tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post3695296572868063438..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Interesting Posts and Articles #86joshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-42287020195591575292008-10-29T10:57:00.000-04:002008-10-29T10:57:00.000-04:00גילוי, Thanks for finding this article, which I re...גילוי, <BR/>Thanks for finding this article, which I remember coming out. Still planning the post about it.yaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08179304707239865515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-70147470707601761372008-10-29T00:04:00.000-04:002008-10-29T00:04:00.000-04:00Josh, I am all for your quest to disprove all thes...Josh, I am all for your quest to disprove all these things, but just make sure you don't overlook the source and say how he was wrong as well.<BR/><BR/>See here:<BR/><BR/>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/91417גילויhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600628881119650305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-23542177234898135832008-10-28T21:52:00.000-04:002008-10-28T21:52:00.000-04:00Josh, for the last couple of days I was going over...Josh, for the last couple of days I was going over a little bit of the literature put forth by the anti-religious daas emes propaganda machine with replies by thesandhedrin.org. Now reading about the pervasiveness of FC and mystical prophetic thinking in the frum world really highlighted to me the poles between ultra-secularist rationalism and fundamental religious mysticism. I really don't know what is more unsettling, the fact that anti-religious secularist paints Orthodoxy as only being superstitious and anti-intellectual, or that we do have vocal part of our community who actively disengage from rational discourse and give openings and more ammunition to all those who hate us and what we believe. I am the first person in line who desires and hopes for a more inclusive Orthodoxy in the full and proper definition of eilu v'eilu. However, how can we give this type of thinking legitimacy if it corrupts the rational and perhaps moral core of Judaism. The irony of people having greater issues (and claiming this is the REASON of all our problems) with alleged breaches of tznius or of having a hashkafa that is closer to the Rambam and Rav Sadiah Gaon then the Ramchal and Rav Dessler, then with superstition that at most might be bordering on A"Z or at least is taking advantage and manipulating handicapped children is truly frightening. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps there can be another solution to the discourse of how to bring moshiach closer. Can it be that if the charaidi world (and for that matter the DL world too) will open its mind to rationality and critical thinking and couple that with strong emunah and avodas hashem, THAT will bring moshiach much closer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-31347479167810253272008-10-28T19:03:00.000-04:002008-10-28T19:03:00.000-04:00We have a saying which sounds alot better in yiddi...We have a saying which sounds alot better in yiddish but it works in English too those who know dont say and thoses who say dont know,and of course you realize tis Mosiach thing is really old hat starting from rashi on each Pirush has said and figured into the torah that Mosiach was supposed to come at his tme and it did not Pan out to say they where wrong i wont thoses times he was supposed to come as the gemara says but the Jews keep doing Aveiros and pushing him away so he can not,so let me do mines and try to bring Mosiach by donig the Mitvah of Limud Torah and asking this question on Rashi he says if Noach was in the Generation of Avraham he would not be a Tzaadik,thats funny cause you know what he was in the generation of Avrahom in fact Avrahahm if I recall correctly was 50 when Noach died?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-31862864352644142252008-10-28T14:05:00.000-04:002008-10-28T14:05:00.000-04:00granted. but still, i'm going to call attention to...granted. but still, i'm going to call attention to these claims, as they succeed or fail, in the hopes of raising awareness of the failing of predictions, something that often gets overlooked in certain circles...joshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-76463668148991182102008-10-28T12:01:00.000-04:002008-10-28T12:01:00.000-04:00To be fair, the false prediction that Moshiach wou...To be fair, the false prediction that Moshiach would come within 7 years of the beginning of the War on Terror is not their idea. It was I believe posted in a video by one of Rav Kaduri z"l's students which aired between 9/11/2001 and Hoshanah Rabba 5762.גילויhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600628881119650305noreply@blogger.com