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• הישכם אוהבים את ה’ ב’ חלקים – בענין פאות עבודה זרה
• חוברת ‘אגלחך לשמים’ בענין עבודה זרה בפאה נכרית

I recommend you study them in the above order and come to your own conclusions.

(And then there is the question of whether such a hair-covering is even halachically effective for a married woman in Reshus Harabim at all. For that one, read this: קונטרס בענין כיסוי השיער.)

ברכות ט”ו ב’:

ואמר רבי טבי אמר רבי יאשיה מאי דכתיב שלש הנה לא תשבענה שאול ועוצר רחם וכי מה ענין שאול אצל רחם אלא לומר לך מה רחם מכניס ומוציא אף שאול מכניס ומוציא והלא דברים קל וחומר ומה רחם שמכניסין בו בחשאי מוציאין ממנו בקולי קולות שאול שמכניסין בו בקולי קולות אינו דין שמוציאין ממנו בקולי קולות מכאן תשובה לאומרים אין תחיית המתים מן התורה.

מיסים לוקחין בחשאי; מע”מ, מס הכנסה, מס רכישה ומס שבח, אינפלציה, ו”רווחה” נותנים בקולי קולות…

Forget all the positive reasons. Following are my scare-tactics:

1. There was an ominous “test balloon” a few years back; a successful cyber attack on a small water utility company in Illinois. Since then, no one has been accused or caught, not even the Russians. And nothing has been done. Imagine the possibilities…
2. The military is allowed to detain US terrorist suspects without trial. See more on Wikipedia.
3. For more, see this on the Washington Post.

Someone in Bnei Brak publishes them with the title “Chedvessa De’oraisah”.

Does anyone know if there is an email subscription option?

I’m not even going to explain how seatbelt laws get people killed, that this result is all intentional, etc.

I simply mean to ask why our rabbis so enthusiastically endorse all governmental traffic (and other) laws everywhere (even though they arbitrarily change drastically over arbitrary, shifting (read: accidental) State borders) as valid, and how exactly do they apply the laws of the Torah to these violations? In other words, what prohibition exactly is violated by someone driving without a seatbelt? Not endangering others, surely. Safeguarding your own life? Well, what if you are driving slowly? If anything, wearing a seatbelt makes the driver reckless toward others, because he knows he himself is safe (and indeed, it does just that).

And a State enforcing mitzvos? I thought that was Beis Din’s job (relinquished under minimal pressure by the State, by the way).

Here, for example, is an excerpt from Yeshiva World News:

… wearing [seatbelts] is an out and out halachic obligation (See Shaivet HaKhasi Vol. V #241, Menuchas Emes, by Rav Mordechai Gross, Vol. IV #10, Responsa Nuta Gavriel, and Nesivos Chaim by Rav Asher Zelig Mirsky Shaar #2 who cites the aforementioned Poskim).