העורך Editor

Curtis Yavin (in the comments):

The entire intellectual system of the West was corrupted by its 20th-century connection to government. Public opinion reflects press opinion, press opinion reflects academic politics, and academic politics are driven by power-struggles in which the attraction of the state is clear.

The victory of Keynesian over Misesian economics, for example, is a classic case of this. Theories of economics which led to jobs advising the state were adaptive. Theories which didn’t weren’t.

Borrowing evolutionary biological terms for anything but evolutionary biology spooks me…

Get to the point!

OK.

Lies are “adaptive” short term, not long term. Truth works… eventually. I footnote myself here as proof (that post didn’t get enough eyes, anyway!).

An expression leaps to mind: בשעת המכניסין פזר בשעת המפזרים כנס.

Check out the list of Top 32 Rabbis and Founders Wearing Tekhelet/Techeiles, from My Western Wall.

Including, but not limited to, Rabbi Meir Mazuz, Rabbi Weinreb, Rabbi Moshe David Tendler, Rabbi Tzuriel, Rabbi Toviah (Tuviah?) Singer, etc.

Here are some more.

שבת סוף י’ ב’ על פרשת וירא:

אמר רבא בר מחסיא אמר רב חמא בר גוריא אמר רב, לעולם יחזר אדם וישב בעיר שישיבתה קרובה, שמתוך שישיבתה קרובה עונותיה מועטין, שנאמר הנה נא העיר הזאת קרובה לנוס שמה והיא מצער כו’ אלא מתוך שישיבתה קרובה עונותיה מוצערין. (אגב, דוגמא להוראת חז”ל מפורסמת פחות.)

והקשה חכ”א ע”ז מיונה ד’ י’, ויאמר ד’ אתה חסת על הקיקיון אשר לא עמלת בו ולא גדלתו שבן לילה היה ובן לילה אבד. ואני לא אחוס על נינוה העיר הגדולה אשר יש בה הרבה משתים עשרה רבו אדם אשר לא ידע בין ימינו לשמאלו ובהמה רבה. ולא קשה מידי, דהקב”ה אינו וותרן להאריך אפו לעולם, אבל לא אחפץ במות המת והשיבו וחיו.

In Mishpacha Magazine (after Rabbi Mendel Weinbach’s death) Rabbi Notta Schiller said the name “Ohr Same’ach” was chosen for the Yeshiva (among four reasons) because they believed that, to have an effect, they needed innovation, not change, and they saw that principle personified in Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, author of “Ohr Same’ach”.

Rabbi Meir Simcha, unlike other rabbis, didn’t oppose the government’s decree rabbis must study Russian, despite this being contrary to custom. He felt it was, in fact, a Kiddush Hashem and/or current need.

Rabbi Yitzchak Brand writes the idea of silly legal fictions is a “cancer” on Judaism, wiping out every Mitzvah in its path.

• It’s not just the fictitious sale of Chametz.
• It’s not just shaving the beard, as with a razor.
• It’s not just fraudulent Jewish conversions.
• It’s not just “Shtar Shabbos”.
• It’s not just getting out of Tevilas Keilim.
• Grama for baby-killing rabbis.
• It’s not just “selling\lending” your suit to escape Keriyah at Makom Hamikdash.
• It’s not just the pretense of selling the land of Israel to get out of observing Shmittah.
• It’s not just wigs to “cover” married women’s hair.
• It’s not just fake Eruvin.
• It’s not just Heter Maharam for Ribbis.
• It’s not just Evil Rabbi Rosen’s Grama machines.
• Etc. etc.

When Jews wish to castrate a dog, etc., some of them came up with the “fresh” idea of first “selling” the animal to the non-Jewish vet, who does what the owner wants, then resells it back…

Do I need to explain why this chicanery doesn’t override the Torah prohibition of castration, and adds Chillul Hashem, to boot?!