
Swine flu in Talmud
#1
Posted 06 May 2009 - 02:46 PM
What would a fast accomplish? They're not eating swine anyway.
#2
Posted 06 May 2009 - 02:48 PM
What would a fast accomplish? They're not eating swine anyway.
It's called Tscuva. Repentance.
#3
Posted 06 May 2009 - 02:50 PM
Throw out your Kleenex, stay home if you're sick, and do tshuva.
#4
Posted 06 May 2009 - 03:01 PM
Who said anything about EATING??? And you don't even get swine flu from eating pork (if its cooked)....What would a fast accomplish? They're not eating swine anyway.
Fasting (davening and teshuva) is always the front line Jewish response to any impending tragedy or tzar that is affecting the Jewish community.....
If G-d is sending a magefa to the world r"l, He's obviously upset about something, and it behooves us to get back in good favor ASAP.....
#5
Posted 11 May 2009 - 02:11 AM
western though only figured that out in the past 40 yrs...
#6
Posted 11 May 2009 - 06:26 AM
Throw out your Kleenex, stay home if you're sick, and do tshuva.

#7
Posted 11 May 2009 - 07:33 AM
So if the magefa didn't really affect too many people, and regular magefas (such as the flu) are a lot worse, what does it mean?If G-d is sending a magefa to the world r"l, He's obviously upset about something, and it behooves us to get back in good favor ASAP.....
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#8
Posted 11 May 2009 - 08:53 AM
That is was a false alarm... That people LOVE to label things "epidemics" and "crises" when in fact they are minor blips on the radar. That it was a warning of what COULD come if we don't shape up? That our prayers worked?? All of those things, or none of them???So if the magefa didn't really affect too many people, and regular magefas (such as the flu) are a lot worse, what does it mean?
#9
Posted 11 May 2009 - 10:29 AM
Aristotle, for one, studied human and pig anatomy nearly 500 years (or so) before the Talmud. [He concludes that the pig is most similar, I can't find the exact source though, sorry.]I think it refers to trichinosis, either way its still amazing how during the times of the gemara they knew that the inner system of pigs is very similar to humans
western though only figured that out in the past 40 yrs...
"How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
- From 1984
שויתי יהוה לנגדי תמיד
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.---Norman Mailer
#10
Posted 11 May 2009 - 10:33 AM
OK.That is was a false alarm... That people LOVE to label things "epidemics" and "crises" when in fact they are minor blips on the radar. That it was a warning of what COULD come if we don't shape up? That our prayers worked?? All of those things, or none of them???
#11
Posted 12 May 2009 - 10:59 PM
Aristotle, for one, studied human and pig anatomy nearly 500 years (or so) before the Talmud. [He concludes that the pig is most similar, I can't find the exact source though, sorry.]
i just no in a medical sense they didnt teach medicine/practice on pigs until recently.. [during stages before they used human corpses]
#12
Posted 12 May 2009 - 11:25 PM
does this change what I said?i just no in a medical sense they didnt teach medicine/practice on pigs until recently.. [during stages before they used human corpses]
"How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
- From 1984
שויתי יהוה לנגדי תמיד
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.---Norman Mailer
#13
Posted 13 May 2009 - 12:35 AM
i just no in a medical sense they didnt teach medicine/practice on pigs until recently.. [during stages before they used human corpses]

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