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Test's avatar

AI could do a better job of answering the two key questions properly, rather than with mockery and word salads.

1) The author of this blog mantains 'torah protects' as meaning 'the torah somehow arranges that other people can be demanded upon to protect the chareidim'. A peshat in the gemorroh which is kvetchy and against all other peshotim.

2) The same sugyoh states torah protects against disease. Chareidim don't seem to follow that. Even the most ignorant covid deniers and anti-vaxxers don't use torah protects as support. On the contrary they run to every charlatan, seguloh peddler and indeed proper doctors instead of just learning more torah when disease strikes.

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Happy's avatar

Minyan factories, shaitels, coffee rooms.

Which Gemara are *you* talking about? Chapter and verse. None of your classic yeshivish kvetching with no sources.

Torah protects from disease also, but we must do hishtadlus unless it threatens us spiritually. Usually that doesn't happen with medical treatment. But it does with army service. It does sometimes with jobs, in which case we turn them down. Why is that hard to understand? I bet you complain about rabbis paskening that you should refuse to shake women's hands, even at the risk of your career (an experience I had more than once, BH nothing happened). That is called sacrificing hishtadlus for the Torah. One of many, many examples.

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Shimshon's avatar

Who is this "they" you keep referring to? You sound delusional. Beyond that, you, like all your rationalist compatriots, display a willful misunderstanding and twisting of what "Torah protects" actually means.

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מרכבות פרעה's avatar

This post has no author, does that mean it was written by AI?

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Happy's avatar

Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed!

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