Let me know what you think!
"Actions matter; it is through the practice of an action that one inevitably begins to understand the action. Judaism then, seen through this lens, was from its very origins a religion of doing. The Israelites no doubt talked and talked amongst themselves (imagine how many opinions that many Jews would have), but what they brought to the table was their pledge to God that they would act according to His laws first and foremost."
"Na’aseh v’nishma can also be seen as the ultimate Jewish model for inclusion."
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Monday, May 29, 2017
Jewish Holiday Time: Shavuot
Tuesday evening is the start of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. In Israel it is celebrated for one day and in the Diaspora for two days.
Shavuot is a multifaceted holiday. Primarily, it marks the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people by G-d. It is when we received the Ten Commandments. It is also when we read the Book of Ruth, and it is the anniversary of the death of King David. This holiday has a lot of different names because there are so many important facets of the holiday. If you know the story of Ruth, you'll know she was a Moabite, from a very high level family who gave everything up to marry Boaz, and join the Jewish people. It's quite an amazing love story and explicitly shows how Jews are supposed to treat converts, with love and respect and affection. For Ruth's sincerity and love of the Jewish people she was "rewarded" with being the woman from whom King David is descended. Quite a magnificent honour and so well deserved. I find the whole story so moving.
I remember a few years ago being in Israel and needing some water for one of my kids. We were in the Old City at the time and my husband said, oh-don't worry, we can just stop at King David's tomb, they have a fountain there.
OH YEAH OK LET'S JUST STOP AT KING DAVID'S TOMB LIKE THAT IS THE MOST REGULAR THING IN THE WORLD EVER.
Can you imagine?
But I digress:
The other amazing part of the holiday is that it is when the Jewish people said "na'aseh v'nishma." That means "we will do, and then we will understand". It's a very interesting concept in Judaism for which there is much, much commentary.
Traditionally, Jews stay up learning Torah the entire night of Shavuot and the holiday is also marked by eating dairy foods (and there are a number of reasons for this as well).
I've made a truly spectacular cheesecake in honour of Shavuot and I have a piece coming out in The Jerusalem Post tomorrow. I hope to have a link to post tomorrow, I'm really proud of the piece.
In the meantime if you would like to read more about Shavuot here are some links:
From Aish Hatorah (lots of great stuff)
From Chabad, gotta love Chabad!
Shavuot is a multifaceted holiday. Primarily, it marks the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people by G-d. It is when we received the Ten Commandments. It is also when we read the Book of Ruth, and it is the anniversary of the death of King David. This holiday has a lot of different names because there are so many important facets of the holiday. If you know the story of Ruth, you'll know she was a Moabite, from a very high level family who gave everything up to marry Boaz, and join the Jewish people. It's quite an amazing love story and explicitly shows how Jews are supposed to treat converts, with love and respect and affection. For Ruth's sincerity and love of the Jewish people she was "rewarded" with being the woman from whom King David is descended. Quite a magnificent honour and so well deserved. I find the whole story so moving.
I remember a few years ago being in Israel and needing some water for one of my kids. We were in the Old City at the time and my husband said, oh-don't worry, we can just stop at King David's tomb, they have a fountain there.
OH YEAH OK LET'S JUST STOP AT KING DAVID'S TOMB LIKE THAT IS THE MOST REGULAR THING IN THE WORLD EVER.
Can you imagine?
But I digress:
The other amazing part of the holiday is that it is when the Jewish people said "na'aseh v'nishma." That means "we will do, and then we will understand". It's a very interesting concept in Judaism for which there is much, much commentary.
Traditionally, Jews stay up learning Torah the entire night of Shavuot and the holiday is also marked by eating dairy foods (and there are a number of reasons for this as well).
I've made a truly spectacular cheesecake in honour of Shavuot and I have a piece coming out in The Jerusalem Post tomorrow. I hope to have a link to post tomorrow, I'm really proud of the piece.
In the meantime if you would like to read more about Shavuot here are some links:
From Aish Hatorah (lots of great stuff)
From Chabad, gotta love Chabad!
Daniel Greenfield: The War For Jerusalem
This is absolutely brilliant.
It's lyrical and truthful. Mr. Greenfield's prose simply soars.
I have read this essay at least three times already, as if it was poetry.
Too good to pull out a favourite part. I love the whole thing.
Do yourself a favour and read this magnificent love letter to Jerusalem and the Jewish people.
Magnificent.
It's lyrical and truthful. Mr. Greenfield's prose simply soars.
I have read this essay at least three times already, as if it was poetry.
Too good to pull out a favourite part. I love the whole thing.
Do yourself a favour and read this magnificent love letter to Jerusalem and the Jewish people.
Magnificent.
Crushing on the Crushers: Why Do Intellectuals Fall in Love With Murderers and Thugs?
Good question!
Partly this:
"...the penetrating clear-sightedness and benevolence toward humanity that intellectuals often claim for themselves by comparison with the benightedness of the rest of the population is at least sometimes—and maybe often or always—self-serving and mythical."
"The special ability to see beyond appearances that intellectuals like to congratulate themselves for possessing is, indeed, their raison d’être: for if they cannot perceive what others cannot perceive, what is their role? Whereas the simple-minded see in a massacre of priests only a massacre of priests, for example, intellectuals discern in it the operation of the dialectic of history, the imagined future denouement of which is more real to them than the actual deaths themselves, merely eggshells on the way to the omelette."
Partly this:
"...the penetrating clear-sightedness and benevolence toward humanity that intellectuals often claim for themselves by comparison with the benightedness of the rest of the population is at least sometimes—and maybe often or always—self-serving and mythical."
"The special ability to see beyond appearances that intellectuals like to congratulate themselves for possessing is, indeed, their raison d’être: for if they cannot perceive what others cannot perceive, what is their role? Whereas the simple-minded see in a massacre of priests only a massacre of priests, for example, intellectuals discern in it the operation of the dialectic of history, the imagined future denouement of which is more real to them than the actual deaths themselves, merely eggshells on the way to the omelette."
Plus, there is the idea that this kind of fantasy is a type of religious belief for the secular, godless, leftist masses. That's definitely something I have considered over the years. Leftism is a religion/cult.
Ahh, The Joys and Exquisite Beauty of "Danish" Culture
Father "honour rapes" daughter's rapist.
Vikings, beer and "honour rapes".
What exactly is "Danish" about "honour rape"?
Vikings, beer and "honour rapes".
What exactly is "Danish" about "honour rape"?
"This Denial Will Kill Us"
Yes, that's part of the strategy-not an accident.
By design!
Seems the Mayor of Manchester is also a full qualified Imam, just like John Kerry. Amazing that he has time to run the city (into the ground) and also be a scholar of Islam.
By design!
Seems the Mayor of Manchester is also a full qualified Imam, just like John Kerry. Amazing that he has time to run the city (into the ground) and also be a scholar of Islam.
Sunday, May 28, 2017
YUGE: "Nothing Scares Me"
Dickerson: "What keeps you awake at night?"— RCP Video (@rcpvideo) May 28, 2017
Mattis: "Nothing, I keep other people awake at night."
full interview: https://t.co/XaHuN5Nixn pic.twitter.com/m90bwbO6Ck
Eurabia Is Doomed
First read this.
The more Europe changes, the more it stays the same.
"We remain stuck in the John Lennon response to terrorism. They blow us up, we sing Imagine" - @DouglasKMurray #bbcsp pic.twitter.com/rfgfXtOVDE— DailySunday Politics (@daily_politics) May 28, 2017
The more Europe changes, the more it stays the same.
Friday, May 26, 2017
G7 Fashion Update
In summary, Melania is a hottie with great taste.
I mean for real and not for joking, that purple dress in Saudi Arabia??? Just SHUT UP.
And how about the black outfit with the gold belt? Gazonga. Also, the brown shirt-style casual dress, and the leather suit. Seriously, she's really rocking it.
Marcon's grandmother looks really stiff and awkward.
Kathy Shaidle made me promise that if she dresses like that when she's geriatric, to please kill her. I had to oblige. What are friends for? I know she would do the same for me if I ever start wearing those horrible Menopause Outfits that women of a certain age are prone to wear. I shan't go into details here.
Lady! Mrs. Marconrobinson! Yoo hoo!
You're almost a hundred years old, no knees, please. Are you sure you're French?!?!?!
This is oh la lawful...
The award for most dour goes to Mrs. Caliphate, if I were here I would have hidden in the back row. Did the photographer put her beside Melania on purpose for added comparison cruelty?
But getting back to Mrs. Caliphate, oh but what a floozy! I can see not only her face, that slut, but also her hands. HARAM HARAM HARAM!!!
Queen Mathilde looks absolutely lovely. Totally age appropriate and tasteful.
That is all
I mean for real and not for joking, that purple dress in Saudi Arabia??? Just SHUT UP.
And how about the black outfit with the gold belt? Gazonga. Also, the brown shirt-style casual dress, and the leather suit. Seriously, she's really rocking it.
Marcon's grandmother looks really stiff and awkward.
Kathy Shaidle made me promise that if she dresses like that when she's geriatric, to please kill her. I had to oblige. What are friends for? I know she would do the same for me if I ever start wearing those horrible Menopause Outfits that women of a certain age are prone to wear. I shan't go into details here.
Lady! Mrs. Marconrobinson! Yoo hoo!
You're almost a hundred years old, no knees, please. Are you sure you're French?!?!?!
This is oh la lawful...
The award for most dour goes to Mrs. Caliphate, if I were here I would have hidden in the back row. Did the photographer put her beside Melania on purpose for added comparison cruelty?
But getting back to Mrs. Caliphate, oh but what a floozy! I can see not only her face, that slut, but also her hands. HARAM HARAM HARAM!!!
Queen Mathilde looks absolutely lovely. Totally age appropriate and tasteful.
That is all
Long But Amazing, Gad Saad Speaks to Yasmine Mohammed
This is a great interview.
Watch the whole thing when you have a chance.
Watch the whole thing when you have a chance.
Denial Still Flows Over Londanistan
Indeed it does.
"Britain is in denial. Having allowed the country to turn into a global hub of the Islamic jihad without apparently giving it a second thought, the British establishment is still failing even now — despite the wake-up calls of both 9/11 and the London bomb attacks of 2005 — to acknowledge what it is actually facing and take the appropriate action. Instead, it is deep into a policy of appeasement of the phenomenon that threatens it, throwing sops to both radical Islamism and the Muslim community in a panic-stricken attempt to curry favour and buy off the chances of any further attacks."
"This disastrous policy ignores the first law of terrorism which is that it preys on weakness. The only way to defeat it is through strength — the strength of a response based on absolute consistency and moral integrity, which arises in turn from the strength of belief in the values that are being defended. By choosing instead the path of least resistance, Britain is advertising its fundamental weakness and is thus not only greatly enhancing the danger to itself but is also enfeebling the alliance in the defence of the west."
"Britain has a long and inglorious history of appeasing terrorism, thus bringing true the aphorism in which its ruling class so cynically believes that ‘terrorism works’. Now, however, this dubious national trait has been cemented even more firmly into the national psyche by the governing doctrine of multiculturalism, which has made it all but impossible even to acknowledge that this is a problem rooted within the religion of a particular minority community."
"Britain is in denial. Having allowed the country to turn into a global hub of the Islamic jihad without apparently giving it a second thought, the British establishment is still failing even now — despite the wake-up calls of both 9/11 and the London bomb attacks of 2005 — to acknowledge what it is actually facing and take the appropriate action. Instead, it is deep into a policy of appeasement of the phenomenon that threatens it, throwing sops to both radical Islamism and the Muslim community in a panic-stricken attempt to curry favour and buy off the chances of any further attacks."
"This disastrous policy ignores the first law of terrorism which is that it preys on weakness. The only way to defeat it is through strength — the strength of a response based on absolute consistency and moral integrity, which arises in turn from the strength of belief in the values that are being defended. By choosing instead the path of least resistance, Britain is advertising its fundamental weakness and is thus not only greatly enhancing the danger to itself but is also enfeebling the alliance in the defence of the west."
"Britain has a long and inglorious history of appeasing terrorism, thus bringing true the aphorism in which its ruling class so cynically believes that ‘terrorism works’. Now, however, this dubious national trait has been cemented even more firmly into the national psyche by the governing doctrine of multiculturalism, which has made it all but impossible even to acknowledge that this is a problem rooted within the religion of a particular minority community."
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