The path of my parents, the Gra, Musar, and Rav Shach.

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There is a divide between Jewish people and Conservatives in the USA. Jews always vote for as close to Communism and Socialism as they can get. And our support of blacks can be interpreted as not so much a love of blacks, but more because they are enemies of white people.

So what I suggest to correct this situation is that people should learn Torah.
This will be helpful in two directions. One is that when Jewish people learn Torah, they will see that the Torah's values are not socialism, but rather identical with conservative values. On the other hand when Conservatives learn Torah, they will benefit by gaining a more consistent world view.

The left is so antisemitic it is a wonder to me that any decent person can associate themselves with them. My advice is thus to vote for what would be considered conservative values in the next election. And in the meantime to start learning Torah. For those who need an introduction to Torah I recommend the Horev of Shimshon Refael Hirsch--but only as an intro. At some point you need to start serious learning on your own. That is to get a Talmud Bavli and start working your way through it. . [Avraham Cook's books also are very good for an introduction in Torah.]

mysticism is not an introduction to Torah. It is best to learn them after one has finished the Talmud at least once and also the main writings of Isaac Luria. Without that basic background the tendency is to misunderstand him.

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For health I recommend learning Musar, [like the Duties of the Heart and the general set of books on Ethics you can find in almost any Lithuanian yeshiva. These are yeshivas which walk in the path of the Gra.]

These are books that don't deal directly with health but rather with the world view of Torah and how to keep Torah in a practical way. But the offshoot of learning these books is one gains fear of God. And fear of God is useful in several ways, one of which is health.
But not everything that deals with Torah ethics is accurate. Many books which claim to be teaching Torah are pseudo Torah. To get to real Fear of God one needs authentic Torah.
Now I realize that authentic Torah can be dry. This is in fact the reason why Musar and Gemara are not learned. They are hard and unless you develop a taste for them they are dry.

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Antisemitism comes the verse כמים הפנים אל פנים כן לב אדם. As the face that appears in water is to the face that it reflects so is the heart of a man to his neighbor. So his conclusion is that antisemitism is a direct result of people learning Rashi on Chumash.

Antisemitism comes the verse כמים הפנים אל פנים כן לב אדם. As the face that appears in water is to the face that it reflects so is the heart of a man to his neighbor. So his conclusion is that antisemitism is a direct result of people learning Rashi on Chumash. [That is to say people should instead learn the Ramban on Chumash].

There was a black fellow that was an anchor of a news program on TV. He heard two of his co workers mention about how blacks are prone to violence. He decided to teach them a lesson about racism and so shot them. I guess he thought that would show them how wrong they were.

My basic point was that race is how nature species one species into two. I explained that let's say you have a species of bird and you separate them. They first separate into two races. One way this happens is their color is different. Then eventually they become different species.
Or in England where you have soot. Take one species of bird and put some there. They develop color that blends into the soot. The part of the species that was not there developed differently and eventually they became two different species.
At some point they becomes different species. Nature has already decided to separate black and white into tow different species and has started this project already. To try to revers this progression is just provoking nature to make her point all the more powerfully.

When you go to a Litvak yeshiva the first thing that happens is someone asks you to complete some minyan somewhere near by. Or they need you for some other purpose.

Many people including myself wonder if we are required to interrupt our studies for such a thing.

Rav Ovadia Joseph was asked in a more general vein about yeshiva students going to Meron on Lag Be'Omer. [He answered in the negative.]

The way I would look at this would be from the standpoint of halacha. מצווה שאי אפשר לעשות על ידי אחרים מבטלים בשבילה

But what people are really wondering about is this: Is there a specific advantage to pray in a yeshiva as opposed to a a synagogue. I would say that today most yeshivas are places of the Dark Side. The pretend to be places of Torah but most often are places of worship of some dead person. But if in fact you have in your area an authentic Lithuanian yeshiva then by all means I would say to pray there on Rosh Hashana at almost all cost.

yeshiva meaning a place where people learn Talmud Rashi and Tosphot all day.