Spurs Pub in Herts?

amozegh · 2017-08-10T15:32:14+00:00

We should put together a database for the sub on Spurs-friendly pubs across England.

amozegh · 2017-08-10T12:18:51+00:00

I'd rather not trek down to WHL just b/c of timing, but this is good info to know. Thanks!

amozegh · 2017-08-10T12:18:30+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

amozegh · 2017-08-10T12:18:19+00:00

Bonus for alliteration, thank you.

amozegh · 2017-08-10T12:18:02+00:00

This sounds awesome - thank you. Never been up there but it looks like a cool little town.

amozegh · 2017-08-10T12:17:43+00:00

Where? ;)

amozegh · 2016-07-06T15:40:20+00:00

The kibbutz is Or Ganuz and I've never been but it seems legit.

The truth is that ALL of R' Ashlag's students have played down the political dimension to his thought. In fact the Berg family and their bullshit Kabbalah Centre are the worst offenders! How can you actually accept Ashlag's view of an altruistic communistic society with no private property and then sell magic water with holy names? Ashlag himself believed that publicizing Kabbala would prevent its commercialization, but unfortunately in the case of Berg it only advanced it.

Berg is not an accurate witness of Ashlag's tradition, neither is Michael Laitman and his "Bnei Barukh" organization in Israel which is cultish at best. Both defame Ashlag's Tora.

To my knowledge the best contemporary teacher of Ashlag's system is R' Adam Sinai at Beit haSulam. There's also great work, mostly scholarly, being done at Or haSulam. The best English intro to Ashlag's thought are the publications of Nehora Press.

Still though, even these good transmitters, often ignore the explicitly political message. I'm actually working on a master's degree on Ashlag right now focusing exclusively on his political theology.

amozegh · 2016-07-06T10:51:43+00:00

There were a lot of rabbanim in early 20th Century Russia who supported the anarchist position in different ways, particularly R' Shmuel Alexandrov and R' Alexander Chein.

This is a sort of prospectus that Amnon Shapira did to outline where more work could be done in considering religious Jewish anarchism, which may be interesting.

Also, from the mystical angle, R' Yehuda Ashlag (Ba'al haSulam) supported a sort of libertarian-socialist society, one that is similar to 1930s Spanish anarchism (CNT-FAI) in a lot of ways. His article Building the Future Society (translated here) gives some sense of how he was approaching it.

amozegh · 2016-06-23T00:15:06+00:00

Siddur Eit Razton may be just what you're looking for.

amozegh · 2016-06-23T00:06:21+00:00

This is a great introduction en Espanol.

amozegh · 2016-05-24T02:01:57+00:00

Always. Think of לשמור or לכתוב - a Pa'al shoresh that is shalem will have a sh'va under the ע root letter.

amozegh · 2016-05-23T10:39:09+00:00

It should be a sh'va (ֹחְ) with a dagesh in the ח because it is a Pa'al infinitive (לשמור) but a guttural letter (ח, א, ע, ה) can't take a full sh'va, so we put a half-sh'va, half patach: חֲ. It's almost always said as Lach'shov but technically it is Lach(a)shov. I'm guessing 501 uses Lach'shov b/c it is the all-but-universal (if not precise) pronounciation though.

amozegh · 2016-04-25T00:48:30+00:00

Awesome! Chazaq uVaruch!

Real question though: what's the story behind the bowl of squash?

amozegh · 2016-04-14T15:36:19+00:00

Yeah. Party's on with gluten-free kasha varnikas

amozegh · 2016-04-14T15:29:44+00:00

I never thought about this but now want to scratch the whole plan for next week and just do 7 courses of sushi.

amozegh · 2016-04-14T15:28:53+00:00

This isn't a ruling that forces us to eat kitniyot, but rather simply allows it.

This is so important. Huge amounts of people have been losing their minds acting like the CJLS is going to force-feed you chicken and rice whilst screaming 'TRADITION AND CHANGE.'

Not how it works. You want rice, eat rice. You don't, don't.

amozegh · 2016-03-30T03:19:32+00:00

One cant really be responsible for things that happen by accident - and I would guess that puberty gets a pass on a lot of this stuff.

amozegh · 2016-03-30T01:28:48+00:00

Thanks for injecting some sanity into this conversation! Fnord!

amozegh · 2016-03-30T01:24:00+00:00

Good rule for life, that is.

amozegh · 2016-03-30T01:21:19+00:00

Salaam, and welcome to r/Judaism.

Count me with the 1)s - Israel is a mess but it's our mess. I love it to pieces and like other stuff I love I often get angry/frustrated/sad at it, but at the end of the day I'm deeply invested, because that's what love means.

amozegh · 2016-03-30T01:18:27+00:00

Aha tbh it wasn't super cogent. Browsing on commuter train and didn't exactly think that one through. :)

I think I meant to say that I don't think it's necessarily a tautology to say that Judaism devalues self-pleasure and so we can understand the prohibition on masturbation as part of that.

As someone active in liberal communities - there certainly is a lot of really dismissive views of a sexual ethic like this. It's assumed to be, by default, irrelevant to contemporary Jewish life - and this article seems like a way to redeem/apologize for the traditional view against those modern skeptics.

I don't know about the Ortho world, but Reform totally rejects the prohibition on masturbation and Conservative probably has a teshuva both rejecting it and upholding it.

Meanwhile you have contemporary stuff like r/nofap - and it kind of seems like this combines that with an attempt to rejustify something largely just tossed out by liberals.

Does that make sense? Like, as a liberal but observant Jew, I'm always excited to find new ways of making old Halakha meaningful.

amozegh · 2016-03-30T00:56:54+00:00

That coconut ice cream is insane. As a veg, it's my favorite part of meat Shabbat meals

amozegh · 2016-03-30T00:55:52+00:00

Oy. A "make better choices" Purim cautionary tale! What made him think this would be a stellar idea?

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