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He makes a good point:

“If the use of such phones can be banned or deemed culturally unacceptable in courtrooms or movie theaters, it stands to reason they have absolutely no place in shul,” Rabbi Pruzansky wrote. “But the addictive qualities of these devices has led many people to genuinely feel that they cannot part with them even for the 30 minutes that the morning and afternoon davening requires, or even the eight minutes for a Mincha or Maariv davened separately. Using these devices as siddurim exacerbates the problem, and we are blessed with enough siddurim in a variety of versions that no one needs to use a phone as a siddur.”

Some people have the notion wanting and envisioning a certain way can manifest the object desired. They need to do Chazarah on their nursery rhymes; see the title!

Yes, those who succeed are obsessed and trust they’ll succeed, but mimicking them to gain success is like saying wet sidewalks cause rain. It’s more complicated, but we’ll leave it at that.

About 3 or 4 times Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveichik hints in his “Five Addresses” (mentioned here), and once says forthrightly, that had the Jews ascended to Israel, they would have escaped the destruction of the Holoucaust, a topic we discussed here elsewhere.

The quote is in Lecture 4:2:

Our movement [Mizrachi] appeared as a saviour and redeemer of a mitzvah which was, to borrow an expression from the Mussar literature, “an orphaned mitzvah” [the mitzvah to settle in Eretz Yisrael]… If Jews had fulfilled this mitzvah in full measure and in proper time, hundreds of thousands of Jews would have been saved during the years of the holocaust. Our movement was perhaps the only one that demanded, night and day, of Jews to go up to Eretz Yisrael; and even today our movement demands of religious Jews to go up to Israel.

(By the way, do Rabbi Soloveichik’s students heed this demand? Or do they all claim they have great excuses, just like their master?)

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I was playing a game where an interlocutor and myself took turns naming wicked individuals in Scripture whose name begins with letters from the Hebrew alphabet. Then we did righteous personalities. We got stuck on the letter Vav.

If I had internet access, I could have gone here on Hyehudi.org and got help. Another name for Yoel is “Vashni” (not Vashti!).

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