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Elli Fischer
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Elli Fischer
@Adderabbi
Rabbi. Translator & Editor. Writer. Historian. Lecturer. Cofounder #HaMapah, @The_Lehrhaus. Puts the DH in ADHD. Nothing Jewish is foreign to me.
- Never experienced this before. On and El Al flight in mid-air, while the siren sounded in Israel, the crew asked us all to stand in silence.
00:00 - MAGAdeath
- I saw this sign and was extremely offended. Then I saw the English.
- Replying to @LahavHarkovIn fairness, "German Death Camps in Poland" is probably more accurate. I mean, it was Auschwitz, not Oswiecim.
- The Magid of Melbourne sent this to me. I'm surprised it hasn't made the rounds yet. It's perfect.
00:00 - Inviting a Messianic Jew to express the grief of the Jewish community is like inviting Sacha Baron Cohen to express the grief of Kazakhstan.
- Modern halakhists who permit abortion in cases where mother's life isn't threatened: R. Yosef Haim (Rav Pealim EH 1:4) R. Eliezer Waldenberg (Tzitz Eliezer 6:48 et al) R. Shneur Zalman Fradkin (Torat Hesed EH 42) R. Gedalia Felder (Sheilat Yeshurun 1:39) 1/Virtually every major Jewish halakhist of the modern era has barred abortion except when the life of the mother is threatened. Don't try quoting the Talmud at me. You just don't know enough. x.com/quinncy/status…
- Replying to @benshapiroIf by "Judeo-Christian heritage" you mean the heritage of men like Nicholas Donin, a Jew-turned-Christian who engineered the burning of the Talmud in the 1240s right across the Seine from Notre Dame, then sure, it's a monument to that.
- Gonna kvell a bit here. My wife and daughter made a siyum upon completing Shas Mishnayot - all 6 orders and 63 tractates - on the night my daughter became a bat mitzvah!
- Wait, a country that banned ritual slaughter to prepare kosher and halal meat, ostensibly on animal cruelty grounds, has *15 million minks in fur farms*!? Maybe the 2015 slaughter ban wasn't really about animal rights.
- Wait till they find out there's a Palestinian Talmud. And it predates Islam.are the dirty z!onists going to call Anne Frank antisemitic aswell??
Readers added contextAnne Frank lived during the time of the British Mandate for Palestine, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. It was a geographic area named and controlled by the UK on a temporary basis. Therefore, it was customary to refer to the region as Palestine from 1920 to 1947. time.com/3445003/mandat…
