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Ask JTF for Sunday, July 5, 2009

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eliezer:
Shalom Chaim,
Thank you very much for answering my question last week, please give us your insight
on the phrase in the Torah that states:
"Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the congregation to the entrance of the
Tent of Meeting and fell on their faces."
 What was this action of falling on their faces about? 

shmujew:
is it halachically acceptable to go without a beard as an unmarried person? I was listening to elyoakim hacohen's shiur on his site www.sellmeyourjewishsoul.com and he said that it was.....I am 45 and have never been married .....Chaim I love your shows and am continuing to try to make aliyah ....once I pay off my debts which I have been incurring in this jackal obama promoted depression... I will go...or sooner ... I have to find out about credit laws in canada and whether or not I am allowed to make aliyah with debt..North American society is finished and once we kick the arabs out of Israel we will take back the lands that g-d gave to us B"h"....but I digress....could you answer the initial question that I had.

Shmujew

Christian Zionist:
Shalom Chaim!

Was Rabbi Kahane from the tribe of Levi or a descendant of Aaronic priestly lineage? 

Did you participate in the 1000 mile march organized by the Rabbi?

Thanks!

Christian Zionist

takebackourtemple:
   This week we read Parasha Balak. This is an important Parasha, because it illustrates how enemies of the Jews could never curse the Jewish people and did the opposite whenever they tried to. The only ones that can bring a curse onto the Jewish people are Jews themselves.

Maccabi:
Here is a little scenario. I am interested to hear what your ruling would be in this matter:

I'm sure you read about this case of the yeshiva boys being held in Japan for carrying drugs.

http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/31380

So let's say, hypothetically speaking, the Japanese judge believed the yeshiva bochurs didn't know they were carrying drugs, but would not let them go unless Israel handed over the Jews who recruited them. 

I know Jews are not supposed to hand over Jews to gentile authorities.

If the bochurs were facing 15 yrs each and there was absolutely no other way to free these kids other than to hand over the recruiters to the Japanese authorities (or, in an even more extreme example, if they literally demanded the drug dealers head on a platter...) what would you do?

If you were prime minister, and in charge of ruling on this case, and it was indeed shown that a 'haredi' Jew, or group of Jews recruited these youngsters, knowing that there were drugs in the suitcases, and there was no other way to free the bochurs, would you hand the recruiters over to the Japanese?

Can you explain the halakhic reasoning behind your decision as well?

Thanks.

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