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Dear Takah,

” “True believers” would be going to Yerushalayim, not someplace in the middle of Jew hatred country.”

I do not see the truth to your statement.

Dear Ben,

Maybe foolish on your part. You are missing the entire context. She is an activist. Not an economic theorist.

Dear Health,

It takes less than a minute to partially disable a voting machine.

There is a youtube video on how to hack the machine in seven minutes.

How much time is allowed in the booth?

Since it is a new limud (Kodshim) intelligent boys cannot keep up by cruising through the shiurim , and relying on what they know from high school. If a bochur is keeping up in these yeshivos, you know he is either putting in some real hours, or he was an iluy at a young age. Brisk specifically, has no attraction for bochurim that are not learning. Since space is limited, most of those that get in, only do so with the recommendation of their rosh yeshivah. Which implicates that the rosh yeshivah thought it was worth it for the bochur to go to Brisk.

Dear Health,

The din of machteres only applies to a ganev. Because he is not in any way in the midst of attempting to kill anyone, it is inapplicable the regular concept of rodef. It would not apply if someone would be breaking and entering without any intention of theft. For example, someone breaking into a public building to get shelter from a storm (However we know that he is not trying to steal anything.) will not have one din of a rodef. Or if someone takes a shortcut through your property, there is no din of machteres.

If you want, you can keep thumping your bible. Better to open it and examine it under the lens of our sages.

Dear Health,
Biden is your average joe senator for the last thirty years. There is no easy knock here. Maybe you can talk up Trump’s attributes. Like, how he can solve the racial divide, control the pandemic, and restart the economy.

Dear Shimon,

As long as one can see and hear the others it is a minyan. But not a tzibbur.

Dear Health,

Nobody is in the booth when someone is voting. The machines are sometimes brought to the polling stations a few days in advance.

Dear Health,

I am not a bible thumper. This is not the parshah of the din of rodef. See the latter half of eight perek of sanhedrin.

You can not assume things in life and death matters. [This may be a major earth shattering chiddush to you.] You have to examine the factors carefully.

In many Police departments they do only half of their job. Eventually we should give them better training, or find private alternatives.

Dear Syag,

I get the feeling that you aremore skeptical then I am, if the shut downs worked.

Dear Participant,

Thanks!

Dear Syag,

I feel like we are basically of the same opinion. Just facing in different directions. You think that if this was a deadly outbreak of say, malaria; things would be just as confusing?

Dear Health,

Why would the thief be a rodef as soon as he breaks in? Maybe the house is empty. [As well as a hundred other variables.]

How do you know he was about to drive the car? Maybe he was going to sleep it off. (Among other possibilities.)

I propose the cop should have confirmed that he was the guy who bought the cigarettes. [Maybe he did.] Then ask him where he got the money from. [I am not sure how the best way to ask this question. But something along these lines. Then again, it could be the cop did this too.] The he could have asked him if he needs a ride. [Maybe he did. Maybe something happened here. It is not clear to me.] And then he could have left him alone! [Only one of the millions of Americans that were intoxicated at that moment.]

Dear Doing,
As far anybody here knows, Floyd never shot anyone.

The joke three weeks ago was that random people being pulled off the streets into unmarked cars was vital to keeping America safe.

Somebody has to answer to why it is worth forging individual ballots. It would be more efficient to manipulate a voting machine. Or to invalidate hundreds of ballots at the official counting.

Dear Fein,
Not sure who you are calling ignorant. Trump’s executive order is a reiteration of 2010 guidance issued by the Obama administration aimed at providing a more expansive definition of antisemitism. Our constitutional rights were first recognized long before Trump came to office.

Dear Syag,

No, the risk is not based on how I stated it, nor how I understand it. Because that is still just human perspective. If this was an epidemic of a known disease such as typhus or influenza, than we could just follow directives. Because we already have the know how of past experience.

Being that we are dealing with a new disease, there has been a lot of confusion. (We could assume that everybody was wrong about something at some point.) To say that it is behind us, is pure conjecture. There is still at the very least a risk in that we will not know when it is for sure over. To say that we know for a fact that it is behind us, is a boldface lie. We may may not know that it is behind, even when it is. The same way we did not know it was among us, until sometime after.

The guidelines in this country gave a lot of leeway. The problem is that people are taking it as an all or nothing approach. The more precautions we take, the more freedom we eventually retain. (This could be a motto for general life. I am not taking credit for claiming to know something with that one.) In Europe, fans started attending soccer matches in June. And, they were clear to travel anywhere in the world. Do you think that was good for their economy?

Besides the social justice protests, there were stay at home protests. The Governors were unable to do much about it. Why do take that as a leniency? And it did not make it evident to me that the danger is not real. I took it as it is not up to what the Governor decrees. It is/was up to the people to make it work.

“It is indeed hard to talk to the fearful, faithful, and well educated.”
I laughed. Thanks!

Dear Health,

When the drunk is actually starting to drive [while impaired] and there may be people around (Or if there are people with him in the vehicle.) he is a rodef. Not before that.

Breaking into a house is not [yet] a rodef. He is given a lifeless disposition because of two factors. 1) He is in the process of theft. 2) He may become a rodef.

Dear Proud,

I did not predict anything. Hashem made your existence in such a way, that you can examine what is around you and come up with an understanding of how it works. Please stop insulting His handiwork.

Dear Reb Eliezer,
Voltaire was saying that even an atheist would have to admit that it is easier to rationalize that there is a god, even if it is true that there is no God.

The constitution requires at least some internal reckoning on the part of the individual. Same as any moral contract. The part of civilization that encourages us toward a self reckoning we call religion. Where has all the religious leadership gone? In the Sixties, the civil rights leaders were mostly ministers. Clergy had a tremendous impact on american culture. To the extent that the man on the streets political involvement was at the behest of his religious leadership. There is none of that now. So, thinking Americans self reckon about the constitution in accordance with the extant of their education. Which is another topic….

Bottom line. If the religious have problems with American culture today, it because Americans had problems with the religious activities of yesterday.

Dear Proud,

There is no hate on this thread, and very little hatred for others on this site.

Another disillusioned liberal.

Dear Coffee,

Clinton said he supported it in principal. Bush was into it. Obama said something like, Jerusalem is the capitol of Israel. The Democrats supported it as much as the Republicans.

Dear Random,
“Also, can we please uncouple the idea of morally/spiritually
good and bad music with whether the music is “Jewish?”

I did, see above.

The fatality rate in the USA is 3-6%. Not a good statistic.

Dear SYag,

There are two options here.

1 The states can pay for priority mail.
2 The feds can hire more workers for the usps.

Something feels familiar about this debate.

(In other words, this is not unique to Trump.)