Eric Adams declared victory in the city’s Democratic mayoral race Tuesday after holding on to a razor-thin lead in a pivotal new tally of votes, putting him on track to become just the second Black mayor in Big Apple history after running a centrist campaign heavily focused on crime-fighting.
Adams, Brooklyn’s current borough president and a retired NYPD captain, led former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by just 8,426 ballots — or 1% of the total — after more than 120,000 absentee votes were added to the Board of Elections’ unofficial tally of ranked-choice results.
Torah thought parsha מטות מסעי
ReplyDeleteAvodah Zarah 75b:
“ It has been taught: They [Mishnah. If [an Israelite] purchases cooking-utensils [lit., utensils of service]] all [even after being scalded or made white-hot.] need to be immersed in [a ritual bath containing a minimum of] forty se'ah [approximately 120 gallons]. Whence is this derived? Raba said: Because Scripture states, “Eleazar the priest said to the troops who had taken part in the fighting: This is the ritual law זאת חקת התורה that the Lord has commanded אשר צוה Moses: Gold, and silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead---any article כל דבר that can withstand fire---these you shall pass through fire and they shall be clean; except that they must be cleansed with water of lustration אך במי נדה יתחטא; and anything that can not withstand fire you must pass through water תעבירו במים.” (Numbers 31:21-23). Scripture [by adding the words, and it shall be clean, the inference is that something more is required, viz., immersion besides making the article white-hot] has here added for you an additional [process of] cleansing. Bar Kappara taught: From the text, “except that they must be cleansed with water of lustration אך במי נדה יתחטא” I might have inferred that [a Gentile's utensil] requires sprinkling [with this water] on the third and seventh day [As is done with one that had been defiled by a corpse. Cf. ibid., XIX, 12 ff.]; therefore the word except אך is used, the purpose of which is to make a distinction. If that be so, what is the purpose of the words במי נדה ? It signifies water in which a niddah [V. Glos. The reference is to the ritual bath containing a minimum of forty se'ah] immerses. And it was necessary for Scripture to write both and it shall be clean, and with the water of separation. If it had only written, וטהר, I might have thought, it shall be clean means by any quantity of water, so the Divine Law wrote, במי נדה; and if the Divine Law had only written, במי נדה, I might have thought that [it only becomes ritually clean] at sunset as happens with a niddah, so the Divine Law wrote and it shall be clean, i.e., immediately [after the immersion].”
Beautiful. The Gamara shows that parshaמטות has the laws of mikveh for a woman to be permitted to her husband. The beginning of parsha מטות has laws of a husband cancelling vows his wife might make that he objects to. I see a connection. The wife is angry at the husband and vows that if she doesn’t get her way---she’ll skip the mikvah! Oh no! The husband must give in to make his soulmate happy (and to quiet his יצר הרע). Update on me. SCOTUS 20-8096 and 20-7892 both: DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
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ReplyDeleteHe wins, New York's crime rate makes the city unlivable and they go bankrupt again.
Allow me my theory on “The vow ונדר of a widow or of a divorced woman אלמנה וגרושה, however, whatever she has imposed on herself כל אשר אסרה על נפשה, shall be binding upon her יקום עליה.” (Leviticus 30:10) in this week’s double parsha מטות מסעי. I ask: when the Torah talks of the vows of a young girl under the authority of her father and the vows of an engaged lady or married lady, why is she vowing to impose restrictions on herself?
ReplyDeleteShe’s doing virtue signaling to a man who has authority over her. Virtue signaling = the public expression of opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or social conscience or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue. The Progressive Left loves rank voting as in the Eric Adams primary. Many Progressive Left reluctantly voted for Eric Adams as a first choice because of crime in NYC.
Rank voting allows Progressive Left to virtue signal on other issues to push their agenda. Virtue signally is separate from genuine outrage.
“Psychologists Jillian Jordan and David Rand argue that virtue signaling is separable from genuine outrage towards a particular belief, but that in most cases, individuals who are virtue signaling are, in fact, simultaneously experiencing genuine outrage. Linguist David Shariatmadari argues in The Guardian that the very act of accusing someone of virtue signaling is an act of virtue signaling in itself and that its overuse as an ad hominem attack during political debate has rendered it a meaningless political buzzword.”
The Progressive Left will push rank voting throughout the USA. Eric Adams almost lost due to rank voting and board of elections in NYC.
"Adams, Brooklyn’s current borough president and a retired NYPD captain, led former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by just 8,426 ballots — or 1% of the total — after more than 120,000 absentee votes were added to the Board of Elections’ unofficial tally of ranked-choice results."
I support the Wall Street Journal podcasts on this subject. Eric Adams will cancel bail reform and restore stop and frisk---maybe, to reduce crime in NYS. Follow Garnel?
The Gamara deals with “The vow ונדר of a widow or of a divorced woman אלמנה וגרושה, however, whatever she has imposed on herself כל אשר אסרה על נפשה, shall be binding upon her יקום עליה.” (Leviticus 30:10).
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“Mishnah. But every vow of a widow and of her that is divorced . . . shall stand against her [(Leviticus 30:10)]. How so? If she declared, behold, I will be a nazirite after thirty days, even if she married within the thirty days, he cannot annul it. if she vows while under her husband's authority, he can disallow her. How so? If she declared, behold! I will be a nazirite after thirty days, [and her husband annulled it], even though she was widowed or divorced within the thirty days, it is annulled. If she vowed on one day, and he divorced her on the same day and took her back on the same day, he cannot annul it. This is the general. rule: once she has gone forth as her own mistress [even] for a single hour, he cannot annul.”
Interesting Nedarim Chapter 10 Mishnah 12:
“Mishnah. At first it was ruled that three women must be divorced and receive their kethubah [V. Glos.]: She who declares: I am defiled to you [i.e., unfaithful]; or Heaven is between you and me [i.e., her husband is impotent a thing that, apart from herself, can be known only to Heaven.]; And May I be removed from Jews [including her own husband. By this vow she showed that cohabitation was unbearable to her, and therefore could demand to be divorced and receive her Kethubah]. But subsequently, to prevent her from conceiving a passion for another [lit., casting her eyes at another man] to the injury of her husband [מקלקלת על בעלה. A difficult phrase. According to the rendering adopted, the meaning is: She will purposely make one of these declarations in order to obtain her freedom against his will. Ran explains: She may go to a place where nothing is known of her vow and marry there. He seemed to have taken this phrase as denoting: She will act unseemly (whilst still) with her husband, and as referring only to the declaration May I be removed from Jews.]. The ruling was amended thus: She who declared, I am defiled unto you, must bring proof: Heaven is between me and you they should engage in prayer [that his impotency might cease (Tosaf.) [lit., They should act by way of a request. Ran: attempts should be made to placate the wife. Rashi: the husband should be asked to agree to a divorce.]]. And May I be removed from Jews, he [the husband] must annul his portion [i.e., as far as he personally is concerned], and she shall minister to him, whilst remaining removed from Jews.”
I have support in the Gamara Nedarim that the lady making vows to impose restraint on herself, is doing virtue signaling. Maybe she wants a divorce from a recalcitrant husband, who knows? “Ran: attempts should be made to placate the wife. Rashi: the husband should be asked to agree to a divorce.”
Hertz Chumash p. 703: “widow, or...divorced. The vows of such women are fully binding. They fall under the general principle in v. 3.” Whether she is doing virtue signaling or not, her vows are fully binding. Beautiful, agreed Garnel?
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ReplyDeleteThe wife is angry. What to do? Our Sages “She who declared, I am defiled unto you, must bring proof:”
Beautiful. Why? “You shall not commit adultery ולא תנאף” is in the Ten Commandments and hated by all except the Radical Progressive. The Radical Progressive hate nationalism, Zionism, and love homosexuality, wife swapping etc
See https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309532 “This coming Sunday, a bill will be submitted to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation to deny citizenship and residency to Israeli terrorists who received financial assistance from the Palestinian Authority while in prison.” I agree.
Cancelling citizenship is like divorce: “A man takes a wife כי יקח איש אשה and possesses her ובעלה, she fails to please him אם לא תמצא חן בעיניו because he finds something obnoxious about her כי מצא בה ערות דבר and he writes her a bill of divorcement וכתב לה ספר כריתות, hands it to her ונתן בידה, and sends her away from his house ושלחה מביתו” (Deuteronomy 24:1).
A terrorist committed a crime and is sentenced to jail. Is it right to strip the terrorist of citizenship? Yes. Is it right to divorce a wife “She who declared, I am defiled unto you” ? Yes. Follow Garnel?