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huju: “That plainly implies that his net worth is less than those judgments, which likewise implies that he is not a billionaire.”
False.
The majority of multi-billionaire Donald Trump’s net worth is tied into non-liquid assets, namely real estate.
There’s no doubt whatsoever that Trump is a multi-billionaire and one of the richest men in the world.
Yankel: That claim is a complete falsehood. His Chasidim bought, and fully paid for, a train ticket out of Hungary from a Zionist Nazi-collaborator by the name of Rudolf Kastner. This Zionist Nazi collaborator was working hand in hand with Adolf Eichmann ym’s to mass murder Hungarian Jewry. Kastner knew Aushwitz was a death camp. Kastner knew Eichmann intended to mass deport Hungarian Jews to Aushwitz. Kastner never publicized these facts to Hungarian Jewry, who was unaware they were to be deported to a death camp for immediate murder upon arrival, prior to the deportations — despite his knowledge of what was about to occur. In fact, Kastner lied to Hungarian Jewry and told them they would be taken by the trains to work camps and released at the end of the war.
Why did Rudolf Kastner help Adolf Eichmann murder half a million Hungarian Jews? Because Eichmann, who was friends with Kastner and used Kastner to keep Hungarian Jews quiet and compliant, promised Kastner that he’d get a train for him to help escape from Hungary anyone he wanted. Kastner filled up a majority of the passengers of that train with his immediate family, his extended family and his Hungarian Zionist colleagues and friends. The remaining minority of seats he sold at full price for his profit, and one of those was purchased by the Chasidim for the Rebbe.
After the war was already over, and the Nazis defeated, Kastner testified in Nuremberg, at the Nazi war crimes trials, ON BEHALF OF NAZIS who were his friends, and succeeded in getting a Nazi officer acquitted at trial. After the war a secular Israeli Zionist killed Kastner due to his Nazi collaboration and responsibility for the murder of half a million Jews.
Coffee addict,
“The lady is a חוטא ומחטיא the guy looking at things on his devices is just a חוטא”
This was addressed to Arso, but to your distinction, lashon hara is the same. And dishonesty in business. So why pick one Mitzvah one another?
CS: How is dishonesty in business חוטא ומחטיא? Regarding L”H, he might be מחטיא the person he’s telling the L”H to (if the person doesn’t stuff his ears), but a woman walking down Eastern Parkway the same way she goes for a swim, is being מחטיא hundreds and hundreds of people every single day, day after day. It is far worse, even simply in terms of quantity, and she will be punished for every one of those thousands upon thousands of people she caused to sin day after day for years and years.
Trump is a multi-billionaire. That’s even before his new stock ownership made a multi-billionaire quadruple his previous multi-billion net worth. Trump is one of richest Americans; in fact one of the richest men in the world.
It’s okay for you to be jealous of his wealth – as long as you stop trying to hide or deny your jealousy.
Regarding his stock in DJT, the Board consists of his son and former members of his Administration. If he wants to sell some of his stock today, all it will take is a phone call to his Board members to authorize him to sell it early.
pekak: Of course not. R’ Yom Tov Ehrlich would likely have made the beautiful lyrics something like this:
שלא עשני אשה
שלא עשני אשה
אט די ברכה טוט מען מאכן אלע טאג אזוישלא עשני אשה
שלא עשני אשה
יעדן טאג דארף מען זיך פרייען זייער פיל אזויטאטע געטרייער
דו ביסט דאך ביי אונז טייער
שווער צו געפונען
ווי אזוי דיר אפצודינעןנישט דא קיין געדאנקען
כדי דיר צו דאנקעןאכט טאג ביים ברית ווי שיין און פּרעכטיג
א קליינע זיסע איד
די ערשטע מצוה עס מאכט אים לעכטיג
,ווייל יעצט איז ער א איד
ביי דריי יאר די פּאות די האניג אפּלעקן
און אויסזען ווי א איד
לויפן אין חדר אויך אָן א שטעקן
.כ’האב ליב צו זיין א אידCHORUS:
שלא, שלא, עשני אשה
זאגט א יעדער מענטש אזוי
שלא, שלא, עשני אשה
זינגט א יעדער מענטש אזוי
אפילו ווען ס’איז שווער
די תורה דאך מ’היט
אלץ אזוי זאגט ער
“!איך בין שטאלץ צו זיין א מענטש”huju: Truth Social has a cherry-picked Board by The Donald (consisting of his son and loyal members of his Presidential Administration) and they are specifically permitted to waive the six month waiting period for him.
“Myself included. I’m referring to when your trolls go off the rails.”
Allow me to address the so-called “trolling” you refer to. Sometimes I’ll utilize humor, witticisms, irony, deadpan, satire or absurdism to creatively highlight a point.
Several times people have thanked me for helping them change their perspective of the issue being discussed.
HaLeiVi: Hopefully you’re not making a brocha of shelo asani isha every day of your life. Otherwise there’s good reason to believe you’re proud of being born male.
Is it okay, in your humble opinion, for a Kohein to be proud he was born a Kohein? (Is it okay to be proud that you were born with your Zaida being Rav Chaim Brisker?) Can a freeman be proud he wasn’t born an eved?
I heard that Mordechai Ben David comes here once in awhile. Hopefully this will get his attention.
I’ve changed people’s mind.
The singers who composed tunes for a song to shelo asani goy should do the same for shelo asani isha.
The common denominator we can all agree to is to daven for the peaceful dismantlement of the State.
And Moshiach establishing a Jewish Kingdom under the Davidic Dynasty.
Rabbosai, it looks like huju might have had a point. The Donald’s “wealth” (to use huju’s scare quotes in context) has gone down $1 billion in net value just today, as the value of his DJT holdings are now “only” worth $4 billion instead of yesterday’s $5 billion.
Anyone who so rapidly lost $1 billion in so short a period is worthy of our Tzedaka. Please donate to The Donald’s presidential campaign to cover his expenses.
Or simply buy up a lot of DJT stock with your favorite online brokerage firm.
This way DJT will go up again, allowing President Trump to cash out a few billion dollars to reinvigorate his presidential campaign, as candidates are legally permitted to put as much money into their presidential campaigns as they want to.
Tizku L’Mitzvos
Just go to any Jewish cemetary. Many tombstones for women will list her first quality as having been a Tzanua.
CS: “Similarly, throughout history, when communal standards fell in a certain area, even very important areas such as sota and murderers, the response was Sanhedrin shutting down, not executing however many Jews were unfortunately involved. Same with the Rambam I just mentioned.”
The Rambam writes that if a Beis Din needs to execute 100 people per day, they can and should do so.
CS: You don’t realize that a woman dressing non-tznius in public is far worse than someone else who sins in private? Like coffee addict pointed out, she is being חוטא ומחטיא while the other is just a חוטא. She is causing hundreds of people who see her, even inadvertently (let alone advertently) to sin every day. She will be punished for the thousands and thousands of other she caused to sin.
LF: Are you still in touch?
“Most people would say it’s a great development for the Jewish people, if not for being predisposed not to like it.”
Most Jews would say it’s great that Jews can get a cheeseburger at McDonald’s on their drive to work on Shabbos.
“You can’t ignore the Gemara in Sanhedrin 98 that אין לך קץ מגולה מזה, that the land is bearing fruit and it is a clear sign of the impending Geula. Oh, and that’s a good thing.”
The land was bearing fruit before 1948 at an increasing rate.
HaLeiVi: How can you subscribe to “2”, considering the fact that Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria were never given to the State of Israel by the UN resolution or any other international or national authorization?
In fact, the UN and the world has consistently and always stated that Israel has no right, and never had any rights, to continue to occupy any areas outside of the Green Line.
And regarding your last point, you seem to imply that you think the State is a “great thing” Why?
And, as mentioned other times, the RBS”O also wanted to happen and allowed the Holocaust, Tach Vtat, the Crusades, the Churban, the Inquisition, multiple expulsions and blood libels. The fact that “it happened” doesn’t demonstrate that we’re happy about it and it’s great.
Another day, another billion. Truth Social rose 15% today, Wednesday, and is now valued at $8 billion. That means The Donald’s 60% ownership portion of the now public company is valued at $5.2 billion, making The Donald worth over a billion dollars more than his net worth as of yesterday.
Democrats support Hamas.
Another day, another $2 billion. The Donald’s stake in Truth Social has risen in value from $4 billion on Monday to $6 billion on Tuesday, with today’s debut of Truth Social on the NASDAQ stock exchange where Truth Social rose 60% in value, all in one day’s work.
Between Friday and Monday the value of The Donald’s portion of Trump Social has risen by $500 million, from $3.5 billion to $4 billion.
One man, half a billion richer over one weekend. Not shabby at all.
The Donald is about to become about $3.5 billion richer, just about today or Monday, with his Truth Social going public. The $3.5 billion will be his portion of the ownership.
Even if he was “only” worth $3.5 billion, he’d be super rich (and could more than payoff any lawsuits.) But, of course, with his existing real estate and financial holdings, he’s already one of the wealthiest Americans even before his new $3.5 billion windfall.
“Of course it’s important, just not something you exclude someone from a community for, any more than say lashon hara which is actually an explicit lav. There is no section of Gemara or anywhere else discussing tznius dress, whereas forbidden speech is.”
CS: So if a Chabad Shulcha regularly goes shopping in non tznius clothing, they’d be no consequences and she’d be allowed to continue representing Lubavitch? What if she regularly ate in public chicken-and-cheese sandwiches? There’s no explicit lav against eating chicken-and-cheese. What if she regularly drove to her Chabad House on Shabbos?
Where are you drawing the line? Why a bathing suit no but a short dress TMI in public when she sits, walks, edited or perhaps even when she walks has no repercussions regarding her representing Chabad?
all bold are edits for the benefit of those who are/should be careful with their ears
HaLeiVi: Huh? Are you misdirecting your comment intended for someone else? I have no idea what you’re referring to. I have constantly been unambiguously polite with everyone
HaLeiVi: In fact, the oaths were — and continue to continuously be — unambiguously violated. Even if you want to discount everything else, you have to acknowledge the fact that the Zionists occupied Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria without ever having received any “permission” to do so from Goyim, the Brits, the UN or the world. Indees, they all have always been opposed to this occupation and continue to remain opposed to its continued Israeli occupation in violation of the oaths.
LerntminTayrah: The Satmar Rebbe never changed his position even one iota. His public protests against the State of Israel always were organized by himself and always only had Yidden attending them. He never once joined any protests by Goyim.
Furthermore, your little maaisele regarding HaGaon Rav Hunter ztvk’l being upset with HaGaon HaRav Miller ztvk’l (or having anything to do with the changing of the guards as Mashgiach in Chaim Berlin) over his writing the advertisements for Satmar to place in the New York Times is completely inaccurate and with no foundation. In fact, the Satmar Rebbe and Rav Hunter were very close with each other. Indeed, it was Rav Hunter who asked the Satmar Rebbe to write his Psak against artificial insemination to oppose Rav Moshe ztvk’l’s Psak on that topic.
However, the Maharal is misquoted. You can find it in נצח ישראל סוף פרק כד. He writes that even if we are being killed we still shouldn’t try to break out and go against the oaths. (Not a question of Pikuach Nefesh, since it won’t help.) This was misquoted and mistranslated as if he saying that even if we are being forced, under pain of death, we still should hold strong and not violate this sin, hence those must be akin to the three cardinal sins. Check Rav Hartman’s footnotes there.
I don’t see a practical difference even with your correction regarding the Maharal. Either way, the Maharal is saying not to violate the oaths even if we are going to get killed, otherwise. Which clearly indicates the oaths are binding and they were violated by creating the Zionist State. And, arguably, are continuing to be violated.
LerntminTayrah: That isn’t much of an “admission”. If a mamzer is born, you can no longer do anything to unborn him.
AAQ: The original one are still in Yerushlayim. NK is Litvish, Nusach Ashkenaz, founded by descendents of Talmidei HaGRA.
Dear EnglisherPolished: Is it at all plausible that all of which you speak may, at best, only be applicable to what might be referred to as the “modern Yeshivish”, to the exclusion of, perhaps, what you might call the “shpitz Yeshivish”?
LerntminTayrah: I’m not sure what stira you’re imagining. The Satmar Rebbe asked Rav Avigdor Miller zt’l to write up some of the advertisements against the State of Israel that he put in the New York Times. The Rebbe himself attended protests against the State. All this is in the public record and can be attested to by the multitudes of those who were around during the Rebbe’s lifetime. He never changed his shitta one iota.
Also, he was never against Neteurei Karta. In fact, the founder of NK – Rav Amrom Blau shlita – was very close to the Rebbe. The clowns today who call themselves NK and attend demonstrations organized by Goyim are not the original or even the real NK; they just usurped the NK name. The Rebbe didn’t speak against the NK; he spoke against clowns who acted inappropriately. And the Rebbe organized his own protests against the State of Israel that were only attended by frum Yidden; he never joined, or authorized anyone to join, any protests setup by Goyim (like the clowns you’re referring to do.)
But he certainly did want to the Goyim to know that the Orthodox Jewish position was in opposition to the State of Israel and the State’s policies, actions and public positions. That was the very purpose of his newspaper advertisements and public protests.
Unfortunately, the response to these complaints have been weak. In truth, trying to formulate logical and mathematical explanations for any moral rule will sound out of touch. Murder is worse than just inhibiting someone’s right to live. Can you explain why?
The answer is quite simple. The reason for any and all moral rules is simply “because that is the will of G-d.”
Whatever G-d wants, is moral to do. Whatever G-d prohibits, is immoral to do.
Avira, you write: “It is true that the brisker rov and his talmidim did not stress rhe shvuos; they focused more on how twisted nationalism was, the עקירת הדעת that it champions, its “new” jew who is not a galus yid, its high casualties in terms of deaths…
But rav chaim soloveitchik said repeatedly that zionism is indeed avodah zara. Rav elchonon wrote that many times too.”
But all this doesn’t apply anymore.
HaLeiVi: Of course it still applies. There’s no reason it would have stopped applying. The Zionists are still around. The so-called religious Zionists are still around. And they both still advocate everything they advocated before the State (other than creating a State). The State exists, but the reason Gedolei Yisroel called Zionism as being Avoda Zora was hardly only because they wanted to establish a State.
LerntminTayrah: The Satmar Rebbe ztvk’l regularly paid for advertisements in the New York Times to state Orthodox Jewry’s opposition to the State of Israel. He also multiple times organized protests outside the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan as well as other protests against the State of Israel.
Dear EnglisherPolished: I was wondering if you could help me understand some of the terminologies you threw around in your OP:
1. Why do you think Americans look down on the English? I’ve always had the impression Englishmen are looked upon with sophistication.
2. What are a couple of prominent examples of what you refer to as “most good things come from America”?
3. Can you define in simpler terms what a “circus tent” hat is?
4. Please share what are Cole Hann shoes, Swiss shoes, what is the difference between them and what are Lululemon pants and how they’re different than non-Lululemon pants.
Thank you in advance for the education.
CS: Are you trying to say that violating Tznius is not as bad as violating Shabbos? Do you agree that both are equally bad?
How old was Vashti when her head was chopped off?
The reality on the ground is that a larger percentage of frum Jews in America are consolidating in centralized areas such as the greater Lakewood area, the greater Monsey area and the greater NYC Metropolitan area. Lakewood, especially. But even the frum Flatbush community was growing until about 15 years ago or so. Nowadays it is mostly Lakewood and Monsey.
But what is happening out of towns is that many frum communities OOT are either shrinking outright or stagnating. This is because the young frum (chareidi) couples from out of town are moving to Lakewood in significant numbers shortly after their weddings.
Why did the government stop considering the number of children in college for FAFSA?
Yankel: While the British controlled Eretz Yisroel they NEVER authorized the establishment of a Jewish state. And the reason the British quit Eretz Yisroel is because the Zionist terrorized them with maiming and killing British soldiers (as well as Arabs.) The Zionists were fighting the controlling authority of Eretz Yisroel, in violation of the Shavuous, in order to establish their state.