8.7.20
Can an IOU serve as money?
Can an IOU serve as money?
Let's say two people own a slave, and one lets him go. So now he is 1/2 slave and 1/2 free. According to Beit Hillel [Tractate Bava Batra page 13] he works for himself one day, and for his master on every other day.
Beit Shamai said but then he can not get married. That is, a gentile slave can not marry a Israelite woman. And a freed slave can. So as a slave he could have his slave wife and not an Israelite. As a freed slave he can only marry a Israelite. So he would be stuck. So Beit Shamai says the owner must let him go and the slave writes a document (an IOU) for the money that is owed.
But we know a slave only goes freed in one of three ways; (1) A document letting him go, (2) money or (3) injury [24 types].
So here there is no document letting the slave go. Just an IOU. So that must be considered as worth money שווה כסף
[I am being short here as this comes up in Rav Shach's Avi Ezri in the beginning of Laws of Selling. In other contexts clearly an IOU is not money. In Tractate Kidushin [see pages 5 and 8 and 47], the Rashba and Ramban that marrying a women by an IOU does not work.]
[Just as a side issue, it does look to me that Abraham Lincoln, really could not free the slaves by means of a proclamation. Certainty he did not expect that the slaves would then turn around and become the masters of the whites. -forcing whites to work for them by the welfare state. And now becoming the ipso facto masters of white people. It is unlikely that Lincoln would have agreed to this.] [The 14 Amendment signed by the southern states under force can not be thought to be valid.]
Let's say two people own a slave, and one lets him go. So now he is 1/2 slave and 1/2 free. According to Beit Hillel [Tractate Bava Batra page 13] he works for himself one day, and for his master on every other day.
Beit Shamai said but then he can not get married. That is, a gentile slave can not marry a Israelite woman. And a freed slave can. So as a slave he could have his slave wife and not an Israelite. As a freed slave he can only marry a Israelite. So he would be stuck. So Beit Shamai says the owner must let him go and the slave writes a document (an IOU) for the money that is owed.
But we know a slave only goes freed in one of three ways; (1) A document letting him go, (2) money or (3) injury [24 types].
So here there is no document letting the slave go. Just an IOU. So that must be considered as worth money שווה כסף
[I am being short here as this comes up in Rav Shach's Avi Ezri in the beginning of Laws of Selling. In other contexts clearly an IOU is not money. In Tractate Kidushin [see pages 5 and 8 and 47], the Rashba and Ramban that marrying a women by an IOU does not work.]
[Just as a side issue, it does look to me that Abraham Lincoln, really could not free the slaves by means of a proclamation. Certainty he did not expect that the slaves would then turn around and become the masters of the whites. -forcing whites to work for them by the welfare state. And now becoming the ipso facto masters of white people. It is unlikely that Lincoln would have agreed to this.] [The 14 Amendment signed by the southern states under force can not be thought to be valid.]
7.7.20
The world is being taken over by Lucifer.
The world is being taken over by Lucifer. The question is what to do about it. Learn Torah was the basic advice of the Gra except that I would like to expand his definition of learning Torah to include Physics. {This is based on a few authorities but not all. Clearly Ibn Pakuda חובות הלבבות is on one side. Ramban (Nahmanides), Rashba on the other. Still I have good reason to think Ibn Pakuda was right.]
It might make sense for the USA Catholics and Evangelicals and Russia to join up to fight the forces that are trying to destroy Western Civilization.
I say this because when I was reading Thucydides I began to get an appreciation for the idea of of alliances. --even among people that are not exactly on the same page in everything.
[Russia is a part of Western Civilization since Peter the Great. So the USA and Russia ought to be natural allies.]
I say this because when I was reading Thucydides I began to get an appreciation for the idea of of alliances. --even among people that are not exactly on the same page in everything.
[Russia is a part of Western Civilization since Peter the Great. So the USA and Russia ought to be natural allies.]
Most people in the USA are not Americans. While they might be American citizens but by the very fact that they hate America and are doing everything they can to destroy it means that they are in fact not Americans.
To be an American means to have a minimal degree of loyalty. The teachers unions, the welfare moms, the fem-nazis, the socialists are not Americans in any authentic sense.
Therefore real Americans ought to be aware that they are at war with an enemy that is already in the gates.
To be an American means to have a minimal degree of loyalty. The teachers unions, the welfare moms, the fem-nazis, the socialists are not Americans in any authentic sense.
Therefore real Americans ought to be aware that they are at war with an enemy that is already in the gates.
6.7.20
Each true tzadik has some important lesson to tell us all
the problem with identity politics in terms of religion is that one can not believe what is true based on the religious group one wants to belong to. A good example is Jesus. To believe anything good about Jesus in the slightest way takes one out of some religious groups. I never thought much of identity politics. I thought it is more important to believe what is true and let the cards fall where they may. Jesus merited to certain aspects of holiness. People that believe in him receive something of that holiness into their souls.
For every real authentic tzadik merits to some aspect of holiness, but not all aspects.
Rav Nahman merited to reveal the tikun Haklali the ten psalms that one says in order to correct sexual sin. 16, 32,41,42,59, 77,90,105, 137, 150.
That also does not mean that he got everything. He did also merit to show the importance of learning fast by saying the words and going on.
But clearly that is not all there is to it. The Litvak yeshiva that emphasize learning in depth by depth iyun clearly get to a depth and understanding of Torah that people that just learn fast do not even imagine can exist.
Each true tzadik has some important lesson to tell us all. But just as it is important to find the true tzadikim it is much more important to run away from the false pretenders.And to recognize who they are. That is why I keep on emphasizing the signature of the Gra on the letter of excommunication. To believe in that, can save one from much evil.
Rav Nahman also makes a point of the importance of identifying whom is really an authentic tzaik and to avoid the Torah scholars that are demons.
So in terms of coming to true Torah, clearly the only way is through the path of the great Litvak yeshiva that go according to the Gra. However one must be careful not to disagree with Rav Nahman.
[This idea actually comes up in the 13 stories of Rav Nahman about the king and his servants that all got dispersed by a whirlwind. The tikun come when they all come together.]
For every real authentic tzadik merits to some aspect of holiness, but not all aspects.
Rav Nahman merited to reveal the tikun Haklali the ten psalms that one says in order to correct sexual sin. 16, 32,41,42,59, 77,90,105, 137, 150.
That also does not mean that he got everything. He did also merit to show the importance of learning fast by saying the words and going on.
But clearly that is not all there is to it. The Litvak yeshiva that emphasize learning in depth by depth iyun clearly get to a depth and understanding of Torah that people that just learn fast do not even imagine can exist.
Each true tzadik has some important lesson to tell us all. But just as it is important to find the true tzadikim it is much more important to run away from the false pretenders.And to recognize who they are. That is why I keep on emphasizing the signature of the Gra on the letter of excommunication. To believe in that, can save one from much evil.
Rav Nahman also makes a point of the importance of identifying whom is really an authentic tzaik and to avoid the Torah scholars that are demons.
So in terms of coming to true Torah, clearly the only way is through the path of the great Litvak yeshiva that go according to the Gra. However one must be careful not to disagree with Rav Nahman.
[This idea actually comes up in the 13 stories of Rav Nahman about the king and his servants that all got dispersed by a whirlwind. The tikun come when they all come together.]
5.7.20
spiritual issues
Almost all discussion of spiritual issues is bitul Torah [waste of time from learning Torah]. As Aristotle said it is the mark of a wise person not to ask for more precision in any subject than teh subject merits. It is like asking if a person is a 89.0012% tzadik or perhaps 90.000% tzadik.
Almost all discussions are along the same lines. speculation about what no one knows anything about. and besides that adds nothing to help one be a better person.
[The trouble with spiritual issues is that they are in an area that is beyond reason. That is an area of value that leads to internal contradictions.]
[You can see this idea in Rav Nahman in the very end of the LeM in the left out portions. There he brings the idea that at the beginning of creation the midot [sepherot] were spreading out without limit.
That includes Wisdom [Reason]. Then God set a limit for reason --where it could not go past. So when people think to use their reason to understand spiritual issues they are going into an area where reason can not enter and just ends up with self contradictions.]
[This is an essential part of the thesis of Kant also.]
Almost all discussions are along the same lines. speculation about what no one knows anything about. and besides that adds nothing to help one be a better person.
[The trouble with spiritual issues is that they are in an area that is beyond reason. That is an area of value that leads to internal contradictions.]
[You can see this idea in Rav Nahman in the very end of the LeM in the left out portions. There he brings the idea that at the beginning of creation the midot [sepherot] were spreading out without limit.
That includes Wisdom [Reason]. Then God set a limit for reason --where it could not go past. So when people think to use their reason to understand spiritual issues they are going into an area where reason can not enter and just ends up with self contradictions.]
[This is an essential part of the thesis of Kant also.]
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