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Ask JTF for Sunday, March 28, 2010
Moshe92:
Dear Chaim,
I was reading a book by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin that said that the line "an eye for an eye" means that you're not allowed to take two eyes for an eye. However, I saw a video of a speech by Rabbi Kahane in Afula where he said "שני עיניים תחת עין" (two eyes for an eye). Obviously, I trust Rabbi Kahane much more than Rabbi Telushkin. At another point in that book, he compared people who praised Baruch Goldstein to Muslim terrorists. What is your opinion?
Jorje15:
Dear Chaim,
What are your thoughts on President JFK and the day he was assassinated? Who killed JFK and why is thil important in history of the Cold War? What was the Space Race? My Final questin is what happen during the Election of 1964? PS: Do you have an African American story. What are your thoughts on womans history?
Nekama:
Chaim:
Hope all is well with you. I want to wish you a Chag Kosher V'Sameiach!
(1) Here is a question I always have wondered about. Can you imagine 1 billion Muslims giving up their mashuganah religion upon the arrival of the Moshiach? I can only imagine the Arab reaction: Dismissing this historic event as Zionist propaganda. Do you think Mosheach will have to deal with these sand shvartzas militarily?
(2) Is Moshiach supposed to be a religious or military leader?
TBC
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
Dear Chaim,
I remember a while back you commented on an "Avi Weiss" who tried to disrupt the JDL's efforts to save Soviet Jewry and that he condemned your actions. The way you described him, he really sounded like a spineless coward. I was wondering, is this the same R. Avi Weiss who recently tried to "ordain" a female rabbi under the banner of "Orthodox Judaism" (actually he calls himself "Open Orthodoxy" or something like that, but his shul is affiliated with the OU and usually classified as left wing so-called "modern orthodoxy" even though it clearly isn't - I think Rabbi Gil Student refers to it more accurately as "Post-Orthodox" - meaning a breakaway sect). This rabbi Avi Weiss' shul is Hebrew institute of Riverdale. While I don't want to condemn or disparage a rabbi even of R Avi Weiss's ilk, since he does not seem to me like an overtly naturei karta type traitor, and ostensibly he follows halacha, it makes me sick if that is the same guy who attacked your heroic actions. The R Avi Weiss who tried to ordain a woman "rabbi" (He called this a "rabba") is well respected by some people I know, despite the vast majority of Orthodox rabbis disagreeing with his views, and I even hear from some people that R. Avi Weiss - the failed inventor of woman-rabbi ordination - took a strong role in standing up to the Soviets and being loud about freeing Soviet Jews. Something here is not adding up. Is this the same guy you were speaking about? If so, why do people think he was instrumental in saving Soviet Jews? And lastly, what would the halachic restrictions be on me if his name is brought up again as far as what I can or cannot say about him?
patches:
Shalom Chaim,
If you were given the opportunity to travel back in time and kill a baby Hitler, thereby preventing the Holocaust and the murder of millions of Jews, would you do it, even though it meant killing an innocent baby? Another way to put it is, does the end always justify the means?
Thanks,
Patches
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