tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203630644600577474.post5557293458154463802..comments2023-10-11T04:10:54.916-07:00Comments on Mostly Kosher: Should we or shouldn't we fast for rain?Benjamin of Tudelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00443453533108185137noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203630644600577474.post-52289766580382547692010-11-29T07:49:57.659-08:002010-11-29T07:49:57.659-08:00I think the basic argument is that fast days are f...I think the basic argument is that fast days are for "life and death" situations. In todays world we are not really there yet, and pretending that we are will only lead to insincerity in our prayers. <br />It is hard to be sincere when the world is just continuing with a buisness as usual attitude.Benjamin of Tudelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00443453533108185137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203630644600577474.post-80741763960706846412010-11-29T07:39:49.672-08:002010-11-29T07:39:49.672-08:00more on this subject:
a- massekhet taanit- i don&#...more on this subject:<br />a- massekhet taanit- i don't recall it conditioning fast of kafna !?<br />b-Arguing that the connection between rain and economic status has dissapeared - why? do they feed on megabytes, gigapixels and yields of cash investments at YHE?<br />c-over the past year, unemployment went down (even though it remains troublingly high), I find that short sighted.<br />d -Our spiritual level is not one that allows a direct link between rain and our actions. That's a very odd argument & I wonder if for the same reason we should stop to recite 3 times a day, refaenu venerafe, mechaye hammeissim, chonein hadaas, etc...<br />e- Sincerity - ...so too fasting, when there is a significant gap between its external expression and internal feeling, is inappropriate."- even when there is explicit halakha? any halakhic authority justifying this view? <br />f- Just as inflation ruins the value of a currency, - interresting argument, but ma inyon shmeetoh etzel har sinai?<br />g- The status of the Chief Rabbinate ?? before getting rid of them, get rid a- of the puppet masters. meanwhile יפתח בדורו כשמואל בדורו that's what we have now and we are obligated in their respect.<br />What is troubling R' Lichtenstein is valid, but use of demagogic reasoning is plentiful in the gemore, yet this is the basis of our laws. <br />h- The art of knowing god's will, or rather reading god's will from the elements - not really, here they are plain -mipnei chataeinu type. no tsunami & no hitnatqut.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203630644600577474.post-65666739593165637622010-11-29T07:13:09.734-08:002010-11-29T07:13:09.734-08:00fast or not for the rain? let me count the reasons...fast or not for the rain? let me count the reasons!<br />it maybe more important to fast for the rain than for 10 tevet.<br />it maybe more important to fast for the rain than for 9 of av.<br />it maybe more important to fast for the rain than for 17 of tammuz.<br />it maybe more important to fast for the rain than for the fast of esther.<br />it maybe more important to fast for the rain than for all of shovavim followed by bh'b.<br />even though danger is not imminent & they can import in the winter tropical fruits from the tropics, peaches from chile & watermellon from south africa, could be that the country -why? even planet earth, ecologically speaking- is going to the dogs. <br />all info certified and audited by learned scientists as well as kookoo rabbis in hot air balloons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com