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28.2.15

Navardok= trust in God and learning Torah.
There are plenty of Breslov oriented yeshivas where the Rosh yeshiva himself will tell you he got his inspiration from Navardok.
Since you can't depend on others to do the right thing, I therefore recommend  to anyone who will listen to me to start you own Narvardok yeshiva in your own home.
That is: get a regular set of the Oral Law: (1)Talmud, Bavli, Yerushalmi, (2) Rambam, (3) Tur, (4) Shulchan Aruch and plow through them every spare minute.
And don't ask for support. I have no idea why as soon as people become religious, they start asking others for charity. Either just wait until God sends you his blessings, or work for a living. Trust in God is not the same thing as asking people for charity.

And I say this with my mind on the problems between the Ukraine and Russia. I think that Torah would bring peace. Therefore I am specifically recommending Navardok types of yeshivas in Russia and Ukraine. Save the few Billion Euros and send in a few Lithuanian yeshiva type people --and I believe you would see wonders.

But for this to work you have to get rid  the dark side. You can't just add white paint together with black because then all you get is mud and mess. Get rid of the Jewish cults and then this advice can work.


In any case, I don't think sanctions are going to bother Putin the slightest bit. It will just make him more determined to take the Ukraine back. And all the more so sending weapons. I highly recommend everyone to take  a few steps back from Apocalypse. Calm down, And tomorrow is Sunday so go to synagogue or the church and pray for peace.


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.

27.2.15

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.



26.2.15

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.





25.2.15

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.