Looking forward to Super Bowl XLVI
One week from tonight.Anyone want to buy me a ticket?
Labels: New England Patriots, Super Bowl XLVI
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:27 PM
Sunday, January 29, 2012
One week from tonight.Anyone want to buy me a ticket?
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- Name: Carl in Jerusalem
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I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me 'ultra-Orthodox.' Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don't look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty-five years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 13 to 33 years and nine grandchildren. Four of our children are married! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com
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7 Comments:
Ugh, ham and cheese.
Daniel,
Looked like cold cuts to me. I don't usually see that other stuff.
You mean you can't afford a ticket Carl? Tch Tch, you should spend less time obsessing about Islamophobia, and do something useful. Like earning a living.
Carl, your ticket's in the mail. You'll be sitting at the 50 yard line, next to me in the Infidel section. Our first cold beer is on me!
At half-time, they're going to have a special entertainment, to make any Muslim spectators in the stadium or watching on TV feel more "at home".
First, they're going to flog a Muslim girl who was raped by her step-father, for "dishonor". (The Sharia court is being merciful. Since she was raped and it was non-consensual, they're not going to stone her. Softies!) Then, they're going to hang a gay Muslim, for "spreading degeneracy on the earth". For a finale, they're going to execute a Muslim computer programmer, for designing a photo program that, unknown to him, somebody else used to spread "corruption".
Carl baby,
Surely you're not "schnorrer” enough to accept charity from CaptainH? Are you a ‘Rasha Dechamas’? Or a 'Davar Acher'?
*Giggles*
Refresher course for you: Talmud (Sanhedrin 26b) which Rashi explained as meaning “People who accept charity from non-Jews, are profaning God's name for greed"
http://dafyomi.co.il/sanhedrin/backgrnd/sn-in-026.htm
64) [line 37] OCHLEI DAVAR ACHER - (lit. those who eat "that other thing," which usually refers to pork) those who accept charity from Nochrim
Ahem....Pork appears to be a suitable metaphore here! Tch Tch, that is not good for an Orthodox Jew :)
CaptainH,
Carl may be a lot of things, but he is not an infidel. He is however forbidden from taking charity from infidels, so he will probably pay you for your ticket :)
This has gotten really obnoxious.
How about charity from Jews, to Christians? Is that permitted?
Here's my two most substantive contacts with Jews in my life. When I was about twelve, my family was living in an apartment rented from a Jewish family. At about the same time, my father was laid off, took very sick and was unable to work. The Jewish couple who owned the building waived a couple of months unpaid back rent; paid for our move to another apartment they owned, one that my mother could afford to pay for; with the income from a job they gave her in a small business they owned. They saved my family and may the Lord reward them for their kindness!
Going back to very early childhood. My family lived in a small town and had a wonderful family doctor, a Jewish doctor. He saved my mother's life when she became pregnant with me and had very serious complications. When I was born, I was a sickly baby and, at age 1 1/2, took gravely ill at home, with a raging fever and convulsions. This doctor rushed over in the middle of the night, stayed all night soaking me in a tub of ice water to get my temperature down below brain-damaging levels and stop the convulsions. He began doing that treatment immediately on our kitchen table, as minutes literally counted. He saved my life and prevented me from getting crippling brain damage from the effects of the raging fever. He later operated on me and cured the condition causing this life-threatening condition. Yes, my father paid the doctor for his services, as he was fortunately able to work then. But you can still go to that small town where that Jewish doctor lived and worked for decades, and find people, rich and poor, paying and non-paying, their children and grandchildren, who owe so much to this Jewish doctor, bless his memory!
By contrast, I can speak of only one meaningful personal contact with any Muslims. At the time of 9/11, I was working for a company that did a lot of business with the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald. I knew a number of them personally, knew some of their wives and childrens' names, and regularly talked with them on the phone. Cantor Fitzgerald, located in the World Trade Center, lost 658 people to Muslim mass murderers on 9/11. Muslim mass murderers who proudly proclaimed they were acting for Islam in their mass murder.
I also have downloaded from YouTube videos of Palestinians celebrating on 9/11 -cheering, smiling, honking horns, dancing in the street, passing out sweets- at word that my Canter Fitzgerald friends and others, over 3,000, were slaughtered by Muslims, acting they said, in the name of Islam. People thrilled that the ordinary, decent people I knew were dead, that their wives and children were now widows and orphans. What kind of human beings act like that?
So, like every person, when I think, who have touched my life with goodness, and who with evil? While I treat every person with a presumption of their decency until demonstrated otherwise, I do have an answer to that question. And that, without throwing insults, Hebrew or non-Hebrew, at anyone, is all I have to say on the subject.
Hey Chayma, it's not "islamophobia" when they really are trying to convert or kill us (everyone not muslim).
Try reading the koran and and visit www.thereligionofpeace.com
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