[Avodah] Hilchos BINGO

[Daniel Israel]

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:17:39 -0600 Saul Guberman 
<saulguberman at gmail.com> wrote:
>I think that both of you are missing part of the mitzuis here.  
>... Bingo is a nightly or
>weekly activity that is aimed at the general population.  It 
>attracts few Jews & no Torah observant Jews.

I don't know if you intend to object on the grounds that this is 
funding Torah education by taking advantage of people who don't 
even benefit from it (directly).  I would be sympathetic to that 
argument if that was your intention.

I'm just writing to add that if one could somehow attract Jews, 
especially Torah observant Jews, in order to avoid the above issue, 
then it becomes a serious bittul zman and accustoms people to a 
very non-Torah lifestyle/attitude.

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu