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2023-08-30 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel Police rescue Beit Shemesh mayor from violent haredi protest

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-30 06:17|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
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#1 Haredi Judaism

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-30 08:34|| 2023-08-30 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ It would appear to be a common sense survival technique.

....followers of Haredi Judaism segregate themselves from other parts of society to an extent. However, many Haredi communities encourage their young people to get a professional degree or establish a business.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-30 08:41|| 2023-08-30 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Fake Jews practicing fake schoolarship

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-08-30 10:23|| 2023-08-30 10:23|| Front Page Top

#4 I seem to remember we had a Russian here that ghost wrote term papers.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-30 11:28|| 2023-08-30 11:28|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought he was a jobless "professor" tutoring high school students.

Posted by Cleared Cookies Lost Nic 2023-08-30 12:47|| 2023-08-30 12:47|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ He was clearly beloved by all.

/sarc

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-30 13:12|| 2023-08-30 13:12|| Front Page Top

#7 I seem to remember we had a Russian here that ghost wrote term papers.

And I was good at it because I'm a good schoolar: somebody who can look at a few despartate pieces and correctly figure the big picture.

On the other hand, the ultra-orthodox are fake schoolars because their study is mostly rote memorization of Halacha.

And they're fake Jews because their deification of their founding Rabbis - they f#cking pray to them the way Catholics pray to their Saints. Which is completely contrary to basic principles of Judaism.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-08-30 13:18|| 2023-08-30 13:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Not scholars, merely students. Of those multitudes who memorize for three years to get law degrees, what small percent make meaningful insights of use to society afterward? How many cannot earn much more than minimum wage from the work even after investing all that time and money?

My personal opinion is that Israeli tax dollars should not be supporting the generality of those who want to study Torah, but only the most gifted, who will provide a return on the investment, though I have no quarrel with private donations for the next tier. And especially, study of Torah should not be used as escape from military service or actual self-supporting work.

Rabbi Tzadok used to say: Do not make the Torah a crown with which to aggrandize yourself, nor use it as a spade with which to dig. As Hillel used to say: He who makes worldly use of the crown of the Torah shall perish. Thus you may infer that any one who exploits the words of the Torah removes himself from the world of life.

— PirkeiAvot 4:7

Posted by trailing wife 2023-08-30 16:48|| 2023-08-30 16:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Regardless of your faith tradition or creed, it seems obvious that if all God wanted us to do was study scriptures and worship, he could have just made us all angels in the first place. Instead, he put us here to be fruitful, multiply, accomplish a great number of things, accomplish great things, always strive for a reach that exceeds our grasp and make Him smile as we try against all to become worthy of being made in His image.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-30 16:54|| 2023-08-30 16:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Or he would have created us with instilled divine knowledge instead of leaving us to find it (as someone else said yesterday?) via our own free will and limited intellect.

I am still on the path, with side-snark intervening. Mea culpa

Posted by Frank G 2023-08-30 18:22|| 2023-08-30 18:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Scum who called himself g(r)om wished death to people like me.
Wished failure of my business and all who depend on me. Death to all who disagreed that the vax was the holy grail for salvation. Death to all who disagreed.
(r) is scum. ESAD.
I changed my nic just to piss this punk off.
Sorry you're not dead.
I'd like to meet you....

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2023-08-30 22:39|| 2023-08-30 22:39|| Front Page Top

#12 some are apparently not so forgiving, g(r)om

Posted by Frank G 2023-08-30 22:50|| 2023-08-30 22:50|| Front Page Top

#13 he would have created us with instilled divine knowledge

I have some divine distilled.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-30 23:57|| 2023-08-30 23:57|| Front Page Top

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