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Re: Steve's Journal 14 May 2010 16:41 #65403

briut Current streak: 3 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 1425 Karma: 0	Steve, a beautiful and sensitive post. I want to reflect on it, rather than commenting. Is that okay?
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Re: Steve's Journal 14 May 2010 17:58 #65417

Dov OFFLINE Administrator Posts: 1960 Karma: 383	Steve, really beautiful. Thanks. I would like to comment on it rather than reflecting. ;D To the newbie "NeverAgain": Your lending a hand to a friend sign was shockingly poorly timed right after Steve's tremendous yesod (which I haven't even begun to reflect on!), which made it all the funnier. Now I'll go reflect a bit. Steve really hit the nail on the head...ouch! Bye!
	"Off the 18-wheeler and fine on this tricycle!", "I do not particularly care exactly which "lav" suicide is. I'm not interested in it for other reasons...and you are probably the same." Last Edit: by .

Re: Steve's Journal 14 May 2010 19:01 #65426

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Hmmm..... after rerflecting a little on Never Again's poster post, I have only one comment. That type of teamwork is ...

Ready?...

IN POUR TASTE!!

Arrrgggggggghhhhhhhh!!! Yuk Yuk!!

Really, i loved Rabbi Meir Kahana, zeicher tzaddik l'bracha. Met him personally a few times, even had a shabbos seudah at his home in Mattesdorf. Whether anyone agrees with his opinion and solutions, I can tell you he was AN OHAIV YISROEL PAR EXELLANCE. The man's entire kavanah was to save Jewish lives. His heart litterally bled every time a bus blew up and Jewish families were maimed. He did NOT care for self-aggandisement, he lived a simple life without gashmiyus. His home proved that. before he was assassinated, I wanted to ask him to use his tremendous kochos and charisma to talk yidden into doing teshuvah, not just to move to eretz yisroel. Alas, one always thinks there will be another opportunity, and Hashem has other plans...

So, my anonymous friend Never Again, your choice of name comes with cost to me. Never will there be a courageous man who tells the world like it is, like it should be, to do the real hishtadlus needed to save jewish lives, and to make our homeland UNQUESTIONABLY OURS in the minds of the nations.

GS, GC, and GYT!!

No one is so small that he can not give help, and no one is so big that he doesn't need it.

Kol HaOlam Kulo, Gesher Tzar Meod, V'HaIkkar: Lo L'Pacheid Klal.

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Re: Steve's Journal 16 May 2010 14:11 #65543

Steve Current streak: 5034 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder I Posts: 903 Karma: 2	Hey guys, Just cuz i was once in a jail cell with Rabbi Kahana in lower manhattan doesn't mean I have the PLAGUE!! Jeez Loiuse, where'd everybody go? "Tip Toe, Through the Tulips....."
	No one is so small that he can not give help, and no one is so big that he doesn't need it. Kol HaOlam Kulo, Gesher Tzar Meod, V'HaIkkar: Lo L'Pacheid Klal. Last Edit: by .

Re: Steve's Journal 16 May 2010 16:05 #65561

silentbattle Current streak: 1628 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 3734 Karma: 15	Just read your yesod - powerfull, and very true, I think. Keep on rocking!
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Re: Steve's Journal 16 May 2010 16:30 #65566

bardichev

daracheha darchay noam vichol nisovsayha shalom

emphsesis on the vechol

yes one can be a ohaiv yisroel

but it takes

more than ahavas yisroel

to control ones mouth and fist

to remeber that we are sworn with 3 promises

to Hashem

one of them is not to be aggressive against the nations of the world

u wanna fight back against street bullies in brooklyn

yes.you may and you need to

but to terrorize terrorists

not a good idea

its sad

sad

sad

hes dead and so is his family

so what did he gain from being so right

we need not be blinded by our emotion

NO MATTER HOW WELL INTENDED THEY ARE"

STEVE this is the basis of our mesorah

anyone that went down the path of being an emotional jew

yes take it from a chasid like me

an emotional jew only

emphasis on only

is going to self destruct

all people and and all groups that discarded mesorah and halacha

are gone

its sad sad sad

yes many people FELT something needed to be done

but we are a people of truth Torah and mesorah

not emotion gut feelings

my two cents

bardiche a lover of all jews

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Re: Steve's Journal 16 May 2010 16:39 #65567

Steve Current streak: 5034 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder I Posts: 903 Karma: 2	Thanx, Bards. now back to the reason we're all here. What was that again...?
	No one is so small that he can not give help, and no one is so big that he doesn't need it. Kol HaOlam Kulo, Gesher Tzar Meod, V'HaIkkar: Lo L'Pacheid Klal. Last Edit: by .

Re: Steve's Journal 16 May 2010 17:10 #65571

Dov OFFLINE Administrator Posts: 1960 Karma: 383	Wasn't it always about keeping our promises, staying alive and ahavas yisroel?
	"Off the 18-wheeler and fine on this tricycle!", "I do not particularly care exactly which "lav" suicide is. I'm not interested in it for other reasons...and you are probably the same." Last Edit: by .

Re: Steve's Journal 16 May 2010 17:16 #65573

bardichev	derech erets kadmah latorah!
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Re: Steve's Journal 16 May 2010 17:23 #65575

Steve Current streak: 5034 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder I Posts: 903 Karma: 2	Oh. I thought it was about keeping our promises to stay away from fat and cholesterol.
	No one is so small that he can not give help, and no one is so big that he doesn't need it. Kol HaOlam Kulo, Gesher Tzar Meod, V'HaIkkar: Lo L'Pacheid Klal. Last Edit: by .

Re: Steve's Journal 17 May 2010 15:23 #65857

zalmandovid Current streak: 8 days OFFLINE Fresh Boarder Karma: 0	Hello Steve, Hope you are well. Wishing you a good day. If the source of this disease is selfishness than surely the real cure is selflessness, no?
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Re: Steve's Journal 17 May 2010 16:23 #65876

Dov OFFLINE Administrator Posts: 1960 Karma: 383	Oooh....nice. Thanks.
	"Off the 18-wheeler and fine on this tricycle!", "I do not particularly care exactly which "lav" suicide is. I'm not interested in it for other reasons...and you are probably the same." Last Edit: by .

Re: Steve's Journal 17 May 2010 21:20 #65908

NeverAgain

Steve wrote on 15 Dec 2009 18:46:

It was a snowy Friday night, 52 years ago, when the third Ner of Chanukah was lit. Later, a very happy man walked into the Oneg Shabbos at shul. After two daughters, the doctor (who was under the threat of being tarred and feathered otherwise) gave this man what he had been waiting for, and had just delivered this man’s new infant son. “A big boy! A big boy! 7 pounds, 21 ounces!” was the family’s refrain. It took a while until the college educated uncle realized there are only 16 ounces per pound. (The doctor had said he was born 7:21).

I have had trouble with both time and weight ever since…

... and then I found 5 dollars.

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Re: Steve's Journal 17 May 2010 21:29 #65910

Steve Current streak: 5034 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder I Posts: 903 Karma: 2	huh?
	No one is so small that he can not give help, and no one is so big that he doesn't need it. Kol HaOlam Kulo, Gesher Tzar Meod, V'HaIkkar: Lo L'Pacheid Klal. Last Edit: by .

Re: Steve's Journal 17 May 2010 21:49 #65913

Yechiel Current streak: 98 days OFFLINE User	Hello Steve, Reishis Bikurei Admascha... My first comment on this forum deserves to go to you, my friend. As for the substance uh...... don't got nothing. So a plain hello it is.
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