Comments on: No Compensation for Israeli Travelers Stranded by Hurricane Sandy

By: mark levin

mark levin — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:48:54 +0000

all of a sudden they believe in G-d?

By: shmendrick

shmendrick — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:55:04 +0000

There is a halachic (ancient babalonian legalese) concept of “nispacha sodayhu” (translated: his field got flooded) and as such, must suffer the consequences for breach of contract , even though the “flooding of his field” (applicable literally in this case) was an “act of god”.

This halacha is not rooted in the principle of “magiyah lahem” which you claim is a teaching of frum Jews. If a gentile would make such a statement, we’d scream antisemitism, but because you have been missing something since your bris, you think you have a licence to besmitch – for that I say to you magiya licha!

I am not saying nispacha sodayhu applies in this case, indeed, the news item says the travelers won’t be compensated, but to your point of “pshita” (it is obvious) I am merely replying that there is a counter argument.

You ask, am I missing something? In my opinion, yes, seichel.

By: rc

rc — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:31:03 +0000

am i missing something here? why should they? frum Jews need to learn that everything is not magiyah lahem.. If you are scheduled to fly to cleveland and there is a snow storm since when does the ariline reimburse you above and beyond allowing you to reschedule. and the way you mention “act of G-d” … as if it wasnt.. was this not CLEARLY an act of G-d??? I would think since the whole eastern seaboard was almost obliterated, that bnei torah would have something more important to report.