joseph
“On that token you should be advocating for the legalization of homicide since, to borrow your argument, Halacha and lehavdil secular law have very different approaches to determine what is self-defense”
you made that foolish argument before.
Is this a problem in frum communities, do you know of anyone who was prevented from protecting himself in self defense due to this “very different approach” ?
“Do you support making illegal abortion for purely economic, non-medically necessary, reasons?”
no. In theory I would support making abortion purely in the hands of the rabbinate. In practice in the US (aside for that being impractical) would set a bad precedent and thus I support the next best thing
namely allowing the woman to choose
alos note, I dont support abortion that late in a pregnancy. However I am mevatel my daas to the Torah and if halacha allows it then although I dont understand it, who am I to argue.
TLIK
“Maaser Oni was only the third and sixth year of the Shmittah cycle”
Lol! of the what cycle?
can you elaborate what this Shmittah is ? I bet it was every conservative’s dream come true
Avi, we can add shemita to the long list we came up with of Torah economic policies that are clearly anti-capitalist