Ask God.

Haim, with all the questions that have been popping into my head morning after morning for as long as I can remember, I already have a whole book of questions for God. How do you get to Him?

Rabbi Michi, long ago you left Hillel the Elder far behind in your tolerance of the compulsive nuisance (B.G.), and in allowing him to drive the site’s readers crazy.
Is there no way to block him from writing here and put an end to this saga?

With God’s help, 15 Elul 5780

The answer is simple. The Balfour protesters aren’t going to get tested. They test people with symptoms who seek medical treatment, and those who came into contact with them. Someone who has no symptoms, or who has a private doctor who doesn’t report to the authorities, doesn’t get tested.

The only cases where they test entire populations are in educational institutions whose panic encourages and wants such tests, and there they discover that almost everyone is asymptomatic or has only mild symptoms (and in any case a “positive” result does not distinguish between a live virus and a dead one).

Since many yeshivas agreed to conduct tests for all their students, and naturally when you test an entire population you find many “positives” even if they are not sick at all — those interested in skewing the results took advantage of the students who were found and turned the Haredi cities they had left two weeks earlier into “red” cities, so that not only the Arab localities would be considered red.

In short: all the statistics are distorted and politically biased!

Best regards, Shatz

True, true, you’ve hit upon the fact that all statistics are distorted and politically biased, except that you overlooked the one statistic that is fixed and unique, so much so that it should no longer even be called a statistic but rather one-to-one determinism, which propagandists on both sides always use to explain everything smoothly in their own way (and each side thinks the other side is a low-grade propagandist, and I too, the youngest of the young, think that about one of the sides). God forbid that either one of them should do serious work with the data, and about what he doesn’t know just say, “I don’t know”; rather he celebrates with his own strength, kicking one thing down and a thousand thousands up, wherever the spirit would go, there they turn in going, they do not tire and do not grow weary, no breach and no going forth and no outcry, an arrow in your eye, na-na banana, for my thumb how much waving, how much waving for my thumbs. Everyone made mistakes about simple things because everyone is of course corrupt. Go do the work yourselves and dig through the data and know what you’re talking about, and then come to me gently, and whatever doesn’t suit me I’ll dismiss, and whatever suits me I’ll make the cornerstone. And why is it called a cornerstone? Because the head was square, doubled — they made the breastplate a span in length and a span in width, doubled.

A. *** inappropriate expression deleted *** (M.R.)
I already wrote to you that I can arrange you a meeting up there, but it comes with a one-way ticket with no return option. Still interested?

**** deleted due to inappropriate expressions (M.A.) *****

With God’s help, 19 Elul 5780

In the article “Israel a red country? Not necessarily at all” (on the Arutz 7 website), the economist Prof. Nissim Ben-David, president of the Western Galilee Academic College, says that classifying the State of Israel as a “red country” is based on a mistake. We simply do far more testing than other countries, and thus the infection statistics are inflated, something that could harm the country’s economy.

In short: “You tested — you found — you got panicked” 🙂

With a blessing of “calm yourself,” Shatz

Wicked Michi, what is M.A.?

To A. — greetings,

It seems that “M.A.” is “master of the place,” the owner of the site, who has the right to delete whatever doesn’t please him 🙂

Best regards, Stray Nobody

And it seems he should also have deleted Tzachi’s comment, except that he overlooked it because of the late hour.

The above-mentioned Shatz

There was a mistake. I should have signed M.R. (= Wicked Michi). Many thanks.

Indeed, Tzachi’s comment also had an inappropriate expression, and I deleted it.

I have no idea what A. wrote. (And that doesn’t bother me either.)
I wouldn’t bother writing a response to these deletions if it weren’t for something else that does bother me.
A. wrote to me a week ago that he very much enjoys the nickname… — can’t say it, so you can look at the question about the schizophrenic Hitler, etc., and there in the comments.
In other words, I wanted to make him happy, so I wrote him an expression that he enjoys. And nevertheless, out of respect for A., the expression was deleted. Fine…

But the question is: why is A. entitled to such respect more than Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, about whom extremely offensive expressions are written here on the site ???????

Tzachi, you hinted that he should die, and even that you’re willing to help with the matter. Not that there’s any special reason to pay attention to what you write, and all this wallowing in who said what to whom and oh dear what he wrote to me really disgusts me, but if we’re at it, then A.’s response (which I did read) was entirely in place and with the refinement of a British lady holding her pinky up straight (aside from the problem of burdening the weed-puller).

Because I am above Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky.

A., didn’t you once tell me that you had reached peace with yourself? Apparently this is what the common saying looks like in practice: words are one thing and reality is another.

To D.Y.B. — greetings,

A.’s intention is that he reached “shalva” with himself, namely “puffed wheat” ::)

Best regards, Nir Wanna

D.Y.B.,

You weren’t mistaken. Words are one thing and reality is another. With myself I am at peace, but I speak and write properly. See Maimonides, Laws of Character Traits, chapter 2, on anger. But sometimes I reach righteous indignation, and I also bear a grudge and keep resentment more than a snake.

I don’t understand why you turn to Maimonides; from what you say it sounds like you’re not exactly fond of anything connected to Torah and commandments. A two-cent psychologist would say that from the anger itself (I have to say, your rather obsessive one), it doesn’t look like you’ve reached personal nirvana. But I’m not a psychologist. Still, this is something that really interests me: if you hold the Torah and those who keep it in such contempt, why are you so occupied with it?

Honorable and dear “The full breadth of your land”!
If that’s what you understood from my words, then too bad you don’t have the full breadth of intellect.
I hinted to Mr. A. that he’ll get answers to his questions after 120, like all of us. But then it’s a one-way ticket.
By way of humor I wrote that I’m willing to help with the matter. (As if I really have a way to help??)
By the way, my response still remained in place. Only the nickname was deleted.
His response was deleted in full for some reason.
Practically speaking, it’s quite a waste of time to deal with his klutz kashyas. So A. can breathe easy because I intend to ignore him like the R.M.D. And I suggest that to everyone.

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If the irrelevant discussion continues, I will delete all the comments here. Even if each one individually does not cross the censorship threshold, there is weight to the accumulation of filth in one place.

Rabbi Michi, I am not to blame for the accumulation of filth in one place. I ask that you take this into consideration and not delete my question. I have neither sinned nor transgressed, please, in your abundant mercy…

Gurlin, admittedly it’s not your fault, but for some reason it seems that the filth follows you around.

Yes, really a lot of weight to the “filth” — and you leave his comments and wishes and delete what I answer properly. Were you really, or are you still, a member of a religious court, Michi? Apparently it wasn’t for nothing that your rulings were rejected. And if you’re hinting that I should leave the site, well, I’m still here exercising freedom of speech.

A., I recommend Calm to you. A nice site that I think will help you on your journey to nirvana.

In Buddhism there is no place for effort. Be completely ordinary, with nothing special at all. Defecate, urinate, get dressed, eat. When you are tired, go rest. The fools may laugh at me, but the wise man will understand. (Wu She)