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Title: What Is The Torah's Opinion On Following Sports?
Post by: Noachide on May 27, 2020, 02:09:54 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0X9t-Tb-SA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0X9t-Tb-SA)

Title: Re: What Is The Torah's Opinion On Following Sports?
Post by: Israel Chai on May 27, 2020, 02:20:15 AM

I didn't watch, but if it's Yaron Reuven, I already know the lecture. In a sentence, Rabbi Mizrachi said sport attendance was only permitted during the Roman era so that when crowds called for the death of a Jew G-d forbid in the arena, there were Jews in the crowd that could demand he live.

Title: Re: What Is The Torah's Opinion On Following Sports?
Post by: Noachide on May 27, 2020, 03:11:03 AM

Quote from: Israel Chai on May 27, 2020, 02:20:15 AM

I didn't watch, but if it's Yaron Reuven, I already know the lecture. In a sentence, Rabbi Mizrachi said sport attendance was only permitted during the Roman era so that when crowds called for the death of a Jew G-d forbid in the arena, there were Jews in the crowd that could demand he live.

Interesting fact, never heard it before.