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Ask JTF for Sunday, October 4, 2009

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Gimatria:
Dear Chaim,
On Yom Kippur, I often see orthodox Ashkenazi men walking around wearing Kittels and Streimels. What is your opinion of these garments? As I understand it, there is no religious commandment to wear anything on one's head other than a Kippa. The Streimel especially seems very excessive, as it costs anywhere from $1,000 to $5,000 or even more. Also, I may be mistaken but I believe the Kittel is associated with burial? Why do these Jews wear these items for prayer on Yom Kippur or otherwise?
For some reason I associate this style of dress with the ignorant slobs of the anti-Zionist movement (neturai karta and others like them, yemach shemam). Speaking of the latter group, do you believe leaders such as "Rabbi" Yisrol Dovid Weiss will burn in gehenom for their evil deeds?
Tiyeh Bari, Chaim! Tzom kal.
Gimatria

Trace:
Shalom Chaim,

I find that very frequently in discussions of the Holocaust, people will bring up the other groups who were persecuted by the Nazis, especially Gypsies and homosexuals. Those are the two groups that I find come up most. It is of course true that the Nazis killed a lot of people that weren't Jewish. But I view the Holocaust as a specifically anti-Jewish movement. Hitler's goal was always to exterminate the Jews and this was the primary objective of his policies. Anybody else who was killed was secondary to this goal. Some people act like Hitler just wanted to kill everyone who didn't fit his ideal and that the Jews just happened to be one of those people; they talk about the Holocaust as if it was simply a large-scale massacre of which Jews were just one of many victims. Sometimes I wonder about the motives of people who claim this. Do you think they are trying to somehow undermine the Jews by bringing up these other groups? 

Dan:
reserved.

Dr. Dan:
Shalom Chaim


There are leap months in the Jewish calander.  How often does Adar II come around?  Why is Adar repeated and not another month?


Thank you

Dr. Dan

ProudAndZionist:
Shalom Chaim,

What do you think about that Israeli government gave out 10 persons for only a video about that IDF soldier?

Isn't it shame? Why don't they do actions for Gilad? (If I'm right, it is his name)

G-d bless you, and your family,
Peter

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