Я почитал сегодня ваш сайт, который putin2012, почитал вашу как бы
предвыборную программу, которую вы вручную писали. И в порыве бросился
вам на сайт этот текст писать. В раздел “Предложения избирателей”.
Просто
чтоб вы понимали, как много это значит: я 15 лет работал в России и
свято убежден, что нормальные люди в газеты и инстанции больше не
пишут. Это основа основ. Вы ее обрушили.
Я почитал вашу странную
программу со всеми этими “сможем поднять”, “улучшим”, “создадим все
условия”. А также с этим прекрасным сослагательным наклонением, которое
я использовал еще в конце 90-х, работая в штабах саратовских
кандидатов в депутаты. “Нужен масштабный рост”, “необходимо выйти на
уровень”. Звучит ну пиздец как красиво при нулевой смысловой нагрузке. И
никто никому ничего не должен в итоге.
Вот тут Дима Бутрин про вашу программу говорит: http://kommersant.ru/doc/1849426
Я лучше не скажу. Добавлю только, что она - сотрясение воздуха, да еще
и хреново изложенное. Я бы вам и то лучше написал, но вы ж сами же. От
руки.
Главное, я пришел к выводу, что вам вообще по хрену, под
какими лозунгами избираться. Хотите обратно выборы с партиями - да
возьмите. Губернаторы - да пожалста. Если бы стотысячные декабрьские
митинги требовали обеспечить нам жизнь как в Северной Корее, вы бы уже
сейчас возглавляли межведомственную комиссию по посадке рисовых
плантаций. Главное еще на шесть лет проскочить.
Понимаете, Владимир
Владимирович, ваша основная проблема не в том, что вы, как говорят,
деспот, чекист, жулик, тиран итд. Проблема в том, что вы - прошлое. Вы
выполнили свою миссию - хорошо или плохо - это другие оценят. Навели
порядок. Ну, как вы это понимаете. И все, вам больше нечего предложить.
Зачем же тогда вы хотите остаться?
Мне очень смешно, когда теперь
вы начинаете говорить о всяких модернизациях. Будучи консерватором
просто по сути своей. По мировоззрению. У вас никаких диссонансов не
возникает в этот момент? А то звучит ведь шизофренически.
У вас
есть все шансы выиграть выборы в марте. Только имейте в виду: за вас
проголосует та часть граждан, которая по жизни, скорее, пассивна. Ну
Путин - значит Путин. Сильная рука. Ваш электорат, в основном,
сельский. Нет, это не плохо и никого не умаляет. Просто имейте в виду:
они как при Брежневе жили, так и при Ельцине. Сейчас при Путине, а потом
также легко променяют вас на кого-то еще. Вас с предшественниками и
преемниками для этих людей только одно будет объединять. Вы как власть
все время им что-то были и будете должны. Всегда.
Вы - президент равнодушных в массе своей.
А
активная часть общества над вами смеется. Да, вас никто не боится.
Раньше брезгливо пожимали плечами, видя ваши распилы и откаты. Теперь
люди стали злые: пишут онлайн-заявления в прокуратуру. Интернет -
отличная штука. Зря не пользуетесь.
Страна изменилась за несколько
месяцев. И не благодаря вам, а вопреки. Вы же пытаетесь стать ее
президентом. Смутно напоминая мне гражданина Лоханкина, пытавшегося
добиться близости от ушедшей к другому жены.
Возвращаясь же к
разделу “Предложения избирателей”… Я бы вам предложил уйти в отставку и
снять свою кандидатуру. Но вас на этом сайте и без меня уйти
попросили. И вы с вашими бездарями эти комментарии трете как я в
третьем классе стирал лезвием бритвы двойки из дневника.
Вовремя уходить тоже талант. Спросите у первого президента
Think or Die
Monday, January 16, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Has anyone else noticed that Russia always aligns itself with the least popular people, governments and despots of the world. Having seen this trend ever since I can remember. The bear is gone, but the desire to spit at the west when it isn't looking isn't. Regardless of who is in power, or what type of government they call themselves, the trend continues. This nation is surely demonically driven and has been for some time, of this there can be no doubt. Given the activities of the secret police, KGB, their military and just individuals in general, there is great demonic activity throughout Russia.
Sending bullets to Syria really?
Saying that Iran is a partner and a friend?
Having these public love-fests with North-Korea?
I mean i understand it is all for show, but still aren't the people inside of Russia actually tired of being considered uncivilized mongrels?
I guess it will take 100 years for these old bitter people to leave and let someone govern them who wasn't afraid or envious of the West when he was growing up...
Truly sad.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Ron Paul and his trolls
Ron Paul’s politics are driven by his ideology to disempower,redefine
and restructure the federal government with little regard for the
practical consequence to society.
.
People don’t take the time to actually dissect his position and think them through.
.
There would be serious consequences to many of his extreme ideas.
.
1. Eviscerate Entitlements: Believes that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are unconstitutional, and has compared the failure of federal courts to strike them down to the courts’ failure to abolish slavery in the 19th century.
.
That’s totally not a possibility as he would pursue dissolving these programs. There would be devastating consequences…think about it.
.
2. Lay Off Half His Cabinet: Wants to abolish half of all federal agencies,including the departments of Energy, Education, Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and Labor.
.
Alrighty then! Wander through each of the agencies and see how they might enhance your life without them.
.
3. Enable State Extremism: Would let states set their own policies on abortion, gay marriage, prayer in school, and most other issues.
.
Come to Texas to Live under the rule of POPE PERRY!
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4. Protect Sexual Predators’ Privacy: Voted against requiring operators of wi-fi networks who discover the transmission of child porn and other forms online sex predation to report it to the government.
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Nothing like watching the local pedophiles working in our public schools kicked back watching kiddie porn in the school computer while dreaming about which kid will be the next victim.
.
5. Rescind the Bin Laden Raid: Instead of authorizing the Navy Seals to take him out, President Paul would have sought Pakistan’s cooperation to arrest him.
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Brilliant thinking! Pakistan hates America and would have made bin Laden President after releasing his crazy ass.
.
6. Keep Monopolies Intact: Opposes federal antitrust legislation, calling it “much more harmful than helpful.” Thinks that monopolies can be controlled by protecting “the concept of the voluntary contract.”
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Major Corporations are RAPING people around the world on a daily basis…just because they can!
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7. Lay Off Ben Bernanke: Would abolish the Federal Reserve and revert to use of currencies that are backed by hard assets such as gold.
.
End the Federal Reserve? Go back to a gold standard? Impossible. NO COUNTRY is operating off of a gold standard. Fiscally and economically impossible... Not enough Gold in the world for the growing economies the Gold standard with limited liquidity would destroy the markets all together.
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8. Stop Policing the Environment: Believes that climate change is no big deal and the Environmental Protection Agency is unnecessary. Most environmental problems can be addressed by enforcing private-property rights. Paul also thinks that interstate issues such as air pollution are best dealt with through compacts between states.
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Oh really? Private corporations are about profit, not protection. States manage their own? Texas skies would like like a mud pie and we’d be drinking crude and pesticides if Perry had his way.
.
9. Not Do Anything, but Still…: Would not have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it was a “massive violation of private property and contract, which are the bedrocks of a free society.”
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Yeaaaassasss Mr. Paul, anything you say Mr. Paul. Izzz be doin whatever you want Mr. Paul…but pleazzz don’t hit me.
.
10. Let Markets Care for the Disabled: “The ADA should have never been passed,” Paul says. The treatment of the handicapped should be determined by the free market.
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The disabled were virtually prisoners – by not having access to common everyday necessities. Maybe they need to be gathered up and put away like during the earlier centuries. You know asylums and such.
.
11. First, Do Harm: Wants to end birthright citizenship. Believes that emergency rooms should have the right to turn away illegal immigrants.
.
Okay…okay. Then who will be the next group to be turned away? Certainly little children of those pest people who live off the system need to be turned away just to teach the parents a lesson.
Now i am fiscally conservative, but i see insanity in Mr Pauls eyes. I will not address his foreign politics as his isolationism ans allowing Iran China and Russia to divide the world is lunacy at best and American suicide at worst.
.
People don’t take the time to actually dissect his position and think them through.
.
There would be serious consequences to many of his extreme ideas.
.
1. Eviscerate Entitlements: Believes that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are unconstitutional, and has compared the failure of federal courts to strike them down to the courts’ failure to abolish slavery in the 19th century.
.
That’s totally not a possibility as he would pursue dissolving these programs. There would be devastating consequences…think about it.
.
2. Lay Off Half His Cabinet: Wants to abolish half of all federal agencies,including the departments of Energy, Education, Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and Labor.
.
Alrighty then! Wander through each of the agencies and see how they might enhance your life without them.
.
3. Enable State Extremism: Would let states set their own policies on abortion, gay marriage, prayer in school, and most other issues.
.
Come to Texas to Live under the rule of POPE PERRY!
.
4. Protect Sexual Predators’ Privacy: Voted against requiring operators of wi-fi networks who discover the transmission of child porn and other forms online sex predation to report it to the government.
.
Nothing like watching the local pedophiles working in our public schools kicked back watching kiddie porn in the school computer while dreaming about which kid will be the next victim.
.
5. Rescind the Bin Laden Raid: Instead of authorizing the Navy Seals to take him out, President Paul would have sought Pakistan’s cooperation to arrest him.
.
Brilliant thinking! Pakistan hates America and would have made bin Laden President after releasing his crazy ass.
.
6. Keep Monopolies Intact: Opposes federal antitrust legislation, calling it “much more harmful than helpful.” Thinks that monopolies can be controlled by protecting “the concept of the voluntary contract.”
.
Major Corporations are RAPING people around the world on a daily basis…just because they can!
.
7. Lay Off Ben Bernanke: Would abolish the Federal Reserve and revert to use of currencies that are backed by hard assets such as gold.
.
End the Federal Reserve? Go back to a gold standard? Impossible. NO COUNTRY is operating off of a gold standard. Fiscally and economically impossible... Not enough Gold in the world for the growing economies the Gold standard with limited liquidity would destroy the markets all together.
.
8. Stop Policing the Environment: Believes that climate change is no big deal and the Environmental Protection Agency is unnecessary. Most environmental problems can be addressed by enforcing private-property rights. Paul also thinks that interstate issues such as air pollution are best dealt with through compacts between states.
.
Oh really? Private corporations are about profit, not protection. States manage their own? Texas skies would like like a mud pie and we’d be drinking crude and pesticides if Perry had his way.
.
9. Not Do Anything, but Still…: Would not have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it was a “massive violation of private property and contract, which are the bedrocks of a free society.”
.
Yeaaaassasss Mr. Paul, anything you say Mr. Paul. Izzz be doin whatever you want Mr. Paul…but pleazzz don’t hit me.
.
10. Let Markets Care for the Disabled: “The ADA should have never been passed,” Paul says. The treatment of the handicapped should be determined by the free market.
.
The disabled were virtually prisoners – by not having access to common everyday necessities. Maybe they need to be gathered up and put away like during the earlier centuries. You know asylums and such.
.
11. First, Do Harm: Wants to end birthright citizenship. Believes that emergency rooms should have the right to turn away illegal immigrants.
.
Okay…okay. Then who will be the next group to be turned away? Certainly little children of those pest people who live off the system need to be turned away just to teach the parents a lesson.
Now i am fiscally conservative, but i see insanity in Mr Pauls eyes. I will not address his foreign politics as his isolationism ans allowing Iran China and Russia to divide the world is lunacy at best and American suicide at worst.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Milner intuition
Is Milner unloading Facebook at the perfect time?
Me thinks so...
Russian Internet company Mail.Ru Group may sell its Facebook stake after company’s expected initial public offering, the Russian firm’s co-founder and chief executive told Dow Jones Newswires Monday.
Mail.Ru may sell its 2.38% stake in Facebook if the market valuation is “good enough,” Dmitry Grishin said in an interview at an annual technology event Tech Crunch in Moscow.
Mail.Ru Chairman Yuri Milner is an investor in dozens of hot U.S. tech companies, including Groupon, Zynga and Facebook. The Wall Street Journal recently reported Facebook is eyeing an IPO in the second quarter of next year at a hoped-for valuation of more than $100 billion.
Grishin said Mail.Ru will decide whether to sell the stake depending on how high the number is once the IPO actually happens.
Me thinks so...
Russian Internet company Mail.Ru Group may sell its Facebook stake after company’s expected initial public offering, the Russian firm’s co-founder and chief executive told Dow Jones Newswires Monday.
Mail.Ru may sell its 2.38% stake in Facebook if the market valuation is “good enough,” Dmitry Grishin said in an interview at an annual technology event Tech Crunch in Moscow.
Mail.Ru Chairman Yuri Milner is an investor in dozens of hot U.S. tech companies, including Groupon, Zynga and Facebook. The Wall Street Journal recently reported Facebook is eyeing an IPO in the second quarter of next year at a hoped-for valuation of more than $100 billion.
Grishin said Mail.Ru will decide whether to sell the stake depending on how high the number is once the IPO actually happens.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Putins Charades
With all of Mr Putin's top guns abandoning the sinking lame duck I-Phone loving Medvedev it seems clear that MR Putin does not see the reality of the situation. His constant re-shuffling and spitting down at the semi-elites, disregarding their opinions and openly mocking them is creating a huge problem for him with the under the 45 crowd. They might deal with corruption but they will refuse to deal with open slaps in the face. Mr Surkov the chief propaganda specialist has now been moved the from the President Administration to the deputy of Prime minister, for the purpose of this blow we shall call him "czar"
Mr Narishkin a close Putin confident is now the speaker of parliament. Putin continues to play these games where he allows Medveded to say something and over-rules him with counter measures the next day. I actually feel bad for the technology loving micro manager Medveded he was picked perfectly.
No balls, No charisma, no principles, and the desire to give one of the most important political posts in the world for a safety net of a few billion dollars and a warm seat in some position where he will steal have his slaves, he will still make money and no one will still consider him a person of power.
He is also most likely avoiding long jail sentences if the power and the winds of change ever sweep Russia.
The problem with all of this is that Putin has never used the internet in his life. He thinks he is able to dominate with only state TV forever. He does not understand that the growth of internet users is huge.
He refuses to believe that his popularity on the internet is at around 14%.
In Russia they say "ustalost metala" Which basically means that if you keep twisting and turning the metal long enough it will brake. This is Putins mistake, his face does not infuse stability anymore, it promotes apathy, lethargy and a whole new bread of people who are just sick and tired of the Charades.
Mr Narishkin a close Putin confident is now the speaker of parliament. Putin continues to play these games where he allows Medveded to say something and over-rules him with counter measures the next day. I actually feel bad for the technology loving micro manager Medveded he was picked perfectly.
No balls, No charisma, no principles, and the desire to give one of the most important political posts in the world for a safety net of a few billion dollars and a warm seat in some position where he will steal have his slaves, he will still make money and no one will still consider him a person of power.
He is also most likely avoiding long jail sentences if the power and the winds of change ever sweep Russia.
The problem with all of this is that Putin has never used the internet in his life. He thinks he is able to dominate with only state TV forever. He does not understand that the growth of internet users is huge.
He refuses to believe that his popularity on the internet is at around 14%.
In Russia they say "ustalost metala" Which basically means that if you keep twisting and turning the metal long enough it will brake. This is Putins mistake, his face does not infuse stability anymore, it promotes apathy, lethargy and a whole new bread of people who are just sick and tired of the Charades.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Does Prochorov have balls?
The question that every sane Russian is asking himself today...
Does he really have balls?
Can he play the game long enough to have a shot at actually winning and flip?
I give it a one in a million shot. No one wants to go to jail, especially when you are not 50 yet and have tens of Billions. But for a second think, what if he really had balls of steal?
What if he really did?
Wishful Thinking.
Respect to him for even trying his hand at the Russian Roulette that is Russian Politics.
Does he really have balls?
Can he play the game long enough to have a shot at actually winning and flip?
I give it a one in a million shot. No one wants to go to jail, especially when you are not 50 yet and have tens of Billions. But for a second think, what if he really had balls of steal?
What if he really did?
Wishful Thinking.
Respect to him for even trying his hand at the Russian Roulette that is Russian Politics.
Distant Jewish royal relatives lol
Considering i am a technical atheist with a mix of Baruch Spinoza spiritualism and have been known to make quotes such as "the only time for being spiritual is during an orgasm"
I find it extremely humorous and exciting to think that my Grandfather comes from the same place "Lubavachi" now Belorussia as the great , Rabbi Schneur Zalman...
Considering that my Grandfathers name is also Zalman ( the Jews used to have their last name as their first name back in the day, it was easier for the Russians to pick them apart that way it makes it even more interesting.... Here is the brief history of the great Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (Schneerson son of Shneer or Shneur ) and my research into it.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (Schneerson), famed as the "Tzemach Tzedek" after his magnum opus on Talmudic law, was born on the eve of Rosh Hashana 5549 (1789), to Rabbi Shalom Schachne and Devora Leah. His maternal grandfather was Rabbi Schneur Zalman (Baruchovitch) of Liadi-Lyozna, founder of Chabad Chassidus, and popularly known as the "Alter Rebbe" (Old Rabbi), or simply as the "Rav." Two great works of Rabbi Schneur Zalman are Tanya and Shulchan Aruch, on Chassidus and Torah law respectively. Rabbi Menachem Mendel's father-in-law was his uncle Rabbi Dov-Ber Schneuri, the "Mitteler Rebbe," whom he succeeded as head of the Chabad Chassidim on Kislev 10, 5588 (1827 ), until his passing on Nissan 13, 5626 (1866) .
When Rabbi Menachem Mendel was fifteen, Rabbi Schneur Zalman instructed him to work with his uncle, Rabbi Moshe, in communal affairs. This was in addition to his responsibility to study all inquiries on Torah matters, and after discussion of the law with Rabbi Yehuda Leib of Yanovitch (Rabbi Schneur Zalman's brother and author of Sheris Yehuda), to submit responsa in outline to Rabbi Schneur Zalman.
After residing briefly in Haditch where Rabbi Schneur Zalman had been interred in 1813, Rabbi Menachem. Mendel settled in Lubavitch, Mogilev province, in 1814, with his father-in-law. He stipulated that no communal problems intrude on his studies. His assiduity in study was exceptional, 1 and he continued to examine all Torah inquiries received by Rabbi Dov-Ber. When Rabbi Dov-Ber approved, he would answer the letters. This regime lasted about twelve years.
1 "I generally studied eighteen hours daily, including five hours in writing; he wrote to his son.
In a supplement to Torah Or (N. Y. 1954, p. 285), Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn writes:
By the age of ten (Rabbi Menachem Mendel) had a swift and beautiful hand. He could write a page of thirty lines in five or six minutes. Every day he wrote for three hours, and to make up for Shabbos and Holy days, he wrote the following evening. Once his son complained about the excessive stringency of a teacher, R. Gershon. "Is that stringent?" Rabbi Menachem Mendel exclaimed. "It is nothing compared to the regimen I imposed on myself at the age of nine, regarding hours of study and writing."
In later years Rabbi Menachem Mendel attributed his success at the Rabbinical Commission of 1843 to three merits. One was the 32,000 hours he spent during thirty years in profound study of Rabbi Schneur Zalman's works, and the commentaries he wrote then twenty hours every week.
Rabbi Dov-Ber was accused1 in 1826 of subversive activities, and ordered to appear in Vitebsk. At this point Rabbi Menachem Mendel entered public life. His first undertaking was the organization of a committee, composed of people from various circles, to defend Rabbi Dov-Ber. He also laid t efforts on establishing farm colonies in Vitebsk and Minsk provinces; Mogilev boasted a great many colonies by that time.
1 While fleeing Napoleon's armies Rabbi Schneur Zalman died. All the family's possessions in Liadi were destroyed. Rabbi Dov-Ber was then in Kremenchug in Little Russia, and from there he went to settle in Lubavitch in White Russia. Chassidim en route provided him with means to establish himself in his new home. Upon his arrival however, he decided to distribute the funds to the needy, and wrote to a relative about forming a committee of three to supervise the allocation. In this letter he referred to a "considerable" sum.
Years later this letter came into the hands of the recipient's heir, as unscrupulous and vengeful enemy of the Rabbi. He harbored air implacable hatred of the Rabbi for some personal family "slight." He attempted to use this letter to blackmail the Rabbi, but the Rabbi refused to be intimidated by a perfectly innocent letter.
With some judicious doctoring, the figures in the letter, "three or four thousand rubles" became "one hundred and three or four thousand." This was indeed a "considerable" sum. What could be its purpose? And how did he gather such a sum on so short a journey? Simple. He was plotting a revolution! The money was destined for the Turks, who then ruled the Holy Land. The regular remittances to needy scholars there lent an air of credibility to the charges.
Other weird accusations were made concerning the dimensions of the Rabbis synagogue being similar to those of the Jerusalem Temple, and of course that meant that he intended to be King of Israel or something. The similarity to the charges leveled against Rabbi Schneur Zalman ( fn. 37) in 1798 is striking.
In the fall of 1826 the Rabbi was instructed to appear in Vitebsk, the provincial capital. This was done in a most respectful manner, through high-ranking officers and arrangements to suit the Rabbi. Hundreds accompanied him from Lubavitch, and at every village the elders met him with the traditional bread and salt. The honor and reverence accorded him by Jew and Gentile deeply impressed the officials.
Governor-General Chavanski, a harsh man who entertained little affection for the Rabbi, conducted the investigation. However, Dr. Heibenthal, Jan Lubomirski, and others interceded on his behalf. He was treated with dignity and later permitted to worship publicly, lecture on Chassidus, etc. He was officially informed that he was completely exonerated of all suspicion and released on Kislev 10, a festival among Chassidim ever since.
For details of the dramatic trip and investigation, see Hatomim II, Warsaw, 1935, p. 74 ff.
The Kherson farmers1 had demonstrated the feasibility of Jews' settling on farms. They prospered there, and many regularly gave tithes to charity, a portion to be distributed at the discretion of Rabbi Dov-Ber. The settlers in Vitebsk, Minsk, and Mogilev received aid from the reconstruction fund established by Rabbi Dov-Ber, and a large proportion of the loans had been repaid into the agriculture fund.
1 Chabad Rabbis were always concerned about the material welfare of Jews, not only about their spiritual condition. In order to alleviate their economic distress he encouraged farming, a previously unfamiliar occupation. To this end he persuaded the Government to allot land in Kherson province for Jewish settlers. He arranged for their settling, supplied them with the necessities, and spent a full summer with them at the time. ( Kuntres Umayon, New York, 1943, p. 14.)
Rabbi Dov-Ber's last three years, 1825-1827, were hard. Because of the depression the contributions for the families in the Holy Land1 were only one third of the required sum, and the debts were overwhelming. Rabbi Dov-Ber loaned money from the agriculture fund to complement the contributions.
1 About the year 1777, a group of Chassidim established a colony in the Holy Land under the leadership of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Vitebsker (Horodoker) -- for whom the Tzemach Tzedek was named -- and elder confrere of Rabbi Schneur Zalman.
Could i be the chosen one?
:)
Well considering my views on universal morality and philosophy they wouldn't be happy with me anyway but it was a fascinating research at any cost.
Maybe one day God will talk to me and i will wear the black robe and let that nice hat, maybe i will re-read the Torah again...
I really doubt that will happen, but i am looking forward to it.
I have a lot of questions ( i guess that is the cultural jew in me, always with those questions)
I find it extremely humorous and exciting to think that my Grandfather comes from the same place "Lubavachi" now Belorussia as the great , Rabbi Schneur Zalman...
Considering that my Grandfathers name is also Zalman ( the Jews used to have their last name as their first name back in the day, it was easier for the Russians to pick them apart that way it makes it even more interesting.... Here is the brief history of the great Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (Schneerson son of Shneer or Shneur ) and my research into it.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (Schneerson), famed as the "Tzemach Tzedek" after his magnum opus on Talmudic law, was born on the eve of Rosh Hashana 5549 (1789), to Rabbi Shalom Schachne and Devora Leah. His maternal grandfather was Rabbi Schneur Zalman (Baruchovitch) of Liadi-Lyozna, founder of Chabad Chassidus, and popularly known as the "Alter Rebbe" (Old Rabbi), or simply as the "Rav." Two great works of Rabbi Schneur Zalman are Tanya and Shulchan Aruch, on Chassidus and Torah law respectively. Rabbi Menachem Mendel's father-in-law was his uncle Rabbi Dov-Ber Schneuri, the "Mitteler Rebbe," whom he succeeded as head of the Chabad Chassidim on Kislev 10, 5588 (1827 ), until his passing on Nissan 13, 5626 (1866) .
When Rabbi Menachem Mendel was fifteen, Rabbi Schneur Zalman instructed him to work with his uncle, Rabbi Moshe, in communal affairs. This was in addition to his responsibility to study all inquiries on Torah matters, and after discussion of the law with Rabbi Yehuda Leib of Yanovitch (Rabbi Schneur Zalman's brother and author of Sheris Yehuda), to submit responsa in outline to Rabbi Schneur Zalman.
After residing briefly in Haditch where Rabbi Schneur Zalman had been interred in 1813, Rabbi Menachem. Mendel settled in Lubavitch, Mogilev province, in 1814, with his father-in-law. He stipulated that no communal problems intrude on his studies. His assiduity in study was exceptional, 1 and he continued to examine all Torah inquiries received by Rabbi Dov-Ber. When Rabbi Dov-Ber approved, he would answer the letters. This regime lasted about twelve years.
1 "I generally studied eighteen hours daily, including five hours in writing; he wrote to his son.
In a supplement to Torah Or (N. Y. 1954, p. 285), Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn writes:
By the age of ten (Rabbi Menachem Mendel) had a swift and beautiful hand. He could write a page of thirty lines in five or six minutes. Every day he wrote for three hours, and to make up for Shabbos and Holy days, he wrote the following evening. Once his son complained about the excessive stringency of a teacher, R. Gershon. "Is that stringent?" Rabbi Menachem Mendel exclaimed. "It is nothing compared to the regimen I imposed on myself at the age of nine, regarding hours of study and writing."
In later years Rabbi Menachem Mendel attributed his success at the Rabbinical Commission of 1843 to three merits. One was the 32,000 hours he spent during thirty years in profound study of Rabbi Schneur Zalman's works, and the commentaries he wrote then twenty hours every week.
Rabbi Dov-Ber was accused1 in 1826 of subversive activities, and ordered to appear in Vitebsk. At this point Rabbi Menachem Mendel entered public life. His first undertaking was the organization of a committee, composed of people from various circles, to defend Rabbi Dov-Ber. He also laid t efforts on establishing farm colonies in Vitebsk and Minsk provinces; Mogilev boasted a great many colonies by that time.
1 While fleeing Napoleon's armies Rabbi Schneur Zalman died. All the family's possessions in Liadi were destroyed. Rabbi Dov-Ber was then in Kremenchug in Little Russia, and from there he went to settle in Lubavitch in White Russia. Chassidim en route provided him with means to establish himself in his new home. Upon his arrival however, he decided to distribute the funds to the needy, and wrote to a relative about forming a committee of three to supervise the allocation. In this letter he referred to a "considerable" sum.
Years later this letter came into the hands of the recipient's heir, as unscrupulous and vengeful enemy of the Rabbi. He harbored air implacable hatred of the Rabbi for some personal family "slight." He attempted to use this letter to blackmail the Rabbi, but the Rabbi refused to be intimidated by a perfectly innocent letter.
With some judicious doctoring, the figures in the letter, "three or four thousand rubles" became "one hundred and three or four thousand." This was indeed a "considerable" sum. What could be its purpose? And how did he gather such a sum on so short a journey? Simple. He was plotting a revolution! The money was destined for the Turks, who then ruled the Holy Land. The regular remittances to needy scholars there lent an air of credibility to the charges.
Other weird accusations were made concerning the dimensions of the Rabbis synagogue being similar to those of the Jerusalem Temple, and of course that meant that he intended to be King of Israel or something. The similarity to the charges leveled against Rabbi Schneur Zalman ( fn. 37) in 1798 is striking.
In the fall of 1826 the Rabbi was instructed to appear in Vitebsk, the provincial capital. This was done in a most respectful manner, through high-ranking officers and arrangements to suit the Rabbi. Hundreds accompanied him from Lubavitch, and at every village the elders met him with the traditional bread and salt. The honor and reverence accorded him by Jew and Gentile deeply impressed the officials.
Governor-General Chavanski, a harsh man who entertained little affection for the Rabbi, conducted the investigation. However, Dr. Heibenthal, Jan Lubomirski, and others interceded on his behalf. He was treated with dignity and later permitted to worship publicly, lecture on Chassidus, etc. He was officially informed that he was completely exonerated of all suspicion and released on Kislev 10, a festival among Chassidim ever since.
For details of the dramatic trip and investigation, see Hatomim II, Warsaw, 1935, p. 74 ff.
The Kherson farmers1 had demonstrated the feasibility of Jews' settling on farms. They prospered there, and many regularly gave tithes to charity, a portion to be distributed at the discretion of Rabbi Dov-Ber. The settlers in Vitebsk, Minsk, and Mogilev received aid from the reconstruction fund established by Rabbi Dov-Ber, and a large proportion of the loans had been repaid into the agriculture fund.
1 Chabad Rabbis were always concerned about the material welfare of Jews, not only about their spiritual condition. In order to alleviate their economic distress he encouraged farming, a previously unfamiliar occupation. To this end he persuaded the Government to allot land in Kherson province for Jewish settlers. He arranged for their settling, supplied them with the necessities, and spent a full summer with them at the time. ( Kuntres Umayon, New York, 1943, p. 14.)
Rabbi Dov-Ber's last three years, 1825-1827, were hard. Because of the depression the contributions for the families in the Holy Land1 were only one third of the required sum, and the debts were overwhelming. Rabbi Dov-Ber loaned money from the agriculture fund to complement the contributions.
1 About the year 1777, a group of Chassidim established a colony in the Holy Land under the leadership of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Vitebsker (Horodoker) -- for whom the Tzemach Tzedek was named -- and elder confrere of Rabbi Schneur Zalman.
Could i be the chosen one?
:)
Well considering my views on universal morality and philosophy they wouldn't be happy with me anyway but it was a fascinating research at any cost.
Maybe one day God will talk to me and i will wear the black robe and let that nice hat, maybe i will re-read the Torah again...
I really doubt that will happen, but i am looking forward to it.
I have a lot of questions ( i guess that is the cultural jew in me, always with those questions)
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