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משנה בבא מציעא ה’ י’:
Year: 2021
Under Halacha, the Regime Is DENIED the Presumption of Innocence
From Chananya Weissman:
Mari bar Issak was a wealthy, powerful man who was known to intimidate people. One time a long-lost brother showed up from another land and requested half of their father’s inheritance. Mari said he did not know him. They came before Rav Chisda, who instructed the claimant to produce witnesses that he was Mari’s brother.
“I have witnesses,” said the man, “but they are afraid of him, for he is a tough guy.”
Rav Chisda turned to Mari. “You go and bring witnesses that he is not your brother.”
“Is that the law?” retorted Mari. “One who claims money from his fellow must bring the proof.”
“That is how I judge you and your fellow gangsters,” replied Rav Chisda. Ultimately witnesses came forward and testified that the man was indeed his brother. (See Bava Metzia 39B.)
This source is codified in Jewish law.
The Zera Shimshon finds an allusion to it in the first pasuk of this week’s parsha. The Torah states “ושפטו את העם משפט צדק” – “and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment” (Devarim 16:18). The words “את העם” appear superfluous.
The Zera Shimshon cites the incident with Mari bar Issak, when Rav Chisda went against the usual law precisely so a righteous judgment could come to light. He adds that “העם” typically refers to gangsters and lowlifes. The Torah is hinting that they are judged differently than other people. The burden of proof is always on them; even if they are the defendant in monetary matters, they are guilty until proven innocent.
One doesn’t need to be a Talmudic sage to apply this law to our current situation. Those who are trying to force us to take toxic injections and engage in other forms of self-harm are gangsters. The politicians, bureaucrats, media, and “social influencers” are all unsavory, untrustworthy people – often far worse. The powerful companies who pull their strings have a long history of corruption, racketeering, and every crime against humanity under the sun. Their trail of blood is staggering beyond comprehension.
We’re supposed to believe their numbers, and their studies, and their assurances? We’re supposed to accept their testimony about anything at all?
Not according to the Torah.
If they want us to believe anything they say, they must produce incontrovertible evidence. Studies they pay for, which are conducted by people they own, published in journals they sponsor, broadcast in media they control, “fact-checked” by liars they employ, promoted by bureaucrats in their pocket, have zero value as evidence.
In addition, known liars and lowlifes are ineligible to testify according to Jewish law, not to mention anyone with a vested interest. Anyone who is connected to the world’s largest organized crime syndicate – otherwise known as the government, pharmaceutical industry, and global companies – is ineligible to testify that their products are “safe and effective”. Not surprisingly, those pushing the injections and supporting tyranny are almost invariably connected to the syndicate in some way (or wish to be, or admire it).
The burden of evidence is squarely on them, and the normal rules do not apply; they are guilty until proven innocent, and we must be leery of everything they say.
As Rav Chisda said, that is how we judge them and their fellow gangsters.
(From the email newsletter)
Women in the Military? It All Depends on the GOAL of the Military!
Why are today’s women in the military in some countries, unlike in the past? Were previous generations less licentious?
I suspect it’s because today’s wars are frequently for sport or other purposes. If the goal is defense, however, women are counterproductive.
Repeating the obvious (excerpt from an LRC article):
The camaraderie and esprit de corps in a military unit or a police unit is heavily dependent on shared risk. When women are exposed to the same degree of risk of life and death, this disrupts the military-protective function, which is unquestionably masculine. In this sense, the military is different from the free market, in which shared risk is economic. In the corporate world, men have no sense of obligation to protect women. They may be quite happy to put rival women out of business.
Second, women in general are not as strong physically as men are. A soldier in the field cannot rely on a woman with the same degree of confidence that he can rely on a man.
Third, society imposes on men a protective impulse with regard to women. A soldier in the field will tend to disobey orders in order to defend a woman in the ranks, when he would not be equally ready to disobey an order to protect another male. This threatens to disrupt the chain of command. This is a reason why homosexuality in the military has been universally condemned in the West and in most non-Western armies. A combatant may abandon a buddy to his fate when the battle plan requires it, but he may not abandon a sexual partner. Homosexuality reduces the predictability of battle plans.
Fourth, women are required to obey orders on threat of court martial, just as men are. This creates opportunities for men of higher rank to misuse their rank for sexual exploitation.
Fifth, there is another factor that is rarely discussed in public: female homosexuality. The primary characteristics of success in combat are masculine. This subsidizes the careers of those women who possess masculine characteristics. It rewards certain features of female homosexuality. The creation of same-sex sexual relationships within a military chain of command leads to exploitation by rank and also leads to problems of protective impulses under combat conditions, and to hierarchical favoritism in peacetime, both of which undermine military discipline.
תיקוני עירובין גליון 291# – חדש! סידרת לימוד הלכות סוכה
השבוע בגליון: ברכת מרן חכם שלום כהן שליט”א, נשיא מועצת חכמי התורה, לפעילות “חודש העירוב”.
ההפתעות שגילינו בימי בין הזמנים במסגרת – חודש העירוב / שער מברזל שנמצא פתאום ללא המשקוף בשכונה ידועה בירושלים / מדהים, בכניסה לישוב מולחם עמוד וגם לחי
בגובה ג’ טפחים מהקרקע! דבר זה פסל את כל העירוב תקופה ארוכה / לחי ממשטח שהורכב הפוך עם הרגליים אל הפתח / האם בדיעבד כשר העירוב כשאין צורת הפתח בסימטאות.
Reprinted with permission.
השנה תהיה ה’מבין’ בכשרות הסוכות
חדש! סידרת לימוד הלכות סוכה
4 שיעורים מתומצתים, ואתה רוכש את הלכות סוכה המעשיים בזמנינו כולל מאות שאלות מצויות בצורות שונות של קירות ופתחים
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הסוכה. מהו שתיים דעריבן, חדר עם קיר עגול. סוכה שהפתח נמצא בפינה. סורגים וחבלי כביסה מעל הסוכה. מה הנידון במוזייקה שבאדן החלון. פי תקרה בסוכה בבית. ענף של עץ שמתנדנד ברוח מעל הסוכה. אין מצרפים פחות מג’ מהחלק הפסול על ידי צורת הפתח. מתי אומרים שתי הלכות להתיר. מעמיד דמעמיד וקשירה באזיקונים. חוזק הדפנות של הסוכה כשבגג יש רוחות חזקות. פינה צרה בקצה הסוכה שאין בה ז’ טפחים. ועוד….
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