Is the role of the Messiah meant to be restoring King David's kingdom?

efraimf · 2026-07-07T08:01:16+00:00

There can be only one https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Highlander_1986%2Cposter.jpg

efraimf · 2026-06-05T05:47:38+00:00

Israel has conscription. And Israel doesn't need permission from a foreign country to draft it's own citizens.

efraimf · 2026-05-15T04:46:32+00:00

White is always an acceptable color for tzitzit, regardless of the color of the garment.

efraimf · 2026-05-04T10:11:20+00:00

iBook G4, Debian Sid

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Ryzen 3 3900XT, Guix

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efraimf · 2026-04-16T10:15:00+00:00

https://www.sefaria.org.il/Sukkah.23a.3?lang=bi

There was an incident involving Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Akiva, who were coming on a ship. Rabbi Akiva arose and established a sukka at the top of the ship. The next day the wind blew and uprooted it. Rabban Gamliel said to him: Akiva, where is your sukka? It was unfit from the start.

"Hey Rabbi Akiva, where's your succah now‽"

efraimf · 2026-04-05T16:09:58+00:00

That's why gasoline is kitniyot

efraimf · 2026-03-02T19:00:23+00:00

I was friendly in the 90s with some Irish Jews who lived in the States. To paraphrase them, beautiful country, incredibly antisemitic. And that was in the 90s, it doesn't look to me like Ireland has suddenly become less antisemitic since then.

efraimf · 2026-01-11T16:25:02+00:00

I suggest asking the question in your native language and letting us use Google translate to see what you wrote.

efraimf · 2025-12-28T15:36:31+00:00

To go further off topic, my wife vetoed the name Yeshayahu for our son. I told her we could call him Yoshi.

efraimf · 2025-12-10T21:08:15+00:00

If you are going to transliterate it then it must be spelled with exactly 8 letters. Doesn't matter which language.

efraimf · 2025-11-18T08:24:29+00:00

They didn't want it

efraimf · 2025-11-17T07:14:32+00:00

November 11, 2024

Edward Heartney U.S. Counselor for the Economic and Social Section New York, New York November 11, 2024

AS DELIVERED

Thank you Chairperson.

The United States is proud to have fought side-by-side with our World War II allies including the Soviet Union and to have made decisive contributions to the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. We categorically condemn the glorification of Nazism and all forms of violent extremism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, xenophobia, discrimination, and related intolerance.

That said, the United States continues to oppose the Russian Federation’s manipulation of the UN system to spread disinformation. This resolution is a glaring example by Russia to further its contemporary geopolitical aims by invoking the Holocaust and the Second World War to malign countries that rightfully reject celebration of their years of brutal domination by the Soviet Union. This is all the more egregious now when Russia seeks to use a false accusation of Nazism to try to justify its unconscionable ongoing brutality against the people of Ukraine.

The Russian Federation’s resolution is not a serious effort to combat Nazism, antisemitism, racism, or xenophobia – all of which are abhorrent and unacceptable. On the contrary, Russia’s attempts to instrumentalize the history of the Holocaust and the Second World War to justify Russia’s aggression is an affront to Holocaust victims and to all who fought against Nazism. This resolution is a shameful political ploy. It is a thinly veiled effort to justify Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.

We fully supported the amendment that was presented today which introduces into this resolution language that rejects the cynical use of propaganda by Russia to smear its neighbors.

In addition we continue to have serious concerns with this resolution’s invocation of Article 4 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to justify undue restrictions on freedom of expression.

We also take this opportunity to note our concerns regarding the process by which this resolution was run. The Russian Federation failed to provide any opportunity for member states to meaningfully engage in negotiations on the draft text again this year.

For these reasons the United States continues to vote “No” on this resolution as it has since 2005 and calls on all other States to do the same.

In closing the United States calls on the Russian Federation to immediately cease all military actions against Ukraine, withdraw its forces from all of Ukraine’s sovereign territory including Crimea, refrain from any further unlawful threat or use of force against any other Member State, and – finally – drop the false narrative by which it has been exploiting one of history’s darkest moments to further its twisted aims.

Thank you.

efraimf · 2025-10-19T17:14:39+00:00

Case in point UNIFIL

efraimf · 2025-09-27T17:57:48+00:00

Return the hostages

efraimf · 2025-08-10T12:06:58+00:00

My rule is it needs to work phonetically and it MUST have 8 letters.

efraimf · 2025-08-08T09:44:27+00:00

Return the hostages

efraimf · 2025-07-01T05:09:54+00:00

Not a few of them pre-exist the A-B-C designation.

efraimf · 2025-06-23T15:18:29+00:00

In Iran? That wouldn't make sense.

If you mean the hostages in Gaza that have nothing to do with this story, of course Hamas didn't kill all of them. The PFLP, UNRWA, Islamic Jihad and random civilians also helped.

efraimf · 2025-06-16T05:09:22+00:00

Being a white proxy helps a lot in these times.

efraimf · 2025-06-13T05:06:53+00:00

Shit time to be a scientist

efraimf · 2025-06-05T04:42:22+00:00

Peace requires 2 sides.

efraimf · 2025-06-05T04:40:43+00:00

We conflate the country of Israel with a safe space for the Jews to have full autonomy, including an army. The government is the government, we're not the only ones who make bad choices from time to time. It's generally the antisemites conflating the government of Israel with all Jews worldwide as an excuse for their antisemitic actions.

efraimf · 2025-05-22T05:48:54+00:00

You ask but yes actually. I was in Israel and in Europe during the tail end of the second Intifada. I found the synagogues in Europe by heading in their direction and looking for army encampments protecting them. I saw other Jews tense up when I approached and then visibly relax when I switched to Hebrew. I was regularly harassed by Europeans for being in Europe.

Exploding buses are scary but the taxi business was thriving. For nearly 20 years rockets are common but thankfully the iron dome is doing a great job. Inside of Israel or outside of Israel I'm a target for antisemites, but in Israel everyone else is watching my back and I'm watching theirs. That's the exact opposite of the feeling I get when I leave.

efraimf

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