Shelo Asani Goi

I'm pretty sure I've seen this guy on moniot bet shemesh getting off at "narkis"...

Bark Mitzvah?

What is going on here? something is not Pashut!!!!! ..these videos are too "not pashut "

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,411630,00.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHqsPcNIS0c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWN_AL9vrbc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcAVM7P04uw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij5e2S1b0h8

not pashut parade

Apparently running for the mayoralty of Jerusalem on a haredi "horse," Arkadi Gaydamak on Monday expressed his fury over the "gay pride" parade held in Jerusalem and said that "as mayor, I will never let" such an event take place.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219572119653&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

pretty ironic considering his name...

beer here, beer everwhere

a House of beer (nebuch)

Man spent $1,000 a week on beer



http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSSYD22265820080715



And for those goyim who do not know how to rate beer click this, "http://www.ratebeer.com/"



Whats with the obbsesion with beer?

It is what they live for.



and in this day and age we all can see how not PASHUT the times are. The world contains bahayMOs and all those creations. so the next time you say or hear beer here, realize what we do NOT live for.

-dont forget to uplift your beer (no pun intended)

Let me tell you what a great way to lead by example!

This PASHUT PARSHA

This was from Aish haTorah, i think its amazing chizuk. SO have a pashut week and a tasty fabulous and phenomenal shab!

Moses' Mistake Torah Portion: Chukatby Rabbi Shaul Rosenblatt
The story of Moses striking the rock is only a short seven verses of the Torah. And yet it is one of the most well-known stories of all. (Try it yourself: Write a story in seven sentences that will be remembered by much of the world three and a half millennia hence. You've got to be impressed.)
Getting back to the point, however, what exactly is the nature of Moses' mistake? Does he get angry, does he lose his head for a moment, does he get impatient?
We need not conjecture. The Torah spells it out for us in simple Hebrew: Moses, the lawgiver, the one who brought the Ten Plagues to Egypt, the one who split the Sea of Reeds and produced manna from Heaven, "did not have enough faith in God" (Numbers 20:12).
Now whatever "Moses not have enough faith in God" may mean (and it requires some serious explanation), one thing is clear - this is no little mistake. It's serious stuff. For the Torah to say this about Moses, and for God to 'punish' him by prohibiting his entry into the land of Israel, he must have done something pretty bad.
King Solomon tells us in Proverbs (24:16), "A righteous man falls seven times and rises. An evil man falls but once." Every one of us, even Moses, transgresses. Every one of us makes mistakes. Often big mistakes. But the issue is not whether you make mistakes, it's how you deal with the mistakes you make.
Steal once and you are not a thief. You are a good person who has stolen. Steal a number of times and you are still not a thief. You are a good person who steals. Identify with the act of stealing; see yourself as a thief - only then do you become a thief. A righteous man might steal, but he will try to change who he is. He may steal again and try to stop himself again. He may steal many times and "rise," as Solomon says. He only becomes the evil man when he stays down; when he says that he cannot rise; when he gives up on ever being good and stops trying. By so doing, he creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Moses made a major mistake. In fact, he made a few major mistakes. And yet, he is considered the greatest man in Jewish history: the lawgiver, the teacher of all of Israel, the man who spoke to God "face to face."
God does not demand, or even request, perfection. He merely asks that we strive toward that goal. There are many stumbling blocks along the way. And we are bound to stumble, and stumble again. But it's crucial that we see them as setbacks, not defining moments.
We all make mistakes. It's part of being human. But don't identify with those mistakes. Don't see yourself as being incapable of moving past what you have done. If you are a good person who makes mistakes, you will always rise again no matter how low you fall. If, however, you see yourself as a "bad" person - i.e. since you are "a thief," you might as well steal. In that case, you'll stay down when you fall. And that's the biggest mistake of all.

(NP)Tefillin Barbie

Click on the link for all your tefillin barbie needs...
http://jwa.org/teach/golearn/jan08/
"In 2006, Jen Taylor Friedman—one of the first soferot (female ritual scribes) in a male-dominated profession—gave Barbie a new look: she created a version of the famous doll sporting modest clothing, a tallit (prayer shawl) and her own miniature pair of tefillin (phylacteries). tefillin Barbie—whose picture swept through the blogosphere—provokes reactions that range from disgust to shock to amusement to great admiration."

props to Elisha for the pics and links

Sohn - A Young Jew

check out this guys name...
someone has been hitting the Reishit gym

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awv7CN1uQ4o

yes, I do google and youtube my name when I am bored, don't you?

RBS - Mini America?

To say the least, this video annoyed me. It is definitely not pashut.


http://www.yiddele.com/showvideo.aspx?id=1009

If you want to live in mini America, why don't you just stay in AMERICA!?
The reasons this video gives to move to Israel are; people speak English, they sell tacos and other American foods, and you don't have to beg relatives to bring you stuff back from America, because you have it all there! I thought the reason to make aliyah is to get away from America...

A TRIBUTE TO: כבני צאן

Young Sheeps- No Not Related Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fht4iULu0w8

And their cousins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we9_CdNPuJg

Sohn U bakar,


Kivnay Sohn,

Poteach et Yadecha umasbiya chol chai raSOHN,


Rav Menachim Mendel ShneerSOHN,


It's SOHNing Outside,

Its raining its SOHNing the old man is shtayging,

Pasut PINE-SOL

In these days with all the bacteria in our houses, we need something so pashut yet powerful so g-d created ,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goWPDCgDJY8&feature=related

Did you know that it has 5 times the cleaning power than the leading number 2 brand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABOZ421qSL0&NR=1

Thats why this world has become not pashut with 2 headed turtles and everything like that

G-heights

Yes that's right! It's not pashut that a fellow Jew wants to give away what many Jewish people died for. And I'm not talking about the shwarma place near YU because that's a different Golan. I'm talking about the one in the Holiest land ever. If i recall correctly while i was visiting the Golan last year it was a BIG NES that we even won the war and were able to control the Golan. As much as i want to say how dare a Jew give away something that it rightfully ours, all i can say is that if there is one thing we can learn is that Rav Shimon bar Yochai, who hid in a cave for 14 years to escape the "not pashut" roman persecution. When he was finally able to come out, one of the first lessons he taught was that we should always try to see the good in what people do even when at first it's not apparent.

Hence, even though i know we see nothing apparently good in the slightest bit about even negotiating the Golan. I know hash-m has got our back! Do you know why? Because hash-m does it big! pashut Big

O and btw the new Polish (really Chinese) bicycle (i heard Reishit's getting one for the new gym) Now that's not what we call Pashut bicycle or unicycle

Caption Contest

Got this idea from another site...

What Not Pashut Caption would you put on this picture of George Bush and Mahmoud Abbas in Egypt?

A reason to be happy- even during sefirah

Why Israel is the world's happiest country
By Spengler

Envy surrounds no country on Earth like the state of Israel, and with good reason: by objective measures, Israel is the happiest nation on Earth at the 60th anniversary of its founding. It is one of the wealthiest, freest and best-educated; and it enjoys a higher life expectancy than Germany or the Netherlands. But most remarkable is that Israelis appear to love life and hate death more than any other nation. If history is made not by rational design but by the demands of the human heart, as I argued last week , the light heart of the Israelis in face of continuous danger is a singularity worthy of a closer look.

Can it be a coincidence that this most ancient of nations [1], and the only nation persuaded that it was summoned into history for God's service, consists of individuals who appear to love life more than any other people? As a simple index of life-preference, I plot the fertility rate versus the suicide rate of 35 industrial countries, that is, the proportion of people who choose to create new life against the proportion who choose to destroy their own. Israel stands alone, positioned in the upper-left-hand-quadrant, or life-loving, portion of the chart [2]. Those who believe in Israel's divine election might see a special grace reflected in its love of life.

In a world given over to morbidity, the state of Israel still teaches the world love of life, not in the trivial sense of joie de vivre, but rather as a solemn celebration of life. In another location, I argued, "It's easy for the Jews to talk about delighting in life. They are quite sure that they are eternal, while other peoples tremble at the prospect impending extinction. It is not their individual lives that the Jews find so pleasant, but rather the notion of a covenantal life that proceeds uninterrupted through the generations." Still, it is remarkable to observe by what wide a margin the Israelis win the global happiness sweepstakes.

Nations go extinct, I have argued in the past, because the individuals who comprise these nations choose collectively to die out. Once freedom replaces the fixed habits of traditional society, people who do not like their own lives do not trouble to have children. Not the sword of conquerors, but the indigestible sourdough of everyday life threatens the life of the nations, now dying out at a rate without precedent in recorded history.

Israel is surrounded by neighbors willing to kill themselves in order to destroy it. "As much as you love life, we love death," Muslim clerics teach; the same formula is found in a Palestinian textbook for second graders. Apart from the fact that the Arabs are among the least free, least educated, and (apart from the oil states) poorest peoples in the world, they also are the unhappiest, even in their wealthiest kingdoms.

The contrast of Israeli happiness and Arab despondency is what makes peace an elusive goal in the region. It cannot be attributed to material conditions of life. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia ranks 171st on an international quality of life index, below Rwanda. Israel is tied with Singapore on this index, although it should be observed that Israel ranks a runaway first on my life-preference index, whereas Singapore comes in dead last.

Even less can we blame unhappiness on experience, for no nation has suffered more than the Jews in living memory, nor has a better excuse to be miserable. Arabs did not invent suicide attacks, but they have produced a population pool willing to die in order to inflict damage greater than any in history. One cannot help but conclude that Muslim clerics do not exaggerate when they express contempt for life.

Israel's love of life, moreover, is more than an ethnic characteristic. Those who know Jewish life through the eccentric lens of Jewish-American novelists such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, or the films of Woody Allen, imagine the Jews to be an angst-ridden race of neurotics. Secular Jews in America are no more fertile than their Gentile peers, and by all indications quite as miserable.

For one thing, Israelis are far more religious than American Jews. Two-thirds of Israelis believe in God, although only a quarter observe their religion strictly. Even Israelis averse to religion evince a different kind of secularism than we find in the secular West. They speak the language of the Bible and undergo 12 years of Bible studies in state elementary and secondary schools.

Faith in God's enduring love for a people that believes it was summoned for his purposes out of a slave rabble must be part of the explanation. The most religious Israelis make the most babies. Ultra-Orthodox families produce nine children on average. That should be no surprise, for people of faith are more fertile than secular people, as I showed in a statistical comparison across countries.

Traditional and modern societies have radically different population profiles, for traditional women have little choice but to spend their lives pregnant in traditional society. In the modern world, where fertility reflects choice rather than compulsion, the choice to raise children expresses love of life. The high birthrate in Arab countries still bound by tradition does not stand comparison to Israeli fertility, by far the highest in the modern world.

The faith of Israelis is unique. Jews sailed to Palestine as an act of faith, to build a state against enormous odds and in the face of hostile encirclement, joking, "You don't have to be crazy to be a Zionist, but it helps." In 1903 Theodor Herzl, the Zionist movement's secular founder, secured British support for a Jewish state in Uganda, but his movement shouted him down, for nothing short of the return to Zion of Biblical prophecy would requite it. In place of a modern language the Jewish settlers revived Hebrew, a liturgical language only since the 4th century BC, in a feat of linguistic volition without precedent. It may be that faith burns brighter in Israel because Israel was founded by a leap of faith.

Two old Jewish jokes illustrate the Israeli frame of mind.

Two elderly Jewish ladies are sitting on a park bench in St Petersburg, Florida. "Mrs Levy," asks the first, "what do you hear from your son Isaac in Detroit?" "It's just awful," Mrs Levy replies. "His wife died a year ago and left him with two little girls. Now he's lost his job as an accountant with an auto-parts company, and his health insurance will lapse in a few weeks. With the real estate market the way it is, he can't even sell his house. And the baby has come down with leukemia and needs expensive treatment. He's beside himself, and doesn't know what to do. But does he write a beautiful Hebrew letter - it's a pleasure to read."

There are layers to this joke, but the relevant one here is that bad news is softened if written in the language of the Bible, which to Jews always conveys hope.

The second joke involves the American businessman who emigrated to Israel shortly after its founding. On his arrival, he orders a telephone, and waits for weeks without a response. At length he applies in person to the telephone company, and is shown into the office of an official who explains that there is a two-year waiting list, and no way to jump the queue. "Do you mean there is no hope?," the American asks. "It is forbidden for a Jew to say there is no hope!," thunders the official. "No chance, maybe." Hope transcends probability.

If faith makes the Israelis happy, then why are the Arabs, whose observance of Islam seems so much stricter, so miserable? Islam offers its adherents not love - for Allah does not reveal Himself in love after the fashion of YHWH - but rather success. "The Islamic world cannot endure without confidence in victory, that to 'come to prayer' is the same thing as to 'come to success'. Humiliation - the perception that the ummah cannot reward those who submit to it - is beyond its capacity to endure," I argued in another location. Islam, or "submission", does not understand faith - trust in a loving God even when His actions appear incomprehensible - in the manner of Jews and Christians. Because the whim of Allah controls every event from the orbit of each electron to the outcome of battles, Muslims know only success or failure at each moment in time.

The military, economic and cultural failures of Islamic societies are intolerable in Muslim eyes; Jewish success is an abomination, for in the view of Muslims it is the due of the faithful, to be coveted and seized from the usurpers at the first opportunity. It is not to much of a stretch to assert that Israel's love of live, its happiness in faith, is precisely the characteristic that makes a regional peace impossible to achieve. The usurpation of the happiness that Muslims believe is due to them is sufficient cause to kill one's self in order to take happiness away from the Jewish enemy. If Israel's opponents fail to ruin Israel's happiness, there is at least a spark of hope that they may decide to choose happiness for themselves.

Why are none of the Christian nations as happy as Israel? Few of the European nations can be termed "Christian" at all. Poland, the last European country with a high rate of attendance at Mass (at about 45%), nonetheless shows a fertility rate of only 1.27, one of Europe's lowest, and a suicide rate of 16 per 100,000. Europe's faith always wavered between adherence to Christianity as a universal religion and ethnic idolatry under a Christian veneer. European nationalism nudged Christianity to the margin during the 19th century, and the disastrous world wars of the past century left Europeans with confidence neither in Christianity nor in their own nationhood.

Only in pockets of the American population does one find birth rates comparable to Israel's, for example among evangelical Christians. There is no direct way to compare the happiness of American Christians and Israelis, but the tumultuous and Protean character of American religion is not as congenial to personal satisfaction. My suspicion is that Israel's happiness is entirely unique.

It is fashionable these days to speculate about the end of Israel, and Israel's strategic position presents scant cause for optimism, as I contended recently. Israel's future depends on the Israelis. During 2,000 years of exile, Jews remained Jews despite forceful and often violent efforts to make them into Christians or Muslims. One has to suppose that they did not abandon Judaism because they liked being Jewish. With utmost sincerity, the Jews prayed thrice daily, "It is our duty to praise the Master of all, to acclaim the greatness of the One who forms all creation, for God did not make us like the nations of other lands, and did not make us the same as other families of the Earth. God did not place us in the same situations as others, and our destiny is not the same as anyone else's."

If the Israelis are the happiest country on Earth, as the numbers indicate, it seems possible that they will do what is required to keep their country, despite the odds against them. I do not know whether they will succeed. If Israel fails, however, the rest of the world will lose a unique gauge of the human capacity for happiness as well as faith. I cannot conceive of a sadder event.

Mazal Tov!

It is currently being reported by reishit.org that our chef, Daniel Barg, is engaged. Mazal Tov!

Real Big - NES

Homer Simpson saying its not pashut times!

This story is lechavod Yom Haatzmaut, reported via Rav Lazer Brody. Its such a Nes that its not "pashut" - Enjoy! Chag sameach.

http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2008/05/the-miracles-of.html#more

P.S lets not forget about Rabbi Akiva's talmidim. because they did it real- big.