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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
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TODAY, the radical Left is using the stolen, leaked draft
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TODAY, the radical Left is using the stolen, leaked draft Supreme Court opinion that would OVERTURN Roe v. Wade to make Roe PERMANENT.
Today may be the biggest day in the fight for life we've ever seen, and we face a critical MIDNIGHT deadline.
The radical Left will stop at nothing as they worship at the altar of abortion, including viciously attempting to intimidate Justices into changing their minds.
Now, Sen. Schumer is using every trick in the book to FORCE a vote IN JUST HOURS on an unconstitutional bill that would expand abortion and make Roe permanent, even if the Supreme Court officially strikes down Roe. We only have a few hours left to defeat it.
We're mobilizing in an EMERGENCY battle TODAY to protect the integrity of the Supreme Court and this opinion that overturns Roe to defend the lives of countless unborn babies.
We've just delivered our detailed legal analysis to every Senator showing exactly how this evil bill is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. And we're prepared to take this fight all the way to the Supreme Court. This is the biggest fight of our lifetime. The moment is now.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2021
The Ben Franklin Effect
Ki Tetzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19)
The Ben Franklin EffectIn his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin tells of a rival legislator with whom he was having trouble getting along. Franklin devised what may seem as a counterintuitive plan to win him over.
Knowing that this rival had a rare book in his library, Franklin sent him a message requesting that the legislator lend him the book for a few days. Franklin returned the book with a thank you note a week later. Subsequently, the man who up to this point never spoke to Franklin, treated him with great civility and they kindled a friendship for the rest of their lives.
The lesson from this story became known in the psychological literature as the Ben Franklin Effect. First studied in the 1960’s by Jon Jecker and David Landry, the Ben Franklin effect demonstrates that a benefactor who does a favor for another person is likely to increase positive feelings towards the person he is benefiting, even if the benefactor originally did not like the other person.
The hypothesized psychological concept underlying this phenomenon is cognitive dissonance. We tend to dislike having competing conceptions of ourselves in our minds so we generally try and synthesize perceived differences. On the one hand, it doesn’t make sense to help someone that I don’t like, yet on the other hand, I helped this person who I thought I didn’t like. Hence, subconsciously I resolve that it must be that I really do like the person.
If we pay close attention to the laws Moses repeats in Deuteronomy, we will notice discrepancies between the formulation in Deuteronomy and previous presentations. In this week's Torah portion the law regarding helping a fallen animal on the road states, “If you see your fellow’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it - you must help him raise it” (Deut 22:4). Yet in Parshat Mishpatim the law reads as follows: “When you see the donkey of your enemy lying under its burden and would refrain from raising it, you must nevertheless raise it with him” (Exodus 23:5). While there is more than one difference between the verses, the most glaring one that the commentators address is the switch from the animal belonging to one’s enemy (“sona’acha”) to belonging to one’s fellow (“achica”). Why the switch from enemy to friend?
Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, in his commentary, Meshech Chochma, suggests a chronological answer. Something significant happened in between the presentation in Parshat Mishpatim where it says “enemy” and Parshat Ki Teitzei where it says “fellow,” namely, the sin of the golden calf. To make his point, Rabbi Meir Simcha first references the Talmud in Pesachim (113a), which is bothered by the use of the term “sona’acha” - enemy or hated one – used in in Parshat Mishpatim. Doesn’t the Torah in Parshat Kedoshim (Vayikra 19:17) prohibit us from hating each other?
The Talmud answers that there is an exception to the rule. One is allowed, and even perhaps obligated, to hate someone whom he sees has transgressed a commandment. In a powerful limitation of the application of this Talmud, Rabbi Meir Simcha argues that this is only true before the Children of Israel sinned with the golden calf. Afterwards, we all became spiritually flawed and limited. Only someone who is pure and virtuous, would be allowed to have a righteous indignation towards those that have sinned. After the sin of the golden calf, there is nobody who could reach such a status, hence everyone should be considered brethren. Therefore the verse in Parshat Ki Teitzei switches from the term “enemy” to “fellow,” because enemy is no longer a viable option.
Rabbeinu Bechaye suggests a different answer to the switch from enemy to friend. He writes that the Torah is hinting to a strategy as to how to transform someone from an enemy to a friend. If there is someone that you don’t like, and you go out of your way to help him, you will come to like him. By doing him a favor, you will become his friend. In other words, the switch of the words in the verses is hinting to the Ben Franklin effect.
If we would like to decrease the amount of strife and hatred in our lives, we would do well to internalize these messages. First, realize that there are limited acceptable justifications for hating someone. Second, if we do have strong negative feelings towards other people, consider doing them a favor. By acting kindly towards them, you can alter your own perceptions and enhance the relationship, transforming them from enemy to friend.
Letter From Rav Weinberger & The Hanala
Dear Chevra,
Elul has arrived and we’re all thinking of ways to improve, to give more nachas to Hachodesh Boruch Hu. His greatest nachas is when He sees how we care about his children and help each other in times of need. It’s been many years since I reached out publicly for donations to the Shul’s discretionary fund. At this point I have no choice. Many families are crushed under the burden of tuition, various therapies, etc. It’s overwhelming, particularly at this time of the year. I am turning to you to help me help them, and in turn Hashem should help all of us, and grant us and all of Klal Yisroel a שנה טובה ומתוקה.
Rav Moshe Weinberger
I've just joined the list
Wed, Aug 18 at 4:34 AM
>
> I installed evolution on archlinux via the pacman package manager.
It is more helpful if you tell us the version of Evolution you are
using. For some queries the desktop you are using is also important.
>
> My mail server has a self issued cert, and I had some trouble getting
> evolution to connect at all. This required continuing to re-enter the
> IMAP and SMTP passwords on initial account creation.
The self signed certificate should only need to be accepted once per
account; that shouldn't require you to enter the password multiple
times. They aren't connected as far as I know.
The passwords are stored in gnome-keyring so that needs to be running
in order to not be re-prompted for passwords.
>
> Once evolution started to sync my existing mail store to the local
> computer, I noticed a very troubling thing: many many emails were
> showing up in the Junk folder. In my existing thunderbird client
> configuration, I don't use the Junk folder at all. Mail deemed SPAM
> is moved directly to the Trash folder, which I review before
> emptying.
How do you deem the mail to be SPAM?
>
> Quite a number of these emails are from deeply nested IMAP folders
> where I squirrel away many tens of thousands of historic emails from
> the last several decades.
>
> Now, several hundred of these IMAP folder emails are deposited into
> the JUNK folder.
If you have not changed the configuration at all, then the Junk folder
is virtual - i.e. it shows the messages that have been marked as Junk,
the messages themselves are still in their original folders, you just
can't see them (View -> Show Junk messages). You can mark the messages
as "Not Junk" and they will reappear and not be shown in the Junk
folder.
You should be aware that Trash is also a virtual folder by default. The
Trash folder shows the messages that are marked as deleted. Again, by
default those deleted messages are hidden (View -> Show deleted
messages). Since the Trash is virtual, there is no concept of "Move to
Trash".
This can be configured on an a per account basis - i.e. the Junk and
Trash can be real folders.
>
> This doesn't seem like initial behavior that is intended to keep new
> users happy 8-(
>
> My reading of the online docs prior to first execution indicated that
> Evolution used external programs to perform spam detection, and that
> it wouldn't be enabled by default.
Yes, but if the messages are marked as junk by something else then they
will appear in the virtual Junk folder.
>
> What should I do to prevent Evolution from trashing my mail archives?
Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Preferences -> Junk
Then untick the "Check incoming messages for junk" to turn off Spam
checking.
Wed, Aug 18 at 10:39 AMOn 8/18/21 1:34 AM, Pete Biggs wrote:
>
> It is more helpful if you tell us the version of Evolution you are
> using. For some queries the desktop you are using is also important.
>
Thank you for your reply Pete!
I'm running: evolution 3.38.4 on a Fluxbox 1.3.7 desktop
>>
>> My mail server has a self issued cert, and I had some trouble getting
>> evolution to connect at all. This required continuing to re-enter the
>> IMAP and SMTP passwords on initial account creation.
>
> The self signed certificate should only need to be accepted once per
> account; that shouldn't require you to enter the password multiple
> times. They aren't connected as far as I know.
>
> The passwords are stored in gnome-keyring so that needs to be running
> in order to not be re-prompted for passwords.
>
That's very helpful. Obviously, evolution is meant to run as part of gnome, and I'm on a Fluxbox desktop here. Are there any other support utilities that should be running?
>>
>> Once evolution started to sync my existing mail store to the local
>> computer, I noticed a very troubling thing: many many emails were
>> showing up in the Junk folder. In my existing thunderbird client
>> configuration, I don't use the Junk folder at all. Mail deemed SPAM
>> is moved directly to the Trash folder, which I review before
>> emptying.
>
> How do you deem the mail to be SPAM?
>
I saw the emails in the Junk folder, not in evolution, but in thunderbird running on a different machine.
All the messages in the Junk folder had the SPAM flag set.
There are other email clients running on the same IMAP account: K-9 on android, thunderbird on an old machine (won't be replaced), thunderbird locally (hope to replace).
When I first started and configured the IMAP account on evolution locally, it had quite a bit of downloading to do. It was during this initial IMAP download that certain mail was flagged as SPAM and appeared in the Junk folder of all the running clients.
No other mail clients are configured to use the "Junk" folder at all. Only thunderbird on the old machine has SPAM detection enabled, and it moves any mail designated as SPAM to the Trash folder, not to Junk. This machine also does other mail filtering, such as putting this message in an "evolution" folder. I intend to eventually replace this with server side sieve and SPAM detection, but that is another project.
>>
>> Quite a number of these emails are from deeply nested IMAP folders
>> where I squirrel away many tens of thousands of historic emails from
>> the last several decades.
>>
>> Now, several hundred of these IMAP folder emails are deposited into
>> the JUNK folder.
>
> If you have not changed the configuration at all, then the Junk folder
> is virtual - i.e. it shows the messages that have been marked as Junk,
> the messages themselves are still in their original folders, you just
> can't see them (View -> Show Junk messages). You can mark the messages
> as "Not Junk" and they will reappear and not be shown in the Junk
> folder.
>
> You should be aware that Trash is also a virtual folder by default. The
> Trash folder shows the messages that are marked as deleted. Again, by
> default those deleted messages are hidden (View -> Show deleted
> messages). Since the Trash is virtual, there is no concept of "Move to
> Trash".
>
> This can be configured on an a per account basis - i.e. the Junk and
> Trash can be real folders.
>
How will evolution interact with other clients on the same IMAP account? How will any other client recognize a "virtual" folder?
Is there some way to set these options on a newly configured evolution before it starts creating virtual copies of things?
What are these "virtual copies"? When I search I see "saved search" "virtual folders" for thunderbird, and "shared virtual folders" for courier-imap (courier is the IMAP server here), and "virtual directories" for dovecot. Are any of these related to evolution's "virtual folders"?
>>
>> This doesn't seem like initial behavior that is intended to keep new
>> users happy 8-(
>>
>> My reading of the online docs prior to first execution indicated that
>> Evolution used external programs to perform spam detection, and that
>> it wouldn't be enabled by default.
>
> Yes, but if the messages are marked as junk by something else then they
> will appear in the virtual Junk folder.
>
All of the messages seen in Junk where pre-existing in filtered IMAP folders, not marked as SPAM.
These weren't incoming messages, but messages filtered into folders long ago.
>>
>> What should I do to prevent Evolution from trashing my mail archives?
>
> Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Preferences -> Junk
>
> Then untick the "Check incoming messages for junk" to turn off Spam
> checking.
>
>
> P.
>
Thanks so much for your help and insight!
John A
San Diego CA
2021-08-18
Wed, Aug 18 at 11:23 AMOn Wed, 2021-08-18 at 07:39 -0700, John A via evolution-list wrote:
> > The passwords are stored in gnome-keyring so that needs to be
> > running
> > in order to not be re-prompted for passwords.
> >
>
> That's very helpful. Obviously, evolution is meant to run as part of
> gnome, and I'm on a Fluxbox desktop here. Are there any other support
> utilities that should be running?
I run Evolution under KDE/Plasma. Gnome-keyring-d handles
authentication, but IIRC Evo will start it automatically. You may need
to register your passwords in the database using seahorse.
poc
Wed, Aug 18 at 1:08 PMOn 2021-08-18 at 07:39 -0700, John A via evolution-list wrote:
> > You should be aware that Trash is also a virtual folder by default.
> > The Trash folder shows the messages that are marked as deleted.
> > Again, by default those deleted messages are hidden (View -> Show
> > deleted messages). Since the Trash is virtual, there is no concept
> > of "Move to Trash".
> >
> > This can be configured on an a per account basis - i.e. the Junk
> > and Trash can be real folders.
> >
>
> How will evolution interact with other clients on the same IMAP
> account? How will any other client recognize a "virtual" folder?
>
> Is there some way to set these options on a newly configured
> evolution before it starts creating virtual copies of things?
>
> What are these "virtual copies"? When I search I see "saved search"
> "virtual folders" for thunderbird, and "shared virtual folders" for
> courier-imap (courier is the IMAP server here), and "virtual
> directories" for dovecot. Are any of these related to evolution's
> "virtual folders"?
No. Virtual folders in evolution are just searches, shown as a folder.
They are local to evolution, other clients won't know about them (and
in fact, you can have a virtual folder spanning several accounts).
Since you saw the changes in the other clients, it seems you are using
them as real folders.
Regards
Genesis 1
Genesis 1
New International Version
New International Version
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
Footnotes
- Genesis 1:26 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text the earth
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