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Note: We don’t need a No-Skin-in-the-Game “Thinking Class”!

אבות ב’ ד’ (גי’ הר”מ):

ואל תאמר דבר שאי אפשר לשמוע וסופו להשמע.

פירוש הר”מ:

ודבר שאי אפשר לשמוע. הוא שיהיו פשוטי הדברים מרוחק מאד ובטל וכשיסתכל האדם בו היטב יראה שדברים נכונים, והוא מזהיר מן הדרך ההיא מן הדיבור שהוא אומר לא יהיו דבריך צריכים לפירוש רחוק והסתכלות יתירה ואז יבינם השומע.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.

P. J. O’Rourke

The final, official results are in.

They were that close…

I give many examples of this hypocrisy in a lengthy article here: Charedi Politics ONLY PRETENDS To Be Purely Defensive!

Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein echoes this in an article on “sharing the burden” of army conscription:

[Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky] makes the case quite well that the army poses an inordinate threat to an impressionable young person, particularly when it is designed to be an instrument of social cohesion.

Rabbi Adlerstein challenges this by asking if the situation isn’t fixable.

Ha! Fixing a government program!

He goes on:

Rabbi Lopiansky writes that quite aside from the negative impact of army service, “the robbing of our youths’ formative years as a ben Torah would be a price that we could not pay.” Agreed. But how do we ask other, reluctant Israelis to pay a different price so that we don’t have to pay ours? Who gave us that right? Similarly, he writes that the imposition of the core curriculum, including instruction in “citizenship [which] can mean whatever they want it to mean…is a perfectly reasonable request from their end, but totally unacceptable to us.” But if it is reasonable to them, how do we tell them that they must be the ones to pay for our unreasonable (to them) system of education?

Hit the nail on the head. Exactly!

Read the rest on Cross-Currents here…