Posted on 04/08/2020 4:47:32 AM PDT by C19fan
Many of Brooklyn's Hasidic Jewish community gathered for the funeral of a beloved rabbi on Sunday despite being ordered to stay home by the governor and after NYPD cops broke up a different funeral hours earlier. The funeral was for Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Meislish, 80, and was in Williamsburg on Sunday night. Mourners flocked to the streets to pay their respects without wearing masks or gloves, ignoring social distancing guidelines despite repeated pleas from local government leaders to stay at home. Hours earlier, NYPD officers broke up the funeral of Rav Yosef Kalish, 62, in Brooklyn's Borough Park.
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I doubt very much you are dumb. But I do know you are very polite. Take care.
Um, I do.
It was self-projection just like a leftist is wont to do.
ML/NJ
You take care as well.
Wash your hands and don’t touch your face.
;)
Whether within a single family or an extended family?
I would hope that the scene tonight in Israel is much different than in NYC or Miami Beach.
Blessings, and Happy Pesach.
Talk to you soon.
Yes. I know my relationships with my Orthodox neighbors are varied; and I just accept each as what suits the other person.
My Orthodox next door neighbors do not speak to me other than to respond to some comment I make to them.
Then there is an Orthodox fellow down the street from me, and if he is walking down the street, passing my house, and I am out he will greet me and we usually have a light conversation.
Then there is an Orthodox woman who called 911 when a tree fell on me years ago. She and her husband visited me in the hospital afterward, and many times as I have been passing their house I stop and we talk. I have even adjusted their heater’s thermostat for them one winter, when the temperature had dropped and it was a Friday after sundown.
Then there is the Orthodox Rabbi (Rabbi Yehoshua Kaganoff) who came into the fallen tree mess where I was unconscious, and injured, and he sat next to me in the mess, holding me until the EMT workers arrived. He had been an EMT worker in Brooklyn when he was younger, so he knew by the appearance of my condition - unconscious, bleeding cracked skull, dislocated and twisted arm and shoulder, that civilians should not try to move me on their own. He likely saved me from greater spinal injury than I sustained from the crushing fallen tree. Then again, among his own, some actually questioned why he did that for this goy.
I have learned to accept each on their own, even accepting without judgement their beliefs I might find “odd”. I do chastise friends and neighbors who are not Jewish or not Orthodox who try to lump all our orthodox folks as “all alike”. I know better.
I think that is unfair.
The British press hates religious people (excepting Islamists), hates Jewish people doubley; and hates “black coat” Jewish people a third more.
The article is written in a misleading manner, on purpose, to stir the reaction that it caused.
In other words, they are just like our MSM.
Dunno. But I have six eggs, which is just enough for the family that has left the house. My eldest are having tiny nuclear seders.
Bit lonely.
You mentioned Shoa - I looked it up. They said it is a word for the Holocaust? Makes the CV look like the common cold:
“In Hebrew, we use a different word, which is also ancient: shoah (sho-Ah). The word appears in the Bible more than a dozen times, always to signify complete and utter destruction.
For example, consider Zephaniah 1:15: “That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of shoah and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness.”
Yes.
“Holocaust” means “holy fire”. What the Nazis did was not “holy”.
Hence, “Shoa”.
Wait - so the term “Holocaust” is a Nazi term? That is disgusting. We toured the Shoa (” Holocaust”) museum in DC a few years ago. Last year my daughter visited Auschwitz.
And I reminded her - you know how they say never forget it so we never repeat it? This type of thing continues to go on - Cambodia, Rawanda, etc.
I will tell her about Shoa.
No it is not a Nazi term. It is just an incorrect term.
Most of here do not echo the sentiment of some newspaperwriter unless we agree with it.
ML/NJ
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Happy Pesach!
I added the MiSheberach when lighting my candles last night.
May your family stay happy and healthy.
(also excellent post btw)
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