tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post7088399531820582063..comments2023-09-11T17:58:13.764-04:00Comments on The Rebbetzin's Husband: Banning Muslims and Jews from the US MilitaryThe Rebbetzin's Husbandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-49465344753434744052009-12-07T13:10:13.198-05:002009-12-07T13:10:13.198-05:00Thanks, Sidney. And your opening point is precisel...Thanks, Sidney. And your opening point is precisely where I see the problem: If shooting at others who are not a direct threat is moral, then why does that morality end with your co-religionist?The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-63824028324898912382009-12-06T15:10:12.596-05:002009-12-06T15:10:12.596-05:00Well, my biggest problem is that they would shoot ...Well, my biggest problem is that they would shoot at someone who does not pose an imminent threat to their life. But, that is a whole other subject.<br /><br />Having been raised "Christian" there are many denominations which do not necessarily believe the same thing and then, there are ethnic differences that become an overwhelming factor in behavior. I went searching for a bit of information about the conflict and found the following:<br /><br />"Each Protestant group was "God's country"_God's favourite_and somehow or other was bound to come out on top without the bother of thinking out a scheme for its own conduct." http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/protestantism/protesy.htm<br /><br />And Wikipedia has a whole article on The Troubles which discusses the ethno-political conflict in Northern Ireland. Even with all that reading it boggles my mind what there is such division, hatred, and ignorance between people in general, much less in that same "religious" sect. As I have seen there is no "loyalty" to "the cross" per se. <br /><br />I'm aware that this probably has not answered the original question, but it sure has given me a historical perspective I did not have prior to reading your blog.Sidney Gaskinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05992542296395029686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-83780797149262049472009-12-06T13:40:27.821-05:002009-12-06T13:40:27.821-05:00Hello Batya and Sidney,
I hear, but I'm still...Hello Batya and Sidney,<br /><br />I hear, but I'm still stuck on the point that they have no problem shooting at people who share their religious beliefs. In other words: In the American Civil War, a Pennsylvanian Protestant had no problem shooting at a South Carolina Protestant.<br /><br />Sidney - Thanks for recommending my blog to R' Minkowicz! I'm glad you've found it useful.The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-3903625888764568422009-12-06T00:00:53.936-05:002009-12-06T00:00:53.936-05:00Batya took the words out of my mouth. Protestants ...Batya took the words out of my mouth. Protestants and Catholics are not taught that there is a "land" given by God for them to inhabit. Therefore, killing another Protestant or Catholic has nothing to do with territory. It has everything to do with ego and entitlement to things or space. <br /><br />The Rebbetzin's Husband, I was consulting at Chabad of North Fulton in Alpharetta, GA and shared your blog with Rabbi Minkowicz. It was your post Silly Rabbit, Shuls are for Kids from September 28, 2007, that caught my eye. During my time working with the Chabad, my focus was on assisting them in setting up their children's services with support from the parents. Your blog assisted me in bringing to them something else to consider!Sidney Gaskinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05992542296395029686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-11901775975047314662009-11-22T16:01:51.669-05:002009-11-22T16:01:51.669-05:00Only Jews and Moslems are connected to territory....Only Jews and Moslems are connected to territory. Catholics and Protesants aren't, unless you count the Vatican.Batyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-72987540689567936042009-11-16T22:36:30.822-05:002009-11-16T22:36:30.822-05:00Russell-
Thanks for that information; true, the &q...Russell-<br />Thanks for that information; true, the "Sanhedrin" was a fascinating group. I'll have to take a look at Katz when I get a chance; I never read Tolerance cover-to-cover. It's in my basement at the moment.The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-75941018310456271922009-11-16T19:14:21.770-05:002009-11-16T19:14:21.770-05:00I think it is worthwhile to understand how the San...I think it is worthwhile to understand how the Sanhedrin came to that answer. Jacob Katz deals with this in Chapter 15 in his book "Exclusiveness and tolerance: studies in Jewish-Gentile relations in medieval". The claim is that the Sanhedrin was comprised of many groups, one of those being deists, and the answers to the questions are compromises.<br /><br />I think it would also be important to see what is probably the traditional Jewish view to this question, as answered by Rav Yishmael HaCohen of Modina (sp?), author of the Zera Emet, who was unable to attend the conference (I think because of old age). In 1949, his answers were published in the journal Talpiot (I don't know which volume, but the same volume also contains the essay of R' Moshe Feinstein regarding mechitzot which was later included in Sanctity of the Synagogue). I haven't seen it in a couple years, but I do remember his answers being vastly different than those presented by the Sanhedrin, and not as apologetic to the spirit of the day, namely Enlightenment.Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452758052108522468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-80966868465323263952009-11-16T13:15:44.284-05:002009-11-16T13:15:44.284-05:00Jack-
An interesting question; I have known Jews (...Jack-<br />An interesting question; I have known Jews (now niftarim) who served in Germany's military in WWI.<br /><br />N-<br />Feel free to email me from my profile.<br /><br />ProfK, R' Mordechai-<br />As I see it, the issue is not the identity of the war, but the identity of the soldier. Muslim will not shoot Muslim, Jew will not shoot Jew, but Protestant will shoot Protestant; that's what I find interesting.The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-37002125286494121202009-11-16T12:19:19.210-05:002009-11-16T12:19:19.210-05:00ProfK, the British presence in the sectarian viole...ProfK, the British presence in the sectarian violence in Ireland?Mordechai Y. Scherhttp://www.kolberamah.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-30241135455725349912009-11-16T08:12:37.618-05:002009-11-16T08:12:37.618-05:00What do Catholics and Protestants do? Show me, ple...What do Catholics and Protestants do? Show me, please, a war or conflict in recent times that has been painted as a "Catholic" war or a "Protestant" war. The conflicts in the Middle East are ALWAYS painted according to the religious beliefs of the local combatants. Are we really fighting an "Iraqi" war, or is that war about making the world safe from "Radical Extremist Islamists"? Israel is a self-declared "Jewish" state. Why would the world think of it as anything but?<br /><br />The last time that someone painted a war in religious terms that involved Catholics or Protestants Phillip the Second was on the throne of Spain and Bloody Mary ruled in England, and that didn't end too well for the Catholics.ProfKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954446826821665314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-51838429769686635022009-11-16T06:43:36.813-05:002009-11-16T06:43:36.813-05:00There are conflicting interests with more religiou...There are conflicting interests with more religious ideologies, but we encounter this in our own IDF, where more religious soldiers refused to partake in the disengagement... Rebbetzin's husband, can we blogroll each other please? please reply by e-mail...NonymousGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11797875644242667498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-87103442198098854592009-11-16T03:51:15.236-05:002009-11-16T03:51:15.236-05:00And what happened during WWI. What did the Jews of...And what happened during WWI. What did the Jews of Europe do then. I have heard stories about soldiers who captured "enemy" soldiers by crying out that they needed to make a minyan.<br /><br />But I don't know if these tales are actually true.Jack Steinerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16625864271071630940noreply@blogger.com