tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post114700187107747109..comments2023-10-29T11:50:25.742+02:00Comments on My Obiter Dicta: More Jews Live in Eretz YisraelJeffrey R. Woolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1147199885012850762006-05-09T21:38:00.000+03:002006-05-09T21:38:00.000+03:00Corrected.Corrected.Jeffrey R. Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1147124606942054032006-05-09T00:43:00.000+03:002006-05-09T00:43:00.000+03:00Jeff,I hate to nitpick when our very survival is a...Jeff,<BR/>I hate to nitpick when our very survival is at stake but your title is misleading. Israeli Jews now constitute a plurality of world Jewry but not a majority.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15205883568727297302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1147029387340264402006-05-07T22:16:00.000+03:002006-05-07T22:16:00.000+03:00The "high concentration" argument is one that is o...The "high concentration" argument is one that is often heard from Haredi non or antizionist circles. Hungarian Chassidim as well as Yekke Torah Im Derech Eretz types. However, the Iranian threat, coupled with the pronouncement of the Nobel Prize winning Professor of Game Theory Aumann that "he is worried that perhaps Satmar was correct" should give one pause for thought.<BR/><BR/>Over 40 years ago Norman Lamm wrote an article in Traditon on Satmar's ideology which he laughed off as being a ridiculous curiosity, essentially an historical footnote. I think the jury is stil out on that one - even if the 70,000 Satmars in the world split into two or more chatzerot.Ben Bayithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540723595738423002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1147024215253720352006-05-07T20:50:00.000+03:002006-05-07T20:50:00.000+03:00Yovel will not be the biggest 'problem.'The laws o...Yovel will not be the biggest 'problem.'<BR/>The laws of Eretz Yisrael which right now are rabbinic in nature -- terumah, ma'asar, shemitta, etc. -- will take on biblical proportions, which will render many loopholes and leniencies we routinely use moot. <BR/>Some possible delaying tactics of this situation: there are still more Jews outside than inside of Israel (there are Diaspora Jews who do not live in the US), or perhaps we can get off the hook because the Jews do not live in their proper tribal lands (this is mentioned in the sources). <BR/><BR/>This makes the (in)famous R. Chaim ha-Kohen on the sugya of yishuv EY in the end of Kesubos all the more cogent.<BR/><BR/>Are our rabbis, and are we, up to the challenge?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1147018599827330832006-05-07T19:16:00.000+03:002006-05-07T19:16:00.000+03:00Does this mean "yisrael shruyin al admatam" and th...Does this mean "yisrael shruyin al admatam" and the Yovel cycle should start up again?<BR/><BR/>Will we soon see a "heter yovel"?thanbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06197564008203120013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1147011352843612862006-05-07T17:15:00.000+03:002006-05-07T17:15:00.000+03:00Sobering.If I am not mistaken, the population mile...Sobering.<BR/><BR/>If I am not mistaken, the population milestone will take on halakhic significance as well once we pass the 50% mark for world Jewry - rov yisrael shruyin b'artzanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1147002750217741612006-05-07T14:52:00.000+03:002006-05-07T14:52:00.000+03:00I wish I could take credit, but that needs to go t...I wish I could take credit, but that needs to go to Dr. Charles Krauthammer.Jeffrey R. Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1147002307126195502006-05-07T14:45:00.000+03:002006-05-07T14:45:00.000+03:00Wow! This is some of your best writing (and think...Wow! This is some of your best writing (and thinking). <BR/><BR/>While many of us were slapping each other on the back and exchanging high fives over the whole population thing, I don't think too many of us gave a moment's thought about the chilling 'other side of the coin'.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for putting this in perspective.treppenwitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10469868535926628214noreply@blogger.com