twisted:
Clarification (possibly unnecessary): The possibility that I assume you would not have considered in that case is that I was using “Chareidi” as a pejorative.
(Also, I wrote “if the mods approve it” because
a previous response had been rejected.)
I did not cover the option of leaving in the face of foreign
demand because I just didn’t think of it at the time, and I
realize now that it’s a good thing I didn’t mention it.
I’m not done with you yet (unless the mods say so, anyway)…
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Sam:
Having thought it over, I assume that by “pre-Chanukah-like tragedy” you meant a desire by Jews to be accepted by and/or
similar to the other nations.
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zahavasdad:
Weren’t the Chareidim (and everyone else) unaware of the full threat in 1939? Also, it is a spiritual response that is called for in the face of a physical threat in the chareidi mind.
(Theoretical aside:
I doubt one from Europe’s chareidi minority alone would have been enough, and wonder whether by the time the war started it would
already have been too late.)
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For a premise to be flawed, it must be illogical, not merely not
have usually been the case before. Also, if when there wasn’t a
religious majority they took up arms, why couldn’t they do so if
they were the majority?
Or am I not getting something?
Did you perhaps mean that this situation would not be
the same as the one at the time of the Chasmonaim?
In case you haven’t seen it, I’ve responded to an old post of yours here:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/nechama-cohens-new-single#post-550522
(I’m not sure you’d check that thread without this notice.)
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Popa:
I considered questioning your use of “gymnasium,” but
according to You-Know-What, Israel has five of them.
To answer your question about Herod, I’d revert it. And seeing
as I don’t know how reverts are counted for the three-revert rule, if it was locked on your version, I’d check the edit
history and cite the primary source instead.
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oomis:
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Mods:
Please delete only the specific section(s), if any, you deem unfit for publication. You wouldn’t make me break this into six parts (seven with this) and wait 60 seconds between putting up each one, would you?