Mar 23, 2009

What do you protest when you have already protested everything?

Ever hear the conundrum of what to get the person who has everything?

This is taken from the Neturei Karta's most recent newsletter....


The above conundrum can now be revised to say "What do you protest when you have already protested everything?"

Looks like all that is left now is the moon. Next month we will be protesting that nobody should say kiddush levana anywhere that has permission from the Zionists... stay tuned for details. We are making arrangements to fly to Iran for the ceremony...
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10 comments:

  1. Commenter AbbiMarch 23, 2009 2:29 PM

    Uh, wouldn't that include the entire state of Israel? How do NK justify living here under the rule of the Zionists?

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  2. Mrs. S.March 23, 2009 2:47 PM

    I second Commenter Abbi's question: Are they actually saying that one shouldn't recite Birkat HaChamah anywhere in Israel?!

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  3. Rafi G.March 23, 2009 2:50 PM

    as I said - we are arranging flights to iran for the ceremony...

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  4. Special EdMarch 23, 2009 4:12 PM

    Isn't the poster about Birchas Hachama, not Kiddush Levana?

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  5. AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 4:14 PM

    Rafi - this is about birkas hachama - the blessing on the sun - once in 28years - not birkas halevana - once a month

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  6. AnonymousMarch 23, 2009 5:18 PM

    SE, Shalom,

    If you read the post, you'll see that Rafi understood. He was employing a quasi-Reductio ad absurdum argument, saying that logic the "birchat hachama" ban will eventually lead to a ban on doing kidush levana anywhere in Israel.

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  7. Rafi G.March 23, 2009 5:23 PM

    thank you yoni, though I had no idea that that type of logic had a name...

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  8. AnonymousMarch 24, 2009 5:03 AM

    AS my husband, sholom the wonderful likes to say :

    "Today, we are issuing a new, special Isur: Everything which was Muthar till now , from now on is Isur Gamur"......


    Mama

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  9. AnonymousMarch 24, 2009 10:21 AM

    Rafi,

    Almost every kind of logic has a name. Even different kinds of faulty logic have names.

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  10. Mrs. S.March 24, 2009 2:52 PM

    Word has it that the next sign will say that it's assur to do *any* mitzvot in Israel.
    ("Honey, I'm off to the airport to fly to Cyprus to daven shacharis. Oh, and unless you need me, I think I'll just stick around for minchah. That way I'll have time to eat breakfast and lunch, because as you know, I can't eat kosher food, make brachos, or bench here in the Reshus HaTzee-yoineem...")

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