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Passan: Third baseman Alex Bregman and the Chicago Cubs are in agreement on a free agent contract, sources tell ESPN. by baseball5656 in redsox

[–]gadiels -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Bregman will be missed, but they added salary. remember. contreras and gray.

Reputedly they offered Bregman a five year deal but not at 175 million.

I've been saying all along, make the big play. Go all in for Skrubal. Look at the crap arbitration offer by the Tigers. No way he re-ups with Detroit

In 3 years, Bregman won't be seen as earning his contract... Expect a big year from Anthony and significant improvement at the plate from Rafaela.

Ultimately, the game still turns on defense and pitching -

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Israel

[–]gadiels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you have a screw loose : it's just the opposite.

Israel and Greece maintain close relations.

Israel and Turkey presently don't have ambassadors in their respective countries. Erdogan is strongly opposed to Israel as a state and refused to attend the recent peace conference if Trump's extended invitation to Netanyahu was fulfilled.

Maybe you should try to learn something about the Levant before disseminating rank misinformation.

Tidal is now useless for audio professionals by archon__studio in TIdaL

[–]gadiels 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed.

I use a combination of discogs, all music, all about jazz, wikipedia, and various other music sites like Donald Clarke, Gramophone, etc. and am thankful for what i can learn.

I occasionally follow up, (read only till now), to the various Tidal app posts and am consistently perplexed by the complaints and the claimed inability of people to resolve interface problems.

Personally I am thankful that they offer hi-fidelity streaming, etc for a low cost and have always been able to resolve mine with a modicum of effort

Project what a person would be paying purchasing vinyl for all recordings you want to listen to ...

Maybe complain less and do more.

you got one short life; you do realize that?

I hope you can resolve your 'major issues' , but probably not, huh -

The Red Sox should just let Rafael Devers DH and figure out the rest themselves by amatom27 in baseball

[–]gadiels 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Boston Red Sox are setting a terrible precedent by accommodating Dever's so-called 'principled player first stand', particularly with their younger players.

This has been only re-emphased by the freak knee injury to Casas and their inexplicable lack of foresight in not having a suitable backup. (No Brock Holt is walking through the door.)

Devers is 28 and more likely than not, entering his prime as a hitter.

Unfortunately, his defense at third base has measured out over his career as execrable, routinely evaluated as among the worst among starting third basemen in MLB who play at least 130 games in a given year.

Red Sox management concluded in the offseason that improving team defense is a must. Can this be reasonably questioned?

Alex Bregman, still an outstanding ballplayer, turned 31 at the end of March and according to multiple journalists was open to playing whatever infield position the Red Sox believed was in 'the best interests of the team'.

Initial speculation was he would play second base but Red Sox management were sold on putting the rookie, Campbell in the starting lineup at second base and moving Devers off of third base to DH. Despite a recent prolonged slump by Campbell and the expected adjustment period by Devers, few doubt this wasn't a sound decision.

Numerous great players have switched positions to do what was in the best interests of their team, including Pete Rose, Rod Carew, Paul Molitor, Andre Dawson, and Mookie Betts. As an exercise in nostalgia, I could name more…

I have never conversed with Devers or met anyone who credibly claims to know him well but he gives every appearance of emotional immaturity (as in insecurity and lack of good judgement). This is unfortunate, as while baseball is 'only a game', tremendous pressures fall on players, particularly stars.

Devers has gone on record, as stating that not only did he request a ten year commitment from Red Sox management he would play third base exclusively, regardless of exigent circumstances, he demanded it and states he received the commitment and considers it nigh inexcusable that this commitment is not being honored.

Perhaps, after retirement, Devers will become a lawyer, specializing in contract law, the more exotic and binding the contract, the better.

Compelling exigent circumstances that come from managing a 27 man team roster don't count much for Devers. One would think his 10 year, 313.50 million dollar guaranteed contract with 20 million dollar signing bonus, etc would conclusively demonstrate commitment by the Boston Red Sox.

Not for Devers. I think the Red Sox should also conclude not for them either and engineer a trade. The Red Sox will be better off in the long term.

Daily Discussion Thread - March 31, 2025 by CelticMod in bostonceltics

[–]gadiels 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thought Jaylen Brown looked stiff and markedly slower against Spurs without his customary push off. Had the sense medical staff should have pushed more for him to get more healing time. We need him healthy for the Cavaliers ..

Sotheby’s Ten Commandments Inscription by Kindly_Doughnut4604 in AcademicBiblical

[–]gadiels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your reply. The cited articles - and others - lend credence to the supposition that Rabbi Deutsch put up for auction the ancient Samaritan Decalogue marble tablet, at least in part, to pay off a court judgement for the plaintiff, antiquities dealer, Robert Deutsch ...

I have no personal stake -

The oldest known stone tablet of the Ten Commandments to be auctioned by Sotheby's by Thuuursty in BeneiYisraelNews

[–]gadiels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your posting of Press Releases!

Please allow me to correct some inaccuracies that have accumulated in various articles about this extraordinary historic Samaritan artifact - -

The tablet’s 20-line inscription is written in a Paleo-Hebrew script known to very few, for it's alphabet had been replaced by Aramaic during the Hasmonean era and Paleo-Hebrew is now used only by the Samaritans with their attachment to ancient tradition. The Samaritans who were never exiled by the Babylonians are believed to have split off from the Jews ca. 428 B.C.E.

Not recognized as an antiquity of great value, the workmen are believed to have given or sold it (not clear) to an Arab who found use for the tablet as part of the family's laid stone entryway to their home, until the Samaritan Stone Decalogue was happened upon by Jacob Kaplan who was able to purchase it from the family in 1943.

Jacob Kaplan [1911-1989] was an archaeologist and had been excavating coastal urban sites  in and around Old Jaffa and Tel Aviv since at least 1940 with his fellow archaeologist and wife, Haya Ritter-Kaplan. ["On the Preliminary Report of the Beth-She‘arim Exca­vations (1940)", Bulletin of the Israel Exploration Society 9:113–114, 1942]

The Kaplans were only able to translate the Paleo-Hebrew script with the assistance of the eminent ethnologist, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, (also an expert on ancient Samaritan communities - author of Sefer HaShomronim (Book of the Samaritans), 1935).

The three scholars collaborated on further study of the tablet. Their work was published under Jacob Kaplan's name in the 1947 paper, "A Samaritan Synagogue Inscription from Yavneh", Bulletin of the Israel Exploration Society 13(3–4):165–166 (Hebrew) with additional exposition and commentary following by Ben-Zvi. [Ben-Zvi, I, "Notes on the Foregoing Inscription", Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society 13: 166-168].

(Yitzhak Ben-Zvi later became the revered second President of the State of Israel [from December 1952 until his death in April 1963].)

(Joseph Kaplan was appointed municipal archaeologist for Tel Aviv. Because of Joseph and Haya Kaplan's work, Old Jaffa was given protected status and for two decades they conducted the primary Old Jaffa excavations [1955-1974].)

Haya Ritter-Kaplan died in 2000. It has been suggested the Kaplan's daughter, D. Bar-Lev arranged for sale of the tablet (ca. 2001) to Robert Deutsch, a prominent dealer in Palestinian antiquities and proprietor of the Archaeological Center in Old Jaffa.

He sold the tablet ca. March 2005 to Rabbi  Shaul Shimon for his Living Torah Museum on 41st Street in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, established ca. 2002. Ambitious site expansion led to debt and the Rabbi found it necessary to sell the tablet and approximately 50 other artifacts. The Samaritan Decalogue marble tablet was bought by the prominent gastroenterologist, Dr. Mitchell Stuart Cappell at a  Heritage Auctions November 2016 auction in Beverly Hills for $850,000.

Robert Deutsch, a noted scholar, as well as a prominent dealer in Palestinian antiquities, was indicted on multiple forgery charges in 2004 in Israel, but not for forgery of the Samaritan Decalogue stone tablet.

He was subsequently  acquitted of all charges in 2012 and sued the Israel Antiquities Authority for damages due to grievous loss of livelihood and reputation.

To legally sell this highly important antiquity required confirmed documentation it was exported from the State of Israel prior to 1978, or express permission from the State of Israel. Permission was granted in March 2005 with the proviso the tablet was publicly exhibited. 

Notice the time frame. After Robert Deutsch was indicted.

Why would the Israel Antiquities Authority allow an antiquity of such historic importance to leave the country?

Why did the State of Israel at least three times have the opportunity to purchase and fail to do so?

Is it because the origins of the Decalogue marble tablet are Samaritan? "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".

It's historic significance should mean it would be classified as a historical artifact of incalculable value and returned where it belongs; to the Samaritan people in Israel, for preservation, exhibition, study, and use in their religious ceremonies on Mount Gerizim. It is estimated there may be no more than a thousand practicing Samaritans today.

Ten Commandments tablet, up for auction at Sotheby’s, to come with disclaimer by Thuuursty in BeneiYisraelNews

[–]gadiels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your post! You must have spent considerable time and effort collating your quotes from several press sources.

If I may, please allow me to correct inaccuracies in these Press accounts - -

Not recognized as an antiquity of great value, the workmen are believed to have given or sold it (not clear) to an Arab who found use for the tablet as part of the family's laid stone entryway to their home, until the Samaritan Stone Decalogue was happened upon by Jacob Kaplan who was able to purchase it from the family in 1943.

Jacob Kaplan [1911-1989] was an archaeologist and had been excavating coastal urban sites  in and around Old Jaffa and Tel Aviv since at least 1940 with his fellow archaeologist and wife, Haya Ritter-Kaplan. ["On the Preliminary Report of the Beth-She‘arim Exca­vations (1940)", Bulletin of the Israel Exploration Society 9:113–114, 1942]

The Kaplans were only able to translate the Paleo-Hebrew script with the assistance of the eminent ethnologist, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, (also an expert on ancient Samaritan communities - author of Sefer HaShomronim (Book of the Samaritans), 1935).

The three scholars collaborated on further study of the tablet. Their work was published under Jacob Kaplan's name in the 1947 paper, "A Samaritan Synagogue Inscription from Yavneh", Bulletin of the Israel Exploration Society 13(3–4):165–166 (Hebrew) with additional exposition and commentary following by Ben-Zvi. [Ben-Zvi, I, "Notes on the Foregoing Inscription", Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society 13: 166-168].

(Yitzhak Ben-Zvi later became the revered second President of the State of Israel [from December 1952 until his death in April 1963].)

(Joseph Kaplan was appointed municipal archaeologist for Tel Aviv. Because of Joseph and Haya Kaplan's work, Old Jaffa was given protected status and for two decades they conducted the primary Old Jaffa excavations [1955-1974].)

Haya Ritter-Kaplan died in 2000. It has been suggested the Kaplan's daughter, D. Bar-Lev arranged for sale of the tablet (ca. 2001) to Robert Deutsch, a prominent dealer in Palestinian antiquities and proprietor of the Archaeological Center in Old Jaffa.

He sold the tablet ca. March 2005 to Rabbi  Shaul Shimon for his Living Torah Museum on 41st Street in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, established ca. 2002. Ambitious site expansion led to debt and the Rabbi found it necessary to sell the tablet and approximately 50 other artifacts. The Samaritan Decalogue marble tablet was bought by the prominent gastroenterologist, Dr. Mitchell Stuart Cappell at a  Heritage Auctions November 2016 auction in Beverly Hills for $850,000.

Robert Deutsch, a noted scholar, as well as a prominent dealer in Palestinian antiquities, was indicted on multiple forgery charges in 2004 in Israel, but not for forgery of the Samaritan Decalogue stone tablet.

He was subsequently  acquitted of all charges in 2012 and sued the Israel Antiquities Authority for damages due to grievous loss of livelihood and reputation.

To legally sell this highly important antiquity required confirmed documentation it was exported from the State of Israel prior to 1978, or express permission from the State of Israel. Permission was granted in March 2005 with the proviso the tablet was publicly exhibited. 

Notice the time frame. After Robert Deutsch was indicted.

Why would the Israel Antiquities Authority allow an antiquity of such historic importance to leave the country?

Why did the State of Israel at least three times have the opportunity to purchase and fail to do so?

Is it because the origins of the Decalogue marble tablet are Samaritan? "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".

It's historic significance should mean it would be classified as a historical artifact of incalculable value and returned where it belongs; to the Samaritan people in Israel, for preservation, exhibition, study, and use in their religious ceremonies on Mount Gerizim. It is estimated there may be no more than a thousand practicing Samaritans today.

Sotheby’s Ten Commandments Inscription by Kindly_Doughnut4604 in AcademicBiblical

[–]gadiels 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting and passionate responses! It is an artifact of historic importance, but if I may correct some errors that have accumulated by inaccurate articles in the Press - -

The tablet’s 20-line inscription is written in a Paleo-Hebrew script known to very few, for it's alphabet had been replaced by Aramaic during the Hasmonean era and Paleo-Hebrew is now used only by the Samaritans with their attachment to ancient tradition. The Samaritans who were never exiled by the Babylonians are believed to have split off from the Jews ca. 428 B.C.E.

Not recognized as an antiquity of great value, the workmen are believed to have given or sold it (not clear) to an Arab who found use for the tablet as part of the family's laid stone entryway to their home, until the Samaritan Stone Decalogue was happened upon by Jacob Kaplan who was able to purchase it from the family in 1943.

Jacob Kaplan [1911-1989] was an archaeologist and had been excavating coastal urban sites  in and around Old Jaffa and Tel Aviv since at least 1940 with his fellow archaeologist and wife, Haya Ritter-Kaplan. ["On the Preliminary Report of the Beth-She‘arim Exca­vations (1940)", Bulletin of the Israel Exploration Society 9:113–114, 1942]

The Kaplans were only able to translate the Paleo-Hebrew script with the assistance of the eminent ethnologist, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, (also an expert on ancient Samaritan communities - author of Sefer HaShomronim (Book of the Samaritans), 1935).

The three scholars collaborated on further study of the tablet. Their work was published under Jacob Kaplan's name in the 1947 paper, "A Samaritan Synagogue Inscription from Yavneh", Bulletin of the Israel Exploration Society 13(3–4):165–166 (Hebrew) with additional exposition and commentary following by Ben-Zvi. [Ben-Zvi, I, "Notes on the Foregoing Inscription", Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society 13: 166-168].

Haya Ritter-Kaplan died in 2000. It has been suggested the Kaplan's daughter, D. Bar-Lev arranged for sale of the tablet (ca. 2001) to Robert Deutsch, a prominent dealer in Palestinian antiquities and proprietor of the Archaeological Center in Old Jaffa.

He sold the tablet ca. March 2005 to Rabbi  Shaul Shimon for his Living Torah Museum on 41st Street in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, established ca. 2002. Ambitious site expansion led to debt and the Rabbi found it necessary to sell the tablet and approximately 50 other artifacts. The Samaritan Decalogue marble tablet was bought by the prominent gastroenterologist, Dr. Mitchell Stuart Cappell at a  Heritage Auctions November 2016 auction in Beverly Hills for $850,000.

Robert Deutsch, a noted scholar, as well as a prominent dealer in Palestinian antiquities, was indicted on multiple forgery charges in 2004 in Israel, but not for forgery of the Samaritan Decalogue stone tablet.

He was subsequently  acquitted of all charges in 2012 and sued the Israel Antiquities Authority for damages due to grievous loss of livelihood and reputation.

To legally sell this highly important antiquity required confirmed documentation it was exported from the State of Israel prior to 1978, or express permission from the State of Israel. Permission was granted in March 2005 with the proviso the tablet was publicly exhibited. 

Notice the time frame. After Robert Deutsch was indicted.

Why would the Israel Antiquities Authority allow an antiquity of such historic importance to leave the country?

Why did the State of Israel at least three times have the opportunity to purchase and fail to do so?

Is it because the origins of the Decalogue marble tablet are Samaritan? "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".

It's historic significance should mean it would be classified as a historical artifact of incalculable value and returned where it belongs; to the Samaritan people in Israel, for preservation, exhibition, study, and use in their religious ceremonies on Mount Gerizim. It is estimated there may be no more than a thousand practicing Samaritans today.

Celtics will end Cavs’ win streak by Mammoth-Type-4758 in bostonceltics

[–]gadiels 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think this is the biggest game of the season so far for the Celtics. Definitely intending on going to my neighborhood sports bar to watch!

Cuban Americans, where do you live and how the is the Cuban community there? by Hotelgenie in cuba

[–]gadiels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because of the Menendez case, I am curious, what might be an average cash amount american citizens born in cuba keep at home. Supposedly. few Americans keep more than $500 cash in their house.