Not Kedai for most people--Moving to the secular state of israel (SSOI)

I have talked here many times about the gadol sheker, the false gadol, Hershel Schachter, who like Nathan of Gaza, is tricking people into making aliyah when it's the worst move for most of them. He himself doesn't do it. He lives in his bubble at Yeshiva University in New York. His children live in Passaic, Lawrence, Toronto. He misleads the Modern Orthodox world in this matter, but not his kids evidently. I'm told that he he receives hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in income between his salary, speaking engagements, and fundraising percentages. He says the golus is over. He says that HaShem no longer protects Jews in golus. He says that there's no concept of klal Yisroel in golus. All of these absurd statements are easily proved false. He's a nut. There are plenty of other so-called rabbis engaging in the same destructive practice. In the baal teshuvah world, there's Yitzchak Berkowitz of Aish HaTorah and Yitzchak Breitowitz of Ohr Somayach. Those are ...

  You think these lunatics will tell you about housing costs in Israel? Here's the latest ad: That's 716,445 United States Dollars for an old 2 bedroom apartment. The place is so unappealing that this ad consists mostly of photos of the nearby children's slide and a few flowers shown in a closeup. I know the apartments in this neighborhood. They are dumps.  Instead of dealing with facts, NBN, may they soon go broke and do teshuvah, creates this completely fallacious picture of masses racing to Israel. They are like salesmen who sold swampland as land ready for housing in Florida in the 1920s. Get it on the deal now before it's too late, before prices go up. It's another version of this Zionist myth that geulah has come. Florida swamp What future is there for your children if they are homeless? And I'm not even getting into all the other problems like the poor healthcare, the draft, the casualties of Israel's voluntary wars, the fights, the screaming, the di...

  This is an ad. This man is lying to you. He's bouncing around with excitement, tossing around terms like "community rabbi" and "shopping area" and "famous shtiblach". The camera follows him around. There's such drama to it. "You're everywhere you need to be within minutes," he says. What the heck does mean? You only need that three minute area in your whole life? It's everywhere? All at once? You'll have a job there? You'll vacation there? Your medical care is there? There's no hospital there. Wedding halls are there? Furniture stores? Schools? Everything? It's such a nonsensical comment. And what's the cost sir? A million dollars for a tiny apartment? Maybe you should mention that. Maybe you should mention the army draft. Notice he doesn't show you the new shopping area with all the shops. I promise you it's a pit, it's a collection of junk like nearly everything in Israel. Notice how he picks th...

"You cannot intelligently look at life without recognizing patterns. That's how we build our understanding of the world by recognizing patterns and categorizing things." Samantha Kelley https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx5bpL76WPIDeLZBfNDdJdABdkTJAo7RRM 350 posts now detailing how outrageously bad is life in Israel. You must connect the dots in life and cannot chock up each bad encounter to be an isolated incident. That is, if you want to live intelligently.

What is the most famous passage from Ramban? I asked AI and here's what AI had to say: --- The most famous passage from the Ramban (Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman) is widely considered to be his commentary on  Leviticus 19:2 , regarding the commandment  "Kedoshim Tihyu" (You shall be holy) .  In this passage, the Ramban explains that it is possible for a person to technically observe all the laws of the Torah and still be a "scoundrel within the permissible realm of the Torah" ( navul b'reshut ha-torah ). Key Takeaways from the Passage: Beyond the Letter of the Law:  Ramban argues that the Torah requires a person to go beyond the strict letter of the law to achieve the spirit of the law. Moral Moderation:  He emphasizes that holiness is achieved by practicing moderation—avoiding gluttony, drunkenness, and excessive speech, even regarding permitted things. Ethical Behavior:  The goal is to act with kindness and integrity in ...

Look at the rooms they sit in as they promote life in Israel and aliyah while living in North America: They sit in offices. I don't have an office. I don't even have a den. I pack what books I can into my tiny all-purpose room that serves as a dining room and living room. Really it's a dining room table and couch with no room to spare.  Here's the house of a rabbi in New Jersey who called all the men into a special meeting to promote aliyah. He still lives in the house, 15 years later: Now ain't that swell. He has a car too. I can't afford a car. They are twice the price here Israel and salaries are 1/4 of that of the USA or less. See this house: This is owned by a guy who pushed aliyah on everyone he met. He said even gadolim had to do teshuvah for not moving to Israel. "Even Moshe Feinstein?" I asked. "Yes," even him.  A few months after that conversation he had this big house built in good old chutzeh l'aretz. He still lives there. Thi...

 Let me try again to give you a sense of what life in Israel is like.  This photo shows two apartment buildings that can be reached by car only via this parking lot. The building closer to us has an overhang that prevents delivery trucks from driving to the second building. For a truck to get to the second building, it must drive around the overhang through the parking spaces. Obviously, you must first beg the neighbors not to park their cars there. That is not a fun task. But that's all history for one of the lovely residents built a permanent shed in their parking spot. You see that white shed to the left of the overhang? That blocks moving trucks. So movers and delivery people have to park right where I was standing when I took this picture and carry everything to the second building. So what do we have here? We have stupid design and selfish people as well as tiny apartments that cost $800,000. They are so tiny that there's little room for guests or simchas so people basic...