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Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
To my knowledge, not at all to the same extent as the left. I'm not a huge expert, though. I could be wrong. Certainly the far-right causes problems for the IDF if they come to kick them off a plot of land and they hit back, and there's this one far-right settlement that repeatedly throws rocks at soldiers, but in terms of internal destructive influence - that's almost entirely leftist stuff. I could bring examples, if you like.

How so?



Proverbs 4:27


Joshua 1:7


Deuteronomy 5:29




 

Rival

Si m'ait Dieus
Staff member
Premium Member
Favourite things about your religion? Things that maybe bother you slightly?
 

Harel13

Am Yisrael Chai
Staff member
Premium Member
Favourite things about your religion?
Hell doesn't loom menacingly 24/7 over our heads. Shabbat. Personal time with God (at least) 3 times a day. Machshavah (Jewish thought) studies. Empowering music. Jewish hardheadedness.
Things that maybe bother you slightly?
Talmud is really hard (both because of the language and because of the complicated logic & subjects) and often seems bland. Prayer and benching (after-blessings) sometimes become monotonous. The need to pray in a minyan - sometimes I just want to pray by myself...and I guess, how the liberal West sees Torah and Judaism as pro-slavery, pro-polygamy, pro-capital punishment, racist, etc.
 

dybmh

דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
What's 1 thing a person can do to annoy you?

What's 1 thing a person can do to make up for it?
 

Harel13

Am Yisrael Chai
Staff member
Premium Member
What do your daydreams tend to be about?
The last year and a bit, mostly flashes from the army...
I also often imagine having conversations with all sorts of random people, even people I don't know and have never spoken to.
Sometimes when I try napping, I end up in a partial dream-state where I'm not completely asleep but have these wild day-dreams while fully aware that I'm awake (no, not lucid dreaming unfortunately. I've always wanted one of those...). It's hard to explain. These are also usually army-related, though not necessarily things that actually happened to me. Twisted-memory-experiments sounds about right.
And finally, I imagine what my life would be if it were perfect or more perfect than it is right now. :sweatsmile:
 

Milton Platt

Well-Known Member
As I've been here for a couple of months now getting to know people here, I thought it's time people got to know me, too. Also, I'm a little sick and bored. ;) So feel free to ask me stuff about myself (just keep it clean, please).

Fairly short overview of myself:
I'm 23.5. I've lived in Israel for most of my life, except from age 3.5 to 7 when we lived in the USA (I have citizenship, too), which is also how I know English.

I'm what's called in Israel a "Dati Leumi" which translates as "National Religious" or Zionist-leaning Orthodox. I'm Right-leaning in politics (I'd be conservative if I lived in the USA), so for example, the lesser of two evils to me would be Netanyahu and not Gantz (not that I particularly like either of them...).

I'm an Ashkenazi Jew with a pretty impressive family tree on my mom's side (in terms of famous rabbis). Also some Holocaust stories. :(

I'm currently a sixth-year Yeshiva student, thinking about a career either in Graphic Design or Archaeology.

I served in the IDF for a year and five months (the minimum for a Hesder student) in three different postions: A little over 7 months as a combat fighter in the Artillery corps (completing both Basic and Advanced Training), then I became what's known here as a "Mashak Dat" which roughly translates as "Assistant Chaplain/Rabbi" (not that I'm anywhere near to being a rabbi. Military standards are different...) (which is a non-combat position) in the same artillery division for a little over half a year. Finally, I moved to the Rabbinate corps command base and helped a bit with setting up their new military site.

I "saw action" once - we were called to fire artillery shells on one of the northern borders. At the last minute, regional command canceled the firing. Oh well.

Post-army, I became a kind of "army activist", working with an organization that works to remove destructive Leftist (often far-left, even) influences from the IDF. I do mostly behind-the-scenes work.

I like reading, writing, history, archaeology, drawing, graphic design, taking walks, hiking, eating (too much, unfortunately...:oops:).

I'm fluent in Hebrew and English, know a fair amount of Talmudic Aramaic and a little bit of Yiddish. Pig Latin, too.

I have a particular interest in Christianity for some reason, which is how I eventually found RF.

Just saw this, as it rose to the first page of displayed posts recently for some reason.
I have had many discussions with Christians about how they know there is a god and found all of their arguments lacking. I was wondering what particular arguments Jews rely upon to justify their belief in a supernatural being. I am an atheist, but I am not looking to draw you into a lengthy back and forth, I am just curious. There tends to be a "pile on" effect on this board, so if you prefer to to answer via a private message, that is just fine. You can limit your response to the best two or three pieces of evidence.
 

Harel13

Am Yisrael Chai
Staff member
Premium Member
Just saw this, as it rose to the first page of displayed posts recently for some reason.
I have had many discussions with Christians about how they know there is a god and found all of their arguments lacking. I was wondering what particular arguments Jews rely upon to justify their belief in a supernatural being. I am an atheist, but I am not looking to draw you into a lengthy back and forth, I am just curious. There tends to be a "pile on" effect on this board, so if you prefer to to answer via a private message, that is just fine. You can limit your response to the best two or three pieces of evidence.
It's super late by me right now, so I'll try to get back to you tomorrow. :cool:
 

Harel13

Am Yisrael Chai
Staff member
Premium Member
What's the stupidest thing in hindsight you've ever done?
Now to be more serious, I've done many many things in my still short life that I regret. It's a problem that I have, which is dwelling too much on past mistakes. Things I'm not proud of would include: Losing my temper and yelling at various officers in the army (the reasons were usually legit, but it's still rude and shows lack of temper-control), deciding to go by myself to the artillery corps rather than with my classmates to the infantry, storming out of a talk with one of my rabbis (took me years to work up the courage to say I was sorry), temporarily shutting down my Yeshiva's newsletter, not doing tons of things...
All of these things had reasons at the time, but looking back, they aren't necessarily good or good enough reasons.
 
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