https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/16/politics/fact-check-dale-top-15-donald-trump-lies/index.html
Trying to pick the most notable lies from Donald Trump’s presidency is like trying to pick the most notable pieces of junk from the town dump.
There’s just so much ugly garbage to sift through before you can make a decision.
But I’m qualified for the dirty job. I fact checked every word uttered by this President from his inauguration day in January 2017 until September 2020 – when the daily number of lies got so unmanageably high that I had to start taking a pass on some of his remarks to preserve my health.
Ah, the polls must be looking really bad for the Dem's.
ReplyDeleteYou know, back when Al Gore was campaigning in 2020, someone started tracking his lies and picked up at least 1 a day, sometimes many more.
Hell, every time Biden insists he's mentally capable of doing his job, he's lying.
Everyone does it but it's only a crime when Trump does it.
How would you like a maamar on 15 most notable lies of the Hareid rabbis?
ReplyDeleteStart with R Dessler - Aryeh Carmell's translation "Strive for Truth[sheqer]" -
Money does not bring happiness, and the pursuit of money, brings the opposite.
Yet, when I went to hareidi Shadchanim in my 20s, guess what they wanted to see? basically to see my bank statements...
You have rather extreme bias on this topic
ReplyDeleteAdequate money is a necessary though not sufficient cause for happiness
Thank you for thinking about what I wrote.
ReplyDeleteHappiness is not a binary thing, where either someone is happy or they are miserable. Poverty does not bring a higher level of happiness.
Yevamos 62b
ReplyDeleteאָמַר רַבִּי תַּנְחוּם אָמַר רַבִּי חֲנִילַאי: כׇּל אָדָם שֶׁאֵין לוֹ אִשָּׁה — שָׁרוּי בְּלֹא שִׂמְחָה, בְּלֹא בְּרָכָה, בְּלֹא טוֹבָה. בְּלֹא שִׂמְחָה, דִּכְתִיב: ״וְשָׂמַחְתָּ אַתָּה וּבֵיתֶךָ״. בְּלֹא בְּרָכָה, דִּכְתִיב:
״לְהָנִיחַ בְּרָכָה אֶל בֵּיתֶךָ״. בְּלֹא טוֹבָה, דִּכְתִיב: ״לֹא טוֹב הֱיוֹת הָאָדָם לְבַדּוֹ״.
It is clear that one needs a house and ability to marry and raise a family. Have you seen house prices , especially in frum locales?
Perhaps the extreme bias is that the anti-wealth perspective is something he snuck in from the communism he grew up with - hate for wealth, the professional classes etc. So i will not give any donations to Hareidi or other frum causes unless trhey remounce this nonsensical work.
Ah, but what's the definition of "adequate money"? Because many Chareidim live below the poverty line which might make one think they don't have adequate money but they consistently score as some of the happiest people around.
ReplyDeleteA very nice quote of Gemara I found is :
ReplyDelete"The liar’s punishment is that even when he speaks the truth, no one believes him (Sanhedrin 89b)."
It is important to be rational, and be critical of a text which in English is titled "Strive for Truth" - when it is filled with a great number of untruths.
here is a typical example of sheqer:
"The poor person's needs are easily satisfied, but the rich person's desires and prestige-seeking are never gratified; they
can never be gratified, because satisfying one need only leads to the next, ad infinitum. If we look at each of them as he
sees himself -- not as the poor person views the rich -- we shall see that they are both very badly off. They both live
miserable and frustrated lives; but, if anything, it is the "rich" person who is worse off than the "poor." But the one who has
conquered his lusts, who makes do with a minimum and is happy with his lot -- the one who needs nothing that he does
not have -- he is the rich person. No one else in the world is rich but he."
https://www.jewishheritagefoundation.org/pursuit.pdf
No, the poor person who cannot afford a house, or to get married, and is turned away and treated like dirt by shadchanim is not able to satisfy his humble needs - at least not lefi halacha.
This is nonsense. i don't care that it was the illustrious mashgiach of Litvish ueshivas who said this , it is total rubbish, and sheqer, just like many of his other claims are.
And that leads to the endpoint where even when he or his ilk say something apparently truthful, that rational people become skeptical.
Sheitels and shtreimels cost thousands of dollars, items that have no intrinsic kedusha. I am not talking about teffilin, which is also expensive, but a requirement.
ReplyDeleteSo that begs the question of what kind of disposable income they have. Of course, it should be high, I am not bemoaning that - wish that they all have sufficent income to spend beyond basics, and sheitels and shtreimels are not basics.