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Why do frum Jews only watch movies on airplanes? Torah lo bashamayim he

Rav Elazar Abuchatzeira Stabbed To Death [UPDATED 8:03PM EST] (Thursday, July 28th, 2011) 5:58PM EST: [UPDATES IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] YWN has confirmed that Rav Elazar Abuchatzeira of Be’er Sheva was just Niftar after being stabbed multiple times. United Hatzalah was first on the scene and tell YWN that they found him to be in traumatic arrest, he was pronounced dead a few minutes later. According to initial reports, someone went into his room during the time when he gave people Brachos, and the man stabbed him multiple times. According to our sources, the man has been arrrested. Some sources say that the attacker was well-known in the ‘inner-circle’ of the home. That has not been confirmed by YWN. Rav Elazar was the grandson of the Baba Sali ZATZAL, and was known as the “Baba Elazar”. He was the son of Baba Meir Abuchatzeira. He was known for his Shmiras Einayim, and always had his face covered with the “Glima”. He also was ...

So I have this weird thing about me. Rather one of the weird things about me is that I remember lines from movies. Movies I watched a million years ago.  So yesterday as I was walking out of the gym a line from 101 Dalmatians (the one with actual people) popped into my head. Roger is a video game maker. He is testing out his game on the "it" kid, the master of all video games. The kid is not impressed, so in trying to see what he could do to make it better.. Roger: What if the villain was more evil, someone you could really hate? Kid: Its not hatred that's important. Its the desire to annihilate. This last line was the one that inexplicably popped into my head last night. Now imagine it in an English accent. Its not hatred that's important,  its the desire to annihilate.  Now I am obviously not condoning violent behavior. But I was just thinking if this is true and how it applies. Is it enough to hate the Yetzer Hara? Is it enough to loathe a laissez-faire at...

I have too much time to think. Sitting on the subway on the way to school, sitting in traffic, waiting to fall asleep, pretending to do homework..all opportunities to think and sometimes its too much.  We live in an age where distraction is all too easy and all too common. There is a land called Procrastination and I am its queen. I cannot do only one thing at a time. During class,  I have my ipod with me, and I'm constantly checking if someone, anyone is online to talk to. When I do homework I have my music playing, maybe a shiur, chatting with someone else at the same time..I'm always looking to do one more thing. Distraction comes all too easily.  They tell us that our generation does not think anymore. We just do. Nike makes a fortune off their motto " just do it." Sprite tells us to " quench our thirst." There is no room for making a calculated decisions. Do it an do it now! The Yetzer Hara's greatest weapon is too keep us too busy. Busy with m...

I say I believe.....................................  I don't I say I trust ........................................ I don't I say I'm fine.......................................I'm not I say it will be OK.................................It won't Emuna and Bitachon are the cornerstones of our faith. We believe that Hashem is our Father and everything He does is for the best. Or do we? I recently had a revelation about myself. I always thought that I was a go with the flow kinda person. Very chilled, its not that big a deal, life is river and all that. But its not 100% true. This is what I discovered. If I have no expectations about what is supposed to happen, then yea, I'm chilled, really chilled. Doesn't matter what we are doing, I'm good. But once I have decided and planned on doing something and done all the preparations, and then I'm told, nope try again..that really annoys me and that really annoys me. This revelation is deeply disturbi...

just a repost, due to the fact that i couldn't breathe yesterday (bring on the tissues). It reminded me of a post i did two summers ago.    My oh my how the time passes, summer semester is almost over and I'm still alive to tell the tale..what to talk about what to talk about? this whole week I've been trying to take my own words to heart looking at seriously everything trying to find something that would be a good blog topic and there were some that were really good..but can i remember them now? what do u think would i be rambling like this if i did? K i think i may have something..as usual we'll see how it goes. So basically as u all know everything i do these days pertains to chemistry. So in my chemistry class my teacher often says "chemistry is a beautiful thing" and when we don't understand or are confused he says "let me explain this to you so you'll see that chemistry is a beautiful thing.." hes very into it, its his m...