<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 16, 2008 1:21 PM, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I have problems with claiming the difference is only as a member of<br>the nation. A Jew on a desert island, and thus out of contact with all<br>other people, who eats treif in total privacy, would still have to<br>bring a chatas. A non-Jew who does the same would not. One can argue
<br>that he is still mystically connected to the Jewish masses, but that's<br>far from anything R' Leibowitz would have said.<br><br>And so, I would disagree on two points:<br><br><br>SheTir'u baTov!<br>-micha
<br><br></blockquote></div><br>You are conflating bein adam lamakom to bein adam lachaviero<br><br>"Robinson Caruso" would have few isseus of bein adam lachaveiro but still be obligatd to do bein adam lamakom<br>
<br>But the ikkar Torah is in a community. Bedi'avad of course one does what he can on a desert island<br><br>More later BEH.<br><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com
</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>