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muman613:
Rabbi Mizrachi, I think, talked about people whose faces look like their dogs:






http://www.tanmonkey.com/fun/dog-looks-like-owner.php

Yaakov Mendel:

I don't like the way Rabbi Mizrachi ridicules and smears every person who doesn't think like him.
In this video, I think he sounds like a complacent man who hasn't got the courage and the intellectual honesty to question his beliefs, and as a manipulative man who tries to seduce his audience through jokes that are imbued with yetser hara.

muman613:

--- Quote from: Yaakov Mendel on June 02, 2011, 03:36:31 PM ---I don't like the way Rabbi Mizrachi ridicules and smears every person who doesn't think like him.
In this video, I think he sounds like a complacent man who hasn't got the courage and the intellectual honesty to question his beliefs, and as a manipulative man who tries to seduce his audience through jokes that are imbued with yetser hara.

--- End quote ---

Interesting... That is my only complaint with Rabbi Mizrachi... He does have a tendency to knock others who don't believe like him. For a while I boycotted his videos because he spoke badly of Breslov Chassidim {of which I consider myself a part of}.

But I have found there is something I dislike about every Rabbi I listen to. So I come to the conclusion that the Rabbi is only human, and as such he is liable to say things which are offensive to some people. I try to look past that and hear the good which they are trying to convey in their lecture.

muman613:
Here is Rabbi Brody talking about the subject:

edu:
If you do a little research on the topic, you will find that there are other generations,
that pointed to certain incidents that occured in their time or certain spiritual problems that occured in their time as "proof" that Messiah is about to come.

Therefore it is worthwhile not to get too excited or convinced about proofs now being offered and just say, it is possible that things develop as the optimists say, but it is certainly possible, that they are wrong and our focus should be on what actions we can do to further the redemption process by natural means.

One final note. Although I don't currently own a dog, I am afraid that dog lovers will be offended by all the negative comments about them, so just for a little balance, here are some positive statements:תלמוד בבלי מסכת בבא קמא דף ס עמוד ב
ת"ר: כלבים בוכים - מלאך המות בא לעיר, כלבים משחקים - אליהו הנביא בא לעיר; וה"מ דלית בהו נקבה.
מלבי"ם שמות פרק כב
 לכלב תשליכון אותו. ובנבלה אמר לגר אשר בשעריך תתננה (דברים יד) שמותר בהנאה ומשמע שהטרפה אסורה בהנאה, אך זה א"א דהא הנבלה חמורה מהטרפה שמטמאה במשא, וכיון שהיא מותרת בהנאה כ"ש טרפה, רק פי' כמ"ש הראב"ע שאמר לכלב בפת"ח, הכלב הידוע שומר הצאן שהוא נהנה במה שנותן מזון לכלב שמזונותיו עליו, והכלב הציל את בשר הטרפה מפי החיה ושייך לו בשכרו, כי הוא השומר קנין אדוניו וצאנו, והוא שמר צאן אדוניו במצרים והכיר את קונו ושמר את צאנו ולא חרץ עליהם לשונו, ואף שבע"ח אינם בעלי שכר ועונש כי פעולתם טבעיית אמר הקב"ה תן לו שכרו שמזה ילמד אדם מוסר לדעת דרכי ה' שכ"ש שיש שכר ועונש להאדם שהוא בעל בחירה, וכן אמר ירמיה (ירמיה יז) שהעושה עושר ולא במשפט ילמד מוסר מן הקורא שאוסף לקנו ביצים של  עופות אחרים ולבסוף מקבל עונש על ידם כדי שיהיה זה מוסר להעושה עושר בגזל שבחצי ימיו יעזבנו:

For those that don't understand Hebrew you should look up the translation  to Talmud Baba Kama 60b and Malbim's commentary  to Shmot/Exodus chapter 22 verse 30

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