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Israeli wearing tefillin on NZ ferry causes panic
Jerusalem Post ^
| 12-12-10
Posted on 12/12/2010 4:00:34 PM PST by SJackson
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To: mountn man
That is a strapping young man there.
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posted on
12/12/2010 5:55:28 PM PST
by
STYRO
(Barack Obama is a Muslim terrorist.)
To: TexasGreg
What you mean is, DO take a flight to Israel! It’s the most amazing trip you’ll ever take, the women are the best looking women in the world, and the food is out of this world, too - even on El Al!
Seems to me “wrappin’ tefillin” is more popular now than it was a decade ago, and frankly I can understand the guy flipping out. I remember attending morning minyan (a daily Jewish sunrise gathering of guys for “praise” prayer) at a time in which some guys wrapped, and some didn’t. I was one who didn’t. It sort of fell out of favor with a lot of the Ashkenazis whose families came up in New York.
Now, it seems, perhaps because of the glassy-eyed “Lubavitchers,” (those salesmany guys on the street in the black hats who are often seen (when seen) with pictures of a nice-looking bearded Rabbi, their mentor and possible “meshgiach,”), wrapping has had a resurgence in popularity.
By the way I am no Bible scholar but I think the article may not have it quite right.
The tefillin are worn not because He commands it “specifically” but because He asks that we keep His word ‘on our head, and on our heart.’ Thus the box on the head (rosh) and the one (yad) which is near the heart. Kind of like the “mezuzah” on the doorposts. It’s more of a symbolic ritualistic thing, a positive prayer-aide, like a Rosary.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
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posted on
12/12/2010 6:09:13 PM PST
by
golux
To: STYRO
LOL! I am going to use that early and often.
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posted on
12/12/2010 6:13:39 PM PST
by
golux
To: JOHN ADAMS
I do think its also worth noting, though, that the fellow who had these on in the news story was completely cooperative, and didnt get angry our threaten to sue anybody or cut anybodys head off.That is because Judaism is a religion and not a criminal organization with delusions of grandeur.
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posted on
12/12/2010 6:19:04 PM PST
by
magslinger
(Samuel Colt, feminist. Making women equal to men for over 150 years.)
To: golux
Go ahead lux. I am pretty sure that is where the term ‘strapping young man’ originated.
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posted on
12/12/2010 6:20:45 PM PST
by
STYRO
(Barack Obama is a Muslim terrorist.)
To: James C. Bennett
Yea, the funny little box hat that Jews put scripture in. I’m a goy and know what it is.
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posted on
12/12/2010 6:31:55 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
To: SJackson
worn by observant Jews during weekday morning prayers.so, was he doing his morning prayers on the ferry???
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posted on
12/12/2010 6:58:54 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Ronin
Now that I know, it wont bother me. Learn something new everyday.
Excellent! Learning something new is the best way to win!
Live and learn or you won't live long.
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posted on
12/12/2010 7:20:51 PM PST
by
TexasGreg
("Democrats Piss Me Off")
To: TexasGreg
LOL, and now you’re quoting Heinlein at me!
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posted on
12/12/2010 7:23:15 PM PST
by
Ronin
("Dismantle the TSA and send the screeners back to Wal-Mart.")
To: pepperdog
Never saw one, never heard of one and I would have been concerned too. But then Im not a obviously superior, special, know it all like you.
FOFLMHO.
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posted on
12/12/2010 7:26:23 PM PST
by
TexasGreg
("Democrats Piss Me Off")
To: golux
What you mean is, DO take a flight to Israel! Its the most amazing trip youll ever take, the women are the best looking women in the world, and the food is out of this world, too - even on El Al!
I agree ... I just got back from taking 35 of the leading members of my congregation to Israel on a Pilgrimage tour. It was WONDERFUL. The only place where we felt uncomfortable and couldn't get out fast enough was Bethlehem. There and the Muslim Quarter of the old city.
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posted on
12/12/2010 7:32:13 PM PST
by
TexasGreg
("Democrats Piss Me Off")
To: Ronin
LOL, and now youre quoting Heinlein at me!
Indeed! Another of my favorite Heinlein quotes -- which comes to mind in the midst of this thread -- would be:
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
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posted on
12/12/2010 7:34:28 PM PST
by
TexasGreg
("Democrats Piss Me Off")
To: MestaMachine
ROFL! Lookit the price on that! I get Del Monico steaks for less than that.
Where was that?
****************************
Who knows! It’s the kind of SNAFU that happens in some corner of the Bible belt every so often.
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posted on
12/12/2010 7:54:26 PM PST
by
ROTB
(Sans Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia when we finally revolt.)
To: blam
As one intimately familiar with the Orthodox Jewish practice of donning tefillin (phylacteries) during morning prayers, I absolutely agree with your comment.
In imagining what someone totally unaware of the custom, practice would think, having never seen anything like it, I, too, would be concerned, alarmed at seeing someone strapping such a contraption on themselves, the only reaction anyone could possibly have under the circumstances is that he's about to detonate the device, kill himself, all those within proximity.
There was an identical case in which a rather clueless individual took to wearing Tefillin on a domestic flight, the plane made an emergency landing, the religious gentleman taken away by security.
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posted on
12/12/2010 11:46:06 PM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
To: ROTB
Yep, that picture sums it up perfectly!
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posted on
12/13/2010 2:22:21 AM PST
by
gogogodzilla
(Live free or die!)
To: pepperdog
Furthermore, it seems to me the apparatus could also be used by a non-Jewish person, and the little boxes could contain something other than nice thoughts and prayers...thats the way us idiots think these days. And so could a plastic bag, or a backpack, or your pockets... should we be suspicious of pockets now, too?
Jeez!
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posted on
12/13/2010 2:24:26 AM PST
by
gogogodzilla
(Live free or die!)
To: naturalized
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posted on
12/13/2010 5:37:39 AM PST
by
agrace
To: Hildy
You are too kind.
New Zealand is one of the many leftist places in the world who blame the muslim violence on the audacity of Jewish people (in particular Israelis) for failing to die.
I was in Australia and was confronted with “Iraeli suicide bombers” in Gaza killing children. I was like “What?” But the hatred is so ingrained it was accepted “common knowledge” that arabs were merely reacting to like attacks by Jewish people.
I don’t doubt the person recognozed this as a Jewish practice and equated “Jewish” with “terrorist.”
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posted on
12/13/2010 7:24:02 AM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: pepperdog
“Furthermore, it seems to me the apparatus could also be used by a non-Jewish person, and the little boxes could contain something other than nice thoughts and prayers”
As opposed to a backback that everyone had? Please.
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posted on
12/13/2010 7:25:12 AM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: TexasGreg
Idiots? Sorry I would have been right there with them. I have Jewish friends, I have lived around Jews all my life and this is new to me. If I saw someone wrapped in electrical tape with little boxes attached to them I think I would vacate the premises. If I was on a ferry I would be seriously worried.
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posted on
12/13/2010 7:32:39 AM PST
by
Ditter
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