A Bangladeshi-American blogger was killed by nuns...Opps Muslims, for saying something not nice about the religion of Satan, Islam.

A Bangladeshi-American blogger who wrote often opposing religious extremism was hacked to death on the streets of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, as he returned home from a book fair with his wife. Avijit Roy, whose blog Free Mind spoke out against extremism in all religions, was killed by Muslim extremists who carefully planned and executed the attack professionally.

"This is the handiwork of a professional. They knew where to hit to kill a man,” the autopsy doctor said adding it was impossible to carry out such an attack without "planning, skill and brutality."

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/american_blogger_hacked_to_death_in_bangladesh.html


 Lets get together and blame the Mosad or the evil Zionists for this.

You want to start a yeshiva.?

 It’s imperative that you have the best and brightest for your yeshiva. A yeshiva student is an investment. A yeshiva needs to be properly managed in order to grow and succeed.

Once that yeshiva student reaches his pinnacle of growth and success, you and he have reached the most optimal production output. 

However, not all yeshiva students are created equal. Only the best can ensure you reach that end game of mutual success.

The  adage, “Never judge a book by its cover” is completely false. It’s the single quickest way for an interviewer to take a chance on a complete idiot, drug user, social justice warrior (never let them in your organization), slacker and piss poor student.

So, let me make this crystal clear, judge. Life is about making judgments, but you need to be cautious and judicious with making decisions on potential yeshiva students. Typically, what you see is what you get when interviewing.

Candidates you should definitely pass on: members of religious cults.

 At best, you have to spend additional hours you don’t have correcting them and, eventually you’ll be forced to ask them to leave.  It only goes significantly downhill from that point on – i.e., lawsuits.

Appendix:

Most yeshivas and kollels today are cults.  What I suggest is to start a yeshiva that is not a cult. Also to terminate the cults.

People in the Middle Ages were interesting in seeing in the Torah a self consistent system.
The basic premise was if it is not self consistent it is garbage. This was the reason for Maimonides to write the Guide and the Yad HaChazaka--to show that the Torah is one self consistent system.

But we know from Godel that for this to be true we need axioms from the outside.

But these axioms (although not provable ) in order to be meaningful need to be falsifiable.
How is something not based on physical evidence falsifiable? When from the same axiom you can prove two opposite conclusions --that shows the axiom itself is false.

This is the basic idea I was telling my learning partner yesterday about why Tosphot assumes that the Talmud is self consistent.

Appendix: This need  to show that your system is not full of contradictions was also the reason for Aquinas to write his magnum opus.

In the case of Aquinas- there was a need to resolve the Old Testament, the NT and Aristotle, and the Church Fathers.
In the case of the Rambam there was a need to resolve the Old Testament, the Talmud and Aristotle..
But the work of the Rambam had been started by Saadia Geon.

In no case did anyone think the Torah is up for grabs for any individual to interpret it as he likes.

Now once you have gotten a system without contradictions then you need anyway faith in the axioms. That is where the Rambam and Aquinas are on different grounds.

Putin is not interested in money.
That means that sanctions will not stop him. [The warrior could not care less about money.] And It also means that for the Ukraine to go for help to the USA would result in a defeat for both  the USA and the Ukraine. It would destroy the world as we know it.
If this much is clear in that story then perhaps we can see what could possibly help the situation?
Mainly I think making Lithuanian kind of yeshivas in the Ukraine. Even if in that story, prayer seems to be the central theme, but my opinion is that that would work only together with Torah.
This could avert a major war. Instead of spending billions of dollars and millions of lives on a stupid war about nothing, why not spend a little time and trouble to make places like the Mir Yeshiva?
That means basically to find people who have spent a few years in a Lithuanian yeshiva like Brisk, Ponovitch in Israel or the three great NY yeshivas, Mir, Chaim Berlin, Torah VeDaat and to bring them to the Ukraine and Russia and to start teaching people Torah. Surely that would be less expensive than a major war.


On the other hand it is important to get rid of pseudo - Torah institutions. Fake Torah is as damaging to the world as True Torah is good for it.
That means to have either  straight Torah or nothing.

Mainly this means if you have something that looks like a cult in town it probably is.
Make a list of what ever was on the cherem of the Gra and cross it off.

I mean to talk to God all day long. . Prayer  is not opening up a book of prayers and saying the words. To him it is going up to the mountains on weekends and spending the whole day in a forest alone doing nothing but talking to God directly.


In any case I wanted to mention that the central idea  is that people are surrounded by darkness and by even one single word of prayer towards God with truth one dispels the darkness.
He says that one should pray his whole life to merit to say even one single word of of prayer with real truth before God.

This might be hard to do on a daily basis so I suggest people get together a set of hiking boots and outdoor survival material and go up to the mountains on weekends and spend at least tow days a week doing this.

Rav Shick started out as a regular teenager in Satmar. But he was working in in a printing shop. Leibel Berger had a car. So during non office hours Eliezer Shelomo would print up the books of Breslov and he and Leibel  would go around offering them to people saying that they could have a book for any amount of charity money the person would be willing to pay. That made it impossible to make money for selling Breslov books. Rav Shick thought the teachings of Breslov were universal--that is for everyone. Leibel told me they sold in this way probably close to 1/2 a million books.

Later he started writing the small books and pamphlets.] And in general people from his group did a good amount of learning Torah.
[If you want to compare the actual amount of knowledge and understanding of Torah with people at  the Mirrer yeshiva, Chaim Berlin, and Torah Vedaat in Brooklyn you would have to give first place the Mirrer and Chaim Berlin because Litvak yeshivas combined both approaches of deep learning in the morning and fast learning in the afternoon. Still the amount of learning going on in Rav Shick's crowd was impressive. And it was not just Talmud. In his crowd there were people, that had gone through all the Oral Law--Bavli Yerushalmi, Sifi Midrash Raba, the Zohar, all the writings of Isaac Luria and Moshe Cordovaro (the Remak) and rishonim that you have never even heard of. like the "Egoz".]





People that make fun of this method you can ask yourself how much they really learn? I remember even Reb Shmuel Berenbaum  (The Rosh Yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva) in the afternoon session used to fly through many pages  [with of course Rashi and Tosphot.] That was until he started learning with a learning partner in the afternoon and that clearly caused him to slow down.



My suggestion with halacha is to do  the Rambam, Tur, and Shulchan Aruch . That is to start out with the Rambam. Take one side of a page and read it word for word with the commentaries on the page. And the next day to start where you left off and go to the  next page until you have finished the entire Rambam with the Kesef Mishna and Raadvaz, the Magid Mishna and all the other commentaries on the page. Then do the same with the Tur, Beit Yosef and Bach. Then the same with the Shulchan Aruch with the Magen Avraham and Taz.

The public can't know what I mean by "yeshiva" [a Lithuanian Yeshiva] and my questions about it because they have no frame of reference.
So at least for background information let me try to explain what it is so you  can at least understand when I bring up the subject what I am talking about.

You have a university in town.  You know what that is. But imagine your university was not just for people between ages 18 to 24 or so. Imagine that there were signs all over your town come to university. And you would walk in and there would be a gigantic study hall of people of all ages learning Torah with a learning partner.

You know what a meme is. It is a unit of social information. It is what unites a group. A common set of closely held beliefs. You know what that is because the USA used to be united by this common set of beliefs--the Constitution.
But what if you had a different community that held from neither. But rather its social meme was the Torah--the written and Oral Law.
And this community has no recognized authority except the Torah itself. Full stop. And anyone can challenge the leaders any day of the week by simply opening up a Talmud and showing that the leader made a mistake, and then there is no question that the Talmud would be followed, and the leader himself would admit his mistake.

And this study hall is the center of gravity  of the community, but the community does not just learn Torah. It keeps Torah;-- and everyone gets married. This fellow marries the daughter of some other fellow etc.
No one is left out.
Now you know what a yeshiva is.
It sounds neat. And it is neat
So you might wonder how in the world could have I have questions about such a wondrous thing?
It sounds like the best thing to come to planet Earth. My questions are mainly about what are called out of town yeshivas. [Out of town is a phrase to refer to anything outside NY State lines.]
So now if I have complaints you will know what I am referring to. I would not dare complain about the Great NY yeshivas or  Bnei Brak's Ponovitch.