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AddReply(381160,"Responding to #3","Ssvi Ben Avraham","Bat Ayin","01/06/09","I totally agree with you and suggest that you listen to the shiurim of Rav Bar Hayim.\n\nHe explains the Galuth Syndrome amazingly well in this shiur\n   http://machonshilo.org/en/images/stories/files/Misswah%20of%20Eress%20Yisrael-part1D2.mp3\n\nListen to the last twenty minutes or so. They are Gold.");
AddReply(375899,"Be Strong","Moish","Michigan","12/29/08","We must never let these terrorist bring us down. The Jewish people as a whole through out history has always forged forward no matter what happened. The attack in Mumbia is only one more step towards the coming of Mashiach. If it were not for the Chabad Shuchim around the would just think about how many Jewish Nishamas would never have found there way. To all of the Shluchim reading this. You must continue to forge ahead and realize that I would not be writing this if it where not for you. Be Stong.\nWay we merit to see the coming of Machiach speadily in our days, Amen. ");
AddReply(373310,"COULD \"IT\" HAPPEN HERE...","SHUVA (Return)","JERUSALEM ","12/20/08","BS\'D\n\n  Does Rabbi Hecht, or any other Chabadnick living in the Diaspora, understand the\nthe Biblical Admonition...\n \"WHO IS BLIND, BUT MY \n     SERVANT JACOB?\"\n(See website:www.shuva.net)\n  # 9 and #l4...you have the\n    right message for Jews!\n   With love of G-D\n    and Eretz Yisrael\n         Shifra Hoffman\n           JERUSALEM ");
AddReply(372910,"#8 and #13 are correct: Jewish Victim Mentality","Eric","USA","12/18/08","If it hasn\'t dawned on the Jew...yet...it should by now. \"Every Jew a 22\" would save Jewish lives. What is the problem with so many Jews who find it repugnant to defend themselves? Look, if you haven\'t figured it out yet, there are people dedicated to murdering you. Why don\'t you see your responsibility, your duty, to defend yourselves? If Mumbai Jews had been armed, this murdering of Jews might have turned out differently. Let me pose the question differently. Where does you G-d require you to be a doormat? Where is it written that Jews must allow themselves to be murdered? Where? On the contrary, from what I read in the Hebrew scriptures, G-d gives you the right to defend yourselves. So who, or what, requires you to allow yourselves to be victims? I don\' find it in Hebrew scripture. So if you think you need to be victims, then stop it! Stop being victims and start being victors!");
AddReply(372717,"security experts for warfare?","aryeh","New York","12/18/08","with all due respect to Shea Hecht, a gutsy guy in his own right, consulting with security experts against suicide terrorists is a bit ridiculous. The whole concept of security is dependent upon the notion that a perpetrator is going to make a cost/benefit anaysis before he acts. That simply does not happen with Muslim suicide terrorists.  This is warfare, plain and simple.  The terrorist attacks like he is compelled to do in a war when his life is on the line.  No approach short of what is suggested in comment 8 is appropriate.  Is there something repugnant to anybody about a Lubavitcher who knows how to use a gun?  Remember Kahane who some leftist self hating Jew dubbed the false prophet.  How false is he now with his slogan, \"every jew a 22?\" The only difference is that in the face of Muslim terrorism today, the slogan would be changed to \"every Jew an AK 47.\"");
AddReply(372668,"To E.Barak & co.(government)","Dr.Dovid Ben Leizer","Novi Mich USA","12/17/08","We find ouselves,standing by ourselves. Let us be,let me be. We have been bullied and beaten, and almost bulldozed out of existence. Enough is enough.\nPLEASE leave the govenment. Leave Israel. Do not look back. Do not collect two hundred dollars. JUST GO..\nSo it is written, so shall it be done.\n\nChazak Ve-Ematz\nWith Love Of Zion\nDr. Dovid Ben Leizer Hakohain\nLt.Col.Ret.\nNovi Michigan USA");
AddReply(372658,"Ya Vant a chiddush?","Lawrence Kulak","New york","12/17/08","O.K. geniuses, here\'s the reality scoop and my name doesn\'t end in a vowel and it is not (machine gun) Kelly either.  If you want to have a Chabad house in a dangerous location, you must at least have a shaliach that is armed with a sub-machine gun or some other automatic weapon.  This simple measure will deter Islamic cowards who specialize in slaughtering defenseless people. Sending Holtzberg and his wife, who were young, innocent people into a potential lion\'s den was the height of stupidity. Why not send Butman?  His mouth without the machine gun would frighten anybody away.");
AddReply(372625,"The Buzzer Rang. Game and all Chances OVER","Yisraelit","","12/17/08","The US is about to suffer horrendous persecution of Jews, thanks to the Medoff scandal and Obama\'s links with Islamic world. Once the deaths begins, other countries will hold porgroms against Jews, too. Forfewt your chabad houses. Get yourself into the Holy Land. NOW. Mashiach will  be waiting for you to arrive. ");
AddReply(372611,"Choni #3 I agree  And #6...","Meira Yolanda","Jerusalem IL","12/17/08","All the disbelievers need do is go to the Chabad Venice (IT) site and see how they are strengthening a community that barely exists.  They are inviting people to move to that beautiful but decadent city and offering help with housing and jobs to make it feasible. No Italian required. If I were a committed Chabadnik, I would be there, not here in Jerusalem. What does that say about their vision?   Had we seen the Venice offer sooner, I doubt that anything would have dislodged us from there and we would have still been only semi-observant.  I don\'t understand a group that claims to be orthodox and then locates where it is necessary for worshippers to drive on Shabbat as many Chabad houses do. I would probably getting to Shabbat Tefillah in Venice by boat. \nYou want to ignite your \"pintele yid\"? Come to Israel for the real thing.");
AddReply(372590,"Thoughts on Chabad Security","Yosef","USA","12/17/08","When seconds matter the police will respond in minutes. There are two types of jihad attacks. The Mumbai, 9/11, and vehicle bomb styles are planned professional operations. The lone jihadi style such as bulldozer attacks in Yerushalayim, grenade and firebomb throwing, and shooting attacks, such as at the Jewish Center in Seattle and at Mercaz Rav Kook may be done by non-professionaly trained individuals. These lone jihadis may operate below the radar screen of surveilance. The best response to these attacks is to have trained people who can, if needed, screen people at the door and draw a pistol from concealment and shoot 2 rounds into the attacker\'s center of mass in under 1.5 seconds. With a few hours training, interested and dedicated civilians are trainable to this level. If interested go to www.nra.org.");
AddReply(372537,"To J.P.Sutton #6","Choni","","12/17/08","I would like to agree with you, but  almost all of those Chabad have \"brought\" back to Judaism have no intention of leaving.\nChabad have made it \"spiritually\" comfortable for them in exile.\nThe philosophy of Chabad is anti- Zionist, and Israel is a home only when Mashiach comes.");
AddReply(372513,"Being open ... and prudent","JP Sutton","NYC","12/17/08","Creating an open, welcoming atmosphere does not mean you can\'t also be fully prepared to defend yourself, your family, your congregants, and your Torah by any means necessary should the situation arise. \n\nDialing 911 when a crime is already in progress is like calling Dial-a-Prayer. As the author points out, police can\'t be everywhere at all times -- and during even the quickest of police response times a lot of bad things can happen.\n\nTo #3: Your point is well taken, but consider this: Without Chabad seeking out so many lost Jewish souls and rekindling their \"pintele yid\" there would be far fewer Jewish people returning to Eretz Israel at all. Please be patient with Chabad while they push us in the right direction, and with those of us who, for whatever reason, still need more pushing.\n ");
AddReply(372509,"See comment #3","Choni Davidowitz","","12/17/08","Seeing that it is becoming increasingly dangerous for Chabad houses, and Jews in general, to live in foreign Lands, would it not be a good idea to close the hundreds of \"little Chabad Houses in the Diaspora, and open one \"big\" Chabad house in Eretz Yisrael.\nAfter all isn\'t this what Jews have been praying for, for nearly 2000 years.");
AddReply(372493,"Agree with #3","Tuvia Schertzman md","Betar Ilit","12/17/08","I have done extensive traveling in the US for work.  While I have been hosted at many Chabad homes I have always felt ill at ease when I hear conversations emphasizing local events and a relative noninterest in Israel.  It is often as if eretz yisrael is just another shlichot place like africa or China.");
AddReply(372478,"Future of Chabad","Choni Davidowitz","","12/17/08","Could someone at Chabad please explain this glaring contradiction?\nFor the past 55 years of outreach in the Diaspora you have yearned for the geula shleima, \"demanding\" and \"screaming\" MASIACH NOW.\nObviously this means the immediate end of the exile and the speedy ingathering of Jews to Eretz Yisrael.\nI\'m sure you are sincere in your prayers (3 times a day) for true and final redemption after nearly 2000 years in exile.\nWhat puzzles me is that the main emphasis of Chabad is to strengthen Judaism in the Diaspora.\nMillions of dollars and much manpower has been and contiues to be poured into foreign Lands. Twenty and 30 year mortgages are obtained to build bigger and better Chabad houses, schools etc. with the prime purpose of an indefinite future in exile.\nSo my question is; Do you want a glorious return to your one and only Land NOW, or do realy wish to prolong the exile .");
AddReply(372456,"yes it could happen...","charles howell","north carolina","12/17/08","people will always find ways to hate,kill and destroy.im glad for the right to defend myself.americans shoot when in doubt.it puts us on a level playing feild.");
AddReply(372380,"The Open Culture Of Chabad","Norman F Birnberg","Salida","12/17/08","The point is to help people. Yes, evil people take advantage of that openness to commit mayhem and murder. But it is precisely the open culture of Chabad that is indispensable to its success. Hearts and minds cannot be changed by living in fear. They can only be changed by letting light in and letting lives be changed for good.");

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