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וכן אם יש חשש ג’ שבועות לגבי בנין בית המקדש, בענין ג’ שבועות, ועוד.

שוב, את המאמר המלא ניתן למצוא כאן.

Much contrary, this is what the “Divine Right of Kings” actually meant in the Torah: limiting entry to one family, on the one hand, and commanding Jews awe one, single monarch (שום שתים עליך מלך, שתהא אימתו עליך and Rambam Melachim 3:8) at a time (אין שתי מלכים משתמשים בכתר אחד), as opposed to mob rule, uh, “Democracy” (or, as it turns out in historical reality, oligarchy), contra Rabbi Yitzchak Abravanel.

Rabbi A. Y. Kook who decided we can spread around the rights of the monarchy to the whole nation has it exactly backward. The king, too, is a concession, as evidenced by Shmuel Hanavi’s words (Shmuel A chapter 8). Royalists objecting to the Magna Carta seem to be correct.

I am influenced in this by Hans Hoppe’s economic analysis, see here.

It’s only 43% of aggregate global military spending! Considering the US empire might decide to wage war on the whole entire world at once, this is far too low.

(Yes, satire.)

You should certainly try to become very rich (although not so much it takes you away from your other responsibilities), but note not everyone can become rich. This is is the case by definition: “Rich” is relative. Besides, wealth is attained by better forecasting consumer demand than other speculators, so we can’t all forecast better than everyone else!

Torah, on the other hand, is for everyone. Here there is no market competition for scarce resources.

Sanhedrin 91b:

אמר רב יהודה אמר רב, כל המונע הלכה מפי תלמיד כאילו גוזלו מנחלת אבותיו, שנאמר תורה צוה לנו משה מורשה קהילת יעקב, מורשה היא לכל ישראל מששת ימי בראשית!

Rambam Hilchos Talmud Torah 3:1:

בשלשה כתרים נכתרו ישראל, כתר תורה וכתר כהונה וכתר מלכות. כתר כהונה זכה בו אהרן, שנאמר והיתה לו ולזרעו אחריו ברית כהנת עולם. כתר מלכות זכה בו דוד, שנאמר זרעו לעולם יהיה וכסאו כשמש נגדי. כתר תורה הרי מונח ועומד ומוכן לכל ישראל, שנאמר תורה צוה לנו משה מורשה קהלת יעקב, כל מי שירצה יבא ויטול. שמא תאמר שאותם הכתרים גדולים מכתר תורה…

This is unlike those who say Torah excellence “is not for everyone”, while they encourage most people to spend their life and talents accumulating wealth.

I know a wise Jew living in the US who can contribute to exposing the anti-Jewish nature of politics here on Hyehudi.org. He agrees with me, but he is too fearful to type anything up, because of current mass-surveillance.

He once put his name on a letter to the paper and suffers “random” extra “scrutiny” in airports ever since. מי שנכווה ברותחין מושך ידו בפושרין. Well, don’t use your own name next time! He is not alone, either. Maybe if I summarise my counter-claim, this will prove helpful.

A major criticism of authoritarianism and central planning is the “Pretense of Knowledge”. But this is not just about prices. The accursed NSA’s slogan is “Collect It All”. But this itself handicaps them!

If they put the magnifying glass on someone, he is going to be roasted (אי אמר מלכותא עקרנא טורי עקר טורי ולא הדר ביה). But, unless one is super-effective in the ideological revolution in the here and now (bureaucracies have high time-preference), what are the chances they aim davka at him?! Importantly, you can be the worst toady to authoritarians and still get marked as a false positive!

Even if they wanted to stop something like terrorism, they couldn’t, because the more they know the less they assimilate:

1. Stovepiping and turf wars.
2. Tech problems are legion in government; trust me.
3. Incompatible computer systems among different agencies.
4. The quality of the workers is usually just “good-enough-for-government”.
5. They are choked by their own ever-growing rules.

In one marvelous metaphor: Signal to noise ratio!

And when the victims don’t impute legitimacy to government spying, they don’t assist external sanctions with false-guilt self-governance, so the state lacks enough resources, or, to be more precise, they lack the right kind of resources. NSA spying is useless, so don’t let it stop you. Compare American SIGINT and the Israeli state’s HUMINT against the Jews and Arabs. One works; the other doesn’t.

People are actually spying back on the state some, like James O’Keefe, car-cams, etc.

Bottom line: Pardon me, but if you won’t expose the monsters, this is either unimportant to you, or you lack Bitachon.