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Please daven for yehuda arye refael ben yitta. 31 yr old in critical condition from covid
- 55 new covid cases in Lakewood totals 8876/241
-NYT: Mitch McConnell told associates he believes Trump committed impeachable offenses and that he is pleased Democrats are moving to impeach him.
LPD: John Franklin passed away at 91. He was the Lakewood’s former Mayor & Township Committeeman Director of Public Works
-N.J. COVID death toll tops 20K. State reports 4,219 new cases, 108 deaths.
-Murphy: 2021 State of the State Address: "The promise of the new, post-COVID day is just beginning to dawn. "we are working to protect a woman’s full reproductive rights as a matter of state law" ."community-college education tuition-free for students from families with incomes under $65,000". "First in the nation to incorporate climate change education across our K-12 learning standards" "doubled-down on our commitment to the food banks" "we WILL make New Jersey the safest and most equitable place in the nation to deliver and raise a baby. "We are building a future where housing is more affordable and accessible for everyone". "Our future will be powered by clean energy – with a 100% clean energy economy by 2050. We’re implementing the first broad-scale reforms to NJ’s use-of-force policy in a generation. "I remain committed to eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug and property crimes".
- Lakewood zoning board member Obed Gonzalez has moved out of Lakewood, it was announced last night that going forward he will no longer be able to serve on the board to him not living in Lakewood. Members wished him well and thanked him for his years of service.
-Trump blasts big tech.Tells reporter "If you read my speech It's been analyzed and people thought what I said was totally appropriate.".
- The FBI arrested a person in Flatbush this morning at his brother's home in connection with the events at the Capitol on Wednesday. He faces four charges, including felony theft of government property, the source said. In an interview last week he said that he wanted “to express my opinion as a free American that this election was stolen” from President Donald Trump. He was photographed inside the Capitol last Wednesday in fur pelts.
-Lakewood Fire District adopts 2021 budget, at $8,234,037.00, annual residential taxes to increase $35-$75. A typical new duplex, such as in Oak and Vine, assessed at $560,000, will pay $437 in 2021, a $73 increase over the 2020 tax of $364. An older townhouse which is assessed at $417,900 will pay $326, a $46 increase over the 2020 tax of $280. The budget includes a $30,000 increase to the total personnel costs due to the restructuring to 1 fire administrator and 1 deputy fire administrator and the new clerical position, and a $72,219 increase in fringe benefits with anticipation of benefits for administration staff and a reduction of the employees contribution; as well as a $10,000 total increase to the commissioners salaries which is due to the greater involvement of the Board and the increasing size of the Department. (LNN)
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ReplyDeleteThe Ma’min says -I believe in Hashem and I trust in Hashem
ReplyDeleteThe Aynu Ma’min says - Trump Trump…..
The Wicked Fool Says - Biden Biden…..
Monday marked the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hisch zt'l
ReplyDeleteHe emphasized however our National Mission and Goal to rise from our golus situation to the level of Yitzchak and culmination to Avraham - all inclusive concern of Av
Hamon Goyim. This was central of his Hashkapha
And almost all Gedolei Yisroel, who respected him greatly, strongly rejected this shitta of his.
DeleteFalse
DeleteThey felt that for Eastern Europe it was impractical at most
Kovno Orthodoxie as well as Telz very much tried to incorporate it
Who will be chosen to replace Obed on the zoning board? It could be lucrative.
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ReplyDelete"We are not doing our job and living up to our responsibilities.”
R Schachter observed that “The whole world is rebelling,” he noted. “If I were G-d, I would be very angry right now. We need to work harder and do our jobs better so that we can be an ohr lagoyim.”
'And when we live in such a malchus shel chessed as America is—such a benevolent country—we owe the gentiles around us a great deal. It behooves us to bring blessing to them and not curses, chas vesholom, to the best of our ability. This is the more true because this is a country in which we have the legal right to vote, to speak and to write, to make our voices heard.
ReplyDeleteNow, my father[R’ Nachman Bulman] admired Yekkes, German Jews, very much—for their honesty, their integrity, their courtesy and good manners, their straight dealings, their incorruptibility. There were certain things about the Polish and Russian Jews that he looked upon as deformities caused by the harsh galus, the harsh and hostile exile, that they had suffered in their motherlands or rather, stepmotherlands. He was a Polish Jew himself, a Gerrer chossid. He had the warmth, the keen intelligence, the emotion and passion, the love of learning combined with the love of his people, that were so characteristic of the best of the Polish Jews.
Yet philosophically he admired, as I said, the German Jews, and especially their towering giant, Rav Hirsch.
He rejected the Polish idea of “Fife on the goyim” – I don’t care what the goyim think, I don’t care what happens to them, as long as I get mine.
He believed that we Jews are part of civilization, part of humanity, and owe something to the rest of mankind, especially to countries that provide a safe haven and economic opportunities for us to build our shuls, our schools and the whole wonderful infrastructure of Jewish life..
What tears at my guts is the fact that so many New [Jersey] Jews, fine Jews with beards and sheitels, vote for these scoundrels because they want the goodies—and by the way, this motive is not evil—their families need help, they are drowning financially, their schools and communities really are often in dire financial shape. And yet.
This voting pattern is incredibly blind and shortsighted.
The attitude of, “What do I care if *** *** want to get married? What is it my business, what does it hurt me?” – that attitude is indefensible. It matters for so many reasons. If the air is polluted, I cannot say, “Well who cares, I’m not breathing that stuff anyway.” The environment around us affects us, it influences us, we cannot build high enough or strong enough walls to keep it out.
But even more so, we are supposed to be a help and a blessing and a light to the nations. We owe America so much! How dare we just shrug our shoulders and say, “Let them do what they want, the hell with them!” Where is the promise and the obligation we have to say the truth, and to bring G-d’s blessing on the people who have been so good to us?
It is only fair of me to acknowledge that it is not only right wing Jews, with black hats and sheitels, who have this attitude of indifference to the moral welfare of the goyim among whom they live.
This same attitude is even more widespread, and is given a patina of intellectual respectability, by Orthodox Jews of Teaneck and Manhattan and other communities. “It’s none of our business what other people do, we can’t impose our will, yada yada.” Or even worse, “Why should **** be denied their chance of *****, why should the Torah have anything to say about it?”'
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I don't know if you are a son/daughter of Rabbi Bulma, or you are merely quoting him/her, but לא מפיו אנו חיים.
DeleteWe are not Geirim, we have a rich history, and we have been taught how to deal with the outside world. We were taught by our Rebbeim to keep away from the outside world, not to try and become a part of them. Our Torah is not right wing or left wing, it is the Torah, and it does not exist in the parameters of the Goyishe religions.
Even the Rabbi Bulman you quote has to acknowledge that in Poland they did not agree with Rabbi Hirsh, and that is certainly true in Poland, Lithuania, Hungary and Russia.
And I would suggest you check the success rate of Hirshian Judaism. How many Realschule graduates stayed religious? My grandfather was a graduate, but an Ostjude, and he never subscribed to his belief system.
Who is Rabbi Bullman? He himself admits that Polish Jewry did not accept Rabbi Hirsh's position, and neither did anyone else in Europe.
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DeleteAnd after the Holocaust the modus operandi of our leaders was different
because they understood precisely that it was a mistake beforehand
there was some like R silver & some chassidishe
didn't appreciate it ,didn't like it and were ignored
My grandmother Attended there for a year before moving on for two years prior to kristallnacht Seminary in Wurtzburg
She survived Lodz ghetto Auschwitz death marches
And raised her family in observance – and many others as well !
Your grandfather was only an ostjude– so much for that
Are you claiming that my grandfather was somewhat less than the pure-blooded Germans, for being an Ostjude?
DeleteI wonder which culture would have taught you that.
No post-holocaut Gedolim said anything remotely similar to what you say. They all set up the system with the minimum interaction with the outside world. From Reb Aaron and the Satmar Rov in America to the Chazon Ish and the Brisker Rav in Eretz Yisroel. Nobody decided that suddenly Rav Hirsh became right and everyone else wrong.
And the failure of the RealSchule should tell us all that the Hirshian system is too flawed to risk. The vast majority of graduates did not stay frum.
"No post-holocaut Gedolim said anything remotely similar to what you say."
DeleteNor do they have to
They preferred speaking through methods & actions which spoke more elegantly than any exposition Though bound to misinterpretation by those with ne'gious
" They all set up the system with the minimum interaction with the outside world. From Reb Aaron and the Satmar Rov in America to the Chazon Ish and the Brisker Rav in Eretz Yisroel. Nobody decided that suddenly Rav Hirsh became right and everyone else wrong."
Internally, they remained different because they felt
his Worldview
lacked intensity and depth.
Externally? They had their variations nominally but that's it
They largely operated to the same direction
They have to be "Lo'eg al Harishonim" publicly?!
The old retired Italian barber could tell me some years ago that R' Shmuel Brudny would come over to him on Xmas and whisper in his ear "good yom tov"
"And the failure of the RealSchule should tell us all that the Hirshian system is too flawed to risk. The vast majority of graduates did not stay frum."
Eh?
The whole Bais Yaakov system was organized and run by his disciples! Sarah Shnerir made her girls learn German.
The Chorev schools of Eastern Europe were based upon his principles. As well as the Yesodei Hatorah schools of Belgium, Britain, and Canada ,in part.
So we invent new Gedolim for the purpose.
DeleteI said Reb Aaron and the Satmar Rov, but you know of a first year Beis Medrash Magid Shiur who acted slightly differently.
You seem to be mathematically challenged. Sara Schenirer was not a disciple of the Realschule, she heard speeches that were based on Rav Hirsh. She had the benefit of a Polish chinuch. The actual pupils of the Realshule stayed or became non-frum. That should tell us that his education system is too dangerous to follow.
The Agudah categorically rejected virtually everything Rav Hirsh stood for, which was, according to Moreinu Rosenheim, the single biggest and long running issue that he had to deal with as an Agudah leader.
You are shoehorning history into your own biases and beliefs.
Acknowledge the ones who really rebuilt klal yisroel during and after the war(but didn't get enough credit as they welcomed others to shine in the limelight): The Ba'alei HaMussar
DeleteGo try to convince us that they would have anything other than repulsion and disgust for what you are propounding and your hashkapha viz a viz the outside world. Go Ahead! Do so please
" The actual pupils of the Realshule stayed or became non-frum"
DeleteMy grandmother didn't. I don't know enough about the other pupils, although Washington Heights seemed to belie this. I could tell you about Wurtzburg Seminary she attended for 2 years: 2 descendants for starters
Yeshivas Kol Torah and Ner Yisroel (in philosophy and Neubergers)
"The Agudah categorically rejected virtually everything "
Who is the Agudah? Which continent? R Reuven Feinstein told me some 15 years ago that Agudah used to be Hashkafa and broad direction.
Now it is unfortunately about demographics and constituencies,how to cater to , keep them happy & under the umbrella
shoehorning your own biases and beliefs into history
McConnell knows his capitol police miserably failed to protect the house and senate (proof - capitol police chief and both sergeant at arms resigned) and he's blaming it on Trump
ReplyDeleteWelcome to 2021
Anything that goes wrong is Trumps fault
Please daven and learn as a zechus for Aryeh Leib ben Chaya Faiga who is hospitalized with Covid. Thank you.
ReplyDeletePlease daven for yehuda arye refael ben yitta. 31 yr old in critical condition from covid
ReplyDeletePeople got corona at a lachaim in a house in lakewood beware
ReplyDeleteTypo revulsion
ReplyDeleteHamburg,which was largely on Frankfurt model, had three dozen orthodox Shomer Shabbos medical doctors.
In the early decades of the state of Israel virtually every Orthodox Shomer Shabbos professional of German origin.
Budapest, by comparison,approx. 1% of all Jewish professionals were orthodox only Shomer Shabbos.Vienna was probably worse,
Warsaw probably wasn't much better.
"too flawed to risk""failure"?
Now that Lakewood has been going in that direction
pray tell which model would be better to follow on that basis