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    minimod
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    why isn’t there a sports column in the yated?

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    Nechomah
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    Oh come on…. Is this a serious thread?

    #829882
    TheGoq
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    I subscribe to the Yated there are a few things i like, like the Chinuch Roundtable but most of the paper i just skim. I dont think you will ever see a sports column in the Yated.

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    MichaelC
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    Sport is competitive sport, Rambam said you cant hit someone Derech Nitzchon (in a way to defeat over them if its not self defense), so for example a person can learn self defense, but to compete in tournaments is Osur (Rabbi Shraga Kallus), (see Rabbi Moderchai Becher’s website where he discusses (on a Shiur on the subject) that sparring for self defense purpose is permitted).

    So even playing American football or basket ball (which is a contact sport) you are hitting someone just to be ‘nitzchon’ over him, it is Osur, even according to Rabbi Moderchai Becher.

    Perhaps hitting someone with a high flying ball (e.g. tennis or baseball), making him the bat back, hurts the person and qualifies as hitting someone ‘derech nitzchon’.

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    MichaelC
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    However Rav Moshe Feinstein encouraged Bochurim to relax with sports, but to make Talmud Torah or something that helps Yishuv Haolam the Ikkur.

    Perhaps Rav Moshe saw the Eis Lassos (time to act) otherwise Torah would be ‘hepiru torasecha’ (affected) if people had no leisure.

    So in conclusion i think the more contact (hitting Derech Nitzchon) the sport is (e.g boxing) and the longer it is for, the more problems of Aveiro increasing you get.

    So why should the Charedim that represent Torah report to other Charedim, encourage them all to do contact sports all day, (ok for the actual sportman it may be their Parnossa), but for Bnei Torah, or good Jews, should we make it a aim to get to this controversial Parnossa?

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