Comments on: Rav Yitzchak Shapira’s Sefer Makes Headlines in Eretz Yisrael

By: Ben Melech

Ben Melech — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:39:34 +0000

#2 Xexon, You have probablyy already looked, so please tell us what you found, so we can debate it.

By: AinOhdMilvado

AinOhdMilvado — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:29:33 +0000

#2 “xenon” – Why don’t you go back to the planet you flew in from (uranus?) and leave Jewish issues to us Jewish earthlings!

By: Ben Melech

Ben Melech — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:37:17 +0000

I’m afraid that it will get worse before it gets better. No amount of explaining the difference between “halacha lemaseh” and “lehagdil Torah ulhadiroh”, will help. The enemies of the Torah are adamant in taking everything and anything out of context if it can portray us as monsters. It is said that Reb Chaim Brisker used to ask the Rov a sheileh but asked him not to tell him the reason because “ich vell es upfregen”. Debating if someone has a din roidef doesn’t yet mean that that person must be killed. Can’t we Torah Yidden have a PR spokesman who can put these people in place? We should and must answer them, and go on the offensive instead of them going on the offensive and we go cowering under a rock.

By: UKbloke

UKbloke — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:00:30 +0000

Can one kill western journalists, politicians and NGoO workers who hate it that the Yidden have a foothold in EY?

By: akuperma

akuperma — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:29:50 +0000

The issue isn’t so much the halacha of the matter (does anyone hold one can’t kill a rodef?), but the factual discussion as to what constitutes a rodef is really the point of controversy(for example, medical school professors who train abortionists, or perhaps voters in a foreign country who vote for politicians who opposed the Israeli government’s foreign policy, or what about toddlers in a hostile country who may grow up to attack Jews – and this sort of intellectual exercise doesn’t even get into whether the Israeli government is a rodef due to its efforts to undermine Torah).

When the gedolim say they favor shooting people, I’ll listen – and the author in question is hardly a widely respected gadol, and certainly no one who is even arguable a “gadol be-dor”, and he isn’t arguing we should put down gemaras and take up a life of shooting people.

By: xexon

xexon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:14:07 +0000

There is not a thing in the universe that didn’t come from a common source once upon a time.

We all come from the same factory. Our ideas about our individuality is the cause of much trouble in the world. Religion. Race. Country.

These are things that divide humanity.

If we value our own survival, we must move beyond the identities that we cling to so tightly. We only cling to them because we have so little else inside.

It’s time to look harder.

By: AinOhdMilvado

AinOhdMilvado — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:36:44 +0000

There are, B”H so VERY many baalai t’shuva in eretz Yisrael today, there is hardly a family untouched by the movement. As a result the left wing establishment is running scared!