Year: 2017

לא ירדתי לסוף דעתו

ודע דעל מה שכתב דכשנכנס לבית הכסא קבוע לעשות בו צרכיו חולצן ברחוק ארבע אמות, כתב רבינו הרמ”א דיש אומרים אפילו בלא צרכיו. וטוב להחמיר. עד כאן לשונו. ונראה לי דאין כוונתו על הכניסה, דבזה לית מאן דפליג דאסור ליכנס בתפילין לבית הכסא ולמרחץ. ולא שייך בזה “טוב להחמיר” דאיסור גמור הוא. אלא כונתו אהרחקת ארבע אמות. (ובזה אתי שפיר קושית המגן אברהם סעיף קטן ט’, עיין שם. ודו”ק.)
ע”כ.
אבל אין הו”א לחלק!
עוד פוסטים בענין ספר ערוך השלחן ראה כאן אף כאן.

How to Be a Good Anti-Zionist

Two Jews are about to be executed by a firing squad. As they are handed their blindfolds, one of the Jews refuses to put his on. The second Jew, mortified by this act of rebellion, turns to his friend and says: “Please, don’t make trouble!”
(I can’t find the original source.)
Update:  See “Jewish Humor” by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992), p. 77.
This is so reflective of reality, it’s hardly humorous.

Austrian Economics: Always Proven Right, Always Soundly Rejected

“The special privileges granted to Fannie and Freddie have distorted the housing market by allowing them to attract capital that they could not attract under pure market conditions. Like all artificially-created bubbles, the boom in housing prices cannot last forever. When housing prices fall homeowners will experience difficulty as their equity is wiped out.
“Furthermore, the holders of the mortgage debt will also have a loss. These losses will be greater than they would have otherwise been had government policy not actively encouraged over investing in housing. Because so many people will invest in housing the damage will be catastrophic.”
  • Ron Paul, 2002, testimony to U.S. House of Representatives, July 16

Mesillas Yesharim

I quote the introduction to Mesillas Yesharim:

כל שהיא תפארת לעושיה ותפארת לו מן האדם, דהיינו: כל ההולך אל תכלית ההטבה האמיתית, דהיינו, שתולדתה חזוק התורה ותקון אחוות המדינות.

The bolded words either refer to internal order, “Takanas Hashuk”, or predictability, among residents of a given jurisdiction or to martial peace among ruling jurisdictions. (I tend toward the first interpretation for historical reasons.)

Needless to add, virtually all Anglo, Jewish journalists, rabbis, and organizations support eternal global meddling war for the current orders; just open Hamodia, or read an Agudah press release. And they all support ever-changing legislation, malum prohibitum, justice perversion through power-proximity sold to the economically ignorant as envy wish fulfillment or “social” injustice.

This site exists to point out these unpleasant facts.