Fear.
It was the name of the entire minority.
There are Blacks, there are Hispanics, there are “The fearful ones”.
Like the shittiest gang name ever.
They looked around at a country full of...
“You know what Olam Habah is?” Explains the Slonimer Rebbe. “Olam Habah is the entire earth covered in dump trucks full of gold. And then stack them on top of each other until you reach the sky.”
That’s a fuckton of gold.
So it had come to this. He was dead, and it was judgement time.
His first grade Rebbe had warned him about this moment. Rosh Hashanah davening had reminded him of it. And now, 83 years later, it was really happening.
A key Aish tactic in proving God’s existence, was emphasizing the unusual.
There is no nation as oppressed as the Jews.
No other nation claims public revelation.
No other book can spell the word Pizza or Hitler...
“On Rosh Hashanah, we pray to be inscribed in the book of life,” explains Rabbi Feigenkrantz. “On Yom Kippur, Hashem seals the deal.”
It was a very narrow window of opportunity that affected the rest of the year, so try to stay inspired. Don’t...
One of my biggest struggles, even when I was still religious, was with the realization that as a person I had grown way more from therapy and self-help books than from any amount of “Torah wisdom”.
This was unacceptable to me. I didn’t want...
You’re the daughter of a King! A king! How awesome is that?
Not as awesome as being a son, apparently.
I’ve heard, ad nausem, all the apologetic explanations about how women are not less, they’re just DIFFERENT. How the true...
In the beginning, God created throat cancer and eye parasites and rivers for people to drown in. And He saw that it was mighty swell.
“You see that tree?” asks God.
“Yes,” says Adam, squinting.
“Don’t eat from...
This was a post I wrote in my teens, while I was still very much religious. As you can see, I was still very bothered by the absolutely abysmal quality of literate in the Jewish community.
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By C. Yackobovitch
"Judaism is not all or nothing," they preached at Aish Essentials. "Do what you can, God appreciates it all, every bit counts.
Except, word on the street was that when you entered Intermediate I, Motty Berger had a class where he explained that it...
Even More Freidom
“Independence”
When I think of Israel.
I think a small group of innovative...
Love Me, Daddy
“You know what Olam Habah is?” Explains the Slonimer Rebbe. “Olam Habah is the entire...
Chapter 16: Spreading Wings
I have long had a tenuous relationship with Israel. Israelis as...
Share Your Voice
Until now, with a few notable exceptions, Freidom Fighter has been my own writings, opinions,...
The Atheist & The Foxhole
“There are no atheists in a foxhole,” Noah Weinberg used to love to say,...