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<font size=3>At 05:14 PM 6/30/2011, Rafi Goldmeier wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I am sure that in a situation of
specific sakana caused by the swimming <br>
itself, the sakana would take precedence over the precept of teaching
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swimming.<br><br>
Kol tuv<br>
Rafi Goldmeier<br>
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This must have something to do with the lack of supervision of the boys
on these trips. Or, perhaps the places where they go swimming are
dangerous. <br><br>
It is difficult for me to understand how anyone can be against swimming
per se. Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky was an avid swimmer. I recall
that he created a stir on a Friday afternoon when, while visiting his son
Avraham at a bungalow colony in Monroe, he went down to the pool, dove in
and swam laps. He was in his eighties at the time. :-)
YL</font></body>
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