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March 3, 2021 11:10 am at 11:10 am
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>> I think socialism applies to Torah values. Government is there to support people’s needs<
> The Torah is not socialist at all. however it does encourage private citizens to give tzedakah.
I think this is all avodah zarah. Torah is not R- or D- (and for sure, not communist, of course). We may vote one way or another, but I don’t think we can and should fully subscribe to any movement, whether in US or Israel. One Talmid Chacham was asked, after an aliyah during heated times, which party he belongs to, responded “party of Moshe Rabeinu”