Elliot Resnick

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@ResnickElliot MAZEL TOV!

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@ResnickElliot Very well said

Tuesday marked five years since I – and hundreds of other Americans – stormed the Capitol building in an effort to stop the certification of a highly suspicious election. Conventional wisdom deems us hooligans, at best. "What was the point?" people ask. "What did you think you would accomplish?" It's funny. No one asks about the point of the current protests in Iran considering that previous rounds of protest have only ended in failure and death. No one asks about the point of the storming of the presidential residence in Sri Lanka in 2022. No one asks about the point of radical protests against judicial reform in Israel in 2023. For that matter, no one asks about the point of constant unruly leftist protests in America. For everyone understands that protests make a statement, create a mood, and exert pressure on the political class. If the protests are illegal or unruly, the effect is multiplied. It shouldn't be, but facts are facts. Leftists have been protesting phantom racism for years. But did they ever achieve more than they did in the aftermath of the George Floyd riots? No, they did not. Thomas Jefferson's statue wasn't removed from New York's City Hall in 1990 or 2000 or 2010. But it was removed after the George Floyd riots. The same is true of the Theodore Roosevelt statue that used to stand outside Manhattan's Museum of Natural History. On a more practical plane, only after the George Floyd riots did New York Mayor Bill de Blasio eliminate his city's undercover crime unit. Only after the riots did Hollywood establish race quotas for Oscar-eligible films. And likely only due to those riots do we have a lightweight like Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court justice. People might say: But what did the January 6 protests accomplish? Congress certified the suspicious election results anyways. And if we wanted Trump to stay in the White House – well, he returned to White House in 2025 and is doing more than he would have done had he served his second term starting in 2021. True. But we had no way of knowing that on January 6, 2021. Congress certifying the election results wasn't inevitable. On January 2, seven U.S. senators had issued a public call to establish an emergency election commission – like the one set up in the wake of the contested 1876 election – that would get to the bottom of the questions swirling around the election before Inauguration Day. Pressure from the January 6 protest could have strengthened their hand. The protest could have also strengthened Trump's hand had a decent portion of the Republican party and conservative movement supported him and not immediately thrown all January 6 protesters under the bus. Trump could have said to the Democrats, "Look, I didn't want any of this. But clearly the people are furious and things are starting to spin out of control. Work with me. Let's come up with a compromise. Let's set up an independent commission to audit the election results. I will try to tell my people to calm down, but I need to give them something. Help me out." That's exactly the strategy the left used in the summer of 2021 as they let rioters take over American cities. They essentially said to the right, "Look, we don't really agree with street violence, but we understand the masses' righteous indignation, and we're not going to try to quell these riots until the root causes are addressed." "But Trump became president anyway!" Yes, he did. But that wasn't inevitable in 2021. Had Biden not been an utter trainwreck and Harris such an underwhelming candidate, Trump could have easily lost in 2024. Then what? Would our efforts to ensure proper election results in 2021 still have seemed crazy? Incidentally, just the other week a lawyer representing Georgia in court publicly acknowledged that the state illegally certified 315,000 ballots. And then we have the head of an official Wisconsin election commission who thinks his state's results were fraudulent. So was the election indeed stolen? I don't know. But I do know that enough questions were hovering over it that Congress had no right to proceed on January 6 without a proper audit. And I know too that when you are a crowd of hundreds, and the entrance to Congress – the place from which highly suspicious election results are about to be certified – is a few hundred feet away from you and guarded by just 10 unimposing law enforcement officials, you have to be insane not to utilize the opportunity to walk into Congress to register your protest. Not every protest is successful. But even the unsuccessful ones put the political class on alert and thus influence the future. They also serve as an inspiration for future activists. That's why the current protests in Iran are a net good. Hopefully they will succeed. But even if they don't, no one will have died in vain. For the government will act differently in the future and the protests will inspire others to protest again when the time is right. Finally, I will say this: We never know the future. We only know the moment in front of us. Edmund Burke allegedly said a long time ago: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." On January 6, 2021, I – and thousands of others – saw a grave evil being committed. So we acted. As patriotic Americans, we couldn't have done otherwise. @CarsoJ6 @JohnStrandUSA @mericanaf7 @MarkFMiddleton @GeriPerna @drsimonegold @Savsays @alexbruesewitz @TzniusTifa @IsabellaMDeLuca @LauraLoomer @VinceEEllison @realDonaldTrump

@moshefeiglin My Hebrew isn't great, so perhaps I've misunderstood you, but if you're criticizing the settlers, I'm quite surprised. You know perfectly well that settlers only act as they do because the army refuses to properly protect them. The state is thus the criminal party, not them.

אין דבר כזה טרור יהודי. שכן רע המטיל אימה אינו טרוריסט, הוא פושע פלילי שכן אין כאן מטרה מדינית. היכן שיש ראיות מוצקות לפשיעה (מוצקות - לא עינויים שיכולים לגרום ליריב אופנהיימר להודות שהוא חסיד ברסלב) - יש לטפל במישור הפלילי.

@GOTWORKOUTS @timecaptales It works for 4827: 8742 - 2478 = ----- 6264 6642 - 2466 = ----- 4176 7641 - 1467 = ----- 6174

@timecaptales doesnt work. tried 4827 and 6894

Mathematician explains the uniqueness of the number 6174, known as Kaprekar’s Constant & discovered by D. R. Kaprekar in 1949

הצעיר הערבי הזה אומר את האמת שרבים מאיתנו מסרבים לשמוע: הערבים לא תורמים למדינה, נהנים מהקידמה ומהאימפריה שבנינו ומזהים את הפחד היהודי. הוא צודק בביקורת, אבל טועה בשורש: הארץ הזו הובטחה ליצחק, לא לישמעאל. הגיע הזמן להפסיק לפחד, להחיל ריבונות ולהבהיר - מי שלא מכיר בבעלותינו על הארץ, מי שלא מקבל את ריבונותינו - מקומו במדבר.

Excellent. In my humble opinion, the more passion you display and the more practical examples you offer, the more votes you'll get. (Your "Dresden" video two years ago was likewise excellent.) I can appreciate your calm, abstract, philosophical observations, but the average voter cannot. He needs someone to speak to his gut. B'hatzlacha!

זה לא דור רגיל. זה דור של גיבורים שלא היה כמותו בתולדות ישראל. דור שחולם ולא מפחד לחלום. דור שרץ קדימה, שותל עצים בחולות עזה, נישא ברוח גדולה של גבורה ומסירות נפש שאין לה שם. והטרגדיה ברורה: דור של אריות - שמונהג בידי הנהגה משוללת חזון. במערכת הביטחון, ובמערכת הפוליטית. המשימה שלנו ברורה לא פחות: להפסיק לשעבד את עצמנו למנהיגות של פחד. להפסיק לקבל את ה״עוד מאותו הדבר״. להפסיק להאמין שוויתור, נסיגה ו״סבב״ הם גזירת גורל. אנחנו כאן כדי לייצר הנהגה שחולמת את החלום של הראל. לא רק מסירות נפש - אלא ניצחון. לא עוד מלחמות סרק - אלא הכרעה. לא חזרה לאוסלו - אלא תיקון אמיתי. מלחמה כדי לנצח. לכבוש, ליישב, לבנות. ולתקן עולם במלכות ש-ד-י.

Yes, that's why the hostile term "ethno-state" is ridiculous. That's also why the whole Khazar line of argument is irrelevant. It happens not to be true, but even if it were true, it wouldn't make any difference. The Land of Israel would still belong to us. The Jewish nation is like the American people. If you sign up for the mission, you're just as American/Jewish as any other American/Jew. Your biological ancestry is almost entirely irrelevant.

Periodic reminder that while genetics may help prove someone is Jewish, Jewishness is not contingent on genetics. Otherwise, conversion would be impossible.

Rabbi Berel Wein made that same point years in one of his history tapes about medieval Christian efforts to convert Jews. I believe he said that Christian leaders sometimes tried to get rabbis to convert or publicly admit (in a debate) that Christianity was the correct religion. They assumed that if they could accomplish that, the Jews en masse would convert. Rabbi Wein said these Christian completely misunderstood the nature of our religion. Judaism is far bigger than any one rabbi, he said.

The whole “right wing influencers” who all turn out to either be grifters, liars, or completely ignorant of all the issues is a good example of what will never happen thanks to Orthodox gatekeeping. The gatekeepers in Orthodoxy are meritocracy, and the community as a whole. You can’t pull a Candace, decide overnight that you’re Orthodox, start preaching, and amass a huge following. No one will listen to someone who doesn’t know bikkurim from bikkur cholim. You can’t call yourself an Orthodox influencer or self-styled Rabbi and get an Orthodox following. Now, you can do so and maybe get a non-Jewish or non-Orthodox following, but no one in the community will listen to you because that’s the second gatekeeper: the community itself. We self-police. When people start to move away from the ideology, even if they attained their position by meritocracy, any real deviation from our tradition, and you will find cast out in the wilderness. There’s no “He’s too big and has too much of a following, I can’t attack him.” Ideas will be attacked, and no one will stand by to attack them. That’s not to say we’re impervious to problems. There are certainly Rabbis that have engaged in things they shouldn’t have, or did things they shouldn’t have done, but we will thankfully never see situations like this where anyone can go up to the bima, say whatever they want to say no matter how far off, and get a following.

First, "plenty" is an exaggeration. It's a small minority. Second, you were making the opposite point – that the definition of Modern Orthodoxy today is what it was in the 1960s: comprised of people who go mixed swimming, mixed dancing, don't cover their hair, etc. My point was that this is no longer all of Modern Orthodoxy or even necessarily most of it. There's a huge swath of the Modern Orthodox world today that would never do any of the above practices. And this swath is growing and is represented by hundreds of students at YU.

@ResnickElliot YU also has a gay club and plenty of students that don't keep shabbos or kosher. Are those core values of modern Orthodoxy? I would certainly hope not.

"Shtark YU" is not modern Orthodox. When defending modox, people often point to YU smicha, gruss kollel etc, but that's not modox. When yeshivish people critique modox, they are talking about people who keep half shabbos, eat out dairy and don't cover their hair.

@JeremyTate41 And very counter-cultural too. It's practically the opposite of therapy culture where everything is about you.

Shortly after becoming Catholic I confided in a friend that I didn’t feel like I was “getting that much out of Mass” I will never forget his response, “that’s OK. It’s not about you.” In five seconds it was the most powerful spiritual insight I have ever received.

Israel needs to take some lessons from American history: 1) When Southern guerrilla fighters fired on Union vessels sailing on the Mississippi River, General William Tecumseh Sherman ordered a colonel to approach the nearby village and destroy it, "leaving one house to mark the place." 2) When guerrilla fighters killed a Northern lieutenant, General Sherman "ordered the burning of all houses within a five-mile radius of the incident." No more targeted operations. Collective punishment. That's the only way to win.

You don’t make peace with monsters. You eradicate them!

@netanyahu No, you won't. You have let terrorism fester for decades.

רעייתי שרה ואני שולחים תנחומים מעומק ליבנו למשפחות הנרצחים בפיגוע המשולב בצפון, אביב מאור ז"ל בת ה-17 ושמשון מרדכי ז"ל בן ה-68. אנו מאחלים לפצועים החלמה מהירה ומחזקים את האזרח הגיבור שהביא לנטרולו של המחבל. אף שהיו סיכולים רבים נגד הטרור בשנה האחרונה, לצערנו אנו חווים מעת לעת פיגועים רצחניים. ממשלת ישראל תמשיך לפעול לסיכול כל המבקש לפגוע באזרחיה.

I challenged these boys with something I honestly thought they couldn’t pull off. Five days before our Chanukah concert, we realized a problem: we loved the song Light One Candle, but most of our community didn’t understand the words because it’s in English. A powerful song only works if it’s understood. So we translated it. And these boys learned it in just three days. Not just the tune, the meaning. What they sang on stage had so much heart and depth that I honestly like it better than the original. Translation in the comments below.

@Average_NY_Guy And our red lines are not even a matter of policy. They're a matter of decency. Tucker & co. don't just dislike Israel. They lie about it in the most vicious ways. A decent person can be wrong. But a decent person can never be vicious and intentionally dishonest.

Everybody has red lines they are not willing to cross, and they expect everyone else to understand and respect them. Yet somehow, only the Jew is told to abandon his values and red lines when he stands by them, all in the name of “unity.” It doesn’t work like that.