Passport worker - We're gonna need the baby to sit on the chair for the photo.
Dad - She won't let me put her down.
Passport worker - You're gonna need to figure something out if you want a passport picture.
Dad - I got an idea...
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They studied Torah together at Yeshivat Har Etzion.
They went to battle together to protect Israel.
They fell yesterday while fighting Hamas in Gaza.
David Schwartz, z”l, and Yakir Hexter, z”l.
Chavrutot in yeshiva.
Chavrutot on the battlefield.
Chavrutot in heaven.
I hope the world knows people are getting paid $250 to attend the protest for Isr*el in DC today.
All those pro Palestine protests you see? No one got paid a dime to show up to support.
Jewish figures I wish were alive to help us through this time:
1. Rebbi Akiva
2. The Piaseczna Rebbe
3. The Klausenberger Rebbe
4. The Rambam
5. Rav Sacks
Who's one more you would add?
* Man wants a minyan on the plane
Approaches flight attendant - I can't find my son.
Flight attendant - What's his name?
Man - Minyan. Can you call him to the back of the plane?
Flight attendant on intercom - We're looking for Minyan. Please come to the back of the plane.
There’s a halacha that you do not need to light your menorah by the window when there is a fear of anti-Semitism.
I can’t believe this halacha is unfortunately applicable for many people this year.
The top three Jewish practices of secular Jews are:
1. Attending kol nidrei
2. Lighting Chanukah candles
3. Having a seder
What’s one more they should experience?
The greatest pleasures of Judaism:
1. The Shabbos nap
2. Tefilin after a haircut
3. Great food item becomes kosher
4. First bite of food after Yom Kippur
5. No tachanun on Monday/Thursday
What's one more you would add?
In New York city there's a restaurant Deli Kasba owned and run by Lubavitchers. There are tv's playing Rebbe videos on loop and if you say a devar Torah after the main course you get a free dessert.
Top three non-Jewish inventions that were basically created for Jews:
1. Honda Odyssey
2. WhatsApp
3. Crock pot
What's one more you would add to the list?
Student writes a devar Torah using ChatGPT and gets caught.
Student - How did you figure out that I didn't write it?
Rabbi - You quoted the New Testament.
If the splitting of the sea occurred today:
- The media would mourn the Egyptians that died.
- PETA would mourn the horses that died.
- The Jews would be called murderers.
Greatest Jewish pleasures (serious edition):
1. Learning Torah with my children
2. Davening on Yom Kippur
3. Singing shalom aleichem on Friday night
What’s one you would add?
Rav Herschel Schachter went to Israel 50 years ago and visited unobservant cousins.
The host offered sugar for his coffee, but he assumed the host didn’t separate terumos and maasros, so he said he doesn’t have sugar in coffee. To not lie, he hasn't had sugar in coffee since.
Chayal - How will I see my family when I'm given off just for Shabbos?
Rav Rimon - What if they come to a hotel near the base for Shabbos.
Chayal - I can't afford it.
Rabbi Elliot Schrier - My shul will cover it for him and anyone else who needs it.
Here's who needed it:
Greatest Jewish pleasures (humor edition):
1. Putting on tefilin after a haircut
2. Not having tachanun on a Monday/Thursday
3. Getting two matzah balls in your soup
What’s one you would add?
Jewish things that should exist:
1. Food companies printing the beracha on the label
2. Shtenders with cup holders
3. Challah knives that release salt as you cut
What's one more you would add?
True Story - A family was redoing their floors and when they took off the tiles they found this floor underneath from a previous owner.
Let's just say their Shabbos afternoons were intense.
The last thing we do before Shabbos is check our phones.
The first thing we do after Shabbos is check our phones.
Yet, we universally agree that Shabbos is so much more enjoyable without our phones.
Although we feel like the whole world is against us, it's great to see non-Jews who know the truth, and will publicly display it. (image from
@mysticalmatzah
)
In April 2018, Rabbi Chill was flying from New York to Los Angeles, when his flight was delayed for three hours after boarding.
What should he do? Learn daf yomi with the pilot of course.
If you want to know what your country's about, see how they celebrate their Independence Day.
Israel - Tanach competition
America - Hot dog eating competition
Favorite things about being Jewish (wrong answers only):
1. Everyone just loves us.
2. kosher food is half the price.
3. Jewish education is free.
What's one you would add?
Parents shouldn’t force their children to be in shul for longer than they can handle. We want them to have a positive association with shul, not a negative one.
A woman from Holland told me that she took down her mezuzah on her front door because a Jewish house in the neighboring town was burnt down.
It sounds like Germany in 1939.
A non-Jew looking into Judaism got into a serious motorcycle accident. He was bedridden for months.
One night, he picked up a siddur on his nightstand and opened it up to aleinu. He was so moved by the tefilah, that he decided he wants to convert.
He is now a Jew.
Looking to fundraise a big project I hope to be completed within the next two weeks.
Asking from individuals:
1. Love your fellow Jew
2. Perform mitzvot
Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach once told his students that he was going to pray by the kivrei tzaddikim, and then proceeded to go straight to Har Hertzl to pray by the graves of the fallen soldiers.
Rav Asher Weiss lost a spouse and a grandchild during his life. He said that he has cried far more since October 7th than any other moment in his life.
When the Ponovitcher Rav was in Rome, he stood under the Arch of Titus, and screamed “Ich bin dus!?” (Where are you?)
We have survived every world power that has tried to wipe us off the face of this earth, and once again, with the help of Hashem, we will survive this.
If a Jew from 2,500 years ago experienced a day of Judaism in 2023, what are some things that would be surprising to them?
1. No korbanot
2. Printed Jewish texts
3. Moshiach hasn't come
What's one more you would add?
If Hashem made modern day plagues, they be like:
- Lose internet connection
- Flight continuously gets delayed
- Listening to your kid play the recorder
- Sitting in traffic all day
- Zoom meeting never ends
- Listening to Cocomelon non-stop
- Forgot to turn on the crock pot
If a Jew from 2,000 years ago came to 2023, what would be most shocking to them?
1. That we don’t have Moshiach
2. That there are so many different Jews
3. That we're thriving in exile
4. That so many Jews are still serving Hashem
5. That so many Jews have assimilated
6. Other
Rav Moshe Feinstein was late to a big meeting when a poor man stopped him to ask for money.
Rav Moshe gave him money, and they spoke for 10 minutes. His students asked why he spoke so long?
He said there's an emotional component as well, and talking for him was more important.
One of the things kids are incorrectly taught:
For mishloach manot you need to give one person two foods that have different berachot (halachikly, the foods can have the same beracha).
You can give this a like if you were also taught this.
Things in Judaism that are only loved or hated, no in-between?
1. Herring/Gefilte fish
2. Carlebach davening
3. Dressing up on Purim
What’s one more you would add?
Rav Soloveitchik's shiur was so brilliant that at the beginning, he formulated a question you didn't think could be answered, and by the end, he gave such a good answer that you didn't understand why there was a question in the first place.
- Rav Herschel Schachter
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If you had the choice, which sect of Judaism would you have wanted to be born into:
1. Reform
2. Conservative
3. Reconstructionist
4. Modern Orthodox
5. Yeshivish
6. Chareidi
7. Lubavitch
8. Belz
9. Satmar
10. Breslov
11. Karlin-Stolin
12. Skver
13. Vizhnitz
14. Other