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Stranger'z View: Defending the Indefensible, or Simply Whitewashing

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Sunday, July 13, 2014. Defending the Indefensible, or Simply Whitewashing. In my teenage years, I used to have friends who lived in the tenement house adjacent to mine. My family had just moved to the big city and the first pals I met there, were those boys. They appeared to be from a nice family, educated and rather well-to-do, as far as Communism allowed. They were good looking and had excellent manners. But I was soon to learn that all those qualities were only surface-deep. A little bit of awareness,...

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Stranger'z View: Torah Im Derech Eretz.

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Monday, May 19, 2014. Torah Im Derech Eretz. Torah Im Derech Eretz is a common Jewish Weltanschauung that was. Initiated, or rather coined, by Rabbi Shamshon Raphael Hirsch. Rav Hirsch is quite transparent about the way he intended to bring this philosophy to realization, although since the commencement of this idea there has been controversy and even confusion regarding his objectives. 8217;s Yeshiva they also learn about Goethe, Schiller and perhaps even Heine. Rav Hirsch believed that an awareness...

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Stranger'z View: Miracle in New York

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Thursday, September 4, 2014. Miracle in New York. At first my car zoomed into a tunnel of greenery made out of cedars and pines and leafy trees. But the green subway quickly got darker, as only Evergreen trees can survive the harsh winter conditions of a higher elevation. As in all of the rest of nature, here too I saw a miracle: a miracle of shapes, lights, smells and sounds. It was an act of creation at work – by the Creator Himself. I expressed to my son my suspicion that the salesman was perhaps suff...

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Stranger'z View: March 2014

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Saturday, March 22, 2014. After Purim reflections from Monsey and Brooklyn. The week before Purim, somewhere in the west, I tried to convince a fellow Jew to visit one of the Hasidic neighborhoods in. On his trip to NY, which coincided with the day of Purim. I told him, "No matter how much I may try to explain the festivity on the streets of. On Purim, there are just no adequate words to describe it.". The morning after my arrival in. Some of the Yiden who finished a previous minyan sat around the table ...

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Stranger'z View: August 2014

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Some people asked me repeatedly about my stand on so called. Well… it should be known for whoever read some of me essays or posts containing passages from the writings of Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch which there is few on my blog. If anyone has doubt I think following reflects my views on this topic in the best possible way: http:/ anotherconvert.blogspot.com/2011/03/es-zaicher-amulek.html. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget.

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Stranger'z View: 4th of July and Kingdom of Gerim

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Sunday, June 1, 2014. 4th of July and Kingdom of Gerim. Second installment of my essay about influences on the writers of American Declaration of independence and creators of political system which I believe was closest attempt to provide humanity with freedom to find the way back to lost Freedom. L Kuvod Yom Tov Hashvios Zman matan Toirusaynee – For glory of holyday of Shvios day of gift of Torah – exceptional day for gerim. What about other Jewish governments and kingdoms in history? The Jewish governm...

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Stranger'z View: Es Zaicher Amulek

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Monday, March 21, 2011. In memory of five precious souls—five of many victims of Amulek. A) Nature as being a creation of a completely free, Almighty unique G-d, Who still retains completely free mastery over it, and is in no wise bound by it, or the laws He has made to govern it;. B) G-d, as the One, Personal, Free, Almighty Creator with completely unlimited powers of governing the world and. Against the Force which had laid even a Pharaoh low. He alone lo ire Elokim. With which old Nimrod started the h...

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Stranger'z View: 4th of July - The Polish Link

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Monday, June 30, 2014. 4th of July - The Polish Link. When the dogma of the trinity was developing in the soon-to-become Christian Roman Empire, there were two outspoken leaders of two conflicted streams of Christianity. One of them was Athanasius, who was perhaps the main propagator of the dogma of partnership in heavenly matters by the human called Jesus. The other, Arius, strongly opposed such ideas. Both of them were from Alexandria in Egypt. Represented by Szymon Budny, or Marcin from Olawa, my town...

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Stranger'z View: Minority Report

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Sunday, May 4, 2014. This report is about a minority of people who serve G-d. However, I will talk about a minority within the minority. Let’s start from Abraham. He was one single person who “discovered” the Creator, and the natural conclusion of this discovery was a passionate desire to serve Him. The other desire, which I would say was an equally natural longing, was to share his discovery and the joy he derived from it, with others. But a family is diverse. It can have members of very different m...