Moshe Nachbar

More interested in living up to my name than fulfilling a title. I’m trying.

[PeaceTalk @ZIN_zjzik]

If you invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, you deserve to die.

[Moshe Nachbar @nachnotes]

אמת לאמיתו

[Yishai Fleisher يشاي ישי פליישר 🕎 @YishaiFleisher]

DEAR JD @VP - PLEASE UNDERSTAND US:

[Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich]

Why is Israel getting blamed for trying to protect its citizens from hezbollah attacks? Iran funds and arms hezbollah, encourages them to kill israelis in israel and then blames israel for defending its own citizens. We should be focusing our anger on the iranian dictatorship not on a democracy fighting to protect its citizens

[David/Dovid Bashevkin @DBashIdeas]

Why didn’t Chabad ever appoint another Rebbe?

Reb Mendel Futerfas answered:

I was in Russia for years, we had no access to a lulav or esrog—it never dawned on me to take a potato instead.

[Marc Feder מרדכי אריה @nomadicmarc]

We love you @JerrySeinfeld

[Tanna debè Ribbi Yishma'el @TannadebeRY]

I think a fair criticism of this letter is that Zionism should not replace the status-seeking aspects of modern orthodoxy™️, but should be one component of a larger rethinking and orientation towards something more Torah-centric.

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

Agent @JerrySeinfeld just executed another hit. 💥

[Rabbi Dr. Noam Weinberg @NoamNechama]

Please please please learn this Torah from my Rebbe the Heilige Ishbitzer together with me!!

The Rebbe writes about the deeper meaning behind why Moshe added the letter Yud to Yehoshua’s name. The letter Yud hints at innocence or being straightforward or simple because ultimately it’s just a little dot. And that’s the reason why Moshe added it to his name. The Gemara in kiddushin teaches that if a person says to his friend, can you be my messenger and betroth a certain women to me and the friend goes and betroths her to himself, then the Halacha is that it is valid. The Gemara also says that such a person acted with deceit. “מנהג רמאות”. It seems that Yehoshua did the same thing when Moshe asked him to investigate the land. After all, Moshe wanted to become “betrothed” to the land of Israel, but in the end, he scouted it out just for himself. Therefore, it seems that his excursion wasn’t done in innocence. So Moshe added a Yud to his name to remind him that he should always be straightforward and honest in all of his actions!

WHAT!!!!!!!

Ok, hear me out. I want to share my Chiddush on this piece. The Ishbitzer is teaching something breathtaking about the danger of self-interest. The moment a person wants something badly enough, even something holy, he or she begins to unconsciously rewrite the story in his or her own favor. They convince themselves that they are serving a mission when, little by little, the mission begins serving themselves. That is why Moshe gives Yehoshua a Yud, a tiny dot. Because spiritual greatness is not found in becoming bigger, smarter, louder, or more certain. It is found in preserving the small, honest point inside yourself that can still ask, "Am I really doing this for the reason I think I am?" The most dangerous deception is not when we lie to others; it is when desire quietly recruits our intelligence to lie to ourselves. The Yud was Moshe's reminder that the greatest leaders are not those who never have personal interests, but those who never stop returning to that simple, innocent point of truth that exists beneath all the agendas, fears, ambitions, and justifications. Sometimes the holiest thing a person can do is become small enough to be honest again.

[Belaaz News @TheBelaaz]

✡️ - MUST WATCH: Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt, Rabbi of the Altneu NYC synagogue, making a Mi Sheberach Lecholim for Neturei Karta men protesting the Israel Day Parade in Manhattan on Sunday.

@BenZevG

[Ari Waxman @ariwaxman]

Rav Shmuel Eliyahu calls for the building of a Beit Knesset on Har HaBayit:
“I call upon the Knesset and the Prime Minister - It is time to build a Beit Knesset on Har HaBayit. There is no place that belongs to the Jewish people more than this holy place.”

[David/Dovid Bashevkin @DBashIdeas]

שמענו בשם הבעש״ט זצללה״ה שאמר על עצמו שאם הי׳ יודע בטח בעצמו שהוא מזרע אברהם יצחק ויעקב והיינו בשורש תולדתו הוא מקושר בקדושה, הי׳ הולך עם הכובע שלו מן הצד, כנהוג מי שהוא שש ושמח בעצמו על כי הולך לבטח דרכו ולא יפחד משום דבר.

[David/Dovid Bashevkin @DBashIdeas]

On Shavuos night, Rebbe Nachman was walking to the mikveh with chassidim.

Rebbe Nachman kept asking, “do you hear those noises?”

No one else heard a thing.

“How do you not hear that!?”

They finally realized that that Rebbe Nachman was hearing the thunderous sounds of Sinai.

[Rabbi Avi Weiss @RabbiAviWeiss]

My wife Toby and I are in @Israel becoming citizens. At the Interior Ministry, the official reviewing our papers - a Jew who came from Ethiopia in 1991 - asked me for proof that I was Jewish.

I showed him letters from our rabbi. As I did so, tears began to flow.

I told him: “I remember the 1970s and ’80s, when we marched and protested so Ethiopian Jews could come home to Israel. Back then, many questioned whether Ethiopian Jews were Jewish at all. We insisted our Black brothers and sisters were as Jewish as any of us.”

And now, 35 years later, here was a holy Ethiopian Jew confirming my Judaism.

We had come full circle.

Holding his hand, I sang: “Zeh hayom asah Hashem, nagilah ve’nismechah bo” - This is the day God has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Jews from East and West have returned home together.

Am Yisrael chai v’yichyeh.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Zohran Mamdani’s wife celebrated the kidnapping and execution of this child.

[shevereshtus @shevereshtus]

Israel has received $174 billions in aid since 1948.
Ukraine has received $188 billions in aid since 2022.

I know where Tyler should fly next.

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

Yes. Slandering the world’s only Jewish state is an act of conformity. It’s much ballsier to tell the truth about the war Hamas started against Israel.

[Yaacov Behrman @ChabadLubavitch]

I have largely remained silent in public since January 1 because I believe criticism should be constructive and focused. But this post about the Nakba is deeply disturbing, not only because of its one sided and dishonest characterization of history, but also because it attempts to delegitimize Israel as a state even before 1967.

You cannot have it both ways. You cannot argue that the “settlements”, which began after 1967 following Israel’s victory in a war against neighboring states, are the root cause of the conflict, condemn them relentlessly, and justify marches through Jewish neighborhoods in New York over so called “illegal” land sales in the West Bank, while simultaneously condemning the very founding of the State of Israel itself through a one sided narrative built on distortion and falsehoods.

It is also worth noting that while thousands of Arabs lived within Israel between 1948 and 1967, Jews were expelled from areas captured by invading Arab armies from neighboring countries. Those expelled included Jews whose families had legally owned and purchased land for hundreds of years.

Take, for example, the Tzemach synagogue in Jerusalem. In 1847, more than a hundred years earlier, followers of Chabad Lubavitch established and purchased the synagogue in Jerusalem’s Old City. During the 1948 war, the Old City fell under Jordanian control. The Jewish population was expelled, and Jews were denied access to Jerusalem, including the Tzemach Tzedek synagogue.

I really do not want to get too deep into the history because that is not my main point here. There can be disagreements and different perspectives about what happened and to whom, but the focus should be on achieving a long term peace in Israel and the region.

The tweet’s one sided narrative deepens division instead of advancing peace, coexistence, and understanding, and it should never have been posted by the mayor of New York City.

[David/Dovid Bashevkin @DBashIdeas]

הודו לה׳ כי חסדו! יום ירושלים בארץ ישראל. ❤️