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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #800 on: June 15, 2017, 12:13:16 PM »
What I do know is that you have said that you have zero russian blood.
That I am aware of.

There have been other hints regarding my background dropped here and there, but even one that would decipher all of them wouldn't get anything close to a complete picture.
I've been waiting over 5 years with bated breath for someone to say that!
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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #801 on: June 15, 2017, 12:14:38 PM »
I'm not done with you and your cognitive dissonance. I just need to find the time at a desktop computer.  :)
I am sure that you are not done. I may be using logical fallacies over there but CD isn't one of them because that issue is not something which I have a real opinion about. I am simply critiquing the logic I saw there.
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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #802 on: June 15, 2017, 12:15:33 PM »
That I am aware of.

There have been other hints regarding my background dropped here and there, but even one that would decipher all of them wouldn't get anything close to a complete picture.
Either way that means that whatever it is it is not from the russian Lubavitch originally
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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #803 on: June 15, 2017, 12:17:18 PM »
The common thread to all of my posts, is that of an independent thinker, whose opinions are based on personal education, experiences, observations and תכונות הנפש.
"If I do say so myself!"

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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #804 on: June 15, 2017, 12:18:02 PM »
That I am aware of.

There have been other hints regarding my background dropped here and there, but even one that would decipher all of them wouldn't get anything close to a complete picture.
you would be hard pressed to find a person who doesnt think like that about themselves

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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #805 on: June 15, 2017, 12:21:11 PM »
You guys ruined a great thread.  >:(
Don't be a spoiler. I've received quite a few likes recently on this thread. Now my kids don't need to go hungry.  :D
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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #806 on: June 15, 2017, 12:22:45 PM »
you would be hard pressed to find a person who doesnt think like that about themselves
Possibly. Not arguing one way or the other, though I am not sure how universal the independent part is, and I think there's ample evidence to my thinking being independent, to the point that people are surprised at positions I take.
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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #807 on: June 15, 2017, 12:24:19 PM »
Possibly. Not arguing one way or the other, though I am not sure how universal the independent part is, and I think there's ample evidence to my thinking being independent, to the point that people are surprised at positions I take.
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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #808 on: June 15, 2017, 12:25:44 PM »
The common thread to all of my posts, is that of an independent thinker, whose opinions are based on personal education, experiences, observations and תכונות הנפש.

Look who found a way to like their own posts.

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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #809 on: June 15, 2017, 12:26:04 PM »
I've been waiting over 5 years with bated breath for someone to say that!
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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #811 on: June 15, 2017, 12:44:35 PM »
http://asif.co.il/download/kitvey-et/zor/chor%2040/1%20(8)(2).pdf
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/11/ART2/482/148.html?hp=11&cat=1102&loc=6
I wasn't referring to any halachic discussion but rather to the following line:

"P.S. According to most New Yorkers, in their minds, Yiddishkeit doesn't exist anywhere outside of the NYC area."
I've been waiting over 5 years with bated breath for someone to say that!
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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #812 on: June 15, 2017, 02:28:14 PM »
Attempting to get back on topic.  http://www.vosizneias.com/272265/2017/06/14/washington-hospital-u-s-lawmaker-scalise-in-critical-condition-after-attack-by-gunman-at-baseball-field/#comments   Read comment #7
It is very clear from that comment why what the kushners do (in public) is our business

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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #813 on: June 15, 2017, 04:19:33 PM »
It is very clear from that comment why what the kushners do (in public) is our business
when a comment on VIN has any influence on anything.....

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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #815 on: June 15, 2017, 06:32:20 PM »
I still don't get it. What does it have to do with tefillin?

I thought it maybe had something to do with the way Chabad measures an etzba which leads them to have larger batim or something of the sort.
For an example of a letter written by one of the secretaries based on those ר״ת see top of page 123 here.
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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #816 on: June 15, 2017, 06:40:46 PM »
https://www.ou.org/life/inspiration/dangers-overhyping-jewishness-gal-gadot-jared-ivanka/
Is it just me that finds it weird for an article on ou.org to discuss a movie in detail including a character's "breasts and buttocks", especially when it has nothing to do with the point of the article?
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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #817 on: June 15, 2017, 06:42:09 PM »
For an example of a letter written by one of the secretaries based on those ר״ת see top of page 123 here.
I still dont get how that its relevant to the discussion of this thread which is so clearly about tefillin?
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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #818 on: June 15, 2017, 06:50:28 PM »
I still dont get how that its relevant to the discussion of this thread which is so clearly about tefillin?
Context.

I wrote it in response to:
But they won't do the same when a Chabadsker has tefillin on offer.

Is it because they are more embarrassed about tefillin than about lulav, or because they wouldn't trust the kashrus of chabadsker tefillin? :D
And I made an allusion to the fact that there's a heightened awareness to Kashrus of tefillin in Lubavitch, which I don't think exists elsewhere.

A possible outcome of that awareness is that IINM prices paid for tefillin and mezuzos are generally higher in Lubavitch circles.
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Re: Keeping Up With The Kushners
« Reply #819 on: June 15, 2017, 07:33:39 PM »
Is it just me that finds it weird for an article on ou.org to discuss a movie in detail including a character's "breasts and buttocks", especially when it has nothing to do with the point of the article?
Not weird at all.   - This is the OU.. the highest level of kashrus possible.