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Israel Chai:

--- Quote from: Binyamin Yisrael on January 01, 2014, 10:46:48 PM ---I mean if the government bans something that is not something needed for a mitzvah. For example, during Prohibition, the government banned wine. Wine is needed for mitzvot. So we were not required to follow that ban. If the government banned brit milah, we are not required to follow the ban. If the government banned soda, we would have to follow the ban because soda banning is not against Halacha.

The First Ammendment would allow us to continue to do something which is banned if not for a religious reason. But in Bolshevik countries such as Soviet Russia, brit milah was banned. Jews had to continue to practice it since the Secular law went against Halacha.

I also wrote what I wrote before I saw that you said what you are proposing would be in a theoretical Bnei Noah Government or Torah Government.

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It's deeper than that, because never yawning isn't against halacha, but a ban on it should also not be followed. Same with shoelaces. Anything that goes along with common sense, morality and the vast majority of people support, should not be banned.

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