Shmu's Views - Politics/Governance/Spirituality

She is even moving more center-right on the 2nd Amendment

Crooked Joe and his cronies behind him have got to go on November 5, 2024 because he is putting America and all its citizens in great peril . WAKE UP America. All past empires that have turned on Israel now lay in the dust of history while Israel and the Jews are still here after 4000 years. Those not with Israel are against Israel and will not survive. This is not a threat, just an accurate assessment of historical fact.

Prime Minister Netanyahu responds to the world leaders who pressure Israel to stop: "To our friends in the international community I say: Is your memory so short? So quickly did you forget October 7, the most terrible massacre committed against Jews since the Holocaust? So quickly are you ready to deny Israel the right to defend itself against the monsters of Hamas? Did you lose your moral conscience so quickly? Instead of putting pressure on Israel, which is fighting an unjust war, against an enemy that cannot be more cruel, direct your pressure against Hamas and its patron - Iran. They are the ones who pose a danger to the region and the entire world. We, in any case, will face all the pressures, and with God's help, we will continue to fight together until complete victory."

I must confess that I have been guilty of this most despicable of transgressions against HaShem and my fellow. Sadly, being on social media makes it so easy to fall into the trap of evil speech without being aware of the snare until being pulled in by it. “Evil talk (lashon hara) is so grievous a sin because it kills three people: the one who speaks evil, the one who listens to evil talk, and the one who is being slandered.” (Erechin 15b) Gossip and slander are grievous sins…People (including myself) who would never consider willfully violating any other law of Torah do at times fall prey to this insidious sin. As Rabbi Twerski has reminded me lashon hara is “as grievous as the cardinal sins of idolatry, adultery and murder, all taken together.” So, I had to ask myself, especially in light of my activity on social media platforms, how do I avoid such evil speech (gossip, slander)? To this I found truth and enlightenment in the words of the Baal Shem Tov: “Simply do not t...