[Avodah] Fwd: Rabbi Hershel Schachter - True Freedom

[Zev Sero]

On 21/05/2012 10:22 PM, Ben Waxman wrote:
> I'd just like to point out that in the past you used the Rambam in Shmitta to justify kollel payments. But just like (at least) one posek sees no connection between that Rambam and taking money to learn, so too there is no connection between that Rambam and deferring army service.

He says explicitly that they don't go out to war!  How can there be
"no connection"?!

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Zev Sero        "Natural resources are not finite in any meaningful
zev at sero.name    economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion
                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
		                            - Julian Simon