tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post3046004928948968544..comments2024-03-28T21:21:02.777-04:00Comments on Divrei Chaim: Notes from the Underground -- Monday morning editionChaim B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-87952971130529838662020-04-28T17:04:52.388-04:002020-04-28T17:04:52.388-04:00When Rahm Emanuel was Obama's chief of staff, ...When Rahm Emanuel was Obama's chief of staff, he got a call on Rosh hashannah, and asked his rabbi (Mod orth) if he could answer. The issue they were dealing with was the recession. His rabbi said yes: the recession is pikuach nefesh. If the US is weakened, if the economy is ruined, it will result in many deaths. Reb Ahron Soloveichik disagreed with the logic. But I think this is more serious.Eliezer Eisenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-29502801898363436442020-04-28T03:45:15.071-04:002020-04-28T03:45:15.071-04:00...>l'dorosam<? if so, how can the excr......>l'dorosam<? if so, how can the excrescence be "l'tovah" but for first destructions [that of preexisting houses]? learn from here what all subsequent generations owe the generation of conquest: the inconvenience of all later destruction is nullified/justified by the boon to this first, recipient generation...alonzo maccabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177738305527364094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-4966047538670776402020-04-28T03:40:30.850-04:002020-04-28T03:40:30.850-04:00correction, "2)"
> aren't the la...correction, "2)"<br /><br />> aren't the laws of nega >l'dorosam when did the sin of "the Amoraim" become complete... ...<br /><br />{sorry for the scar tissue in this comment section left by all the failed corrections}alonzo maccabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177738305527364094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-52030266749803643432020-04-27T19:46:04.696-04:002020-04-27T19:46:04.696-04:00Thanks for the mareh makom.
The NY Post had a grea...Thanks for the mareh makom.<br />The NY Post had a great article by another Stamford professor: https://nypost.com/2020/04/26/science-says-its-time-to-start-easing-the-coronavirus-lockdowns/?utm_source=email_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttonsChaim B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-60013446269097474702020-04-27T14:19:01.871-04:002020-04-27T14:19:01.871-04:00The op ed in the WSJ on Shabbos had another prof a...The op ed in the WSJ on Shabbos had another prof at Stanford, John Ioannidis, quoted as making that point, that economic chaos is a greater threat to life than Covid 19. “(if the mortality rate of Covid 19 is, out of the entire population, 1%, then) locking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational. It’s like an elephant being attacked by a house cat. Frustrated and trying to avoid the cat, the elephant accidentally jumps off a cliff and dies.”Eliezer Eisenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-3099675463923927162020-04-27T11:42:49.589-04:002020-04-27T11:42:49.589-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.alonzo maccabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177738305527364094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-8543752539064554112020-04-27T11:34:53.890-04:002020-04-27T11:34:53.890-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.alonzo maccabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177738305527364094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-12179217369682882302020-04-27T11:28:57.645-04:002020-04-27T11:28:57.645-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.alonzo maccabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177738305527364094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-72232355952768951262020-04-27T11:21:39.310-04:002020-04-27T11:21:39.310-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.alonzo maccabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177738305527364094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-73298461035707878072020-04-27T11:13:01.267-04:002020-04-27T11:13:01.267-04:00-- "1) ...'certainly will not eliminate&#...-- "1) ...'certainly will not eliminate'"<br /><br />> even a single incident, miyuta d'miyuta, thunders definitive warning; but we mustn't give up hope, given 'Qantas never crashed'.<br /><br />> the "source for the quote" hesitates to write, as he is 'sorely lacking in Torah, yirah, and ma'asim tovim'. kal v'chomer, if one of us here is surely lacking six (eight? OMG nine?) virtues beyond those three, and nonetheless "comment"s as if perfectly entitled, all the more might this esteemed gentleman remark...<br /><br /><br />-- "2) ...Why not just say that when the nega is found"<br /><br />> why wait to find the nega? tear everything down now!<br /><br />> aren't these laws of nega >l'dorosam when did the sin of "the Amoraim" become complete (Bereishis 15:16)? when the amassed/hidden gold in their possession equaled in value the gold Israel took from Egypt*, 15:14-- the Amorites thought that any nation A, equal in material terms to any other nation B, could not be harmed (displaced) by B, whatever the latter's [additional] merits...<br /><br />*minus Mishkan donationsalonzo maccabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177738305527364094noreply@blogger.com