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Lubab,
How do you control your anger? This is something that I could work on.
Shalom
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Dear Lubab
Tell me why when men get a cold, they think they are dying?
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
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Lubab,
How do you control your anger? This is something that I could work on.
Shalom
Great question. I also have this problem sometimes. The Kabbalists were EXTREMELY against any trace of the negative kind of anger.
Anger is basically saying: I know better than G-d.
It's basically saying the way I think things should go is better than the way G-d thinks things should go.
So one of the things that helps is to look for Divine Providence in everything that happens. Look for the lessons to be learned from each situation. When you get angry, realize that this must mean you just don't yet understand the lesson G-d is trying to teach me here. Seize that opportunity and try to raise yourself to a higher more healthy perspective of the situation and go from there.
Sometimes, however, anger is justified, but it needs to be a righteous anger. Anger directed towards making this world a better place. And that means CONTROLLED anger. "Anger" really isn't even a good word for this kind of thing.
It's more like a strong drive to make things better and overcome obstacles to do so.
Sometimes, when you get good at this controlled anger business, you can show anger on the outside to serve your purpose, and on the inside not be angry at all. This is the way a parent or teacher is supposed to discipline. Really they are not angry, they are just wearing that mask to serve their purpose.
And that really is the cure to anger. Always stay focused on your purpoase in this world, in this day, in this situation and you'll always find a way to use your emotions in the right proportion to meet that goal.
Thanks for the great question. Kol Hakavod (all the honor) for being the first question.
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Dear Lubab
Tell me why when men get a cold, they think they are dying?
I don't think I'm dying when I get a cold. I don't like it though, because I can't be as active.
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
Need more info. Is this a married woman? Is this a Jewish man? Is this a married Jewish man? Is this a gentile man?
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How many times did you go to Israel?
What other countries were you in?
I think I've been to Israel four glorious times.
Canada (does that count?), Scottland, Ireland, England, Switzerland and Mexico.
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
Need more info. Is this a married woman? Is this a Jewish man? Is this a married Jewish man? Is this a gentile man?
Typically a single Jewish female agent and a non-Jewish man sometimes married/sometimes not. ie: Female Mossad agent sleeping with EU beurocrat for vital information or somebody connected with a terror network to get info or ket close enough to kill etc.
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
Need more info. Is this a married woman? Is this a Jewish man? Is this a married Jewish man? Is this a gentile man?
Typically a single Jewish female agent and a non-Jewish man sometimes married/sometimes not. ie: Female Mossad agent sleeping with EU beurocrat for vital information or somebody connected with a terror network to get info or ket close enough to kill etc.
And this would save a Jewish life? I would need to double check with a senior Rabbinic authority, but my instinct tells me this would be praiseworthy.
Look what Ester from the Purim story did.
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
Need more info. Is this a married woman? Is this a Jewish man? Is this a married Jewish man? Is this a gentile man?
Typically a single Jewish female agent and a non-Jewish man sometimes married/sometimes not. ie: Female Mossad agent sleeping with EU beurocrat for vital information or somebody connected with a terror network to get info or ket close enough to kill etc.
And this would save a Jewish life? I would need to double check with a senior Rabbinic authority, but my instinct tells me this would be praiseworthy.
Look what Ester from the Purim story did.
It may not save a Jewish life 'directly' but vital information gained this way can lead to the location and killing of a terrorist or provide early warning of an attack on Israel. This sin of the flesh could 'indirectly' save dozens or even thousands of Jewish lives.
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
Need more info. Is this a married woman? Is this a Jewish man? Is this a married Jewish man? Is this a gentile man?
Typically a single Jewish female agent and a non-Jewish man sometimes married/sometimes not. ie: Female Mossad agent sleeping with EU beurocrat for vital information or somebody connected with a terror network to get info or ket close enough to kill etc.
And this would save a Jewish life? I would need to double check with a senior Rabbinic authority, but my instinct tells me this would be praiseworthy.
Look what Ester from the Purim story did.
It may not save a Jewish life 'directly' but vital information gained this way can lead to the location and killing of a terrorist or provide early warning of an attack on Israel. This sin of the flesh could 'indirectly' save dozens or even thousands of Jewish lives.
Yeah well that to me sounds a lot like what Queen Ester did. There was no gaurantee it would work. But she did it because we err on the side of saving lives in these cases (unless it's one of the big 3...but sex with a gentile is not one of thosesins for which we must sooner die than transgress).
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
Need more info. Is this a married woman? Is this a Jewish man? Is this a married Jewish man? Is this a gentile man?
Typically a single Jewish female agent and a non-Jewish man sometimes married/sometimes not. ie: Female Mossad agent sleeping with EU beurocrat for vital information or somebody connected with a terror network to get info or ket close enough to kill etc.
And this would save a Jewish life? I would need to double check with a senior Rabbinic authority, but my instinct tells me this would be praiseworthy.
Look what Ester from the Purim story did.
It may not save a Jewish life 'directly' but vital information gained this way can lead to the location and killing of a terrorist or provide early warning of an attack on Israel. This sin of the flesh could 'indirectly' save dozens or even thousands of Jewish lives.
Yeah well that to me sounds a lot like what Queen Ester did. There was no gaurantee it would work. But she did it because we err on the side of saving lives in these cases (unless it's one of the big 3...but sex with a gentile is not one of thosesins for which we must sooner die than transgress).
A Jewess friend of mine (she's from a self-hating reform background) has been trying to get me to sleep with her under the guise of ahavot Yisroel Love of Jewery). She's divorced and unable to have anymore children. Am I in trouble if I agree?
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Lubab,
How do you control your anger? This is something that I could work on.
Shalom
Great question. I also have this problem some times. The Kabbalists were EXTREMELY against any trace of the negative kind of anger.
Anger is basically saying: I know better than G-d.
It's basically saying the way I think things should go is better than the way G-d thinks things should go.
So one of the things that helps is to look for Divine Providence in everything that happens. Look for the lessons to be learned from each situation. When you get angry, realize that this must mean you just don't yet understand the lesson G-d is trying to teach me here. Seize that opportunity and try to raise yourself to a higher more healthy perspective of the situation and go from there.
Sometimes, however, anger is justified, but it needs to be a righteous anger. Anger directed towards making this world a better place. And that means CONTROLLED anger. "Anger" really isn't even a good word for this kind of thing.
It's more like a strong drive to make things better and overcome obstacles to do so.
Sometimes, when you get good at this controlled anger business, you can show anger on the outside to serve your purpose, and on the inside not be angry at all. This is the way a parent or teacher is supposed to discipline. Really they are not angry, they are just wearing that mask to serve their purpose.
And that really is the cure to anger. Always stay focused on your purpoase in this world, in this day, in this situation and you'll always find a way to use your emotions in the right proportion to meet that goal.
Thanks for the great question. Kol Hakavod (all the honor) for being the first question.
Thanks for your wonderful answer, Lubab. Some food for thought.
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Newman are you joking?
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Newman are you joking?
No.
I've known her for years. We were intimate when I was an atheist. She (like all self-hating Jews) refuses to accept her divine election. I'm sure she only comes on to me now as an act of rebellion against her Jewishness. She does make the point that she is a 'lonely' divorce and that I should provide 'comfort' as an act of “Ahavat Yisrael” . She didn't even know what that was until I told her!
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
Need more info. Is this a married woman? Is this a Jewish man? Is this a married Jewish man? Is this a gentile man?
Typically a single Jewish female agent and a non-Jewish man sometimes married/sometimes not. ie: Female Mossad agent sleeping with EU beurocrat for vital information or somebody connected with a terror network to get info or ket close enough to kill etc.
And this would save a Jewish life? I would need to double check with a senior Rabbinic authority, but my instinct tells me this would be praiseworthy.
Look what Ester from the Purim story did.
It may not save a Jewish life 'directly' but vital information gained this way can lead to the location and killing of a terrorist or provide early warning of an attack on Israel. This sin of the flesh could 'indirectly' save dozens or even thousands of Jewish lives.
Yeah well that to me sounds a lot like what Queen Ester did. There was no gaurantee it would work. But she did it because we err on the side of saving lives in these cases (unless it's one of the big 3...but sex with a gentile is not one of thosesins for which we must sooner die than transgress).
A Jewess friend of mine (she's from a self-hating reform background) has been trying to get me to sleep with her under the guise of ahavot Yisroel Love of Jewery). She's divorced and unable to have anymore children. Am I in trouble if I agree?
Yes. You will be in big trouble.
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
Need more info. Is this a married woman? Is this a Jewish man? Is this a married Jewish man? Is this a gentile man?
Typically a single Jewish female agent and a non-Jewish man sometimes married/sometimes not. ie: Female Mossad agent sleeping with EU beurocrat for vital information or somebody connected with a terror network to get info or ket close enough to kill etc.
And this would save a Jewish life? I would need to double check with a senior Rabbinic authority, but my instinct tells me this would be praiseworthy.
Look what Ester from the Purim story did.
It may not save a Jewish life 'directly' but vital information gained this way can lead to the location and killing of a terrorist or provide early warning of an attack on Israel. This sin of the flesh could 'indirectly' save dozens or even thousands of Jewish lives.
Yeah well that to me sounds a lot like what Queen Ester did. There was no gaurantee it would work. But she did it because we err on the side of saving lives in these cases (unless it's one of the big 3...but sex with a gentile is not one of thosesins for which we must sooner die than transgress).
A Jewess friend of mine (she's from a self-hating reform background) has been trying to get me to sleep with her under the guise of ahavot Yisroel Love of Jewery). She's divorced and unable to have anymore children. Am I in trouble if I agree?
Yes. You will be in big trouble.
But she says she's just going to find another goy anyway. I've even tried finding a nice Jewish man for her and she won't have it.
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
Need more info. Is this a married woman? Is this a Jewish man? Is this a married Jewish man? Is this a gentile man?
Typically a single Jewish female agent and a non-Jewish man sometimes married/sometimes not. ie: Female Mossad agent sleeping with EU beurocrat for vital information or somebody connected with a terror network to get info or ket close enough to kill etc.
And this would save a Jewish life? I would need to double check with a senior Rabbinic authority, but my instinct tells me this would be praiseworthy.
Look what Ester from the Purim story did.
It may not save a Jewish life 'directly' but vital information gained this way can lead to the location and killing of a terrorist or provide early warning of an attack on Israel. This sin of the flesh could 'indirectly' save dozens or even thousands of Jewish lives.
Yeah well that to me sounds a lot like what Queen Ester did. There was no gaurantee it would work. But she did it because we err on the side of saving lives in these cases (unless it's one of the big 3...but sex with a gentile is not one of thosesins for which we must sooner die than transgress).
A Jewess friend of mine (she's from a self-hating reform background) has been trying to get me to sleep with her under the guise of ahavot Yisroel Love of Jewery). She's divorced and unable to have anymore children. Am I in trouble if I agree?
Yes. You will be in big trouble.
But she says she's just going to find another goy anyway. I've even tried finding a nice Jewish man for her and she won't have it.
I already answered your question. Next question.
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Lubab why did you choose to be a Rabbi?
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Lubab why did you choose to be a Rabbi?
Well I'm not a Rabbi by profession. I chose to do the studies to get Rabbinical ordination because the Lubavitcher Rebbe directed that every Jewish man should do this before they get married.
He gave a few reasons for this:
1. Because each Jewish man is the "Rabbi" in his home whether he likes it or not. You can't ask a Rabbi about everything, so at least the man should actually know what he's talking about.
2. It's also important to know WHEN you need to ask a Rabbi. If you don't know anything about halacha you don't know how to ask, when to ask, what to ask.
So basically because of the Rebbe's great concern that each Jewish home be run in accordance with Jewish law, he directed that everyone complete these studies.
I dont' think I'm a big scholar at all. I'm the "de-facto" forum Rabbi because I happen to have this certificate, and nobody else seems to want the job ;).
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Jewish men also have the role of being 'Rabbis' to the gentiles, do they not?
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Lubab why did you choose to be a Rabbi?
Well I'm not a Rabbi by profession. I chose to do the studies to get Rabbinical ordination because the Lubavitcher Rebbe directed that every Jewish man should do this before they get married.
He gave a few reasons for this:
1. Because each Jewish man is the "Rabbi" in his home whether he likes it or not. You can't ask a Rabbi about everything, so at least the man should actually know what he's talking about.
2. It's also important to know WHEN you need to ask a Rabbi. If you don't know anything about halacha you don't know how to ask, when to ask, what to ask.
So basically because of the Rebbe's great concern that each Jewish home be run in accordance with Jewish law, he directed that everyone complete these studies.
I dont' think I'm a big scholar at all. I'm the "de-facto" forum Rabbi because I happen to have this certificate, and nobody else seems to want the job ;).
So are you married?
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Lubab, this case will very likely never apply to me, but I ask because it's educational for other Gentiles.
If a Ben Noah happens to spend a Shabbat in a Jewish freinds house, is he allowed to break Shabbat inside the house? Can he smoke? or do other melachot? And if not.... what must he do? Perhaps go out of the house for a while and do a Melacha oustside (since a Gentile must do at least one melacha daily)
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Lubab why did you choose to be a Rabbi?
Well I'm not a Rabbi by profession. I chose to do the studies to get Rabbinical ordination because the Lubavitcher Rebbe directed that every Jewish man should do this before they get married.
He gave a few reasons for this:
1. Because each Jewish man is the "Rabbi" in his home whether he likes it or not. You can't ask a Rabbi about everything, so at least the man should actually know what he's talking about.
2. It's also important to know WHEN you need to ask a Rabbi. If you don't know anything about halacha you don't know how to ask, when to ask, what to ask.
So basically because of the Rebbe's great concern that each Jewish home be run in accordance with Jewish law, he directed that everyone complete these studies.
I dont' think I'm a big scholar at all. I'm the "de-facto" forum Rabbi because I happen to have this certificate, and nobody else seems to want the job ;).
So are you married?
Yes. But don't lose hope ladies. I may be accepting more wives in the near future. Moshiach is coming and that means that the Cherem DeRabeinu Gershon (banning polygamy) will be off! ;D ;)
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Jewish men also have the role of being 'Rabbis' to the gentiles, do they not?
Yes each Jew is supposed to have like a thousand gentiles holding on to their tzitiz and asking us to teach them about G-d.
So why don't you guys start now?
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Lubab, this case will very likely never apply to me, but I ask because it's educational for other Gentiles.
If a Ben Noah happens to spend a Shabbat in a Jewish freinds house, is he allowed to break Shabbat inside the house? Can he smoke? or do other melachot? And if not.... what must he do? Perhaps go out of the house for a while and do a Melacha oustside (since a Gentile must do at least one melacha daily)
Good question Raul. I'd have to ask a senior Rabbinic authority to give you a ruling, but my gut tells me you should go outside out of respect if you are going to do melacha.
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Jewish men also have the role of being 'Rabbis' to the gentiles, do they not?
Yes each Jew is supposed to have like a thousand gentiles holding on to their tzitiz and asking us to teach them about G-d.
So why don't you guys start now?
I read the part in the Bible about gentiles grabbing the 'corner of a Jew's skirt'. Last time I tried grabbing a Jew's skirt she gave me such a whack! :-[
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Jewish men also have the role of being 'Rabbis' to the gentiles, do they not?
Yes each Jew is supposed to have like a thousand gentiles holding on to their tzitiz and asking us to teach them about G-d.
So why don't you guys start now?
I read the part in the Bible about gentiles grabbing the 'corner of a Jew's skirt'. Last time I tried grabbing a Jew's skirt she gave me such a whack! :-[
That's because you didn't ask her to teach you about G-d :::D.
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Jewish men also have the role of being 'Rabbis' to the gentiles, do they not?
Yes each Jew is supposed to have like a thousand gentiles holding on to their tzitiz and asking us to teach them about G-d.
So why don't you guys start now?
I read the part in the Bible about gentiles grabbing the 'corner of a Jew's skirt'. Last time I tried grabbing a Jew's skirt she gave me such a whack! :-[
That's because you didn't ask her to teach you about G-d :::D.
Ask some galut Jews about Torah today and they'll say...."The Bible is 'hate speach', we're agnostic". :(
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Lubab why did you choose to be a Rabbi?
Well I'm not a Rabbi by profession. I chose to do the studies to get Rabbinical ordination because the Lubavitcher Rebbe directed that every Jewish man should do this before they get married.
He gave a few reasons for this:
1. Because each Jewish man is the "Rabbi" in his home whether he likes it or not. You can't ask a Rabbi about everything, so at least the man should actually know what he's talking about.
2. It's also important to know WHEN you need to ask a Rabbi. If you don't know anything about halacha you don't know how to ask, when to ask, what to ask.
So basically because of the Rebbe's great concern that each Jewish home be run in accordance with Jewish law, he directed that everyone complete these studies.
I dont' think I'm a big scholar at all. I'm the "de-facto" forum Rabbi because I happen to have this certificate, and nobody else seems to want the job ;).
So are you married?
Yes. But don't lose hope ladies. I may be accepting more wives in the near future. Moshiach is coming and that means that the Cherem DeRabeinu Gershon (banning poligamy) will be off! ;D ;)
Do you have children?
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Jewish men also have the role of being 'Rabbis' to the gentiles, do they not?
Yes each Jew is supposed to have like a thousand gentiles holding on to their tzitiz and asking us to teach them about G-d.
So why don't you guys start now?
I read the part in the Bible about gentiles grabbing the 'corner of a Jew's skirt'. Last time I tried grabbing a Jew's skirt she gave me such a whack! :-[
That's because you didn't ask her to teach you about G-d :::D.
Ask some galut Jews about Torah today and they'll say...."The Bible is 'hate speach', we're agnostic". :(
That's why we should have at least a thousand gentiles hanging on to us...because there are so few Jews who
a) know something about Torah b) are willing to teach gentiles.
Chabad/JTF needs to keep working on the Jews so we have more teachers. Gentiles need to work on themselves to help create the demand for this stuff so Jews will be inspired to learn more.
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Lubab why did you choose to be a Rabbi?
Well I'm not a Rabbi by profession. I chose to do the studies to get Rabbinical ordination because the Lubavitcher Rebbe directed that every Jewish man should do this before they get married.
He gave a few reasons for this:
1. Because each Jewish man is the "Rabbi" in his home whether he likes it or not. You can't ask a Rabbi about everything, so at least the man should actually know what he's talking about.
2. It's also important to know WHEN you need to ask a Rabbi. If you don't know anything about halacha you don't know how to ask, when to ask, what to ask.
So basically because of the Rebbe's great concern that each Jewish home be run in accordance with Jewish law, he directed that everyone complete these studies.
I dont' think I'm a big scholar at all. I'm the "de-facto" forum Rabbi because I happen to have this certificate, and nobody else seems to want the job ;).
So are you married?
Yes. But don't lose hope ladies. I may be accepting more wives in the near future. Moshiach is coming and that means that the Cherem DeRabeinu Gershon (banning poligamy) will be off! ;D ;)
Do you have children?
Why do I feel like the FBI is building a file on me?
Yes. Two scrumptious little baby boys.
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Lubab why did you choose to be a Rabbi?
Well I'm not a Rabbi by profession. I chose to do the studies to get Rabbinical ordination because the Lubavitcher Rebbe directed that every Jewish man should do this before they get married.
He gave a few reasons for this:
1. Because each Jewish man is the "Rabbi" in his home whether he likes it or not. You can't ask a Rabbi about everything, so at least the man should actually know what he's talking about.
2. It's also important to know WHEN you need to ask a Rabbi. If you don't know anything about halacha you don't know how to ask, when to ask, what to ask.
So basically because of the Rebbe's great concern that each Jewish home be run in accordance with Jewish law, he directed that everyone complete these studies.
I dont' think I'm a big scholar at all. I'm the "de-facto" forum Rabbi because I happen to have this certificate, and nobody else seems to want the job ;).
So are you married?
Yes. But don't lose hope ladies. I may be accepting more wives in the near future. Moshiach is coming and that means that the Cherem DeRabeinu Gershon (banning poligamy) will be off! ;D ;)
Do you have children?
Why do I feel like the FBI is building a file on me?
Yes. Two scrumptious little baby boys.
I don't know what you mean ::) ::) ::)
Soooooo going to have any more children? What ages are they?
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Lubab why did you choose to be a Rabbi?
Well I'm not a Rabbi by profession. I chose to do the studies to get Rabbinical ordination because the Lubavitcher Rebbe directed that every Jewish man should do this before they get married.
He gave a few reasons for this:
1. Because each Jewish man is the "Rabbi" in his home whether he likes it or not. You can't ask a Rabbi about everything, so at least the man should actually know what he's talking about.
2. It's also important to know WHEN you need to ask a Rabbi. If you don't know anything about halacha you don't know how to ask, when to ask, what to ask.
So basically because of the Rebbe's great concern that each Jewish home be run in accordance with Jewish law, he directed that everyone complete these studies.
I dont' think I'm a big scholar at all. I'm the "de-facto" forum Rabbi because I happen to have this certificate, and nobody else seems to want the job ;).
So are you married?
Yes. But don't lose hope ladies. I may be accepting more wives in the near future. Moshiach is coming and that means that the Cherem DeRabeinu Gershon (banning poligamy) will be off! ;D ;)
Do you have children?
Why do I feel like the FBI is building a file on me?
Yes. Two scrumptious little baby boys.
I don't know what you mean ::) ::) ::)
Soooooo going to have any more children? What ages are they?
I'm not scared of the FBI. I fear G-d only.
9 months and 2 years old.
My wife wants to have 13 more, at least.
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I'm not scared of the FBI. I fear G-d only.
9 months and 2 years old.
My wife wants to have 13 more, at least.
Do you get up at night to change nappies and do the feeding etc.....?
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I'm not scared of the FBI. I fear G-d only.
9 months and 2 years old.
My wife wants to have 13 more, at least.
Do you get up at night to change nappies and do the feeding etc.....?
Okay. Now we are getting into the hard questions. Me and my wife have a deal. During the week she let's me sleep so I can function during the day and make money and she takes care of the kids.
On Shabbos she rests and I get up for the kids.
I can't imagine why the FBI would be interested in this stuff???
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I'm not scared of the FBI. I fear G-d only.
9 months and 2 years old.
My wife wants to have 13 more, at least.
Do you get up at night to change nappies and do the feeding etc.....?
Okay. Now we are getting into the hard questions. Me and my wife have a deal. During the week she let's me sleep so I can function during the day and make money and she takes care of the kids.
On Shabbos she rests and I get up for the kids.
I can't imagine why the FBI would be interested in this stuff???
LOL the FBI is interested in everything ^-^ ^-^ ^-^
So do you have Pets? If so what are they?
Do you think its important for children to grow up with pets?
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Ask some galut Jews about Torah today and they'll say...."The Bible is 'hate speach', we're agnostic". :(
That's why we should have at least a thousand gentiles hanging on to us...because there are so few Jews who
a) know something about Torah b) are willing to teach gentiles.
Chabad/JTF needs to keep working on the Jews so we have more teachers. Gentiles need to work on themselves to help create the demand for this stuff so Jews will be inspired to learn more.
Maybe righteous gentiles need to grab a secular Jew's garment and give them a gentle shove in the direction of Chabad House. :D
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
Need more info. Is this a married woman? Is this a Jewish man? Is this a married Jewish man? Is this a gentile man?
Typically a single Jewish female agent and a non-Jewish man sometimes married/sometimes not. ie: Female Mossad agent sleeping with EU beurocrat for vital information or somebody connected with a terror network to get info or ket close enough to kill etc.
And this would save a Jewish life? I would need to double check with a senior Rabbinic authority, but my instinct tells me this would be praiseworthy.
Look what Ester from the Purim story did.
It may not save a Jewish life 'directly' but vital information gained this way can lead to the location and killing of a terrorist or provide early warning of an attack on Israel. This sin of the flesh could 'indirectly' save dozens or even thousands of Jewish lives.
Yeah well that to me sounds a lot like what Queen Ester did. There was no gaurantee it would work. But she did it because we err on the side of saving lives in these cases (unless it's one of the big 3...but sex with a gentile is not one of thosesins for which we must sooner die than transgress).
Actually it would for a Jewish man, but for a women in the case of Ester it was different because a women (Ester in this case) is the passive one in this case, she isn't the one that "gives". That of course doesn't allow a women to have relations with a non-Jew (G-d forbid), or with a Jewish man that shes married to when she is nidda.
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Jewish men also have the role of being 'Rabbis' to the gentiles, do they not?
Yes each Jew is supposed to have like a thousand gentiles holding on to their tzitiz and asking us to teach them about G-d.
So why don't you guys start now?
I read the part in the Bible about gentiles grabbing the 'corner of a Jew's skirt'. Last time I tried grabbing a Jew's skirt she gave me such a whack! :-[
That's because you didn't ask her to teach you about G-d :::D.
Ask some galut Jews about Torah today and they'll say...."The Bible is 'hate speach', we're agnostic". :(
Every Jew is in Golus today...
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Lubab, do you think it is possible to memorize the entire Torah and Mishnah like we used to do 2000 years ago? I think it is very possible if only the Yeshivot were dedicated to doing this. What is your opinion?
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I'm not scared of the FBI. I fear G-d only.
9 months and 2 years old.
My wife wants to have 13 more, at least.
Do you get up at night to change nappies and do the feeding etc.....?
Okay. Now we are getting into the hard questions. Me and my wife have a deal. During the week she let's me sleep so I can function during the day and make money and she takes care of the kids.
On Shabbos she rests and I get up for the kids.
I can't imagine why the FBI would be interested in this stuff???
LOL the FBI is interested in everything ^-^ ^-^ ^-^
So do you have Pets? If so what are they?
Do you think its important for children to grow up with pets?
No. And no.
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Lubab, do you think it is possible to memorize the entire Torah and Mishnah like we used to do 2000 years ago? I think it is very possible if only the Yeshivot were dedicated to doing this. What is your opinion?
Yes. This is definitely possible. The reason people can't memorize anything today is because they don't (REALLY) understand what they are learning.
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
Need more info. Is this a married woman? Is this a Jewish man? Is this a married Jewish man? Is this a gentile man?
Typically a single Jewish female agent and a non-Jewish man sometimes married/sometimes not. ie: Female Mossad agent sleeping with EU beurocrat for vital information or somebody connected with a terror network to get info or ket close enough to kill etc.
>:( I'm starting to think that the guy who thought I was a Mossad agent was actually trying to insult me.
I mean, he was scared of me for some reason and said he knew I was a "secret Mossad agent" but I had no idea female Mossad agents were expected to sleep with men to get information.
Anywho, Lubab, I think your "ask Lubab" thread is great!
I don't think I have a question yet, just a comment saying good job! O0
Thanks Mills. You don't even need a question to be on the Ask Lubab show. O0
This is just like how you don't need to be a Jew to be a part of the Jewish Task Force.
P.S. You also don't need to be a Jew to be a "Jew Against Obama". Basically it's to the point where there's no reason to convert anymore. You can have it all and still be a gentile.
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I saw this internet site a while back that had all the rules for the cantillation notes on the Torah, so you can figure out where each sign is supposed to go based on the other signs. I want to know the source for this site, I'm sure some old Sefer was written that originally contained these rules and the guy reproduced it. Do you know what the Sefer was?
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I'm not scared of the FBI. I fear G-d only.
9 months and 2 years old.
My wife wants to have 13 more, at least.
Do you get up at night to change nappies and do the feeding etc.....?
Okay. Now we are getting into the hard questions. Me and my wife have a deal. During the week she let's me sleep so I can function during the day and make money and she takes care of the kids.
On Shabbos she rests and I get up for the kids.
I can't imagine why the FBI would be interested in this stuff???
LOL the FBI is interested in everything ^-^ ^-^ ^-^
So do you have Pets? If so what are they?
Do you think its important for children to grow up with pets?
No. And no.
NO????? Do you not like animals?
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Do all the Lubovitch think the Rebbe is Moshiach or are there some who don't think so?
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Do all the Lubovitch think the Rebbe is Moshiach or are there some who don't think so?
There are probably some who don't think so, but they are in the minority.
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I'm not scared of the FBI. I fear G-d only.
9 months and 2 years old.
My wife wants to have 13 more, at least.
Do you get up at night to change nappies and do the feeding etc.....?
Okay. Now we are getting into the hard questions. Me and my wife have a deal. During the week she let's me sleep so I can function during the day and make money and she takes care of the kids.
On Shabbos she rests and I get up for the kids.
I can't imagine why the FBI would be interested in this stuff???
LOL the FBI is interested in everything ^-^ ^-^ ^-^
So do you have Pets? If so what are they?
Do you think its important for children to grow up with pets?
No. And no.
NO????? Do you not like animals?
I like animals. Just not in my house. Unless maybe it's just fish. Fish are nice to have in the house.
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I saw this internet site a while back that had all the rules for the cantillation notes on the Torah, so you can figure out where each sign is supposed to go based on the other signs. I want to know the source for this site, I'm sure some old Sefer was written that originally contained these rules and the guy reproduced it. Do you know what the Sefer was?
Nope!
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I'm not scared of the FBI. I fear G-d only.
9 months and 2 years old.
My wife wants to have 13 more, at least.
Do you get up at night to change nappies and do the feeding etc.....?
Okay. Now we are getting into the hard questions. Me and my wife have a deal. During the week she let's me sleep so I can function during the day and make money and she takes care of the kids.
On Shabbos she rests and I get up for the kids.
I can't imagine why the FBI would be interested in this stuff???
LOL the FBI is interested in everything ^-^ ^-^ ^-^
So do you have Pets? If so what are they?
Do you think its important for children to grow up with pets?
No. And no.
NO????? Do you not like animals?
I like animals. Just not in my house. Unless maybe it's just fish. Fish are nice to have in the house.
Yes they are very nice
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I know that Jews are allowed to own slaves taken from the captives of their defeated enemies. Are Gentiles also allowed to own slaves?
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Lubab, I was wondering what you thought of the Yeshivish Lakewood type jews. They are famous for their hatred of Lubavitch as their original Rabbi was very anti Lubavitch. "Rabbi" Kotler was famous for publicly spreading lies about the lubavitcher rebbe. I think that he was vile.
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Do you watch TV? If so, what are some of your favorite programs?
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Basically it's to the point where there's no reason to convert anymore. You can have it all and still be a gentile.
Oooh is that a hint for me?
I hope NOT because I get rather defensive when people I don't know try to "dissuade" me. Believe me, I've given other people on the forum a good talking to when they try to "dissuade" me
Some Gentiles already have a Jewish soul and yearn to return home. Say you were born a Gentile, would you not hurt and try to return? Beg G-d to make you a Jew every day? I agree to go dissuade those who want to "convert" for all the wrong reasons like to "get married" to their Jewish boy/girlfriend etc...they should be dissuaded (even I dissuade them), BUT not everyone who wants to go through gerut is the same, of us (very-very few) already have a Jewish soul. No one can dissuade those few gentiles who are honest and who G-d blessed with the Jewish spark.
No offense but you're wrong, in some (very few) cases when the gentile has the Jewish spark in them...they can't be gentiles and "have it all", they end up feeling rather empty and it HURTS a lot.
I had a whole speech planed out for this, in case it was referring to me. I saved it and might post it, but first I want to know if you were referring to me with the "there's no reason to convert anymore"
Thanks (I don't mean to be rude, but like I said, I get rather defensive when people talk about this to me ;) I hope you understand)
Thanks.
That's funny Mills. I didn't even realize how that comment was applicable to you, until you just mentioned this.
It sounds like you are one of the "unpersuadables". Don't get mad at the people trying to dissuade you, they're just doing their job.:)
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Do you watch TV? If so, what are some of your favorite programs?
No. But everyone who knows me says I would love "The Office".
I will watch the occasional Family Guy clip on Youtube and I find that show hilarious.
When I was younger I used to watch t.v. and I loved Seinfeld and the Simpsons.
If we reach WAY back into childhood..."Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" every day after school.
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Lubab,
I read about some of the unsavory things required of female (Jewish) Mossad agents.
Is a Jewess breaking a mitzvah if she sleeps with a man to get information vital to save Jewish lives or to compromise an enemy of the Jewish State?
Need more info. Is this a married woman? Is this a Jewish man? Is this a married Jewish man? Is this a gentile man?
Typically a single Jewish female agent and a non-Jewish man sometimes married/sometimes not. ie: Female Mossad agent sleeping with EU beurocrat for vital information or somebody connected with a terror network to get info or ket close enough to kill etc.
And this would save a Jewish life? I would need to double check with a senior Rabbinic authority, but my instinct tells me this would be praiseworthy.
Look what Ester from the Purim story did.
It may not save a Jewish life 'directly' but vital information gained this way can lead to the location and killing of a terrorist or provide early warning of an attack on Israel. This sin of the flesh could 'indirectly' save dozens or even thousands of Jewish lives.
Yeah well that to me sounds a lot like what Queen Ester did. There was no gaurantee it would work. But she did it because we err on the side of saving lives in these cases (unless it's one of the big 3...but sex with a gentile is not one of thosesins for which we must sooner die than transgress).
Actually it would for a Jewish man, but for a women in the case of Ester it was different because a women (Ester in this case) is the passive one in this case, she isn't the one that "gives". That of course doesn't allow a women to have relations with a non-Jew (G-d forbid), or with a Jewish man that shes married to when she is nidda.
Good point. I believe you are correct.
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That's funny Mills. I didn't even realize how that comment was applicable to you, until you just mentioned this.
It sounds like you are one of the "unpersuadables". Don't get mad at the people trying to dissuade you, they're just doing their job.:)
LOl. I guess I understand.
I think people should dissuade those who say they want to "convert" for all the wrong reasons like "I want to marry my Jewish girlfriend/boyfriend" "I'm interested in the lifestyle but don't plan on being religious" "I want to convert so I can make aliyah" "I'm just fascinated by Judaism" and other NON valid reasons like that!
I knew a woman who was "interested in the lifestyle", years later she thinks she's "Jewish" yet doesn't care at all for any laws, which is sad because it makes her son (of marriageable) age not be desirable since now his Jewishness is in question...obviously.
In these cases...dissuade away...and I usually join in the dissuasion and I have dissuaded people who have no clue what they're doing. To not dissuade them is dangerous because they can end up doing more harm than good.
But there are those gentiles who, like I said, already have the Jewish spark in them & every day they are not Jews, their soul suffers in so much pain, why add to their suffering? I recall 2 stories from Chabad that there was no dissuasion, they are too long though :(
If I see someone like that, who shows an extreme and sincere love of Judaism and I notice its in their soul...then I won't say a word to them. The dissuasion will be between them and their rabbi in private. Some people actually find it insulting, I mean, let's be honest....if you work for years to be part of a Jewish community, study so much, learn Hebrew, are soo advanced in learning and then out of nowhere a stranger waltzes in and tries to "dissuade" them? I DON'T THINK SO.
I don't think its always the job of everyone! Sometimes people should let the person's rabbi make the informed and private decisions. Let people try to make it their job with me, they won't be happy that's for sure! Last time I gave a long talking to at a poor guy, but he did apologize in the end so it was ok.
I also do not believe in the term "convert" but that's a long story that others might know so there's no point in bringing it up. I also do not believe in the "Jew by choice" term for supposed "converts".
;)
I apologize in advance if I sound offensive to anyone.
Mills is entitled to her opinion. I would just like to clarify the halacha as this is my thread. The halacha is that a non-Jew who wishes to become a Jew should be dissuaded from doing so three times in ALL cases, even if the gentile has the best reasons for converting.
Lesson #1 for your conversion, Mills is that when you become Jewish, you need to listen to what the halacha says and don't try to make it up as you go along (I'm saying this out of caring, I pray you will not be offended). I hope when you become Jewish one day and a non-Jew asks you to teach them to become Jewish that you will follow this halacha and try to dissuade them three times no matter what.
If you want reasons why we should try to dissaude a gentile from converting who even has the best of intentions you may ask that as a separate question on the Ask Lubab show. ;)
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LUBAB they have 2 Chabad telethones on T.V. 1 is from Garden City Rabbi Pearl,they have another from Los Angeles with Hollywood types.I give to Rabbi Pearl but the Hollywood type seems secular
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Mills I think that only in extreme cases ,maybe conversion should be allowed. Even dissuading is not enough, and only the strictest of the strictest Rabbis should be consulted (better the Sefaradi Beit din), definitly not someone who is in the wrong path completly (reform, conservative, etc.) and also not someone who has conversions relativly often (for example Habad).
*- mentioning Habad isn't becuase of the latest talk (about messianism) but that it is known that they are converting more people, and quicker then really allowed. (also some of those people then dropp the mitzvot, etc. and concider their children to be Jewish, where its a BIGGG problem because they are probably not). Sorry to say that their are a number of these "Jewish" children that are born, and their is at least 1 person on this forum who is in that situation, and it is a very serious, and dangerous matter.
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Mills I think that only in extreme cases ,maybe conversion should be allowed. Even dissuading is not enough, and only the strictest of the strictest Rabbis should be consulted (better the Sefaradi Beit din), definitly not someone who is in the wrong path completly (reform, conservative, etc.) and also not someone who has conversions relativly often (for example Habad).
*- mentioning Habad isn't becuase of the latest talk (about messianism) but that it is known that they are converting more people, and quicker then really allowed. (also some of those people then dropp the mitzvot, etc. and concider their children to be Jewish, where its a BIGGG problem because they are probably not). Sorry to say that their are a number of these "Jewish" children that are born, and their is at least 1 person on this forum who is in that situation, and it is a very serious, and dangerous matter.
Hey Tzvi,
No offense. But...get your own show. It's easy these days.
There's nothing wrong with Chabad conversions, per se, though I do have a problem with a few Chabad Rabbi's who are too loose, but this is not all of them.
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Does Chabad do conversions outside Eretz Yisrael? It's not up to me to make an opinion... but one of the problems I would have had, in case I had decided to convert, is that I disagree with the demand that all converts should go to Israel....
And what happens to someone who wants to convert by Chabad, but strongly believes the Rebbe was not the Moshiach? In fact I believe the Rebbe was a great sage, and that he was the leader of the last generation of the Galuth, but I think the Moshiach would come as a surprise, not someone people has already made a guess that he might be.
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Lubab, I was wondering what you thought of the Yeshivish Lakewood type jews. They are famous for their hatred of Lubavitch as their original Rabbi was very anti Lubavitch. "Rabbi" Kotler was famous for publicly spreading lies about the lubavitcher rebbe. I think that he was vile.
Well I don't take insults from such people very seriously. Rambam says that if an adult serves G-d because they want to go to Olam Haba they are an "Am Haaretz" (ignoramous). So when an ignoramous insults my group, I don't take it very seriously.
I have personally spoken with many litvaks who freely admitted to me that their observance of the Torah is based on their desire to get into Olam Haba. I would venture to say that most of the students in Lakewood-type yeshivot also feel this way.
As far as Shach, the Rebbe didn't think much of him and neither do I. He was rejected when he applied to be a Rosh Yeshiva for a Chabad yeshiva long before he was very famous because he didn't know Talmud Yerushalmi well enough. I feel he had a personal vendetta against Chabad ever since then which was the source of his vile and nearly always unfounded attacks against the Rebbe and Chabad.
With all that said, they are Jews, and I love each one of them with a full heart, screwed up though they may be.
We should note that not all Litvak Rabbis are or were like this. Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik had a wonderful relationship with the Rebbe and attended several of his farbrengens and raved about them.
The former Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir (forgot his name) also used to speak glowingly about the Rebbe's Gaonus (genius) in Torah knowledge.
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Does Chabad do conversions outside Eretz Yisrael? It's not up to me to make an opinion... but one of the problems I would have had, in case I had decided to convert, is that I disagree with the demand that all converts should go to Israel....
And what happens to someone who wants to convert by Chabad, but strongly believes the Rebbe was not the Moshiach? In fact I believe the Rebbe was a great sage, and that he was the leader of the last generation of the Galuth, but I think the Moshiach would come as a surprise, not someone people has already made a guess that he might be.
Chabad does do conversions outside of Israel. And I'm pretty sure it would be irrelevant to the process whether they believed the Rebbe is Moshiach. You might however, talk this issue over with the Rabbi you are thinking of converting with.
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Dear Rabbi,
2 questions:
1) In all my life I have never dated a Jewish woman. All of my girlfriends have been non-Jewish. Either Christian or athiest. If I pray hard enough to Hashem will he finally send me a Jewish girlfriend? There are very few Jews where I live :-\
Also I have started seeng a girl who I beleive could be muslim. We haven't talked about religion because I keep everything light and funny and I avoid heavy subjects. She is a complete knockout... a 9/10 but she is of Asian decen so the likelyhood of her being a muslim is high.
If she turns out to be a Muslim what should I do? If we get serious will Hashem punish me ?
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Lesson #1 for your conversion, Mills is that when you become Jewish, you need to listen to what the halacha says and don't try to make it up as you go along (I'm saying this out of caring, I pray you will not be offended). I hope when you become Jewish one day and a non-Jew asks you to teach them to become Jewish that you will follow this halacha and try to dissuade them three times no matter what.
If you want reasons why we should try to dissaude a gentile from converting who even has the best of intentions you may ask that as a separate question on the Ask Lubab show. ;)
WOW! :o
Leave the dissuasion to the person's rabbi is all I'm saying.
My rabbi dissuades me 100000 times but it's ok when he does it, or another of my rabbis because it's their job...otherwise they would not be good rabbis in the first place.
Do you think I don't know that gentiles MUST be dissuaded? Why are you talking to me this way? make things up? That's absolutely horrible! :o And "ask that" as a separate question? Thanks for the offer but I alady have a rabbi and don't have to here.
I'm just saying its NOT always going to be the job of random strangers.
My goodness I've been at this for MORE than a year, I think I already know how it works! I'm not a new person who knows nothing about Judaism and halacha!
Thanks a lot though, I'm not going to lie, I kind of felt bad with your "lesson #1" thing, which I felt was uncalled for... since you know nothing about me and how I feel about the Halacha. So I don't think you have to tell me what my "first lesson is" . BTW, I had my "first lesson a LONG time ago. I do feel that was a little TOO MUCH, my friend. And very disrespectful to the point that I cannot describe.
I am just saying that leave that to the person's rabbi and people should not be so nosy is all, for the ways of peace. The person's rabbi will know what to do, let us trust in their judgment. Actually, when I go to events and services random people DON'T dissuade me, they ask me why I am going through gerut..etc and say its interesting "good luck"...but they don't do anything else, since they leave that to my rabbi who dissuades me every time I see him. Hhhmm, and these are orthodox Jews too, I guess they trust their Rabbi enough to let him do his job.
And FYI I DO dissuade people who say they want to "convert" (a fake word) because they want to "marry their boy/girlfriend" etc... but it's different when someone HAS been accepted for gerut by a valid Orthodox Rabbi. IF the Rabbi accepted that gentile, then I KNOW the Rabbi will talk to him/her and dissuade the person/teach etc. So I will leave that to him. Obviously someone who has an invalid reason for gerut will NOT be accepted by a rabbi...so guess what IT ALL WORKS OUT as long as there are good righteous rabbis in the world who do follow halacha.
BUT I certainly do not need to be told this here. Sorry but I did get my feelings hurt a little too much for my liking, even if you say "no offense" I do find it rather offensive since you know nothing about me, and about how I deal with halacha. However, my rabbis know me and others on this forum I talk to here personally (who leave the dissuasion to my rabbi) and they will tell you that there is no one more respectful than me. If you want I can direct you with them and you can ask them yourself.
I still like your show though, keep up the great work.
BTW to those interested... I am NOT doing my gerut with Chabad anymore since...well no offense but I find them kind of rude sometimes. I found another valid and deeply religiously observant Orthodox group which I will not mention the name. I also would not recommend any gentile to go through gerut with Chabad!!! I can privately tell people why if they want to know.
Oddly enough, I had a great man who studied with Chabad point me in the direction I needed to go, I thank him every day.
OH and by the way, Lubab, that man even though an Orthodox Jew did not dissuade me either...instead he asked me for my name and went to the Rebbe's Ohel for me and privately helps me.
Guess he felt it was also not his job. (BUT I am VERY grateful to him too for all his help)
I did not try to dissuade you here Mills. I was just making a joke that I didn't even realize applied to you.
I apologize for my "Lesson #1" statement. You're right. It was uncalled for.
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Dear Rabbi,
2 questions:
1) In all my life I have never dated a Jewish woman. All of my girlfriends have been non-Jewish. Either Christian or athiest. If I pray hard enough to Hashem will he finally send me a Jewish girlfriend? There are very few Jews where I live :-\
Also I have started seeng a girl who I beleive could be muslim. We haven't talked about religion because I keep everything light and funny and I avoid heavy subjects. She is a complete knockout... a 9/10 but she is of Asian decen so the likelyhood of her being a muslim is high.
If she turns out to be a Muslim what should I do? If we get serious will Hashem punish me ?
You are Jewish? Then you should pray to G-d to help you find a Jewish girl, but you should also take massive and focused ACTION to lead you to that goal e.g. moving to a neighborhood where there are more Jews, get involved with a synagouge, sign up with a Jewish dating service online etc.
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Mills, this is not my thread, but I am surprised at the way you act. You say that you trust your Rav, and at the same time you say that you are leaving Chabad just because you are dissapointed by Lubab. You are contradicting yourself.
And your "advice" to Gentiles NOT to covert through Chabad sounds offensive to me. In case I had decided to go ahead with my conversion, I'd had done it through Chabad, and I don't feel the need to ask a Goyshe wanna be-Jew for a better place to convert.
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Sorry Mills, I thought that your actual Rav was also from Chabad and that you were leaving him, just because you disliked Lubab. Anyway I got upset at the advise to potentials converts, not to turn to Chabad, and the offer to explain the reasons privately. Anyone who reads that post may imagine anything not good about Chabadniks!!!!
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Raul is correct that making a statement not to convert though Chabad without saying publically why could lead to all sorts of wild thoughts about why Chabad is no good.
If you have a problem with Chabad's conversion process and you want people to know about it you should either: a) not mention it publically in the first place b) if you choose to mention it be prepared to explain to us all what is so bad about their conversion process to the issue may be addressed.
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Sorru Mills, I thought that your actual Rav was also from Chabad and that you were leaving him, just because you disliked Lubab. Anyway I got upset at the advise to potentials converts, not to turn to Chabad, and the offer to explain the reasons privately. Anyone who reads that post may imagine anything not good about Chabadniks!!!!
I apologise to you for my rudeness.
The reasons why I chose not to do gerut through Chabad hurt, I'm not going to lie. I cried for sometime.
But, I guess there are others who are happy in it, and if so then I would be no one to interfere with their choice.
Don't get me wrong, I still love Chabad, I donate, I like their events and they do great work in helping Jews, but in my opinion, it was not the best place for me and other gentiles I know to become Jewish in. Sometimes, some us felt..not welcomed.
Maybe I did go out of line with that statement though and I take it back.
I also owe Lubab an apology.
I have no right to hijack your thread.
Please forgive me from deviating from the subject and for my utter rudeness to you. You are doing an excellent job and are an amazing person, Lubab.
From now on, I will only post "ask Lubab" questions since it is your thread and you make the rules here.
And yes the no converting thing, I also apologize. My reasons I are so long. I guess the gist would be that some people choose to treat "converts" unfairly at times, not marry their children because of "convert" parents. Just overall things of the sort.
I did not want to believe it at first, but then remembered the rudeness I received from people and I did not want to keep attending the place or let my kids be subjected to anything when I do have them.
Of course, not everyone is like that, but in my personal experience and the experience of others I have spoken to,it was like that. They like I decided to just leave. And I was lucky by an "insider" in Chabad to be referred to a non-Chabad rabbi.
He urged me (and he was from Chabad) to reconsider my "conversion" with Chabad and asked to also look at other Orthodox groups. We had a very long chat.
I would do the same to any other Gentile considering "conversion" with them. But next time, I will do it privately.
I am very sorry.
Apology accepted. We are commanded repeatedly in the Torah to treat a valid convert as a Jew in all respects. I'm sorry people do not follow this and you had these bad experiences.
Now let's get on with the show.
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Lubab,
I know that in Judaism a human corpse must be treated with reverence and dignity, but does this apply to rodefim?
I mean in a war, if a bunch of muSSlim-nazis attack a Jewish village and get killed in the process, do Jews have to schvitz in the hot sun burying each one properly or can they be bulldozed into a quicklime ditch as quickly as possible?
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Lubab, how old are you and where are you from?
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Lubab, how old are you and where are you from?
26. Originally from Southern California. :)
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Lubab,
I know that in Judaism a human corpse must be treated with reverence and dignity, but does this apply to rodefim?
I mean in a war, if a bunch of muSSlim-nazis attack a Jewish village and get killed in the process, do Jews have to schvitz in the hot sun burying each one properly or can they be bulldozed into a quicklime ditch as quickly as possible?
As I understand it, even an evil gentile's body must be buried and treated with respect as even they are created "in the image of G-d".
We treat the body with a certain level of respect even when a person has been killed by the Beit Din for this reason.
Now if you would be endangering more life by doing this burial, or in a time of war where we are defending ourselves I would assume you definitely would not be allowed to do that. But that is because the mitzvah of saving a life overrides that of the burial, but not because the burial is not warranted.
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Lubab,
I know that in Judaism a human corpse must be treated with reverence and dignity, but does this apply to rodefim?
I mean in a war, if a bunch of muSSlim-nazis attack a Jewish village and get killed in the process, do Jews have to schvitz in the hot sun burying each one properly or can they be bulldozed into a quicklime ditch as quickly as possible?
As I understand it, even an evil gentile's body must be buried and treated with respect as even they are created "in the image of G-d".
We treat the body with a certain level of respect even when a person has been killed by the Beit Din for this reason.
Now if you would be endangering more life by doing this burial, or in a time of war where we are defending ourselves I would assume you definitely would not be allowed to do that. But that is because the mitzvah of saving a life overrides that of the burial, but not because the burial is not warranted.
They cremated Eichman (Y'S) and through his ashes in the Med' so his remains wouldn't befoul Israel.
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Lulab, why did Chazal decided to write the Yerushalmy Talmud and the Bavli Talmud (Babylonian Talmud) in Arabic ?
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Lulab, why did Chazal decided to write the Yerushalmy Talmud and the Bavli Talmud (Babylonian Talmud) in Arabic ?
It's not Arabic. It's Aramaic. That was the language the Jews spoke in those days and the Talmud is recording their discussions.
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Lulab, why did Chazal decided to write the Yerushalmy Talmud and the Bavli Talmud (Babylonian Talmud) in Arabic ?
It's not Arabic. It's Aramaic. That was the language the Jews spoke in those days and the Talmud is recording their discussions.
I meant Aramic.
Why didn't they encoureged talking in Hebrew as other sects of Judaism as the Karatie Jews did (in the 10th century) ?
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Lulab, why did Chazal decided to write the Yerushalmy Talmud and the Bavli Talmud (Babylonian Talmud) in Arabic ?
It's not Arabic. It's Aramaic. That was the language the Jews spoke in those days and the Talmud is recording their discussions.
I meant Aramic.
Why didn't they encoureged talking in Hebrew as other sects of Judaism as the Karatie Jews did (in the 10th century) ?
Hebrew is a holy language. So many Jews did not want it to become a secular langauge so they were careful to use other languages for regular speech and learning, while Hebrew was used only for prayer and reading from the Torah etc.
This, many felt preserved Hebrew as a sacred tounge, not only to be used lightly.
Kaarite are heretics as we have already explained on many occasions. :)
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Lubab, how old are you and where are you from?
26. Originally from Southern California. :)
What?! you mean I'm older than you!?
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I guess so. Don't worry though, I have lots of older people coming to me for advice. ;)
Did you know that one of the Chabad Rebbe's wrote one of his famous works of mysticism (Derech Mitzvosecha) when he was 15?
The Rebbe's always said: "age doesn't go by the passport".
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I guess so. Don't worry though, I have lots of older people coming to me for advice. ;)
Did you know that one of the Chabad Rebbe's wrote one of his famous works of mysticism (Derech Mitzvosecha) when he was 15?
The Rebbe's always said: "age doesn't go by the passport".
Well age does mean one thing: more life experience and a longer brain.
Are you a rabbi?
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I guess so. Don't worry though, I have lots of older people coming to me for advice. ;)
Did you know that one of the Chabad Rebbe's wrote one of his famous works of mysticism (Derech Mitzvosecha) when he was 15?
The Rebbe's always said: "age doesn't go by the passport".
Are you a rabbi?
Asked and answered. See previous questions.
We can't have repeats on the Ask Lubab show. I can't do that to my fans. :D
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Great insights, Lubab. P.S. Mills, I'm happy you're on our team. O0
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http://jtf.org/forum_english/index.php?topic=16651.15
Could you please check this discussion with Skippy and give your opinion. Are we really evil as she thinks? She holds that we are promoting sin, since we wouldn't exclude or rebuke citizens of our State in case they had relations without marrying, or comitted private sins. I hold that even real countries don't have such Laws now.
To your knowledge, Let-be-land is a virtual country created to protest against Argentinian policy towards Israel. There are people of different religions and ideas.
Please give your opinion as you wish, privately or publically. No Vow to follow your opinion. (Anyway it's not up to me. We are several persons)
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http://jtf.org/forum_english/index.php?topic=16651.15
Could you please check this discussion with Skippy and give your opinion. Are we really evil as she thinks? She holds that we are promoting sin, since we wouldn't exclude or rebuke citizens of our State in case they had relations without marrying, or comitted private sins. I hold that even real countries don't have such Laws now.
To your knowledge, Let-be-land is a virtual country created to protest against Argentinian policy towards Israel. There are people of different religions and ideas.
Please give your opinion as you wish, privately or publically. No Vow to follow your opinion. (Anyway it's not up to me. We are several persons)
Thanks for your question Raul,
I have said this before, and it may be controversial, but I don't care.
Noahides (non-Jews) are allowed to have marital relations without marriage.
It may even be preferable to just move in with a girlfriend and specifically state that you are NOT married to avoid the very strict consequences of adultery (the death penalty).
We learn this from the story of Yehuda in the Bible who had the law of a Noahide and had relations without marriage. Moshiach actually was born (many generations later) from that union.
So Raul I think you are right here on not punishing that behavior.
As a side note, I don't think that the government should be regulating marriage at all. They can give civil benefits to couples in a civil manner, but should not get involved in who is married, and requiring marriage licenses etc. Ideally this should be handled by the ecclesiastical authorities as was done all over the world until our very recent history.
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In fact there are many real sins for which we have no provision, since we don't aim to be a realigious, but just political/cultural org. shaped as a State. And there is an article in our Constitution, saying that private actions are free. But I think, that since we are not really independent. And Argentinian judges act here, it's up to them. I claim that in the same way a club is not a guardian of morality, neither are we. However we do punish some evil deeds (with expelling). Perhaps she thinks that punishing some, and not others, means encouraging what we don't punish. For eaxample there's no provision for the eventuality of adultery or idolatry, but there is a strong punishment for the eventuality of abortion (even advocating for it), blasphemy or anti-Semitism. Is that wrong?
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I would recommend that you revolve your legal system around the Noahide code (7 Noahide laws).
This is the best system for gentiles.
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Being probably the only observant Noahide involved it is your job, Raul, to apply as much pressure as possible to try to revolve the system around the Noahide laws.
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The problem is that non-religious would claim that they are discriminated. Catholics would probably have problems with their cult. And any other Christian would problaby object that if the Torah is enacted, why not their Gospel.
The laws that are in force were easily accepted since they ressemble Argentinian Laws, UN Humans Rights Declaration, and some others regarding Ecology are quite accepted here.
Anyway, do you think that in fact, a simple virtual country, with no other possible punishment than exclusion, is guilty for not enacting Hallacha?
Does it mean that it render me a non-Noahide?
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No. You are a Noahide by birth. Nobody can take that away from you.
I am not saying you are guilty in any way for not doing this. I'm just saying this would be the ideal thing for any successful society.
You should explain to the Catholics and others that this is not discrimination at all.
The Noahide code is simply a broad guideline for morality that predates any particular religion that exists today.
We are not saying you need to be Jewish or Catholic or anything.
We are just saying these are the rules that lead to a properly functioning society.
They can all be whatever religion they want to be as long as they don't violate any of those six commandments.
Most religions agree with those laws anyway. You might have more luck trying to phrase it as something that is just a secular doctrine that gives us a starting point on building our society that has been proven throughout history to work well.
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All legal texts would be rewritten when 36 or more of us qualify to form a valid assembly. In that case, it is even mandatory to reform them if 2 thirds of them decide so. Who knows who would be handling it at that time....Perhaps Noahides would be a majority, perhaps Jews, perhaps all countries recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and enact our basic principles, and there is no reason for us to be a State...
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Lubab I was wondering what your response would be to my question to Chaim :)
Dear Chaim
OdKahaneChai and I have had a little chat about women ridding motorbikes, I am a biker.
Now is it allowed for a woman to take a male passenger, or the woman to be a passenger on the mans bike?
By the way, main passenger on my bike is my dog.
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Dear Lubab,
For about the past three days, I've had the niggun to "Vayhi Bimei Achashverosh" stuck in my head, and I can't get it out. What should I do?
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I have said this before, and it may be controversial, but I don't care.
Noahides (non-Jews) are allowed to have marital relations without marriage.
It may even be preferable to just move in with a girlfriend and specifically state that you are NOT married to avoid the very strict consequences of adultery (the death penalty).
We learn this from the story of Yehuda in the Bible who had the law of a Noahide and had relations without marriage. Moshiach actually was born (many generations later) from that union.
So Raul I think you are right here on not punishing that behavior.
As a side note, I don't think that the government should be regulating marriage at all. They can give civil benefits to couples in a civil manner, but should not get involved in who is married, and requiring marriage licenses etc. Ideally this should be handled by the ecclesiastical authorities as was done all over the world until our very recent history.
Well said, Lubab.
I get sick and tired of gentiles inventing mitzvot (which is a crime, BTW).
Marriage is certainly a good idea just as going to college or getting regular exercise is, but they are NOT commandments.
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Dear Lubab,
For about the past three days, I've had the niggun to "Vayhi Bimei Achashverosh" stuck in my head, and I can't get it out. What should I do?
What's the problem? It's Adar! :)
It should be gone in a month and a half. ;)
P.S. If you want a serious answer...let me know. But I don't know if this is a serious question.
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Dear Lubab,
For about the past three days, I've had the niggun to "Vayhi Bimei Achashverosh" stuck in my head, and I can't get it out. What should I do?
What's the problem? It's Adar! :)
It should be gone in a month and a half. ;)
P.S. If you want a serious answer...let me know. But I don't know if this is a serious question.
No, it was not a serious question.
But it honestly is stuck in my head... ;)
For those who want to know what I'm talking about:
http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/1518/jewish/Vayehi-Bimei-Achashveirosh.htm (http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/1518/jewish/Vayehi-Bimei-Achashveirosh.htm)
http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/livingtorah_cdo/aid/263358/jewish/Vayehi-Bimei.htm (http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/livingtorah_cdo/aid/263358/jewish/Vayehi-Bimei.htm)
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Noahides (non-Jews) are allowed to have marital relations without marriage.
It may even be preferable to just move in with a girlfriend and specifically state that you are NOT married to avoid the very strict consequences of adultery (the death penalty).
But if someone has intimacy with his girlfriend, in case she happened to secretly involve in casual intimacy with another man, wouldn't they also commit the crime of adultery?
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Whatt? I thought their is no Kiddushin (Marriage process by the nations). Lubab doesn't a non-Jewish couple become "married" once they have relations, or when they live together? By adultry is it when the lady had relations with a man and then went with another man?
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Whatt? I thought their is no Kiddushin (Marriage process by the nations). Lubab doesn't a non-Jewish couple become "married" once they have relations, or when they live together? By adultry is it when the lady had relations with a man and then went with another man?
There is no formal marriage process that's necessary by goyim (Noahides), but there is marriage or else there could be no Noahide law against adultery. Marriage can be effected by the two Noahides having relations with the intent for those relations to effect the marriage.
If there is no such intent, there is no marriage through that act.
I'm not clear on what your second question is. Are we talking about Jews now? Please clarify that second question and I'll try to help.
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Noahides (non-Jews) are allowed to have marital relations without marriage.
It may even be preferable to just move in with a girlfriend and specifically state that you are NOT married to avoid the very strict consequences of adultery (the death penalty).
But if someone has intimacy with his girlfriend, in case she happened to secretly involve in casual intimacy with another man, wouldn't they also commit the crime of adultery?
See my response to Tzvi above. I think that answers this question too.
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Lubab I was wondering what your response would be to my question to Chaim :)
Dear Chaim
OdKahaneChai and I have had a little chat about women ridding motorbikes, I am a biker.
Now is it allowed for a woman to take a male passenger, or the woman to be a passenger on the mans bike?
By the way, main passenger on my bike is my dog.
My first question would be: "who are we talking about here?". Are we talking about Jews? Jews have very strict laws on who they can touch and when. You'd need to look into that. Or are we talking about Noahides? Noahide rules are not that strict at all on these things.
However I could still imagine situations where it would not be appropriate even for a Noahide to do such a thing (e.g. taking another's spouse on your bike...could lead to problems).
Be sure to wear a helmet! We must be careful with the life G-d gave us.
P.S. I have nothing against bikers per se. One of the Chabad Rabbis in San Francisco is famous for riding a motorcycle around town with his big hasidic beard and he has brought many Jews to an observant life of Judaism by attracting their attention in that way :).
So in such a case I would say "rock on!"
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Lubab I was wondering what your response would be to my question to Chaim :)
Dear Chaim
OdKahaneChai and I have had a little chat about women ridding motorbikes, I am a biker.
Now is it allowed for a woman to take a male passenger, or the woman to be a passenger on the mans bike?
By the way, main passenger on my bike is my dog.
My first question would be: "who are we talking about here?". Are we talking about Jews? Jews have very strict laws on who they can touch and when. You'd need to look into that. Or are we talking about Noahides? Noahide rules are not that strict at all on these things.
However I could still imagine situations where it would not be appropriate even for a Noahide to do such a thing (e.g. taking another's spouse on your bike...could lead to problems).
Be sure to wear a helmet! We must be careful with the life G-d gave us.
P.S. I have nothing against bikers per se. One of the Chabad Rabbis in San Francisco is famous for riding a motorcycle around town with his big hasidic beard and he has brought many Jews to an observant life of Judaism by attracting their attention in that way :).
So in such a case I would say "rock on!"
Well, to my knowledge, Skippy is Jewish, so we're talking about Jews here.
So the original question was, with no passenger, or at least no Male one - is she allowed to wear these "leathers," which definitely show form, while riding the motorcycle, since they are specifically designed for said purpose?
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Lubab I was wondering what your response would be to my question to Chaim :)
Dear Chaim
OdKahaneChai and I have had a little chat about women ridding motorbikes, I am a biker.
Now is it allowed for a woman to take a male passenger, or the woman to be a passenger on the mans bike?
By the way, main passenger on my bike is my dog.
My first question would be: "who are we talking about here?". Are we talking about Jews? Jews have very strict laws on who they can touch and when. You'd need to look into that. Or are we talking about Noahides? Noahide rules are not that strict at all on these things.
However I could still imagine situations where it would not be appropriate even for a Noahide to do such a thing (e.g. taking another's spouse on your bike...could lead to problems).
Be sure to wear a helmet! We must be careful with the life G-d gave us.
P.S. I have nothing against bikers per se. One of the Chabad Rabbis in San Francisco is famous for riding a motorcycle around town with his big hasidic beard and he has brought many Jews to an observant life of Judaism by attracting their attention in that way :).
So in such a case I would say "rock on!"
Well, to my knowledge, Skippy is Jewish, so we're talking about Jews here.
So the original question was, with no passenger, or at least no Male one - is she allowed to wear these "leathers," which definitely show form, while riding the motorcycle, since they are specifically designed for said purpose?
Ah! That's a tznius question. You need to know the tznius laws. Can't show the form of the leg above the knee. No good!
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Lubab I was wondering what your response would be to my question to Chaim :)
Dear Chaim
OdKahaneChai and I have had a little chat about women ridding motorbikes, I am a biker.
Now is it allowed for a woman to take a male passenger, or the woman to be a passenger on the mans bike?
By the way, main passenger on my bike is my dog.
My first question would be: "who are we talking about here?". Are we talking about Jews? Jews have very strict laws on who they can touch and when. You'd need to look into that. Or are we talking about Noahides? Noahide rules are not that strict at all on these things.
However I could still imagine situations where it would not be appropriate even for a Noahide to do such a thing (e.g. taking another's spouse on your bike...could lead to problems).
Be sure to wear a helmet! We must be careful with the life G-d gave us.
P.S. I have nothing against bikers per se. One of the Chabad Rabbis in San Francisco is famous for riding a motorcycle around town with his big hasidic beard and he has brought many Jews to an observant life of Judaism by attracting their attention in that way :).
So in such a case I would say "rock on!"
Well, to my knowledge, Skippy is Jewish, so we're talking about Jews here.
So the original question was, with no passenger, or at least no Male one - is she allowed to wear these "leathers," which definitely show form, while riding the motorcycle, since they are specifically designed for said purpose?
Ah! That's a tznius question. You need to know the tznius laws. Can't show the form of the leg above the knee. No good!
I know the Tznius laws (basically). But I read something (I believe the Sefer is called Hilchos Bas Yisroel) that said a woman is allowed to wear pants for exercising, so long as there are no men around - so I wondered if the same applied here. Or do we (Chabad) pasken differently as far as exercising, as well?
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Lubab I was wondering what your response would be to my question to Chaim :)
Dear Chaim
OdKahaneChai and I have had a little chat about women ridding motorbikes, I am a biker.
Now is it allowed for a woman to take a male passenger, or the woman to be a passenger on the mans bike?
By the way, main passenger on my bike is my dog.
My first question would be: "who are we talking about here?". Are we talking about Jews? Jews have very strict laws on who they can touch and when. You'd need to look into that. Or are we talking about Noahides? Noahide rules are not that strict at all on these things.
However I could still imagine situations where it would not be appropriate even for a Noahide to do such a thing (e.g. taking another's spouse on your bike...could lead to problems).
Be sure to wear a helmet! We must be careful with the life G-d gave us.
P.S. I have nothing against bikers per se. One of the Chabad Rabbis in San Francisco is famous for riding a motorcycle around town with his big hasidic beard and he has brought many Jews to an observant life of Judaism by attracting their attention in that way :).
So in such a case I would say "rock on!"
Well, to my knowledge, Skippy is Jewish, so we're talking about Jews here.
So the original question was, with no passenger, or at least no Male one - is she allowed to wear these "leathers," which definitely show form, while riding the motorcycle, since they are specifically designed for said purpose?
Ah! That's a tznius question. You need to know the tznius laws. Can't show the form of the leg above the knee. No good!
I know the Tznius laws (basically). But I read something (I believe the Sefer is called Hilchos Bas Yisroel) that said a woman is allowed to wear pants for exercising, so long as there are no men around - so I wondered if the same applied here. Or do we (Chabad) pasken differently as far as exercising, as well?
Yeah we do hold of that but
I thought we were talking about a woman on a motorcycle. She's on a motorcycle in a private area with no men?
If iit's in public then we have the tznius problem.
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Lubab I was wondering what your response would be to my question to Chaim :)
Dear Chaim
OdKahaneChai and I have had a little chat about women ridding motorbikes, I am a biker.
Now is it allowed for a woman to take a male passenger, or the woman to be a passenger on the mans bike?
By the way, main passenger on my bike is my dog.
My first question would be: "who are we talking about here?". Are we talking about Jews? Jews have very strict laws on who they can touch and when. You'd need to look into that. Or are we talking about Noahides? Noahide rules are not that strict at all on these things.
However I could still imagine situations where it would not be appropriate even for a Noahide to do such a thing (e.g. taking another's spouse on your bike...could lead to problems).
Be sure to wear a helmet! We must be careful with the life G-d gave us.
P.S. I have nothing against bikers per se. One of the Chabad Rabbis in San Francisco is famous for riding a motorcycle around town with his big hasidic beard and he has brought many Jews to an observant life of Judaism by attracting their attention in that way :).
So in such a case I would say "rock on!"
Well, to my knowledge, Skippy is Jewish, so we're talking about Jews here.
So the original question was, with no passenger, or at least no Male one - is she allowed to wear these "leathers," which definitely show form, while riding the motorcycle, since they are specifically designed for said purpose?
Ah! That's a tznius question. You need to know the tznius laws. Can't show the form of the leg above the knee. No good!
I know the Tznius laws (basically). But I read something (I believe the Sefer is called Hilchos Bas Yisroel) that said a woman is allowed to wear pants for exercising, so long as there are no men around - so I wondered if the same applied here. Or do we (Chabad) pasken differently as far as exercising, as well?
Yeah we do hold of that but
I thought we were talking about a woman on a motorcycle. She's on a motorcycle in a private area with no men?
If iit's in public then we have the tznius problem.
But how can anyone, other than a passenger, really see her anyway?
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Lubab I was wondering what your response would be to my question to Chaim :)
Dear Chaim
OdKahaneChai and I have had a little chat about women ridding motorbikes, I am a biker.
Now is it allowed for a woman to take a male passenger, or the woman to be a passenger on the mans bike?
By the way, main passenger on my bike is my dog.
My first question would be: "who are we talking about here?". Are we talking about Jews? Jews have very strict laws on who they can touch and when. You'd need to look into that. Or are we talking about Noahides? Noahide rules are not that strict at all on these things.
However I could still imagine situations where it would not be appropriate even for a Noahide to do such a thing (e.g. taking another's spouse on your bike...could lead to problems).
Be sure to wear a helmet! We must be careful with the life G-d gave us.
P.S. I have nothing against bikers per se. One of the Chabad Rabbis in San Francisco is famous for riding a motorcycle around town with his big hasidic beard and he has brought many Jews to an observant life of Judaism by attracting their attention in that way :).
So in such a case I would say "rock on!"
Well, to my knowledge, Skippy is Jewish, so we're talking about Jews here.
So the original question was, with no passenger, or at least no Male one - is she allowed to wear these "leathers," which definitely show form, while riding the motorcycle, since they are specifically designed for said purpose?
Ah! That's a tznius question. You need to know the tznius laws. Can't show the form of the leg above the knee. No good!
I know the Tznius laws (basically). But I read something (I believe the Sefer is called Hilchos Bas Yisroel) that said a woman is allowed to wear pants for exercising, so long as there are no men around - so I wondered if the same applied here. Or do we (Chabad) pasken differently as far as exercising, as well?
Yeah we do hold of that but
I thought we were talking about a woman on a motorcycle. She's on a motorcycle in a private area with no men?
If iit's in public then we have the tznius problem.
But how can anyone, other than a passenger, really see her anyway?
What do you mean? Every person on the street will see one leg on one side of the bike and one on the other and can fully see the shape of the leg above the knee if she is wearing tight pants.
I don't think this is brain surgery.
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Lubab I was wondering what your response would be to my question to Chaim :)
Dear Chaim
OdKahaneChai and I have had a little chat about women ridding motorbikes, I am a biker.
Now is it allowed for a woman to take a male passenger, or the woman to be a passenger on the mans bike?
By the way, main passenger on my bike is my dog.
My first question would be: "who are we talking about here?". Are we talking about Jews? Jews have very strict laws on who they can touch and when. You'd need to look into that. Or are we talking about Noahides? Noahide rules are not that strict at all on these things.
However I could still imagine situations where it would not be appropriate even for a Noahide to do such a thing (e.g. taking another's spouse on your bike...could lead to problems).
Be sure to wear a helmet! We must be careful with the life G-d gave us.
P.S. I have nothing against bikers per se. One of the Chabad Rabbis in San Francisco is famous for riding a motorcycle around town with his big hasidic beard and he has brought many Jews to an observant life of Judaism by attracting their attention in that way :).
So in such a case I would say "rock on!"
Well, to my knowledge, Skippy is Jewish, so we're talking about Jews here.
So the original question was, with no passenger, or at least no Male one - is she allowed to wear these "leathers," which definitely show form, while riding the motorcycle, since they are specifically designed for said purpose?
Ah! That's a tznius question. You need to know the tznius laws. Can't show the form of the leg above the knee. No good!
I know the Tznius laws (basically). But I read something (I believe the Sefer is called Hilchos Bas Yisroel) that said a woman is allowed to wear pants for exercising, so long as there are no men around - so I wondered if the same applied here. Or do we (Chabad) pasken differently as far as exercising, as well?
Yeah we do hold of that but
I thought we were talking about a woman on a motorcycle. She's on a motorcycle in a private area with no men?
If iit's in public then we have the tznius problem.
But how can anyone, other than a passenger, really see her anyway?
What do you mean? Every person on the street will see one leg on one side of the bike and one on the other and can fully see the shape of the leg above the knee if she is wearing tight pants.
I don't think this is brain surgery.
If she's driving at 5 miles an hour, maybe. But I would think that if she's going at a decent speed, the form of the leg would be hard to see.
But on the other hand, I suppose everyone else is going that speed also. (I'm not arguing with you, I just wanted to know why we pasken this way)
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Lubab I was wondering what your response would be to my question to Chaim :)
Dear Chaim
OdKahaneChai and I have had a little chat about women ridding motorbikes, I am a biker.
Now is it allowed for a woman to take a male passenger, or the woman to be a passenger on the mans bike?
By the way, main passenger on my bike is my dog.
My first question would be: "who are we talking about here?". Are we talking about Jews? Jews have very strict laws on who they can touch and when. You'd need to look into that. Or are we talking about Noahides? Noahide rules are not that strict at all on these things.
However I could still imagine situations where it would not be appropriate even for a Noahide to do such a thing (e.g. taking another's spouse on your bike...could lead to problems).
Be sure to wear a helmet! We must be careful with the life G-d gave us.
P.S. I have nothing against bikers per se. One of the Chabad Rabbis in San Francisco is famous for riding a motorcycle around town with his big hasidic beard and he has brought many Jews to an observant life of Judaism by attracting their attention in that way :).
So in such a case I would say "rock on!"
Well, to my knowledge, Skippy is Jewish, so we're talking about Jews here.
So the original question was, with no passenger, or at least no Male one - is she allowed to wear these "leathers," which definitely show form, while riding the motorcycle, since they are specifically designed for said purpose?
Ah! That's a tznius question. You need to know the tznius laws. Can't show the form of the leg above the knee. No good!
I know the Tznius laws (basically). But I read something (I believe the Sefer is called Hilchos Bas Yisroel) that said a woman is allowed to wear pants for exercising, so long as there are no men around - so I wondered if the same applied here. Or do we (Chabad) pasken differently as far as exercising, as well?
Yeah we do hold of that but
I thought we were talking about a woman on a motorcycle. She's on a motorcycle in a private area with no men?
If iit's in public then we have the tznius problem.
But how can anyone, other than a passenger, really see her anyway?
What do you mean? Every person on the street will see one leg on one side of the bike and one on the other and can fully see the shape of the leg above the knee if she is wearing tight pants.
I don't think this is brain surgery.
If she's driving at 5 miles an hour, maybe. But I would think that if she's going at a decent speed, the form of the leg would be hard to see.
But on the other hand, I suppose everyone else is going that speed also. (I'm not arguing with you, I just wanted to know why we pasken this way)
What if she hits a red light? :::D
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What do you mean? Every person on the street will see one leg on one side of the bike and one on the other and can fully see the shape of the leg above the knee if she is wearing tight pants.
I don't think this is brain surgery.
Honestly wearing the correct leathers you are pretty well form less, like a stuffed banana.
Wearing jeans yes, but not leathers.
My are all black , so what form is there?
(http://www.shop2.biz/secure/bikersbargains/images/detailed/d_484.jpg)
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Seriously,
If the dress is not tznius, you don't go in public with it. Period. Fast speed. Slow speed. It makes no difference. People could see it. It's a problem.
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Lubab I was wondering what your response would be to my question to Chaim :)
Dear Chaim
OdKahaneChai and I have had a little chat about women ridding motorbikes, I am a biker.
Now is it allowed for a woman to take a male passenger, or the woman to be a passenger on the mans bike?
By the way, main passenger on my bike is my dog.
My first question would be: "who are we talking about here?". Are we talking about Jews? Jews have very strict laws on who they can touch and when. You'd need to look into that. Or are we talking about Noahides? Noahide rules are not that strict at all on these things.
However I could still imagine situations where it would not be appropriate even for a Noahide to do such a thing (e.g. taking another's spouse on your bike...could lead to problems).
Be sure to wear a helmet! We must be careful with the life G-d gave us.
P.S. I have nothing against bikers per se. One of the Chabad Rabbis in San Francisco is famous for riding a motorcycle around town with his big hasidic beard and he has brought many Jews to an observant life of Judaism by attracting their attention in that way :).
So in such a case I would say "rock on!"
Well, to my knowledge, Skippy is Jewish, so we're talking about Jews here.
So the original question was, with no passenger, or at least no Male one - is she allowed to wear these "leathers," which definitely show form, while riding the motorcycle, since they are specifically designed for said purpose?
Ah! That's a tznius question. You need to know the tznius laws. Can't show the form of the leg above the knee. No good!
I know the Tznius laws (basically). But I read something (I believe the Sefer is called Hilchos Bas Yisroel) that said a woman is allowed to wear pants for exercising, so long as there are no men around - so I wondered if the same applied here. Or do we (Chabad) pasken differently as far as exercising, as well?
Yeah we do hold of that but
I thought we were talking about a woman on a motorcycle. She's on a motorcycle in a private area with no men?
If iit's in public then we have the tznius problem.
But how can anyone, other than a passenger, really see her anyway?
What do you mean? Every person on the street will see one leg on one side of the bike and one on the other and can fully see the shape of the leg above the knee if she is wearing tight pants.
I don't think this is brain surgery.
If she's driving at 5 miles an hour, maybe. But I would think that if she's going at a decent speed, the form of the leg would be hard to see.
But on the other hand, I suppose everyone else is going that speed also. (I'm not arguing with you, I just wanted to know why we pasken this way)
What if she hits a red light? :::D
What red lights? Are you meant to stop :::D
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What do you mean? Every person on the street will see one leg on one side of the bike and one on the other and can fully see the shape of the leg above the knee if she is wearing tight pants.
I don't think this is brain surgery.
Honestly wearing the correct leathers you are pretty well form less, like a stuffed banana.
Wearing jeans yes, but not leathers.
My are all black , so what form is there?
(http://www.shop2.biz/secure/bikersbargains/images/detailed/d_484.jpg)
Yeah. That picture would not be something tznius for a Jewish woman to wear in public.
I'm not judging you Skippy, I'm just stating the law here because someone asked.
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What do you mean? Every person on the street will see one leg on one side of the bike and one on the other and can fully see the shape of the leg above the knee if she is wearing tight pants.
I don't think this is brain surgery.
Honestly wearing the correct leathers you are pretty well form less, like a stuffed banana.
Wearing jeans yes, but not leathers.
My are all black , so what form is there?
(http://www.shop2.biz/secure/bikersbargains/images/detailed/d_484.jpg)
Yeah. That picture would not be something tznius for a Jewish woman to wear.
Well ok then, I will just die in sin. But they are safety reasons for the leathers and being hit by a bug on a bike really hurts, if you don't wear them.
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Lubab I was wondering what your response would be to my question to Chaim :)
Dear Chaim
OdKahaneChai and I have had a little chat about women ridding motorbikes, I am a biker.
Now is it allowed for a woman to take a male passenger, or the woman to be a passenger on the mans bike?
By the way, main passenger on my bike is my dog.
My first question would be: "who are we talking about here?". Are we talking about Jews? Jews have very strict laws on who they can touch and when. You'd need to look into that. Or are we talking about Noahides? Noahide rules are not that strict at all on these things.
However I could still imagine situations where it would not be appropriate even for a Noahide to do such a thing (e.g. taking another's spouse on your bike...could lead to problems).
Be sure to wear a helmet! We must be careful with the life G-d gave us.
P.S. I have nothing against bikers per se. One of the Chabad Rabbis in San Francisco is famous for riding a motorcycle around town with his big hasidic beard and he has brought many Jews to an observant life of Judaism by attracting their attention in that way :).
So in such a case I would say "rock on!"
Well, to my knowledge, Skippy is Jewish, so we're talking about Jews here.
So the original question was, with no passenger, or at least no Male one - is she allowed to wear these "leathers," which definitely show form, while riding the motorcycle, since they are specifically designed for said purpose?
Ah! That's a tznius question. You need to know the tznius laws. Can't show the form of the leg above the knee. No good!
I know the Tznius laws (basically). But I read something (I believe the Sefer is called Hilchos Bas Yisroel) that said a woman is allowed to wear pants for exercising, so long as there are no men around - so I wondered if the same applied here. Or do we (Chabad) pasken differently as far as exercising, as well?
Yeah we do hold of that but
I thought we were talking about a woman on a motorcycle. She's on a motorcycle in a private area with no men?
If iit's in public then we have the tznius problem.
But how can anyone, other than a passenger, really see her anyway?
What do you mean? Every person on the street will see one leg on one side of the bike and one on the other and can fully see the shape of the leg above the knee if she is wearing tight pants.
I don't think this is brain surgery.
If she's driving at 5 miles an hour, maybe. But I would think that if she's going at a decent speed, the form of the leg would be hard to see.
But on the other hand, I suppose everyone else is going that speed also. (I'm not arguing with you, I just wanted to know why we pasken this way)
What if she hits a red light? :::D
That's what I was thinking... ;D
I guess she'll have to either keep a skirt in the glove compartment, or get a few tickets... ;)
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glove compartment? its a bike, it don't have one, I am damned :::D
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Just get a car, problem solved.
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glove compartment? its a bike, it don't have one, I am damned :::D
I've seen motorcycles with one...
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glove compartment? its a bike, it don't have one, I am damned :::D
I've seen motorcycles with one...
Not on mine it doesn't but mine is a classic
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1. Let me preface this by saying this is not a shot at Chaim, this is something I have wondered for many years though. Chaim says G-d will bless those that give financially to JTF. Do you agree with this and do you feel it is proper to use this line when asking for money?
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1. Let me preface this by saying this is not a shot at Chaim, this is something I have wondered for many years though. Chaim says G-d will bless those that give financially to JTF. Do you agree with this and do you feel it is proper to use this line when asking for money?
Thanks for your question Baltimore and welcome to the Ask Lubab "Show",
My response:
Yes. And Yes.
G-d promises big blessings for anyone who gives tzedaka clearly in the Torah. Not the least of these blessings is the double repayment of what you gave. I think people should be made aware of this if it will encourage more people to participate in this great mitzvah.
Now is it good PR to use that line? That's another question that I'm sure you can answer better than I Baltimore so I leave that one to you.
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Great answer! Thanks so much. On the marketing side of things we live in a society in the USA with so much religious corruption. In LA, Baltimore, NYC... where ever, there are inner city churches on the verge of bankruptcy that have little old ladies giving every extra penny they have to the church while the pastor drives around in a fancy car and lives in a rich suburban enclave. So when outsiders read a line about giving money to a good cause and G-d will bless you they become suspicious because it appears that the majority of people who use that line in the USA are incredibly corrupt. Here at JTF we are trying to attract new people and that probably is not the best line for new people, but if the old people properly understand it like you explained then they will be more likely to give money that can be used to attract new people in different ways.
Now 2 more questions.
1. Do you come from a religious family?
2. If you encountered a 30 year old Jewish male who wanted to become more religious but he had some problems, what problem would you tell him to eliminate first in order to become more religious? Here are his problems:
a. Unmarried
b. Has had relations with non-jewish women and continues to do so
c. Does not Keep Kosher
d. Does not Keep the sabbath
e. Does not goto an Orthodox Shul, only goes to Shul on: High Holidays, to avoid the fast of the first born before Passover, and on Shavuot
f. Does not Study Torah
Keep in mind some of these problems are easier to eliminate than others. It is also noteworthy to mention that he has already eliminated Pig and Crab from his diet, he has always fasted on yom kippor, he fasts on Tisha B'av, he gives to Jewish charity on occasion, a Lubavitch rabbi gave him a mezuzah that he properly put on his front door entance.
Thanks
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I know that Jews are allowed to own slaves taken from the captives of their defeated enemies. Are Gentiles also allowed to own slaves?
Yes. In that context of defeated enemies? Yes. But it would be better translated as "indentured servants" than "slaves".
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Great answer! Thanks so much. On the marketing side of things we live in a society in the USA with so much religious corruption. In LA, Baltimore, NYC... where ever, there are inner city churches on the verge of bankruptcy that have little old ladies giving every extra penny they have to the church while the pastor drives around in a fancy car and lives in a rich suburban enclave. So when outsiders read a line about giving money to a good cause and G-d will bless you they become suspicious because it appears that the majority of people who use that line in the USA are incredibly corrupt. Here at JTF we are trying to attract new people and that probably is not the best line for new people, but if the old people properly understand it like you explained then they will be more likely to give money that can be used to attract new people in different ways.
Now 2 more questions.
1. Do you come from a religious family?
2. If you encountered a 30 year old Jewish male who wanted to become more religious but he had some problems, what problem would you tell him to eliminate first in order to become more religious? Here are his problems:
a. Unmarried
b. Has had relations with non-jewish women and continues to do so
c. Does not Keep Kosher
d. Does not Keep the sabbath
e. Does not goto an Orthodox Shul, only goes to Shul on: High Holidays, to avoid the fast of the first born before Passover, and on Shavuot
f. Does not Study Torah
Keep in mind some of these problems are easier to eliminate than others. It is also noteworthy to mention that he has already eliminated Pig and Crab from his diet, he has always fasted on yom kippor, he fasts on Tisha B'av, he gives to Jewish charity on occasion, a Lubavitch rabbi gave him a mezuzah that he properly put on his front door entance.
Thanks
Not knowing this person it's a difficult thing to answer.
In general he should focus on doing positive things before stopping himself from doing negative things.
In general he should focus on things that are easy for him to do and things that he is excited about. This will make the more difficult things less difficult.
I would put regular laying of tefillin at the top of the list of positive things he could do if he is willing to do that.
After that I would put Torah learning, and keeping Kosher. All three of those are part of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 10 mitzvah campaigns which were geared to help fix up the world so all three of those are wonderful things to start doing.
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Lubab, do you think it is possible to memorize the entire Torah and Mishnah like we used to do 2000 years ago? I think it is very possible if only the Yeshivot were dedicated to doing this. What is your opinion?
JDL4ever,
I wanted to add one thing to my response to this question. I spoke about it with my Rabbi and he mentioned that the Alter Rebbe says in his Hilchos Talmud Torah that today since most all of our learning is written in books already our focus shouldn't be to memorize what it says in those books but to cultivate the skills necessary to UNDERSTAND those books and specifically how to draw out the halacha or practical applications from what they say.
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Great answer! Thanks so much. On the marketing side of things we live in a society in the USA with so much religious corruption. In LA, Baltimore, NYC... where ever, there are inner city churches on the verge of bankruptcy that have little old ladies giving every extra penny they have to the church while the pastor drives around in a fancy car and lives in a rich suburban enclave. So when outsiders read a line about giving money to a good cause and G-d will bless you they become suspicious because it appears that the majority of people who use that line in the USA are incredibly corrupt. Here at JTF we are trying to attract new people and that probably is not the best line for new people, but if the old people properly understand it like you explained then they will be more likely to give money that can be used to attract new people in different ways.
Now 2 more questions.
1. Do you come from a religious family?
2. If you encountered a 30 year old Jewish male who wanted to become more religious but he had some problems, what problem would you tell him to eliminate first in order to become more religious? Here are his problems:
a. Unmarried
b. Has had relations with non-jewish women and continues to do so
c. Does not Keep Kosher
d. Does not Keep the sabbath
e. Does not goto an Orthodox Shul, only goes to Shul on: High Holidays, to avoid the fast of the first born before Passover, and on Shavuot
f. Does not Study Torah
Keep in mind some of these problems are easier to eliminate than others. It is also noteworthy to mention that he has already eliminated Pig and Crab from his diet, he has always fasted on yom kippor, he fasts on Tisha B'av, he gives to Jewish charity on occasion, a Lubavitch rabbi gave him a mezuzah that he properly put on his front door entance.
Thanks
Not knowing this person it's a difficult thing to answer.
In general he should focus on doing positive things before stopping himself from doing negative things.
In general he should focus on things that are easy for him to do and things that he is excited about. This will make the more difficult things less difficult.
I would put regular laying of tefillin at the top of the list of positive things he could do if he is willing to do that.
After that I would put Torah learning, and keeping Kosher. All three of those are part of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 10 mitzvah campaigns which were geared to help fix up the world so all three of those are wonderful things to start doing.
Whatt :o , with all due respect I thought its the exact opposite. Whats Tefillin worth if one is sleeping with a gentile women (the worst sin in Judaism), I agree that the first positive thing one should do is learn Torah but thats because by learning Torah one is able to understand the mistakes and do Tishuva G-d willing.
Anyway in Judaism isn't it better not doing a sin, then doing a Mitzva.
I would think that not doing the Averot would come first (right away without an exception, stop sleeping with women, both not married Jewish and gentile women) and keeping Shabb-t - which is the covenent between the Jewish nation and G-d, repeatedly mentioned in the Torah and to learn Torah which will open the mind and soul and would give the person the chance of making Real Tishuva.
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Great answer! Thanks so much. On the marketing side of things we live in a society in the USA with so much religious corruption. In LA, Baltimore, NYC... where ever, there are inner city churches on the verge of bankruptcy that have little old ladies giving every extra penny they have to the church while the pastor drives around in a fancy car and lives in a rich suburban enclave. So when outsiders read a line about giving money to a good cause and G-d will bless you they become suspicious because it appears that the majority of people who use that line in the USA are incredibly corrupt. Here at JTF we are trying to attract new people and that probably is not the best line for new people, but if the old people properly understand it like you explained then they will be more likely to give money that can be used to attract new people in different ways.
Now 2 more questions.
1. Do you come from a religious family?
2. If you encountered a 30 year old Jewish male who wanted to become more religious but he had some problems, what problem would you tell him to eliminate first in order to become more religious? Here are his problems:
a. Unmarried
b. Has had relations with non-jewish women and continues to do so
c. Does not Keep Kosher
d. Does not Keep the sabbath
e. Does not goto an Orthodox Shul, only goes to Shul on: High Holidays, to avoid the fast of the first born before Passover, and on Shavuot
f. Does not Study Torah
Keep in mind some of these problems are easier to eliminate than others. It is also noteworthy to mention that he has already eliminated Pig and Crab from his diet, he has always fasted on yom kippor, he fasts on Tisha B'av, he gives to Jewish charity on occasion, a Lubavitch rabbi gave him a mezuzah that he properly put on his front door entance.
Thanks
Not knowing this person it's a difficult thing to answer.
In general he should focus on doing positive things before stopping himself from doing negative things.
In general he should focus on things that are easy for him to do and things that he is excited about. This will make the more difficult things less difficult.
I would put regular laying of tefillin at the top of the list of positive things he could do if he is willing to do that.
After that I would put Torah learning, and keeping Kosher. All three of those are part of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 10 mitzvah campaigns which were geared to help fix up the world so all three of those are wonderful things to start doing.
Whatt :o , with all due respect I thought its the exact opposite. Whats Tefillin worth if one is sleeping with a gentile women (the worst sin in Judaism),
What's not sleeping with Shicksas worth if he's not putting on Tefillin?
Look, it's a start, and it's one of the easiest Mitzvos to perform...
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Great answer! Thanks so much. On the marketing side of things we live in a society in the USA with so much religious corruption. In LA, Baltimore, NYC... where ever, there are inner city churches on the verge of bankruptcy that have little old ladies giving every extra penny they have to the church while the pastor drives around in a fancy car and lives in a rich suburban enclave. So when outsiders read a line about giving money to a good cause and G-d will bless you they become suspicious because it appears that the majority of people who use that line in the USA are incredibly corrupt. Here at JTF we are trying to attract new people and that probably is not the best line for new people, but if the old people properly understand it like you explained then they will be more likely to give money that can be used to attract new people in different ways.
Now 2 more questions.
1. Do you come from a religious family?
2. If you encountered a 30 year old Jewish male who wanted to become more religious but he had some problems, what problem would you tell him to eliminate first in order to become more religious? Here are his problems:
a. Unmarried
b. Has had relations with non-jewish women and continues to do so
c. Does not Keep Kosher
d. Does not Keep the sabbath
e. Does not goto an Orthodox Shul, only goes to Shul on: High Holidays, to avoid the fast of the first born before Passover, and on Shavuot
f. Does not Study Torah
Keep in mind some of these problems are easier to eliminate than others. It is also noteworthy to mention that he has already eliminated Pig and Crab from his diet, he has always fasted on yom kippor, he fasts on Tisha B'av, he gives to Jewish charity on occasion, a Lubavitch rabbi gave him a mezuzah that he properly put on his front door entance.
Thanks
Not knowing this person it's a difficult thing to answer.
In general he should focus on doing positive things before stopping himself from doing negative things.
In general he should focus on things that are easy for him to do and things that he is excited about. This will make the more difficult things less difficult.
I would put regular laying of tefillin at the top of the list of positive things he could do if he is willing to do that.
After that I would put Torah learning, and keeping Kosher. All three of those are part of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 10 mitzvah campaigns which were geared to help fix up the world so all three of those are wonderful things to start doing.
Whatt :o , with all due respect I thought its the exact opposite. Whats Tefillin worth if one is sleeping with a gentile women (the worst sin in Judaism), I agree that the first positive thing one should do is learn Torah but thats because by learning Torah one is able to understand the mistakes and do Tishuva G-d willing.
Anyway in Judaism isn't it better not doing a sin, then doing a Mitzva.
I would think that not doing the Averot would come first (right away without an exception, stop sleeping with women, both not married Jewish and gentile women) and keeping Shabbat - which is the covenent between the Jewish nation and G-d, repeatedly mentioned in the Torah and to learn Torah which will open the mind and soul and would give the person the chance of making Real Tishuva.
Ask your Rabbis about "Asei Doche Lo Saaseh". The positive commandments ALWAYS take precedence over the negative ones.
You also need to understand that there are two ways to heal a sickness. You can heal the sick organ, or you can also strengthen the rest of the body so it can heal the sick one on it's own. We are taking the second path here and you really need to get your own show.
You also need to understand that when you make Judaism out to be only about what you can't do, people will lose interest and will not want to keep the negative or the positive commandments.
You start with what you CAN do and what you enjoy and mitzvah goreret mitzvah...this is the proven way of success in bringing people to the path of torah.
Please Tzvi, next time: PM me for comments like this.
I don't really want to have debates here. I want to have questions and answers only.
P.S. The tefillin is a mitzvah unto itself no matter what you have done the rest of the day. It is one of those mitzvot that is in a way keeping the whole Torah through that mitzvah. It will also help bind a person's intellect to G-d in a way that they won't really want to sleep with a shiksa in good time.
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What if you were with a gentile woman but couldn't get to sleep?
Does that mean that "the greatest sin in all of Judaism" (what?) was not committed?
:P
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Thanks for pointing that out.
It is NOT the worst sin in Judaism.
It does not even carry the death penalty. It carries Makas Mardus "lashes instituted by the Rabbis". Nowhere close to the worst sin if you are going by the punishments but in a sense each aveira does separate us from G-d equally.
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Noahides (non-Jews) are allowed to have marital relations without marriage.
It may even be preferable to just move in with a girlfriend and specifically state that you are NOT married to avoid the very strict consequences of adultery (the death penalty).
Even being allowed by Hallacha, if a Noahide has a relation with a woman, but no marriage, no steady family? Who would take care of the child they may have? And if they use a contraceptive (even a contraceptive not forbidden by the Noahide Law), wouldn't it be to pervert the purpose of sexual relations, which are meant to preserve human race on earth? What do you think?
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lubab: "...Nowhere close to the worst sin if you are going by the punishments but in a sense each aveira does separate us from G-d equally..."
How about a case where a Jew lives in a land of few if any Jews, and the Jew's relationship with a non-Jewish woman is the only catalyst in his life teaching him various Biblical concepts (regardless of her faith being Christian) to the extent that the Jew is made curious enough to begin a search to reclaim his Torah and heritage, and then takes it upon himself to read the entire Torah and begin seeking guidance from more knowledgeable Jews? (thanks to the internet now making such communications commonplace).
Isn't it possible that G-d truly works in mysterious ways?
One of my very favorite movies of all time: "The Left Hand of G-d" starring Humphrey Bogart...a brilliant story of how G-d can even make use of sin in His Work of redemption.
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lubab: "...Nowhere close to the worst sin if you are going by the punishments but in a sense each aveira does separate us from G-d equally..."
How about a case where a Jew lives in a land of few if any Jews, and the Jew's relationship with a non-Jewish woman is the only catalyst in his life teaching him various Biblical concepts (regardless of her faith being Christian) to the extent that the Jew is made curious enough to begin a search to reclaim his Torah and heritage, and then takes it upon himself to read the entire Torah and begin seeking guidance from more knowledgeable Jews? (thanks to the internet now making such communications commonplace).
Isn't it possible that G-d truly works in mysterious ways?
One of my very favorite movies of all time: "The Left Hand of G-d" starring Humphrey Bogart...a brilliant story of how G-d can even make use of sin in His Work of redemption.
Such things do happen. After the fact we can look back to see how it was for the greater good. The Talmud says that a Baal Teshuvah (one who returned to the way of the Torah after leading another kind of life) is on an even higher level than the Tzaddik.
Does this mean we should go do sins so we can to teshuva and reach this level?
Absolutely not.
We can only do this looking back. Looking forward we are not allowed to test ourselves or place ourselves in a position of sin.
But we should look to take what we have already done and learn it's lessons and try to turn that experience into something positive. Something that deepens our connection to G-d. Absolutely.
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This is interesting. Is the Makas Mardus still instituted today? I have not heard of it being used ever in my lifetime. Will it return in the future?
What if someone did something that could lead to Makas Mardus today what would happen to them? I'm talking about a "Jew" (supposedly but his Jewishness is in question) who briefly went out with a shiksa...and they were was yichud involved. The gentile woman broke it off eventually because she did not want a relationship with a Jew (even if it's possible that he wasn't).
It doesn't exist today because we don't have a Sanhedrin. But G-d finds a way to deliver the punishment through other means when necessary. But never forget that teshuva (return to G-d or true repentence) can wash away all these sins and a person can avoid the punishment that way.
I imagine makas mardus will be reinstated when the Moshiach comes and the Sanhedrin is reinstituted but something tells me we won't have that great a need for these punishments. I think people will want to do the right thing on their own at that time.
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Noahides (non-Jews) are allowed to have marital relations without marriage.
It may even be preferable to just move in with a girlfriend and specifically state that you are NOT married to avoid the very strict consequences of adultery (the death penalty).
Even being allowed by Hallacha, if a Noahide has a relation with a woman, but no marriage, no steady family? Who would take care of the child they may have? And if they use a contraceptive (even a contraceptive not forbidden by the Noahide Law), wouldn't it be to pervert the purpose of sexual relations, which are meant to preserve human race on earth? What do you think?
Do you have an answer for my question? BTW, what's better for a married couple who have already many children and can't afford another? Use a permitted contraceptive, or abstain from sexual relations?
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Noahides (non-Jews) are allowed to have marital relations without marriage.
It may even be preferable to just move in with a girlfriend and specifically state that you are NOT married to avoid the very strict consequences of adultery (the death penalty).
Even being allowed by Hallacha, if a Noahide has a relation with a woman, but no marriage, no steady family? Who would take care of the child they may have? And if they use a contraceptive (even a contraceptive not forbidden by the Noahide Law), wouldn't it be to pervert the purpose of sexual relations, which are meant to preserve human race on earth? What do you think?
Do you have an answer for my question? BTW, what's better for a married couple who have already many children and can't afford another? Use a permitted contraceptive, or abstain from sexual relations?
Raul I see your question. I'm just want to check with a senior Rabbinic authority before I respond so I don't say something wrong. Alright?
I see everyone's questions. If I don't answer it is probably for the above reason so just be patient.
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Noahides (non-Jews) are allowed to have marital relations without marriage.
It may even be preferable to just move in with a girlfriend and specifically state that you are NOT married to avoid the very strict consequences of adultery (the death penalty).
Even being allowed by Hallacha, if a Noahide has a relation with a woman, but no marriage, no steady family? Who would take care of the child they may have? And if they use a contraceptive (even a contraceptive not forbidden by the Noahide Law), wouldn't it be to pervert the purpose of sexual relations, which are meant to preserve human race on earth? What do you think?
Okay Raul.
Let me try to clarify a few things. Non-Jews can get away with a LOT under the Noahide laws. This does not mean, however, that donig certain things they are allowed to do, is the best thing for them to do.
Ideally a Noahide should get married and have children. No contraception.
We were talking about whether we were going to punish a non-Jews for premartial sex which is another issue.
I then made the point (hopefully it was clear ) that if someone WILL NOT get married, having a girlfriend would be preferable to masturbation. But the best thing is to get married and have kids, make no mistake about it.
If this boyfriend and girlfriend have a child they should be responsible to take care of that child. Will this be the best things for the child?
Probably not. The best thing would be if they would marry and give the child a stable home.
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Noahides (non-Jews) are allowed to have marital relations without marriage.
It may even be preferable to just move in with a girlfriend and specifically state that you are NOT married to avoid the very strict consequences of adultery (the death penalty).
Even being allowed by Hallacha, if a Noahide has a relation with a woman, but no marriage, no steady family? Who would take care of the child they may have? And if they use a contraceptive (even a contraceptive not forbidden by the Noahide Law), wouldn't it be to pervert the purpose of sexual relations, which are meant to preserve human race on earth? What do you think?
Do you have an answer for my question? BTW, what's better for a married couple who have already many children and can't afford another? Use a permitted contraceptive, or abstain from sexual relations?
For Jews financial distress is not a very strong reason to give a dispensation for use of a contraceptive. The notion that "I cannot afford another child" can often be a self-fulfillilng prophesy. Most people could afford another if they planned smart and worked harder.
The rules on contraceptive are more lenient for Noahides but it's still not a good thing. Abstaining from sexual relations might be an even worse thing.
I know that's not a clear answer but I hope that at least steers you in the right direction.
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Shalom Lubab,
can you just tell me the outline of- what is the Halacha of lets say a Jewish couple has a few kids (or one), but doesn't want to have more kids at a certain time, I was wondering if having relations but using something to prevent pregnancy is allowed or not.
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Shalom Lubab,
can you just tell me the outline of- what is the Halacha of lets say a Jewish couple has a few kids (or one), but doesn't want to have more kids at a certain time, I was wondering if having relations but using something to prevent pregnancy is allowed or not.
Shalom Tzvi and welcome to the Ask Lubab "Show",
This kind of thing needs to be handled on a case by case basis. The particular couple needs to ask a competent Rov and describe their own particular situation.
As a general rule birth control pills will always be preferable to condoms which are (to my knowledge) never permitted.
As a general rule the bigger the chance that the woman can get pregnant the more likely the Rov is to allow that kind of birth control.
As a general rule money is not a good excuse to stop having kids.
As a general rule the main reason women can get a dispensation to use birth control aside from health reasons is because they think they will go insane if they have any more kids.
The problem here is wasting seed which is a big problem for Jews and a problem for Noahides too though not to the same extent.
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Shalom Lubab,
can you just tell me the outline of- what is the Halacha of lets say a Jewish couple has a few kids (or one), but doesn't want to have more kids at a certain time, I was wondering if having relations but using something to prevent pregnancy is allowed or not.
Shalom Tzvi and welcome to the Ask Lubab "Show",
This kind of thing needs to be handled on a case by case basis. The particular couple needs to ask a competent Rov and describe their own particular situation.
As a general rule birth control pills will always be preferable to condoms which are (to my knowledge) never permitted.
As a general rule the bigger the chance that the woman can get pregnant the more likely the Rov is to allow that kind of birth control.
As a general rule money is not a good excuse to stop having kids.
As a general rule the main reason women can get a dispensation to use birth control aside from health reasons is because they think they will go insane if they have any more kids.
The problem here is wasting seed which is a big problem for Jews and a problem for Noahides too though not to the same extent.
Thanks, I was just asking out of curiosity, because I haven't learnt about these things because om not ready to get married.
What if the women wants more ( ;D , its one of those wonders of life expecially after the first one), but the man doesn't, and why isn't financing an issue? Everything costs a lot of $ these days, he doesn't want to live on charity, and wants to send his children to the best Yeshiva's. (thats after the fact that he has at least 2 children (One male and one female) which can reproduce (G-d willing), which fullfils the Mitzva.
As a side note, (something I just remembered), why didn't the latest Lubavitch Rabbi have kids? Why didn't he just get another wife for himself?
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Good show, Lubab. Interesting questions. O0
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why didn't the latest Lubavitch Rabbi have kids? Why didn't he just get another wife for himself?
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I'm really not sure. He knew a heck of a lot more Torah than I do so I know he had a good justification. He was a very meticulous observer of halacha in all respects. Maybe he knew he was not meant to have children. He always said that his chassidim are his children, but that doesn't really answer the question.
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What if the women wants more ( ;D , its one of those wonders of life expecially after the first one), but the man doesn't, and why isn't financing an issue? Everything costs a lot of $ these days, he doesn't want to live on charity, and wants to send his children to the best Yeshiva's. (thats after the fact that he has at least 2 children (One male and one female) which can reproduce (G-d willing), which fullfils the Mitzva.
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Talk about how many kids you want to have before you get married so you don't have this problem.
The sin of wasting seed is very serious. It's akin to murder at a more refined level of looking at things.
So we don't cast aside this prohibition lightly for things like money and convenience. Life takes precedence over these things.
There is also a more general point to be made here:
As Jews we believe G-d runs the world and if He feels you are ready for the gift of the child and His torah says you should have the child, He also knows that you can handle the child and it's an affront to Him to say you are not interested in His gifts or that you can handle it financially or otherwise in your opinion. In G-d's opinion you can handle it so "step it up a notch and make it work" is what we'll tell him in most cases.
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Yea, but then their should be maybe over 20 kids per family. If a married couple has 3 or 4 kids, what should prevent them from having 10 or 20? What limit should their be then?
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Yea, but then their should be maybe over 20 kids per family. If a married couple has 3 or 4 kids, what should prevent them from having 10 or 20? What limit should their be then?
I'm very much in favor of big families. I think they are wonderful. If parents learn how to raise them properly the older ones help with the younger ones and everyone is better and more mature for it. When done right the kids come out great. I've seen this in the field.
Even with no birth control whatsoever the most I've seen among people I know is 16 kids.
But the bottom line here is: people always are capable of so much more then they give themselves credit for. People (myself included) impose so many limitations on their abilities that don't really exist. This is true when it comes to children and it's true in just about every other aspect of life.
I think people should have as many kids as they can and accept as many gifts as G-d is willing to give them.
I heard a story once that a frum woman who just had her 7th baby or something like that and the neighbor asked her in a demeaning way : "so how many more are you going to have already"
She looked at him and said "six-million".
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It doesn't exist today because we don't have a Sanhedrin. But G-d finds a way to deliver the punishment through other means when necessary. But never forget that teshuva (return to G-d or true repentence) can wash away all these sins and a person can avoid the punishment that way.
I imagine makas mardus will be reinstated when the Moshiach comes and the Sanhedrin is reinstituted but something tells me we won't have that great a need for these punishments. I think people will want to do the right thing on their own at that time.
Thanks for your answer. You are so right.
BTW, about the current discussion about how many children people should have, I hope I also have 6 million children!
I hope you do too Mills. Sounds good to me.
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lubab what do you think about the custom to spit on a church when you pass it. i know that many chassidim spit on the floor when they say "shehem mishtachvim le havel verik". do you do this custom?
thank you, shimon
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lubab what do you think about the custom to spit on a church when you pass it. i know that many chassidim spit on the floor when they say "shehem mishtachvim le havel verik". do you do this custom?
thank you, shimon
Hi shimon. I've never heard of the custom to spit when passing a church, though I think I might have heard something about saying a particular passuk.
Yes I do spit at that part in Alienu. This custom of chassidim is written up in the Rebbe's Hayom Yom.
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Lubab, I was wondering what you thought of the Yeshivish Lakewood type jews. They are famous for their hatred of Lubavitch as their original Rabbi was very anti Lubavitch. "Rabbi" Kotler was famous for publicly spreading lies about the lubavitcher rebbe. I think that he was vile.
Well I don't take insults from such people very seriously. Rambam says that if an adult serves G-d because they want to go to Olam Haba they are an "Am Haaretz" (ignoramous). So when an ignoramous insults my group, I don't take it very seriously.
I have personally spoken with many litvaks who freely admitted to me that their observance of the Torah is based on their desire to get into Olam Haba. I would venture to say that most of the students in Lakewood-type yeshivot also feel this way.
As far as Shach, the Rebbe didn't think much of him and neither do I. He was rejected when he applied to be a Rosh Yeshiva for a Chabad yeshiva long before he was very famous because he didn't know Talmud Yerushalmi well enough. I feel he had a personal vendetta against Chabad ever since then which was the source of his vile and nearly always unfounded attacks against the Rebbe and Chabad.
With all that said, they are Jews, and I love each one of them with a full heart, screwed up though they may be.
We should note that not all Litvak Rabbis are or were like this. Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik had a wonderful relationship with the Rebbe and attended several of his farbrengens and raved about them.
The former Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir (forgot his name) also used to speak glowingly about the Rebbe's Gaonus (genius) in Torah knowledge.
Rabbi Yosef Ber Soloveitchik?ZT"L. I am suprised, I figured that since he was from the Soloveitchik dynasty, who are the epitamy of Mitnagdim, he would be as mitnagdish (if thats a word) as you can get.
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Lubab, I was wondering what you thought of the Yeshivish Lakewood type jews. They are famous for their hatred of Lubavitch as their original Rabbi was very anti Lubavitch. "Rabbi" Kotler was famous for publicly spreading lies about the lubavitcher rebbe. I think that he was vile.
Well I don't take insults from such people very seriously. Rambam says that if an adult serves G-d because they want to go to Olam Haba they are an "Am Haaretz" (ignoramous). So when an ignoramous insults my group, I don't take it very seriously.
I have personally spoken with many litvaks who freely admitted to me that their observance of the Torah is based on their desire to get into Olam Haba. I would venture to say that most of the students in Lakewood-type yeshivot also feel this way.
As far as Shach, the Rebbe didn't think much of him and neither do I. He was rejected when he applied to be a Rosh Yeshiva for a Chabad yeshiva long before he was very famous because he didn't know Talmud Yerushalmi well enough. I feel he had a personal vendetta against Chabad ever since then which was the source of his vile and nearly always unfounded attacks against the Rebbe and Chabad.
With all that said, they are Jews, and I love each one of them with a full heart, screwed up though they may be.
We should note that not all Litvak Rabbis are or were like this. Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik had a wonderful relationship with the Rebbe and attended several of his farbrengens and raved about them.
The former Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir (forgot his name) also used to speak glowingly about the Rebbe's Gaonus (genius) in Torah knowledge.
Rabbi Yosef Ber Soloveitchik?ZT"L. I am suprised, I figured that since he was from the Soloveitchik dynasty, who are the epitamy of Mitnagdim, he would be as mitnagdish (if thats a word) as you can get.
So? Shivim Panim L'Torah! The Rebbe and the Rov were both big fans of each other.
(http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7793/therebbeandtherav2jz4.png)
(http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4330/therebbeandtheravqe5.png)
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Congratulations Lubab,
Your Ask Lubab segment seems to be a hit with our members... O0
Q: What do you recommend for a Long and Happy Life?
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Congratulations Lubab,
Your Ask Lubab segment seems to be a hit with our members... O0
Q: What do you recommend for a Long and Happy Life?
Thanks Dan!
What a great question.
So much to say. There are so many things that go into a happy and long life and each person has their own challenges they need to work on to achieve that. The Torah of course hold that key to a long and happy life. But look how many books it takes to explain what the Torah is trying to tell us to do?
When we boil it all down to its essentials we come to the following conclusion:
"What is hateful to you, don't do onto others". That's really the key to a happy and long life.
Sounds so simple and yet almost nobody gets it right.
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Great answer! Thanks so much. On the marketing side of things we live in a society in the USA with so much religious corruption. In LA, Baltimore, NYC... where ever, there are inner city churches on the verge of bankruptcy that have little old ladies giving every extra penny they have to the church while the pastor drives around in a fancy car and lives in a rich suburban enclave. So when outsiders read a line about giving money to a good cause and G-d will bless you they become suspicious because it appears that the majority of people who use that line in the USA are incredibly corrupt. Here at JTF we are trying to attract new people and that probably is not the best line for new people, but if the old people properly understand it like you explained then they will be more likely to give money that can be used to attract new people in different ways.
Now 2 more questions.
1. Do you come from a religious family?
2. If you encountered a 30 year old Jewish male who wanted to become more religious but he had some problems, what problem would you tell him to eliminate first in order to become more religious? Here are his problems:
a. Unmarried
b. Has had relations with non-jewish women and continues to do so
c. Does not Keep Kosher
d. Does not Keep the sabbath
e. Does not goto an Orthodox Shul, only goes to Shul on: High Holidays, to avoid the fast of the first born before Passover, and on Shavuot
f. Does not Study Torah
Keep in mind some of these problems are easier to eliminate than others. It is also noteworthy to mention that he has already eliminated Pig and Crab from his diet, he has always fasted on yom kippor, he fasts on Tisha B'av, he gives to Jewish charity on occasion, a Lubavitch rabbi gave him a mezuzah that he properly put on his front door entance.
Thanks
Not knowing this person it's a difficult thing to answer.
In general he should focus on doing positive things before stopping himself from doing negative things.
In general he should focus on things that are easy for him to do and things that he is excited about. This will make the more difficult things less difficult.
I would put regular laying of tefillin at the top of the list of positive things he could do if he is willing to do that.
After that I would put Torah learning, and keeping Kosher. All three of those are part of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 10 mitzvah campaigns which were geared to help fix up the world so all three of those are wonderful things to start doing.
Whatt :o , with all due respect I thought its the exact opposite. Whats Tefillin worth if one is sleeping with a gentile women (the worst sin in Judaism), I agree that the first positive thing one should do is learn Torah but thats because by learning Torah one is able to understand the mistakes and do Tishuva G-d willing.
Anyway in Judaism isn't it better not doing a sin, then doing a Mitzva.
I would think that not doing the Averot would come first (right away without an exception, stop sleeping with women, both not married Jewish and gentile women) and keeping Shabbat - which is the covenent between the Jewish nation and G-d, repeatedly mentioned in the Torah and to learn Torah which will open the mind and soul and would give the person the chance of making Real Tishuva.
Why is sleeping with a Non Jewish women the worst sin? A non Jew isnt a Niddah, and A niddah is deoraytah, and a Jewish lasy not married and not from mikveh is always a niddah.
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Lubab, I was wondering what you thought of the Yeshivish Lakewood type jews. They are famous for their hatred of Lubavitch as their original Rabbi was very anti Lubavitch. "Rabbi" Kotler was famous for publicly spreading lies about the lubavitcher rebbe. I think that he was vile.
Well I don't take insults from such people very seriously. Rambam says that if an adult serves G-d because they want to go to Olam Haba they are an "Am Haaretz" (ignoramous). So when an ignoramous insults my group, I don't take it very seriously.
I have personally spoken with many litvaks who freely admitted to me that their observance of the Torah is based on their desire to get into Olam Haba. I would venture to say that most of the students in Lakewood-type yeshivot also feel this way.
As far as Shach, the Rebbe didn't think much of him and neither do I. He was rejected when he applied to be a Rosh Yeshiva for a Chabad yeshiva long before he was very famous because he didn't know Talmud Yerushalmi well enough. I feel he had a personal vendetta against Chabad ever since then which was the source of his vile and nearly always unfounded attacks against the Rebbe and Chabad.
With all that said, they are Jews, and I love each one of them with a full heart, screwed up though they may be.
We should note that not all Litvak Rabbis are or were like this. Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik had a wonderful relationship with the Rebbe and attended several of his farbrengens and raved about them.
The former Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir (forgot his name) also used to speak glowingly about the Rebbe's Gaonus (genius) in Torah knowledge.
Rabbi Yosef Ber Soloveitchik?ZT"L. I am suprised, I figured that since he was from the Soloveitchik dynasty, who are the epitamy of Mitnagdim, he would be as mitnagdish (if thats a word) as you can get.
So? Shivim Panim L'Torah! The Rebbe and the Rov were both big fans of each other.
(http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7793/therebbeandtherav2jz4.png)
(http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4330/therebbeandtheravqe5.png)
Thats great. Im in the process od reading the Rav's writings, and I am planning on attending YU next year. Lubab, what are your thoughts about Yeshiva University?
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Congratulations Lubab,
Your Ask Lubab segment seems to be a hit with our members... O0
Q: What do you recommend for a Long and Happy Life?
Thanks Dan!
What a great question.
So much to say. There are so many things that go into a happy and long life and each person has their own challenges they need to work on to achieve that. The Torah of course hold that key to a long and happy life. But look how many books it takes to explain what the Torah is trying to tell us to do?
When we boil it all down to its essentials we come to the following conclusion:
"What is hateful to you, don't do onto others". That's really the key to a happy and long life.
Sounds so simple and yet almost nobody gets it right.
I just want to add a couple of things because while my answer above is true it doesn't usually hit home with people about what they are supposed to do.
So here are some "other" things you should do to have a happy and long life:
a) Search for the Truth
b) Try to Live the Truth
c) Be willing to fight for the Truth
d) Play your life like it's a game. And play the game like it's your life. Fight for what is right, but no matter what happens realize that it is all part of G-d's plan, so enjoy it!
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Lubab, I was wondering what you thought of the Yeshivish Lakewood type jews. They are famous for their hatred of Lubavitch as their original Rabbi was very anti Lubavitch. "Rabbi" Kotler was famous for publicly spreading lies about the lubavitcher rebbe. I think that he was vile.
Well I don't take insults from such people very seriously. Rambam says that if an adult serves G-d because they want to go to Olam Haba they are an "Am Haaretz" (ignoramous). So when an ignoramous insults my group, I don't take it very seriously.
I have personally spoken with many litvaks who freely admitted to me that their observance of the Torah is based on their desire to get into Olam Haba. I would venture to say that most of the students in Lakewood-type yeshivot also feel this way.
As far as Shach, the Rebbe didn't think much of him and neither do I. He was rejected when he applied to be a Rosh Yeshiva for a Chabad yeshiva long before he was very famous because he didn't know Talmud Yerushalmi well enough. I feel he had a personal vendetta against Chabad ever since then which was the source of his vile and nearly always unfounded attacks against the Rebbe and Chabad.
With all that said, they are Jews, and I love each one of them with a full heart, screwed up though they may be.
We should note that not all Litvak Rabbis are or were like this. Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik had a wonderful relationship with the Rebbe and attended several of his farbrengens and raved about them.
The former Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir (forgot his name) also used to speak glowingly about the Rebbe's Gaonus (genius) in Torah knowledge.
Rabbi Yosef Ber Soloveitchik?ZT"L. I am suprised, I figured that since he was from the Soloveitchik dynasty, who are the epitamy of Mitnagdim, he would be as mitnagdish (if thats a word) as you can get.
So? Shivim Panim L'Torah! The Rebbe and the Rov were both big fans of each other.
(http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7793/therebbeandtherav2jz4.png)
(http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4330/therebbeandtheravqe5.png)
Thats great. Im in the process od reading the Rav's writings, and I am planning on attending YU next year. Lubab, what are your thoughts about Yeshiva University?
I went there myself for two years. It's hard to give an easy answer. I disagree with the whole Torah and Maddah philsophy. I believe there is no greater Madda than Torah.
Yet YU gives frum people a chance to get a degree in a (slightly more) kosher environment.
Your experience will depend greatly on what "group" you decide to be a part of. They fall into neat categories at YU: white shirt, zionist with the sandals, not so frum etc.
The secular professors are very qualified but VERY left wing in the social sciences department. Get ready for big debates. But don't debate too much if you want a good grade.
I suppose the professors would be even more left wing in any other major university in New York but I would expect better from YU.
With all of that said, it's still nice to be able to go to college and have mezuzot on every doorpost.
P.S. They also waste TONS of money that could be used to help the Jewish people. They receive donations in the millions of dollars and I have no clue where it all goes. They could've saved Israel many times over with their cash and the fact that they instead use it to try to impress the gentiles with their fancy buildings and professors is quite sickening if I really think about it.
Chaim's got some more dirt of them he can tell you if you ask on AskJTF.
Use the school for what it's worth if you can afford it (super expensive) and I think you'll be okay.
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Great answer! Thanks so much. On the marketing side of things we live in a society in the USA with so much religious corruption. In LA, Baltimore, NYC... where ever, there are inner city churches on the verge of bankruptcy that have little old ladies giving every extra penny they have to the church while the pastor drives around in a fancy car and lives in a rich suburban enclave. So when outsiders read a line about giving money to a good cause and G-d will bless you they become suspicious because it appears that the majority of people who use that line in the USA are incredibly corrupt. Here at JTF we are trying to attract new people and that probably is not the best line for new people, but if the old people properly understand it like you explained then they will be more likely to give money that can be used to attract new people in different ways.
Now 2 more questions.
1. Do you come from a religious family?
2. If you encountered a 30 year old Jewish male who wanted to become more religious but he had some problems, what problem would you tell him to eliminate first in order to become more religious? Here are his problems:
a. Unmarried
b. Has had relations with non-jewish women and continues to do so
c. Does not Keep Kosher
d. Does not Keep the sabbath
e. Does not goto an Orthodox Shul, only goes to Shul on: High Holidays, to avoid the fast of the first born before Passover, and on Shavuot
f. Does not Study Torah
Keep in mind some of these problems are easier to eliminate than others. It is also noteworthy to mention that he has already eliminated Pig and Crab from his diet, he has always fasted on yom kippor, he fasts on Tisha B'av, he gives to Jewish charity on occasion, a Lubavitch rabbi gave him a mezuzah that he properly put on his front door entance.
Thanks
Not knowing this person it's a difficult thing to answer.
In general he should focus on doing positive things before stopping himself from doing negative things.
In general he should focus on things that are easy for him to do and things that he is excited about. This will make the more difficult things less difficult.
I would put regular laying of tefillin at the top of the list of positive things he could do if he is willing to do that.
After that I would put Torah learning, and keeping Kosher. All three of those are part of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 10 mitzvah campaigns which were geared to help fix up the world so all three of those are wonderful things to start doing.
Whatt :o , with all due respect I thought its the exact opposite. Whats Tefillin worth if one is sleeping with a gentile women (the worst sin in Judaism), I agree that the first positive thing one should do is learn Torah but thats because by learning Torah one is able to understand the mistakes and do Tishuva G-d willing.
Anyway in Judaism isn't it better not doing a sin, then doing a Mitzva.
I would think that not doing the Averot would come first (right away without an exception, stop sleeping with women, both not married Jewish and gentile women) and keeping Shabbat - which is the covenent between the Jewish nation and G-d, repeatedly mentioned in the Torah and to learn Torah which will open the mind and soul and would give the person the chance of making Real Tishuva.
Why is sleeping with a Non Jewish women the worst sin? A non Jew isnt a Niddah, and A niddah is deoraytah, and a Jewish lasy not married and not from mikveh is always a niddah.
According to the Zohar (If you listined to the lecture "intermarriage" also "Gan Eden Baal Tishuva Pinchas" (something like that)- on Torahanytime.com - R' Mizrai's page.
Also about college- either skipp it alltogether, im their 3rd year and still dont whats the purpose (the best to skipp it, expecially your syrian you got connections), or just go to community college, which is cheap and much easier then other places and then transfer to another better city college. Why waste all that $ for nothing.
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Great answer! Thanks so much. On the marketing side of things we live in a society in the USA with so much religious corruption. In LA, Baltimore, NYC... where ever, there are inner city churches on the verge of bankruptcy that have little old ladies giving every extra penny they have to the church while the pastor drives around in a fancy car and lives in a rich suburban enclave. So when outsiders read a line about giving money to a good cause and G-d will bless you they become suspicious because it appears that the majority of people who use that line in the USA are incredibly corrupt. Here at JTF we are trying to attract new people and that probably is not the best line for new people, but if the old people properly understand it like you explained then they will be more likely to give money that can be used to attract new people in different ways.
Now 2 more questions.
1. Do you come from a religious family?
2. If you encountered a 30 year old Jewish male who wanted to become more religious but he had some problems, what problem would you tell him to eliminate first in order to become more religious? Here are his problems:
a. Unmarried
b. Has had relations with non-jewish women and continues to do so
c. Does not Keep Kosher
d. Does not Keep the sabbath
e. Does not goto an Orthodox Shul, only goes to Shul on: High Holidays, to avoid the fast of the first born before Passover, and on Shavuot
f. Does not Study Torah
Keep in mind some of these problems are easier to eliminate than others. It is also noteworthy to mention that he has already eliminated Pig and Crab from his diet, he has always fasted on yom kippor, he fasts on Tisha B'av, he gives to Jewish charity on occasion, a Lubavitch rabbi gave him a mezuzah that he properly put on his front door entance.
Thanks
Not knowing this person it's a difficult thing to answer.
In general he should focus on doing positive things before stopping himself from doing negative things.
In general he should focus on things that are easy for him to do and things that he is excited about. This will make the more difficult things less difficult.
I would put regular laying of tefillin at the top of the list of positive things he could do if he is willing to do that.
After that I would put Torah learning, and keeping Kosher. All three of those are part of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 10 mitzvah campaigns which were geared to help fix up the world so all three of those are wonderful things to start doing.
Whatt :o , with all due respect I thought its the exact opposite. Whats Tefillin worth if one is sleeping with a gentile women (the worst sin in Judaism), I agree that the first positive thing one should do is learn Torah but thats because by learning Torah one is able to understand the mistakes and do Tishuva G-d willing.
Anyway in Judaism isn't it better not doing a sin, then doing a Mitzva.
I would think that not doing the Averot would come first (right away without an exception, stop sleeping with women, both not married Jewish and gentile women) and keeping Shabbat - which is the covenent between the Jewish nation and G-d, repeatedly mentioned in the Torah and to learn Torah which will open the mind and soul and would give the person the chance of making Real Tishuva.
Why is sleeping with a Non Jewish women the worst sin? A non Jew isnt a Niddah, and A niddah is deoraytah, and a Jewish lasy not married and not from mikveh is always a niddah.
According to the Zohar (If you listined to the lecture "intermarriage" also "Gan Eden Baal Tishuva Pinchas" (something like that)- on Torahanytime.com - R' Mizrai's page.
Also about college- either skipp it alltogether, im their 3rd year and still dont whats the purpose (the best to skipp it, expecially your syrian you got connections), or just go to community college, which is cheap and much easier then other places and then transfer to another better city college. Why waste all that $ for nothing.
There is definitely some merit to skipping college. On the other hand it's nice to be 'ejumicated'.
I've heard about that Zohar but remember that Zohar speaks at a very refined view of things. It also says masturbation is murder but it means that in a very refined sense-we dont' kill people for doing it.
So at the basic halachic legal level sleeping with a shiksa is in no way the worst sin in Judaism.
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I dont want to go back to that discussion, I has been discussed in the past, and you can listin to the shiur. But it is one of the worst, and according to the Zohar it is the worst, according to Talmud its a Nidda, but both speak out agains't it, and even in Tannah we see that it is something very bad, and the hero- Pinhas Alav Hashalom kills Zimri and the shiksa for this dispicible act. If you want to talk halacha then- someone who is zealous for Hashe-m is even allowed in todays age to kill someone who does this act (but during the act itself, not before or after) and this is Pshat, not a remez, etc.
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I dont want to go back to that discussion, I has been discussed in the past, and you can listin to the shiur. But it is one of the worst, and according to the Zohar it is the worst, according to Talmud its a Nidda, but both speak out agains't it, and even in Tannah we see that it is something very bad, and the hero- Pinhas Alav Hashalom kills Zimri and the shiksa for this dispicible act. If you want to talk halacha then- someone who is zealous for Hashem is even allowed in todays age to kill someone who does this act (but during the act itself, not before or after) and this is Pshat, not a remez, etc.
Ok. I'll agree with that.
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As a side note, I don't think that the government should be regulating marriage at all. They can give civil benefits to couples in a civil manner, but should not get involved in who is married, and requiring marriage licenses etc. Ideally this should be handled by the ecclesiastical authorities as was done all over the world until our very recent history.
Without a legal system of marriage, how are insurance companies and employers supposed to decide who to give benefits to? What about gay people who find left-wing ministers to bond them?
I heard a story once that a frum woman who just had her 7th baby or something like that and the neighbor asked her in a demeaning way : "so how many more are you going to have already"
She looked at him and said "six-million".
Great answer :)
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rabbi what do you think about evolution. I know the rebbe was against it, but today there seems to be so much evidence to prove that evolution is true.
Can you please tell me if in any way some ideas of evolutionn are infact compatible with the torah
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rabbi what do you think about evolution. I know the rebbe was against it, but today there seems to be so much evidence to prove that evolution is true.
Can you please tell me if in any way some ideas of evolutionn are infact compatible with the torah
Is there really so much evidence?
The "evidence" involves major extrapolation, the same sort of assumptions that led people to believe the world is flat e.g. if it's flat from here to the next mile, it must be flat the next mile too etc.
I'm not sure what aspect of evolution you're talking about but if it's men from apes, the sceintists got it backwards. Apes devolved from man. G-d turned Kain into an ape when he killed Abel.
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Hi Lubab- long time no c.
I was just wondering about something, already a long time, but maybe you can answer it.
I think I read somewhere online, and I think it was a writing from the late Lubavitcher Rebbe. If I am correct, he wrote that we shouldn't pray for Jews to make Tishuva because if for example one says please G-d let person X make Tishuva by keeping Shabbat or keeeping Kashrut, etc. etc. you invoke Dinim (Judgements) agains't the person.
Is this true, or did I read wrong into it? Also what should we do besides spreading Torah to Am Yisrael, in helping people including ourselves make a full, proper Tishuva no matter what level we are in. Also should we pray for people or not? Sometimes when I pray (personal prayer) I say for example "Please Hashem , may you have mercy on your people, may Jews return to you in truth, and may every Jew be shown the truth, but not through Judgements, but through your (extra) Kindness. And may the whole World proclaim your Oneness,that you are G-d, and that your Torah is Emet (truth), and your nation (of Israel) is Emet." Is this okay?
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Hi Lubab- long time no c.
I was just wondering about something, already a long time, but maybe you can answer it.
I think I read somewhere online, and I think it was a writing from the late Lubavitcher Rebbe. If I am correct, he wrote that we shouldn't pray for Jews to make Tishuva because if for example one says please G-d let person X make Tishuva by keeping Shabbat or keeeping Kashrut, etc. etc. you invoke Dinim (Judgements) agains't the person.
Is this true, or did I read wrong into it? Also what should we do besides spreading Torah to Am Yisrael, in helping people including ourselves make a full, proper Tishuva no matter what level we are in. Also should we pray for people or not? Sometimes when I pray (personal prayer) I say for example "Please Hashem , may you have mercy on your people, may Jews return to you in truth, and may every Jew be shown the truth, but not through Judgements, but through your (extra) Kindness. And may the whole World proclaim your Oneness,that you are G-d, and that your Torah is Emet (truth), and your nation (of Israel) is Emet." Is this okay?
Good to hear from you Tzvi,
I am nearly certain the Rebbe has not said such a thing as there is a clear Talmudic directive to pray for the return of the wicked. (can try to get the source upon request...story involving R' Akiva and some bandits I believe). Further, in our davening the word "VeSachnia" in the Amida is a prayer for some evil people to repent and in Aleinu we clearly pray "Lehafnot Aleicha KOL Rishei Aretz" (may ALL the the evil people turn to G-d). The Rebbe has spoken about these passages on several occasions.
The personal prayer you write there sounds very similar to one we say on Yom Kippur with a touch of the Aleinu prayer. It may be good, but I try to stick to the exact language Chazal have laid out for my prayers in general plus tehillim of course as their exact formulations are tied to deeper meanings that we don't always know about. There is a time for personal prayers but in those situations we speak from the heart, and don't try to come up with our own set formulations. I personally think what you came up with there is great, but who am I to say that should be an established prayer?
P.S. You might have been thinking of the statement of the Baal Shem Tov who says Lashon Hara is bad for "3 people": the speaker, the listener and the one spoken about. The question is raised, why is the one who was spoken about being punished? What did he do wrong? He answers that now that one has brought that sinners sins to light by speaking about it to others, G-d must now judge him for those sins to prevent a Chillul Hashem whereas He could have been more lenient had the sin remained a private matter.
To do a proper teshuva one must figure out what he's been doing wrong, confess and make a firm commitment not to do it in the future. It's a specific process and one shouldn't take on everything at once. Everyone needs to pick one thing that they know they should be doing better and start making small changes each day to correct that trait and soon it will become second nature for them to do the right thing. Issues involving treating our fellow man are of paramount importance as it was Sinat Chinam which caused this Galut.
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Congratulations Lubab,
Your Ask Lubab segment seems to be a hit with our members... O0
Q: What do you recommend for a Long and Happy Life?
Thanks Dan!
What a great question.
So much to say. There are so many things that go into a happy and long life and each person has their own challenges they need to work on to achieve that. The Torah of course hold that key to a long and happy life. But look how many books it takes to explain what the Torah is trying to tell us to do?
When we boil it all down to its essentials we come to the following conclusion:
"What is hateful to you, don't do onto others". That's really the key to a happy and long life.
Sounds so simple and yet almost nobody gets it right.
Thanks Lubab...
I've heard this before but never could fully understand it's meaning, because life move at you so fast you can't stop and think about others when your in pursuit. Nowadays, instant gratification is what people stive for and the multi-tasking world kind of keeps everyone in a tunnel vision mode.
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Yes. Depression, which is the opposite of happiness is really a person who focused all his energy in on himself. When our energies are focused outwards towards improving the world around us and helping others, this makes us happy. Of course we must take good care of ourselves, but doing so is only a tool to better help us fix up the world around us.
When our energies are directed outwards, towards a goal that is greater than just serving ourselves, we are happy, but when too much energy is focused in on ourselves we become introverted, narcassistic and depressed and will also cause a person health problems R"LTZ and he won't live as long because his life won't be something he really enjoys participating in.
The Torah aims to get us to act the first way. That's why it often says that "Tzedaka" (giving of yourself for others) is "THE mitzvah" the only mitzvah. It includes all the others.
Here's a great article me and R' Walters wrote about Happiness a while back: http://www.revealtheessence.com/readarticle.php?article_id=7
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Hi Lubab- long time no c.
I was just wondering about something, already a long time, but maybe you can answer it.
I think I read somewhere online, and I think it was a writing from the late Lubavitcher Rebbe. If I am correct, he wrote that we shouldn't pray for Jews to make Tishuva because if for example one says please G-d let person X make Tishuva by keeping Shabbat or keeeping Kashrut, etc. etc. you invoke Dinim (Judgements) agains't the person.
Is this true, or did I read wrong into it? Also what should we do besides spreading Torah to Am Yisrael, in helping people including ourselves make a full, proper Tishuva no matter what level we are in. Also should we pray for people or not? Sometimes when I pray (personal prayer) I say for example "Please Hashem , may you have mercy on your people, may Jews return to you in truth, and may every Jew be shown the truth, but not through Judgements, but through your (extra) Kindness. And may the whole World proclaim your Oneness,that you are G-d, and that your Torah is Emet (truth), and your nation (of Israel) is Emet." Is this okay?
Good to hear from you Tzvi,
I am nearly certain the Rebbe has not said such a thing as there is a clear Talmudic directive to pray for the return of the wicked. (can try to get the source upon request...story involving R' Akiva and some bandits I believe). Further, in our davening the word "VeSachnia" in the Amida is a prayer for some evil people to repent and in Aleinu we clearly pray "Lehafnot Aleicha KOL Rishei Aretz" (may ALL the the evil people turn to G-d). The Rebbe has spoken about these passages on several occasions.
The personal prayer you write there sounds very similar to one we say on Yom Kippur with a touch of the Aleinu prayer. It may be good, but I try to stick to the exact language Chazal have laid out for my prayers in general plus tehillim of course as their exact formulations are tied to deeper meanings that we don't always know about. There is a time for personal prayers but in those situations we speak from the heart, and don't try to come up with our own set formulations. I personally think what you came up with there is great, but who am I to say that should be an established prayer?
P.S. You might have been thinking of the statement of the Baal Shem Tov who says Lashon Hara is bad for "3 people": the speaker, the listener and the one spoken about. The question is raised, why is the one who was spoken about being punished? What did he do wrong? He answers that now that one has brought that sinners sins to light by speaking about it to others, G-d must now judge him for those sins to prevent a Chillul Hashem whereas He could have been more lenient had the sin remained a private matter.
To do a proper teshuva one must figure out what he's been doing wrong, confess and make a firm commitment not to do it in the future. It's a specific process and one shouldn't take on everything at once. Everyone needs to pick one thing that they know they should be doing better and start making small changes each day to correct that trait and soon it will become second nature for them to do the right thing. Issues involving treating our fellow man are of paramount importance as it was Sinat Chinam which caused this Galut.
Thanks for your answer.
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Dear Lubab:
What is your opinion of Pidyon Ha-Ben?
Should it still be a tradition now since there is no Temple right now and how many mohels are really legitimate Kohanim?
In addition what if a Jewish family is poor and cannot afford five silver coins?
Things like this turn-off many Jews from Judaism because it causes them to see religion as an organized scheme to steal them of their money.
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Dear Lubab:
What is your opinion of Pidyon Ha-Ben?
Should it still be a tradition now since there is no Temple right now and how many mohels are really legitimate Kohanim?
In addition what if a Jewish family is poor and cannot afford five silver coins?
Things like this turn-off many Jews from Judaism because it causes them to see religion as an organized scheme to steal them of their money.
Hi Maimonides,
With a name like that you should know that Pidyon Haben is not just a tradition.
It's one of the 613 commandments codified by the Rambam and in Rambam's Mishne Torah and Shulachan Aruch.. It's Jewish law.
It's also in the Torah so it's a Biblical commandment.
So it's something we really need to do whether we understand it or not and I don't believe the obligation to do it is annulled or changed in any way after the Temple is destroyed as the act is not really tied in any way to something that existed in the Temple.
It's quite obvious to anyone whose looked into it that it's not about getting peoples' money . It's a relatively rare event in a synagouge because a lot of requirements need to be met (C-section birth doesn't get one, first baby must be a boy etc.) and it's not that much money after all (about 60 bucks) plus the Kohen usually returns the coins to the father as a gift after the ceremony.
Anything in Judaism, or anything in any feild can seem stupid and become a turn-off or it can be very powerful and meaningful based on our perspective or how much we know about it.
Doing this is fulfiling a commandment of G-d and we are conncting to Him by doing what He wants, something that would never be possible had he not given us commandments like these.
There is also deeper meaning in the mitzvah if we are willing to look at it from the "inside" instead of just looking at it as an outsider.
A deeper meaning of this mitzvah is that we are meant to give our best (our firstborn) to the service of G-d. It means we need to use our greatest gifts talents and energies to fulfill our highest purposes, serving G-d, perfecting the world etc. and this really applies to everyone at all times.
Nobody is forcing anyone to do it if they don't see the value in it. We have free choice. Those who see the value in it are willing to pay for it.
Even a neccesary operation can seem vile and pointless to someone not at all familiar with medicine. Someone who know the benefits sees the importance and value and that's why they are willing to pay for it. Same thing here.
We do go to exta effort to find not just any Kohen, but a person who is known in the community to be a Kohen for at least three generations which gives him a legal presumption that he is a Kohen (They even found a genetic link between Kohanim, I heard).
Should we give up this holy commandment with all it's revealed and hidden benefits just because some who are not willing to look deeper into what's really going on will be turned off? I think the answer is pretty clear. Let's keep the commandment and educate ourselves and others about it instead.
P.S. You don't do it with the mohel or at the bris generally, you do it 31 days after birth.
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Rabbi Lubab,
What made you decide to be a Rabbi? Was there a certain event that happened in your life or did you make the decision over a long period of time?
-Shlomo
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Rabbi Lubab,
What made you decide to be a Rabbi? Was there a certain event that happened in your life or did you make the decision over a long period of time?
-Shlomo
Hi Shlomo! G-d bless you for everything you've done for JTF and the Jewish people. We are all eternally grateful.
Funnily enough Tina Greco asked me a similar question much earlier on in this thread.
I'll repost the question and answer here:
Quote from: Skippy on February 14, 2008, 05:48:11 PM
Lubab why did you choose to be a Rabbi?
Well I'm not a Rabbi by profession. I chose to do the studies to get Rabbinical ordination because the Lubavitcher Rebbe directed that every Jewish man should do this before they get married.
He gave a few reasons for this:
1. Because each Jewish man is the "Rabbi" in his home whether he likes it or not. You can't ask a Rabbi about everything, so at least the man should actually know what he's talking about.
2. It's also important to know WHEN you need to ask a Rabbi. If you don't know anything about halacha you don't know how to ask, when to ask, what to ask.
So basically because of the Rebbe's great concern that each Jewish home be run in accordance with Jewish law, he directed that everyone complete these studies.
I don't think I'm a big scholar at all. I'm the "de-facto" forum Rabbi because I happen to have this certificate, and nobody else seems to want the job. ;)
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Thank you, Rabbi.
We are so honored to have you on the forum and you are very humble and wise.
How long does it take to become a Rabbi? What is required?
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Thank you, Rabbi.
We are so honored to have you on the forum and you are very humble and wise.
How long does it take to become a Rabbi? What is required?
Thank you Shlomo I wish I was as wise as I might appear sometimes on here but in fact it's my Rabbi who is the wise one. I often go ask him the questions posted here and just parrot back what he says. Thanks anyway, though.
It depends on which yeshiva you plan to do your studies. In Chabad they know you will probably not make novel halachic rulings with your semicha without further study so the studies can technically be completed within a year which his how long it took for me to do it.
Most all shluchim will defer to the ruling of a senior paskeing (fully able to decide novel halachic issues) Rov if a novel question comes up. For a Chabad Rabbi to decide these issues they need another year of study plus a one year internship under such a paskening Rov making a total of 3 years.
So the first level of semicha which I have (called Yadin) involves learning the laws of milk and meat and other laws of kashrut, salting meat, some laws of kosher slaughter and the laws of Shabbat. Some programs will also require mastery of Chumash with Rashi. For Yadin Yadin (the paskening level) you need to learn the laws of the Jewish Court system among many other topics.
In a semicah program like YU they will require other courses like Jewish philosophy, history and public speaking but this really has little to do with semicha but just is helpful if you are going to be a Rabbi by profession. I believe their entire program is four years.
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Rabbi Lubab:
Thank you for the answer it really opened my mind.
P.S. You don't do it with the mohel or at the bris generally, you do it 31 days after birth.
Well a family member of mine was asked to get the silver coins ready right after the bris for their first-born son.
plus the Kohen usually returns the coins to the father as a gift after the ceremony.
In this case the rabbi said they keep the coins, perhaps Chabad Jews tends to be more generous than the "enlighten Jews" of "Conservative Judaism".
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Rabbi Lubab:
Thank you for the answer it really opened my mind.
P.S. You don't do it with the mohel or at the bris generally, you do it 31 days after birth.
Well a family member of mine was asked to get the silver coins ready right after the bris for their first-born son.
plus the Kohen usually returns the coins to the father as a gift after the ceremony.
In this case the rabbi said they keep the coins, perhaps Chabad Jews tends to be more generous than the "enlighten Jews" of "Conservative Judaism".
Sure! But doing it at the bris would only happen if they babies bris were delayed because the baby is sick and got better on that 31st day, so someone is probably trying to pull a fast one here.
I doubt consevative and Reform Jews do this right at all as they reject the Talmud which explains the details of how it's done.
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Dear Rabbi Lubab,
Is there any way, in your opinion, to somehow petition to have Nik back on the forum? :dance:
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Dear Rabbi Lubab,
Is there any way, in your opinion, to somehow petition to have Nik back on the forum? :dance:
Dear Rabbi Lubab, yes, I agree with MarZutra, my very dear brother, I miss Nik. I understand that Judaism comes under attack, as does all of the different denominations of Christianity.
With this being said... would you not agree that when we have faith in HaShem it is personal also? It does not bother me, if people attack Judaism, b/c I KNOW MY G-D, who is NOT contained by anything. I pray that BOTH you & Nik would please perhaps do youtubes together.
I also have to ask if you also agree with Rabbi Kahanes: "Those who cannot debate, defame?" Because this is what happened in the case with Nik. Do you agree that if people just do not believe in the 9-11 conspiracies, that it should be brought up? OR, would you suggest a different thread just for it, b/c people WILL believe what they believe. thanks.
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I support Nik being brought back and the old "Stop The New World Order" section be brought back as well where his threads would be moved.
This way we are not stifling debate and yet it doesn't need to take place in the General Discussion section where some JTFers would find it embarrassing and distracting.
I have brought up this idea to the higher ups but so far no response.
Maybe if people get together and demand it something will happen.
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I support Nik being brought back and the old "Stop The New World Order" section be brought back as well where his threads would be moved.
This way we are not stifling debate and yet it doesn't need to take place in the General Discussion section where some JTFers would find it embarrassing and distracting.
I have brought up this idea to the higher ups but so far no response.
Maybe if people get together and demand it something will happen.
I have to say this with all due respect. nikmatdam was warned numerous times about his 9/11 conspiracy posts by the admins and mods. I would support his return if he stopped with the conspiracy nonsense. Personally, I think JTF gave him a rather generous shot.
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Lubab, Paulette I believe you are both right and Nik should be brought back to the forum. Only an ignoramus who is absolutely closed minded to, not only reality, but possibility that "Conspiracies" do exist. Google "Commission + Mafia" and you will find the FACT that there was a meeting held by the five major crime families which conspired to control organized crime, or even better "Jeckyll Island Club" which was founded in 1886 and via the, highly similar to the aforementioned, "Jeckyll Island Meeting of 1910" brought us the highly unconstitutional Federal Reserve Banking system in 1913 to which President Andrew Jackson with these words:
"The bold effort the present bank has made to control the government, the distress it had wantonly produced...are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it."
So if a few top membering families of organized crime could conspire in 1931 to control an illegal industry which made Meir Lansky state "We are bigger than U.S. Steel..." Why is it somehow impossible for a comparable number of even more fabulously wealthy industrialist and international financiers to do the like within Politics, via Adam Weishaupt in 1776 Bavaria, Banking in 1913 or any other area....or the selling out of Israel or America which meets their NWO "needs"?
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Lubab,
what do you think about the CHAT now available on our Forum?
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Good catch, Dan. I thought no one would notice. We'll make an announcement soon.
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Good catch, Dan. I thought no one would notice. We'll make an announcement soon.
;)!
The Chat looks great and it's user friendly, now let's see what the others think...
btw, why do I appear as (dan ) on the chat username-login name?
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Lubab,
what do you think about the CHAT now available on our Forum?
I just found out about it and it looks absolutely fantastic! I want to see more people in there.
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Shalom,
I am absolutely against having this kind of 9/11 conspiracy stuff posted where I have to deal with people who read it. I tried to make peace with Nik but he is on a crusade. I dont know what people thought was interesting about that kind of mindless 4 page drivel {not even punctuated properly}.
I am really at a loss why there are so many people who support this kind of lunacy. You can read better conspiracies off the News Rags in line at the supermarket.
muman613
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Shalom,
I am absolutely against having this kind of 9/11 conspiracy stuff posted where I have to deal with people who read it. I tried to make peace with Nik but he is on a crusade. I dont know what people thought was interesting about that kind of mindless 4 page drivel {not even punctuated properly}.
I am really at a loss why there are so many people who support this kind of lunacy. You can read better conspiracies off the News Rags in line at the supermarket.
muman613
Do you believe that this recent financial collapse and "bail out by the Federal Reserve" is connected to the Government or do you feel that these banks operate totally independent to those in the government?
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I am really at a loss why there are so many people who support this kind of lunacy. You can read better conspiracies off the News Rags in line at the supermarket.
muman613
Don't be "at a loss". Research. Read. Learn....why that view is so popular. Examine the evidence.
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Shalom Lubab,
I got into an argument with a very intelligent religious Jewish friend of mine. He claims I can't use Kedem grape juice for kiddish and that I have to use alcoholic wine. I have seen the Kedem bottle used in synagogue before at the table. Do you know what the halacha is on this?
-Shlomo
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Shalom Lubab,
I got into an argument with a very intelligent religious Jewish friend of mine. He claims I can't use Kedem grape juice for kiddish and that I have to use alcoholic wine. I have seen the Kedem bottle used in synagogue before at the table. Do you know what the halacha is on this?
-Shlomo
Ideally it should be alcoholic wine, but you can use grape juice in certain circumstances e.g. if the person cannot get wine, cannot afford it, or is an ex-alcoholic, or they get sick from alcohol.
There is some question about whether the grape juice and wine we have today really qualifies because it is so weak, but that is another issue.
Someone who goes around telling other people what to do without all the facts probably doesn't have that good of an understanding of halacha because halacha is complicated, with many options and it varies based on subtle differences in circumstances.
By the way, it is more important to have wine on Yom Tov than on Shabbos. So an extra effort should be made at that time, but there are still ways out of it.
Kedem makes wine and grape juice.
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I support Nik being brought back and the old "Stop The New World Order" section be brought back as well where his threads would be moved.
This way we are not stifling debate and yet it doesn't need to take place in the General Discussion section where some JTFers would find it embarrassing and distracting.
I have brought up this idea to the higher ups but so far no response.
Maybe if people get together and demand it something will happen.
I have to say this with all due respect. nikmatdam was warned numerous times about his 9/11 conspiracy posts by the admins and mods. I would support his return if he stopped with the conspiracy nonsense. Personally, I think JTF gave him a rather generous shot.
PJC...with the Anti-Semitism that is now here, while his conspiracy theories were off, and ON.. I think EVERYTHING that IS happening, SOLIDIFIES what he WAS TRYING TO GET ACROSS. That thread that he kept STARTING was NOT really for the Righteous Gentiles on this forum, IT WAS A WARNING that we HAVE to take HEED to, as Jews- AND AS CHRISTIANS, after all, PJC, the GOOD Catholics during the holocaust were AGAINST Hitler, AND their Church, and if Jews EXPOSE the EVIL in OUR people, Christians & Catholics, ETC NEED to do the SAME thing.
IF a person is STRONG in their faith in G-d, then stuff like what Nik wrote means ZERO. Why? BECAUSE IT DOES NOT PERTAIN TO YOU. There IS good and BAD in ALL religions, ALL, And to NOT stand and SEE the unrighteouness in ones OWN doctrine- is SHAMEFUL. My BEST friend (who died) was Catholic, and she CONSISTENTLY stood AGAINST when Catholicism was OFF. Catholicism WAS off in the 30's/40's, EVIDENCE of this, IS THE MANY MANY CATHOLICS that stood in the GAP and SAVED, and hid JEWS.
Lubab, I believe that you should use all your power to get Nik back, while some, and even MANY of his insights- ESPECIALLY 9-11 were OFF, he is very gifted as far as seeing things AHEAD. HE IS NEEDED. HE IS A RABBI. HE IS ALSO loving, but people were TOO BUSY PERSONALLY attacking him, to have seen this! I saw it, I also saw how he SHARED his personal life, and it was USED AGAINST HIM. Very BAD.
Like him or NOT- he is BRAVE.
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I support Nik being brought back and the old "Stop The New World Order" section be brought back as well where his threads would be moved.
This way we are not stifling debate and yet it doesn't need to take place in the General Discussion section where some JTFers would find it embarrassing and distracting.
I have brought up this idea to the higher ups but so far no response.
Maybe if people get together and demand it something will happen.
I have to say this with all due respect. nikmatdam was warned numerous times about his 9/11 conspiracy posts by the admins and mods. I would support his return if he stopped with the conspiracy nonsense. Personally, I think JTF gave him a rather generous shot.
PJC...with the Anti-Semitism that is now here, while his conspiracy theories were off, and ON.. I think EVERYTHING that IS happening, SOLIDIFIES what he WAS TRYING TO GET ACROSS. That thread that he kept STARTING was NOT really for the Righteous Gentiles on this forum, IT WAS A WARNING that we HAVE to take HEED to, as Jews- AND AS CHRISTIANS, after all, PJC, the GOOD Catholics during the holocaust were AGAINST Hitler, AND their Church, and if Jews EXPOSE the EVIL in OUR people, Christians & Catholics, ETC NEED to do the SAME thing.
IF a person is STRONG in their faith in G-d, then stuff like what Nik wrote means ZERO. Why? BECAUSE IT DOES NOT PERTAIN TO YOU. There IS good and BAD in ALL religions, ALL, And to NOT stand and SEE the unrighteouness in ones OWN doctrine- is SHAMEFUL. My BEST friend (who died) was Catholic, and she CONSISTENTLY stood AGAINST when Catholicism was OFF. Catholicism WAS off in the 30's/40's, EVIDENCE of this, IS THE MANY MANY CATHOLICS that stood in the GAP and SAVED, and hid JEWS.
Lubab, I believe that you should use all your power to get Nik back, while some, and even MANY of his insights- ESPECIALLY 9-11 were OFF, he is very gifted as far as seeing things AHEAD. HE IS NEEDED. HE IS A RABBI. HE IS ALSO loving, but people were TOO BUSY PERSONALLY attacking him, to have seen this! I saw it, I also saw how he SHARED his personal life, and it was USED AGAINST HIM. Very BAD.
Like him or NOT- he is BRAVE.
I have been trying but I will try harder. But I do recall you being one of the people who gave him a very rough time.
If you've changed your view about him I respect and accept that.
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No, I never did, you may ask him yourself, and check my posts. I stood by Nik, b/c he got BRUTALLY and PERSONALLY attacked. I did not agree with what he said, Lubab, but I DID NOT attack him AT ALL. NO WAY. I liked Nik, and respected him, even moreso, b/c he had to withstand the ferocious attacks. NOT me, Lubab, uh uh :nono: I DONT come against a Rabbi- to me that is like touching a piece of G-d and Thou shalt not touch G-ds ones, and live.
I am all for FREE SPEECH, PERIOD, it is simple now, I choose to ignore certain people that I believe are HATEFUL individuals, I dont see WHY he cant come back, and do the same, people ignoring him, if they dont like it? Don t you think so? They had a CHOICE to ignore, or get in the middle, didnt they?
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Is Nik really a Rabbi? Did he get Smicha? Judging from the way he wrote it is hard for me to believe that this guy was a Rabbi. From his writing style it seemed like he was not very literate {spelling and grammar errors and atrocious punctuation}. I read Rabbis writing every day and it seemed like Nik hadnt learned the way to express his ideas.
I know that he and I would not get along in the same room. I am a proud American, my family has fought for this country, my brothers life was taken by terrorists, and yet this guy wants to blather on about how America is really the enemy. Really?
If that is what you want, you can have it. I just know that I dont associate with people who believe such stuff. We are in many ways judged by the people we associate with. I have tried to understand Nik, but what I came away understanding is that he was unable to get along with people because he was warned NUMEROUS times to put a sock in it concerning several issues. He adamantly disobeyed the requests and got what he deserved.
What ever happened with the idea that Nik set up his own blog where he can express his 'esoteric' ideas without having to associate with me and the other sane people. I support his freedom of expression but I just dont think it does the Anti-Obama campaign any good, and that is what brought me to this site. If this site is one where all kinds of anti-American conspiracies are propagated please count me out. I am very proud of this country and my families ability to prosper here. People who are tearing it down are on my crepe lists.
muman613
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Is Nik really a Rabbi? Did he get Smicha? Judging from the way he wrote it is hard for me to believe that this guy was a Rabbi. From his writing style it seemed like he was not very literate {spelling and grammar errors and atrocious punctuation}. I read Rabbis writing every day and it seemed like Nik hadnt learned the way to express his ideas.
I know that he and I would not get along in the same room. I am a proud American, my family has fought for this country, my brothers life was taken by terrorists, and yet this guy wants to blather on about how America is really the enemy. Really?
If that is what you want, you can have it. I just know that I dont associate with people who believe such stuff. We are in many ways judged by the people we associate with. I have tried to understand Nik, but what I came away understanding is that he was unable to get along with people because he was warned NUMEROUS times to put a sock in it concerning several issues. He adamantly disobeyed the requests and got what he deserved.
What ever happened with the idea that Nik set up his own blog where he can express his 'esoteric' ideas without having to associate with me and the other sane people. I support his freedom of expression but I just dont think it does the Anti-Obama campaign any good, and that is what brought me to this site. If this site is one where all kinds of anti-American conspiracies are propagated please count me out. I am very proud of this country and my families ability to prosper here. People who are tearing it down are on my crepe lists.
muman613
Yes Muman, Nik is an Orthodox Rabbi who has delved into researching the anti-Jew movements and has placed most, if not all, of his contempt for the Vatican and their Society of Jesus. The fact that Perez is, some say, selling out Jerusalem to the Vatican and perhaps the Russians... May give Nik base for his contempt.
I'm well aware of the history of the Jesuits and the Vatican and too the many theories towards their goals/intentions but Nik has placed them in his sights over all other anti-Jew movements. He is very knowledgeable on Torah, Gamara, Halacha etc.
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Is Nik really a Rabbi? Did he get Smicha? Judging from the way he wrote it is hard for me to believe that this guy was a Rabbi. From his writing style it seemed like he was not very literate {spelling and grammar errors and atrocious punctuation}. I read Rabbis writing every day and it seemed like Nik hadnt learned the way to express his ideas.
I know that he and I would not get along in the same room. I am a proud American, my family has fought for this country, my brothers life was taken by terrorists, and yet this guy wants to blather on about how America is really the enemy. Really?
If that is what you want, you can have it. I just know that I dont associate with people who believe such stuff. We are in many ways judged by the people we associate with. I have tried to understand Nik, but what I came away understanding is that he was unable to get along with people because he was warned NUMEROUS times to put a sock in it concerning several issues. He adamantly disobeyed the requests and got what he deserved.
What ever happened with the idea that Nik set up his own blog where he can express his 'esoteric' ideas without having to associate with me and the other sane people. I support his freedom of expression but I just dont think it does the Anti-Obama campaign any good, and that is what brought me to this site. If this site is one where all kinds of anti-American conspiracies are propagated please count me out. I am very proud of this country and my families ability to prosper here. People who are tearing it down are on my crepe lists.
muman613
Yes Muman, Nik is an Orthodox Rabbi who has delved into researching the anti-Jew movements and has placed most, if not all, of his contempt for the Vatican and their Society of Jesus. The fact that Perez is, some say, selling out Jerusalem to the Vatican and perhaps the Russians... May give Nik base for his contempt.
I'm well aware of the history of the Jesuits and the Vatican and too the many theories towards their goals/intentions but Nik has placed them in his sights over all other anti-Jew movements. He is very knowledgeable on Torah, Gamara, Halacha etc.
He MOST DEFINATELY IS Orthodox. He did NOT DESERVE the defaming and DELIBERATE attacks on his persona. He didnt attack ANYONE, PERSONALLY- he said ONE thing- "Shut upDan" that was IT.
Others may not agree and that is FINE BY ME.
MarZutra is a WONDERFUL character and GREAT man, who would NOT make things up, And he CANNOT bear false witness to/against ANYONE EVER, will NOT EVER to 'take up for someone' or the vice/versa "JUST BECAUSE" Lubab is a RIGHTEOUS man, and LOVES HaShem, as is MassuhD.
They are NOT going to 'lie' just to look good. AT ALL, EVER.
Lubab- I want to know something, (MarZutra has brought this upto me as well) I am starting to REALLY believe that there is an 'oligarchy' I want to know, do YOU believe DOWN DEEP in your heart that the CFR is real? The Bildebergs REAL? All of these people, ARE THEY REAL, and do YOU think that they are tied up in Islam? (I DO)
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Is Nik really a Rabbi? Did he get Smicha? Judging from the way he wrote it is hard for me to believe that this guy was a Rabbi. From his writing style it seemed like he was not very literate {spelling and grammar errors and atrocious punctuation}. I read Rabbis writing every day and it seemed like Nik hadnt learned the way to express his ideas.
I know that he and I would not get along in the same room. I am a proud American, my family has fought for this country, my brothers life was taken by terrorists, and yet this guy wants to blather on about how America is really the enemy. Really?
If that is what you want, you can have it. I just know that I dont associate with people who believe such stuff. We are in many ways judged by the people we associate with. I have tried to understand Nik, but what I came away understanding is that he was unable to get along with people because he was warned NUMEROUS times to put a sock in it concerning several issues. He adamantly disobeyed the requests and got what he deserved.
What ever happened with the idea that Nik set up his own blog where he can express his 'esoteric' ideas without having to associate with me and the other sane people. I support his freedom of expression but I just dont think it does the Anti-Obama campaign any good, and that is what brought me to this site. If this site is one where all kinds of anti-American conspiracies are propagated please count me out. I am very proud of this country and my families ability to prosper here. People who are tearing it down are on my crepe lists.
muman613
Muman,
What is the name of your brother who was killed in the attacks of Sep. 11th?
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Is Nik really a Rabbi? Did he get Smicha? Judging from the way he wrote it is hard for me to believe that this guy was a Rabbi. From his writing style it seemed like he was not very literate {spelling and grammar errors and atrocious punctuation}. I read Rabbis writing every day and it seemed like Nik hadnt learned the way to express his ideas.
I know that he and I would not get along in the same room. I am a proud American, my family has fought for this country, my brothers life was taken by terrorists, and yet this guy wants to blather on about how America is really the enemy. Really?
If that is what you want, you can have it. I just know that I dont associate with people who believe such stuff. We are in many ways judged by the people we associate with. I have tried to understand Nik, but what I came away understanding is that he was unable to get along with people because he was warned NUMEROUS times to put a sock in it concerning several issues. He adamantly disobeyed the requests and got what he deserved.
What ever happened with the idea that Nik set up his own blog where he can express his 'esoteric' ideas without having to associate with me and the other sane people. I support his freedom of expression but I just dont think it does the Anti-Obama campaign any good, and that is what brought me to this site. If this site is one where all kinds of anti-American conspiracies are propagated please count me out. I am very proud of this country and my families ability to prosper here. People who are tearing it down are on my crepe lists.
muman613
Muman,
What is the name of your brother who was killed in the attacks of Sep. 11th?
Shalom Lubab,
My brother, Jonathan Uman, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 105th floor of WTC Tower #1 at the time of the attack. He was only 33 at the time.
Cantors Tribute Page : http://www.cantorfamilies.com/cantor/jsp/tribute.jsp?ID=4493
Last Tuesday was his Yartzeit and it is always hard this time of year because of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. I have been doing a lot of introspection and am trying to see things in light of Hashems plan for the universe. Please remember my brother for the good. He was a very intelligent, wise, and witty man who had so much going for him. It is a tragedy, personally and nationally, that we all lost so many in the attack.
muman613
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Is Nik really a Rabbi? Did he get Smicha? Judging from the way he wrote it is hard for me to believe that this guy was a Rabbi. From his writing style it seemed like he was not very literate {spelling and grammar errors and atrocious punctuation}. I read Rabbis writing every day and it seemed like Nik hadnt learned the way to express his ideas.
I know that he and I would not get along in the same room. I am a proud American, my family has fought for this country, my brothers life was taken by terrorists, and yet this guy wants to blather on about how America is really the enemy. Really?
If that is what you want, you can have it. I just know that I dont associate with people who believe such stuff. We are in many ways judged by the people we associate with. I have tried to understand Nik, but what I came away understanding is that he was unable to get along with people because he was warned NUMEROUS times to put a sock in it concerning several issues. He adamantly disobeyed the requests and got what he deserved.
What ever happened with the idea that Nik set up his own blog where he can express his 'esoteric' ideas without having to associate with me and the other sane people. I support his freedom of expression but I just dont think it does the Anti-Obama campaign any good, and that is what brought me to this site. If this site is one where all kinds of anti-American conspiracies are propagated please count me out. I am very proud of this country and my families ability to prosper here. People who are tearing it down are on my crepe lists.
muman613
Muman,
What is the name of your brother who was killed in the attacks of Sep. 11th?
Shalom Lubab,
My brother, Jonathan Uman, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 105th floor of WTC Tower #1 at the time of the attack. He was only 33 at the time.
Cantors Tribute Page : http://www.cantorfamilies.com/cantor/jsp/tribute.jsp?ID=4493
Last Tuesday was his Yartzeit and it is always hard this time of year because of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. I have been doing a lot of introspection and am trying to see things in light of Hashems plan for the universe. Please remember my brother for the good. He was a very intelligent, wise, and witty man who had so much going for him. It is a tragedy, personally and nationally, that we all lost so many in the attack.
muman613
May his neshama have an Aliya in Gan Eden.
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May his neshama have an Aliya in Gan Eden.
Lubab,
Thank you very much.
May you have a sweet New Year,
muman613
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Shalom ve Shanah tova Lubab,
I wanted to say too that I've petitioned to have Nik back on the forum. For a few reasons actually, although he is aware of the many anti-Jew movements but has isolated his contempt for the Vatican and Jesuit order, I see his contributions on many other areas to this forum as positive. Forget the 911 debate, I'm no "911" truther but if one does read the Commissions findings they are simply comparable to Swiss Cheese or the Pope "Holy".
I'd welcome him with blessings and further suggest a thread called "The Rabbis Corner" or any whatever titled thread where you Rabbis can get together amongst yourselves and answer question on this thread in almost real time due to there being a few Rabbi's on the forum and chance are one will be on when I'm on. Perhaps you can make this happen if you feel it to be a good idea?
Do to my opinions, that there are "conspiracies" very much alive, well and directly related to world events going on today, I doubt my petition will be taken seriously.
Further for muman. I think you will find the interview with (D) Larry McDonald on GoogleVideo very informative. Keep aware of the names, dates, book titles and what not that Congressman McDonald uses to base his views/theories. He was very vocal in his contempt for entities like the CFR/Trilateral Commission, The Fed and the continual anti-G-d "progression" to the socio-political "Left wing" America has taken over the past 60 years; since WW2.
For the "conspiracy theorist" one would like to know that he just happened to be on board the flight that the Soviets shot down in 1983.
VIDEO: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3100752722910819372
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_McDonald