@LucasGageX@TheLeary_Theory The difference is Jews have their own space because of love of their own people/religion. This is not the same as having your own space due to one’s hatred of others.
@yaakovkabir@DBashIdeas Yeh, no thanks, I’ll ignore the communal politics and merely cite the fact that R.Faur was held in such high esteem by R. Aharon Kotler that he was chosen to be a pallbearer at R. Kotler’s levaya. This was despite the fact that he spent only a very brief time at BMG.
@shnayor Did artscroll not include a translation of "Intro to Mishne Torah" in their recent two Kisvei HaRambam translations? I don't have them in front of me.
@kilovh Mary Midgley, Evolution as Religion or Science and Poetry, or pretty much anything else she writes, seems up your alley and have never seen you mention. Delve further into the oeuvre of Jacques Barzun or Roger Scruton.
@magills_ You mean, the people that laud the fact that they sacrifice their own kids by raising the to be suicide bombers for the sake of harming Israelis, you have a hard time believing they would sacrifice their own kids to harm Israelis?
@kilovh@FreeManDespair The 51:50 mark of this shiur lends credence to this story, as R'Chaim Zimmermann was R'Baruch Ber's nephew: https://t.co/AnR49kYisb
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