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Ask JTF For April 29 Broadcast

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Sarah:
Shalom Chaim,

I hope everything is going well for you and i can honestly say JTF is getting popular by the minute.

I just wanted to ask you a religious question:

In the Exodus it clearly states that man should rest on the sabbath day, that for jews is shabbat but christians also believe in the exodus and believe that the sabbath day is sunday. What caused this difference?

Also is there a difference from being a liberal religiously and affecting your practices or just having a liberal point of view or adopting liberal ideologies yet at the same time being orthodox with your practices. If not orthodox, quite strong.
Thank You ;D

Shlomo:
Dear Chaim,

Wow! Thank you so much for such a beautiful, warm and kind hearted greeting! I am just so deeply honored (beyond words) by this position and privilege that you have offered to me with all the amazing and brilliant posters on this great forum. Chaim, thank you. I will do all that I can to help JTF.

My question is: Does JTF still plan on having their own type of Wikipedia project in Israel? I remember this topic several shows back. And if so, is there any way we can help beyond the obvious? Yacov Menashe thinks we should have an English one too because the English Wikipedia butchered the JTF article because they say original research is not acceptable on Wikipedia and everything must be from a second hand source. Yacov Menashe saved the real article on his Wikipedia user page for us to use when we start our own. Wikipedia then deleted that too because they said to save it on a userpage is against Wikipedia rules.
But it is still in the history.

I am also VERY proud that JTF supports the Hilltop Youth and teaches Torah and Talmud Yerushalmi.

Shabbat Shalom,
Jeffguy

ape:
Chaim, I don't know if the shortcomings of blacks are only cultural. They may be genetic. Even as young children, with a limited time exposed to cultural influence, I've seen them act rather "ape-ish"(ie they walk arched over, are more hyperactive than white kids on average. etc). Just observe the way many of them walk along kissena blvd all bent over. It appears that it is a hardship for them to walk upright, for adults as well as children.

Gam Bashan veGam Gilad:
Hi Chaim,

I am 'גם בשן וגם גִלעד' from the Hebrew forum.

I've already posted my 2 questions on the Hebrew "Ask JTF" for this week (note to everybody that on the Hebrew forum we can still have 2 questions per poster). I hope It's okay for me to post here too, as I noticed some of the English forum members do on our forum. By the way, I'm really interested in that kind of engagement. I find this interaction between both forum members extremely attractive and exciting. I've just had my first week at the English forum, and I was fascinated and impressed by the people there and by the great deal of spiritual inspiration that they share.

I deeply sense we should all get more involved with one another, despite the barrier of the language. We could learn from each other! I'm sure it would be fun.. Wouldn't that be great!

Hence, with your permission Chaim, I would like to call on members of the English forum to come to the Hebrew forum (and vice versa), to register and to take full participation in the excellent discussions we're having. Keep in mind that most Israelis do basically speak fair English, for the simple reason that the English language is considered "a required / obligated lesson" by the Education System in our country. Every student starts to have English lessons in school by the age of eight.

So everybody's invited! I'm sure both forums' exchanging ideas in both languages would be a lot of fun. We would all benefit from that and it would make the discussions more interesting, vital and productive.


Now for my question...: :P


  (Staying on the same subject.. ;)) :

I was wondering about your Hebrew resources. When and where did you learn your Hebrew? Who was your Hebrew teacher? Obviously he or she did a great job with you.. Your Hebrew is quite fluent, and your rhetoric and style of speech is strongly preserved in your Hebrew speaking! 8)

The most impressive and surprising thing to me (as a fan of the Hebrew language), was your outstanding level of knowledge in Hebrew Grammar and your being so precise, and accurate in Hebrew pronunciation. I mean, you literally implement every rule and regulation there is for Hebrew Grammar while speaking! This is just AMAZING to me! HOW DO YOU DO THIS? How do you get along with all the regulations, even at your most fiery??!!, and still talk fluently without making mistakes at all, without missing one beat?!

Your Hebrew is more correct than that of the announcers and the broadcasters on the Royal radio stations here!!!
Actually, politicians in the Knesset will feel illiterate near you when you come to Israel (Ken Yehi Ratzon), because none of them can ever come close to your high standards in Hebrew pronunciation, whereas THEY (the politicians) are supposed to be NATIVES.....
(In other words, they'd better start to talk Hebrew right! ;))


I happen to be a fan of the Hebrew language, so I am sort of more aware of the regulations that you implement while talking than the average Hebrew speaker; and I refer to the Hebrew language as a "Holy Language", which I know you do too. Moreover, I got the impression that you share some kind of a "respective manner" towards LANGUAGES IN GENERAL. I've seen you once correcting another person's ENGLISH in one of the videos!

As you use to say all the time (and you're right), the Bolshevik media here in Israel is constantly brainwashing everybody, and so I've been raised to think that the more you're a right wing voter - the more likely you're illitarate, uneducated, retarded, with a low-IQ (and so on)..
But then- Chaim came and broke all this entire unjust axiomatic stigma to pieces! At last, for the first time I don't need to feel ashamed for having a logical way of thinking and for saying what is true, right and just.

Keep up the good work Chaim, and be'ezrat HaShem you will make Aliya! We are all waiting for you with crossed fingers. ::)


Yours truely,

Gam Bashan veGam Gil'ad. :)


I want to thank 'kahaneloyalist' for his assistance with my English.

ftf:
Hi Chaim

For a long time there has been one issue over which I disagree with you, and I've decided that I should ask you about it. The way that you refer to black people is a major turn off to a lot of people, I understand that a large proportion of black people behave in an evil manner, I do not know the figures for myself, but I have met some black people that do not behave in an evil manner, and you yourself have said that there are some. As I have said I do not know the figures, but even if it is less than one percent of black people who do not behave in an evil manner, surely it is wrong for you to generalise and call blacks apes, because by doing so you are defaming that one percent, I'd personally expect that the number is far greater than one percent.

I know someone, who on hearing you refer to blacks as apes instantly refused to watch any more of your videos, so I think that this is an issue that really needs some thought.

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