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So Sholom Rubashkin is being held with out bail. (see the court detention order, hat-tip to failed messiah)

The Eli Valley comic posted below features a volume of Tanya in Rubashkin's pocket as he labors the South American immigrants like a modern Pharaoh. What is the connection?

Here is the end of Chapter 1 of Tanya:

מה שאין כן נפשות אומות העולם הן משאר קליפות טמאות שאין בהן טוב כלל:"
The souls of the nations of the world, however, emanate from the other, unclean kelipot which contain no good whatever,

כמו שכתוב בע׳ חיים שער מ״ט פרק ג׳: וכל טיבו דעבדין האומות לגרמייהו עבדין
as is written in Etz Chayim, Portal 49, ch. 3, that all the good that the nations do, is done out of selfish motives.

Since their nefesh emanates from kelipot which contain no good, it follows that any good done by them is for selfish motives.

וכדאיתא בגמרא על פסוק: וחסד לאומים חטאת — שכל צדקה וחסד שאומות העולם עושין אינן אלא להתייהר כו
So the Gemara31 comments on the verse,32 “The kindness of the nations is sin” — that all the charity and kindness done by the nations of the world is only for their self-glorification…"

(To note that in some comments the late Lubavitcher Rebbe moderated this statement, but did not discard it.)

Is there a connection of between Agriprocessor's behavior with their illegal goyishe workers, or the Postville frume community in general to their white-bread Iowan neighbors, and the inbred Chabad indoctrination of dichotomy between Gentile and Jew as perculated through Tanya? One wonders.

One also wonders how this reconciles with Latter-Day Lubavitch's overt "7 Noachide Laws" missionizing, which seems to "elevate" the Gentile (even Guatemalan) to a status higher than the chickens & cows they are slaughtering & debowling.

One also wonders how most of Chabad-Lubavitch are supporting the Rubashkins (http://www.col.org.il/show_news.rtx?artID=42690 & see comments), if they made such a big Chilul Hashem & Chilul Lubavitch?

(Of course, anti-Gentile bigotry pervades everywhere, including in the chareidisher velt at large - but to such an extent & in an outreach movement that claims inclusion to all inhabitant of the globe?)

To note too, that not all chasidim held this view. See Reb Pinchas of Koritz' (student of the Besht) Imrey Pinchas Inyanim Shonim #79 (in the complete edition 5763, vol. 1, p. 414) that someone once mentioned before him in the name of a sefer (presumably the Sefer haBrit) that one should love even a Gentile for he too is a creation of the Creator - & that [hearing] this delighted Reb Pinchas very much. (See too Chaim Vital's Gates of Holiness 1:5: "…and one should love all people [beriyot, lit. creations], even Gentiles.")

For your hanueh, Lipe's "Sheloy Osani Goy."

http://daywithoutagay.org/
On December 10th and all the other 364 days of the year too.

if you don't like it, feel free to take any or all of these as suggestions

Table of Contents

1. Preface
   1. Introduction
   2. Making an Informed Decision
   3. The Elements of Suicide
   4. The Empowerment of Accepting Death
2. Preparations
   1. Introduction
   2. Contemplating Death
   3. Imagining the Post-Mortem World
   4. Considering the Symbolism of Death and Suicide
   5. Lying Successfully
   6. Resolving Life Problems
   7. Letting Others Assist
   8. Making it Look Like an Accident
   9. The Possibility of Failure
   10. Dying at Home
3. Choosing a Method or Combination of Methods
   1. Ingestion/Injection/Inhalation
      1. Poisons
         1. Ethylene Glycol (Antifreeze)
         2. Cyanide
         3. Potassium Chloride
      2. Depressants
         1. "LD-50″/"MLD" (Minimum Lethal Dosage)
         2. Alcohol
         3. Heroin and Other Controlled Substances
         4. Barbiturates and Sleeping Pills
      3. Carbon Monoxide (CO) Inhalation
   2. Asphyxiation & Suffocation
      1. Constriction
      2. Oxygen Displacement
         1. Ether
         2. Nitrogen (N₂), Helium (He), and Other Inert Gases
         3. Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)/Suffocation
         4. Nitrous Oxide (N₂O)
         5. Water (H₂O)/Drowning
         6. Other Methods
   3. Damage (Physical Methods)
      1. Decapitation (Beheading)
      2. Cervical (Neck) Dislocation/Breakage (Hanging)
      3. Electrocution
      4. Hypothermia
      5. Immolation
      6. Exsanguination (Bloodloss)
         1. Major Arteries/Veins
         2. Wrists
      7. Weapons
         1. Explosives
         2. Guns

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Our very own Jimmy Justice is sticking it up to NY's finest. Check out this Fox News clip. (hat-tip: Vos Iz Naies):

http://www.vosizneias.com/22642/2008/11/17/new-york-man-video-taping-illegally-parked-city-government-vehicles-raise-controversy-video/

Now if only he would cover this week's Shluchim convention in Crown Heights, when they block traffic on Eastern Parkway this Sunday to take their class photo…

The Ramban writes in this weeks parsha (Gen. 18:19) that God's providence in the world is only over general principles (nature), but is absent from a life of an individual in its details. God controls change of seasons, perhaps earthquakes, but life of a particular man is the realm of neccesity haunted by coincidence.(Ramban uses this word, –coincidence!) Ramban further develops this idea in his commentary on Job (36,7), where his language is even more radical. Same concept is echoed in Rabbeinu Bechaye elswhere in Chumash and by the Rambam in Moyre nevoychim (3:19). Rambam in Moyreh says that the divine providence is not distributed equally among all people, rather it depends on the level of one's intellectual sublimation, the greater it is, the more God watches over that person. That's different from the Ramban, who seems to believe that the Divine Providence is dependent on the level of comandemet performance, it has to do with schar veoynesh. Anyway, thesse differences, as well as the disticnction these Rishonim make between a tzaddik and an average person in the context of God Providence is not so important. What is very striking, however, how all of them happily admit God's withdrawal from the affairs of this world. What is even more striking that this sort of talk completely disappeared in later generations to be replaced by the concept of Divine omnipresence, so when we get to Besh't and the Gra"h the idea that God controls every movement of every blade of grass becomes a central theme and foundation of faith. Further, as time moves on and, arguably, the suffering of the Jews, both collective and individual, worsens, the ideas of Gods full control become more and more strongly underlined. I wonder whether this later tendency arises from theological sophistication that cannot bear the idea of imperfection, such as coinidence, in Gods Creation, or whether it's an expression of intellectual vulgarity that allows justification of human suffering with one stroke of a pen?

to YALHAK!!

Thanks to Warren for the translation via the comments. Hat tip tip to who I am told is Schmorgel (van Borgel) and certain past dwellers of the basement of Rabbi Fischer's shul.

To the minister of finance (Levi Eshkol had this job in 1953):

I glanced today at “Worker’s declaration for purposes of deducting tax”.

Part 4 of this form says “my husband/my wife” (using the word “baali”). In my opinion it should say “ishi”.

The word “baal” has connotations of ownership and of idolatry and does not express respect for women, whose rights are precisely identical to that of men. Follow the words of the prophet Hoshea: “And on that day, you will call Me “ishi” and no longer call Me “baali” (Hoshea 2:18).

Sincerely,

D. Ben-Gurion.

CC: Member of Knesset Ada Maimon

Who was the Rabbi of Shilev in Katzetniks books?

The Radziner? The Piasnitzer?

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Just got this text from a Chabad Shliach: Oib m'davent MCCEIN efsher PAYLIN az der Aibeshter zol nisht BIDEN der president far A'BHAIMA…!!!!