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Ask JTF for Sunday January 31, 2010
Dan:
hello Chaim,
if we are going to make any type of impact on the upcoming elections in 2010 and 2012 we should have weekly updates on which candidates we should support and why.
as i remember we had a hard time convincing all of our members in the last election that mike huckabee was indeed the better of the candidates, and we should have fully support him.
i suggest we begin to map out plans and set forth the ground work to better prepare to defeat the current evil that is occupying the white house.
thanks for all your hard work,
Dan
Ari Ben-Canaan:
Dear Chaim,
Are Jews allowed to use our computers during Shabbat to study Torah specifically?
Is "Ileh" Arabic for G-d, and not "Allah"? I have heard "Allah" is actually a pagan "moon god" in the Kaaba from pre-Islamic times, is this true? I have heard it suggested that the Kaaba was a Hindu temple before Mohamed's time more than once on the internet. If "Allah" was a "moon god" it would make sense that Islam uses the moon as their symbol, no?
What do the rabbis think about Zoroastrianism? Zoroastrians worship 1 deity, but they also believe in a evil deity almost as powerful [like the Christian's "satan"]. Younger Persians who are sick of the Arabic virus of Islam are starting to discover they have a religion of their own to be proud of, because of this I have been studying Zoroastrianism for awhile, and I am curious how the rabbis, or Talmud views the Persian religion.
Can you explain "taqiyya" and "kitman", and how they [very well may] play a role in every Muslim's life? What are the differences between the two? I have read a little bit about a 3rd type of lying Muslims do called, "tu-quoque", any info you can dig up on what this specifically type of lying involves, please let me/us know.
Who actually wrote the Koran? - I found this site below to be interesting. Is this a bunch of unfounded rumor, or an actual semi-expose? I've always just assumed the Koran was pure blasphemy, standard. Given that Mohamed was a brainless rube illiterate simpleton who molested 5 year olds* incapable of authorship of anything, and the Koran did not write itself... perhaps history has uncovered the actual authorship. Mohamed may have been an editor?
*because the Arabic lunar calender is 11 days shorter than today's calender.
http://inthenameofallah.org/Authors%20of%20the%20Quran.html
^Who wrote the Koran?
Chaim - Thanks so much for doing so much on the internet for Israel, the Jewish people, and America [or anywhere people hate tyranny and love good life in its place]. There is always something worth paying attention to in your forum. I listen a little each day mingled between the online studies I do with Chabad's sites one can download.
Although it is slow going at right now, I have started my own little discussion group on facebook. I am thinking about getting into a blog, or something a bit more unique than a facebook group. - How long did it take the JTF forum to get going? Given that you have helped free 1,000,000 or more Jews I am sure it went a bit faster than mine! Below is my own experiment with the internet group thing. I call it, "The Maccabee Factor". Some JTF'ers joined when I had a thread.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=app_2373072738&gid=240759388172
Chaim, what can we do to get a good Jew like you living in Eretz Yisrael? What needs to happen? A non-socialist would be a start, but which non-socialists specifically? I hope to make Aliyah within about 100 weeks from now [I set a goal date: Jan 1st, 2012], which politicians should I be looking into supporting, what online periodicals would get me reading for making informed political decisions in the Israeli voting booths?
Chai:
Shalom Chaim.
Do you really feel Autism is on the rise because their mothers are drug users? Don't you think that's insulting to people who have children with Autism, especially listening to this program?
perhaps I misinterpreted what you meant?
But my real question this week is what you think of my reaction towards my synagogue. I wont say the name of the place or the rabbi because of loshon harah. Basically , the rabbi does not believing standing up for the Israeli national anthem, nor does he have a Israeli flag in the shul. Would Rabbi Meir Kahane ZTL do this if he had a shul today? My reaction is to never go there again. I do not want a leader like this; am I over reacting?
Thanks for clarifying thanks
Ps do you have an affirmative action story featuring a mussie?
Ari Ben-Canaan:
--- Quote from: Chaim Ben Pesach on January 25, 2010, 04:44:18 PM ---בס''ד
The Torah forbids Jews from getting any tattoos. Tattoos violate the Torah commandment not to mutilate or desecrate your body. Jews with tattoos cannot even ritually purify themselves in a mikvah. This is regarded as a serious sin.
--- End quote ---
Chaim, as a Jew who has tattoos what is my best course of action?
Have I canceled my chances as an Orthodox Jew?
Am I not allowed in synagogue's mikvah, or in not allowed in any mikvah period [how about a river, or if I purchased a mikvah for one time use after a bet din?].
G-d already know's about my tattoos; would laser removal improve my situation?
angryChineseKahanist:
If I stepped back in time and allowed the young aspiring architect into that art school and kept him out of jail, he probably wouldn't have written the German Koran and Jews would probably still be alive.
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