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Joseph,
So you’ve now jumped from … [blah blah blah]
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Hamevin yavin.
Your Agagi example is incomparable since he specifically and overtly used it to attack Yidden.
Once again you make my point before I can! The example is quite apropos.
You still have failed to, despite being asked to, identify which Halachas should be toned down from being publicly discussed “even though the halachos are correct”, and what criteria you’ve come up with.
That’s not my job. Most people learn about what is and is not appropriate to say and when to say or not say it when they are young.
Toeiva, shechita, avoda zora, gender roles?
Nope, nope, nope, nope. I’m not uncomfortable with any of those concepts. You may think that attempting to bully me through insinuations that I’m influenced by goyish mores and values will be effective. Sorry, it comes off like shooting wildly in the dark.
it would be unusual and interesting but no one would get bent out of shape because he repeated it so. Even if he kept saying it to Yisroelim.
I disagree, I think it would come off as rude, condescending, weird, and creepy. That said, the reason we don’t have much of an emotional response to the differences in status between kohanim and Yisroelim is due to the long darkness of golus. We don’t remember the avoda of the Beis Hamikdash, and don’t yearn for it properly. IY”H soon may we have to have some additional sensitivity and tact in explaining why kohanim get to do things that the rest of us don’t.
If someone would present a halachic argument here, even a convoluted one, making that same argument in support of the reverse of what I showed from Halacha, I’m quite sure you wouldn’t be jumping all up and down about how terrible it is to say that.
Wrong. Obviously you don’t read much of what I write. But that’s fine.
But regarding this cited Halacha you’re embarrassed how the goyim perceive it. That’s the only motivation to be upset to hear the Halacha in public.
Wrong again. I’m not concerned with how the goyim perceive halacha at all.
If the goyim in the near future widely start deeming shechita as cruelty to animals or bris milah as child abuse, something certainly within the realm of possibility in the future
I share those fears.
I can see those with your thought process insisting we not too loudly or too much or publicly discuss shechita or mila.
Absolutely, but not CV”S because I’m “embarrassed” by those mitzvos, but because I treasure them and want to perform them without interference. It’s interesting that you seem to get that we are in golus and shouldn’t excessively provoke the goyim in regards to things like yishuv baaretz, but on other matters you seem to have no compunction to provoke. But all of that is irrelevant here. I doubt many, if any goyim are on the CR.