Aaron Shaffier 🕎

Tours of the Holy Land of Israel based on the Torah and Jewish history.
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[Aaron Shaffier 🕎 @TourGuideAaron]

It is a movement advocating the Jews stop waiting for God to redeem is and take our fate into our own hands and become "a nation like all the nations". This is opposite of the Torah which says we are not a nation like all the nations.

It's like a man who says to his wife, "wouldn't it be nice to go out on the town tonight" and she replies, "I agree completely! I'll be back in the morning".

[Aaron Shaffier 🕎 @TourGuideAaron]

If you are defining Zionism colloquialy you may be correct (depending on the colloquial definition you are using). But the historical political movement called Zionism has a much more specific definition and it has little to nothing to do with the Torah sources re Eretz Yisrael.

Though, like many secular movements, it had few scruples about summoning those sources (usually half quotes or out of context quotes) to argue their point when it was useful to them.

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@daphnaliel1 The majority of Jews in NYC are completely non affiliated. They are no more Reform or Conservative than they are Orthodox.

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@MikeGeeNY00 @JMMusings Nonsense. The Rebbe never said any such thing.

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@charliebcurran When did you transition to making documentaries?

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@MichalSabra It also ensures that the people who are making money frim NYC investment properties are residents who are contributing to the tax base through income tax on the profit they earn.

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@MichalSabra He is only taxing out of state second property owners. Although I am by no means a fan of Mamdani, I don't understand how this could be bad for NY. It should being down real estate prices somewhat since there will be fewer people competing to purchase properties.

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@Rainmaker1973 We have it in Israel as well. But there's not a name for it.

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@WarWaited @alexppeloquin @RepOgles If he was going to do it anyway, what do you think was the point of the dog analogy in the first place?

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@brucefenton Believe me they're trying.

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@WarWaited @alexppeloquin @RepOgles So you are ignoring that his initial approach was to treat her akin to a dog for not being Jewish?

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@WarWaited @alexppeloquin @RepOgles Is that the same man who compared helping a gentile woman to feeding the children's food to a dog?

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@Wajha1990 @alexppeloquin @RepOgles 😘

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@JoannaDeP1 @alexppeloquin @RepOgles OK, I guess if he only said it once, he didn't really mean it...

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@xavierjamesg @Biedaboo @alexppeloquin @RepOgles 1. Samaritans were concidered apostate Israelites, not gentiles as you will find in the rabbinic literature of the time.
2. Jesus was passing through traveling between the Galilee and Judea. There's nothing to suggest he was seeking out interaction even with the Samaritans.

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@Wajha1990 @alexppeloquin @RepOgles Did Jesus not say that helping the canaanite woman would be like giving food ment for the children to dogs?

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@AlWayzrite9 @alexppeloquin @RepOgles I have no idea how else you can possibly read it.

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@AlWayzrite9 @alexppeloquin @RepOgles My point still stands. You are saying that one day he didn't want to waste his precious time dealing with a gentile woman and the next day he was dealing with them in the thousands. I'm getting whiplash.

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@AlWayzrite9 @alexppeloquin @RepOgles So the way you read it is that Jesus at first felt gentiles are akin to dogs and not worthy of his time, but he quickly changed his mind and dealt with them in the thousands.

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Yes he is in decapolis in the previous chapter and depending which gospel you believe in Magdala or Bethesda in the next. But the only geographic info for the purported feeding of 4000 is on a slope near the Sea of Galilee. If the gospel writers were trying to say he was feeding gentiles they would have made it clear.