tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post2215231912042793858..comments2024-03-25T09:43:27.402-04:00Comments on Divrei Chaim: rescue efforts even on ShabbosChaim B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-62230735411989178002010-01-20T19:01:50.251-05:002010-01-20T19:01:50.251-05:00Especially since the son'ei Yisrael are now sa...Especially since the son'ei Yisrael are now saying that we're there to harvest organs. Who knows? Maybe there really is a market for organ donations for people who already have AIDS anyway, since the rate of HIV/AIDS is said to be around 6%, and who knows what percentage is latent. http://www.haiti-micah.org/haiti-facts.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-76701148017453188292010-01-20T16:48:46.611-05:002010-01-20T16:48:46.611-05:00Reductio ad absurdum: Rather than suffer the chilu...Reductio ad absurdum: Rather than suffer the chilul Hashem of constant newstories about suffering Palestinians, let's dismantle the State and be goverened by the PLO.<br />Rather than cause eivah by shortening my work week and leaving early on Friday, I will now invoke the chilul Hashem override clause and work through Shabbos. <br /><br />Pragmatically, considering that many countries have not participated at all in the relief efforts, would it really create public outrage if we participated in some other way, e.g. providing supplies, $, that does not entail chilul Shabbos? I am far less certain about your assumptions and therefore am at least willing to entertain a counterargument to your position.Chaim B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-59076189040794825702010-01-20T15:56:18.804-05:002010-01-20T15:56:18.804-05:00If Rav Eidensohn put up a piece on how avoiding ch...If Rav Eidensohn put up a piece on how avoiding chilul hashem trumps halacha, on the importance of ve'asisa hayashar vehatov, then we certainly can rely on him. Like Lubavitcher shchita is reliable-- if THEY agree it's dead, it's most definitely dead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-67029915500543484682010-01-20T13:24:29.937-05:002010-01-20T13:24:29.937-05:00Chaim, there are some things that aren't in th...Chaim, there are some things that aren't in the rule book. The fifth section of Shulchan Aruch, after all, is common sense and remains entirely ba'al peh. <br />Consider: the Israeli team arrives during the week. Suddenly Shabbos starts and they stand down, light candles and ignore the human misery and suffering around them for 25 hours, even loudly singing zemiros in fulfillment of the requirement to make oneg Shabbos.<br /><br />Could you imagine the response? The eivah? The chilul Hashem?<br /><br />Further, we are not Vulcans. We do not have complete emotional control. What normal human could sit and enjoy his gefilte fish while the dying cry around him?<br /><br />We all recoil from violating halacha (hopefully). But we recoil even more strongly from committing a perceived chilul Hashem. Rav Eidensohn's DaatTorah even put up a piece on how sometimes that has overriding importance.Garnel Ironhearthttp://garnelironheart.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-48091751454588802272010-01-20T09:24:24.379-05:002010-01-20T09:24:24.379-05:00I did not know there was a Jew from Montreal there...I did not know there was a Jew from Montreal there -- if so, you have a good point.<br /><br />>>>The question is, where does this value system come from.<br /><br />L'mai nafka mina if it is innate or socially conditioned?Chaim B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-35039459309489688642010-01-20T01:22:47.733-05:002010-01-20T01:22:47.733-05:00i think there was a jew there from montreal arent ...i think there was a jew there from montreal arent we mefakeach es hagal on a safek pikuach nefesh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-20180021510172596572010-01-19T22:42:01.853-05:002010-01-19T22:42:01.853-05:00Ah...now we are on to one of my favorite topics, m...Ah...now we are on to one of my favorite topics, midas chasidus and lifnim mishuras ha'din. (BTW, is there a difference?)<br /><br />The whole idea seems to indicate that there exists an extra halachic system of values, based on ועשית הישר והטוב.<br /><br />The question is, where does this value system come from. Is it innate? Innate only in some people?Daas Yochidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-63201134277089091642010-01-19T21:33:26.384-05:002010-01-19T21:33:26.384-05:00One of my BIL's favorite stories in the Yerush...One of my BIL's favorite stories in the Yerushalmi is the episode of Shimon ben Shetach's purchase of a donkey from a bandit (in Elu Metziyos). In the saddle bag was found a precious gem. The talmidim were overjoyed -- aveidas aku"m is mutar, so their rebbe was now rich. Sb"S's reply - "v'ki Shimon ben Shetach babariyon hu!" What may be technically permitted still can render one into a barbarian. Where to draw the line...?Chaim B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-75120778564919501592010-01-19T21:26:20.868-05:002010-01-19T21:26:20.868-05:00I have a friend who booked a holiday flat and then...I have a friend who booked a holiday flat and then found there was no washing machine, he asked a rov who said he could cancel the booking.<br /><br />He then called the owner and said he had asked the halacha and was OK to cancel, so the owner said 'aval zeh lo enoshi!"<br /><br />So he replied, "mah, ha'halacha loh enoshi?!"<br /><br />pc :-)pchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11244393584007636608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-62672313771586566512010-01-19T16:36:38.573-05:002010-01-19T16:36:38.573-05:00First, you ought to look at a post someone once wr...First, you ought to look at a post someone once wrote that is relevant to this issue. <br />http://divreichaim.blogspot.com/2006/10/placing-oneself-in-situation-of.html<br />Then, you should look at the last paragraph of the last comment there, numbered 4.Eliezer Eisenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.com