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Ask JTF For Lag B'Omer, May 6.

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Dr. Dan:
Very inspiring show last week and thank you for answering my question. I think I'm getting a better idea of the Jewish perspective of the "next world".

My question:

The Book of Genesis is my favorite book in the Torah (I suggest anyone with young children read these stories at bedtime as a rated G version  ;)).  Anyway, I have noticed that out of the three forefathers, Avraham and Yaakov are very significant characters with significant speaking lines. However, Yitzhak seems to be a symbol and has very few speaking parts.  Namely, Yitzhak is mentioned as a miracle birth, that he was "played with" improperly by Yishmael, that Avraham almost sacrifices Yitzhak, and when Yitzhak gets duped by Yaacov to get the birthright over Esau..but essentially nothing more that I can recall.  In other words, Yitzhak doesn't say much; Everyone else seems to speak or act for or against him (Eliezar, Rebbeca, etc). If anything, later on in his life, he is made to look like a fool by choosing Esau has his favorite son. Do the rabbinical sages (blessed be their memories) have any explanations for any of this?  Am I reading into this properly? What do the midrashim, if any, say about the significance and symbolism of Yitzhak?

Thank you.

ftf:
Hi Chaim

A follow up to what I said last week about blacks, I was not saying I disagree with your stance, I fully agree that those who support al sharpton and his ilk are not that dissimilar from apes. I have no objections to you calling them such, however, on occasion possibly by accident you have made statements that suggest that you think all blacks are evil, and not just a proportion of them, for instance at the moment on wikipedia the following statement is used as "proof" that JTF is racist "the blacks you just can't live with them, they're completely uncivilised", (from one of the TBA episodes on youtube), what I'm asking is if you could try to add qualifiers in future, for example, "most blacks" rather than "the blacks".

Lubab:
Many people when they hear about Kahanism instintively say "that's a terrorist group". When asked "what terror have they committed?" they usually cite Baruch Goldstein in Hevron killing Arabs and Irv Rubin trying to blow up a mosque.

How do you respond to those allegations?

MasterWolf1:
Hello Chaim, 

Thank you for answering me as always.  Last week I was watching the Democrats debating on NBC their first debate.  And someone asked Bongo Obama a question that he did not seem to have a real answer for.  "If America GoD forbid gets attack again how would you (meaning Obama) react to it and what sort of retaliation would you (Obama)  follow up to it"? and he did not seem to have a legit answer at all. In fact he did not seem to know how to answer.  Isn't this alone so obvious of what we will expect if GOD forbid this Son of a Monkey gets to be the one in charge of the nation and also the lives of millions around the world? Why is everyone frothing over this guy is beyond me.  And Hitlery is no prize either she is such a socialist I think she is worst then her sick perverted husband.

And

I was on the subway this weekend and tourists were on the subway and this animal smelly black bum with the paper bag and started to sing.  (Not really singing sounded like apes mating) And these tourists they were obviously out of town clean cut white blonde haired couples with their children were ready to give him some change.   I told them don't do that put the money back trust me on that.  And they all looked like I was weird and said "Oh thats so wrong of you"  I just do not understand whites anymore what is wrong with them they also have gone insane.  What is really wrong with people?

Dominater96:
Chaim what do you think of Mordechai Levy? Is the summer camp that he runs (Camp Jabotinsky) worth attending? IS his group JDO a good group?

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