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takebackourtemple:
   If someone just called themselves a doctor and started practicing medicine without a license or even the proper training, they would probably harm their patients and might end up going to jail. While it is common for people to do this in third world countries, it is not as common in the United States. What is more common are people calling themselves Rabbis without the proper qualification and corrupting people's souls. Too bad the legal systems can't crack down on conservative and deform frauds the way they can with someone illegally practicing other professions. 

davinci:
Shalom Chaim

Thank you very much for your brillant answer last week.
Can you tell me how much time exactly after our conception does G-d create our soul?

I have also a question in Jewish eschatology. If I have understood you correctly when the Messiah comes there will be resurrection of the dead. But what happens with the soul in the intermediate period between the dead of a person and the time when the messiah comes?
Are there in the World to come also going to be any babies who will be born? And if yes, how does G-d solve the problem of overpopulation?

Kind regards

davinci

zachor_ve_kavod:
Dear Chaim,

I found your opening to last week's JTF very fascinating, and I would like to learn more about it.  I would be very interested in researching this Torah code further.

It does raise an important question for me though, and I am not asking this with any arrogance (G-d forbid).  If a foretelling of every event or name can be found numerically in the text of the Torah, and this is proof of G-d, because only G-d could know what the future holds, then that means that everything is pre-determined.  Isn't that so?  If future events can be deciphered in the Torah, that means that there is predestination and that we really do not have free will. 

Do you follow my reasoning?  For instance, if Rabin's assassination is encoded in the Torah along with the name of his assassin, then that means that the assassin was fated to do it!  He had no free will.  If Rabin had not been murdered, (say the assassin had used his free will and changed his mind), then the code would have been incorrect.

We can't have free will AND predestination.  Can you explain this to me some more please?

Thanks,

Zachor_ve_kavod.

Trace:
Shalom Chaim,

How can the nation of Rhodesia be restored? There is a community of Rhodesian expatriates all over the world - many of them have military training and there is a strong sentiment among them that a commando raid should occur inside Zimbabwe and that Robert Mugabe be forcibly overthrown. Obviously the government and military of Zimbabwe is a third-world joke and they could easily be defeated by any competent army. Is there any way this could happen? Do you think America would send in troops to attack a restored Rhodesian government if such a thing happened? The confiscation of land and the massacres of the white Rhodesians by Mugabe was a blatant war crime of the modern era that should never be forgotten or forgiven. The fact that the rest of the world let it happen is just as shameful.

Geert Akbar:
Shalom Chaim,

The Muslim situation in Europe is a disaster. Do you think Europe will get rid of these animals soon, or do you think they will act when it is too late? I am currently reading a book called "While Europe Slept" and I had no idea that these Muslim families are collecting welfare checks as much as $3000/month + additional money for every child they have (even while they're attending Quran school back in their Islamic country), its outrageous (and generous). These children come back to the country to have their children born so they can collect welfare on them, when they have not even learned the language because they attended school taught in Arabic. In turn, governments try to do something about this and then they get violent reactions from Muslims, so they appease them and then shelf the problem. I have nothing but hope that Europe can and will be saved, and I am willing to die to see that happen. Another thing, do you think that white self-hatred that is imposed through schools and the media are factors? And lastly, if European nations were to expel them or had to their military against them while Obama is in office, how do you think he would react?

Thank you and G-d bless,
Clay

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