Hi – I'm reading "SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance" by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner and wanted to share this quote with you.
For example, the abort rate among American bombers leaving England for daytime sorties over Germany was found to be unnaturally high,""about 20 percent. The pilots gave a variety of explanations for failing to reach the target: a malfunctioning electrical system, a spotty radio, or illness. But a closer analysis of the data led McNamara to conclude that these reasons were “baloney.” The real explanation, he said, was fear. “A helluva lot of them were going to be killed, they knew that, and they found reasons to not go over the target.”""McNamara reported this to the commanding officer, the notoriously headstrong Curtis LeMay, who responded by flying the lead plane on bombing missions and vowing to court-martial any pilot who turned back. The abort rate, McNamara says, “dropped overnight.”"
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“Social Pressure” I’m reading The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg up to page 300. Wow. Allow me daf hayomi today.
ReplyDeleteTractate Zevachim 40b https://www.sefaria.org.il/Zevachim.42a.2?lang=en
Rather, the reference here is to the bull for an unwitting communal sin and the goat of Yom Kippur, and this is what Rabbi Yishmael is saying: Just as in a case in which one offering is not equated with another offering, as this is a bull and that is a goat, nevertheless the actions of sprinkling the blood in one offering are equated with the actions of the blood in the other offering with regard to that which is written concerning it, in a case in which one offering is equated with another offering, i.e., the bull for an unwitting sin of the anointed priest and the bull of Yom Kippur, as this is a bull and that is a bull, isn’t it logical that the actions of sprinkling the blood in one offering are equated with the actions of the blood in the other offering?
My theory. Yes it is logical that the Torah equates the communal error bull and the Yom Kippur he-goat as well as communal idolatry he-goat and Yom Kippur he-goat.
Allow me, I use this logic in my UPS missive in Aranoff v Aranoff before the NYS Court of Appeals:
5. The plain reading is that the NYS Constitution guarantees a NYS citizen security of their persons, houses, papers, pension, and effects from an unreasonable (no rational legal argument) court ruling unless there is probable cause to legally justify the eizure of his person, house, papers, pension, and effects house supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Beautiful. Yes I purposely add the word pension that is not in
[Security against unreasonable searches, seizures and interceptions] \S12.
6. Is it not logical where NYS Constitution lists persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures that require probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized that pension also be included! Does the NYS Constitution need to formally update \S12 to add the word pension? Maybe if I win my case (Aranoff v Aranoff) and the Court frees my TIAA pension (ordering TIAA to pay me 100\%), the NYS Constitution \S 12 will later be formally updated to add the word pension. I argue that pension is assumed included in \S 12 by rational reasoning.
A couple of years ago I saw some discussion online about what goes on in olam haba.
ReplyDeleteSomeone was wondering if it's eg playing table tennis with Elvis?
So essentially they have a similar concept to us. It's just that we think we will be learning with the Rambam or Rashi.
We have no clue what Olam haBa is like because we have no frame of reference. Just as we can't see ultraviolet or infrared, we cannot comprehend the spiritual nature of such a world.
DeleteBesides, Rambam will be too busy arguing with Raavad and especially Ramban to have time to teach.
In which case, we have to play chess with Einstein
DeleteSome Torah thoughts this week’s parsha
ReplyDeleteLEKH LEKHA ,
12 The LORD said to Abram, "Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation, And I will bless you; I will make your name great, And you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you And curse him that curses you; And all the families of the earth
Shall bless themselves by you."
I made Aliya July 8, 1991. Susan signed Aliya papers 1989 that she wants to live with me in Jerusalem. I tried face to face 1 week late 1992 to persuade Susan to make Aliya. The Talmud teaches that what happened to Abraham happens to all olim:
“It was taught: Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says - three good gifts the Holy One, Blessed Be He, gave to Israel, and all of them He gave only through suffering; and these are: the Torah, the Land of Israel, and the World to Come” (Berachot 5a).