Table of Contents 3-15-2010

Rebbe Seen By Millions on Iranian TV
The Kosher Ego
The swine Flu- G-d's Kindness and mercy- The Rebbe...

The World is stretcing, as the infinite light, com...
Never lose hope (thougth)
The Last Poem

Survey of Happy Marriages
Romantic Dating / Rabbi A Moss
Israel has become an eco-pioneer/ By Matthew Kalma...

The Jewish Cardinal?
The Baba Sali and The Rebbe
Great Thoughts

Many paths- One Goal / Rabbi A. Moss
Dear Tech Support: (funny)
Baba Sali Dream

The Eternity of Shabbat Candles (story)
Sunspots- A Sign of Moshiach?
Moment of Silence - The Jewish forward

Matisyahu-NBC's promotion of the 2010
Socialism and the Law of Gravity (Great example!)...
LaGuardia Flight Diverted to Philly

What's a soul" By Rabbi Aaron Moss
Great Thoughts (short)
Special Delivery- Rabbi A. Moss

Avatar and Moshiach
Lakewood is ready for Moshiach!
Accusing Others (moral)

The Mezuzah- joke
Shema Yisroel!
Funny: The Economy is so Bad that

True Friends
Record breaking storm- Nature is changing, ie. Mit...
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ENERGY HOMEOPATHY
Great story for our times
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An Empty Container Makes a Lot of Noise
I asked G-d
The Journal of Chinese Medicine and Tefillin

An Easy Explanation of Derivative Markets
Curse of the Lottery Winners
Advice about life from Bill Gates
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The Rebbe
Bar Mitzvah Test
Help Make the world A Better Place

Reaching ra threihts
What I Give away
King Solomon and Jerusalem

This is because human love, is rooted in the Divin...
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The Test of out Times!
Quotes Various
This Year

Short Thought: Ignorance
The Year 5770
Bittle- Light and Darkness

Irish mobster converts to Judaism
Not an Angel/ Rabbi Moss
The Ultimate Mitzvah - Loving Your Fellow Jew

Internet Volume of Chabad Rises 21%
The Rebbe: Advice
Joke True but Sad

Health going to Doctors
Rabbi’s Donates Kidney in order to Help Family
Don’t Become Rich

The Rebbe: A Jews inferiority Complex (Great)
The Rebbe and Einstein & Nuclear Theory
Moshiach is coming very soon!

Can't Chabad be like “Mainstream Orthodoxy”?
Kaddish with Oprah
Forced Change and Growth

The Circular Timeline of Judaism
Korbonos Sacrifices
Short Thought

A Test of Faith
The Year 5770
China (joke)

What to do with Stolen Money.
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda - the Father of Modern Hebrew
The Name Rachel in Kabbalah

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
True Love- G-dly Space (very deep and meaningful)
Napoleon Bonaparte

Elul Inner Introspection
Rabbi’s Donates Kidney in order to Help Family

Advice the Rebbe gave concerning marriage, ect.
Don't Become Rich
Predictions?

The Heels of Moshiach
King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
The Rebbe: A Jews inferiority Complex

Short Thought: Everyone is Special!
The Rebbe and Einstein & Nuclear Theory
Moshiach is Coming Very Soon

Why can't Chabad be “Mainstream Orthodoxy”?
Kaddish with Oprah
Forced Change and Growth!

The Circular Timeline of Judaism
Korbonos Sacrifices
Short Thought - Spirtual Beings

Short Thought: We Carry the Temple in our Bodies
Definition of True Faith
Joke - China

What to do with Stolen Money
The name Chana (Hannah)
The Father of Modern Hebrew- Eliezer ben Yehuda

The Name Rachel
Nietzsche: The Existence of the Jews
True Love - G-dly Space

Napolean Bonaparte:The Three Weeks
Advice of the Rebbe
"The Heels of Moshiach"
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To do List: for the New Year
Scientist says: Immortality only 20 years away
Real Teshuvah

To Understand the "Birthpangs of Moshiach"
The Month of Holidays
Wild Animals will become Tame

Moshiach's Principle Goal
Bringing Moshiach through Joy
Acts of Kindess

Home
Ikvot Meshicha: The Time Immediately Before Moshia...
The Greatest Test of Faith in History!

Signs of Moshiach
Limited Mind-set
The Alter Rebbe- Revealing Essence

Man and Money
Sicha of the Lubavticher Rebbe, Parshas Vayera 575...
The Cosmic Split- Tzimtzum

Resurrection an intermediary stage
Come Home to Yourself
Rambam- Moshiach

Chai Elul in Depth
Thoughts
Moshiach’s Unity

The Rebbe: The G-dly Purpose of the Scientific Rev...
Holy Eating Effects Atonement
Humility

The Unique Mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel
The Test of our Times
The Year that Shook the World

Short Thoughts
Blessings from Above
Doom filled Prophecies

The Last Test
Florida governor cites Kotel prayer, in absence of...
Bittle- Light and Darkness

The Circular Timeline of Judaism
Korbonos Sacrifices
Everyone is Special

Moshiach Times
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Victor Frankl- World-famous Psychiatrist and The L...

Mumps
Sugar
PUSH

The Silent Majority
“Rather Cut Off My Hand, but Don't Touch My Beard"...
Colonel Kemp and anti-Israel rhetoric

Israel look up / Rabbi Adin Even-Yisrael (Steinsa...
A G-dly Beginning/ Rabbi A. Moss
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Story: IN THE ROOM OF THE REBBE IN WARSAW 65 YEARS...
A letter from Moses Seixas to President George Was...
From Mexican priest to Rabbi- The Soul Connection

Now Anonymous It’s here, we have entered 5770. ...

Rebbe Seen By Millions on Iranian TV

21 Adar 5770
(07.03.2010)

Iranian television aired a special program, in which it delved into the unique and somewhat mysterious lives of ultr-Orthodox Jews.

The show suggested, to adopt certain elements of the insular lives of Orthodox Jews, like: the Kosher phone, the Kosher food industry, limited internet viewing and more.

Explaining the concept of the Kosher phone, is Chabbad Rabbi Avraham Kanelsky of Kiryat Malachi.

As he speaks, a huge picture of the Rebbe is affixed to the wall behind him, which was seen by millions of viewers in Iran!
● Video

The Kosher Ego

Positive ego is:
Say: “I need to do what G-d wants. I have to help others to be better. I have to help the world take a one step closer to Moshiach.
"I need, to make this happen, I have, to see this done."

There is no “I”, only us.

This "I" is necessary, to reveal G-d in this limited, physical world.
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Negative ego:
Is to believe, that the "I" is only me.
Everything was created, only to serve me.

The swine Flu- G-d's Kindness and mercy- The Rebbe's words

(The swine flu was a pandademic, that was suppose to kill millions. Instead, this flu season is milder than a regular flu season.)

The swine Flu
3-1-10

This has been a flu season like few others.

Normally at this time of year, influenza is rampant in the U.S.; prompting hundreds of thousands of people, to stay home in the dead of winter, with fever, aches and pains.

Now, after raging through college campuses and communities, last summer and fall, cases of the new H1N1 swine flu virus, have dwindled to a trickle; and run-of-the-mill seasonal flu has barely made an appearanc

The percentage of all doctors' visits by patients with influenza-like symptoms, has dropped from a high of 7.8% in late October—(the largest peak since the agency began surveillance in 1997)—to 1.8% in late February, well below the norm for flu season.

Doctors and flu experts say the lull is unusual. "This is typically the peak of flu," said James Turner, executive director of the University of Virginia's department of student health. He said the Charlottesville, Va., student health center usually sees as many as 130 students a week, complaining of flu symptoms this time of year.

Recently, no more than three to five students a week, have been coming in with fever, cough or other signs of flu, he said.

It is not clear why there is so little flu, particularly swine flu, going around, experts say. "Surely there's a sufficient number of people who haven't been infected or vaccinated,"

Flu has peaked, in late February or early March, in 20 of the past 26 flu seasons,

By mid-January, swine flu had sickened about 57 million people in the U.S. and killed roughly 11,700—mostly young adults and children—from the time it emerged in late April through mid-January. Young people, who ordinarily fight off flu easily, ended up in intensive care units, on advanced life support
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In past years, when seasonal flu was the big worry, influenza has typically sickened about 25 million people a year, and directly killed about 8,000, according to the CDC.

The H1N1 flu virus hasn't disappeared, and another wave could still come this winter. "We've had peaks [of flu] as late as May, so we're not out of the woods yet," said Dr. Fiore of the CDC's influenza division.

The virus could also mutate, spawning more new infections, though it hasn't done so yet.

Flu experts estimate, that more than half the country's population, may still be vulnerable to the H1N1 virus, either because they haven't been sick, or gotten vaccinated.

H1N1 virus, is likely to eventually become a seasonal strain,

The World is stretcing, as the infinite light, comes into an finite world.

Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days
3-1-10

The Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile may have shortened the length of each Earth day.

JPL research scientist Richard Gross, computed how Earth's rotation should have changed, as a result of the Feb. 27 quake.

Using a complex model, he and fellow scientists came up with a preliminary calculation: that the quake should have shortened the length of an Earth day, by about 1.26 microseconds. (a microsecond, is one millionth of a second).
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Mr. Gross claimed, the calculated changes in the length of a day, are permanent.

An earthquake can make Earth rotate faster, by nudging some of its mass closer to the planet's axis, just as ice skaters can speed up their spins, by pulling in their arms.

Conversely, a quake can slow the rotation, and lengthen the day, if it redistributes mass away from that axis.
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Perhaps more impressive, is how much the quake shifted Earth's axis. Gross calculates, the quake should have moved Earth's figure axis (the axis, about which Earth's mass is balanced), by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters, or 3 inches).

Earth’s figure axis, is not the same, as its north-south axis; they are offset by about 10 meters (about 33 feet).
Islands could have shifted or raised in the ocean; such as Santa Maria Island near Concepcion.
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By comparison, Gross said, the same model estimated the 2004 magnitude 9.1 Sumatran earthquake, should have shortened the length of day by 6.8 microseconds, and shifted Earth's axis by 2.32 milliarcseconds (about 7 centimeters, or 2.76 inches).

Gross said, that even though the Chilean earthquake, is much smaller than the Sumatran quake, it is predicted to have changed the position of the figure axis, by a bit more for two reasons.

First, unlike the 2004 Sumatran earthquake, which was located near the equator, the 2010 Chilean earthquake, was located in Earth's mid-latitudes, which makes it more effective in shifting Earth's figure axis.

Second, the fault responsible for the 2010 Chiliean earthquake, dips into Earth at a slightly steeper angle, than does the fault responsible for the 2004 Sumatran earthquake.

This makes the Chile fault, more effective in moving Earth's mass vertically, and hence more effective in shifting Earth's figure axis.

Never lose hope (thougth)

Never lose hope:
The impossible, just takes a little longer.

The Last Poem

Slow Dance

This young girl has 6 months left to live.
She wanted to send a letter telling everyone, to live their life to the fullest.
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Have you ever watched kids, on a merry-go-round,
or listened to the rain, slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's, erratic flight,
or gazed at the sun, into the fading night?

You better slow down, don’t dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
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Do you run through each day, on the fly,
when they ask how you are, Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,
with the next hundred chores, running through your head?

You'd better slow down, don’t dance so fast.
Time is short, the music won't last.
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Ever told your child, we’ll do it tomorrow,
and in your haste, not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch, and Let a good friendship die,
cause you never had time, to call and say, 'Hi!'

You'd better slow down, don't dance so fast.

Time is short, the music won't last. _____________

When you run so fast, to get somewhere,
you miss half the fun, of getting there.

When you worry and hurry, through your day,
it is like an unopened gift, that’s thrown away.

Life is not a race; do take it slower,
Hear the music, before the song is over.

Survey of Happy Marriages

A new survey indicates that, over the long term, Orthodox Jews have happier marriages than the general public.

2-22-2010

According to the Aleinu Marital Satisfaction Survey—an anonymous online study conducted by the Orthodox Union in conjunction, with a program of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles and the Rabbinical Council of California—
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The General Social Survey, was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago found:72% of Orthodox men, and 74% of Orthodox women, rated their marriages as excellent or very good.

By contrast, only 63% of men, and 60% of women, in the public at large, said that they were very happy in their marriages.
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The Aleinu results, are consistent with previous research indicating, that couples who participate regularly in religious activities, report greater marital contentment, and are less likely to divorce.

The Orthodox Union, at a press conference last month, highlighted the top stressors to Orthodox marriages:

Common complaints of couples religious and not, are:
Lack of communication, not enough time together, and conflicts with in-laws.
Major financial strain, was also a top complaint.
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For the 17% to 25% of Orthodox couples who struggle with infertility, not being able to have children, results in significant marital conflict

Prof. Pelcovitz:
“Perhaps the Orthodox approach marriage, with different expectations. There's a very strong valuing of family, as the center of one's life, which may override individual needs.”

This probably has people weathering storms, that in other couples might lead to divorce.”
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Rachel Pill, (a Lawrence, N.Y., clinical social worker with a primarily Orthodox clientele):
“Despite the difficulties inherent in raising children, this family-centeredness, gives couples a sense of satisfaction. They feel they're part of something, really important.”
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Mental health professionals often advise couples: to schedule every week a date-night.

Eliezer Schnall, (a psychology professor at Yeshiva University):
“For Orthodox Jews, the Sabbath is a built-in time, to reconnect with one's spouse, without the distraction of TVs, BlackBerries or the Internet.

And maybe the purity laws, that narrow the opportunities for marital sexual intercourse, as well as physical affection, play a role.
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Rabbi Weitzman:
There's a time to invest in physical contact, and time to invest in the spiritual relationship between the couple. The Torah speaks about the union between husband and wife, as a holy thing, something G-d is part of.”

Romantic Dating / Rabbi A Moss

Question:

My relationship is moving ahead. We certainly love each other, and we have from the start, but we do have our differences.

All my friends say, the main thing is, that you are in love, and everything else will fall into place. But is this true?

Answer:

What you need to know about relationships, you can learn from making model airplanes.

A mistake when making a model airplane is, to start by first putting glue, on all the parts. You wind up having glue in the wrong places, on the wrong parts. And later, when you realize your mistake it’s too late, because now it is almost impossible to remove the glue.

It makes things much more difficult, when you put the glue on too early.

The way to build a model airplane, is to first find the right part, and then apply the glue on it. Then you will end up having, a functional model airplane, instead of a mess.
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The parts may not fit perfectly at first. You may have to make some adjustments. You may need to shave off some rough edges, or bend some parts into shape.

Minor imperfections can be overlooked, a drop of glue, can fix them up. Then with a bit of work, all the pieces come together, and become one.

But if you find, that there are parts missing, or they don't fit, then you can’t make an airplane. Then don’t use glue, it won’t help. You have to look for a different model.
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A relationship, is like a model airplane. You and your partner are the pieces, and love is the glue, that sticks you together. Without the binding power of love, two individuals could never become one.

But that power, like glue, is indiscriminate. It must be applied carefully, because it could stick, just about anything together; meaning, that you can love someone, who is simply not for you.

Before opening our hearts, we must ensure first, that we have the right pieces to build a relationship. The building blocks of a solid relationship are: shared values and common purpose.

Our priorities in life, beliefs, and visions for the future, must fit together.

We can have different opinions, different tastes, and different ways of expressing ourselves; but as long as we can, share those differences respectfully, then we can become one.

But if our values are not in synch, then we simply have different futures - we are not going in the same direction.
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All you need is: shared values, and commitment, and a wholesome view of what a relationship really is.

Model airplanes are not exactly poetic, but what's better - romantic dating, that crashes; or sticking together, for a lifetime?

Israel has become an eco-pioneer/ By Matthew Kalman

When Warren Buffett, the world’s wealthiest man, decided to make his first investment outside the United States, he chose Israel.

“Some Amerircans have come to the Middle East looking for oil so they didn’t stop in Israel. We came to the Middle East looking for brains and we stopped in Israel,” Buffett explained as he put $4 billion into Iscar, a precision tool maker.

“We found that the real trick in business, is not to be a genius yourself, but to go around associating with geniuses; who are already doing a good job, and stay out of their way.”
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Israeli innovations range from Intel microprocessors; to messaging systems, that ensure the safety of nearly all the world’s financial transactions.

These companies all have research and development centers in Israel, drawing on the brainpower of those genius: Microsoft, Intel, IBM. NDS, a firm that designs TV set-top boxes, to unscramble cable and satellite signals,

There are more than 1,000 clean-technology start-up companies in Israel, a country that has attracted more foreign investment in high-tech businesses in the past decade, than all of Europe.

It has more companies quoted on the high-tech NASDAQ stock exchange in New York, than any other country outside the United States.

In innovation, between 1980 and 2000, Israelis registered 7,652.

The Jewish Cardinal?

The following commentary was given by Scott Simon on NPR radio on Saturday morning, Aug 11, 2007.
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"There used to be a joke in Paris. What is the difference between the Chief Rabbi in France and the Cardinal of Paris? The Cardinal speaks Yiddish!"

Jean Marie Cardinal Lustiger was buried yesterday. He died this week of cancer. He was born almost 81 years ago to Polish parents who ran a dress shop in Paris.

When the German army marched into their city, his parents sent him and his sister into hiding with a Catholic family in Orleans. Their mother was captured and sent to Auschwitz.

In 1999 as Cardinal of Paris, Jean Marie Lustiger took part in reading of the names of France's day of remembrance of Jews who had been deported and murdered. He came to the name of Gesele Lustiger, paused, teared and said, "my Mama!" The effect in France during a time of revived anti-Semitism was electric.

He was just 13 and in hiding when he converted to Catholicism, not to escape the Nazis he always said, because no Jew could escape by conversion, and not of trauma, he said. Among his most controversial observation, I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that is unacceptable for many.

For me, the vocation of Israel is bringing light to the goyem. That is my hope and I believe that Christianity is the means for achieving it.

There were a great number of Rabbi's who consider his conversion a betrayal, especially after so many European Jews so narrowly escaped extinction.

Cardinal Lustiger replied, "to say that I am no longer a Jew is like denying my father and mother, my grandfathers and grandmothers. I am as Jewish as all other members of my family that were butchered in Auschwitz and other camps."

He confessed to a biographer that he had a spiritual crisis in the 1970's provoked by persistent anti-Semitism in France. He studied Hebrew and considered emigrating.

He said, "I thought that I had finished what I had to do here and I might find new meaning in Israel." But just at that time the Pope appointed him bishop of Orleans. He found purpose in the plight of immigrant workers. Then he was elevated to Cardinal, the Archbishop of Paris.

Jean Marie Lustiger wsas close to the Pope. They shared a doctrinal conservatism. He also battled bigotry and totalitarianism. For years, Cardinal Lustiger's name was among those who was considered to succeed John Paul.

Without putting himself forth, the Cardinal joked that few things would bedevil bigots more that a Jewish Pope. The don't like to admit it, but he said, "What Christians believe, they got---through Jews."

The funeral for Cardinal Lustiger began at Notre Dame Cathedral yesterday with the chanting of Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead.

Sometimes, there are profound inconsistencies in our world.

The Baba Sali and The Rebbe

The late Rabbi Nosson Ashkenazi once related:When I was a yeshiva bochur, I was sent with two other boys to the Baba Sali, to bring him a letter from the Rebbe.

When we arrived at the Baba Sali’s home in Netivot, we announced, that the Lubavitcher Rebbe had sent us, to deliver a personal letter from him to the Baba Sali.

We were quickly ushered into the Baba Sali’s room, where the Baba Sali greeted us warmly. He offered us a glass of arak, to say Lechaim.When the Baba Sali had finished reading the letter, I asked him why he did not visit the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Raising his hands slightly, the Baba Sali replied, “We see each other sometimes…”

Great Thoughts

We have exploited the poor, and called it the lottery.

We have rewarded laziness, and called it welfare.

We have killed our unborn, and called it choice.

We have shot abortionists, and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our children, and called it building self-esteem.

We have abused power, and called it politics.

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions, and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air, with profanity and pornography, and called it freedom of expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers, and called it enlightenment.

Many paths- One Goal / Rabbi A. Moss

Question:

Due to my business, I travel a lot and meet many people from different religions. I have met Buddhists, Hiandus, Muslims and Christians, and each and every one believes, that their religion is the one true religion, and it is the right one to follow.

Answer:

Imagine there was one belief, that Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus, all accepted as true. Wouldn't that be amazing?

For these very different religions to agree on something - anything - is nothing short of a miracle. If all the major religions, would concur on one divine revelation, there could be no stronger indication, that this revelation is true.

It exists. There is one revelation, that all believe to be true. All religions agree, that the Torah was given to the Jewish people at Mt Sinai. This fact is written clearly, in the Christian and Muslim scriptures.

And the eastern masters, have veneration for the Torah and its divine wisdom, to the point, that they actually send Jewish seekers, back to Judaism.

The Dalai Lama is known to have told Jews who come to him "Why do you come to me, go home and study Torah!"
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All major religions believe, in the divine origin of Judaism. The same cannot be said, for any other belief system. This is an incredibly significant point.

It means, that while so many Jews walk around, unsure of their beliefs; most of the world today believes, that G-d gave the Torah to the Jews.
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But there's more. Believing Judaism is true, does not mean, negating other spiritual paths. Judaism teaches, that while Judaism is the way for Jews, it is not for everyone.

We are not out, to convert the world to Judaism. Unlike almost every other religion, Jews do not missionize. This is because, we believe, not everyone needs to be Jewish.

A non-Jew can be close to G-d, go to heaven, and lead a moral and meaningful life, all the while remaining a non-Jew.

Spiritual paths other than Judaism, can be valid, as long as they conform to the seven basic laws, for all humanity; known as the Laws of the Children of Noah. Noah being the father, of all humankind.

The seven laws are: do not serve idols, do not curse G-d, do not murder, do not commit acts of sexual immorality, do not steal, set up a fair justice system, and treat animals mercifully.
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This is amazing. All religions believe in Judaism, and yet Judaism leaves room for other religious expressions. I am proud to be part of a belief system, that can accept others, and is accepted by others.

Not that this is the basis of my faith. Judaism doesn't need outside confirmation, to be acceptable. But this is a strong argument, against those who think, that faith is a zero-sum game.

And it provides a vision, for how the world can live in harmony - many paths, yet one divine truth.

Dear Tech Support: (funny)

Dear Tech Support:

Last year I upgraded from BochurLife 7.0, to Wife 1.0, and noticed, that Wife 1.0, installs itself into all other programs; and launches during system initialization, where it monitors all other system activity.

Applications such as FarbrengenNight 3.0, PartyNight 2.5.1, and Hangout 5.0, no longer run; they crash the system whenever selected.

In addition, applications such as Garbage Out 3.3, and House Work 2, have gone from select-as needed to continuous schedule. Ignoring them, causes Night-on-the-Couch 1.0m to take over all activity.

I cannot seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background, while attempting to run some of my other favorite applications. I am thinking about going back to BochurLife 7.0, but the uninstall does not work, on this program.

Can you help me, please!!Thanks! -
A TROUBLED USER
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Dear TROUBLED USER:

This is a very common complaint, which is mostly due to a primary misconception. Many people upgrade from BochurLife 7.0, to Wife 1.0, with the idea, that Wife 1.0, is merely a UTILITIES program.

Wife 1.0, is an OPERATING SYSTEM, and was designed to run everything.

It is unlikely that you would be able to purge Wife 1.0, and still convert back to BochurLife 7.0. It is impossible to uninstall, delete, or purge the program files from the system, once installed.

You cannot go back to BochurLife 7.0, because Life1.01, is not designed to do this. Look in your manual under: "Warnings-Alimony/Child Support".

I recommend you keep Wife 1.0, and just deal with the situation. I also suggest installing background application program C:\YES DEAR, to alleviate softwareaugmentation.

Having Wife 1.0 installed myself, I might also suggest, you read the entire section regarding General Partnership Faults (GPFs). You must assume allresponsibility for faults and problems that might occur, regardless of their cause.

The best course of action will be, to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE.
In any case, avoid excessive use of YES DEAR, because ultimately, you will have to give the APOLOGIZE command, before the operating system will return to normal. The system will run smoothly, as long as you take the blame for all the GPFs.

Wife 1.0 is a great program, but also is very high maintenance.
Consider buying additional software, to improve the performance of Wife 1.0.

I recommend Flowers 2.1, and Diamonds 5.0.
Best of luck. Tech Support

Baba Sali Dream

Baba Sali Dream
January 21, 2010

26 years have passed since the petirah of the Baba Sali. Baba Baruch, the Bab Sali’s son, leads the kehillah in Netivot,

The most fascinating part of the recent interview with Baba Baruch, was when he was asked, if he had any other dreams recently, in which he saw his father.

He went on to tell about a dream, that he said he had “not long ago” - less than two weeks ago, - in which the Baba Sali appeared.

The Baba Sali, he said, told him: “Moshiach will come this year. Be ready, get ready; and prepare a Seudah, because of this dream…. Because there is no solution for Am Yisroel, except for Moshiach Tzidkeinu.”

The Eternity of Shabbat Candles (story)

The Eternity of Shabbat Candles

Story which appeared in Nshei Newsletter, a while back.
In 1994, a Jewish advertising executive in New York, came up with an idea:

What if the New York Times (considered the world's most prestigious newspaper) listed the weekly Shabbat candle lighting time, each week.
Sure someone would have to pay for the space.

But imagine the Jewish awareness and pride, that might result from such a prominent mention, of the Jewish Shabbat each week.

He got in touch with a Jewish philanthropist, and sold him on the idea. It cost almost two thousand dollars a week, but he did it.

And for the next five years, each Friday, Jews around the world would see "Jewish Women: Shabbat candle lighting time this Friday is..."
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Eventually the philanthropist, had to cut back on a number of his projects. And in June 1999, the little Shabbat notice and stopped appearing in the Friday Times. And from that week on it never appeared again, except once:

On January 1, 2000, the NY Times ran a Millennium edition. It was a special issue, that featured three front pages. One had the news from January 1, 1900. The second was the actual news of the day, January 1, 2000.

And then they had a third front page, projecting future events of January 1, 2100. This was a fictional page.

In addition to the articles, there was one more thing. Down on the bottom of the Year 2100 front page, was the candle lighting time in New York, for January 1, 2100. Nobody paid for it, it was just put in by the Times.
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The production manager of the New York Times, an Irish Catholic, was asked about it.

He answered: "We don't know what will happen in the year 2100, it is impossible to predict the future. But one thing you can be certain, that in the year 2100, Jewish women, will be lighting Shabbos candles!"

Sunspots- A Sign of Moshiach?

Before Moshiach comes, Hashem will remove the natric (covering ) from the sun:
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The Sun has been dramatically inactive," commented Richard Harrison, a co-investigator on SDO from the UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

"The last two years has had more than 250 days of no sunspots whatsoever.
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"We believe this minimum is coming to an end; all the signals are there. We are seeing new active regions. They actually start at the higher latitudes in the Sun's atmosphere.

Sunspots are forming; we're seeing the first big solar flares."

Moment of Silence - The Jewish forward

Moment of Silence

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
February 03, 2010

At the border of Crown Heights and Brownsville, in an impoverished corner of Brooklyn, stands the hulking, tan brick building that houses P.S. 191, the Paul Robeson School.

The school serves a student population, that is remarkable in its disadvantage: 99% of its roughly 300 students, in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, qualify for free or reduced-price lunches; some live at the homeless shelter next door.

But every morning at 8:30, half an hour after rambunctious kids come bouncing into the building, in their blue school uniforms, this school becomes remarkable in a different way.
It gets quiet. For a full minute, there is only silence.
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After a teacher, and a handful of students, announce the moment of silence over the loudspeaker system, and offer something to think about for that day (a personal goal, or how to help someone else), each and every person at P.S. 191, from the littlest 4-year-old pre-kindergartener, to the principal, pauses for 60 seconds.

P.S. 191 has been observing this morning ritual, for the past three years; ever since Avraham Frank, a Hasidic Jew, heeding the last Lubavitcher Rebbe’s call, for a daily moment of silence in public schools; walked in off the street, and introduced the idea to the principal.

So far Frank, (a white-bearded 59-year-old, with a day job managing home attendants, for New York City’s Human Resources Administration); has persuaded administrators at 13 public schools in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, to institute a moment of silence.

His goal, he said, is to get moments of silence into schools, “all over the city.”
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Though school-sponsored prayer in American public schools, has been prohibited, since the 1962 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Engel v. Vitale; voluntary, student-initiated, private prayer is not.

In response to the ban on school-sponsored prayer, there has been a nationwide push, for the introduction into public schools, of daily moments of silence, that students can use to pray or reflect.
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New York State, is one of about 30 states, that has a law authorizing a daily moment of silence in schools; said Marc Stern, acting co-executive director of the American Jewish Congress, and an expert in religion-state issues.

In many places, however, moments of silence remain controversial. Federal courts have been divided, on the constitutional issues surrounding moments of silence in public schools.

A Texas law, requiring the state’s schools to offer a moment of silence each day, for students to “reflect, pray, meditate, or engage in any other silent activity, that is not likely to interfere with or distract another student,” was upheld in March 2009, by a panel of judges from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The American Civil Liberties Union, had objected to the Texas legislature’s addition of the word “pray,” to the list of designated activities for the moment of silence; a word that had been omitted from the state’s previous moment-of-silence law.

In January 2009 a federal judge ruled the opposite way, and struck down as unconstitutional, a similar statute in Illinois.
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Frank, for his part says: “This is for the good of the children, so that they grow up to be upstanding citizens of society. It encourages morality, and this is what we want to get in the schools; which is not there now, since they cut out school prayer in the 1960s.”

“These children, will bring the parents back, to being moral upstanding citizens.
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After a school, has observed the moment of silence for a while, Frank asks school officials and students, to write letters about their experience; which he then photocopies and shares, with anyone who will read them.

This was part of what the Lubavitcher Rebbe called for, starting in the early 1980s in his public talks, to “arouse public opinion,” and urge legislators to institute moments of silence in public schools.
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A few years ago, Frank sent out 535 packets, filled with letters of appreciation from students and principals, one to each member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

He said, he got only a single form letter in response. But Frank remains undeterred. “The Rebbe foresaw, how to spread the idea; and the letters are the soul, behind this whole movement,” he said.
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Frank, who lives in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, is not an official Chabad-Lubavitch emissary; and his effort to introduce moments of silence in public schools, has not received resources, or official backing, from Chabad representatives; though the movement’s emissaries in Illinois, publicly backed the mandatory moment-of-silence law, that was adopted there in 2007.

Rabbi Motti Seligson, a spokesman for the international Chabad movement said: “When the Rebbe spoke, about the importance of instituting a moment of silence in public schools, he was speaking to all people, not just Hasidim; and for the most part, the people who took on this initiative, with the inspiration from the Rebbe’s call to action, were not necessarily Lubavitchers.”
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Whatever happens on a larger scale, staff members at P.S. 191 say, they are happy to have a moment of silence in their school.

Sonia Witter-Clue, the supervising school aide said: “I have seen tremendous changes behavior-wise, and in terms of punctuality.” “The kids want to be here for the moment of silence. When they miss it, you can see they’re upset.”

Her 5-year-old granddaughter, and 8-year-old son, both students at P.S. 191, love it so much, that they insist on having a moment of silence, even at home on the weekends, she said.

Hadar Gafhi, the school’s assistant principal said: “It has had a direct impact, on the kids’ academic success.”

“It focuses the children. During the moment of silence, they’ve made their resolutions for the day, and are ready to learn, and they get right to work.” “We’re seeing tremendous academic growth, in our kids.”

Tuishawn Burke, a 10-year-old fifth- grader said: “I think about, how I’m going to make today, a great day.” “It helps me focus more, so I can complete my work.”

Matisyahu-NBC's promotion of the 2010

Singer Matisyahu in sync with Olympic spirit

Nov 13, 2009

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Matisyahu, whose music merges Hasidic Judaism with reggae beats, hip-hop and rock, is lending his voice to NBC's promotion, of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The network has chosen his uplifting anthem "One Day," as the theme song for its "Countdown to Vancouver" promotional campaign.

"One Day" is the lead single from Matisyahu's third album, "Light," which Epic released in August.

He describes the song as being about "unity and coming together for one common cause; about putting aside all differences and issues, to connect in some way."

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The spot premiered November 3, and ran November 4 on all of NBC's affiliated cable networks, including Bravo, Oxygen, MSNBC and USA; and will air on NBC through February.

It features Vancouver contenders Apolo Ohno (speed skating), Lindsey Vonn (alpine skiing), Shaun White (snowboarding), Gretchen Bleiler (snowboarding) and Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto (figure skating); describing what the Olympics means to athletes and spectators alike.

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The Winter Games take place February 12-28. Matisyahu said: "When you see what those athletes go through, and being the background for that," "it pulls on the heartstrings."

For the week ended November 8, "One Day" experienced a 13 percent increase in download sales -- its first weekly increase, since the beginning of October. To date, the song has sold 117,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

In keeping with his cross-genre style, Matisyahu said, fans can expect a new version of "One Day" featuring Akon, to premiere in the next few weeks, by Kelly Staskel.

In the meantime, Matisyahu is touring in support of "Light," working with Kenneth Cole on the "One Day for Change," viral campaign on Twitter, and participating in a Charity Folks online auction. The prize being, a Brooklyn bike ride, with the recording artist.

Matisyahu is also finalizing details, for his fourth annual Festival of Light, in New York, during Hanukkah, which begins December 11.
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(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)

ORIGINAL URL:
http://ca.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idCATRE5AC5NZ20091113

Socialism and the Law of Gravity (Great example!)

An economics professor at a local college, made a statement: that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class.
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That class had insisted, that Obama's socialism worked, and that no one would be poor, and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class, on Obama's plan".

All grades would be averaged, and everyone would receive the same grade; so no one would fail, and no one would receive an A. __________

1. After the first test, the grades were averaged, and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset, and the students who studied little were happy.
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2. The second test, the students who studied little, had studied even less; and the ones who studied hard, decided they wanted a free ride too, so they studied little.

The second test average was a D!
No one was happy.
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3. The 3rd test, the average was an F.
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The scores never increased, as bickering, blame and name-calling, all resulted in hard feelings; and no one would study, for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise; and the professor told them, that socialism would also ultimately fail, because: when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try, or want to succeed; as a result, the economy will self-destruct.

LaGuardia Flight Diverted to Philly

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93331?fp=1

In the wake of the news, online searches on both "phylactery" and "tefillin" both surged from nothing into breakout status.

Other related queries also quickly popped up. "What is a phylactery" and "tefillin pictures" were on top of peoples' minds.

Those who researched the religious item learned that the phylactery boxes contain prayers inside them. You can see an image here, courtesy of Wikipedia.
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What's a soul" By Rabbi Aaron Moss

Question:
Why do you speak of a soul, how can you put souls in boxes?

To me, the essence of spirituality is: there is a transcendence, that we can experience, that is beyond divisions.
Gary
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Answer:
Dear Gary,
The idea, that all souls are the same, is one of the biggest mistakes of modern spirituality. We are so used to thinking, that definitions create barriers, and barriers cause hatred; that we are convinced, that to be spiritual, means to have no borders.

From a Kabbalistic perspective, this totally misses the point of existence.
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Before creation, G-d had unity. G-d was all there was; there were no borders, definitions or distinctions. If unchallenged unity, is what G-d wants, He had it already. He would, not have created the world.
Creation was an act, of making borders (limitations). From unity, came multiplicity.

Ours is a world of divisions: body and soul, male and female; as well as the divisions of nations, families and individuals.

Why did G-d create multiplicity? Doesn't that go against the oneness of G-d?

No, it doesn't. Because the deepest unity, is unity found specifically within diversity. If we are all the same, then unity is no big deal. So G-d gave us all particular souls, each with its unique and diverse characteristics.

When each individual as an individual, and each nation from within its own culture and perspective, recognizes the same G-d, that is real unity.

In other words, a unity that is challenged by diversity, yet emerges from that very diversity, is an invincible unity. That is something G-d "couldn't" have, without a world like ours.
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To blur the boundaries, between nations, genders and individuals, is to avoid facing the challenge, which lies at the very heart of G-d's purpose in creation -- to find unity in our differences.

For the unity of humankind, we need one G-d; but for G-d's unity to be complete, we need human diversity.

Jews should be Jews, non-Jews should be non-Jews, men should be men, and women should be women. And every individual, has to be himself. Only then, can we learn from each other, the wisdom that we ourselves lack.
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The majesty of G-d is revealed, when each individual and community, connects with Him, from his/her/their unique vantage point. There is a contribution, that only you can make, to G-d's master plan.

That's why, you were born as you are -- a Jew, a male, and the other distinctive spiritual characteristics, that make you "Gary."

Great Thoughts (short)

Instead of talking about the negative:
Focus on being a lamp-lighter: Because You are very bright!

Special Delivery- Rabbi A. Moss

Question:

It's my birthday this weekend, but I have always felt funny about celebrating it. My birth was a bit of an accident - my parents said I was a surprise, and I was born six weeks premature.

Is there any meaning in celebrating the day, that I wasn't really supposed to have been born?

Answer:

Your birthday is chosen by G-d; not your parents, your astrologer, or the obstetrician. Birth is G-d saying that, the world can't go on without you. It is the day, that your soul's mission had to begin.

There were already more than six billion people on earth, when you were born. Did the world really need you? Can one more soul, really make a difference?

Obviously the answer is yes. Otherwise G-d would not have sent your soul to this earth. The fact that you were born means, there must be some unique gift that you have to offer the world, that none of those other six billion people, could possibly achieve.
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A birthday is an opportunity to reflect: This is the day that my soul was dispatched on its mission.

How is the mission going, Have I been contributing my part, to the furthering of G-d's purpose, to create heaven on earth?

Have I been doing my part, to enhance and improve myself, and my world?

How much time and energy do I spend, on meaningful pursuits?

How much more time could I spend, on what really matters in the coming year?
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Far from being an accident, your birth was clearly, a deliberate act. The fact that you surprised your parents, and you arrived early just shows, how urgently the world needed you. Your soul couldn't even wait a few weeks, for the due date, to get down here. G-d had another due date in mind.

Your soul was sent down by priority delivery, make sure your soul always takes priority.

Avatar and Moshiach

Avatar and Moshiach

Are these the fellings we should have, longing for the Geula world?
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Avatar, a 2½-hour Virtual 3D movie, was too real, for some fans who say, they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts, after seeing the film; because they long to enjoy the beauty of the virtual alien world Pandora.

The movie was so beautiful, it showed something we don't have here on Earth. I think people saw, that we could be living in a completely different world, and that caused them to be depressed."

"All I have been doing as of late, is searching the Internet, for more info about 'Avatar.' I guess that helps. It's so hard, I can't force myself to think, that it's just a movie, and to get over it, that living like the Na'vi will never happen

Ever since I went to see 'Avatar,' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora, and all the Na'vi, made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about, all the things that happened in the film, and all of the tears and shivers I got from it.

I even contemplate suicide, thinking that if I do it, I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora, and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "

Other expressed feelings of, disgust with the human race, and disengagement with reality.

Compared with life on Earth, Pandora is a beautiful, glowing utopia.

When I woke up this morning, after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed gray. It was like my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning. It just seems someaningless. I still don't really see any reason to keep doing things at all. I live in a dying world."

One can say, my depression was twofold: I was depressed because I really wanted to live in Pandora, which seemed like such a perfect place; but I was also depressed and disgusted, with the sight of our world, what we have done to Earth. I so much wanted, to escape reality."
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After discussing on the forums for a while now, my depression is beginning to fade away. Having taken a part in many discussions concerning all this, has really, really helped me.

Before, I had lost the reason to keep on living -- but now it feels like these feelings are gradually being replaced with others

Creating relationships with others, is one of the keys to human happiness; and that even if those connections are occurring online, they are better than nothing.

Lakewood is ready for Moshiach!

11-20-09
http://redirectingat.com/?id=593X1004&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmatzav.com%2Frav-matisyahu-salomons-dream

On Sunday, at what was the largest Hachnosas Sefer Torah event,in the history of the Ihr HaTorah of Lakewood.

Some 6-7,000 men, women and children took part, together with the roshei yeshiva and mashgiach of Beth Medrash Govoha; as well as Rabbonim and Poskim, from throughout the town. For the pesichah of the Kleinman Family Campus of BMG, and a Hachnosas Sefer Torah, dedicated by the Kleinman family.

Following the Hachnosas Sefer Torah, guests gathered for a Seudas Mitzvah in a tent behind the new Forest Avenue-Eleventh Street bais medrash. At the Seudah, the crowd was addressed by several speakers,

including the Mashgiach of Beth Medrash Govoha, Rav Matisyahu Salomon; whose remarks have been quoted, and have been making the rounds in frum circles.
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In his speech, Rav Matisyahu spoke about a dream that he had this past summer.

The Mashgiach’s rebbetzin was very ill at the time, and he dreamt that the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Aharon Kotler zt”l, appeared to him; looking exactly the way he remembered him from when he saw the Rosh yeshiva as a Bochur in Gateshead Yeshiva.

The Rosh Yeshiva told him, that if he’s Mekabel (agrees) to remain in Lakewood, then his Rebbetzin (wife) will have a Refuah Sheleimah (a complete recovery): and both he and his Rebbetzin will merit, to greet Moshiach!
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He was Mekabel that, and the Rebbetzin has been Zocheh (mereited) to a miraculous recovery.The Mashgiach commented, the he is quite old and that we’re living in Moshiach’s times, and it’s incumbent upon every person to realize that.

{Dovid Bernstein-Matzav.com Newscenter/Yated Ne’eman contributed to this report.}

Accusing Others (moral)

The summons hanging on the milkman’s door, bewildered him. He was an honest man, who always behaved appropriately.
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The baker used to buy butter and cheese from the milkman, for his baking, but he felt that he was being cheated. One day, he decided to check out the matter, and weighed every lump of butter, that he bought from the milkman.

The baker was angry “he is cheating me,” he told his wife angrily, “I am not going to be quiet about it”. He went to the local court and complained about the milkman. “We have to prosecute him” said the baker. “We can’t let him cheat all the villagers, people trust him!”

That same day, the court messenger hung a notice on the milkman’s house, that he had to come to court.
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The Judge asked: “I assume you have a very accurate scale in your dairy.”

The milkman said: “No your honor, I do not have a scale.”
“So how do you weigh the butter?”
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I built myself a scale – the kind that needs a weight on one side, to balance the butter on the other.

Every morning when I come to weigh the butter for the baker, I place a kilo loaf of bread, on one side of the scale.’

The Judge said: You are telling us, that the amount of butter that you give the baker, is exactly the weight of the loaf of bread that he supplies to you?”

“Yes” said the milkman

The baker’s face suddenly fell…
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Before we judge others, we must first check that our own house is in order. Maybe we have the same failings, that we accuse others of.
Chazal say: “Straighten oneself first, then straighten others.”

The Mezuzah- joke

Opening his front door, the Rabbi found himself face to face with the local priest.

"Rabbi, may I have a few words with you?" asked the priest. "Of course," replied the Rabbi, somewhat nervously. "Rabbi," began the priest, "It must be evident to you, that in this town we are plagued by thieves.

Scarcely a day passes, without one of my members coming to me, bemoaning the fact, that his house has been broken into.

On the other hand, I have noticed, that thieves do not bother you Jews, nearly as much." The Rabbi answered: “You are correct." Inquired the priest: "Yes, but why is that?"
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The Rabbi then said: "Look at this little box, on the side of my door post, it's called a Mezuzah.

We Jews believe, that when we put a Mezuzah on the entrances to our houses, the Holy One, may His Name be blessed, protects both us, and our property."

"In that case", replied the priest, "I must have one!" Not wishing to be the cause of a pogrom, the Rabbi reluctantly handed over a mezuzah to the priest.
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Two weeks later the Rabbi was awakened, by the sound of someone pounding violently on his door. Dressing himself hastily, he made his way down the stairs. "Who's there?" the Rabbi asked. "Open the door, open the door!" screamed a voice on the other side.

Leaving the door on the chain, the Rabbi racked the door open wide enough, to see the priest standing in front of him, in great distraught. "What happened?" asked the terrified Rabbi. "Were you not protected from robbers?"
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"I was! But these people were worse than robbers!" screamed the priest. "Who?" asked the Rabbi. "The Fundraisers!!"

Shema Yisroel!

After the Holocaust, R. Yosef Kahaneman zt'l, (the Ponevezhe Rov), began looking for Jewish children.

It was known, that some of the children had ended up in churches, and were being raised as Christians.

The Rov encountered one church, that denied the existence and presence of Jewish children within their midst. He was granted permission to enter the children's quarters, to inspect for himself.

When he entered, he began calling out "Shema Yisroel;" and instinctively, many of the children raised their hands, to cover their eyes, and started screaming out: "Mama, Mama!"

Funny: The Economy is so Bad that

The Economy is so Bad that

I got a pre-declined, credit card in the mail.I ordered a burger at

McDonald's, and the kid behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?"

CEO's, are now playing miniature golf.

If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask, if they meant you or them.

Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks, are trading higher than GM.

McDonald's is selling the, 1/4 ouncer.

Parents in Beverly Hills, fired their nannies, and learned their children's names.

A truckload of Americans, were caught sneaking into Mexico.

Motel Six, won't leave the light on anymore.

The Mafia, is laying off judges.

ExxonMobil, laid off 25 Congressmen.

Congress says, they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal.
Great, the guy who made $50 Billion disappear, is being investigatedby the people, who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!
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And, finally...I was so depressed last night, thinking about the economy, wars, jobs,my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Lifeline.

I got a call center in Pakistan; and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck!