Niche Businesses

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Just a reminder to us all that the ability to discuss all subjects- both silly and serious at Unleashed is both unusual and gratifying. I read and follow a lot of business and political writings and TV programs- NR, Washington Examiner, IBD, WSJ, and even the Sunday NYT, Ingraham, Carlson. In addition, my husband bought me author Charles Moore’s trilogy on Thatcher and I keep Amazon in business with historians Ron Chernow, David McCullough, Andrew Roberts, the late David Halberstam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, etc. In other words, I keep abreast of history both past and present plus I have a favorite friend who is both an historian and tolerant of different points de vue.

What I despise is when other sites choose to color facts/history with personal biases and a “my way or the highway” attitude. No debate/no discussion but plenty of graphs skewed to prove whatever point they are attempting to argue laced with vitriolic criticism.

This doesn’t happen here and I am not suggesting we all try to go along to get along. We don’t in some instances, but we show respect for one another and attempt to find some common ground.

Many thanks to ST and the wonderful Ettes.

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  1. Kudos and mega- dittos, to borrow a phrase, Liz! His Graciously Unleashedness and the Unfettered are conducting a workshop in how freedom of thought and expression actually works – and how much fun it can be.

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    1. Judy, I was going to use our discussion about pro-choice/pro-life as the classic example of how to debate an issue in a civilized manner. 🙂

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  6. Am an Israeli rabbi, born in Texas to a town with “perhaps” 5 Jewish families of a population of just shy of 100,000 folk. The closest beit knesset – about 400 miles distance. My brother and I both studied socialism – he at Washington & Lee, me at Texas A&M. My brother joined the family law firm. My senior year, rejected joining the firm. My reason: My 3 brothers and 1 sister all married out – they married non Jewish people. Assimilation – the first face of avoda zara/poor, bad translation – idolatry.

    I decided to move to Israel as a secular communist Jew who favored the political writings of Leon Troskii. Thought at that time that traditional Yidden compared to Amish folk. Milking my cows at 4 in the morning, and Rav Eliezer Schach, the Rosh Yeshiva, a leading Lithuanian-born and educated Haredi rabbi in Bnei Brak, came out on the radio and said that secular Jews like myself were not Jewish.

    I said to myself, who do these folk who dress in 16th century Polish garb, who can’t discern between summer and winter cause they wear a furry hat and long black jackets in the middle of summer, what wisdom do the Yidden have. Decided to learn in a black hat yeshiva for 3 month so i could hate these arrogant Yidden with knowledge.

    At 31, a Yid who had never read the T’NaCH and only learned perhaps a page of the 20 volume work known as the Talmud, spoke virtually no Hebrew, Yiddish, or Aramaic [the language of the mystic Book of Daniel, and mixed with Hebrew in the classic Talmudic and Midrashic primary sources of Yiddishkeit…most Yeshivot would hardly permit me to enter their places of learning.

    But Chabad gave me a chance, and I found Talmudic literature right up my alley. We fit like a hand in a leather glove and a foot into a moccasin. Not good at picking up languages … 3 languages tri-lingual, 2 languages bi-lingual, 1 language American. 🙂

    Employed braille to engage more senses, studied in a tiny cubical to remove all outside movements and distractions… learned the required languages and the 1st time that my Rav Aaron Nemuraskii [left Chabad with the coming of their Rebbe Moshiach, found that mysticism based upon the Zohar and Ari’s kabbalah did not appeal to me in the least. Rav Aaron, a talmid of Rav Elyashiv – the leader of Ashkenazi Jewry], we completed the Sha’s Bavli/Talmud for the 1st time in about 4 months.

    The genius of Talmudic lateral common law, it rejected that the State should pay the salaries of either the Judges or the prosecuting attorneys. Britain and the State of Virginia, the court systems employ Vertical common law – the State pays the salaries of all the judges and prosecuting attorneys. Revolutionary America rejected the British vertical system of law and imposed a Jury as its version of lateral law.

    Talmudic jurisprudence the Torts Courts consist of 3 judges. One judge assumes the role of prosecuting attorney, the opposing judge the role of defense attorney and both of the judges argue the case before the 3rd Judge of the Court. The parties in the legal dispute either agree to split between themselves the Court costs or that the loser pays all the Court expenses. Usually a combination of both occur in long court trials.

    Became a judge.

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  7. I knew I was right! Glad to have you aboard.

    BTW, did you ever read Chaim Potok’s The Chosen? That was an eye-opener for this shiksa. 🙂

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  8. NICHE BUSINESS AND NICHE SELECTION IS GREAT JOB FROM THE CONFUSING LISTS..

    THIS MIGHT BE HELPFUL I THINK.. CLEAR ME IF WRONG
    STAY SAFE

    Admin note: Link was deleted. Please tell us what you think instead.

    P.S. Welcome aboard, CARPE DIEM.

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