שבות יעקב (ב:קיא): שאלה על דבר אחד שנכשל באיסור אשת איש וקבל על עצמו מכח תשובה דין ארבע מיתו' ב"ד להטביע עצמו בנהר שהוא חנק אי הוי כדין מאבד עצמו לדעת או נימא כיון דעושה משו' תשובה הוה ליה כדין מת על מטתו? תשובה ... יש להביא ראיה דכל כה"ג לא מקרי מאבד עצמו לדעת מהא דאיתא סוף קדושין (פא:) ר' חייא בר אשי הוי רגיל כל עידן דנפל על אפיה... הרי להדיא דמשום תשובה מותר להביא על עצמו מיתה ממש ...מ"מ יהיה איך שיהיה מוכח מש"ס דקדושין דלעיל דלא הוי בכלל מאבד עצמו לדעת וכן מוכח בבראשית רבה פ' ס"ה בפ' תולדות גבי יקום איש צרידה שקיים בעצמו ארבע מיתות ב"ד ואמר עליו ר' יוסי איש צרידה בשעה קלה קדמני זה לגן עדן ... דבעשה כן משום תשובה ודאי לא יחשב בכלל מאבד עצמו לדעת... גם מהאי כובס [כתובות קיג:] ... מ"מ אחר מעשה שיצא בת קול וקמיה שמיא גליא דכוונתו היה לשמה חזינן דשפיר עביד ועיין בחידושי מהר"י טראני /לכתובות/ שכתב דהאי כובס ג"כ עביד כן משום תשובה לקבל עליו דין שמים סקילה על שחילל שבת לפי שהשמש זרחה בשביל אשכבתיה דר' כדאיתא בירושלמי ע"ש דבריו באורך א"כ ג"כ מוכח דבשביל תשובה לא הוי בכלל איבוד עצמו לדעת ומזומן לחיי עה"ב כי במקום שבעלי תשוב' עומדים אין צדיקים גמורים יכולין לעמוד כנ"
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
False confessions:Why experts need to conduct investigations
NYTimes
Eddie Lowery lost 10 years of his life for a crime he did not commit. There was no physical evidence at his trial for rape, but one overwhelming factor put him away: he confessed.
At trial, the jury heard details that prosecutors insisted only the rapist could have known, including the fact that the rapist hit the 75-year-old victim in the head with the handle of a silver table knife he found in the house. DNA evidence would later show that another man committed the crime. But that vindication would come only years after Mr. Lowery had served his sentence and was paroled in 1991.[...]
Eddie Lowery lost 10 years of his life for a crime he did not commit. There was no physical evidence at his trial for rape, but one overwhelming factor put him away: he confessed.
At trial, the jury heard details that prosecutors insisted only the rapist could have known, including the fact that the rapist hit the 75-year-old victim in the head with the handle of a silver table knife he found in the house. DNA evidence would later show that another man committed the crime. But that vindication would come only years after Mr. Lowery had served his sentence and was paroled in 1991.[...]
Monday, September 13, 2010
Belgian Catholic Church struggles with abuse charges
CNN
Catholic priests who abused children should tell their superiors, leaders of the church in Belgium said Monday.
"We want to repeat this call with force," Bishop Johan Bonny, the bishop of Antwerp, said. "It is to everyone's advantage that the abuser in a pastoral relationship communicates this fact to his superior" or to a new "center for investigation, healing and reconciliation" which he announced Monday.[...]
Catholic priests who abused children should tell their superiors, leaders of the church in Belgium said Monday.
"We want to repeat this call with force," Bishop Johan Bonny, the bishop of Antwerp, said. "It is to everyone's advantage that the abuser in a pastoral relationship communicates this fact to his superior" or to a new "center for investigation, healing and reconciliation" which he announced Monday.[...]
Domestic abuse
YNET
Once I realized I was about to do an article about a shelter for battered religious and haredi women, I was brimming with stereotypes. I imagined a narrow staircase leading down to a gloomy alcove lit by emergency lighting and crowded with beds, women wearing old, worn-out wigs, bruised children, and air laden with pity and desperation.
However, Rabbi Attorney Noach Korman, founder and manager of the Bat Melech organization which started the shelter, assured me I would be surprised after hearing my colorful description, I was still unprepared for the pastoral bed-and-breakfast atmosphere nestled among the citrus groves, the petting zoo, the playground, and the coffee corner. I was even more surprised when I met the women: mostly young, good looking, friendly, and intelligent – women who could be at their peak if it weren't for the difficult reality to which they had fallen victim. [...]
Once I realized I was about to do an article about a shelter for battered religious and haredi women, I was brimming with stereotypes. I imagined a narrow staircase leading down to a gloomy alcove lit by emergency lighting and crowded with beds, women wearing old, worn-out wigs, bruised children, and air laden with pity and desperation.
However, Rabbi Attorney Noach Korman, founder and manager of the Bat Melech organization which started the shelter, assured me I would be surprised after hearing my colorful description, I was still unprepared for the pastoral bed-and-breakfast atmosphere nestled among the citrus groves, the petting zoo, the playground, and the coffee corner. I was even more surprised when I met the women: mostly young, good looking, friendly, and intelligent – women who could be at their peak if it weren't for the difficult reality to which they had fallen victim. [...]
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Medical treatment costs :New is not always better
New York Times
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that an astonishing half or more of the increased spending for health care in recent decades is due to technological, surgical and clinical advances.
For the most part, such advances are a cause for celebration. But an expensive new drug is not always better than an older, cheaper drug, and sometimes a new technology or treatment that is highly effective for some patients is unnecessary or even dangerous for others.
The system almost seems designed to keep driving up costs.[...]
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that an astonishing half or more of the increased spending for health care in recent decades is due to technological, surgical and clinical advances.
For the most part, such advances are a cause for celebration. But an expensive new drug is not always better than an older, cheaper drug, and sometimes a new technology or treatment that is highly effective for some patients is unnecessary or even dangerous for others.
The system almost seems designed to keep driving up costs.[...]
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
American Jew teaches Gazans stress management
New York Times
Tough-looking ambulance drivers in this central Gazan city are drawing images of their fears with crayons. In the northwestern village of El Atatra, in an overheated hall without electricity, 10-year-olds are closing their eyes and imagining a reassuring place. In Gaza City, women who have lost children to political violence are dancing away their tensions, their black abayas shaking and flowing.
Gaza, the Palestinian coastal strip filled with refugees and hardship, is not generally thought of as a center of New Age sensibilities. But through the intervention of a classically trained but alternative-seeking American psychiatrist, nearly 10,000 people here have been taught techniques to reduce anger, ease family tensions and give them a sense of control in an environment known for helplessness. [...]
Tough-looking ambulance drivers in this central Gazan city are drawing images of their fears with crayons. In the northwestern village of El Atatra, in an overheated hall without electricity, 10-year-olds are closing their eyes and imagining a reassuring place. In Gaza City, women who have lost children to political violence are dancing away their tensions, their black abayas shaking and flowing.
Gaza, the Palestinian coastal strip filled with refugees and hardship, is not generally thought of as a center of New Age sensibilities. But through the intervention of a classically trained but alternative-seeking American psychiatrist, nearly 10,000 people here have been taught techniques to reduce anger, ease family tensions and give them a sense of control in an environment known for helplessness. [...]
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