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Ask JTF For November 5 Broadcast
Tzvi Ben Roshel1:
Dear Chaim,
Thank you for your Great work.
My question this week is - these days their is talk of having a religious state with Halacha (Jewish law) being implimented. The problem is that today unfortunatly their are gadolim who just do not have the mentality and leadership of ancient Israel and the true Torah way. Examples are Rav Ovadia Yosef , Rav Shalomo Amar , and many more, of whom When even mentioned by religious Jews in Shiurim they have the greatest respect and awe of him ( as if they are the Messiahs). How do we get people (the religious followers) expecially of Shas, to accept the religious state ( if a Judean state arises). also for example the "gadolim" are not part of the Sanhedrin.
also one more quick note- on last weeks show you said that Israel will not initiate a war with the Arabs. Wouldnt it be a great tikkun ( rectification), if the final wars are started by the Jews. what will happen in a situation where if with a Kahanist aggressive State, the arabs would be too scared to attack, wouldnt we have to attack and concure (take over) the territory.
1 more thing, on your shows In Hebrew do you mention and provide tactics to fight against the gay abomination parade, that is sceduled to take place in Jerusalem?
YESHA:
There have been comments and questions to you Chaim recently [Y. M. b. R.], on this forum, on the possibility of making ASK JTF, in particular, available as an MP3 download file, perhaps using ‘Windows Media Player’ format – so ‘burning’ it on to a CD-R or CD-RW would be possible, like this is could be personally archived easily or disseminated more widely.
If you or someone else has the time to take that idea up, it is noteworthy to know that a CD can burn up to 80 minutes of audio, so maybe you could make it 2 parts, ‘hour 1’ would be the first 60 minutes of the show, and ‘hour 2’, the concluding part – anything up to 74 minutes usually. I hope I haven’t made things too complicated for the listeners to understand, or you, in the technicality. How much can the file be compressed? Thank you.
MarZutra:
Shalom Chaim and David, Thanks as always for your answers and knowledgable insight. Might you take the time to answer two very quick questions? 1. What would be the Talmudic/Biblical ruling for a situation when "He who comes to murder you, you kill him first" if "him" is a socialist judenrot bolshevik "Jew" comparable when the Rightous Jews revolted against and driving out the Hellenists? I'm not sure about Bar Kochba’s revolt against the Romans but I’m pretty sure Yahuda HaMacabee defeated the Hellenists Greeks and their Jewish Hedonists in 167BCE and again Marzutra II did the same in Babylonia in 520CE what would have been their Rabbinical ruling? I wished to know this because, like then, many of the Jews had abandoned Judaism, Jewry and their "Jewishness" for Hedonistic Hellenism? Is it not directly comparable to the situation in Israel today where nothing short of a purge by the G-d fearing Jew will stop the Bolsheviks judenrot "Jew" from dismembering the Aretz Israel? 2. Does Yeshivat HaRa'ayon HaYehudi have a website or any way to contact them to attain information and to donate directly to them or any affiliated Yeshivas instead of the disgusting “Jewish" Agency which finds it more Jewish to donate Jewish hard earned to "visible minorities", “peace”, interfaith groups and the "Palestinian"? Toda roba, hakol besader ve shalom
Maimonides:
Shalom Chaim and thank you as always for your hardwork and answering my question.
I know JTF opposes the Iraq War and logically predicted it would be a disaster. Do you believe that the U.S. should have simply cut a deal with Saddam? I believe Saddam was just a playboy Arab who wanted his pleasures and if seriously threaten,but given a backdoor deal would have taken it. The Bush administration as JTF has correctly pointed out in the past is run by neo-cons (aka neo-trotskyites) who want to bring in a new world order of global godless government. Bush even said to reporters that his foreign policy is based on Natan Sharansky's "The Case for Democracy". As you have said these neo-trotskyites would bring disaster upon us.
However since we are in Iraq do you have a way that the U.S. could end the disaster without looking weak? Does it even matter if we retreat looking weak? Should we use more force and take the kid gloves of political correctness off our troops? I am not sure if you realize this but right now U.S. troops are not allowed to fire even if they are being slaughtered if just one so called Iraqi civilian is in the way . It is complete madness and it is spreading to the Israeli Zahal. I honestly believe the majority of Americans and Israelis would support carpet bombing the Muslim world if it would save the life of even one of our troops.
jsullivan:
Yacov Menashe has asked that I (Jimmy) pose this question so you (Chaim) can comment on it. He wants to know what your opinion is on each of the points mentioned and if Christians or Gentiles at all should celebrate Halloween, St. Valentine's Day, or aspects of Christmas such as the Christmas tree or aspects of Easter such as The Easter Bunny. He had already asked the belew exact quote to the religious Christian users of this forum. Unfortunately, many Jews also celebrate Halloween and St. Valentine's Day. It is not just a Christian epidemic. They claim they are Secular holidays.
"As Jews, we don't celebrate St. Valentine's Day. It is a Christian holiday with things incorporated from Roman paganism such as Cupid. There is a little known Jewish holiday called Tu B'Av, which self-hating Jews hijacked and made it "The Holiday of Love" to make it a "Jewish Valentine's Day". I was thinking, "Did immoral people also hijack the Christian St. Valentine's Day into a day of love?". The way it is celebrated with illegitimate sexual relations and celebrating single life rather than wanting to get married seems anti-religious. Right Wing Hindus who are the Hindu version of Kahanists say St. Valentine's Day inflicts Hindu youth in India with the immoral culture of love. What about the Christian view on this? How did Cupid get into this?
Also, what do Christians think about Halloween? As a kid, I would celebrate it by going "trick or treating" because I didn't know it was a pagan holiday. Now I don't want anything to do with such a holiday being that I am more religious than I was as a kid. My mom must have introduced it to me and she must have known it as a kid. But why is there such an epidemic where people are celebrating things that shouldn't be celebrated? I find it ridiculous that Jews or even Christians would celebrate it. In fact, I am going to ask Chaim to comment about it.
The same goes for Groundhog's Day and other pagan popular culture holidays. The pagans had 8 festivals. One for each solstice, one for each equinox, and one for the mid-point of each season. The Winter Solstice holiday had many things that were incorporated into Christmas and for this reason, many Christians don't celebrate parts of Christmas such as having a Christmas tree. Groundhog's Day was the Mid-Winter holiday. They had one for The Spring which I guess has something to do with pagan fertility rites which is where The Easter Bunny came from which has nothing to do with Christianity. There was one for Mid-Spring and Mid-Summer as well. There was a Summer Solstice one related to Stonehenge. There was a Fall Equinox one and Halloween was the Mid-Fall one. What do our Christian members think about things such as Christmas trees, Santa Claus, and The Easter Bunny? Easter is only the name used in English after the pagan goddess Ishtar, which is also the route of the name Esther (Jews used pagan names in Persian times.)... In all other languages, Easter has the same name as Passover such as Paque in French, coming from the Aramaic Pascha. In Hebrew, Passover is called Pesach and Easter is called Pascha but sometimes Passover is called Pascha in Aramaic. Kimcha D'Pischa is Passover Flour.
New Year's Day is a different story. I just consider it to be a change in the year number. It interests me purely out of my interest in the calendar and dates. I don't believe in partying and all that nonsense. I just watch the ball drop on TV and then go to bed. You shouldn't "celebrate" it. No doubt it probably also has pagan origins. For Christians, it is a religious holiday commemorating the circumsision of Jesus on his eighth day of life. So how do the Christians here feel about the immoral drinking and sex that takes place on that day?"
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