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nothing much of interest happened this shabat.
not this shabat, but exactly two years ago.
i read the parsha (ki tetze)
and all of a sudden I knew I was going to explode with rage and anger
the rage of a person silenced, objectified and humiliated
if you don't know what I'm talking about, read it again, and pretend you are one of the women facing that legislation in that parsha.
I picked up a box of matches.
I lit one, two, three.
I put them out in the sink.
TAKE THAT, GOD.
TAKE THAT, JEWS.
TAKE THAT, MEN.
shabat?
who needs it? GET IT OUT OF MY FACE. Get torah, religion, judaism OUT OF MY FACE.
(Can you imagine, that one time they asked me to read this parsha at an orthox feminist women's torah reading? How insane can that be????)
That was two years ago.
Since than I have learned,
that I don't keep shabat because of any fake torah.
I keep it to honor gods creation.
I keep it to celebrate god given freedom.
and no stupid torah, or human being that follows it, can take that away from me.

-mamamia girl

Thursday August 30th will witness the twenty eighth in our critically
acclaimed series of discourses.

This week's lecture will be given by Robert Eisenberg.

This week's topic: Medieval Europe and some of the quirkier Jews it produced.

The class will start at 9:30PM Sharp (Let's try to begin on time)

Robert Eisenberg is the author of 'Boychicks in the Hood' and a
scholar of Jewish history.
_____________________

Thursday August 30th will witness the twenty eighth in our critically
acclaimed series of discourses.

This week's lecture will be given by Robert Eisenberg.

This week's topic: Medieval Europe and some of the quirkier Jews it produced.

The class will start at 9:30PM Sharp (Let's try to begin on time)

Robert Eisenberg is the author of 'Boychicks in the Hood' and a
scholar of Jewish history.
_____________________

Thursday August 30th will witness the twenty eighth in our critically
acclaimed series of discourses.

This week's lecture will be given by Robert Eisenberg.

This week's topic: Medieval Europe and some of the quirkier Jews it produced.

The class will start at 9:30PM Sharp (Let's try to begin on time)

Robert Eisenberg is the author of 'Boychicks in the Hood' and a
scholar of Jewish history.
_____________________

Thursday August 30th will witness the twenty eighth in our critically
acclaimed series of discourses.

This week's lecture will be given by Robert Eisenberg.

This week's topic: Medieval Europe and some of the quirkier Jews it produced.

The class will start at 9:30PM Sharp (Let's try to begin on time)

Robert Eisenberg is the author of 'Boychicks in the Hood' and a
scholar of Jewish history.
_____________________

Meet Ya'ir Lew.

Lew is a Satmar Chassid and one of the newest additions to the Jerusalem Police Force's special volunteer unit, Yasham. The subject of a recent piece in the Jerusalem Post, Lew's story is a long and interesting one, and he mentions what his rabbi and father told him when he decided to become a cop in the Holy City:

"I asked if joining would be a problem," he says. "Both the rabbi and my father said essentially the same thing: There is a difference between serving the citizens of this country and serving the State of Israel. Serving Jews as a police officer is okay; serving the State of Israel as a soldier is not."

To some this may seems to be splitting hairs but to Lew it was the answer he needed to join Yasham.

Satmar Hassidim, who originated in an area on the Hungarian-Romanian border, base their opposition to the state on their belief that the creation of a Jewish state by Jews runs counter to God's will. However, they are taught to love the Land of Israel and the Jewish people.

"The Yasham attracts volunteers from all walks of life - we have in our unit doctors, lawyers and professors, as well as street cleaners," says Yasham's chief operations officer, Maj. Robert Mountwitten. "But Lew is our only Satmar. In fact, he is currently the only haredi in the unit, although we now have another haredi volunteer who is in the vetting process."

Hat tip to Ha'emtza.

– Y-LOVE

So, like, a week ago, I came back from the Tel Baruch beach inspired to start, like, three new blogs. Here's the first to be almost, as if, presentable.

Eisav Loves Yaakov!

To come: Pre-Adamic Torah, Crazyvelations, and another to be named later.

—-Yo

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80 year old dudes with hard-ons. That's not natural.
But we got pills for that.
We're dedicating all our medical resources to keeping the old guys erect,
but we're putting people in jail for something that grows in the dirt?

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Rebbe criticizes Shach and his followers and also Satmars says not to argue with them not even to enter their shules or read their newspapers etc.
Says that people who start reading their stuff which is bitul Torah and leitzonus end up with "miyzvah goreret mitzvah" and read actual kefirah. And that like a teacher is exiled to a place where unintential murderer is exiled so too in this case thru them reading this stuff they cause their teachers to also be exiled to a place of leitzonus etc. see inside.
Says that the Jewih unity doesn't apply in this case as it is an issue of pikuach nefesh.
(He doesn't mention either directly Shach is aluded to as a the muchutzaf who says not to learn Mishne Torah and Satmar as "those who hold the shitah that Torah of the Baal Shem Tov was forgoten".)

-RebbeGod

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