื”ื‘ืชื•ืœื™ืŸ ื—ื•ื–ืจื™ืŸ ื•ืื ืœืื• ืื™ืŸ ื”ื‘ืชื•ืœื™ืŸ ื—ื•ื–ืจื™ืŸ:

ื•ื›ื“ื™ ืฉืœื ื™ืฉืืœ ื”ืฉื•ืืœ ื”ื™ืืš ืืคืฉืจ ืฉืชื”ื™ื” ื—ื–ืจืช ื‘ืชื•ืœื™ื ืฉื”ื•ื ื“ื‘ืจ ื˜ื‘ืขื™ ื‘ื” ืชืœื•ื™ ื‘ืขื™ื‘ื•ืจื• ืฉืœ ื—ื•ื“ืฉ ืขืœ ืคื™ ื‘ื™ืช ื“ื™ืŸ ื”ื™ืœื›ืš ื‘ื ืจื‘ื™ ืื‘ื™ืŸ ื•ืืžืจ ืืœ ืชืชืžื” ื›ื™ ื”ืฉื™โ€ืช ืžืื—ืจ ื•ืžืžื”ืจ ื”ื—ื–ืจืช ื”ื‘ืชื•ืœื™ื ืœืคื™ ืžื” ืฉื”ื‘โ€ื“ ืงื•ื‘ืขื™ืŸ ื”ืฉื ื™ื ื‘ืขื™ื‘ื•ืจื ื•ื–ื”ื• ื“ื›ืชื™ื‘ โ€œืœืืœ ื’ื•ืžืจ ืขืœื™โ€ ืคื™ืจื•ืฉื• ื’ื•ืžืจ ื•ืžืกื›ื™ื ืœื‘โ€ื“ ืฉืœ ืžื˜ื” ื‘ืขื™ื‘ื•ืจื ื•ืžื—ื“ืฉ ื”ื˜ื‘ืข ื›ืคื™ ืจืฆื•ื ื ื•ืื ืขื™ื‘ืจื• ื”ืฉื ื” ื‘ืชื•ืœื™ื” ื—ื•ื–ืจื™ืŸ
ืฉื•โ€ืช ื‘ืืจ ืฉื‘ืข ืกื™ ื™โ€ื“

rabi avin said โ€œi call to god on high to a god that decides for meโ€ psalms LVII, a girl three years and one day and the court decides to extend the year her hymen returns if not they donโ€™t.

โ€œand in order no one should wonder how is it possible that the regrowth of the hymen which is something natural should be dependent on the courtโ€™s fixing of the calendar rabi avin said do not be confounded because god delays or speeds up the regrowth of the hymen according to the rabbis fixing of the calendar as it is written โ€œgod decides for meโ€ He decides and agrees with the rabbis and He adjusts nature according to their will and if they make it a leap year her hymen will regrow.โ€ -responsa of beer sheva ch.14

ย -jachnoun