העורך Editor

‘We Have Met the Enemy and…’

Something to bear in mind:

The bad guys have been goat herders in Afghanistan, an invisible virus, drugs, the Russians and the list goes on and on.  The bad guys are also “the other political party”, rest assured no matter with party you pick, the other one is “the bad one” and you are safe and morally right in your decision.

Yet who is the enemy, the real enemy? Who has manufactured crisis after crisis? Did Putin cut us off of his oil, fertilizer and diesel additives? Did the goat herders rewrite our entire policy of surveilling the average American? Did Saddam Hussain change the definitions in our financial law so he could lock down the accounts of the average Joe or Jane? Did CoVid shut down your business, put a mask on your children, lock you in your homes and force an unproven and risky medical procedure on you?  Did CoVid do that, or did our government, oligarchy, and technocracy do it?

Did Vladimir Putin cover up the Hunter Biden laptop story knowing full well it was absolutely factual, or did the US media conspire together to do so? Did Kim Jung Un throw protestors from Jan. 6th in prison for what is essentially property damage with no due process for over a year? Did he do so after allowing BLM to burn down dozens of cities in America with almost no consequences? After doing so did dictator Kim then claim that Jan. 6th was worse than both Pearl Harbor and 911 together?

Did fill-in-the-blank make it so that even pointing out the difference between a man and a woman is now akin to a hate crime.  Then in doing so literally destroy the dreams of 100’s of thousands of young women who were previously destined for college scholarships and being the best in women’s sports? Who did all of this?

Worse, who continues to allow it to be done to them?

Excerpted from The Survival Podcast.

If the doctor says your blood pressure is still too low, read this one, as well.

Hyehudi Building Cadre Slowly

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Those Mad Marxists Can’t Take a Break!

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Dolores Huerta

Just kidding… I agree, of course.

The Cause is everything (not Marxism, though)!

REMINDER: Don’t ‘Sell Chametz’ No Matter What!

When I present people with the case against the sham and Chillul Hashem and grievous error known as “Mechiras Chametz”, a common last refuge is bringing up the Bittul.

It’s only a rabbinic problem (not that there’s any הם אמרו והם אמרו), even if the sale is a complete farce, they contend, since everyone does Bittul Chametz, anyway.

Besides (in a seeping, sweeping self-reckoning), do I even sell Chametz Gamur? (Well, oh right, the whiskey and Marmite and VWXYZ…)

Rabbi Yitzchak Brand responds (abbreviated and paraphrased from his landmark treatment):
How can someone declare they regard any Chametz still left in their possession as worthless if they are also actively selling that same Chametz?! (It makes not a whit of difference when the “sale” and Bittul occur, or if he does the Bittul both before and after — unless he buys his Chametz back before Pesach; it is davka the Bittul that suffers here.)
“I want this utterly worthless Chametz begone yesterday! But I also think it’s worth good money…”
Don’t say: “OK, well, it can’t hurt”!

 

Actually, even though the sale is invalid, it does have the negative effect of canceling out the Bittul, since the seller announces that he does desire the Chametz, and that no one may go near it without actual full payment, etc. (whether Bittul is working on Hefker or on משוי כעפרא). (Also, see the Rishonim here p.40-44.) So, the Torah prohibitions of holding on to Chametz on Pesach do not become derabbanan!

 

There is no middle ground with a sale. Either the personal property belongs to the seller, or it transfers title to the buyer: ובלבד שיתננו לו במתנה גמורה. It’s not a Matana. It’s not even hefker. Meaning the Chametz is still in your possession and Mede’oraisa.

 

Those rabbis going around with the Goy for surprise visits on Chol Hamo’ed still have the Goy pay for the Chametz he takes. (So what if it isn’t Chamas? Even a shopkeeper has the obligation of “Tashbisu”.)

 

OY VEY!

 

If you can’t bear the monetary loss of keeping the Torah, better שב ואל תעשה thereby merely transgressing the original Torah prohibitions than to both transgress the original Torah prohibitions and also add the horrible, terrible, no good, and very bad “Sale” of your soul.

 

Never “sell” the Torah. But don’t forget to remove [actual] Chametz (including flour) from your possession!

ציטוט השבוע בויקיטסט

   “אָיֹם וְנוֹרָא הוּא מִמֶּנּוּ מִשְׁפָּטוֹ וּשְׂאֵתוֹ יֵצֵא” (חבקוק א, ז)

נגד מה שאמר שנורא הוא, אומר שממנו משפטו יצא, רוצה לומר, שהוא אינו נוהג לפי חקת המשפט הקבועים. שיש משפטים קבועים בין העמים והמלכים, שאין למלך או לעם להתגר מלחמה על עם אשר לא חטא כנגדו, וכל-שכן אם הוא נכנע תחתיו, והם נימוסים קבועים לכל העמים. אבל הוא לא יביט על משפטי המדינות וחוקיהם, רק יקבע לו משפטים כפי רצונו, להסיר גבולות עמים, ולהרעיש ארצות; ועל-כן מתיראים מפניו.

– מלבי”ם על חבקוק א ז