Reply To: Jewish RocketMan

For the last time, this was a thread regarding a major news item that happened to involve a yid and yom kippur. All four have achieved great success in secular matters. This was a light hearted reference that although I wished them all a safe trip, I would hope events would result in his having a Sandy Kaufax moment and delaying the launch until after Yom Kippur.) (I’m sure most CR readers are intimately familiar with the 1965 world series but for the few who may have forgotten, in 1965, Sandy Koufax decided at the last minute not to pitch in Game One of the World Series because it was Yom Kippur and instead Don Drysdale pitched for the LA Dodgers, and he gave up seven runs in 2 innings).
No one in “glorifying” Issacman’s decision to launch on shabbos, nor was I promoting kafirah by noting that the R’SO allowed their flight to be safely completed. And YES, I am fully respectful of the achievements a yid may achieve both in spiritual and secular matters. While these are totally separate and not mutually exclusive, each of us has our own metrics. Those who achieve success in both, certainly warrant kudos.
I also note that at the same time we are having this exchange, segments of the frum media are running stories with photos of a former chazar-eating, mechallel shabbos, yarmulkaless politician current being tried for felonies showing up at the kosel with a kipah for kol nidre as if this was some big kiddush hashem (since he was NOT also smoking one of the expensive cigars he was accused of having illegally accepted).