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Should I Donate to the Aleph Institute? NOOO!

About the organization:

The Aleph Institute serves individuals of all backgrounds and faiths. Our guiding factors are Torah principles based on acceptance of God as the Supreme Power and Creator of the universe and emphasizing the values of human dignity, thereby making the world a better place for all. All of Aleph’s services are provided at no charge.

The Aleph Institute, founded in 1981 at the express direction of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, provides crucial financial, emotional and spiritual assistance to thousands of shattered families – helping them persevere through extraordinary crises – while providing support for their loved ones in prison and mental institutions. Aleph’s benevolent mandate also encompasses spiritual assistance to thousands of soldiers in the United States Armed Forces across the globe.

My response to their email marketing:

If you only helped prisoners I would be happy to help.
But, no. You give logistical support to Jews committing war crimes worldwide for the American empire!
Please unsubscribe all Torah-observant Jews, including myself.
In fact, here’s an idea for your next fundraising email:
Poor Jewish soldier just blew up a free medical clinic, sexually tortured an absolutely innocent detainee in a black site, let a rape happen in a country he destabilized, ensured economic trust for a renewed slave market in Libya, kept the war going between the Koreas, and blew up an entire, innocent Arab family die to faulty intel in some vassal state.
That was his week (using literary license, of course).
Now he just wants some homestyle cholent (not yet in the massive “defense” budget) to warm his black, PTSD heart and remind him of his own, unmurdered family ever-threatened by blowback terror in Galus America.
I can just see the video…
Sound good??
No answer yet, can you believe it?
P.S., I should have added something about US\Edom goons undermining Jewish sovereignty in their homeland, but couldn’t come up with anything graphic.
P.P.S., I now see they use a third party to email their potential donors. Still, I assume they forward any responses back to The Aleph Institute.

re: Afghani State Restores Punishment for Some of Sheva Mitzvos, to Our Shame

Critical letter received for this headline of a few days ago:

Indeed, it would be for mankind and for Jewish society if courts enforced Torah law, including the prescribed punishments. However, we must only wish to see it when it is carried out by proper Noahide courts. Somehow I doubt that which is done throughout the Islamic world, especially the part about making the execution a blood-thirsty spectacle for the masses, not exactly what the sages had in mind.

Remarks (going beyond a simple response), מקופיא:
No, I wouldn’t call the Taliban a fully Noahide court, but hey, “beggars can’t be choosers”!
My point is Mohammedans are copying (albeit inaccurately) from the Jewish Torah to our own discomfiture. If the Taliban can muster enough “Consent of the Governed” to restore Sharia law, what is wrong with us?!
Still, we shouldn’t mimic them in return. Some Cursedians believe the bastard Diaper-Deity “fulfilled” the whole Torah for them, so they have no-fault divorces instead of death for adultery, and fake “forgiveness” instead of justice. Let’s not allow them to influence us, either.
What is the common punishment in the “Enlightened” world for, say, intentional murder?
If Chai kills Matan (get it?), Matan’s relatives (among others) are forcibly granted the privilege to slave away via taxation to pay for imprisoning, feeding, educating, and exercising Chai (including arrest, a government lawyer, prosecution, etc., not to mention all the “overhead expenses” the government skims off the top). Unless Chai was killing settlers for the government, and\or belongs to the elite, of course.
Is the Israeli regime policy, then, “what the sages had in mind“?!

Many of those who mock, condemn, and monger fear against the Taliban would do the same to loyal Jews if and when we are ever righteous enough to restore anything similar, even if not as far-reaching!

In short, the Taliban are “running interference” for the Jews…

(The famous Chazon Ish Y. D. 2:17 is referring to “Moridin”. I am aware there is far more nuance to this, but this here is a web log, not parchment.)

And why is “making the execution a blood-thirsty spectacle for the masses” not a hiddur mitzvah of the true Torah’s deterrence strategy: “למען ישמעו ויראו”?! Isn’t it important to preserve some fear: עבוד מיראה ועבוד מאהבה וכולי?!

By the way, although an on-the-books death penalty doesn’t deter murderers, the rate of actual, (preferably public) executions does, in fact, deter murderers (see Dr. Walter Block’s executive summary of a revolutionary, new study of the numbers).

Hyehudi Chanuka Compilation (English)

Here you go:

Enjoy a lit-up Chanuka!

חרדות ילבשו

למה הרבה שומרי מצוות לובשים דוקא שחור?

שלחן ערוך יו”ד סי’ קע”ח א’:

אין הולכין בחוקות העובדי כוכבים (ולא מדמין להם). (טור בשם הרמב”ם) ולא ילבש מלבוש המיוחד להם. ולא יגדל ציצת ראשו כמו ציצת ראשם. ולא יגלח מהצדדין ויניח השער באמצע. ולא יגלח השער מכנגד פניו מאוזן לאוזן ויניח הפרע. ולא יבנה מקומות כבנין היכלות של עובדי כוכבים כדי שיכנסו בהם רבים, כמו שהם עושים: הגה – אלא יהא מובדל מהם במלבושיו ובשאר מעשיו (שם). וכל זה אינו אסור אלא בדבר שנהגו בו העובדי כוכבים לשום פריצות, כגון שנהגו ללבוש מלבושים אדומים, והוא מלבוש שרים וכדומה לזה ממלבושי הפריצות, או בדבר שנהגו למנהג ולחוק ואין טעם בדבר דאיכא למיחש ביה משום דרכי האמורי ושיש בו שמץ עבודת כוכבים מאבותיהם, אבל דבר שנהגו לתועלת, כגון שדרכן שכל מי שהוא רופא מומחה יש לו מלבוש מיוחד שניכר בו שהוא רופא אומן, מותר ללובשו. וכן שעושין משום כבוד או טעם אחר, מותר (מהרי”ק שורש פ”ח). לכן אמרו: שורפין על המלכים ואין בו משום דרכי האמורי (ר”ן פ”ק דעבודת כוכבים).

וכתב ש”ך שם סק”ג:

מלבושים אדומים כו’. שאין דרך הצנועים להיות אדומים בלבושם וצבע השחור הוא דרך צניעות והכנעה וכדאמרינן מי שיצרו מתגבר עליו ילבש שחורים ויתעטף שחורים כו’ ועוד התם מסורת בידינו להקפיד על לבישת האדום לבני עמנו מהרי”ק שם.