A reader wrote that he appreciates our posts, even when they don’t necessarily have anything to do with Judaism per se, such as this one:
The Unknown Jew Who Risked the Electric Chair To Save the Globe From American Nuclear Tyranny
To repeat myself in a past article:
Ever see an article that doesn’t seem related to Judaism on Hyehudi.org – “Aggregated Articles About Judaism”?
Here’s a general rule for reading Hyehudi:
Ask yourself if many of the most famous and scholarly rabbis today would agree with a certain message. If they wouldn’t, well then that’s what I mean to wonder about. And if the said rabbis haven’t expressed an opinion either way, then I mean they really ought to do so.
Even for the minute number of filler, or “padding” articles, my goal is to render the rest of the site more appealing and get new readers for the more meaty articles.
To illustrate, here is the Jewish connection of just this article:
- If a Jew were to ask a Torah question about a similar case of breaking monopoly, I think he should be told to do the same as our protagonist.
- My cynical view of the US tyrannizing the world if only it could is meant as a critique of blind, stupid Pollyanish views of the US, so common among Jews.
- How come you never read any Torah scholar lambasting nukes? Why not?!
- Look at this one Jew. Even distant Jews should at least not drift too far; Jews are ‘awesome’!
- Even the so-called exceptional USA could have been (even worse) a monster, so we should go slow on Iggros Moshe‘s “Medinah shel Chessed”-induced patriotism.
- An inter alia reminder of Hiroshima (we have elsewhere shown to be gratuitous), which undercuts the US claim of morality, let alone unique morality. And “When they fall we rise“.
- Hiroshima should awaken Jews to leave a State blithely capable of such things.
- Hiroshima should inoculate Jews against the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s feelings about the US.
- If a duly state-miseducated\programmed American Jew can walk away from a random article quoting Wikipedia suddenly thinking Soviet spies can be heroic (!), what other firmly-held convictions might you be wrong about (Temple Mount, Mechiras Chametz, etc.)?
- The article is meant to condition the reader to deep revulsion of mainstream, “Charedi” neocon rags (with numerous Jewish side-benefits).
- A reminder world peace is usually a good thing in Judaism, pace the necocons.
- Even if other interpretations of this are possible, how come you never heard any of this fascinating story? And what does that tell you about your, if not Jewish at least Jew-ish, education supposedly including all chief highlights (thereby encouraging independent study of Jewish history, etc.)?
- Another dig at some Jews’ acceptance of the USG’s world-monopoly-aspiring Russia-Ukraine narrative.
- This anecdote further illustrates the simple meaning of Mishlei here.
- I think counterfactual thinking (“the bomb might have been dropped on China…”) is essential to Torah study, as demonstrated eleswhere.
Enough to make my point yet?
Note: Feel free to evade all the above and read Hyehudi purely for pleasure (as some people read the Torah itself as a novel) so long as you don’t attribute to this writer the “starving artist” foolishness of spending hours writing this site for free\zip\nada\gratis\gornisht, merely to amuse the bored.