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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: SW on August 27, 2009, 03:44:03 PM
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Here is a good website that someone gave me.
http://www.aish.com/
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Here is a good website that someone gave me.
http://www.aish.com/
Aish HaTorah is an excellent site... I have been a donor to Aish for about six years and they provide excellent website for the Jewish community.
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I go there almost every shabbos.
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I go there almost every shabbos.
You go on the aish website almost every shabbos? :o :o
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I go there almost every shabbos.
You go on the aish website almost every shabbos? :o :o
No, Aish HaTorah runs a Yeshiva in Jerusalem... A Yeshiva is a school for learning Torah and other subjects...
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I go there almost every shabbos.
You go on the aish website almost every shabbos? :o :o
You're funny. They have shuls a lot of places, too. Including one here.
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I go there almost every shabbos.
You go on the aish website almost every shabbos? :o :o
No, Aish HaTorah runs a Yeshiva in Jerusalem... A Yeshiva is a school for learning Torah and other subjects...
Oh. Is that the yeshiva of Rav Noah Weinberg ZT"L?
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I go there almost every shabbos.
You go on the aish website almost every shabbos? :o :o
No, Aish HaTorah runs a Yeshiva in Jerusalem... A Yeshiva is a school for learning Torah and other subjects...
Oh. Is that the yeshiva of Rav Noah Weinberg ZT"L?
Yes, Rabbi Weinberg passed away several months ago... They are still running memorial videos for him at Aish.com...
http://www.aish.com/rebNoach/mm/48972116.html
http://www.aish.com/rebNoach/e/48972071.html
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I remember hearing about his death. I saw a video of him speaking a few weeks ago.
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I go there almost every shabbos.
You go on the aish website almost every shabbos? :o :o
No, Aish HaTorah runs a Yeshiva in Jerusalem... A Yeshiva is a school for learning Torah and other subjects...
Oh. Is that the yeshiva of Rav Noah Weinberg ZT"L?
Yes, Rabbi Weinberg passed away several months ago... They are still running memorial videos for him at Aish.com...
http://www.aish.com/rebNoach/mm/48972116.html
http://www.aish.com/rebNoach/e/48972071.html
I saw Rabbi Orlowek's speech broadcast on the internet for a tribute for Rav Weinberg ZT'L after he passed away that they set up at aish, it was very moving. I've met him, Rabbi Orlowek is a real tzadik. I recommend his lectures, he has them all over the web. probably on the aish site. He was particularly emotional in the memorial for Rav Weinberg very amazing to see for those of us who have heard him speak before...
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R' Noach met many celebrities in his day, you know?
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Aish has many good points. I studied there in the 70s.
But Aish & R.Weinberg followed the Shachian stance of "Land for Peace", and initially supported Oslo.
Aish even invited a PLO speaker to talk in the yeshiva in 1993!
(http://international.aish.com/aishint/weinberg.jpg)
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Aish has many good points. I studied there in the 70s.
But Aish & R.Weinberg followed the Shachian stance of "Land for Peace", and initially supported Oslo.
Aish even invited a PLO speaker to talk in the yeshiva in 1993!
(http://international.aish.com/aishint/weinberg.jpg)
Well from my experience with Aish they have been ardent Zionists and are against disengagement. I have posted several Aish articles here which demonstrate their support for settlers and against the evacuation of Gaza...
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Yes I do think they have become more outwardly zionist and I would say that is because the demographic they reach (normal Jews who aren't necessarily orthodox or haredi, but interested in increasing observance, strengthening Jewish identity) - these people naturally identify with basic Jewish sentiments like nationalism/zionism, the state of Israel, dislike of muslim nazi terrorist enemies, etc. Because they haven't been brainwashed in any system to reject that stuff, so it comes naturally, or if they were caught in the reform 'liberal pro arab' trap, they escaped that to now want to be more observant authentically and to learn from aish. I also think the people who do kiruv are more inclined toward these views or at least more open to them. If they were completely antizionist or very weak/uncertain "nonzionist" people would reject aish more and be turned off by it a lot more.
Like the articles muman has posted here, I've seen some pretty good articles from aish as well stressing the Jewish people's ownership of eretz yisrael etc. And I think that they take that approach which is different somewhat from haredi and even from their own aish "rebbe" because that is what upward striving Jews are looking for and that will produce success for their organization. Over time the aish organization will probably (if they haven't already) come to see these views as 'their own' and adopt them more fully in themselves aside from just appealing to the masses with it as a kiruv 'tactic' so to speak.