Modern Rabbis Permitting Murder

Some Rabbis are clearly corrupted by our decadent culture. How come we have rabbis like Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg “permitting” aborting Down Syndrome babies, “extenuating circumstances”, and the like, apart from danger to the mother? The Gemara is very clear in many places that abortion is part-murder.

But as attitudes worsen around us, Jews learn from the Non-Jew. And pretend the Torah itself permits murder.

The Motion Picture Production Code (circa 1963) states: “The subject of abortion shall be discouraged, shall never be more than suggested, and when referred to shall be condemned.” (from “Coming Apart” by Charles Murray)

I highly recommend Rabbi Brand’s tiny book on abortion here (Hebrew).

Follow the Torah or Follow Daas Torah? You Can’t Do Both!

Hold on just one minute, lets not confuse Torah and Daas Torah.” Just because the Torah commands us to do something that doesn’t mean we should actually do it. What do our Rabbis tell us?
After all, who are we to try to understand that which is clearly stated in the Torah when some of our lesser teachers (henceforth known as “Gdolim” for the sake of the common vernacular) tell us that they have decided something contrary to G-d’s eternal commandments to the Jewish people on earth embodied by the Torah given to Moshe Rabbenu on Har Sinai?
This concept is known as Daas Torah, the central idea being that Daas Torah is the Guide by which we should lead our lives lest we wander astray following the precepts of the Ol Malchus Shamayim we accepted when we said NaAsseh ViNishma.

Excerpted from Brisk Yeshiva, here.

‘Run Government Like a Business’?

In Israel, the common line is the state is great as is. It’s not too large. Our fundamental problem isn’t bloated government but the wrong kind. They say the state “mix” needs more of the entrepreneurial element and less of the bureaucratic one.

Really?!

Read this rebuttal.