Wednesday, August 7, 2024

President Chosen by G-d?

Berachos (55a) There are three things which G-d Himself proclaims, namely, famine, plenty, and a good leader.

Berachos (55a) Rab Judah also said in the name of Rab: There are three things for which one should supplicate: a good king, a good year, and a good dream.

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  1. It's a corrolary of the divine right of kings.

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    1. Where does the Torah talk about the Divine Rights of kings?

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    2. All the time about David HaMelech, right?
      The later assumption was: if i got to be king, it's because that's what God wanted so it's my Divine Right to be king.

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  2. I don't know. But I just remembered what Blu Greenberg once said about rabbinical will, halachic way.
    Is it actually the reverse? There's only a rabbinic will if there's a halachic way?
    Or is there an in-between?

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    1. She is a Tanna or Prophet? Who cares?

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    2. The rule is: as long as it doesn't affect "the Gedolim" personally, there's really no heter. The minute it does, boy does that tune change.

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    3. If she says something false, we need to know what is actually the case. It might not necessarily be the exact opposite.

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    4. The halachic process is of more interest to me than Kamala Harris

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