Love - The Preface
"All ya need is love bum tam bum bum, all ya need is love, love is all ya need." [The Beatles]
Well, you also need at least bread and water. Also a nose. Very hard to function without a nose. A digestive tract. Really need a digestive tract. I personally would find it difficult to manage without one. [By the way, did you know that it is 30 feet long!! I am only about five ten and somehow the Good Lord has manufactured within me a tube much longer than any room in my apartment. My wife and 4 children also have one {Baruch Hashem}, so that is 180 feet of "tract". Yet, we all fit comfortably into my small living room.] So love isn't ALL we need.
But they had a point, those Beatles. Love is crucial. Everybody is looking to love and to be loved. So in the coming future I will bézras Hashem devote a number of posts to this crucial topic. Stay tuned.
So thank you John, Paul, Ringo and .... and.... Goodness gracious, who was the fourth Beatle? Well, I often lament the fact that I forget Torah, so at least I can be comforted in the knowledge that I forget irrelevant things as well.
P.S. Quick trivia: Who was the Beatle who lived across the street from me and was assassinated on December 8, 1980? [Did I give it away?]
Well, you also need at least bread and water. Also a nose. Very hard to function without a nose. A digestive tract. Really need a digestive tract. I personally would find it difficult to manage without one. [By the way, did you know that it is 30 feet long!! I am only about five ten and somehow the Good Lord has manufactured within me a tube much longer than any room in my apartment. My wife and 4 children also have one {Baruch Hashem}, so that is 180 feet of "tract". Yet, we all fit comfortably into my small living room.] So love isn't ALL we need.
But they had a point, those Beatles. Love is crucial. Everybody is looking to love and to be loved. So in the coming future I will bézras Hashem devote a number of posts to this crucial topic. Stay tuned.
So thank you John, Paul, Ringo and .... and.... Goodness gracious, who was the fourth Beatle? Well, I often lament the fact that I forget Torah, so at least I can be comforted in the knowledge that I forget irrelevant things as well.
P.S. Quick trivia: Who was the Beatle who lived across the street from me and was assassinated on December 8, 1980? [Did I give it away?]
Speaking of "love", is torture allowed in halacha if it will save lives?
Posted by
Moses |
3:32 PM
What type of torture?
Posted by
Rabbi Ally Ehrman |
2:09 AM
the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information (in order to save millions of lives).
Posted by
Moses |
4:32 AM
Punishment requires many different conditions many of which can no longer be met in our day and age.
Revenge? Practically speaking - no.
Confession? Arab terrorist who knows about a planned attack - ifthere is no other means to extract the info then I think that there is room for extreme measures.
Have a great week!!
Posted by
Rabbi Ally Ehrman |
7:15 AM
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