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Judaism's view of sports?

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Kahane-Was-Right BT:

--- Quote from: White Israelite on February 15, 2011, 08:55:36 PM ---Jews dominated Basketball and Boxing for a long time.

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There were some great Jewish basketball players in the old days,  I have a dvd on it

Harzel:

--- Quote from: Lisa on February 15, 2011, 09:43:51 PM ---I like watching figure skating, especially during the Olympics. 

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I don't thunk figure skating as a sport. Yes it requires fitness and skill, but it's more of an art like ballet. In real sports it is possible to measure or score without human subjective.

edu:
Concerning Playing Sports (assuming you  to do it without violating Shabbat, Tzniut, etc.) Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, founder of Israel's chief rabbinate and head of Mercaz Harav Yeshiva viewed this favorably as an element of exercise to make the body healthy, which he also viewed this as part of the physical rebuilding of the nation of Israel. His views were somewhat controversial to those that were zealots to keep up exactly the same lifestyle, that was practiced by previous generations. Rabbi Kook held that since we were undergoing a process of the ingathering of the exiles, we should adopt practices that further the process along even if they are different than the ways of previous generations (so long as Jewish law doesn't forbid it).
As far as watching sports I don't want to comment on this, right now.

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