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Rabbi Dovid Lichtenstein stresses throughout that the posthumous honor and legitimization granted to the criminal CW and his actions are completely against the Torah, of course.

His discussion with Rabbi Zalman Graus is worth listening to, though obtuse listeners clearly misunderstand his message to be the opposite of his intention (that’s how I heard of this episode).

Rabbi Aharon Sorscher describes his own outrageous experience with victim-blaming (“victim-and-family-revictimization” is more like it).

Note: Rabbi Dovid Lichtenstein, the show’s host, mentions in the intro he holds in his hand a Get that says “you are permitted to all except CW” (from a Beis Din in Petach Tikvah), but this is probably just a record, not the original. Even this is a chiddush.

Listen to the show here…

You may have heard the old parable:

Good luck and bad luck create each other and it is difficult to foresee their change.
A righteous man lived near the border.
For no reason, his horse ran off into barbarian territory.
Everyone [people] felt sorry for him.
[But] His father spoke [to him]:
“Who knows if that won’t bring you good luck?”
Several months later his horse came back with a group of [good, noble] barbarian horses.
Everyone [people] congratulated him.
[But] His father spoke [to him]:
“Who knows if that won’t bring you bad luck?”
A rich house has good horses and the son mounted with joy/loved riding.
He fell and broke his leg.
Everyone [people] felt sorry for him.
[But] His father spoke [to him]:
“Who knows if that won’t bring you good luck?”
One year later the barbarians invaded across the border.
Adult men strung up their bows and went into battle.
Nine out of ten border residents were killed, except for the son because of his broken leg.
Father and son were protected/both survived.
Hence: Bad luck brings good luck and good luck brings bad luck.
This happens without end and nobody can estimate it.

Note: The “luck” part is nonsense, of course.

“The Ghetto Rabbis” by Rabbi David Bar-Hayim…

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Is anyone surprised humans come second?

Check out The Atlantic…

An excerpt:

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But energy is not the only domain that has a direct bearing on whether we have a livable climate or not. So does foreign policy—specifically, nuclear war.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine two weeks ago, that threat has become a lot more real: Many Americans, including artists, climate-concerned progressives, and even a few lawmakers, have come out in support of a “no-fly zone.” But despite its euphemistic name, a no-fly zone means that NATO and the United States issue a credible threat that they will shoot down any enemy plane in Ukrainian territory. This would require U.S. bombing runs into Russian territory to eliminate air defenses, bringing the U.S. and Russia into open war, and it would have a reasonable chance of prompting a nuclear exchange. And it would be worse for the climate than any energy policy that Donald Trump ever proposed.

I mean this quite literally. If you are worried about rapid, catastrophic changes to the planet’s climate, then you must be worried about nuclear war. That is because, on top of killing tens of millions of people, even a relatively “minor” exchange of nuclear weapons would wreck the planet’s climate in enormous and long-lasting ways.

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