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Dear Chaim,

First Point: Thank you for answering my question about Hallel on Yom Ha'Atzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim. Do you read full Hallel then or do you read the abridged version like on Rosh Chodesh? Do you say a bracha for it? I think Gadol Doreinu read the whole Hallel with the bracha. I read it like on Rosh Chodesh but I might change it to the way The Rav did it depending on what your opinion is. There is also controversy on whether to celebrate the religious aspects of Yom Ha'Atzmaut on the government sanctioned day if it is moved because of Yom HaZikaron falling out Motza'ei Shabbat as is the case this year or if Yom Ha'Atzmaut falls out on Friday or Shabbat. Should we listen to the Mamlachti Rabbinate and say Hallel on the government sanctioned day or on the 5th of Iyar no matter what day it falls out? My synagogue just omits tachanun so I will add Al HaNissim to my Amidah and say Hallel on my own (I'm adding this last sentence on Erev Yom Ha'Atzmaut.).

Second Point: Do you say the special Al HaNissim made for those days to insert into The Amidah. It is part of Nusach Eretz Yisrael which wants to unite Ashkenazim and Sfaradim into one minhag. What do you think of that nusach? This minhag also says all Jews can eat kitniyot on Passover if they live in Israel even if they are Ashkenazic. Will you follow that and eat kitniyot when you are allowed to make aliyah?

Yacov Menashe Ben Rachamim,
Chief Administrator.

Chaim, Jr.:
1) Chaim:  What is your feeling about how the holocaust is portrayed in movies, documentaries and books? (not withstanding "Schindler's List" which is a self-hating glorification of "the good-Nazi", a real oxymoron)!

2) Rabbi Kahane met Zev Jabotinsky when he (Kahane) was a teenager.  Did he ever recount stories about him.  Did Jabotinsky have the same dynamism as Rabbi Kahane?

Dr. Dan:
You had a long show last week, so I'm going to keep this as 1 question.

First I want to thank you for answering my questions from last week. I personally have a responsibility to perform CPR and the hymlic maneuver to save a stranger's life because I was trained in it as a healthcare provider.  On the other hand, I THINK I would only give my life to save another if it was a Jew, especially a righteous Jew.

Here's my question:

In past shows you mentioned that the Sabbath was just for Jewish people.  Does that mean that the gentile nations are not entitled or not required to have a seventh day of rest irregardless of the day?  It is my understanding that Hashem clearly proclaimed a day of rest for all of His creatures.  So with this being said, I can understand if OUR 7th day is Shabbat (Saturday).  What day of rest will the gentile nations have? How should it work for them? After all, every human being requires at least one day of rest out of the seven days in the week, especially if they, too were made in Gd's image.  After all, Hashem required a day of rest from the creation of the universe.

Thank you.

Imerica:
Note from Yacov: Imerica removed her video responses to JTF and started "Ask Imerica/Ask A Black Person" instead.

Hi Chaim,

1. What about American Black culture don't you like, specifically?

2. I watch a video wherein you said, "Why shouldn't they (blacks) go back to Africa." How can we go back if we've never been there?

Thanks in Advance,
Erica

Allen-T:
Hello Chaim,
WestCoastJTF has an excellent idea. He suggested that a requirement for submitting questions to ask JTF should be that the person must have rated,favorited and commented on at least one video that week. I think people should e-mail me after they have done so letting me know exactly where they did this and anyone who hasn't will have questions deleted just prior to you recording. This work is just not being done as it should. If you have another idea about how to enforce this let me know.  Secondly, Is the Talmud considered to be divinely inspired like the Bible because I read that in Judaism a gentile must acknowledge that Rabbinic sages are "living Torahs" in order to be deemed righteous, which to my ears sounds alot like the claims the Pope makes? Thanks. Allen-T   

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