The Hassidic Belz community, one of the largest Hassidic courts in the country, is threatening to leave Israel if the proposed military draft law is passed by the Knesset, Maariv reports.
THEY SHOULD GO.
THEY CAN STUDY IN NEW YORK AS WELL AS IN ISRAEL.
IF THEY ARE NOT CONTRIBUTING TO OUR SOCIETY BY JOINING THE ARMY (OR DOING NATIONAL SERVICE) AND PAYING TAXES, WHO NEEDS THEM.
dweller Said:
Smarty pants, Nurse Reached.
@ honeybee:
Emily Crachit (Bob’s wife) was a nurse? (Who knew she had time for a career, with all those kids!)
Maybe you meant Nurse Ratched? (Ratshit?)
@ yamit82:
That’s not an argument. I seriously doubt that ANY critical reading of Genesis (by anybody) ISN’T “old hat.”
— Doesn’t, of itself, however, make my reading ‘wrong.’
I gave you my take on it in my own words. If you think my take is wrong, then show me HOW — and in YOUR own words, here, now. So far, you haven’t.
That’s right; I didn’t watch this clip — I simply don’t have 49 minutes to devote to it. Have read LOTS of his stuff, however (since long before I came to I-P), and remain unimpressed.
OTOH, if YOU did watch this clip, you should have no trouble summarizing the salient points in your own words. I’ll look forward to what you have to say.
I did go to the 20:00 mark, but the subtitling was so poor, I truly couldn’t make sense of it.
Most subtitling these days is done apparently by sound (just as when somebody leaves an email message using a cellphone), and voice-recognition technology is still very unsophisticated; gets a lot wrong.
— Again though, if you know what it says from 20:00, you should be able to make the argument in your own words. Go for it, enlighten me; I’m listening.
Ah, so THAT’s why you dig Lewis Black. (Now it all becomes clear. . . .)
I did learn Hebrew, over half-a-century ago; don’t get to use it regularly, however, as there is little opportunity for immersion here; so like anything not practiced, it fades.
Black got WHAT ‘right’? — he reads the scriptures b’IVRIT, ken ayin hara?
@ yamit82:
No; unlike youself, I make no such distinction. I recognize the metaphysical principle, “as above, so below.”
The mere fact that a text may be symbolic does not, of itself, prevent it from being ALSO, AND AT THE SAME TIME, quite literal.
It’s not “either/or.” It’s BOTH.
You aren’t a believer, Yamit (Jewish or otherwise). You are a partisan. So, what you believe is a reflection strictly of fealty — not of freely & honestly derived conviction.
— That is, you ‘believe’ what you think you’re SUPPOSED to believe.
“our” texts? — You make the Word of God sound like somebody’s personal possession, instead of a sacred Trust.
I rather doubt that the true Possessor takes that very kindly.