Police Lives Matter.

What seems to be the problem with the religious world? (*Besides the fact that they are all crazy.)

What seems to be the problem with the religious world? (*Besides the fact that they are all crazy.) The answer seems to be staring me in the face, though I could not see it for a long time. It is a Midrash that brings the statement of R. Meir about learning Torah for its own sake brings one to great things? They ask "But how can that be? For R Yohanan said, 'One ought to learn Torah even not for its own sake because by that one will come to learn Torah for its own sake.' And the Midrash answers (that question of the contradiction between R. Yochanan and R Meir) that R Meir was saying like R Akiva that one who learns Torah not for its own sake, it is better of he had never been born. (I.e. the Gemara concludes that this is an argument between Tenaim, not between R Yochana and Amora and R Meir. That is an argument between an amora of the Gemara and a tana of the mishna is not possible.])
Now if there had been any distinctions between kinds of  "not for its own sake," then that would have been the obvious answer. So clearly the sages did not see any distinctions. Whether it so for money or whatever the reasons maybe, it is all the same to them. To R Yohanan it is OK and to R Meir and R Akiva it is not.
So of the law is like R Meir and R Akiva, that would seem to explain the issue.
The custom is to make differences between types of "not for its own sake" in order to excuse the custom of extortion of the state to make the state pay for yeshivas. That seems to be a problem 

It got to be that even among people that went along with the approach of the Gra that secular studies were not accepted unless in order to make money. But this does not distinguish among different kinds of secular studies. Most of what is taught in universities is in fact quite worthless. However the many Rishonim including the Gra did hold that the natural sciences are important. But since not everyone is really up to the level of being a physicist so they go into the pseudo sciences. And then try to convince others that what they are doing in in fact some deep wisdom. [Go check up among all students in universities who has the lowest IQ. That ought to tell you something.]

[The Gra said that lack of knowledge in any of the seven wisdoms would result in a lack of understanding of Torah a hundred fold.]

Man made pseudo wisdoms are not the same thing as the wisdom of God as revealed in the work of Creation.

I wanted to express the greatness and importance of following the path of the Gra. That is mainly the idea of straight Torah with no additions nor subtractions. But even though the Gra is known, the whole "spirit of Torah" that you find in Litvak yeshivas is not known. Even after it is known , it  is hidden.

I am not saying I had the merit to follow the straight path of the Gra for more than a few sweet years in Shar Yashuv and later at the Mir. [Both great Litvak yeshivas.] But I go with this idea that even if I can not be what I ought to be, at least I can help others by showing them the path of authentic Torah.

People that protest against the police in the USA, truly love and believe in the police.

People that protest against the police in the USA believe in the kindness and upright moral character of the police. They truly love and believe in the police. How do you know this? Because they know if they would have walked to a militzia officer in a Communist Russia and insulted him, they would have left without any of their teeth. Only in America do the police show constraint and understanding and moral responsibility.

One way to deal with the attempt to take down the USA by China and Antifa would be to learn the basic values that the USA was founded on. That is not just the Federalist Papers. But also the history of England and the Magna Carta. [Why these are no longer taught in schools is baffling]

Another suggestion is to arrest one person working for Antifa. I mean, even if you can not arrest an entire mob, you can arrest one [or more people] and charge them with incitement of rioting, and treason, and felony assault on a police officer.

If the white race is committing mass suicide by siding with their enemies, that does not mean that every single one has to go down without a fight.
If white people have no pride about creating the most magnificent civilization in all history, I can not give it to them.

[When Somalia can do something like this then let me know.

There is a lot of resistance to the idea that Jesus was  a regular "Jewish Tzadik." Part of the reason is group identity. In order to be Jewish one must not have a good opinion of Jesus. The slightest positive statement about Jesus is enough to nullify one's credibility once and for all and to be labeled the worst of all terms "a missionary".

Another reason is the history of the crusades. That is in fact a good reason even if not sufficient.

Another reason is misunderstanding. Even though Paul did have this idea of nullification of the commandments that is clearly the exact opposite of open statements of Jesus himself.
There is also the mistaken idea that people worship Jesus and identify him with God which is all one big misunderstanding of what he was saying. The Trinity is not anything that he would subscribe to as gone into detail in the Trinities blog