I saw a rabbi discussing gun control. He compares guns to the halachos of owning a frightening/harmful, unchained dog (C.M. 409:4) or mule.
Some blunders are so brain-boggling, only modern rabbis could possibly make them. He clearly thinks of guns as volitional beings.
By Rabbi Aaron Gottlieb
Here’s the title page:
It orders the Sidros and verses by number as though the Cursedians never came along.
Here’s a sample page:
The first edition was sold out. But he’s now printing the second edition…
Here’s his email: 6280014@gmail.com
Here’s his phone number: 347-225-6131
Ever since Harvey Weinstein broke, sexual harassment claims have been spilling out against powerful men faster than I’ve ever seen. That it’s happening now is just a historical accident, but the fact most of it (I assume, minus a few copycats) is true is not inherently surprising.
If everyone (especially women) observed the halachos of yichud (being alone with a woman) strictly, sexual harassment wouldn’t be a big problem. It would be a minor issue only. I say this is the woman’s responsibility in secular society because they are the ones who don’t want to be harassed, so they need to take the precaution, and never be alone with a man, for any reason, that they do not want to have sex with.
Attractive women must understand this about men. All of them want sex, all the time. If men become powerful enough they lose their inhibitions, so don’t ever be alone with any man you do not want to sleep with. If you are alone with any man, assume your chances of sexual advances, wanted or not, are greater than 30%. So just don’t do it.
While that does not totally end the problem, it greatly curtails it into something more manageable.
From The Jewish Libertarian, here.
I am not so naive as to think people will fully abandon the evil authoritarian inclination in this world.
Simple common sense dictates:
“‘Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes.”
I write to teach Torah and wisdom and to fulfill Hashem’s will of making Mashiach’s job slightly easier and pols’ job slightly harder:
Shabbos 54b:
כל מי שאפשר למחות לאנשי ביתו ולא מיחה נתפס על אנשי ביתו באנשי עירו נתפס על אנשי עירו בכל העולם כולו נתפס על כל העולם כולו.
“Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for“.