[Avodah] Who is a Talmid Chacham

[Ben Waxman]

I would assume that the TC's learning would have kept the thief away in 
the first place, that the thief would "choose" to rob the house of the 
am ha-aretz.

What I want to know is if someone has a patur from paying a tax (or 
going to the IDF) BECAUSE his learning protects him, than what happens 
when he says, clearly by his actions, that he needs (and in fact 
demands) the same protection as everyone else.

Ben

On 7/6/2012 7:30 AM, Doron Beckerman wrote:
>
> >> (a) and (b) aren't entirely separable... Nobody claimed (b) in the 
> absolute terms you are putting it <<
> I disagree, in the terms that I put it. Which people here *did* 
> claim, or at least imply, by asking why Yeshiva boys run away 
> when rockets are raining down on their Dalet Amos. The equivalent of 
> this by theft is a thief walking into the house of a Talmid Chacham 
> and the TC saying - ha, ha, you can't steal from me, I'm a Talmid 
> Chacham!
>