SO GO ALREADY

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.

March 2, 2014 | 203 Comments »

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  1. @ yamit82:

    “I know dweller has no sense of humor…”

    “No; what you KNOW is that I don’t have the SAME sense of ‘humor’ as Lewis Black…”

    “I understand he’s too cerebral for you…”

    “Cerebral”? — no, just not very bright — which is no crime, of itself, but most tiresome in one who thinks he IS bright (let alone, knowledgeable). Very Hollywood.

    More importantly though, you overlook the fact that I don’t have sound; so I use the subtitling. Sometimes that gives me a certain advantage, oddly enough, in that it gives me the option to just watch.

    — You can learn a lot about a standup or a speech-giver from just watching him without sound. All this guy’s ‘humor’ is in his gestures & facial expressions. And it’s quite evident from watching them that he clearly has an overbloated opinion of his own intelligence. Try just watching sometime with the sound off. Can be quite an education.

    “… and [Black] made fun of your jeezus…?”

    I wouldn’t know about that. As I said, I gave him a few minutes, and he hadn’t yet gotten to any part about “jeezus.” I’d seen enough, however.

    — I cleaned the slime off the screen, washed my hands, and got back to writing.

    “…I don’t have the SAME sense of ‘humor’ as Lewis Black — or as anybody else who disingenuously derives his sense of ‘humor’ at somebody else’s expense.”

    “Marx Bros and 3 stooges not your cup of tea either! Don’t know many successful comedians who don’t poke fun at someone else…”

    Neither do I — but once again, you overlooked something in your reply. See the bolded word just above. A good comic may WELL poke fun at somebody but his humor is honest. Marx Bros were honest. Larry, Curly & Mo were honest.

    — Black isn’t. He’s disingenuous. He gives a listener to understand that he knows something about his target[s] which he really doesn’t, in fact, KNOW.

    “… but they are creative unlike like actors parroting someone else’s creativity.”

    Obviously PresentCompany has never worked as an actor. You surely comprehend NOTHING of an actor’s process — or you would know that if the actor is any good, then what he does has nothing WHATSOEVER to do with ‘parroting.’

    Quite the contrary, in fact, his job is to find the truth of the text and let it pass thru him in the moment, without interference or ‘commentary’ from his ego. That’s not parroting. It is a different species of creativity from that of the writer, TBS, but it is no less creative.

    — And sometimes the writing itself is anything BUT creative. (I’ve been given scripts to perform that were so poorly rendered, I had to offer constructive doctorings of my own to make them workable in performance.)

  4. @ yamit82:

    There is a country song for every occasion. Off to the flea market to find a treasure and some toothpaste and give my friend his Hamentashen.

  5. dweller Said:

    “By the way,” our sages DO NOT KNOW that

    — they CERTAINLY don’t know that for every day (let alone, every week or every month).

    And neither does Schroeder.

    Well they certainly can’t be yours you don’t even know what they said…..You can’t even recognize biblical parable from the christian literal reading of our texts. 🙂

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzetqYev_AI

  6. dweller Said:

    No; what you KNOW is that I don’t have the SAME sense of ‘humor’ as Lewis Black

    I understand he’s too cerebral for you and made fun of your jeezus. Sour grapes AH?

    — or as anybody else who disingenuously derives his sense of ‘humor’ at somebody else’s expense.

    Marx Bros and 3 stooges not your cup of tea either!!!!!! Don’t know many successful comedians who don’t poke fun at someone else but they are creative unlike like actors parroting someone else’s creativity.

    Your critical reading of genesis is old hat and explained by all of our commentators and so did Schroder but you didn’t watch his clip and if by chance you did it must have been too complicated for your little brain to digest. (See from 20:00 mark for Talmudic explanation) I love it when ignoramuses pretend to knowledge they don’t have, least you could do is learn Hebrew and read it for your self in the original rather to read our scriptures through christian lens and christian interpretation. Black got that right.

  10. @ yamit82:

    “By the way even our sages concede a day is 24 hrs and a week is a week and a month is a month”

    “By the way,” our sages DO NOT KNOW that

    — they CERTAINLY don’t know that for every day (let alone, every week or every month).

    And neither does Schroeder.

    The opening lines of Breisheet [Genesis] indicate that God created the earth on Day One; that the earth was formless, not even spherical at that juncture in time.

    Then He commanded Light into existence — but the light itself was ALSO formless, it was scattered light; then He separated the light from the darkness.

    All on Day One.

    However, when WE speak of a “day,” we typically mean not only daytime & night, but also the amount of time it takes the earth to complete a single rotation about its axis in the presence of the sun.

    But Breisheet goes on to say that the sun, moon, stars were not created till Day FOUR.

    — Obviously, then, the first three days were not solar days. So how long were they? — could’ve been 20 billion years; could’ve been 20 minutes. I don’t know.

    And you don’t know; the sages don’t know; Schroeder doesn’t know; Einstein didn’t know. So far, only the Most High knows. And He doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to disgorge the details.

    We don’t know that the earth would even rotate on its axis in the absence of the sun (or if it did so before there was a sun, whether its speed of rotation was the same as it is in the presence of the sun); we don’t even know that it had an axis — and won’t know THAT till we know when it became spherical.

    And once there WAS a sun — and the earth began to revolve about it, and to rotate on its own axis — how do we know that its speeds of axial rotation and orbital revolution respectively were the SAME rates that we know today?

    — Maybe they were, maybe they weren’t.

    Breisheet notes that the Flood precipitated the condensation of the vapor canopy, the “waters above the firmament,” which had been put there on the Second Day. [Gen 1:6-8].

    During the course of the Flood, “All the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up and the windows of heaven were opened.” [Gen 7:11].

    Perhaps this, in turn, altered the specific gravity of the planet, thus establishing, as well, altered rates of axial rotation and orbital revolution thereafter.

    Sheer speculation obviously. However, what we do know — from the scripture only (so far) — is that henceforth, per promise, the principle of uniformity — day/nite cycle, seasonal cycles, etc. — would prevail in perpetuity. [Gen 8:22]

    “I know dweller has no sense of humor…”

    No; what you KNOW is that I don’t have the SAME sense of ‘humor’ as Lewis Black

    — or as anybody else who disingenuously derives his sense of ‘humor’ at somebody else’s expense.

  11. yamit82 Said:

    Recipe looks good I’ll give it a go and let you know how they come out

    TX say this year is the best year ever, I baked them crispy like little pie tarts. Mail some off and have a bag for my friend at the flea market. Another batch is in the fridg. TX bought me a glass top range, it is easy to clean
    In spit of every thing Providence does a damn good job at landscaping cacti, darger bush, yucca and long grass tha waves in the wind, as the Indians say “hair of the earth.” .

  16. honeybee Said:

    We depend on Providence to maintain our landscaping.

    Droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes and dust storms do a good job of natural landscaping.

    How are your cacti doing?

  17. @ yamit82:
    @ yamit82:

    swelling almost gone

    Good! We’re on the right track. 🙂

    just pain with sensitivity to touch.

    But not completely out of the woods yet… 🙁

    I’m out of Jack Daniels.

    Try courvoisier… 😉

  18. honeybee Said:

    French Kissing!!!!

    Don’t know any Frenchies here in the Israeli outback

    You need penicillin.

    I’m on my third day with Moxipen. Seems to be working.

    Hope my germs are not becoming immune. I change types of antibiotics each time to fool em.

  19. honeybee Said:

    Very appropriately have two bucks in the garden by the house,lookin in through the doors.

    You should have invited them in for Pizza or milk and Hamentashen.

    Recipe looks good I’ll give it a go and let you know how they come out. Until my infection is gone I’m on a liquid diet. Vodka, Rum and before bed Scotch. I’m out of Jack Daniels.

    A DENTAL DELIGHT!!!!

    Wise guys finish last

    the phoenix Said:

    Refuah shlemah!

    Thanks, swelling almost gone just pain with sensitivity to touch.

  20. honeybee Said:

    ” what is a waving offering”?

    Harvesting the grain offering

    What the Torah Says

    The Torah says, in the context of introducing the commandment of “Sefirat HaOmer,” the following: (Vayikra 23:9-14)

    “And G-d gave this instruction to Moshe, to communicate: Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the Land which I Am giving to you, and you harvest its crops, you shall bring the “Omer,” (the Omer is a dry measure, containing the volume of 43.2 average eggs. It is the amount of barley flour that had to be brought, and is also the name of the offering) the first of the harvest, to the Kohen. And he shall move the Omer forward, backward, right, left and up-and-down, before G-d, as an expression of your free will, on the day after the ‘Shabbat,’ shall the Kohen move it in the manner described.”
    “And you shall make, on the day of the ritual movement of the Omer, a lamb, unblemished, in its first year, as a burnt offering to G-d. And its associated grain offering should be two tenth-”ephahs” (another dry measure) of fine barley-flour mixed with oil, a burnt offering to G-d, with a pleasant aroma, and its libation of wine, one fourth of a “hin” (a liquid measure). And you shall not eat bread, nor roasted kernels, nor full kernels, until this very same day, until you bring the offering to your G-d; an eternal statute for all of your generations, wherever you may live.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl7Ui8c-Rqs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QF2frXyVsU

  21. honeybee Said:

    @ the phoenix:

    yAMIT82 NEVERS RESPONES TO ME! I HAVE POSTED MY HAMENTASHEN RECIPE A DENTAL DELIGHT!!!!

    Let’s just say I have a theory….
    Which actually has to do with your hamentashen ingredients…..
    😉

  26. @ honeybee:

    What to you grow??? Not Tomatoes up there in the north

    Trying to perfect the ephemeral “polar tomato”… 🙂
    Just dabbling in moving rocks, clearing the forest and plain landscaping…
    And reading the IP (mandatory!… 🙂 )

  31. @ yamit82:

    I always bounce back.

    I really hope that to be the case. BUT, facial swelling is not a case of ‘take two aspirins and call me in the morning’….
    Hopefully, it is still in the realm of treatment by the periodontist.
    Refuah shlemah!

  34. yamit82 Said:

    Jesus Cohen

    You told me Jesus Greenberg!!! Should I trust your word! Left off yesterday to get a haircut, it was so late I talk TX into buy me a pizza at your Italian/Mexican restaurant.

  42. yamit82 Said:

    What do you suppose my fangs are for, bird seed

    Perhaps I should have said carnal;;;;
    yamit82 Said:

    us who will take out the garbage, walk the dog and fix stuff around the house

    I don’t how to bring up the song but Etta James’s song ” I just want to make love to you” ,on YouTube, sums up my thought on how to treat a man.

  47. dove Said:

    I think you are a little overraught!!

    No I just misread your comment on 2nd reading I caught myself but too late to correct.

    I was about to make a comment on you saying I was overweight but then I read overwrought correctly and I scrapped my original thought. 🙂

    Without an international mens day I refuse to acknowledge women’s day. For me every day is women’s day but we want equal recognition. Without us who will take out the garbage, walk the dog and fix stuff around the house?

  48. @ yamit82:

    Say what?? I know he’s a comedian, and he is very funny. Did I not say that? I can add my 2 cents worth if I want (especially today – its international womans day) I think you are a little overraught!! Shabbat Shalom 🙂 I’m outta here for awhile. 🙂

  50. @ dove:

    He’s a F*** comedian not Rabbi Goldberg. I posted because I thought it was funny not to poke holes in his monologue. I know dweller has no sense of humor but you too?

    By the way even our sages concede a day is 24 hrs and a week is a week and a month is a month: just see our Jewish calendar. How would the Jews know when Shabbat or any Jewish holiday is?? Our Jewish calendar is the most precise calendar eve invented. Margin of error according to NASA is .00001 margin of error.

    Actually Einstein gave us an answer but so did the Ramban.

    The Age of the Universe
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhrdtTG0nTw