[Avodah] Rav Moshe Feinstein on America

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 01/09/17 11:19, Elli Fischer via Avodah wrote:
> He is paraphrasing the Gemara in AZ 8b, which implies that the problem was
> not that there was too much volume, but that they did not want to convict
> so many murderers.
> כיון דחזו דנפישי להו רוצחין ולא יכלי למידן אמרו מוטב נגלי ממקום למקום כי
> היכי דלא ליחייבו

Velo yachli doesn't mean they didn't want to.  On the contrary, it means 
they wanted to but couldn't.  We know the reason from historical records.

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