Writer of the Rabbinic variety. Mostly about Jewish issues. Substack at magenyehudi.substack.com
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My first essay in two and a half years.
5,000 words on Solzhenitsyn, Nietzsche, philosemitism, Mashiach, fragmented psyches, reality & myths, and why I decided to begin a literary & historical critique series on 'Two Hundred Years Together'.
I’m genuinely excited about it...
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I don’t think threatening him with a good time is going to help.
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“Yes, I compared an apple to an orange, but I didn’t say they were the same” is a very dishonest and annoying “arguing” tactic.
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Here’s the issue with flamboyant statements like this:
Even if they can be true on one level (spiritually, we are commanded to give up our lives rather than commit relations with someone the Torah forbids us from having relations with) it can still be fundamentally untrue on another level (physically, thinking that it would be better for someone to go through Auschwitz than to intermarry).
When you mix up the two different planes, or when you meant it one way, but speak to an audience that hears it another way, this is not something that glorifies or magnifies Torah.
Imagine hearing someone murdered his neighbor, had relations with his wife after, then kissed his idol to thank him on his way out, and commenting “Ooof. I mean, could be worse. Could have been someone who regularly speaks lashon hara instead.”
Do our Sages say that Lashon Hara is worse than all three combined? Yes, of course. There are many explanations for why.
The important thing not to overlook here is that while they decreed you should give over your life for any of those three sins versus committing them (and how much more so all three!) they did not decree this against Lashon Hara.
So, context, nuances, and knowing your audience here.
And if someone feels like using Torah to “trigger” Jews in a provocative way? Serious introspection and study of the Halachot of Chilul Hashem are in order.
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There’s something so cold blooded saying this as a Muslim.
It’s absolutely far more offensive theologically to say ‘We love him! We just think the crucifixion, resurrection, dying for your sin, and trinity is all pagan lies! He’s a human lower prophet subordinate to Mohammed.”
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To compare the Holocaust and Gaza means you either don’t know anything about the Holocaust, anything about Gaza, anything about either, or you’re a malicious actor.
That’s all there is to it.
Well the Holocaust is often mentioned extensively at that time, rightly so. Do you disagree with that?
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It’s pointless to interact with statements like this.
Either he’s so miserably uninformed he has zero idea of what’s going on and won’t change his mind either way in front of facts because it’s ideological, or he knows what’s going on but wants you to turn your pockets over.
America liberated Germany while Israel is murdering as much Palestinians as possible, huge difference
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I think being part of an internationally recognized terrorist group is what makes a terrorist, and what gives you the right to execute them is them engaging in terrorist activities and not surrendering, but that's just me.
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The fact that Israel has achieved neither and stopped is shameful, and should be remedied.
When someone invades your country, kills over a thousand, kidnaps hundred more, and fires off hundreds of rockets, what’s the proportionality exactly? 1:1? More than that is too much?
The proper “ratio” is when the enemy is either wiped out entirely or surrenders unconditionally
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When someone invades your country, kills over a thousand, kidnaps hundred more, and fires off hundreds of rockets, what’s the proportionality exactly? 1:1? More than that is too much?
The proper “ratio” is when the enemy is either wiped out entirely or surrenders unconditionally
The ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which Israel has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children.
Is that about the right kill ratio for you, Rabbi?
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shevereshtus retweeted
In a generation it’ll be forgotten which happened first, the October 7th massacre, or Gaza being destroyed.
They will invert the timeline,
They will say Israel destroyed Gaza first, which led to an uprising and the attack on October 7.
They actively work on this distortion.
Oh, man, that’s horrible.
Also, uh, what’s that “October 7 anniversary” you mentioned?
Any connection to Gaza’s destruction?
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This is the equivalent of making 75% of your statement commemorating Pearl Harbor about the suffering of the Japanese.
This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.
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Imagine making a statement commemorating D-Day and spending 75% of it talking about the suffering of the Germans.
This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.
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Oh, man, that’s horrible.
Also, uh, what’s that “October 7 anniversary” you mentioned?
Any connection to Gaza’s destruction?
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shevereshtus retweeted
Garbage people.
My great uncle escaped from a death camp. Poles caught him and turned him over to the Nazis, who murdered him.
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Jews killed post-WWII by locals in pogroms, 1945-1948:
Hungary: 5–10 killed; dozens injured
Soviet Ukraine: 5–16 killed; 100+ injured
Slovakia: 36 killed; 100+ injured
Romania: dozens to hundreds killed in some accounts
Poland: about 1,100–1,500 killed; hundreds injured
This is untrue. The poles were better to the Jews than most if not all ethnic groups in eastern europe before during and after WW2. Ethnic Lithuanians and Ukrainians post war atrocities far outnumbered Polish but it was in (formerly) Polish lands so we just blame the Poles??? Article in @mamathemagazine coming out on this later this year in the meantime read this mamathemagazine.com/what-nob…
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