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

  Notice that he only talks about the view. He doesn't show you the tiny apartments. He doesn't talk about prices. They show cranes to give you the impression that geulah has come and that everyone is buying as if there are cranes all over Israel when just a few spots have them. His voice conveys excitement. He uses phrases like "dreams come true." Because he wears a yarmulka and has a long beard you trust him. But you are trusting a huckster. The whole thing is wild exaggeration. Even the view isn't great. Mostly it's a view of apartments, but they keep the camera moving so you can't determine that.  How much are these apartments in Lev Katamon, 1.5 KM from the East Jerusalem Arab area? More than 1.2 million dollars. Sponsored results הבית שלך בלב קטמון ירושלים | יצירת אמנות בלב ירושלים lev-katamon.csg.co.il https://lev-katamon.csg.co.il דירות 4-5 חדרים ופנטהאוזים בפרויקט לב קטמון החל מ-3,850,000 ₪ למידע ותיאום פגישה לחצו! לב קטמון מציעה חווית מגורים ייחו...

An avreich is suffering from intestinal disorders that were brought on by the anxiety of living in Israel. He tells his rosh kollel that he cannot come in because they can flare up at any time. The Israeli rosh kollel says sarcastically, "Can I bring you a bottle? Do you need someone to hold you?" When the young man counters that he really is too sick to come in, the rosh kollel says, "Maybe go be sick at another kollel" and finishes off with an explicit ultimatum that if the man doesn't come in he will be kicked out of the kollel. On Rosh Hashanah, a guy asks a gabbai at the shul next door if he can borrow a shtender. The gabbai says yes, but when the man carries the shtender down the stairs, a man slaps him in the head and shouts, "gonif!" When he explains that the gabbi gave permission, the man shouts, "Even if you bring it back you are a ganif!" This is Israeli culture. The aliyah evangelists will pretend that only the cholonim are like t...

A bochur in my neighbor's yeshiva was just arrested for draft evasion. This situation is out of control. It's like being in Soviet Russia. You do not want to move your family here. Is this happening in Maryland or Antwerp or Sydney?

 In shul, a man berates a 14 year old boy with whom he is "learning." Tells him that he's stupid, that even a cheder boy can understand the Maharsha, that he's worthless. Boy is found later in the park sobbing. This happens in Israel fairly often. I have a friend who has witnessed it 3x in the last 3 months. It's a harsh society, even in the yeshivishe velt. Chilonim run the country and their mentality spills over into everything.  

In case you didn't read through the last post, here's Yosef Mizrachi's warning about Israel: Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi: They don't want religious Jews in Israel. The wicked people took over. They control the Jewish agency. Every Orthodox they see immediately they begin to torture him. If they see a reform gay, in 3 weeks he's approved. Him and his husband. Immediately. But if they see a Orthodox family. The nightmare begin. I'm talking from experience. I have more than a 100 families who have been tortured between 1 to 6 years already. Include my neighbor. He told me "Baruch Hashem I sold the house," next door neighbor to me and "We moving to Eretz Yisroel." That was two months ago, I said to him, "Don't be naive." He said, "No, we give them all the papers, we confirmed they have everything." He's a tzadick. He doesn't have any evil in him. He cannot imagine that people especially Jews, especially Israeli can be so ...

Today in the news, I'm on line at the makolet, the tiny little grocery store, standing behind a teenage boy who was not wearing either a yarmulka or tzitzis. This is a religious neighborhood. What's a non-religious Jewish kid doing here? I wonder, is he an oleh? Maybe he's Israeli, not that that makes it any better. Maybe he is from a non-frum family. Then I see that he's with two young boys, both of whom are wearing yarmulkas. An off the derech Israeli perhaps? Then I hear it, the perfect English, and the polite comments to the cashier.  So there we have it. Another off the derech oleh teen. I leave a bit after they do and see that they walk into the building next to mine. My building has four oleh families. Three of them have at least one off the derech teenager. The Israelis in my building do not have off the derech teens. Aliyah is too much, too hard. The kids can't take it.  Also in the news, I heard today of yet another oleh divorce. The wife threw the man...

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. Several of h is 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 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 on this topic. 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 O...

  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...