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AddReply(232814,"To Tamar Yona:","Eliana","Jerusalem","09/17/07","Thanks for another excellent article. Keep writing.");
AddReply(231077,"To Joshua, No. 28","Leslie","Israel","09/07/07","Your answer to Mike was perfect. There really are Jews in the Galut who do care about Israel. They should move here and work to improve things instead of kvetching and making excuses for not coming.");
AddReply(230342,"to # 6 mike","joshua","","09/04/07","I think you have been smelling too much gunpowder. you do a lot of talking, how about coming to israel and stand on the front line of the battle like all the women and children do every day!");
AddReply(229804,"good, but question","jb","","09/03/07","very nice piece,touching really.\n\nbut re G-d as \'cool\', i have two questions.\n\n1)what about those who struggle with the goodness of G-d? this is a real struggle, esp after the shoah and the conditions today\n\n2)what will really win over more seculars is when religious people show flexibility, compassion and most of all acceptance of their brothers and sisters.  not forcing, pressuring(even subtlely)...");
AddReply(229710,"idf not all Jews","chava","yerushalayim","09/03/07","I don\'t know about Yamit, but the soldiers at Gush Katif, at Amona, at Hevron weren\'t all Jews.  A lot of them were olim from the FSU or were arab.  No wonder they didn\'t have a Jewish heart.  There are videos of the Jewish soldiers at Gush Katif crying.  We\'ve got to find a way to pull together.  Mashiach is waiting for that.");
AddReply(229640,"to # 4 Herzy","Joshua Rivera","new york","09/02/07","If G-d is cool why are people uncool? people are uncool because they choose to be uncool. It is a choice. are you cool?");
AddReply(229455,"SPECIAL NOTE - Mike and Dan","tamar y","bet el","09/02/07","To #20 Mike - I don\'t know what it is Mike, but you are impossible NOT to like. The \'chen\' comes through your writing. I like your spirit, and we really DO need you here in Israel. \n\n# 12, Dan from Jerusalem wrote me: \n\"What about Rosh Yehudi in Tel Aviv ?  There\'s an organization called Rosh Yehudi which has booths on Dizengoff st. and a center with classes, tefillot, shabbat meals, etc. in Tel Aviv. They are trying to make Judaism \"cool.\" \n\n\nShalom Dan, thanks so much for the comment you left.\nI went back into the archives of my blog and pulled this out and thought it would be great to post again for you all to see.\nIt\'s from a  piece someone wrote called, \"Inspiration and Celebration in Tel Aviv \".\n\"A first in recent memory: A new Torah Scroll procession complete with music and singing danced down the streets of Tel Aviv. Many had never seen such an event before, but the joy was contagious.\nA Hebrew-language video of the joyous event, complete with reactions from both secular and observant participants - recommended viewing - can be seen below (credit to NRG).\" \n - This is a very rewarding and feel-good video to watch, as one sees our more secular Jewish brothers and sisters in Tel Aviv rejoicing with our Holy Torah.  Watch the video here: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=410&ar=619827&ak=null \n");
AddReply(228972,"Re: Coolness of G-D","Steve Rodak","Roselle Park, NJ ","08/31/07","Dear Tamar: You had given much good advice. Many people will deny their addiction to drink and drug to maintain their status with the \'in crowd\'. When their drug-dependent lives become hopelessly miserable,  they will then turn to G-D. Although you offer a better way to a sanctified lifestyle, self-important people need to learn the hard way. They will drink themselves sick but only G-D can fill their emptiness. Thank you for writing the article.");
AddReply(228929,"great!","Harriet","Netherlands","08/30/07","You could  be a descendant from a famous Rabbi,Tamar! ;-)\nAnd you are certainly one of His awesome wonders..\nYou are absolutely right.\nWhy look for instant -fun while an awesome reality is so closeby.\n");
AddReply(228919,"Tamar Yonah Show","Heatherross","Arkansas","08/30/07","As I watch the world\'s leaders handle world affairs on their own power, denying the Lord Who created them, confused by why problems can not be \'fixed\', boasting in themselves that they are\nsecular, they don\'t need a Savior. The obvious is before all eyes, \nthat, yes, we do need a Savior. Since man has closed the door behind them not giving thought that, \"could I be wrong?\" Yet, going on blind to why problems still spiral out of control. Man is a fool unto himself.\n\nLord, you are welcome in this place, God of all Creation, come to us, and show us where we are wrong, tell us of Your Greatness, Your Magesty, and Holiness. Saturate my soul, Holy Spirit, comforter, counselor, here.Your are welcome in this place, you are welcome in this place, God of power, love, and grace, saturate my soul. You are welcome in this place, come in, sit down, and tell me all Your Wonders...\n\nWho Is On The Lord\'s Side?\n\nNo man can stand to himself\nWho can save?\nNo man can trust in man ways\nWho can save?\nNo man can overcome alone\nWho can save?\n\nWho is on the Lord\'s Side?\nHoly is the Lord God of Heaven\nWho is on the Lord\'s Side?\nHoly is the Lord God of Heaven\n\n");
AddReply(228907,"To#17: Yael acted by stealth and Dvorah had Barak","mike","OIF","08/30/07","I did not claim that a woman cannot be strong or heroic or even a national leader in a dire emergency when men are lacking will and self-esteem and must be shamed into action: \"But they will say: into a woman\'s hands did the Lord deliver Sisera\".  However, I say again, a woman cannot be a soldier unless she stops being a woman.  As for your other arguments, I repeat to you yet again, the Israeli Canaanites ARE foreign troops.  In fact, they are more foreign than the British ever were and probably as foreign as the Arabs.  Don\'t let the fact that they speak Hebrew and call themselves Jews confuse you.  A ham is a ham even with an OU sticker and a rodef is a rodef even in a yarmulkeh and Hebrew speech.  As for the Martyr Rebbe Kahane (z\'l), he would certainly have called for armed resistance by this point.  He was about to call for azmaut when he was assassinated.  Listen carefully to his last speech.  Look carefully at the flag he had hanging behind him on the wall.  Though it was a poor design and a prime example of design by committee, it was NOT the flag of the State of Israel.  Think about this.  Think about it carefully.  I was not the first to say \"Medinat Yehudah\".  Kahane was.  And he said one other thing: \"ANYTHING would be prefferable to what obtains now.\"  Why do you thing the Israelis murdered him?");
AddReply(228898,"MIKE is PARTIALLY - RIGHT","Brock Rosen","Israel","08/30/07","The Government is completely corrupt and doesn\'t care at all about it\'s regular citizen. Why on earth should I give my life so some greedy politician can make MORE money off me. TAMAR wake up. They\'re profiting off you!  LOOK at all the news homes being built in the country - FOR THE RICH!!! No one is caring at all about your average Israeli. No one..\n\nI used to be a RELIGIOUS ZIONIST. Now I opt for just the RELIGIOUS. HALACHIC STATE or BUST. There is absolutely no legitimacy to a ANTI G-d government. ");
AddReply(228664,"I foolish woman answer mike, OIF","hanina","","08/29/07","Hey mike,\nIt\'s not that we are afraid to go to war and start a fight,\nit\'s just that we worry about getting the blood stains out of our clothes.");
AddReply(228657,"To Mike- Yael and Dvorah were heroes of Israel ","tamar y","bet el","08/29/07","...and if these soldiers were foreign troops, it would be a completely different story...  it has nothing whatsoever to do with being a woman. Yael killed Sisera by driving a tent stake into his head.  \n\nI was in Yamit when the soldiers came to throw us out and give the land to Egypt, and Rav Kahane taught at that time, that we could fight and struggle with the soldiers, but not G-d forbid  kill them.  So, his stance on this will stay, until someone like Moshe Rabeinu or Yehuda Maccabee comes along, and rules differently. Until then, lifting a hand to kill a Jewish soldier is not acceptable. By the way, now that you are a trained soldier, come to israel and help us in this struggle!!!  We could use a good guy like you!");
AddReply(228645,"Cool","Bitya","Ariel","08/29/07","When I see how so many of our young Jewish people dress and behave, I feel sick. All the piercing and tattoos and super revealing clothing--is this what we dreamt  about for so many generations? Why do we have to follow the \"garbage\" of other cultures?");
AddReply(228643,"Re#10: A woman cannot be a soldier","mike","OIF","08/29/07","Your post demonstrates this amply.  Understand, dear.  Those IDF \"cousins\" of of yurs raped and beat your sisters at Amonah.  Those \"cousins\" of yours destroy Jewish homes and schuls all over Yesha and Gaza.  Those \"cousins\" of yours surrendered Gaza to the servants of Satan.  They have openly declared you to be the enemy.  You, however, insist, like a typical good woman, that everyone is redeemable if only you love them enough.  It is for this reason that the Sages prohibited the participation of women in government and their service in the military.  He who calls you his enemy, Tamar, is necessarily YOUR enemy.  While women try to convince enemies to be friends and get raped and enslaved for their trouble, men tell their foolish women to be quiet, then march forth and slaughter the enemy in droves until he goes away.  Hashem was pleased when Moshe slaughtered those who worshipped the Golden Calf.  Hashem was pleased when the Maccabees slaughtered the Hellenists.  And Hashem will be pleased again when Jews stand up to defend themselves from the Israelis and their Moslem terrorist friends.  I say again, wake up before it\'s too late!");
AddReply(228446,"Why isn\'t....","Yochi","Kiryat Arba","08/29/07","Excellent article-I agree with everything you wrote. Why do Jews go for all the foolishness of other cultures, when we have our own beautiful religion, traditions, and culture?");
AddReply(228429,"To Dan - #12","tamar y","bet el","08/29/07","Dan, you\'re right,  Rosh Yehudi on Dizengoff st. in Tel Aviv IS good.  They have a great video that is real short, where they are parading down the street.  I will post (re-post) about it.");
AddReply(228362,"What about Rosh Yehudi in Tel Aviv ?","Dan","Jerusalem","08/29/07","There\'s an organization called Rosh Yehudi which has booths on Dizengoff st. and a center with classes, tefillot, shabbat meals, etc. in Tel Aviv.  They are trying to make Judaism \"cool.\"");
AddReply(228355,"I agree with Tamar","Jodie","Four Oaks","08/29/07","Oh Tamar, \nI am just like you. I have never cared for any of that wild crazy life. God gets me hie. No no night clubs and such forth. Thats what I have always tought my children and they don\'t care for that stuff either. Thank God. \nLove Jodie ");
AddReply(228238,"To Mike  -- #  6","tamar y","bet el","08/28/07","Shalom Mike, my brother yid...\nThough we seem to see eye to eye on the gist of the article, our conclusions/solutions take a split in the road.  I am not at the point of raising arms against the very same soldiers who will be going out and giving their lives for our nation if the Hizzbullah or any other Arab entity opens a war front against us.  Also, here in Israel, it is really like family.  Everyone in the army is either your kid, your dad, your neighbor\'s kid, or your 3rd cousin, or your teacher\'s husband, or your bank teller\'s son.  We are all connected here. Wouldn\'t the Hamas and FATAH and all the arabs just jump for joy if Jew were to start killing Jew?  Anyway looking for a cure,  a surgeon will think like a surgeon and say, \"cut\", where as a homeopathic doctor would say, \"change your diet\", and a psychiatrist would proscribe drugs and therapy.  Mike, looks like you are in the armed forces, so you think like a soldier. Therefore you say, \"smell the gunpowder\".  I\'ll save the gun powder for the army to use against the arabs who are actually trying to KILL us.  I was a soldier too, but I can\'t call for killing our brothers, no matter how much we differ.  i don\'t think it would make our parent in Heaven (Hashem) very happy to see us killing each other down here. I hope you would agree? ");
AddReply(228220,"Hazak","Schvach","","08/28/07","What a splendid blog Tamar. I assume people jump at the absurd because the rational and truely valuable are so intimidating. \nShabbay shalom in advance");
AddReply(228129,"G-d is definetley cool","donna","Albany","08/28/07"," People get lost in life and look for something to fill the hole in their heart a hole that only G-d can fill. thats why they go to nightclubs they are lost. etc.\nG-d Bless Donna");
AddReply(228065,"Is Hashem cool or is He not?","Doug","inner Western Sydney, Australi","08/28/07","If Hashem i considered to be \"uncool\", we have only ourselves to blame.  In this author\'s view, Hashem, being Hashem,HAS ALWAYS been cool, ALWAYS IS, and WILL ALWAYS BE cool.  How could He be anything else?");
AddReply(228047,"Because of the Yetzer Hara","mike","OIF","08/28/07","If the government does not enforce Jewish values by, for example, mandating Shabbat observance and banning \"meat markets\" where the yetzer hara preys on unchaperoned youth, the yetzer hara will take over the society bit by bit.  One day you wake up and find yourself in a godless, nihilistic, fascist pseudo-state that hates Jews and Jewish values so much that it is willing to send soldiers to buldoze Jewish homes, beat and rape Jewish children and surrender land to the followers of Satan.  The answer, when you find yourself in such a \"State\", is to remove yourself from this unclean thing and build a true Jewish State, ruled by true Torah values.  If necessary, such a State, Medinat Yehudah, must be built using the force of arms and despite the resistance of that embodiment of the yetzer hara, the \"State\" of Israel.  It\'s about time the \"religious zionist\" public woke up and demanded a country of its own.  You have nothing in common with the denizens of the Tel Aviv meat market, Tamar  Wake up and smell the gunpowder.  It\'s time for atzmaut.");
AddReply(228026,"good wine needs aging","hanina","","08/28/07","I would hate to think, with Hashem\'s infinate wisdom, that he would take these things personally.\nHe knows that we discover our parents to grow increasingly intelligent as we ourselves advance with age. And he knows that kids don\'t really appreciate what their parents try to do for them. \nLike a fine wine, we all need to age.\nSo when we hear about youth following impulses, we know that they will most likely turn out to be good parents and highly responsible adults. \nYouth don\'t always appreciate great beauty,\nand the human mind doesn\'t really mature till about 25 anyway.\nAnd then add another 10 years to let the dust settle, and wammo, you have an intellectual. ");
AddReply(227897,"If Gd is cool why are people uncool?","Hezy","Jerusalem","08/27/07","");
AddReply(227876,"Weekly Trip to Club Med","Vernard Antin","Southfield MI","08/27/07","Dear Tamar AMUSH,\nShabbat offers far more than any club or pub. Shabbat is like a 24/25 hour get away from all of one daily concerns. My wife describes Shabbat as a one day visit to club med the total escape from the everyday.");
AddReply(227871,"Beautiful!","Moshe Meir","Chutz laAretz","08/27/07","Awesome writing, Tamar!  I can say that a great deal of what brought me closer to Yiddishkeit was being invited to people\'s homes for Shabbat and Yom Tov.\n\nNow my family and I are in the position to invite others and give them a taste of REAL Yiddishkeit, and that makes me feel very fortunate.");
AddReply(227858,"spiritual sinkhole","hanina","","08/27/07","there is the potential for depth in all of us, as we ride the spiritual sinkhole and pray for our redemption.");

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