– י״ז באייר תשע״ה (06/05/2015)
פורסם במדור: הקלאסיקות – “יסודות ההשקפה”, כללי, כתבות נבחרות, מחשבה, תשובה מאוזנת
הספר “שמח זבולון בצאתך” נכתב על ידי רב שחיבר כמה ספרים מצליחים, ומאד כואבת לו התופעה שאנשים שמתחילים לעבוד מתחילים להרגיש זרות לתורה ולעבודה.
הוא כתב ספר שאינו מיועד דווקא לבעלי תשובה, שמדבר על החיבור הנכון בין תורה לעבודה, על החיבור העדין בין חיי אברך לחיי בעל-בית מבחינה חברתית ואישית, מבחינת קביעת עיתים לתורה (כאשר פשוט אין זמן…) ועמידה בפני נסיונות העולם.
כיון שהדברים מאד נוגעים למעשה גם לנו, בעלי התשובה, ביקשתי ממנו רשות לפרסם חלקים מהספר, שטרם יצא לאור, ולשמחתי הרבה הרב נעתר לבקשה.
There is a common question: why are Judaism’s laws (like contemporary society in Scripture) so livestock and agriculture-centric? There is no specific law against leaving the fields for the city, but if one wishes to observe more mitzvos, the farming and shepherding lifestyle is best (unless perhaps in Jerusalem at the time of the Temple).
Perhaps the answer lies in this quote:
The farmer was and remains the stumbling block to socialist experiments everywhere. Since he raises his own food and tends to live in his own house, he is less “controllable” than say, the urban dweller.
Liberty permits personal responsibility, a prerequisite to Judaism.
I must say, though, I doubt the historical accuracy of the above quote itself.
Here’s an idle thought. If you remove just one word from the following passage, it sounds like something Murray Rothbard would agree with. Here is the quote, from Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar’s introduction to his opus “Vayoel Moshe”:
“כי אם ניקח כל פרצות הדור והעבירות המרובות הנעשות בכל העולם וישימו אותם בכף מאזניים אחת, ומדינה ציונית בכף מאזניים השניה, תכריע את הכל שהוא השורש פורה ראש ולענה של אבי אבות הטומאה שבכל אבות הנזיקין שבכל העולם כולו, והן המה המטמאים את כל העולם כולו”.
Can you tell which word to remove? This: “ציונית”.
What do you think?
July 18, 2016
President Obama asked Congress for $2 Billion to research the Zika virus. Thankfully, we have a do-nothing Congress who has yet to fund the Center for Disease Control’s (CDCs) request for Zika research. I posted an earlier blog about the Zika issue here.
Zika refers to the virus spread by mosquitos. It was first described as coming from the Zika Forest of Uganda in 1947. Zika has affected many tropical countries including many in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific. And, over the last 70 years, there has not been an epidemic of microcephaly—children born with small heads, in any of these countries until a few months ago. Microcephaly made headlines early this year when a Brazilian doctor reported an epidemic increase in children being born with small heads—microcephaly. This doctor also noticed that many of the children who were born with small heads had mothers who were infected with Zika during their pregnancy.
The Powers-That-Be, including the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO) quickly jumped on this story in order to squeeze money out of the U.S. The WHO declared Zika a global pandemic and the CDC promptly asked Congress for $2,000,000,000 dollars to study the illness and develop a vaccine against Zika. A recent bill from Congress proposed spending about $1,000,000,000 studying and creating a vaccine for Zika.
From Lewrockwell.com, here.
