• Anonymous -3 years ago

  Should this be posted in full

  hi 

  I really lke your lectures. Wondering whether all Profferser Dershowitz's views and opinions as expressed in the video should be posted on this website when it's not totattly inline with orthodox Judaism. Perhaps an excerpt should be posted here and the full interview can just be posted on youtube or elswhere.

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

  The example Dershiwitz gives of sending a metzora

  Outside the camp, required by Torah, is congruent with the  current quarantine requirements. It does not support being compelled to take any novel rushed  vaccine  whose long term effects are unknowable.  

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

  Now, how about Noah Feldman,

  Who grew up very frum, inter-married for a  while  and is also a Harvard Law prof? 

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

  Excellent interview! Maybe Rabbi YY should do more

  Interviewing than being interviewed! Excellent tough meaningful questions. 

  A word about Dershowitz's skepticism.

  Please notice that whereas in the  theoretical arena one can have 3 different opinions, namely, a believer, an atheist and an agnostic.  The latter says "I don't know" and is a "safe" position. 

  In real life however, in practice, one can either DO or NOT DO. There is no safe middle "agnostic" type position.  

  Derahowitz is a skeptic in theory but in practice, he, and others, either does or doesn't.  E.g. he either eats chometz today or not, there is no middle safe agnostic position. 

  Methinks he mostly does the right thing. 

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Interview with Alan Dershowitz

Rabbi YY Jacobson

• April 1, 2021
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• 19 Nisan 5781
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• 4595 views

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