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Avram in MD
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Joseph,

you didn’t add much in your last comment other than hot air

I’m only responding to the material I’m given. Try writing something more substantive than baseless insinuations and fallacious statements, and maybe you’ll get more than hot air in response.

What “tact” is lacking in explaining it? Kohanim are more chashuv and important than Yisroelim. … You see saying all that as tactless?

Yeah, that was pretty tactless. And in a world iy”H soon where we feel pulled towards the ketores, towards offering our own korbonos, and towards experiencing closeness with Hashem in the kodesh kodashim, you might want to work on that delivery when talking to your children.

Those same principles between a Kohein and Yisroel apply between a man and a woman.

Yet the man and woman case seems to be the only one that interests you. Why is that?

When the goy came to R’ Hillel and challenged him to explain the entire Torah while he stood on one foot, he did not say, “if a man and a woman both need saving but you can only save one, the man comes before the woman. That’s the Torah, the rest is commentary, now go learn it.” What did R’ Hillel say?

Regarding establishing a state, the issue is the Three Oaths.

Who said anything about establishing a state? Is someone else named Avram posting in this thread, and I can’t see his posts?

How does saying the Halacha regarding men and women provoke goyim?

You answered your own question pretty well, so if you really care, you can go back and reread your own post. However, that’s your argument, not mine. I’m not concerned with provoking the goyim in this thread. I’m concerned about protecting the Torah’s honor, and not making it into a spade for anyone’s misogynistic dig. By responding to your points regarding bris mila and shechita, I was just pointing out an interesting contradiction in your approach to Jewish interactions with the non-Jewish world.