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March 24, 2010 3:14 am at 3:14 am
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charliehall
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hereorthere,
Rabbi Dr. Tendler showed that there is a Torah obligation to provide healthcare for all. No rabbi of any stature has publicly disagreed.
Furthermore, private property rights are severely limited under Torah law, at least in Eretz Yisrael. If you have a house in Yerushalayim, you are required to put up visitors for the shlosh regalim. If you have a farm, you are required to allow poor people to collect leket, peah, and shich’chah, not to mention shmittah produce. And you don’t have freehold land tenure.
And of course communal authorities collect taxes for public works and education, whether the public likes it or not — all with the approval of the Torah.