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  • September 27, 2020 12:36 pm at 12:36 pm in reply to: better learning from Corona #1905100
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    @Syag, you have a point. I am, thankfully, not in a place where I can access a large random sample of non-maskers. You see online responses as well as I do. I heard several offline ones that are hard to summarize: one saying that those who care, can walk around him; another apparently believe in some conspiracy theories; one saying that there are more people dying in car accidents from the virus. My kids were able to convince this last teenager by quoting the statistics.

    Maybe an only coherent argument is a claim that their community has herd immunity. It is also not fully thought-through. If you claim that your community achieved herd immunity, you are saying that your community has already killed and maimed the maximal number of people for this pandemic, with no apparent soul searching.

    N0mesorah suggests that most of these people are simply followers. Then, we need to look at the leaders. What are they saying? Are they not able to lead, or are they afraid to lose control of the herd?

    September 27, 2020 10:55 am at 10:55 am in reply to: better learning from Corona #1905070
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    n0mesorah, so you are suggesting that no mask movement is made of followers rather than of people taking a personal stand? Hard for me to figure out as I am obviously not planning to interview them in person. Whom are they following?

    September 27, 2020 10:44 am at 10:44 am in reply to: better learning from Corona #1905067
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    re: telescope. More likely something like a protractor or an astrolab to accurately measure angles and convert into distances .. if R Gamliel were to have a telescope, Jews would be not Jews if they would not use it for commercial, if not military, applications. Early use of telescopes in Italy involved watching for long-haul ships to arrive and buying stock.

    September 27, 2020 4:10 am at 4:10 am in reply to: Why are massive protests okay, but davening in a minyan is not? #1904952
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    OrechDin – you mention poskim in Israel who require masks. So, if a Rav of a shul follows that psak and someone shows up without a mask or in a half-mask – what happens? Do they get an aliya? Or do we now have separate shuls with and without masks?

    Maybe we could use a 2×2 mehitza with traditional men/women separation in one dimension and mask/non-mask dimension in another. I saw this happening spontaneously sans the mehitza.

    September 27, 2020 4:07 am at 4:07 am in reply to: Davened for Trump? #1904946
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    @GH, I agree that sometimes this bracha does not feel authentic. Indeed, I once witnessed how an elderly congregant broke down on Yom Kippur in some country during this prayer “Why do we say this? They are murderers.. They killed my family” …

    At the same time, as we all choose to live in this country (we are all free to leave, right?), I think we should acknowledge it. Thankfully, we do not have to say “adoneinu” as both my Russian and Austrian machzorim say, but why not wish “Hashem give wisdom to …”. Should also apply to governors, unless you are still voting Federalist.

    September 27, 2020 1:03 am at 1:03 am in reply to: better learning from Corona #1904940
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    @N0mesorah – there is no doubt that American and Israeli Jewish educational systems saved a lot of people from assimilation. This worked great as an emergency measure, but I somehow doubt that Hashem is pleased with us using Torah SOLELY as a medicine to save Jewish people, while losing our ability to learn – and follow it – properly.

    As to preventing extremists, it is of course an old problem mentioned in Beitzah that Hashem gave Jews Torah to stop us from extremism. Still, you may be under the influence of the “no true Scotsman” fallacy: yes, most Jewish extremists were not shomrim Shabbat, but where did they come from? If I recall correctly the story, Chafetz Chaim did not shake hand with the Rav from the place where Trotsky came from. And what do you call people who are bravely walking around without the masks as not extremists?

    September 25, 2020 5:27 pm at 5:27 pm in reply to: Davened for Trump? #1904749
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    We had more difficult cases.
    Look up old machzorim. I have mahzor from one side of my family with a prayer for Kesar Nikolai Alexandrovich (and a named list of his wife and children) and from another – for Franz Jozef.

    I don’t think one would be allowed to have both in his house during WW1…

    September 17, 2020 8:06 am at 8:06 am in reply to: Kashering A Laptop. #1902459
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    School IT person should have an admin account and students should have a local account. Admin account should NOT have “613” for the password.

    Administrator should be able to disable wifi. See link 1. I think bluetooth access may depend on a computer model and is often switched on using an external button. See link 2 that describes how to switch it on. Use in reverse.

    If you have already disabled Wifi, you might not be able to see the links or even read this, of course…

    links removed, sorry

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