<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Isha Yiras Hashem at Substack ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Humor, Spiritual. Risas, espiritual.
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No pude hacer que rimara. Env&#237;eme un correo electr&#243;nico a ishayirashashem@gmail.com para obtener el PDF. Aseg&#250;rate de que puedes ver im&#225;genes o esto se ver&#225; como un post vac&#237;o. Como siempre, gracias Debbie Rubinstein por ayudar con la traducci&#243;n, todos los errores restantes son solo m&#237;os.)</em></p><h5>Algunas personas que leen este blog,</h5><h5>Vienen a cenar conmigo.</h5><h5>Ven mi cocina y se sienten</h5><h5>un poco fuera de lugar.</h5><h5>Susurran: &#8220;&#191;Es esta la casa de alguien? &#191;O un cruce fronterizo?</h5><h5>&#191;C&#243;mo pasaron la inspecci&#243;n de Isha estos alimentos?&#8221;.</h5><h5>Como madre jud&#237;a, insisto en que mis invitados coman de mi selecci&#243;n,</h5><h5>por eso escrib&#237; esta publicaci&#243;n para orientarlos.</h5><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6tg_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff42bab46-8ede-48ef-8042-f6d2d24827b5_885x1377.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/en-a-kosher-casa">Espa&#241;ol</a></p><p><em><strong>Email me at IshaYirasHashem@gmail.com for the pdf version. Make sure you can view images!</strong></em></p><h5><em>Some people who read this blog,</em></h5><h5><em>Come visit me to dine.</em></h5><h5><em>They see my kitchen and feel </em></h5><h5><em>Slightly out of line.</em></h5><h5><em>They whisper, &#8220;Is this someone&#8217;s home? Or a border crossing section?</em></h5><h5><em>How did these foods pass Isha's inspection?&#8221;</em></h5><h5><em>As a Jewish mother, I <strong>insist</strong> </em></h5><h5><em>that guests eat from my selection,</em></h5><h5><em>And so I wrote this parody </em></h5><h5><em>to give them some direction.</em></h5><div><hr></div><h2>In A Kosher House</h2><p><em>By Isha Yiras Hashem - parody </em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QDbY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa41d07f2-8d34-4fe6-8f29-d21793b6f9a9_512x800.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h6>In a kosher house you will see</h6><h6>Star-K! Kof-K! KLBD!</h6><h6>OU! Badatz! CRC!</h6><h6>It is different for every family.</h6><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o_NG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e89d21a-0ac3-4d2f-812d-bff687c34302_417x692.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o_NG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e89d21a-0ac3-4d2f-812d-bff687c34302_417x692.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o_NG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e89d21a-0ac3-4d2f-812d-bff687c34302_417x692.png 848w, 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They always stay away.</h6><h6>Milk stays here.</h6><h6>Meat stays there.</h6><h6>Never mix them anywhere!</h6><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aY8F!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1417c69-c4ab-40be-8d5c-4996a71dd1b9_443x690.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aY8F!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1417c69-c4ab-40be-8d5c-4996a71dd1b9_443x690.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aY8F!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1417c69-c4ab-40be-8d5c-4996a71dd1b9_443x690.png 848w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h6>If neither one, they call it pareve.</h6><h6>With all three you will never starve!</h6><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ms8Z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bbcdf60-04ce-41c5-95c1-ea19e9107077_388x693.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h6>&#8220;You&#8217;ll see a kitchen sink in a kosher house,</h6><h6>But you must follow the rules,&#8221; said the mouse.</h6><h6>&#8220;Because it says in their holy book,</h6><h6>A kid in its mother&#8217;s milk they shall not cook.</h6><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lRyc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8a9b805a-6057-45a0-bd64-d38dc47e38bf_413x697.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;6e6db7e5-a938-45fd-b14d-34b3fc0ebbe8&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Gracias Debbie Rubinstein por tu ayuda con la traducci&#243;n, como siempre.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;[Espa&#241;ol] IYH Charlas sobre Cine II&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04T20:32:25.368Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kG2X!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5b3a6a4-8ba8-4e5b-b597-1b4fcd374c2a_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/espanol-iyh-charlas-sobre-cine-ii&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem en Espa&#241;ol &quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:189894116,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:0,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:997685,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem at Substack &quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oDFS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68f6200c-44a2-4168-8254-5cbbbd9800b4_1200x1200.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>You cannot understand modern culture without watching the media everyone else is watching. Therefore, I do not understand modern culture. </p><p>People are always trying to convert me to movie watching.  Even my most extreme left- and right-wing friends  agree : watching things move on a screen is an enjoyable activity.  Especially with popcorn. </p><p>Now, I watch things move all the time, both objects and people. In a genius parenting move,  my husband invented a wonderful game called <strong>Everything, Except the Floor, Is Lava</strong>. The goal is to force the floor to be cleared enough that the original game becomes physically possible.</p><p>You probably <em>do</em> enjoy watching videos, and  so I uploaded a video from Canva to YouTube. Here it is! It has a good lesson, and only takes 14 seconds to watch. </p><div id="youtube2-FcyyUQVeceQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;FcyyUQVeceQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FcyyUQVeceQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h4></h4><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/iyh-talks-about-movies-ii?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/iyh-talks-about-movies-ii?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h4>Did you enjoy that? </h4><p>Nothing, except perhaps an open miracle from G-d, could unify my friends  as strongly as the conviction that my life would be inestimably improved by exposure to movies. Most often,  Harry Potter is suggested for my first movie, something called "<em>Friends</em>" as my first show, and youtube clips of babies or kittens. Reading the Bible is honestly more fun, and  it is much more relevant to  everyday life. </p><p> This makes me a very special snowflake indeed. Most people I know, including some whose judgement I respect, watch movies regularly and seem to enjoy them. It so happens that I do not enjoy audio or visual media, so to be honest, my refusal to be entertained might be more of a long-standing personal eccentricity than a cultural critique.</p><p>Sometimes I <em>want</em> to get cultural references. I have gone so far as to Google a movie someone mentions, read the Wikipedia page about it, and then refer to it. This is because we accidentally named one of our kids, let's say, <em>Yoda</em>.</p><p> I had no idea  &#8216;Yoda&#8217; existed, but everyone  has asked about Star Wars since then, forcing me to research the topic. The root y-d-a in Hebrew means "to know&#8221;.  (2)</p><p></p><h6>And now you Yoda.  &#129296;</h6><p></p><p>Even the 14 seconds of video watching my relevant and educational video was probably a waste of your  time. Especially since it is the first time I ever made one.</p><p>While far from perfect,  <em><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/FcyyUQVeceQ?feature=shared">Everything Except the Floor Is Lava</a>,</strong> by Isha Yiras Hashem, </em> is guaranteed not to talk about money,  power, or any sins. Most professional videos  do. </p><p>From what I can gather, people are sinning openly in real movies. 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Some argue that YouTube clips aren't that long. But they add up.  </p><p>Thank G-d, I see  actual flesh and blood children all the time, without a screen, and they never run out of batteries. They even provide  real life  entertainment. </p><p>In the past, we enjoyed the philosophical classic, "<em><strong>Why Must I Get Dressed Again, I Got Dressed Yesterday</strong></em>", as well as the situational comedy known as "<em><strong>Children Who Rise Before The Sun</strong></em>", a  special  beginning as early as 2 AM. 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It was called "<em><strong>The Red Balloon</strong></em>", and it has no words in it. At least there are no sins, either. It is a red balloon bobbing around France. I never followed the storyline, but the red balloon just kept on going. Until it flew away.</p><p>&#127880; &#8212;&#8212;&gt; like that</p><p> Maybe I would watch a sequel: <em>Red Balloon in The Sky</em>. Speaking of skies, I am in an airplane. Everyone here is lucky to be here with me, because while they were watching movies, I prayed to G-d that we should all be safe. This is the <em>Traveler's Prayer</em>:  (4)</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>May it be Your will, G&#8209;d, our G&#8209;d and the G&#8209;d of our fathers, that You should lead us in peace and direct our steps in peace, and guide us in peace, and support us in peace, and cause us to reach our destination in life, joy, and peace. (If one intends to return immediately, one adds: "and return us in peace"). </em></p><p><em>Save us from every enemy and ambush,  from robbers and wild beasts on the way, and from all kinds of punishments that rage and come to the world. May You confer blessing upon the work of our hands and grant me grace, kindness, and mercy in Your eyes and in the eyes of all who see us, and bestow upon us abundant kindness and hearken to the voice of our prayer, for You hear the prayers of all. Blessed are You G&#8209;d, who hearkens to prayer.</em></p></div><p> Praying is a good thing to do while traveling. I looked over a couple people's shoulders, and no one was watching anything interesting. From my perspective, movies are - at best - boring and superficial; at worst they are sinful. </p><p>You know what I <em>do</em> want to watch? A movie of the End of Days.  It would be preferable to watch such a movie than to live through it. It sounds kind of scary. </p><p> It would be terrifying to be alive during the war of Gog and Magog, but the resurrection of the dead afterwards sounds really cool, and meeting my ancestors would be even better than an Ancestry DNA test. </p><p>The Great  Day of Judgment is even more frightening than Gog and Magog, though. After that, I would stop writing this substack, because  the words of Isaiah describing the future will come true. (5) </p><p>(Translation with commentary)</p><blockquote><p><strong>"No one will harm another person, either for their own gain, or just because they are feeling destructive, on My entire holy mountain. </strong></p><p><strong>Why?</strong></p><p><strong>For the world called Earth will be filled with knowledge of G-d, like water covers the sea."</strong></p></blockquote><p>It makes me happy to envision a world of peace and harmony. One world, under One G-d, with peace and justice and kindness for all. Maybe one day, someone will make a movie. IYH would happily watch it. (6)</p><p>Also see:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;b4696087-a4b4-4711-bfac-d9fd189e3488&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;(updated with Spanish at end of post)&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;IYH Watches A Movie &quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:90196335,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot; IshaYirasHashem@Gmail.com spiritual/ humor risas/espiritual English/Espa&#241;ol &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WOYC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdedadf61-122d-41ad-bd09-c4921cd3e391_1080x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-04-19T12:17:38.703Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y2A_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6b99df2-42f5-4d35-8abb-e8fcbd5bc7f2_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/iyh-watches-a-movie&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:115834183,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:7,&quot;comment_count&quot;:5,&quot;publication_id&quot;:997685,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem at Substack &quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oDFS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68f6200c-44a2-4168-8254-5cbbbd9800b4_1200x1200.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>https://open.substack.com/pub/ishayirashashem/p/movie-review-imax-at-the-aquarium?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=1hp7xr</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;e972010d-c72b-4842-ae02-210791994965&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Espa&#241;ol / Arabic&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Movie Review: IMAX at the Aquarium&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:90196335,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot; IshaYirasHashem@Gmail.com spiritual/ humor risas/espiritual English/Espa&#241;ol &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WOYC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdedadf61-122d-41ad-bd09-c4921cd3e391_1080x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-07-16T01:43:57.737Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hhg3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4b4421f-b338-4e6c-9428-b32c6ffec983_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/movie-review-imax-at-the-aquarium&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:134881294,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:7,&quot;comment_count&quot;:5,&quot;publication_id&quot;:997685,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem at Substack &quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oDFS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68f6200c-44a2-4168-8254-5cbbbd9800b4_1200x1200.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><h6>Notes:</h6><h6>(1) When other people sit down to watch, it is prime writing time. Like now. </h6><h6>(2) Details   have been changed.</h6><h6>(3) There's also idolatry. </h6><h6>(4) https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/379130/jewish/Tefilat-Haderech-Text-of-the-Travelers-Prayer.htm</h6><h6>(5) Isaiah 11:9 : &#1500;&#1488; &#1497;&#1512;&#1506;&#1493; &#1493;&#1500;&#1488; &#1497;&#1513;&#1495;&#1497;&#1514;&#1493; &#1489;&#1499;&#1500; &#1492;&#1512; &#1511;&#1491;&#1513;&#1497; &#1499;&#1497; &#1502;&#1500;&#1488;&#1492; &#1492;&#1488;&#1512;&#1509; &#1491;&#1506;&#1492; &#1488;&#1514; &#1492;' &#1499;&#1502;&#1497;&#1501; &#1500;&#1497;&#1501; &#1502;&#1499;&#1505;&#1497;&#1501; </h6><h6>Translation from Malbim, Metzuda, Rashi, and other commentary. Not a word for word translation.</h6><h6>(6) Rebbetzin Devorah Fastag comments: The Tiferes Shlomo  wrote that there are righteous people who see the future perfect world even now.  I surmise he was one of them.  He also wrote that the only way to be happy is to imagine how it will be after the world is perfected.  </h6><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Español] IYH Charlas sobre Cine II]]></title><description><![CDATA[No se puede entender la cultura moderna sin ver los medios que ven los dem&#225;s.]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/espanol-iyh-charlas-sobre-cine-ii</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/espanol-iyh-charlas-sobre-cine-ii</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:32:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kG2X!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5b3a6a4-8ba8-4e5b-b597-1b4fcd374c2a_1080x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Gracias Debbie Rubinstein por tu ayuda con la traducci&#243;n, como siempre.</em></p><p><em>English</em></p><p>No se puede entender la cultura moderna sin ver los medios que ven los dem&#225;s. Por lo tanto, yo no la entiendo.</p><p>Siempre intentan convencerme de que vea pel&#237;culas. Incluso mis amigos m&#225;s radicales coinciden: ver cosas moverse en una pantalla es una actividad divertida. Sobre todo con palomitas.</p><p>Ahora veo cosas moverse constantemente, tanto objetos como personas. En una genialidad como padre, mi marido invent&#243; un juego maravilloso llamado <em><strong>Todo menos el suelo es lava</strong></em>. El objetivo es despejar el suelo lo suficiente como para que el juego original sea f&#237;sicamente posible.</p><p>Probablemente te guste ver v&#237;deos, as&#237; que sub&#237; un v&#237;deo de Canva a YouTube. &#161;Aqu&#237; est&#225;! Tiene una buena lecci&#243;n y solo se ve en 14 segundos.</p><div id="youtube2-FcyyUQVeceQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;FcyyUQVeceQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FcyyUQVeceQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h4>&#191;Disfrutaste eso?</h4><p>Nada, excepto quiz&#225;s un milagro manifiesto de Di-s, podr&#237;a unir a mis amigos tan fuertemente como la convicci&#243;n de que mi vida mejorar&#237;a inestimablemente al ver pel&#237;culas. Casi siempre me sugieren Harry Potter como mi primera pel&#237;cula, algo llamado &#8220;<em>Friends</em>&#8221; como mi primera serie, y videos de beb&#233;s o gatitos en YouTube. Leer la Biblia es, sinceramente, m&#225;s divertido y mucho m&#225;s relevante para la vida cotidiana.</p><p>Esto me convierte en un ser muy especial. La mayor&#237;a de la gente que conozco, incluyendo algunos cuyo juicio respeto, ve pel&#237;culas con regularidad y parece disfrutarlas. Resulta que no disfruto de los medios audiovisuales, as&#237; que, para ser honesto, mi negativa a entretenerme es m&#225;s una excentricidad personal de larga data que una cr&#237;tica cultural.</p><p>A veces quiero obtener referencias culturales. He llegado al extremo de buscar en Google una pel&#237;cula que alguien menciona, leer la p&#225;gina de Wikipedia al respecto y luego referirme a ella. Esto se debe a que accidentalmente le pusimos a uno de nuestros hijos, digamos, <em>Yoda</em>.</p><p> No ten&#237;a ni idea de que exist&#237;a &#171;<em>Yoda</em>&#187;, pero desde entonces todo el mundo me ha preguntado sobre Star Wars, lo que me ha obligado a investigar el tema. La ra&#237;z y-d-a en hebreo significa &#171;conocer&#187;.  (2)</p><h6>Y ahora t&#250;, Yoda. &#129296;</h6><p>Incluso los 14 segundos de video viendo mi relevante y educativo video probablemente fueron una p&#233;rdida de tiempo. Sobre todo porque es la primera vez que hago uno.</p><p>Aunque dista mucho de ser perfecto, &#8220;<em><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/FcyyUQVeceQ?feature=shared">Todo excepto el suelo es lava</a></strong></em>&#8221;, de Isha Yiras Hashem, garantiza que no habla de dinero, poder ni de ning&#250;n pecado. La mayor&#237;a de los videos profesionales s&#237; lo hacen.</p><p>Por lo que he podido ver, la gente peca abiertamente en pel&#237;culas reales. No se habla de implementar medidas de seguridad para evitar que sus pecados vuelvan a ocurrir.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gAUO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae75d5e-0e17-4088-8a09-d2b89808652e_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gAUO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae75d5e-0e17-4088-8a09-d2b89808652e_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gAUO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae75d5e-0e17-4088-8a09-d2b89808652e_1080x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gAUO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae75d5e-0e17-4088-8a09-d2b89808652e_1080x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gAUO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae75d5e-0e17-4088-8a09-d2b89808652e_1080x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gAUO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae75d5e-0e17-4088-8a09-d2b89808652e_1080x1080.png" width="1080" height="1080" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fae75d5e-0e17-4088-8a09-d2b89808652e_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1080,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:294464,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/i/189894116?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae75d5e-0e17-4088-8a09-d2b89808652e_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gAUO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae75d5e-0e17-4088-8a09-d2b89808652e_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gAUO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae75d5e-0e17-4088-8a09-d2b89808652e_1080x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gAUO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae75d5e-0e17-4088-8a09-d2b89808652e_1080x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gAUO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae75d5e-0e17-4088-8a09-d2b89808652e_1080x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Verlos perder el tiempo tambi&#233;n me roba momentos preciosos de mi vida. Algunos argumentan que los videos de YouTube no son tan largos. Pero se acumulan.</p><p>Gracias a Di-s, veo ni&#241;os de carne y hueso todo el tiempo, sin pantalla, y nunca se les acaba la bater&#237;a. Incluso ofrecen entretenimiento de la vida real.</p><p>En el pasado, disfrut&#225;bamos del cl&#225;sico filos&#243;fico &#8220;<em><strong>&#191;Por qu&#233; debo vestirme otra vez? Me vest&#237; ayer&#8221;</strong></em>, as&#237; como de  Comedia situacional conocida como &#8220;<em><strong>Ni&#241;os que se levantan antes del sol</strong></em>&#8221;, un comienzo especial desde las 2 a. m.</p><h6>Si no puede ver las im&#225;genes, mire esta publicaci&#243;n en su navegador.</h6><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ElS_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b03d0e2-eccb-42ab-8819-dfa6a7429d99_989x877.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ElS_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b03d0e2-eccb-42ab-8819-dfa6a7429d99_989x877.jpeg 424w, 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No ten&#237;amos sustituto y el director estaba desesperado. Se llamaba &#8220;<em><strong>El globo rojo</strong></em>&#8221; y no tiene palabras. Al menos tampoco hay pecados. Es un globo rojo flotando por Francia. Nunca segu&#237; la trama, pero el globo rojo segu&#237;a flotando. Hasta que se fue volando.&#127880;&#127880;&#127880;&#127880;&#127880;</p><p>Tal vez ver&#237;a una secuela: <em>Red Balloon in The Sky</em>. Hablando de cielos, estoy en un avi&#243;n. Todos aqu&#237; tienen suerte de estar aqu&#237; conmigo, porque mientras ve&#237;an pel&#237;culas, le rec&#233; a Di-s para que todos estuvi&#233;ramos a salvo. Esta es la Oraci&#243;n del Viajero: (4)</p><div class="pullquote"><p>Que sea Tu voluntad, Di-s, nuestro Di-s y Di-s de nuestros padres, que nos gu&#237;es en paz, que dirijas nuestros pasos en paz, que nos gu&#237;es en paz, que nos apoyes en paz, y que nos hagas alcanzar nuestro destino en vida, alegr&#237;a y paz. (Si se pretende regresar de inmediato, se a&#241;ade: &#171;y que nos devuelvas en paz&#187;).</p><p>L&#237;branos de todo enemigo y emboscada, de ladrones y fieras en el camino, y de toda clase de castigos que azotan y llegan al mundo. Bendice la obra de nuestras manos y conc&#233;deme gracia, bondad y misericordia a Tus ojos y a los ojos de todos los que nos ven, y conc&#233;denos abundante bondad y escucha la voz de nuestra oraci&#243;n, pues T&#250; escuchas las oraciones de todos. Bendito seas T&#250;, Di-s, que escuchas la oraci&#243;n.</p></div><p>Orar es bueno cuando se viaja. Mir&#233; por encima del hombro de un par de personas y nadie ve&#237;a nada interesante. Desde mi punto de vista, las pel&#237;culas son, en el mejor de los casos, aburridas y superficiales; en el peor, pecaminosas.</p><p>&#191;Saben qu&#233; quiero ver? Una pel&#237;cula sobre el Fin de los Tiempos. Ser&#237;a preferible verla que vivirla. Suena un poco aterrador.</p><p>Ser&#237;a aterrador estar vivo durante la guerra de Gog y Magog, pero la resurrecci&#243;n de los muertos despu&#233;s suena genial, y conocer a mis antepasados &#8203;&#8203;ser&#237;a incluso mejor que una prueba de ADN de Ancestry.</p><p>Sin embargo, el Gran D&#237;a del Juicio es a&#250;n m&#225;s aterrador que Gog y Magog. Despu&#233;s de eso, dejar&#237;a de escribir este subconjunto, porque las palabras de Isa&#237;as que describen el futuro se har&#225;n realidad. (5)</p><p>(Traducci&#243;n con comentarios)</p><blockquote><p><strong>"Nadie da&#241;ar&#225; a otra persona, ni por su propio beneficio ni por su deseo de destruirla, en todo Mi santo monte.</strong></p><p><strong>&#191;Por qu&#233;?</strong></p><p><strong>Porque el mundo llamado Tierra se llenar&#225; del conocimiento de Di-s, como las aguas cubren el mar.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote><p>Me alegra imaginar un mundo de paz y armon&#237;a. Un solo mundo, bajo un solo Dios, con paz, justicia y bondad para todos. Quiz&#225;s alg&#250;n d&#237;a alguien haga una pel&#237;cula. IYH la ver&#237;a con gusto. (6)</p><p>Ver tambi&#233;n:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;b4696087-a4b4-4711-bfac-d9fd189e3488&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;(updated with Spanish at end of post)&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;IYH Watches A Movie &quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:90196335,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot; IshaYirasHashem@Gmail.com spiritual/ humor risas/espiritual English/Espa&#241;ol &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WOYC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdedadf61-122d-41ad-bd09-c4921cd3e391_1080x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-04-19T12:17:38.703Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y2A_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6b99df2-42f5-4d35-8abb-e8fcbd5bc7f2_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/iyh-watches-a-movie&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:115834183,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:7,&quot;comment_count&quot;:5,&quot;publication_id&quot;:997685,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem at Substack &quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oDFS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68f6200c-44a2-4168-8254-5cbbbd9800b4_1200x1200.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>https://open.substack.com/pub/ishayirashashem/p/movie-review-imax-at-the-aquarium?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=1hp7xr</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;e972010d-c72b-4842-ae02-210791994965&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Espa&#241;ol / Arabic&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Movie Review: IMAX at the Aquarium&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:90196335,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot; IshaYirasHashem@Gmail.com spiritual/ humor risas/espiritual English/Espa&#241;ol &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WOYC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdedadf61-122d-41ad-bd09-c4921cd3e391_1080x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-07-16T01:43:57.737Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hhg3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4b4421f-b338-4e6c-9428-b32c6ffec983_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/movie-review-imax-at-the-aquarium&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:134881294,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:7,&quot;comment_count&quot;:5,&quot;publication_id&quot;:997685,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem at Substack &quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oDFS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68f6200c-44a2-4168-8254-5cbbbd9800b4_1200x1200.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><h6>Notas:</h6><h6>(1) Cuando otras personas se sientan a ver, es el momento ideal para escribir. Como ahora.</h6><h6>(2) Se han cambiado los detalles.</h6><h6>(3) Tambi&#233;n hay idolatr&#237;a.  (4) https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/379130/jewish/Tefilat-Haderech-Text-of-the-Travelers-Prayer.htm</h6><h6> (5) Isa&#237;as 11:9 : &#1500;&#1488; &#1497;&#1512;&#1506;&#1493; &#1493;&#1500;&#1488; &#1497;&#1513;&#1495;&#1497;&#1514;&#1493; &#1489;&#1499;&#1500; &#1492;&#1512; &#1511;&#1491;&#1513;&#1497; &#1499;&#1497; &#1502;&#1500;&#1488;&#1492; &#1492;&#1488;&#1512;&#1509; &#1491;&#1506;&#1492; &#1488;&#1514; &#1492;&#8217; &#1499;&#1502;&#1497;&#1501;  &#1500;&#1497;&#1501; &#1502;&#1499;&#1505;&#1497;&#1501; </h6><h6> Traducci&#243;n de Malbim, Metzuda, Rashi y otros comentarios.  No es una traducci&#243;n palabra por palabra.</h6><h6> (6) La Rebetzin Devor&#225; Fastag comenta: El Tiferet Shlom&#243; escribi&#243; que hay personas justas que ven un mundo futuro perfecto incluso ahora. Supongo que &#233;l era uno de ellos. Tambi&#233;n escribi&#243; que la &#250;nica manera de ser feliz es imaginar c&#243;mo ser&#225; despu&#233;s de que el mundo sea perfecto.</h6>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil Emails vs. Modesty]]></title><description><![CDATA[A diagnostic by example]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/evil-emails-vs-modesty</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/evil-emails-vs-modesty</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Isha Yiras Hashem]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:59:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oDFS!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68f6200c-44a2-4168-8254-5cbbbd9800b4_1200x1200.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>(No en Espa&#241;ol)</em></p><p>What kind of social restraint failed for the people harmed by the events which the notorious emails give us only a glimpse of? Privacy? Shame? Limits? Modesty? </p><p>In a better world,  these emails would not exist,  and the people mentioned would be neither famous nor powerful. Since they interest us, we should use them properly, as a record of evil and how it happens.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> </p><p>Unfortunately, because of the way modesty works,  moral clarity cannot be achieved only by the following popular reactions to immodesty. </p><p><em><strong>Tell us who did it! </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Call them out! </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Label what they did as evil! </strong></em></p><p>You now know why all names are omitted from this post.  <em>Silence and restraint are a form of internal  discipline.</em> They limit the self before they limit others. </p><p>You will see the lack of modesty in these excerpts.  The hope is that the <em>absence</em> of my action will provide a space for moral evaluation to exist &#8212; without blaming, externalizing,  anger,  or fear.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></p><h6>Technicalities: At first,  I planned to quote everything directly. I ended up referencing documents by the  number in the bottom right corner. ##### means a word or concept I do not wish to post on my blog was deleted.  &#8230; means something was clipped in between.  Modesty isn't about hiding the facts,  and so the quotes are here for you to read. </h6><p>Of course,   making a spectacle of immodesty makes the situation much worse. We don't want to do that! </p><p>What we want in modesty  is that it should be spontaneous and originate internally. Keeping this in mind, I searched through the files released by the Department of Justice for the word <em>modest</em>. </p><p>Strangely,  the word <em>modest</em> is deployed 1,222 times in these emails! (<em>Modesty</em>, by comparison,  appears only 3 times, as someone's fake name). You see the word <em>modest</em> functioning as a cover up &#8212;  to hide a real lack of restraint, of modesty!</p><p>True modesty is quiet,  and it limits our actions within ourselves and our society. It is <em>not</em> a way to justify our actions or our society or to market virtue.  </p><p>When modesty disappears, it is replaced by a lack of acceptance of limits within  the world around you.  An immodest belief might go something like this: </p><p><em><strong> If you can do something, you may. </strong></em></p><p><em><strong> If others are harmed, confused, displaced, or destroyed along the way, that collateral damage can be justified.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>The best people are the ones with the most externally visible power. </strong></em></p><p>Once power becomes a moral good,  we stop using language to describe ourv limited reality,  and instead use it to insulate ourselves from the reality of our frail  existence.  Even the very word <em>modest</em>.</p><p>In these emails,  the word <em>modest</em> is used to  make actions feel smaller, purer, more reasonable, more justified,  and as a hedge to shield from criticism. It is all about the optics.  It reminds us that being <em>able to justify</em> something is not the same as being <em>allowed</em> to do it.</p><p> Therefore,  this post will not reveal any scandal or implicate anyone in particular. It is my effort to observe the word <em>modest</em>  being used by those with immodest morals. It is a reminder that anything, including <em>modesty</em>,  can be misused. </p><p>What kind of people, systems, and actions flourish when <em>modesty</em> disappears as a cultural moral value? When nothing inside their conscience,  or outside in their culture,  says &#8220;ENOUGH&#8221;?</p><p><strong>Read it,  and weep  for our world. </strong></p><h1>Evil Emails vs. Modesty</h1><blockquote><p>"A superior man is <strong>modest</strong> in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius </p></blockquote><p>https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00390148.pdf</p><p></p><blockquote><p>I haven't had a chance to return to this thread, but I was thinking that a retreat to understand deception is too <strong>modest</strong> a goal for this group. How about the more ambitious goal of building a  brain? Then your interest in deception becomes a testable subsystem of the brain-building project. </p></blockquote><p>https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01753311.pdf</p><blockquote><p>all at <strong>modest prices</strong>. </p></blockquote><p>https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00352252.pdf</p><blockquote><p> He was suitably <strong>modest</strong> when I told him of your compliment! <br>&#8230; he is actively seeking high net worth individuals for his Private Bank. Perhaps this is an avenue for your undecided Chinese? <br>And he agrees that the concentration should be on who pays whom and when! Great to see you hope Paris is fun.... </p></blockquote><p>EFTA_R1_01484242 </p><p>EFTA02418750</p><blockquote><p>I firmly acknowledge that if I had the chance to do things in the past differently , I would hopefully show better judgement. I have since paid my debt to society as desribed by law .I have continued full steam ahead with my science philanthropy , in a <strong>modest</strong> attempt to make the world a better place. I have previously asked and received forgiveness from my family and friends and would hope that others would show similar compassion. I firmly acknowledge that if I had the chance to go back in time , I would like to believe that I would hopefully show better judgement. I have since paid my debt to society of now decade -old crimes , as described by law .( having served the exact same time to the day , 13 months , as every other inmate sentenced to 18 months in jail ) and resolving all civil claims. I have since, continued full steam ahead in keeping with my long established history of finding cutting edge science . This ,in a very <strong>modest</strong> attempt to make the world a better place. I have previously asked and received forgiveness from my family and friends and would hope that others would show similar compassion. . I have made peace with my god, and would only hope that <br>others would find peace with theirs. </p></blockquote><p>EFTA00867488</p><blockquote><p>FAMILY: WIDOW'S <strong>MODEST</strong> LIFE <br>The 80-year-old lives in a <strong>modest</strong> flat in Pimlico, south London. <br>Alter initially defending her husband's memory, <em><strong>redacted by IYH</strong></em> now acknowledges his faults but says he was corrupted by power. </p></blockquote><p>EFTA01582918</p><blockquote><p>Subject: Fwd: CONFIDENTIAL </p><p>I can prepare an invoice for July &#8212; the hours were <strong>modest</strong> </p></blockquote><p>EFTA00667106</p><blockquote><p>in Florida <br>am in Ft Lauderdale, have found a <strong>modest</strong> apartment, which i will furnish and occupy on Monday </p></blockquote><p>EFTA_R1_01592087 </p><p>EFTA02477888</p><blockquote><p>Since you're telephone attention span is rather <strong>modest</strong> :) </p></blockquote><p>EFTA_R1_01763789 </p><p>EFTA02584777</p><blockquote><p>rent is 8 grand, i would like to eat, have a <strong>modest</strong> social life  </p></blockquote><p>EFTA01035802</p><blockquote><p>I assume you are refreshed today after your period of repentance and prayer yesterday. So, how do you feel about Bob now? Remember, there is a clear difference between forgiveness and reconciliation. And retribution is another thing entirely. Personally, I still prefer good old fashioned revenge, <strong>mostly because I get to dispense it, even though I know it almost always comes with another cost. </strong>####, that brings us back to that pesky "afflict our souls" #### of Yom Kippur! Disregard this entire communication.</p></blockquote><p>EFTA02421270</p><blockquote><p>Jeffrey if you remember your Roman history the moral character preceededthe political fall,lf we are watching shows like ############ and housewives of wherever in the next decade the Chinese and Indians are going to rule the world as we sit by watching ######### very sad </p></blockquote><p>EFTA01917082</p><blockquote><p>Subject: Change of Verbs <br></p><p>Surprised was the wrong word. Disappointed was the right word. I thought you were enthusiastic about this and that you were going to be a real participant and that it would be something fun to do together. Of course I respect your decision and I understand your discomfort with the structure (though I would not think that alone would deter you). I have PLENTY of demand so it's not about the money (and believe me, if I needed the money, I would come to you and ask in a heart beat and I know you would help me), but I had a 'fantasy' I guess about your being in this in some special capacity. I really don't want to compel you into anything but, in a moment of uncharacteristic affection, I am wondering if you might not reconsider even at a 5%-10% level. Something will likely come of it and it would make me happy (which is what you're all about anyway, right)? Again, absolutely no hard feelings or pressure if you still elect to demure, but I so enjoy our banter, your thoughts, and our idea exchanges, I find you most deeply engaged when you have vested interest. So, if it's still no, then it's no and I shall not <br>raise it again. But do reconsider at the more <strong>modest</strong> level. </p></blockquote><p>EFTA02441657</p><blockquote><p>Great trouble was taken on both sides to achieve the illusion of a spontaneous conversation.</p><p>&#8230;</p><p>The fact that since my youth-- 1 was 19 when I left Russia-- my political creed has remained as bleak and <br>changeless as an old gray rock. It is classical to the point of triteness. <strong>Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art</strong>. The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. <strong>My desires are modest.</strong> Portraits of the <br>head of the government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones, or played in theaters.</p></blockquote><p>EFTA00691892</p><blockquote><p>I think it's extremely likely that the numbers involved would be very <strong>modest</strong> per victim, and potentially result in the U.S. retaining tens of millions of dollars rather than it going to the victims. </p></blockquote><p>EFTA01681955</p><blockquote><p>I thought I'd attempt a <strong>modest</strong> return of the kindness by providing you my thoughts on our conversation. These thoughts are tailored , less like your bed sheets , but more like a bath towel. more warm encompassing and hopefully functional. </p><p>I thought i might share some of <strong>my past experiences with some of the worlds most interesting thinkers</strong> </p></blockquote><p>EFTA00963185</p><blockquote><p>Most were assassinated by relatives and the tradition was that you had to renounce when your kid was 13. So as I have always thought, my issues are modest.</p></blockquote><p>EFTA00708879</p><blockquote><p>As someone who exemplifies disobedience as an instrument of change I =nvite you to join our 2016 <strong>Disobedience Award selection committee. </strong>With =our help we will choose the <strong>recipient of the prize for the most =ourageous act of disobedience over the past year</strong>. The time commitment =ill be <strong>modest</strong>: </p></blockquote><p>EFTA02464464</p><blockquote><p>What I was going to say is I have often said to someone like her---look, I am no prophet but if you ask me you will never be a star. So you have two choices I you can prove me wrong and do so pretty quickly or 2 stick to the profession , but in that case know that you should only choose a profession if you are prepared to be content to do the most <strong>modest</strong> tasks that profession permits: teaching math not doing it, having a local law practice not being on the Supreme Court; writing advertising copy not editing the New Yorker: being a local doc not a big shot at Hopkins being an accountant not ##########. In other words choose a profession because you love it not because you are gambling to be famous. A great musician is compelled to think music and live it---add ambition and you have something. Without the ambition you still have something. She has some talent no real fanatical passion but Hollywood style outsized ambition. </p></blockquote><p>EFTA01936709</p><blockquote><p>not quite the Huffington Post piece you urged on me, but still some very <strong>modest</strong> progress ! </p></blockquote><p>EFTA00979857</p><blockquote><p>I think that you were being <strong>modest</strong> with me when you said that you're=only a part time model. </p><p>Your beauty is quite remarkable.<strong> I know that I'm n=t supposed to say things like that since it breaks many rules, but oh well, sometimes rules should be broken.</strong></p></blockquote><p>EFTA_R1_00107774</p><p>Related: </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;18395e96-1644-44f4-811c-5d3bba3fd0cf&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;There are plenty of songs about love and romance. But after a decade, there is still very little competition for the modesty song that I wrote when I was 19. 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Alta confianza en el reconocimiento del patr&#243;n, confianza moderada en la intencionalidad estrat&#233;gica detr&#225;s de &#233;l.</em></h6><p><strong>Actualizado para incluir el estudio de caso n.o 4 sobre Groenlandia. Actualizaciones en negrita.</strong></p><p><em>Mis credenciales incluyen ser una dem&#243;crata registrada de toda la vida desde los 18 a&#241;os y mi exposici&#243;n a los medios de comunicaci&#243;n sobre Trump. Para que quede claro, vot&#233; por Jeff Jacoby (s&#237;, s&#233; que no se postul&#243;, pero fue un voto de protesta). Ahora que hemos aclarado eso...</em></p><p><em><strong>Actualizaci&#243;n 1/20/2026: El presidente Trump no es un genio, virtuoso, cuidadoso o merecedor de elogios. Dado que muchas personas est&#225;n estresadas por su &#250;ltimo comportamiento con el premio Nobel y Groenlandia, esto se actualiza con sus &#250;ltimos movimientos extremadamente predecibles. Comprender su estrategia es &#250;til para no reaccionar de forma exagerada a todo lo que dice. &#161;Y no te pierdas la &#250;ltima imagen de este post!</strong></em></p><p>Solo Di-s sabe por qu&#233;, pero, desafortunadamente, parece que soy la &#250;nica persona en todo el mundo que entiende a Trump. &#161;Ay de m&#237;! Y antes de continuar, quiero ser clara: <em>esto no se trata de apoyarlo o rechazarlo</em>. Se trata de comprender un patr&#243;n que ha estado oculto a plena vista durante a&#241;os.</p><p>Ver&#225;s, Trump ha estado usando la misma estrategia, abiertamente y de manera predecible, durante d&#233;cadas. Sin embargo, de alguna manera, cada vez que lo hace, el mundo reacciona como si acabara de inventar una nueva forma de caos. Es como ver a los mismos ni&#241;os yendo a la cama por cent&#233;sima vez y a&#250;n sorprenderse de que les den problemas.</p><p>El <strong>Manual de Trump</strong> es el &#250;nico que ha utilizado. Piensa en ello como un baile de cuatro pasos que nunca cambia:</p><ol><li><p>Hacer una oferta inicial extrema que haga que todos se queden boquiabiertos.</p></li><li><p>Observar c&#243;mo el mundo entra en p&#225;nico (y disfrutar la publicidad gratuita).</p></li><li><p>Forzar una conversaci&#243;n donde el punto medio se desplace en su direcci&#243;n.</p></li><li><p>"A rega&#241;adientes," aceptar lo que probablemente era su verdadero objetivo desde el principio.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EHmI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca0cd30d-93c4-4138-a575-43d79b559311_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EHmI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca0cd30d-93c4-4138-a575-43d79b559311_1080x1080.png" width="1080" height="1080" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ca0cd30d-93c4-4138-a575-43d79b559311_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1080,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:261873,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div></li></ol><p>Es como ver a un maestro negociador que solo conoce un movimiento. Pero ese movimiento sigue funcionando porque, misteriosamente, todos tienen amnesia cada vez.</p><h3><strong>Algunos de los mayores &#233;xitos de Trump</strong></h3><h4><strong>Caso de estudio #1: El Muro Fronterizo</strong></h4><p>&#191;Recuerdas el muro fronterizo? Primero fue <em>"&#161;M&#233;xico pagar&#225; por un muro gigante!"</em> Despu&#233;s de meses de caos, terminamos con&#8230; algo de financiamiento adicional para la seguridad fronteriza. Lo que probablemente era el objetivo real desde el principio.</p><h4><strong>Caso de estudio #2: La Embajada en Jerusal&#233;n</strong></h4><p>O el traslado de la embajada a Jerusal&#233;n. Primero vino <em>"&#161;La moveremos inmediatamente!"</em> seguido de p&#225;nico, seguido de&#8230; una reubicaci&#243;n gradual y planificada que la mayor&#237;a de la gente finalmente acept&#243; con indiferencia.</p><h4><strong>Caso de estudio #3: El Conflicto en Gaza</strong></h4><p>Y ahora, en 2025, estamos viendo exactamente el mismo patr&#243;n con el conflicto en Gaza. Primero lleg&#243; la declaraci&#243;n extrema, luego la indignaci&#243;n, y ahora estamos viendo el lento baile hacia una posici&#243;n m&#225;s moderada que a&#250;n le da m&#225;s de lo que habr&#237;a obtenido con una oferta de apertura convencional.</p><p><strong>Comienza la actualizaci&#243;n (aseg&#250;rate de que puedes ver la imagen)</strong></p><h4>Caso de Estudio no 4: Premio Nobel y Groenlandia</h4><p>Utilicemos el libro de jugadas de Trump, publicado aqu&#237; para su conveniencia, para entender lo que est&#225; pasando.</p><ol><li><p><strong>La oferta inicial extrema de Trump hace que todos jadeen.</strong></p></li></ol><p>Comenz&#243; a exigir el Premio Nobel hace unos meses, lo que disminuye la posibilidad de que este movimiento fuera verdaderamente impulsivo en lugar de una estrategia planificada. A continuaci&#243;n, exigi&#243; Groenlandia. Cuando cedieron a sus demandas, exigi&#243; anexarla.</p><p>As&#237; que esta vez, hay varias piezas de la oferta de apertura extrema:</p><ul><li><p>La demanda del Premio Nobel, que da a todos algo tonto por lo que atacarlo.</p></li><li><p>Exigencia de una enorme masa de tierra que &#233;l pudiera, plausiblemente, desear.</p></li><li><p>Negaci&#243;n de detalles hist&#243;ricos trivialmente refutables, como la existencia de documentaci&#243;n estadounidense que reconoce la soberan&#237;a danesa de Groenlandia.</p></li></ul><p>La mala gram&#225;tica, la capitalizaci&#243;n y la se&#241;alizaci&#243;n del ego son se&#241;ales de que se trata de una posici&#243;n inicial intencionalmente escandalosa.</p><ol start="2"><li><p><strong>Ahora disfruta de la publicidad gratuita y observa a todos entrar en p&#225;nico.</strong></p></li></ol><p>Trump tiene una deuda de gratitud con los medios por cubrir esto exactamente como &#233;l quiere, al hiperenfocarse, tomarlo personalmente y actuar desquiciado, como se ve en los art&#237;culos expuestos a continuaci&#243;n, desde la primera p&#225;gina de los resultados de Google.</p><h6>Estos t&#237;tulos en Ingles est&#225;n formateados como enlaces, el texto es el titular, no dudes en hacer clic para leer los art&#237;culos originales.</h6><p>Hiperenfoque:</p><ul><li><p>Diseccionando el mensaje de Donald Trump en Groenlandia al Primer Ministro de Noruega, l&#237;nea por l&#237;nea, ABC Australia.</p></li><li><p>Verificaci&#243;n de hechos: las falsas afirmaciones del extraordinario mensaje de Trump a Noruega, CNN.</p></li></ul><p>Tom&#225;ndolo personalmente:</p><ul><li><p>Macron advierte de un cambio hacia un mundo sin reglas.</p></li><li><p>Trump le dice al Primer Ministro de Noruega que no est&#225; obligado a &#8220;pensar puramente en la paz&#8221; despu&#233;s del desaire del Nobel, Al Jazeera.</p></li></ul><p>Actuar desquiciado:</p><ul><li><p>La carta de Trump a Noruega deber&#237;a ser la &#250;ltima paja, el Atl&#225;ntico.</p></li><li><p>Trump se fuma absolutamente por el acr&#243;nimo de Groenlandia de Bonkers: &#8220;Para qu&#233; sirve la 25 Enmienda&#8221;, Yahoo News.</p></li></ul><p>Trump disfruta inmensamente de esta reacci&#243;n. &#201;l puede interpretar al chico malo en la habitaci&#243;n y recibe mucha atenci&#243;n.</p><ol start="3"><li><p><strong>Entonces, puede forzar una conversaci&#243;n donde el punto medio cambia.</strong></p></li></ol><p>Esta carta es una forma muy cruda de restablecer las expectativas. El Premio Nobel es solo una queja simb&#243;lica. Se est&#225; utilizando para abrir la ventana internacional de Overton hacia los intereses estadounidenses primero, alianzas condicionadas al buen comportamiento.</p><p>Una prueba &#250;til podr&#237;a ser que si nos fijamos en la cuenta de Twitter de Potus (no recomendada), esta carta NO aparece.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><p>As&#237; que no est&#225; dirigido a sus seguidores, sino a sus iguales.</p><ol start="4"><li><p><strong>Finalmente, puede conformarse &#8220;a rega&#241;adientes&#8221; con el objetivo real, aburrido y familiar.</strong></p></li></ol><blockquote><p>Cita:</p><p>Mensaje de texto del Presidente Trump al Primer Ministro St&#246;re, el 18 de enero, a las 4:15 p.m.</p><p>Estimado Jonas: Teniendo en cuenta que su pa&#237;s decidi&#243; no darme el Premio Nobel de la Paz por haber detenido 8 Guerras PLUS, ya no siento la obligaci&#243;n de pensar puramente en la Paz, aunque siempre ser&#225; predominante, pero ahora puedo pensar en lo que es bueno y apropiado para los Estados Unidos de Am&#233;rica. Dinamarca no puede proteger esa tierra de Rusia o China, y &#191;por qu&#233; tienen un "derecho de propiedad" de todos modos? No hay documentos escritos, solo un barco aterriz&#243; all&#237; hace cientos de a&#241;os, pero tambi&#233;n ten&#237;amos barcos que desembarcaban all&#237;. He hecho m&#225;s por la OTAN que cualquier otra persona desde su fundaci&#243;n, y ahora, la OTAN deber&#237;a hacer algo por los Estados Unidos. El mundo no es seguro a menos que tengamos un control total y completo de Groenlandia. &#161;Gracias! Presidente DJT</p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Y no olvidemos su magistral uso de la <em>humildad performativa</em>. Ya conoces la rutina:<br><em>"Nadie sab&#237;a que la atenci&#243;n m&#233;dica podr&#237;a ser tan complicada,"</em> dir&#225;, o <em>"La gente dice que entiendo esto mejor que nadie."</em> Es un movimiento brillante que le permite alardear mientras aparenta estar sorprendido por su propia experiencia. La audiencia siente que est&#225; dentro de la broma, observando la actuaci&#243;n mientras aprecia la destreza detr&#225;s de ella.</p><p>Ahora me preocupa que algunos de ustedes est&#233;n impresionados con mi brillante an&#225;lisis pol&#237;tico. Pero la verdadera raz&#243;n por la que la gente sigue cayendo en el patr&#243;n de Trump no tiene nada que ver con la pol&#237;tica. El problema, ver&#225;n, es que la gente ya no tiene gallinas en el patio trasero. &#128020; &#128020; &#128020; </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_tsY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd35952f-41ba-448f-b48b-551db15ef0bc_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_tsY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd35952f-41ba-448f-b48b-551db15ef0bc_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_tsY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd35952f-41ba-448f-b48b-551db15ef0bc_1080x1080.png 848w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_tsY!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd35952f-41ba-448f-b48b-551db15ef0bc_1080x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_tsY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd35952f-41ba-448f-b48b-551db15ef0bc_1080x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_tsY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd35952f-41ba-448f-b48b-551db15ef0bc_1080x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>S&#237;ganme en esto</strong>&#8212;no hay nada como cuidar criaturas que convierten tus sobras en huevos, tienen crisis emocionales m&#225;s dram&#225;ticas que un reportero de CNN en la noche electoral, y mueren con suficiente frecuencia como para desarrollar una perspectiva saludable sobre los altibajos de la vida. Tal vez si m&#225;s personas tuvieran esa dosis diaria de entrenamiento en manejo del caos, estar&#237;an mejor equipadas para manejar el estilo de negociaci&#243;n de Trump sin perder la cabeza.</p><p>Es como ese viejo dicho de perder el bosque por los &#225;rboles, excepto que en este caso, la gente est&#225; perdiendo la estrategia por los tweets.</p><h3><strong>"&#191;Pero no es imprudente negociar as&#237;, especialmente en pol&#237;tica?"</strong></h3><p>Es una pregunta v&#225;lida. Y s&#237;, este enfoque conlleva riesgos. Las palabras importan, especialmente cuando provienen de personas poderosas.</p><p>Pero aqu&#237; est&#225; la cuesti&#243;n: este tipo de negociaci&#243;n ocurre todo el tiempo, solo que generalmente con menos drama. La diferencia es que Trump lo hace p&#250;blicamente, en voz alta y con las c&#225;maras encendidas.</p><p>Lo que hace a Trump tan cautivador no es su riqueza o poder. Despu&#233;s de todo, hay muchas personas ricas y poderosas que son completamente aburridas. Lo que lo hace diferente es que ha convertido la previsibilidad en una forma de arte.</p><p>Comprender este patr&#243;n no har&#225; que ames u odies a Trump m&#225;s de lo que ya lo haces. Pero podr&#237;a ayudarte a evitar el ciclo de p&#225;nico y sorpresa la pr&#243;xima vez que haga una declaraci&#243;n escandalosa.</p><p>Y si realmente quieres entender este patr&#243;n, todo est&#225; detallado en <em>The Art of the Deal</em>. Literalmente public&#243; el manual hace d&#233;cadas. Y aunque muchos desear&#237;an que tuvi&#233;ramos candidatos que sirvieran como mejores ejemplos morales, descartar a Trump como simplemente tonto o parte de un culto es perder el punto por completo. De hecho, ha logrado que sus cr&#237;ticos se enfoquen en exactamente las cosas que nunca le da&#241;ar&#225;n con sus seguidores. <em>(Y sinceramente, solo puedo aspirar a atraer el tipo de oposici&#243;n enfocada que &#233;l recibe.)</em></p><h4>As&#237; que, &#161;felicidades! Ahora est&#225;s iniciado en el arte secreto de <em>Entender a Trump</em>. Usa este conocimiento sabiamente, y que nunca m&#225;s te sorprenda cuando haga exactamente lo que siempre ha hecho.</h4><p>Aunque, si alguien est&#225; tomando sugerencias para entretenimiento alternativo, estoy feliz de postularme como dictador mundial. Prometo ser incluso m&#225;s entretenida que Musk y Trump juntos&#8212;y har&#233; que tener gallinas en el patio trasero sea obligatorio mientras lo hago.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ck72!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7808c913-e68d-46b2-80de-494bf30c539f_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ck72!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7808c913-e68d-46b2-80de-494bf30c539f_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ck72!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7808c913-e68d-46b2-80de-494bf30c539f_1080x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ck72!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7808c913-e68d-46b2-80de-494bf30c539f_1080x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ck72!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7808c913-e68d-46b2-80de-494bf30c539f_1080x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ck72!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7808c913-e68d-46b2-80de-494bf30c539f_1080x1080.png" width="1080" height="1080" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7808c913-e68d-46b2-80de-494bf30c539f_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1080,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1254676,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ck72!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7808c913-e68d-46b2-80de-494bf30c539f_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ck72!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7808c913-e68d-46b2-80de-494bf30c539f_1080x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ck72!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7808c913-e68d-46b2-80de-494bf30c539f_1080x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ck72!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7808c913-e68d-46b2-80de-494bf30c539f_1080x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>Proverbios 21:1</strong> nos dice que el coraz&#243;n de un gobernante es como un arroyo en las manos de Dios. Incluso el viento en el cabello de Trump nos recuerda que, por impredecibles que parezcan las cosas, los verdaderos vientos de cambio no vienen con un nuevo presidente&#8212;vienen desde lo alto.</p></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Potus X</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Updated: A Friendly Guide to Understanding Trump]]></title><description><![CDATA[Espa&#241;ol]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/updated-a-friendly-guide-to-understanding</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/updated-a-friendly-guide-to-understanding</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Isha Yiras Hashem]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:54:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTD7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa79f9b14-b385-4289-acbf-7c75f786ba03_1080x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong><a href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/una-guia-amistosa-para-entender-a">Espa&#241;ol</a></strong></em> </p><p><strong>Updated to include case study #4 about Greenland.  Updates in bold. </strong></p><h6><em>Epistemic Status: A fancy way of saying how sure I am about this. High confidence in the pattern recognition, moderate confidence in the strategic intentionality behind it. </em></h6><p><em>My credentials include being a lifelong registered Democrat since age 18 and exposure to news media about Trump. For the record, I voted for Jeff Jacoby (yes, I know he didn't run, but it was a protest vote). </em></p><p><em><strong>Update 1/20/2026: President Trump is not a genius, virtuous, careful, or deserving of praise. Since so many people are stressed by his latest behavior with the Nobel prize prize and Greenland, this is updated with his latest extremely predictable moves. Understanding his strategy is helpful in not overreacting to everything he says. And do not miss the last image in this post! </strong></em></p><p><em> Now that we've got that out of the way...</em></p><p>Only G-d knows why I have to be the one person in the entire world to write this friendly guide. Woe is unto me. And before we go any further, let me be clear: <em>this isn't about supporting or opposing him</em>. It's about understanding a pattern that's been hiding in plain sight for years.</p><p>You see, Trump has been using the <em>same</em> strategy, openly and predictably, for decades. Yet somehow, every time he does it, the world reacts as if he's just invented a new form of chaos. It's like watching the same kids going to bed for the hundredth time and still being surprised that they gave you a hard time.</p><p><em>Trump's Playbook</em> is the only one he's ever used. Think of it as a four-step dance that never changes:</p><ol><li><p>Start with an extreme opening bid that makes everyone gasp</p></li><li><p>Watch the world panic (and enjoy the free publicity)</p></li><li><p>Force a conversation where the middle ground shifts in his direction</p></li><li><p>"Reluctantly" settle for what was probably his real goal all along</p></li></ol><p>It's like watching a master negotiator who only knows one move. But that one move keeps working because everyone mysteriously gets amnesia about it.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTD7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa79f9b14-b385-4289-acbf-7c75f786ba03_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTD7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa79f9b14-b385-4289-acbf-7c75f786ba03_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTD7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa79f9b14-b385-4289-acbf-7c75f786ba03_1080x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTD7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa79f9b14-b385-4289-acbf-7c75f786ba03_1080x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTD7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa79f9b14-b385-4289-acbf-7c75f786ba03_1080x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTD7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa79f9b14-b385-4289-acbf-7c75f786ba03_1080x1080.png" width="1080" height="1080" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a79f9b14-b385-4289-acbf-7c75f786ba03_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1080,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:289685,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTD7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa79f9b14-b385-4289-acbf-7c75f786ba03_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTD7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa79f9b14-b385-4289-acbf-7c75f786ba03_1080x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTD7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa79f9b14-b385-4289-acbf-7c75f786ba03_1080x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTD7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa79f9b14-b385-4289-acbf-7c75f786ba03_1080x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>Let's highlight some of Trump's greatest hits:</h2><h4>Case Study #1: The Border Wall</h4><p>Remember the border wall? First it was "<em>Mexico will pay for a giant wall</em>!" After months of chaos, we ended up with... some enhanced border security funding. Which was probably the realistic goal all along.</p><h4>Case Study #2: The Jerusalem Embassy</h4><p>Or the Jerusalem embassy move. First came "<em>We're moving it immediately</em>!" followed by panic, followed by... a gradual, planned relocation that most people eventually shrugged at.</p><h3>Case Study #3: The Gaza Conflict</h3><p>And now in 2025, we're seeing the exact same pattern with the Gaza conflict. First came the extreme statement, then the outrage, and now we're watching the slow dance toward a more moderate position that still gives him more than he would have gotten with a conventional opening bid.</p><p><strong>Update begins (make sure you can view the image)</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n7SC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa253eaf9-ac98-413a-bf02-b0e90bf770d9_1080x1080.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n7SC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa253eaf9-ac98-413a-bf02-b0e90bf770d9_1080x1080.jpeg 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4>Case Study #4: Nobel Prize and Greenland</h4><p>Let's use Trump's Playbook, reposted here for your convenience,  to understand what is going on. </p><ol><li><p><strong>Trump's extreme  opening bid that makes everyone gasp. </strong></p></li></ol><p>He started demanding the Nobel Prize a few months ago, which lessens the possibility that this move was truly impulsive rather than a planned strategy. Next, he demanded Greenland. When they gave in to his demands he demanded annexing it. </p><p>So this time, there are several pieces of the extreme opening bid: </p><ul><li><p>Demand for the Nobel Prize, which gives everyone something dumb to attack him for</p></li><li><p>Demand of huge landmass that he could, plausibly,  want. </p></li><li><p>Denial of trivially disprovable historical details, such as the existence of  US documentation  recognizing Danish sovereignty of Greenland. </p></li></ul><p>The bad grammar, capitalization, and ego signaling are all signs that this is an  intentionally outrageous opening position.</p><ol start="2"><li><p><strong>Now he enjoys the free publicity and watching everyone panic. </strong></p></li></ol><p>Trump owes a debt of gratitude to media for covering this exactly the way he wants them to,  by hyperfocusing, taking it personally, and acting unhinged, as seen in the exhibited articles below, from the first page of Google results. </p><h6>These titles are formatted as links,  the text is the headline, feel free to click to read the original articles. </h6><p>Hyperfocusing: </p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-20/donald-trump-greenland-message-analysed-line-by-line/106246964">Dissecting Donald Trump&#8217;s Greenland message to Norway&#8217;s PM, line by line, ABC Australia</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/20/politics/fact-check-trump-norway-message">Fact check: The false claims in Trump&#8217;s extraordinary message to Norway, CNN</a></p></li></ul><p>Taking it personally: </p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cx2k7gv0znmt">Macron warns of a shift to a world without rules, BBC.</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/1/19/trump-tells-norway-pm-not-bound-to-think-purely-of-peace-after-nobel-snub">Trump tells Norway PM not bound to &#8216;think purely of peace&#8217; after Nobel snub, Al Jazeera </a></p></li></ul><p>Acting unhinged: </p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/">Trump&#8217;s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw, The Atlantic</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-gets-absolutely-smoked-over-140121616.html">Trump Gets Absolutely Smoked Over Bonkers Greenland Screed: &#8216;What The 25th Amendment Is For&#8217;, Yahoo News</a></p></li></ul><p>Trump enjoys this reaction immensely. He gets to play the bad boy in the room and gets tons of attention. </p><ol start="3"><li><p><strong>Then, he can force a conversation where the middle ground shifts. </strong></p></li></ol><p>This letter is a very crude way of resetting expectations. The Nobel Prize is a symbolic grievance only. It is being used to yank the international Overton window toward U.S. interests first, alliances conditional on good behavior.</p><p>One useful bit of evidence might be that if you look at the Potus Twitter account (not recommended), this letter does NOT appear.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> </p><p>So it is not directed at his followers, but at his equals. </p><ol start="4"><li><p>Finally, he can &#8220;reluctantly&#8221; settle for the real, boring, familiar goal. </p></li></ol><p>He'd like more leverage (&#8230;<em>The World is not secure unless we have&#8230;</em>), more consideration of costs to the US  (<em>&#8230;and now, NATO should do something for the United States&#8230;</em>), less expectations of peace at any cost (&#8230;<em>done more for NATO than any other person since its founding</em>&#8230;), and long term submission of the US placing army things in Norway (&#8230;<em>Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China&#8230;</em>). This is symbolized by gestures of respect (&#8230;<em>Considering your Country decided not to give me&#8230;</em>). </p><p>Therefore,  calls to impeach him or 25 Amendment him or muzzle him are serious category errors that ultimately benefit Trump by leaving his desired message intact. </p><blockquote><p><em>Text message from President Trump to Prime Minister St&#248;re, on Jan 18, at 4:15 p.m.</em></p><p>Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a &#8220;right of ownership&#8221; anyway? There are no written documents, it&#8217;s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT</p></blockquote><p></p><h3>Follow Up: Performative Humility</h3><p>And let's not forget his masterful use of performative humility. You know the routine: "<em>Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated,</em>" he'll say, or "<em>People are saying I understand this better than anyone</em>." It's a brilliant move that lets him simultaneously brag while appearing to be surprised by his own expertise. </p><p>Here, it will be something like:</p><blockquote><p><em>I never even wanted the Nobel Prize, believe me!  I don't care about it at all! But when you stop wars and there is only criticism for the Best Country In The World, you Have To Ask whether Anyone Else even CARES about peace anymore. Peace is good for the economy! I've always supported peace!</em></p><p><em> So that is what happened. Nobody wanted to touch the situation in Greenland. But Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, these are very bad actors, and all the smart and experienced people came to me saying, you&#8217;re the only one who can fix what Biden  and Obama left over. No one will appreciate it. I know, I know,  that&#8217;s just how it is when you do more for peace and security than ANYONE ever has since 1949.</em></p><p><em> Someone has to step up, and it falls to the United States, reluctantly, but we will handle it responsibly. MAGA!!!</em></p></blockquote><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe to understand President Trump!</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h3>SOLUTION: Backyard Chickens</h3><p>The real reason people keep falling for Trump's pattern isn't about politics at all. The problem, you see, is that people don't have backyard chickens anymore. Only a mother hen to mother hens is practiced at dealing with this kind of misbehavior.  &#128020; &#128020; &#128020; </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3UDj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27d88c15-2864-4144-8871-97aad293d3a3_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3UDj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27d88c15-2864-4144-8871-97aad293d3a3_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3UDj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27d88c15-2864-4144-8871-97aad293d3a3_1080x1080.png 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Stay with me here</strong>. </p><p>There's nothing quite like caring for creatures that turn your leftovers into eggs, have more dramatic meltdowns over a cloud passing the sun than a CNN reporter on election night, and expire frequently to help you develop a calmer perspective on life. Perhaps, if more people had that daily dose of chaos-management training, they'd be better equipped to handle Trump's negotiation style without losing their minds.</p><p>Now, I know what you're thinking: </p><h3>&#8220;Isn't it reckless to negotiate this way, especially in politics?" </h3><p>I mean, it is dangerous. It's a fair question. And yes, this approach comes with risks. Words matter, especially from powerful people. But here's the thing: this kind of negotiation happens all the time, just usually with less drama. The difference is that Trump does it publicly, loudly, and with cameras rolling.</p><p>What makes Trump compelling isn't his wealth or power.  After all, the vast majority of rich, powerful people are thoroughly boring, and we never hear about them. It's that he's turned his wealth and power into performance art.</p><p>Understanding this pattern won't make you love or hate Trump any more than you already do. But it might help you avoid the cycle of panic and surprise the next time he makes an outrageous statement.</p><p>And if you <strong>really</strong> want to understand this pattern, it's all laid out in <em>The Art of the Deal</em>. He literally published the playbook decades ago. And while many wish we had candidates who might serve as better moral examples, dismissing Trump as simply dumb or cult-like misses the point entirely. In fact, he's masterfully gotten his critics to focus on exactly the things that will never damage him with his supporters. </p><h4>So congratulations! You've now been initiated into the secret art of Understanding Trump. Use this knowledge wisely, and may you never again be shocked when he does exactly what he's always done.</h4><p>Though if anyone's taking suggestions for alternative entertainment, I'm happy to throw my hat in the ring as world dictator. I will try to be even more entertaining than Musk and Trump combined. Let us make backyard chickens mandatory while we are at it.</p><h6><strong>Update: One of my children, upon reading the original version of this article, commented that he doubts that I could possibly be more entertaining than Trump or Musk, even with backyard chickens. Maybe Jeff Jacoby  is willing to step up. </strong></h6><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kKKc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F873924c3-ff71-47ef-9444-4cafcca6262a_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kKKc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F873924c3-ff71-47ef-9444-4cafcca6262a_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kKKc!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F873924c3-ff71-47ef-9444-4cafcca6262a_1080x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kKKc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F873924c3-ff71-47ef-9444-4cafcca6262a_1080x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kKKc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F873924c3-ff71-47ef-9444-4cafcca6262a_1080x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kKKc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F873924c3-ff71-47ef-9444-4cafcca6262a_1080x1080.png" width="1080" height="1080" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/873924c3-ff71-47ef-9444-4cafcca6262a_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1080,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1331056,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kKKc!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F873924c3-ff71-47ef-9444-4cafcca6262a_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kKKc!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F873924c3-ff71-47ef-9444-4cafcca6262a_1080x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kKKc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F873924c3-ff71-47ef-9444-4cafcca6262a_1080x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kKKc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F873924c3-ff71-47ef-9444-4cafcca6262a_1080x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><h1> Proverbs 21:1 tells us that the heart of a ruler is like a stream in God's hands. Even the wind in Trump's hair reminds us that no matter how unpredictable things seem, the real winds of change aren't coming from a  president - they're coming from Above.</h1></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://x.com/POTUS</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World Was Created for You (No, Not Like THAT!)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hostage-taking of the Maharam]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/the-world-was-created-for-you-no</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/the-world-was-created-for-you-no</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:35:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWNM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c8a4a3c-6739-4ac0-8f89-79693e56ec6e_557x1087.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/ishayirashashem/p/el-mundo-fue-creado-para-ti-no-no?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=1hp7xr">Leer en Espa&#241;ol</a></strong></em></p><p></p><h6>1. Human Rights and Human Life</h6><h6>2. Jewish Sources on Humanity and Humans</h6><h6><em>3. Tikkun Olam</em> and Ransoms</h6><h6>4. Introducing the Maharam: Rabbi Mayer of Rothenberg</h6><h6>5. The Maharam Attempts to Immigrate to Israel</h6><h6>6. Teaching From a Prison Cell</h6><h6>7. Shaul Tchernikovsky: The Two Tombs (Ballads of Worms)</h6><h6>8. Why This Story Matters Now</h6><h6>9. For Further Reading</h6><p></p><p><strong>In 1285,</strong> an important Jewish scholar was imprisoned in Ensisheim, an imperial castle in then-Germanic territory.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> A high-profile rabbi seemed to King Rudolf I a  uniquely valuable hostage, and in fact, the Jewish community  were willing to do almost anything to raise the money.  However, the hostage forbade anyone to ransom him.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a> This medieval story is less politically charged than more recent  examples. I hope this will allow us to engage in thinking about a foundational question: <em> Can  every human life really be priceless?</em><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jTJ_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85031dbd-82f6-4e6e-b52e-02d197cdc27d_853x985.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Should there be restrictions on immigration, and which ones? At what point is an infant considered its own human being? If someone is brain-dead, are they really dead? Should we mandate seat belts, or treat them as a personal choice?</em></h6><h1>Human Rights  And Human Life</h1><p>Every society has ideas about the value of a single human life. In the modern world, we see it in the belief that every person has inherent human rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948 as the <em>Universal Declaration of Human Rights</em>.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a> I have copied the Preamble into the footnote, and you should stop, look at footnote 5, and read it. It is inspiring and will make you feel better about the world. </p><p>Hold on to that good feeling.  Surely, the United Nations  has consistently upheld the principle of inherent human dignity since making this beautiful declaration. Right? Well. I'm trying to avoid provocative politics. </p><p>So try to think of one human being, anyone,  who fully approves of the United Nations in practice,  and is never disappointed by its actions.  For your viewing pleasure, while you think: </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWNM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c8a4a3c-6739-4ac0-8f89-79693e56ec6e_557x1087.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWNM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c8a4a3c-6739-4ac0-8f89-79693e56ec6e_557x1087.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWNM!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c8a4a3c-6739-4ac0-8f89-79693e56ec6e_557x1087.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWNM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c8a4a3c-6739-4ac0-8f89-79693e56ec6e_557x1087.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWNM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c8a4a3c-6739-4ac0-8f89-79693e56ec6e_557x1087.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWNM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c8a4a3c-6739-4ac0-8f89-79693e56ec6e_557x1087.jpeg" width="557" height="1087" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3c8a4a3c-6739-4ac0-8f89-79693e56ec6e_557x1087.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1087,&quot;width&quot;:557,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:112233,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/i/176734804?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd3effc25-d6cb-461c-8f12-9ef0d68d72e4_1080x2340.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWNM!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c8a4a3c-6739-4ac0-8f89-79693e56ec6e_557x1087.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWNM!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c8a4a3c-6739-4ac0-8f89-79693e56ec6e_557x1087.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWNM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c8a4a3c-6739-4ac0-8f89-79693e56ec6e_557x1087.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bWNM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c8a4a3c-6739-4ac0-8f89-79693e56ec6e_557x1087.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p> It is easy to affirm that every human is equally important with great seriousness. All you need is to publicize  continuous declarations.  Why, then,  is the United Nations unable to live up to its beautifully-worded ideals? Is the importance of  every human being reflected in reality? </p><h1>Jewish Sources On Humanity and Humans </h1><p>Jewish sources are clear:<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a> All humanity is equal before G-d.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="#footnote-7" target="_self">7</a> We are amazingly diverse, but we are all the children of Adam and Eve. See image below for a beautiful quote:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J9Nq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3822d6f4-e844-49a3-8f87-f3f50ca7a8f6_717x752.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J9Nq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3822d6f4-e844-49a3-8f87-f3f50ca7a8f6_717x752.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J9Nq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3822d6f4-e844-49a3-8f87-f3f50ca7a8f6_717x752.jpeg 848w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>Therefore, <strong>since all humanity descends from one person, each and every person is obligated to say: The world was created for me,</strong> as one person can be the source of all humanity, and recognize the significance of his actions.</p></div><p>But the Sages did not make these statements as a feel-good announcement. Surprisingly, this discussion of the importance of man comes up in the context of witnesses who do <em>not</em> wish to testify in a capital case! They must testify for the sake of justice in the world. </p><p>Why would  these people refuse to incriminate someone of a crime? If the crime would recieve the death penalty,  and they do not want to be responsible for the accused recieving the death penalty. </p><p>They are informed that they must testify, like it or not: </p><div class="pullquote"><p>And perhaps you will say: Why would we want this trouble? Perhaps it would be better not to testify at all. But be aware, as is it not already stated: &#8220;And he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he does not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity&#8221; (Leviticus 5:1)? It is a transgression not to testify when one can do so. </p></div><p> And further:<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-8" href="#footnote-8" target="_self">8</a></p><div class="pullquote"><p>And perhaps you will say: Why would we want to be responsible for the blood of this person? But be aware, as is it not already stated: &#8220;When the wicked perish, there is song&#8221; (Proverbs 11:10)?</p></div><p>When people do not punish  evil, they perpetuate it. And when evil is punished, there is &#8216;song&#8217;, harmony of the world. </p><p>We all like songs, but finding the harmony is rarely easy in practice. What if saving one person's life could endanger many others, as in the classic trolley problem?<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-9" href="#footnote-9" target="_self">9</a> What if  paying one person&#8217;s bills means you cannot pay 200 equally necessary smaller bills for other people? What if honoring one persom will make another feel bad? </p><h2>&#8216;Tikkun Olam&#8217; and Ransoms</h2><p>Hostage-taking and paying a ransom is a clear case of limited resources. </p><p>On the one hand, every human could be the progenitor of the entire world. Thus, each person is priceless. </p><p>On the other hand, there are limited resources. What is the right thing to do in this situation?</p><ul><li><p>Should you pay, because of the principle &#8216;one life is worth an entire world&#8217;? </p></li><li><p>Should you refuse to pay, as this would encourage future kidnappings? </p></li></ul><p>The earliest source of Jewish Oral Law, the <em>Mishna</em>, soberly acknowledges the real human incentives.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-10" href="#footnote-10" target="_self">10</a> If saving one life will predictably cause more kidnappings, more extortion, and more danger in the future, then the ransom cannot be paid. Therefore, the conclusion is that one can pay only what the captives might be worth on the slave market. </p><blockquote><p>One does not redeem the captives for more than their worth, because of &#8220;<em>Tikkun olam</em>&#8221; (literally, repairing the world.)<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-11" href="#footnote-11" target="_self">11</a></p></blockquote><p><em>Tikkun Olam</em> is probably more familiar to the modern reader as the concept of &#8216;fixing&#8217; the world.  It has a narrower meaning in this text: the preservation of social stability.</p><ul><li><p>Consider the financial strain on the community. If ransom payments are huge, the entire community becomes impoverished. The &#8220;repair&#8221; is economic stability.</p></li><li><p>Consider a preventive strategy. If kidnappers see that Jews pay any price, they will kidnap even more Jews. The &#8220;repair&#8221; is protecting the community from turning into an endless hostage market.</p></li></ul><p>Maimonides, the original Jewish rationalist, says<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-12" href="#footnote-12" target="_self">12</a> that there is nothing more important than redeeming captives.  A Torah scroll is the most important item a Jewish community can have, but it may sell its holiest possession to rescue a captive. But what about  ransoming the <em>next</em> captive?</p><h1>Introducing The Maharam: Rabbi Mayer of Rothenberg</h1><p> Rabbi Mayer ben Baruch of Rothenburg,  known as the &#8220;Maharam&#8221;, was one of the great early authorities of medieval European Jewry. He is one of only three Rabbis described as &#8220;Light of the Exile&#8221;. </p><p>A rigorous thinker and prolific writer, the Maharam wrote almost a thousand responsa, which became even more famous and influential after  his death. There are endless examples, let's use the two from the Jewish Encyclopedia. <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-13" href="#footnote-13" target="_self">13</a></p><ul><li><p>&#8220;<em>Cursed be the woman who has a husband and does not adorn herself; and cursed be the woman who has no husband and adorns herself</em>&#8221; (Responsa, ed. Prague, No. 199). </p></li><li><p>The question whether a lawyer could bring into court arguments which he was convinced were false, he answered as follows: &#8220;<em>No Jew may become guilty of such an ignominious sin against truth and justice</em>&#8221; (Responsa, ed. Cremona, No. 246). </p><p></p></li></ul><p>In 1273, with the rise of Roman Emperor Rudolph I of Habsburg, Jews faced heavy taxation.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-14" href="#footnote-14" target="_self">14</a> At the time, Jews were legally <em>servi camerae regis</em> (servants of the royal chamber), and their bodies and movement were treated as royal fiscal assets. England had expelled its small Jewish community. France expelled its Jews.  Jews were  blamed for every local crisis. Many Jewish communities began looking for a place to escape prosecution. </p><p>Some went east, a movement that eventually created the centers of Jewish life in Poland and Lithuania. Others went south. And some hoped to reach the Land of Israel, then under Turkish control, where the local leaders openly encouraged Jewish immigration for their own reasons. </p><h1>The Maharam Attemps To Immigrate To Israel</h1><p>The Maharam tried to join those going to the Land of Israel. In 1285, he quietly left Europe, traveling without fanfare. He made it as far as Lombardy.</p><p>On the road, he was recognized by a man named Kneppe<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-15" href="#footnote-15" target="_self">15</a> who had met him many years ago. Kneppe was a bitter apostate who used his background and knowledge of Jewish life against Jews. He was captured and imprisoned.  </p><p>Jewish communities across Europe gathered money. Wealthy individuals stepped forward. It was clear they would do  anything for their leader. </p><p><strong>Would they obey his refusal to be ransomed? </strong></p><p>The Maharam believed that paying such a ransom would place every other Jewish leader in danger. After all, he was the prisoner today - but tomorrow they might take his students. The week after that, they might take the local rabbi, the judge, the teacher. The price on Jewish community leadership would be set by an emperor&#8217;s whim. </p><p>And so, he remained in prison.</p><div><hr></div><h1><strong>Dying In Prison</strong></h1><p>He spent almost 8 years in captivity, but his mind was not imprisoned. Students were, sometimes, permitted to visit.  He continued ruling on questions of law, and communities across Europe still turned to him for guidance. </p><p>Until his death on 19 Iyar 1293.</p><p>The story did not end there. The emperor refused to release his body without payment of the ransom. Anticipating this, the Maharam had written in his will that <strong>no ransom should be paid even after his death</strong>. Once again, the community obeyed him.</p><p>According to tradition, his body remained intact for years. Thirteen years later, after a new emperor rose to power, a Jew named Alexander ben Shlomo Wimpfen<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-16" href="#footnote-16" target="_self">16</a> quietly paid to recover the body. </p><p>He asked nothing in return, except to be buried next to the Maharam. Their graves still stand today in Worms.  It is astonishing that they survived the Nazi occupation.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rhut!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbede903b-6692-4951-a460-fcba61db34f6_800x1130.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rhut!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbede903b-6692-4951-a460-fcba61db34f6_800x1130.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rhut!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbede903b-6692-4951-a460-fcba61db34f6_800x1130.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rhut!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbede903b-6692-4951-a460-fcba61db34f6_800x1130.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rhut!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbede903b-6692-4951-a460-fcba61db34f6_800x1130.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rhut!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbede903b-6692-4951-a460-fcba61db34f6_800x1130.jpeg" width="800" height="1130" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bede903b-6692-4951-a460-fcba61db34f6_800x1130.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1130,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:372099,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/i/176734804?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbede903b-6692-4951-a460-fcba61db34f6_800x1130.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rhut!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbede903b-6692-4951-a460-fcba61db34f6_800x1130.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rhut!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbede903b-6692-4951-a460-fcba61db34f6_800x1130.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rhut!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbede903b-6692-4951-a460-fcba61db34f6_800x1130.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rhut!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbede903b-6692-4951-a460-fcba61db34f6_800x1130.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Shaul Tchernikovsky,  in his poem titled The Two Tombs (from &#8216;Ballads of Worms&#8217;) writes powerfully about this story.  I've excerpted a few lines here.  <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-17" href="#footnote-17" target="_self">17</a></p><blockquote><p>How many and how many have sunk into the grave in the course of generation after generation,</p><p>And between them in the middle &#8211; and this one to that one are close &#8211;</p><p>Two souls of the heart-stone wear out all adornments.<br>It is the measure and the measure, it is the pure tongue:</p><p>The moral monument of Alexander Wimphen, and the moral monument of the Maharam.</p></blockquote><h1><br><strong>Why This Story Matters Now</strong></h1><p>To me, this story is not only about medieval Jews. It echoes a universal  question. What does it mean to value a life? How do communities and leaders make decisions under pressure?  </p><p>And it also makes me reflect on our own times. American Jewish life is open and vibrant. It is also feeling the pressure of a world shifting in unpredictable ways. The situation is nothing like the medieval era. But there are faint echoes, the kind that make thoughtful people pay attention.</p><div class="directMessage button" data-attrs="{&quot;userId&quot;:90196335,&quot;userName&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem&quot;,&quot;canDm&quot;:null,&quot;dmUpgradeOptions&quot;:null,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}" data-component-name="DirectMessageToDOM"></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/the-world-was-created-for-you-no/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/the-world-was-created-for-you-no/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/the-world-was-created-for-you-no?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/the-world-was-created-for-you-no?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em>For further reading,  I strongly recommend <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/eitam-henkin-meir-of-rothenburg">https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/eitam-henkin-meir-of-rothenburg</a></em></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Now Alsace, France.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>This post is based on The Captivity Of The Maharam, published by CIS Publishers in 1990. Author: Shmuel Argaman. Translator: Tzirel Salel. </p><p>I have used this book as a primary source for the details in this post.  Page __ refers to the page number of the information in this book. </p><p>For the date: Page 96 (using induction, as 1285/6 appears in many other sources, but strangely not in this text.)</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>I came across this book thanks to my in-laws, and it immediately drew me in. Readers who enjoy Avner Gold&#8217;s style should find it similarly engaging.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.etzion.org.il/en/halakha/studies-halakha/laws-state-and-society/1286-maharam-rothenburg%E2%80%99s-imprisonment</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2021/03/udhr.pdf</p><p><em>Preamble: Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,</em></p><p><em>Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,</em></p><p><em>Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,</em></p><p><em>Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,</em></p><p><em>Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,</em></p><p><em>Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,</em></p><p><em>Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="#footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Mishna Sanhedrin 4:5, translation by Sefaria. It is discussing a case where witnesses in a Jewish court do not wish to provide testimony in a capital case. https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Sanhedrin.4.5?lang=bi</p><p><em>How does the court intimidate the witnesses in giving testimony for cases of capital law? They would bring the witnesses in and intimidate them by saying to them: Perhaps what you say in your testimony is based on conjecture, or perhaps it is based on a rumor, perhaps it is testimony based on hearsay, e.g., you heard a witness testify to this in a different court, or perhaps it is based on the statement of a trusted person. Perhaps you do not know that ultimately we examine you with inquiry and interrogation, and if you are lying, your lie will be discovered. The court tells them: You should know that cases of capital law are not like cases of monetary law. In cases of monetary law, a person who testifies falsely, causing money to be given to the wrong party, can give the money to the proper owner and his sin is atoned for. In cases of capital law, if one testifies falsely, the blood of the accused and the blood of his offspring that he did not merit to produce are ascribed to the witness&#8217;s testimony until eternity. The proof for this is as we found with Cain, who killed his brother, as it is stated concerning him: &#8220;The voice of your brother&#8217;s blood [demei] cries out to Me from the ground&#8221; (Genesis 4:10). The verse does not state: Your brother&#8217;s blood [dam], in the singular, but rather: &#8220;Your brother&#8217;s blood [demei],&#8221; in the plural. This serves to teach that the loss of both his brother&#8217;s blood and the blood of his brother&#8217;s offspring are ascribed to Cain. The mishna notes: Alternatively, the phrase &#8220;your brother&#8217;s blood [demei],&#8221; written in the plural, teaches that that his blood was not gathered in one place but was splattered on the trees and on the stones. The court tells the witnesses: Therefore, Adam the first man was created alone, to teach you that with regard to anyone who destroys one soul from the Jewish people, the verse ascribes him blame as if he destroyed an entire world, as Adam was one person, from whom the population of an entire world came forth. And conversely, anyone who sustains one soul from the Jewish people, the verse ascribes him credit as if he sustained an entire world. The mishna cites another reason Adam the first man was created alone: And this was done due to the importance of maintaining peace among people, so that one person will not say to another: My father, i.e., progenitor, is greater than your father. And it was also so that the heretics who believe in multiple gods will not say: There are many authorities in Heaven, and each created a different person. And this serves to tell of the greatness of the Holy One, Blessed be He, as when a person stamps several coins with one seal, they are all similar to each other. But the supreme King of kings, the Holy One, Blessed be He, stamped all people with the seal of Adam the first man, as all of them are his offspring, and not one of them is similar to another. Therefore, since all humanity descends from one person, each and every person is obligated to say: The world was created for me, as one person can be the source of all humanity, and recognize the significance of his actions. The court says to the witnesses: And perhaps you will say: Why would we want this trouble? Perhaps it would be better not to testify at all. But be aware, as is it not already stated: &#8220;And he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he does not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity&#8221; (Leviticus 5:1)? It is a transgression not to testify when one can do so. And perhaps you will say: Why would we want to be responsible for the blood of this person? But be aware, as is it not already stated: &#8220;When the wicked perish, there is song&#8221; (Proverbs 11:10)?</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="#footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Ibid.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-8" href="#footnote-anchor-8" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">8</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Ibid.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-9" href="#footnote-anchor-9" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">9</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment about whether someone should pull a lever to stop a runaway trolley from killing five people, if it will then kill only one person. It is frequently referenced by philosopher types, and being aware of it makes me seem more impressive to a certain subgroup of readers. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-10" href="#footnote-anchor-10" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">10</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>The Talmud brings a case to test the theory: A wealthy man named Levi bar Darga once ransomed his daughter for thirteen thousand gold dinars, an astronomically high sum. </p><p>Does this prove that the law is only concerned with communal finances? If so, and he paid privately,  it did not strain &#8220;the community,&#8221; and therefore it should be allowed. </p><p>This might seem justified, but Abaye pushes back. The real issue at hand is  the deterrence problem.How do we know whether Levi bar Darga acted with rabbinic approval? Perhaps he acted <em>against</em> the sages&#8217; wishes! If so, his behavior may have been wrong.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-11" href="#footnote-anchor-11" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">11</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Gittin 45a</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-12" href="#footnote-anchor-12" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">12</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/986709/jewish/Matnot-Aniyim-Chapter-8.htm#lt=primary</p><p><em>10The redemption of captives receives priority over sustaining the poor and providing them with clothing.</em></p><p><em>Indeed, there is no greater mitzvah than the redemption of captives.30 For a captive is among those who are hungry, thirsty, and unclothed and he is in mortal peril.31</em></p><p><em>If someone pays no attention to his redemption, he violates the negative commandments: &#8220;Do not harden your heart or close your hand&#8221; (Deuteronomy 15:7), &#8220;Do not stand by when the blood of your neighbor is in danger&#8221; (Leviticus 19:16), and &#8220;He shall not oppress him with exhausting work in your presence&#8221; (ibid. 25:53). And he has negated the observance of the positive commandments: &#8220;You shall certainly open up your hand to him&#8221; (Deuteronomy 15:8), &#8220;And your brother shall live with you&#8221; (ibid. 19:18), &#8220;Love your neighbor as yourself&#8221; (Leviticus 19:18), &#8220;Save those who are taken for death&#8221; (Proverbs 24:11), and many other decrees of this nature. There is no mitzvah as great as the redemption of captives.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-13" href="#footnote-anchor-13" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">13</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10581-meir-of-rothenburg-meir-b-baruch</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-14" href="#footnote-anchor-14" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">14</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_I_of_Germany</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-15" href="#footnote-anchor-15" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">15</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong>https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10581-meir-of-rothenburg-meir-b-baruch</strong></p><p><em>R. Me&#239;r b. Baruch was about to go abroad with his wife, his daughters, his sons-in-law, and all his family, and had proceeded as far as a city in the mountains of Lombardy, where he intended to stay until all his traveling companions had gathered about him, when suddenly the wicked Bishop of Basel passed through the city on his journey from Rome, accompanied by a baptized Jew named Kneppe [&#1511;&#1504;&#1497;&#1508;&#1508;&#1488;]. The latter recognized Me&#239;r and informed the bishop, who brought it about that the lord of that city, Count Meinhard of G&#246;rz, seized Me&#239;r on the fourth of Tammuz [= June 28], 1286, and delivered him to Emperor Rudolph, who cast him into prison" (marginal glosses to folio 85 of the "Minhagbuch" of Worms, written in 1625, quoted by Lewysohn, "Sechzig Epitaphien," p. 36; comp. also S. Back, "R. Me&#239;r ben Baruch," pp. 62 et seq.). Neither the object of his journey nor the actual reason for the imprisonment is given in any source; but modern historians have attempted various explanations.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-16" href="#footnote-anchor-16" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">16</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>It is unclear what his name actually was, I have seen variations of Wimpfen and Ziskind. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-17" href="#footnote-anchor-17" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">17</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://benyehuda-org.translate.goog/read/7087?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp</p><p>VI. &#1513;&#1473;&#1456;&#1504;&#1461;&#1497; &#1492;&#1463;&#1511;&#1468;&#1456;&#1489;&#1464;&#1512;&#1460;&#1497;&#1501; </p><p>&#1506;&#1463;&#1500; &#1490;&#1468;&#1456;&#1491;&#1493;&#1465;&#1514; 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Derechos Humanos y Vida Humana</strong></h6><h6><strong>2. Fuentes jud&#237;as sobre la humanidad y los seres humanos</strong></h6><h6><strong>3. Tikkun Olam y Ransoms</strong></h6><h6><strong>4. Presentaci&#243;n del Maharam: el rabino Mayer de Rothenberg</strong></h6><h6><strong>5. El Maharam intenta emigrar a Israel</strong></h6><h6><strong>6. Ense&#241;ar desde una celda de prisi&#243;n</strong></h6><h6><strong>7. Shaul Tchernikovsky: Las dos tumbas (Ballads de Worms)</strong></h6><h6><strong>8. Por qu&#233; esta historia importa ahora</strong></h6><h6><strong>9. Para su posterior lectura</strong></h6><h1></h1><p><strong>En 1285</strong>, un importante erudito jud&#237;o y famoso rabino fue encarcelado en Ensisheim, un castillo imperial en territorio germ&#225;nico. En ese momento, los jud&#237;os eran legalmente <em>servi camerae regis</em> (siervos de la c&#225;mara real), y sus cuerpos y movimientos eran tratados como activos fiscales reales. Un rabino de alto perfil le pareci&#243; al rey Rodolfo I un reh&#233;n excepcionalmente valioso, y de hecho, la comunidad jud&#237;a estaba dispuesta a vender cualquier cosa para recaudar el dinero. Sin embargo, el reh&#233;n prohibi&#243; rescatarlo.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a> Esta historia medieval tiene menos carga pol&#237;tica que los ejemplos m&#225;s recientes. Espero que esto me permita pensar en una pregunta fundamental: &#191;<em>Puede toda vida humana ser realmente inestimable</em>?<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qp_k!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cb4fe32-e36d-4bf4-af4e-89930f1d8710_893x924.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h6><em><strong>Texto de la imagen: &#191;Qui&#233;n debe pagar por la asistencia m&#232;dica? &#191;Deber&#237;a haber restricciones a la inmigraci&#243;n y cu&#225;les? &#191;En qu&#233; momento se considera a un ni&#241;o su propio ser humano? Si alguien tiene muerte cerebral, &#191;est&#225; realmente muerto? &#191;Deber&#237;amos exigir cinturones de seguridad o tratarlos como una elecci&#243;n personal?</strong></em></h6><h1><strong>Derechos Humanos y Vida Humana</strong></h1><p>Toda sociedad tiene ideas sobre el valor de una sola vida humana. En el mundo moderno, lo vemos en la creencia de que toda persona tiene derechos humanos inherentes, adoptados por las Naciones Unidas en 1948 como la <em>Declaraci&#243;n Universal de los Derechos Humanos</em>. He copiado el Pre&#225;mbulo en la nota al pie, y les recomiendo que se detengan ahora, miren la nota <em><strong>5</strong></em> y lo lean. Es inspirador y te har&#225; sentir mejor con el mundo.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a></p><p>Af&#233;rrate a esa buena sensaci&#243;n. Sin duda, las Naciones Unidas han defendido sistem&#225;ticamente el principio de la dignidad humana inherente desde que hicieron esta hermosa declaraci&#243;n. &#191;Verdad? Bueno. Estoy tratando de evitar la pol&#237;tica provocativa.</p><p>As&#237; que traten de pensar en un ser humano, cualquiera, que apruebe plenamente las Naciones Unidas en la pr&#225;ctica, y nunca se sienta decepcionado por sus acciones. Para su placer visual, mientras piensa:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kfQ1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82a00fb-1132-4273-a7bb-28738157f09f_1080x1350.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kfQ1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82a00fb-1132-4273-a7bb-28738157f09f_1080x1350.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kfQ1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82a00fb-1132-4273-a7bb-28738157f09f_1080x1350.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kfQ1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82a00fb-1132-4273-a7bb-28738157f09f_1080x1350.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kfQ1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82a00fb-1132-4273-a7bb-28738157f09f_1080x1350.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kfQ1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82a00fb-1132-4273-a7bb-28738157f09f_1080x1350.png" width="1080" height="1350" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b82a00fb-1132-4273-a7bb-28738157f09f_1080x1350.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1350,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1905062,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/i/182367813?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82a00fb-1132-4273-a7bb-28738157f09f_1080x1350.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kfQ1!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82a00fb-1132-4273-a7bb-28738157f09f_1080x1350.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kfQ1!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82a00fb-1132-4273-a7bb-28738157f09f_1080x1350.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kfQ1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82a00fb-1132-4273-a7bb-28738157f09f_1080x1350.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kfQ1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82a00fb-1132-4273-a7bb-28738157f09f_1080x1350.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Es f&#225;cil afirmar que cada ser humano es igualmente importante con gran seriedad. Todo lo que necesitas es dar a conocer declaraciones continuas. &#191;Por qu&#233;, entonces, las Naciones Unidas son incapaces de estar a la altura de sus ideales bellamente redactados? &#191;La importancia de todo ser humano se refleja en la realidad?</p><h1><strong>Fuentes jud&#237;as sobre la humanidad y los seres humanos</strong></h1><p>Las fuentes jud&#237;as son claras: Toda la humanidad es igual ante Di-s. Somos incre&#237;blemente diversos, pero todos somos hijos de Ad&#225;n y Eva.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a> <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="#footnote-7" target="_self">7</a>Ve la imagen de abajo para una hermosa cita:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p87J!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F52be3f3a-4e25-40c3-aaaa-938a26ce1e84_797x832.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Sorprendentemente, esta discusi&#243;n sobre la importancia del hombre surge en el contexto de testigos que <em>no</em> desean testificar en un caso capital. Deben testificar por el bien de la justicia en el mundo.</p><p><em><strong>Y tal vez digan: &#191;Por qu&#233; querr&#237;amos este problema? Quiz&#225;s ser&#237;a mejor no testificar en absoluto. Pero ten cuidado, como se ha dicho ya: &#8220;Y siendo &#233;l testigo, ya sea que lo haya visto o conocido, si no lo pronuncia, entonces llevar&#225; su iniquidad&#8221; (Lev&#237;tico 5:1)? Es una transgresi&#243;n no testificar cu&#225;ndo uno puede hacerlo.</strong></em></p><p>Y m&#225;s all&#225;:<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-8" href="#footnote-8" target="_self">8</a></p><p><em><strong>Y tal vez digan: &#191;Por qu&#233; querr&#237;amos ser responsables de la sangre de esta persona? Pero ten cuidado, como  se ha dicho ya: &#8220;Cu&#225;ndo los malvados perecen, hay canci&#243;n&#8221; (Proverbios 11:10)?</strong></em></p><p>Cu&#225;ndo las personas no castigan el mal, lo perpet&#250;an. Y cu&#225;ndo el mal es castigado, hay &#8220;canci&#243;n&#8221;, armon&#237;a del mundo.</p><p>A todos nos gustan las canciones, pero encontrar la armon&#237;a rara vez es f&#225;cil en la pr&#225;ctica. &#191;Qu&#233; pasar&#237;a si salvar la vida de una persona pudiera poner en peligro a muchas otras, como en el cl&#225;sico problema del tranv&#237;a?<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-9" href="#footnote-9" target="_self">9</a> &#191;Qu&#233; pasa si pagar las facturas de una persona significa que no se pueden pagar 200 facturas m&#225;s peque&#241;as igualmente necesarias para otras personas? &#191;Qu&#233; pasa si honrar a una persona har&#225; que otra se sienta mal?</p><h2><strong>&#8216;Tikkun Olam&#8217; y Ransoms</strong></h2><p>La toma de rehenes y el pago de un rescate es un caso claro de recursos limitados.</p><p>Por un lado, cada ser humano podr&#237;a ser el progenitor del mundo entero. Por lo tanto, cada persona no tiene precio.</p><p>Por otro lado, hay recursos limitados. &#191;Qu&#233; es lo correcto en esta situaci&#243;n?</p><ul><li><p>&#191;Deber&#237;as pagar, debido al principio de que una vida vale un mundo entero?</p></li><li><p>&#191;Deber&#237;a negarse a pagar, ya que esto fomentar&#237;a futuros secuestros?</p></li></ul><p>La fuente m&#225;s antigua de la Ley Oral jud&#237;a, la Mishn&#225;, reconoce sobriamente los verdaderos incentivos humanos. Si salvar una vida causar&#225; previsiblemente m&#225;s secuestros, m&#225;s extorsi&#243;n y m&#225;s peligro en el futuro, entonces no se puede pagar el rescate. Por lo tanto, la conclusi&#243;n es que uno puede pagar s&#243;lo lo que los cautivos podr&#237;an valer en el mercado de esclavos.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-10" href="#footnote-10" target="_self">10</a></p><blockquote><p>Uno no redime a los cautivos por algo m&#225;s que su valor, debido al &#8220;<em>Tikkun olam</em>&#8221; (literalmente, reparar el mundo.) <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-11" href="#footnote-11" target="_self">11</a></p></blockquote><p><em>Tikkun Olam</em> es probablemente m&#225;s familiar para el lector moderno como el concepto de &#8220;arreglar&#8221; el mundo. Tiene un significado m&#225;s estrecho en este texto: la preservaci&#243;n de la estabilidad social.</p><ul><li><p>Consideren la presi&#243;n financiera sobre la comunidad. Si los pagos de rescate son enormes, toda la comunidad se empobrece. La &#8220;reparaci&#243;n&#8221; es la estabilidad econ&#243;mica.</p></li><li><p>Consideremos una estrategia preventiva. Si los secuestradores ven que los jud&#237;os pagan alg&#250;n precio, secuestrar&#225;n a&#250;n m&#225;s jud&#237;os. La &#8220;reparaci&#243;n&#8221; est&#225; protegiendo a la comunidad de convertirse en un mercado de rehenes sin fin.</p></li></ul><p>Maim&#243;nides, el racionalista jud&#237;o original, dice que no hay nada m&#225;s importante que redimir a los cautivos. Un rollo de la Tor&#225; es el objeto m&#225;s importante que una comunidad jud&#237;a puede tener, pero puede vender su posesi&#243;n m&#225;s sagrada para rescatar a un cautivo. Pero, &#191;qu&#233; tal si rescatamos al <em>pr&#243;ximo</em> cautivo?<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-12" href="#footnote-12" target="_self">12</a> </p><h1><strong>Presentaci&#243;n del Maharam: el rabino Mayer de Rothenberg</strong></h1><p>El rabino Mayer ben Baruch de Rothenburg, conocido como el "Maharam", fue una de las primeras autoridades de la juder&#237;a medieval europea. Es uno de los tres rabinos descritos como "<em>La luz del exilio</em>", y sus captores evaluaron correctamente su importancia.</p><p> Un pensador riguroso y escritor prol&#237;fico, el Maharam escribi&#243; casi mil respuestas, que se hicieron a&#250;n m&#225;s famosas e influyentes despu&#233;s de su muerte. Hay un sinf&#237;n de ejemplos, usemos los dos de la Enciclopedia Jud&#237;a.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-13" href="#footnote-13" target="_self">13</a></p><ul><li><p>&#8220;<em>Maldita sea la mujer que tiene marido y no se adorna; y maldita sea la mujer que no tiene marido y se adorna</em>.&#8221; (Responsa, ed. Prague, No. 199).</p></li><li><p>La pregunta de si un abogado pod&#237;a presentar a los tribunales argumentos que estaba convencido eran falsos, respondi&#243; de la siguiente manera: &#8220;<em>Ning&#250;n jud&#237;o puede llegar a ser culpable de un pecado tan ignominioso contra la verdad y la justicia.</em>&#8221; (Responsa, ed. Cremona, No. 246).</p></li></ul><p>En 1273, con el ascenso del emperador romano Rodolfo I de Habsburgo, los jud&#237;os se enfrentaron a una dura persecuci&#243;n. Francia expuls&#243; a sus jud&#237;os. Los jud&#237;os eran culpados por cada crisis local. Muchas comunidades jud&#237;as comenzaron a buscar un lugar para escapar de la persecuci&#243;n.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-14" href="#footnote-14" target="_self">14</a></p><p>Algunos se dirigieron hacia el este, un movimiento que finalmente cre&#243; los centros de la vida jud&#237;a en Polonia y Lituania. Otros se fueron al sur. Y algunos esperaban llegar a la Tierra de Israel, entonces bajo control turco, donde los l&#237;deres locales alentaron abiertamente la inmigraci&#243;n jud&#237;a por sus propias razones.</p><h1><strong>El Maharam intenta emigrar a Israel</strong></h1><p>El Maharam trat&#243; de unirse a los que iban a la Tierra de Israel. En 1285, abandon&#243; tranquilamente Europa, viajando sin fanfarria. Lleg&#243; hasta Lombard&#237;a.</p><p>En el camino, fue reconocido por un hombre llamado Kneppe, que lo hab&#237;a conocido hace muchos a&#241;os. Kneppe era un ap&#243;stata ac&#233;rrimo que usaba sus antecedentes y su conocimiento de la vida jud&#237;a contra los jud&#237;os. Fue capturado y encarcelado.</p><p>Las comunidades jud&#237;as de toda Europa reunieron dinero. Los individuos ricos dieron un paso adelante. Estaba claro que har&#237;an cualquier cosa por su l&#237;der.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-15" href="#footnote-15" target="_self">15</a></p><div><hr></div><h1><strong>Morir en prisi&#243;n</strong></h1><p>Pas&#243; casi 8 a&#241;os en cautiverio, pero su mente no estaba encarcelada. A veces se permit&#237;a visitar a los estudiantes. Continu&#243; dictaminando sobre cuestiones de derecho, y las comunidades de toda Europa segu&#237;an recurriendo a &#233;l en busca de orientaci&#243;n. Hasta su muerte el 19 de enero de 1293.</p><p>El emperador se neg&#243; a liberar su cuerpo sin pagar el rescate. Anticip&#225;ndose a esto, el Maharam hab&#237;a escrito en su testamento que <strong>no se deb&#237;a pagar rescate ni siquiera despu&#233;s de su muerte</strong>. Una vez m&#225;s, la comunidad le obedeci&#243;.</p><p>Seg&#250;n la tradici&#243;n, su cuerpo permaneci&#243; intacto durante a&#241;os. Trece a&#241;os despu&#233;s, despu&#233;s de que un nuevo emperador llegara al poder, un generoso jud&#237;o llamado Alexander ben Shlomo Wimpfen.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-16" href="#footnote-16" target="_self">16</a></p><p>No pidi&#243; nada a cambio, excepto ser enterrado junto al Maharam. Sus tumbas siguen en pie hoy en Worms. Es asombroso que sobrevivieran a la ocupaci&#243;n nazi.</p><p>Shaul Tchernikovsky, en su poema titulado Las dos tumbas (de &#8216;Ballads of Worms&#8217;) escribe poderosamente sobre esta historia. He extra&#237;do algunas l&#237;neas aqu&#237;.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-17" href="#footnote-17" target="_self">17</a></p><blockquote><blockquote><p>Cu&#225;ntos y cu&#225;ntos se han hundido en la tumba en el curso de generaci&#243;n tras generaci&#243;n,</p><p>Y entre ellos en el medio - y &#233;ste a aquel est&#225;n cerca -</p><p>Dos almas de la piedra del coraz&#243;n desgastan todos los adornos.</p><p>Es la medida y la medida, es la lengua pura:</p><p>El monumento moral de Alexander Wimphen y el monumento moral del Maharam.</p></blockquote></blockquote><h1><strong>Por qu&#233; esta historia importa ahora</strong></h1><p>Para m&#237;, esta historia no es solo sobre jud&#237;os medievales. Hace eco de una pregunta universal. &#191;Qu&#233; significa valorar una vida? &#191;C&#243;mo toman las comunidades y los l&#237;deres las decisiones bajo presi&#243;n?</p><p>Y tambi&#233;n me hace reflexionar sobre nuestros propios tiempos. La vida jud&#237;a estadounidense es abierta y vibrante. Tambi&#233;n siente la presi&#243;n de un mundo que cambia de manera impredecible. La situaci&#243;n no se parece en nada a la &#233;poca medieval. Pero hay ecos d&#233;biles, del tipo que hacen que las personas reflexivas presten atenci&#243;n.</p><p></p><p><em>Para m&#225;s lecturas, recomiendo encarecidamente: <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/eitam-henkin-meir-of-rothenburg">https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/eitam-henkin-meir-of-rothenburg</a></em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>13</p><p></p><p>14</p><p></p><p>15</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10581-meir-of-rothenburg-meir-b-baruch">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10581-meir-of-rothenburg-meir-b-baruch</a></strong></p><p><em>R. Me&#239;r b. Baruch was about to go abroad with his wife, his daughters, his sons-in-law, and all his family, and had proceeded as far as a city in the mountains of Lombardy, where he intended to stay until all his traveling companions had gathered about him, when suddenly the wicked Bishop of Basel passed through the city on his journey from Rome, accompanied by a baptized Jew named Kneppe [&#1511;&#1504;&#1497;&#1508;&#1508;&#1488;]. The latter recognized Me&#239;r and informed the bishop, who brought it about that the lord of that city, Count Meinhard of G&#246;rz, seized Me&#239;r on the fourth of Tammuz [= June 28], 1286, and delivered him to Emperor Rudolph, who cast him into prison&#8221; (marginal glosses to folio 85 of the &#8220;Minhagbuch&#8221; of Worms, written in 1625, quoted by Lewysohn, &#8220;Sechzig Epitaphien,&#8221; p. 36; comp. also S. Back, &#8220;R. Me&#239;r ben Baruch,&#8221; pp. 62 et seq.). Neither the object of his journey nor the actual reason for the imprisonment is given in any source; but modern historians have attempted various explanations.</em></p><p>16</p><p>It is unclear what his name actually was, I have seen variations of Wimpfen and Ziskind.</p><p>17</p><p><a href="https://benyehuda-org.translate.goog/read/7087?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp">https://benyehuda-org.translate.goog/read/7087?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp</a></p><p>VI. &#1513;&#1473;&#1456;&#1504;&#1461;&#1497; &#1492;&#1463;&#1511;&#1468;&#1456;&#1489;&#1464;&#1512;&#1460;&#1497;&#1501;</p><p>&#1506;&#1463;&#1500; &#1490;&#1468;&#1456;&#1491;&#1493;&#1465;&#1514; &#1492;&#1464;&#1512;&#1461;&#1497;&#1497;&#1503; &#1489;&#1468;&#1464;&#1506;&#1461;&#1502;&#1462;&#1511;, &#1489;&#1468;&#1456;&#1506;&#1460;&#1497;&#1512; &#1493;&#1460;&#1497;&#1512;&#1456;&#1502;&#1463;&#1497;&#1456;&#1494;&#1464;&#1488;, &#1513;&#1473;&#1464;&#1501;</p><p>&#1502;&#1461;&#1514;&#1460;&#1497;&#1501; 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&#1492;&#1464;&#1512;&#1465;&#1488;&#1513;&#1473;.</p><p>&#1488;&#1460;&#1501; &#1497;&#1461;&#1513;&#1473;, &#1506;&#1493;&#1465;&#1491; &#1497;&#1461;&#1513;&#1473;, &#1489;&#1468;&#1456;&#1511;&#1460;&#1512;&#1456;&#1489;&#1468;&#1461;&#1504;&#1493;&#1468; &#1499;&#1468;&#1463;&#1513;&#1468;&#1473;&#1456;&#1504;&#1463;&#1497;&#1460;&#1501;, &#1499;&#1468;&#1456;&#1502;&#1493;&#1465;&#1514;&#1464;&#1501;,</p><p>&#1500;&#1465;&#1488; &#1508;&#1463;&#1505;&#1468;&#1493;&#1468; &#1502;&#1461;&#1506;&#1463;&#1502;&#1468;&#1461;&#1504;&#1493;&#1468; &#1513;&#1473;&#1456;&#1488;&#1464;&#1512;-&#1512;&#1493;&#1468;&#1495;&#1463; &#1493;&#1456;&#1500;&#1462;&#1489;-&#1514;&#1468;&#1464;&#1501;.</p><p>&#1506;&#1463;&#1491; &#1513;&#1473;&#1462;&#1506;&#1493;&#1465;&#1500;&#1460;&#1497;&#1501; &#1489;&#1468;&#1463;&#1490;&#1468;&#1462;&#1494;&#1463;&#1506; &#1489;&#1468;&#1463;&#1491;&#1468;&#1461;&#1497; &#1488;&#1493;&#1465;&#1504;&#1493;&#1465; &#1493;&#1456;&#1506;&#1464;&#1500;&#1460;&#1497;&#1501;,</p><p>&#1506;&#1493;&#1465;&#1491; &#1497;&#1461;&#1513;&#1473; &#1489;&#1468;&#1456;&#1512;&#1464;&#1499;&#1464;&#1492; &#1489;&#1468;&#1463;&#1499;&#1468;&#1464;&#1512;&#1462;&#1501;, &#1506;&#1493;&#1465;&#1491; &#1497;&#1463;&#1506;&#1463;&#1513;&#1474; &#1492;&#1460;&#1500;&#1468;&#1493;&#1468;&#1500;&#1460;&#1497;&#1501;.</p><p>&#1514;&#1500;-&#1488;&#1489;&#1497;&#1489;, 27.3.42</p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Ahora Alsacia, Francia.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Este post est&#225; basado en The Captivity Of The Maharam, publicado por CIS Publishers en 1990. Autor: Shmuel Argaman. Traductor: Tzirel Salel.</p><p>He utilizado este libro como fuente primaria para conocer los detalles de este post. La p&#225;gina ___ se refiere al n&#250;mero de p&#225;gina de la informaci&#243;n de este libro.</p><p>Para la fecha: P&#225;gina 96 (usando la inducci&#243;n, ya que 1285/6 aparece en muchas otras fuentes, pero extra&#241;amente no en este texto.)</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Me encontr&#233; con este libro gracias a mis suegros, y de inmediato me atrajo. Los lectores que disfrutan del estilo de Avner Gold deber&#237;an encontrarlo igualmente atractivo.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.etzion.org.il/en/halakha/studies-halakha/laws-state-and-society/1286-maharam-rothenburg%E2%80%99s-imprisonment</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2021/03/udhr.pdf</p><p>Pre&#225;mbulo: Considerando que el reconocimiento de la dignidad inherente y de los derechos iguales e inalienables de todos los miembros de la familia humana es el fundamento de la libertad, la justicia y la paz en el mundo,</p><p>Considerando que el desprecio y el desprecio por los derechos humanos han dado lugar a actos b&#225;rbaros que han indignado la conciencia de la humanidad, y que el advenimiento de un mundo en el que los seres humanos gozar&#225;n de libertad de expresi&#243;n y de creencias y de libertad de miedo y necesidad ha sido proclamado como la m&#225;s alta aspiraci&#243;n de la gente com&#250;n,</p><p>Considerando que es esencial, para que el hombre no se vea obligado a recurrir, como &#250;ltimo recurso, a la rebeli&#243;n contra la tiran&#237;a y la opresi&#243;n, que los derechos humanos est&#233;n protegidos por el Estado de Derecho,</p><p>Considerando que es esencial promover el desarrollo de relaciones amistosas entre las naciones,</p><p>Considerando que los pueblos de las Naciones Unidas han reafirmado en la Carta su fe en los derechos humanos fundamentales, en la dignidad y el valor de la persona humana y en la igualdad de derechos entre hombres y mujeres, y han decidido promover el progreso social y un mejor nivel de vida con mayor libertad,</p><p>Considerando que los Estados miembros se han comprometido a lograr, en cooperaci&#243;n con las Naciones Unidas, la promoci&#243;n del respeto y la observancia universales de los derechos humanos y las libertades fundamentales,</p><p>Considerando que una comprensi&#243;n com&#250;n de estos derechos y libertades es de la mayor importancia para la plena realizaci&#243;n de este compromiso</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="#footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Mishn&#225; Sanedr&#237;n 4:5, traducci&#243;n de Sefaria. Se trata de un caso en el que los testigos de un tribunal jud&#237;o no desean dar testimonio en un caso capital. https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Sanhedrin.4.5?lang=bi</p><p><em>&#191;C&#243;mo intimida el tribunal a los testigos para que testifiquen casos de derecho capital? Tra&#237;an a los testigos y los intimidaban dici&#233;ndoles: Tal vez lo que dices en tu testimonio se base en conjeturas, o tal vez se base en un rumor, tal vez sea un testimonio basado en rumores, por ejemplo, escuchaste a un testigo testificar sobre esto en un tribunal diferente, o tal vez se base en la declaraci&#243;n de una persona de confianza. Quiz&#225;s no sepas que, en &#250;ltima instancia, te examinamos con investigaci&#243;n e interrogatorio, y si est&#225;s mintiendo, tu mentira ser&#225; descubierta. </em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="#footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Ibid. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-8" href="#footnote-anchor-8" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">8</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Ibid.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-9" href="#footnote-anchor-9" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">9</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>El problema del tranv&#237;a es un experimento mental sobre si alguien debe tirar de una palanca para evitar que un tranv&#237;a fugitivo mate a cinco personas, si luego mata a una sola persona. Con frecuencia es referenciado por tipos fil&#243;sofos, y ser consciente de ello me hace parecer m&#225;s impresionante para un determinado subgrupo de lectores.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-10" href="#footnote-anchor-10" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">10</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>El Talmud trae un caso para probar la teor&#237;a: un hombre rico llamado Levi bar Darga una vez rescat&#243; a su hija por trece mil dinares de oro, una suma astron&#243;micamente alta.</p><p>&#191;Esto demuestra que la ley s&#243;lo se ocupa de las finanzas comunales? Si es as&#237;, y &#233;l pagaba en privado, no forzaba a "la comunidad", y por lo tanto deb&#237;a permitirse.</p><p>Esto puede parecer justificado, pero Abaye retrocede. El verdadero problema que nos ocupa es el problema de la disuasi&#243;n. &#191;C&#243;mo sabemos si Levi bar Darga actu&#243; con aprobaci&#243;n rab&#237;nica? &#161;Quiz&#225;s actu&#243; en <em>contra</em> de los deseos de los sabios! Si es as&#237;, su comportamiento puede haber sido err&#243;neo.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-11" href="#footnote-anchor-11" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">11</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Gittin 45a</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-12" href="#footnote-anchor-12" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">12</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/986709/jewish/Matnot-Aniyim-Chapter-8.htm#lt=primary</p><p>10 La redenci&#243;n de los cautivos tiene prioridad sobre el sostenimiento de los pobres y el vestido.</p><p>Ciertamente, no hay mayor mitzv&#225; que la redenci&#243;n de los cautivos.30 Porque un cautivo est&#225; entre los que tienen hambre, sed y est&#225;n desnudos, y &#233;l est&#225; en peligro mortal.31</p><p>Si alguien no presta atenci&#243;n a su redenci&#243;n, viola los mandamientos negativos: "No endurezcas tu coraz&#243;n ni cierres tu mano" (Deuteronomio 15:7), "No te quedes mirando cu&#225;ndo la sangre de tu pr&#243;jimo est&#233; en peligro" (Lev&#237;tico 19:16), y "No lo oprimir&#225; con un trabajo agotador en tu presencia" (ibid. 25:53). </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-13" href="#footnote-anchor-13" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">13</a><div class="footnote-content"><p> https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10581-meir-of-rothenburg-meir-b-baruch</p><p></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-14" href="#footnote-anchor-14" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">14</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_I_of_Germany</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-15" href="#footnote-anchor-15" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">15</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10581-meir-of-rothenburg-meir-b-baruch</p><p></p><p>R. Me&#239;r b. Baruch estaba a punto de ir al extranjero con su esposa, sus hijas, sus yernos y toda su familia, y hab&#237;a llegado hasta una ciudad en las monta&#241;as de Lombard&#237;a, donde ten&#237;a la intenci&#243;n de permanecer hasta que todos sus compa&#241;eros de viaje se hubieran reunido a su alrededor, cuando de repente el malvado obispo de Basilea pas&#243; por la ciudad en su viaje desde Roma, acompa&#241;ado por un jud&#237;o bautizado llamado Kneppe. Este &#250;ltimo reconoci&#243; a Me&#239;r e inform&#243; al obispo, quien lo llev&#243; a cabo, que el se&#241;or de esa ciudad, el conde Meinhard de G&#246;rz, se apoder&#243; de Me&#239;r el cuarto de Tamuz [= 28 de junio de 1286], y lo entreg&#243; al emperador Rodolfo, quien lo ech&#243; en prisi&#243;n" (glosas marginales al folio 85 del "Minhagbuch" de Worms, escrito en 1625, citado por Lewysohn, "Sechzig Epitaphien", p. 36; tambi&#233;n S. Back, "R. Me&#239;r ben Baruch", pp. 62 et seq.). Ni el objeto de su viaje ni la raz&#243;n real del encarcelamiento se dan en ninguna fuente; pero los historiadores modernos han intentado varias explicaciones.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-16" href="#footnote-anchor-16" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">16</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>No est&#225; claro cu&#225;l era su nombre en realidad, he visto variaciones de Wimpfen y Ziskind.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-17" href="#footnote-anchor-17" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">17</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://benyehuda-org.translate.goog/read/7087?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp</p><p></p><p>VI. &#1513;&#1473;&#1456;&#1504;&#1461;&#1497; &#1492;</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jews, Make It Snow!]]></title><description><![CDATA[My children recently decided that I can make it snow by snapping my fingers.]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/jews-make-it-snow</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/jews-make-it-snow</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Isha Yiras Hashem]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:17:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2eoz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27eb2cd1-a839-4cd8-941f-4a7f10832b47_812x973.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;10b29603-3b7f-4e73-a3eb-27b001de3c28&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Mis hijos decidieron recientemente que pod&#237;a hacer que nevase chasqueando los dedos.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&#161;Jud&#237;os, Hazlo Nieve!&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-21T00:16:34.515Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LCHN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe6c351aa-8e1c-42d4-beda-c11fe464dcc1_1080x1350.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/judios-hazlo-nieve&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem en Espa&#241;ol &quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:182041856,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:0,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:997685,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem at Substack &quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oDFS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68f6200c-44a2-4168-8254-5cbbbd9800b4_1200x1200.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>My children recently decided that I can make it snow by snapping my fingers.</p><p>This has resulted in a <strong>lot</strong> of begging for me to snap my fingers so it will snow. A desperate search for  parenting books on the topic revealed not a single book on Amazon titled, &#8220;<strong>What To Do If Your Children Think You Can Control The Weather</strong><em>.</em>&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2eoz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27eb2cd1-a839-4cd8-941f-4a7f10832b47_812x973.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2eoz!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27eb2cd1-a839-4cd8-941f-4a7f10832b47_812x973.jpeg 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>To those of you who knew me in childhood, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for what you had to put up with. I'm sorry! </em></p><p>And to those of you who did <em>not</em> know me in childhood, please note that this issue is already addressed in Psalms 148:8. </p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#1488;&#1461;&#1513;&#1473; &#1493;&#1468;&#1489;&#1464;&#1512;&#1464;&#1491; &#1513;&#1462;&#1473;&#1500;&#1462;&#1490; &#1493;&#1456;&#1511;&#1460;&#1497;&#1496;&#1493;&#1465;&#1512; &#1512;&#1493;&#1468;&#1495;&#1463; &#1505;&#1456;&#1506;&#1464;&#1512;&#1464;&#1492; &#1506;&#1465;&#1513;&#1464;&#1474;&#1492; &#1491;&#1456;&#1489;&#1464;&#1512;&#1493;&#1465;.</p><p>Fire and hail, snow and vapor, a storm wind: performing His word. </p></div><p><em>Dear Reader: I beg of you, pretty please take my word for this.  I am very, very, VERY certain that snapping my fingers does not make it snow, and also fairly confident that my kids have never heard of this particular brand of antisemitic conspiracy and are simply doing theological-philosophical-physics experiments. On their mother. </em></p><p>I once heard about a rule that goes something like this:  if you can  imagine it, it already exists on the internet. Not so.</p><p>  In fact, until now, not a single post on the internet mentioned someone with this specific parenting challenge. But from searching the topic, it  seems that  Jewish people deal with accusations of controlling things a lot, including the weather, though typically from conspiracy  theorists and not their own children.</p><p>Don't you think that,  if I could control anything in the world, anything at all, I would start with <s>myself</s> my children! </p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>My Failed Attempts at Reason</strong></h2><p>These are the responses I tried first:</p><p><strong>1.</strong> &#8220;<em>This is ridiculous. I am not engaging with this. You know I have no control over the weather. I refuse to snap my fingers for you</em>.&#8221;<br><strong>Response:</strong> &#8220;Please mommy please! We really want snow!&#8221;</p><p><strong>2.</strong> &#8220;<em>This is ridiculous. Look, I&#8217;ll snap my fingers. No snow</em>.&#8221;<br><strong>Response:</strong> &#8220;Thanks mommy! I think I see a snow cloud! Can you do it again to make the snow come faster?&#8221;</p><p><strong>3.</strong> &#8220;<em>Only G-d controls the world</em>.&#8221;<br><strong>Response:</strong> &#8220;Yes, and if you snap your fingers He will make it snow!&#8221;</p><p>At this point, I realized that logic was not going to save me. If anything, it seemed to make them even more confident in their theory that I was the Secret Snowoman of Boston.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><h2>At Least It Isn't Game Theory</h2><p>I should note that this entire mommy-makes-snow era is actually an improvement from the recent  <strong>&#8220;</strong><em>If you don&#8217;t hit me, you are a fish/cow&#8221; </em>era<em>. </em>That  finally ended when a very kind reader of this blog (thank you, RA!<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>) wisely suggested that perhaps we should get them a book on game theory, since they were inventing their own games anyway.</p><p>This was a really good idea. I  recommend consulting readers of this blog for parenting advice, as I do. Thanks in advance!</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>On Amazon, I found a book called <strong>&#8220;How (Not) to Win at Games: A Child&#8217;s First Book of Game Theory.&#8221;</strong><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a> It is written by Bin Hu, a professor of Game Theory, <em>and his seven-year-old daughter</em>, and it went over very well with our children.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a>  So I owe Bin Hu and company many thanks for helping my children transition from physically intense forms of intellectual mischief to <em>less</em> physically intense forms of intellectual mischief. And since this book has now shaped our household culture, I will say a few more words about it.</p><p>First, I really like the title: <strong>How </strong><em><strong>Not</strong></em><strong> to Win at Games.</strong> Everyone is fine being the winner. But how do you NOT win and refrain from throwing a tantrum? </p><p>Unlike most parenting books, this one guides the young reader through three classic game theory scenarios, using language appropriate for children who have not yet developed a theory of mind but <em>have</em> developed an advanced theory of fairness. The common theme is that when people try very hard to beat other people at games, they end up in a worse position as a group.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a> </p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Why Weather Books Won&#8217;t Save Me</strong></h2><p>I would like to think we could solve this with a bunch of books about weather. We cannot. They already have many books about weather. Mostly they are interested in severe weather and ball lightning.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a></p><p>My instinct is that this whole mommy-snapping-makes-snow debate is really asking a religious question:</p><p><em>&#8220;Maybe G-d controls the world through natural cycles by creating snow when you snap your fingers. How do we know that is <strong>not</strong> true?&#8221;</em></p><p>And I don&#8217;t really know how to answer that question.</p><p>I believe that G-d absolutely can do anything. But, of course,   He does not treat miracles like a vending machine. When He performs miracles, they are purposeful, directional, and attached to something spiritually meaningful. Not because some small children in Boston are bored and want to build a snowman before lunch. The idea that G-d just tosses out weather events on demand doesn&#8217;t match anything we actually believe about how He runs the world.</p><p>Inversely, they are forcing me to prove that G-d <em>doesn&#8217;t</em> make it snow when I snap my fingers. And I sort of see the logic. If G-d tells Moses to put out a stick and split the sea, why can&#8217;t their mother snap her fingers to make it snow?</p><p>If I say that one shouldn&#8217;t demand something from G-d on a whim, they would counter that, if it is important to <em>them</em>, G-d will care about it.</p><p>I'm not quite ready to face this. </p><p>One way to avoid the theological question is to sidestep the issue entirely by performing scientific  experiments. <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="#footnote-7" target="_self">7</a> Every time the children  ask me to snap my fingers, we can mark down  on a chart that it doesn&#8217;t snow immediately. </p><p> ScientistIYH would point to the data, snap my fingers again, and add another failed point to the data. I did not end up making a fancy chart, but I was very careful <em>not</em> to snap my fingers when my husband  told me that snow was predicted.  Thus, so far, snapping my fingers has <em>never</em> resulted in snow.</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Occasionalism, Or, Childish Weather Problems</strong></h2><p>They weren't  really asking about snow,  but about causality. What causes snow? </p><p>This all reminded me of something else entirely, the concept of occasionalism. This is a medieval Islamic school of thought  that entirely denies physical laws: gravity doesn&#8217;t exist; G-d simply moves things downward. </p><p>To my understanding, one simplified version of occasionalism makes a mistake similar to something I sometimes see in popular science explanations: thinking we can break everything down and identify what it <em>is.</em><br>But instead of breaking it down with forces and particles, occasionalism goes: <strong>&#8220;</strong>G-d<strong>.&#8221;</strong></p><p>I am against this because I do not think we can understand the world to that level at all. G-d cannot be understood by humans, but nature,  to some extent, can be understood. </p><p>So the better answer is: <strong>I do not know. What can I figure out?</strong></p><p>And this is where my children unintentionally wandered into medieval Islamic philosophy: the belief that <em>my</em> tiny action - snapping my fingers - is the true cause of the snow. This makes nature merely the backdrop for G-d&#8217;s personal accommodation of <em>their</em> requests. </p><p>A cute thought, but not my religion.</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Where This Leaves Me</strong></h2><p>So now I am considering two simultaneous goals:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Stop my children from insisting I control snowfall with finger snaps.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>Answer the genuinely interesting the theological and scientific questions they are also asking.</strong></p></li></ol><p>At the end of the day, I want them to keep asking  questions, but maybe fewer that involve me personally being responsible for the weather. And if someday they do discover that I have supernatural powers, I hope they remember that I am a woman who fears G-d, and will use them only as G-d wants me to. </p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Behind every snowman, there's  a snowoman.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>RA, I did not name you because you did not respond to my email asking if you were okay with it.  </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Win-Games-Childs/dp/B0B8BRNH2V</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Particularly the thumb-pinky game, which has now been played several hundred times.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Some adults may also need this book.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="#footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>We once went to a butterfly garden, which was viewed as a mean thing for parents to do to their children, as butterflies are boring. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="#footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Thanks SS, S for contributing ideas. </p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[¡Judíos, Hagan Que Nieve!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mis hijos decidieron recientemente que yo pod&#237;a hacer que nevase chasqueando los dedos.]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/judios-hazlo-nieve</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/judios-hazlo-nieve</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:16:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LCHN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe6c351aa-8e1c-42d4-beda-c11fe464dcc1_1080x1350.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mis hijos decidieron recientemente que yo pod&#237;a hacer que nevase chasqueando los dedos.</p><p>Esto ha dado lugar a una gran cantidad de ruegos que chasquee los dedos para que neve. Una b&#250;squeda desesperada de libros para padres sobre el tema no revel&#243; ni un solo libro en Amazon titulado &#8220;<em>Qu&#233; hacer si tus hijos piensan que puedes controlar el clima</em>&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LCHN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe6c351aa-8e1c-42d4-beda-c11fe464dcc1_1080x1350.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LCHN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe6c351aa-8e1c-42d4-beda-c11fe464dcc1_1080x1350.png 424w, 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&#1505;&#1456;&#1506;&#1464;&#1512;&#1464;&#1492; &#1506;&#1465;&#1513;&#1464;&#1474;&#1492; &#1491;&#1456;&#1489;&#1464;&#1512;&#1493;&#1465;.</p><p>Fuego y granizo, nieve y vapor, un viento de tormenta: cumpliendo Su palabra.</p></div><p><em>Estimado lector: Le ruego que tome mi palabra por una sola cosa. Estoy muy, muy, MUY segura de que chasquear los dedos no hace que nieve, y tambi&#233;n estoy bastante segura de que mis hijos nunca han o&#237;do hablar de esta marca particular de conspiraci&#243;n antisemita y simplemente est&#225;n haciendo experimentos teol&#243;gico-filos&#243;ficos-f&#237;sicos. sobre su madre.</em></p><p>Una vez escuch&#233; sobre una regla que dice algo as&#237;: si pueden imaginarla, ya existe en Internet. No es as&#237;.</p><p>De hecho, hasta ahora, ni un solo post en Internet mencionaba a alguien con este desaf&#237;o espec&#237;fico de crianza. Pero al buscar el tema, parece que los jud&#237;os lidian con acusaciones de controlar mucho las cosas, incluido el clima, aunque t&#237;picamente de te&#243;ricos de la conspiraci&#243;n y no de sus propios hijos.</p><p>Pi&#233;nsenlo: si pudiera controlar cualquier cosa en el mundo, cualquier cosa, &#161;empezar&#237;a por m&#237; misma, mis hijos!</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Mis Intentos Fallidos de Razonamiento</strong></h2><p>Estas son las respuestas que intent&#233; primero:</p><p><strong>1.</strong> &#8220;<em>Esto es rid&#237;culo. No estoy comprometida con esto. Saben que no tengo control sobre el clima. Me niego a chasquear los dedos por ti.&#8221;</em><br><strong>Respuesta:</strong> &#8220;&#161;Por favor, mam&#225;, por favor! &#161;Queremos nieve de verdad!&#8221;</p><p><strong>2.</strong> &#8220;<em>Esto es rid&#237;culo. Mira, chasquear&#233; los dedos. No hay nieve</em>.&#8221;<br><strong>Respuesta:</strong> &#8220;&#161;Gracias mami! Creo que veo una nube de nieve. &#191;Puedes hacerlo de nuevo para que la nieve llegue m&#225;s r&#225;pido?&#8221;</p><p><strong>3.</strong> &#8220;<em>S&#243;lo Di-s controla el mundo.</em>&#8221;<br><strong>Respuesta:</strong> &#8220;S&#237;, y si chasqueas los dedos, &#201;l lo har&#225; nevar.&#8221;</p><p>En este punto, me di cuenta de que la l&#243;gica no me iba a salvar. En todo caso, parec&#237;a darles a&#250;n m&#225;s confianza en su teor&#237;a de que yo era el mu&#241;eco de nieve secreto de Boston.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><h2>Al Menos No Es Teor&#237;a de Juegos</h2><p>Debo se&#241;alar que toda esta era de las mam&#225;s hace nieves es en realidad una mejora con respecto a la reciente era de &#8220;<em>Si no me golpeas, eres un pez/vaca</em>&#8221;. Eso finalmente termin&#243; cuando un lector muy amable de este blog (gracias, RA!) sabiamente sugiri&#243; que tal vez deber&#237;amos conseguirles un libro sobre teor&#237;a de juegos, ya que de todos modos estaban inventando sus propios juegos.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></p><p>Fue una idea realmente buena. Recomiendo consultar a los lectores de este blog para que los aconsejen sobre la crianza.</p><p>En Amazon, encontr&#233; un libro llamado &#8220;<strong>C&#243;mo (no) ganar en los juegos: el primer libro de teor&#237;a de juegos de un ni&#241;o</strong><em>&#8221;</em>. Est&#225; escrito por Bin Hu, profesor de Teor&#237;a de Juegos, <em>y su hija de siete a&#241;os</em>, y le fue muy bien a nuestros hijos. As&#237; que le debo a Bin Hu y a la compa&#241;&#237;a muchas gracias por ayudar a mis hijos a pasar de formas f&#237;sicamente intensas de travesura intelectual a formas <em>menos</em> intensas f&#237;sicamente de travesura intelectual. Y dado que este libro ha dado forma a nuestra cultura familiar, dir&#233; algunas palabras m&#225;s al respecto.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a>  </p><p>Primero, me gusta mucho el t&#237;tulo: <strong>C&#243;mo </strong><em><strong>no</strong></em><strong> ganar en los juegos. </strong>Todo el mundo est&#225; bien siendo el ganador. Pero, &#191;c&#243;mo NO ganar y abstenerse de hacer una rabieta?</p><p>A diferencia de la mayor&#237;a de los libros para padres, este gu&#237;a al joven lector a trav&#233;s de tres escenarios cl&#225;sicos de teor&#237;a de juegos, utilizando un lenguaje apropiado para ni&#241;os que a&#250;n no han desarrollado una teor&#237;a de la mente pero que han desarrollado una teor&#237;a avanzada de la equidad. El tema com&#250;n es que cuando las personas se esfuerzan mucho por vencer a otras personas en los juegos, terminan en una peor posici&#243;n como grupo.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a> </p><div><hr></div><h2><strong> Por Qu&#233; Los Libros Meteorol&#243;gicos No Me Salvar&#225;n </strong></h2><p>Me gustar&#237;a pensar que podr&#237;amos resolver esto con un mont&#243;n de libros sobre el clima. No podemos. Ya tienen muchos libros sobre el clima. En su mayor&#237;a est&#225;n interesados en el clima severo y los rayos globulares.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a></p><p>Mi instinto es que todo este debate sobre mami-chasquea-productora de nieve realmente est&#225; haciendo una pregunta religiosa:</p><p><em>&#8220;Tal vez Di-s controla el mundo a trav&#233;s de ciclos naturales creando nieve cuando chasqueas los dedos. &#191;C&#243;mo sabemos que eso <strong>no</strong> es cierto?&#8221;</em></p><p>Y realmente no s&#233; c&#243;mo responder a esa pregunta.</p><p>Creo que Di-s absolutamente puede hacer cualquier cosa. Pero, por supuesto, &#201;l no trata los milagros como una m&#225;quina expendedora. Cuando &#201;l hace milagros, tienen un prop&#243;sito, son direccionales y est&#225;n apegados a algo espiritualmente significativo. No porque algunos ni&#241;os peque&#241;os en Boston est&#233;n aburridos y quieran construir un mu&#241;eco de nieve antes del almuerzo. La idea de que Di-s simplemente lanza los fen&#243;menos meteorol&#243;gicos a pedido no coincide con nada que realmente creamos sobre c&#243;mo &#201;l dirige el mundo.</p><p>Inversamente, me est&#225;n obligando a demostrar que Di-s <em>no</em> hace que nieve cuando chasqueo los dedos. Y veo la l&#243;gica. Si Di-s le dice a Mois&#233;s que saque un palo y parta el mar, &#191;por qu&#233; su madre no puede chasquear los dedos para que nieve?Si digo que uno no deber&#237;a exigir algo de Di-s por capricho, lo contrarrestar&#237;an, si es importante para <em>ellos</em>, Di-s se preocupar&#225; por ello.</p><p>No estoy del todo preparada para enfrentar esto.</p><p>Una forma de evitar la cuesti&#243;n teol&#243;gica es eludir el tema por completo realizando experimentos cient&#237;ficos. Cada vez que los ni&#241;os me piden que chasquee los dedos, podemos marcar en una tabla que no nieva inmediatamente. Hasta ahora, chasquear los dedos <em>nunca</em> ha resultado en nieve. <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a> </p><p>La cient&#237;fica IYH se&#241;alar&#237;a los datos, volv&#237;a a chasquear los dedos y a a&#241;adir otro punto fallido a los datos. No termin&#233; haciendo una tabla elegante, pero tuve mucho cuidado de no chasquear los dedos cuando se predijo la nieve.</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Ocasionalismo, O Problemas Clim&#225;ticos Infantiles</strong></h2><p>Realmente no preguntaban por la nieve, sino por la causalidad. &#191;Qu&#233; causa la nieve?</p><p>Todo esto me record&#243; algo completamente distinto, el concepto de ocasionalismo. Esta es una escuela medieval isl&#225;mica de pensamiento que niega por completo las leyes f&#237;sicas: la gravedad no existe; Di-s simplemente mueve las cosas hacia abajo.</p><p>A mi entender, una versi&#243;n simplificada del ocasionalismo comete un error similar a algo que a veces veo en las explicaciones de la ciencia popular: pensar que podemos desglosar todo e identificar qu&#233; es.</p><p>Pero en lugar de descomponerlo con fuerzas y part&#237;culas, el ocasionalismo dice: &#8220;Di-s&#8221;.</p><p>Estoy en contra de esto porque no creo que podamos entender el mundo a ese nivel en absoluto. Di-s no puede ser entendido por los humanos, pero la naturaleza, hasta cierto punto, puede ser comprendida.</p><p>As&#237; que la mejor respuesta es: <strong>no s&#233;. &#191;Qu&#233; puedo averiguar? </strong></p><p>Y aqu&#237; es donde mis hijos vagaron involuntariamente hacia la filosof&#237;a medieval: la creencia de que mi peque&#241;a acci&#243;n - chasquear los dedos - es la verdadera causa de la nieve. Esto hace que la naturaleza no sea m&#225;s que el tel&#243;n de fondo para la adaptaci&#243;n personal de Di-s a <em>sus</em> peticiones.</p><p>Un pensamiento lindo, pero no mi religi&#243;n.</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Donde Esto Me Deja</strong></h2><p>As&#237; que ahora estoy considerando dos objetivos simult&#225;neos:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Evitar que mis hijos insistan en que controle las nevadas con chasquidos de dedos.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>Responder a las preguntas teol&#243;gicas y cient&#237;ficas genuinamente interesantes que tambi&#233;n est&#225;n haciendo. </strong></p></li></ol><p>Al final del d&#237;a, quiero que sigan haciendo preguntas, pero tal vez menos que me impliquen personalmente de ser responsable del clima. Y si alg&#250;n d&#237;a descubren que tengo poderes sobrenaturales, espero que recuerden que soy una mujer que teme a Di-s, y los usar&#233; solo como Di-s quiere.</p><p>Y no importa lo que haga, seg&#250;n mis hijos, siempre ser&#225; mi culpa.</p><p></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Detr&#225;s de cada mu&#241;eco de nieve, hay un mu&#241;eca de nieve.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>RA, no te nombr&#233; porque no respondiste a mi correo electr&#243;nico preguntando si estabas bien.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Particularmente el juego con el pulgar rosa, que ahora se ha jugado varios cientos de veces.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Algunos adultos tambi&#233;n pueden necesitar este libro.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Una vez fuimos a un jard&#237;n de mariposas, que era visto como algo malo para los padres a sus hijos, ya que las mariposas son aburridas.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="#footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>&#161;Gracias SS</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembering my step-grandmother, 'Aunt Elizabeth']]></title><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Krukowski OBM]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/elizabethkrukowskiebglish</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/elizabethkrukowskiebglish</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Isha Yiras Hashem]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:48:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w9oa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F973417fa-ac52-488c-97c2-26064055dd29_750x1170.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;0c3b386b-9ac3-4e98-81ae-f68c5d68b9ec&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Nota: No se dicen elogios sobre Januc&#225;. Por eso publico hoy, aunque el aniversario de su muerte ser&#225; el 18 de diciembre.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Recordando a mi abuelastro, 'At Elizabeth'.&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-14T00:46:47.272Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w9oa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F973417fa-ac52-488c-97c2-26064055dd29_750x1170.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/recordando-a-mi-abuelastro-at-elizabeth&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem en Espa&#241;ol &quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:181550177,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:0,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:997685,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem at Substack &quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oDFS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68f6200c-44a2-4168-8254-5cbbbd9800b4_1200x1200.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p><em>Note: Eulogies are not said on Hanukkah. This is why I am posting today, even though the the anniversary of her death will be on December 18.</em></p><p>In the past,  I posted the <strong><a href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/aunt-elizabeth-krukowski?r=1hp7xr">eulogy for Elizabeth Krukowski</a></strong>. That piece focused on who she was during her life. This year, let us talk about her  impact on my life <em>after</em> her passing. The lesson is clear, but it took me decades to fully see it: Life is short, and you never know which interaction will matter. </p><p>&#8216;Aunt Elizabeth&#8221; was not an aunt at all, but rather our step-grandmother, as my grandmother passed away while I was a baby. My best guess is that at one point,  she wanted to be called by her first name, which my parents would have viewed as not respectful of our elders, and this was the compromise.  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w9oa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F973417fa-ac52-488c-97c2-26064055dd29_750x1170.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w9oa!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F973417fa-ac52-488c-97c2-26064055dd29_750x1170.jpeg 424w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>She was a retired literature professor from Miami University,<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> and I was a child who loved to read. She was endlessly and generously patient with a strange little girl who asked too many questions and wouldn't stop thinking  aloud. </p><p>I do not remember her ever criticizing me. I also do not  remember most of what we talked about. </p><p>But I <em>do</em> remember one moment quite clearly.</p><p> During a conversation,  she started to cry, saying, &#8220;Please remember me, please don&#8217;t forget about me, promise to remember me!&#8221; She had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. </p><p>This was a strange request, and it hit me hard.  I was an overly intense, always in trouble, unsatisfactory elementary school student. </p><p>Why turn to me?  And if I remembered her, would it  matter? Surely there were many more important people to remember  her? </p><p>I was too young to understand the urgency, the fear, and the nakedness in that plea.</p><div><hr></div><p>Please watch the song <em>Tick Tock / Al Tomar </em>by Country Yossi. The song draws on <em>Pirkei Avot</em> (Ethics of the Fathers). <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>  </p><div id="youtube2-5RuqQRF-BDk" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;5RuqQRF-BDk&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/5RuqQRF-BDk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>TICK TOCK/AL TOMAR-  Country Yossi</strong></p><p>Tick tock, tick tock, </p><p>time is passing by,</p><p>Yesterday we said hello, </p><p>and soon we&#8217;ll say goodbye.</p><p>Tick tock, tick tock, </p><p>life soon fades away,</p><p>And all that&#8217;s left are memories, </p><p>And then the Judgement Day.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Aunt Elizabeth passed away on 6 Teves, December 18, 2004. My sisters and I stayed up as late as we could, reciting Psalms in her memory. We all attended the funeral. I cried, because I didn't see anyone else crying at the funeral, and there should be someone crying for the dead person at a funeral. </p><p>And then, as children do, I forgot.</p><p>Or at least, I thought I forgot.</p><p>Years later, old memories surfaced from wherever I had buried them. Slowly, I began to realize how much of myself had been shaped by one woman who feared she would disappear.</p><p>It was Aunt Elizabeth who taught me that remembering someone is a form of justice. </p><p>It was <em>her</em> voice that made me instinctively recoil from cruelty, racism, and supremacy. </p><p>It was <em>her</em> example that made me notice and care about the dignity of strangers.</p><p> And it was <em>her</em> influence, silent but persistent, that surfaced in so many decisions I made without understanding why.</p><p>When I was rejected from almost every high school I applied to, I didn&#8217;t have the self-awareness to connect my  behavior to grief. But when an interviewer asked where my grandparents lived, I answered, without thinking, &#8220;In the cemetery.&#8221; I had living grandparents whom I loved,  but I was still grieving.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a></p><p>When my cousin Hayim Katsman was murdered on October 7, and I found myself learning Arabic as an act of connection and peace.   She would have liked that. </p><p>Remembering you,  Aunt Elizabeth.  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg" width="750" height="1170" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1170,&quot;width&quot;:750,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:97690,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/i/166604879?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>Thanks to Warren Wacholder for the image,  which is cropped from the original. It was taken in June 3, 2003 with Warren's friend Brian, while visiting Cincinnati to see a Reds game.</em></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>From Miami University:</p><p>https://miamioh.edu/regionals/news/2017/04/holocaust-remembrance-day.html</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>TICK TOCK/AL TOMAR-  Country Yossi </p><p>Full lyrics</p><p>Tick tock, tick tock, time is passing by,/Yesterday we said hello, and soon we&#8217;ll say goodbye./Tick tock, tick tock, life soon fades away,/And all that&#8217;s left are memories, And then the Judgement Day.</p><p>So hug your Mama, Tell her that you care,/Tell her that you love her, For always being there./And hug your Papa, Look him in the eye,/Tell him that you love him, It just might make him cry.</p><p></p><p>CHORUSAl tomr lichishefaneh eshneh, shema, shema, lo tipaneh,/Oy, don&#8217;t say, don&#8217;t say, /When I have the time,/Cause maybe, just maybe/You&#8217;ll never have the time.</p><p>So hug your Bobby (grandma), Kiss her on the cheek,/Tell her that you love her, Although she&#8217;s old and weak./And hug your Zaidy (grandpa) when he cries Rachem Na/ Al Tashlicheini l'eis zikna.  </p><p>(Please have mercy on me G-d,  do not leave me alone in my old age)</p><p>So learn the Torah, And follow in its ways/It will guide you safely, Until the end of days./Help your brother, In his hour of need,/&#8216;Cause there&#8217;s an Eye that Sees,  a Hand that writes down everything.</p><p>Enjoy your children, Help them learn and play,/Find the time to spend with them,/They&#8217;ll give it back one day./Treat your wife, With tender loving care,/For it is written, Hashem counts a woman&#8217;s every tear.</p><p>Tick tock, tick tock, time is passing by,</p><p>Yesterday we said hello, and soon we&#8217;ll say goodbye.</p><p>Tick tock, tick tock, life soon fades away,</p><p>And all that&#8217;s left are memories, And then the Judgement Day.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>So, on the first day of  ninth grade, I found myself unable to stomach the thought of sitting through a class named &#8220;English Literature.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t understand why. The subject should have been my favorite. </p><p>Instead, I tried to get out of it. There were  two Israeli girls who didn&#8217;t speak English in my class, and I informed everyone I was teaching them English during English Literature. Not realizing this was my own idea, the secretary assigned us a  classroom. </p><p>While I thought I was being very virtuous and efficient, in truth,  I was frantically trying not to sit in the empty space in my heart called &#8220;English Literature&#8221;, which she had left behind.</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recordando a mi abuelastra, 'At Elizabeth'.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Krukowski OBM]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/recordando-a-mi-abuelastro-at-elizabeth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/recordando-a-mi-abuelastro-at-elizabeth</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:46:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w9oa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F973417fa-ac52-488c-97c2-26064055dd29_750x1170.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Nota: No se dicen elogios durante Januc&#225;. Por eso publico hoy, aunque el aniversario de su muerte ser&#225; el 18 de diciembre.</em></p><p>En el pasado, publiqu&#233; elogio para <strong><a href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/aunt-elizabeth-krukowski?r=1hp7xr"> Elizabeth Krukowski</a></strong>. Esa pieza se centr&#243; en qui&#233;n era durante su vida. Este a&#241;o, hablemos de su impacto en mi vida <em>despu&#233;s</em> de su fallecimiento. La lecci&#243;n es clara, pero me llev&#243; d&#233;cadas verla por completo: la vida es corta y nunca se sabe qu&#233; interacci&#243;n importar&#225;.</p><p>La t&#237;a Elizabeth no era una t&#237;a en absoluto, sino nuestra abuela, ya que mi abuela falleci&#243; cuando yo era una beb&#233;. Mi mejor conjetura es que en un momento dado, ella quer&#237;a que la llamaran por su nombre de pila, lo que mis padres habr&#237;an considerado poco respetuoso con nuestros mayores, y este era el arreglo.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w9oa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F973417fa-ac52-488c-97c2-26064055dd29_750x1170.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w9oa!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F973417fa-ac52-488c-97c2-26064055dd29_750x1170.jpeg 424w, 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Ella era infinita y generosamente paciente con una ni&#241;a extra&#241;a que hac&#237;a demasiadas preguntas y no dejaba de pensar en voz alta.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> </p><p>No recuerdo que ella me criticara. Tampoco recuerdo la mayor parte de lo que hablamos.</p><p>Pero <em>s&#237;</em> recuerdo un momento con toda claridad.</p><p>Durante una conversaci&#243;n, comenz&#243; a llorar, diciendo: &#8220;Por favor, acu&#233;rdate de m&#237;, por favor no te olvides de m&#237;, &#161;prom&#233;tete recordarme!&#8221;. Le hab&#237;an diagnosticado c&#225;ncer terminal.</p><p>Esta fue una petici&#243;n extra&#241;a, y me golpe&#243; duramente. Yo era una estudiante de primaria demasiado intensa, siempre en problemas e insatisfecha.</p><p>&#191;Por qu&#233; recurrir a m&#237;? Y si la recordara, &#191;importar&#237;a? &#191;Seguramente hab&#237;a muchas personas m&#225;s importantes para recordarla?</p><p>Era demasiado joven para entender la urgencia, el miedo y la desnudez de esa s&#250;plica.</p><p>Por favor, vean la canci&#243;n <em>Tick Tock / Al Tomar</em> de Country Yossi. Para aquellos que no lo conocen, las letras aparecen a continuaci&#243;n. La canci&#243;n se basa en <em>Pirkei Avot</em> (&#201;tica de los Padres).<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>  </p><div id="youtube2-5RuqQRF-BDk" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;5RuqQRF-BDk&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/5RuqQRF-BDk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>TICK TOCK/AL TOMAR- Country Yossi</strong></p><p><strong>Tick tock, tick tock, el tiempo pasa,</strong></p><p><strong>Ayer saludamos y pronto nos despediremos.</strong></p><p><strong>Tick tock, tick tock, la vida pronto se desvanece,</strong></p><p><strong>Y todo lo que queda son recuerdos, y luego el D&#237;a del Juicio.</strong></p></div><p>La t&#237;a Elizabeth falleci&#243; el 18 de diciembre de 2004. Mis hermanas y yo nos quedamos despiertos lo m&#225;s tarde que pudimos, recitando Salmos en su memoria. Todos asistimos al funeral. Llor&#233; porque no vi a nadie m&#225;s llorando en el funeral, y deber&#237;a haber alguien llorando por la persona muerta en un funeral.</p><p>Y luego, como lo hacen los ni&#241;os, me olvid&#233;.</p><p>O al menos, pens&#233; que lo hab&#237;a olvidado.</p><p>A&#241;os despu&#233;s, viejos recuerdos surgieron de donde los hab&#237;a enterrado. Poco a poco, empec&#233; a darme cuenta de lo mucho que hab&#237;a sido moldeada por una mujer que tem&#237;a que desapareciera.</p><p>Fue la t&#237;a Elizabeth quien me ense&#241;&#243; que recordar a alguien es una forma de justicia.</p><p>Fue <em>su</em> voz la que me hizo retroceder instintivamente ante la crueldad, el racismo y la supremac&#237;a.</p><p>Fue <em>su</em> ejemplo lo que me hizo notar y preocuparme por la dignidad de los extra&#241;os.</p><p> Y fue <em>su</em> influencia, silenciosa pero persistente, la que surgi&#243; en tantas decisiones que tom&#233; sin entender por qu&#233;.</p><p>Cuando me rechazaron en casi todas las escuelas secundarias a las que recurr&#237;a, no ten&#237;a la autoconciencia para conectar mi comportamiento con el dolor. Pero cuando un entrevistador pregunt&#243; d&#243;nde viv&#237;an mis abuelos, respond&#237;, sin pensar: "En el cementerio". Ten&#237;a abuelos vivos a quienes amaba, pero todav&#237;a estaba de duelo.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a></p><p>Cuando mi primo Hayim Katsman fue asesinado el 7 de octubre, y me encontr&#233; aprendiendo &#225;rabe como un acto de conexi&#243;n y paz. A ella le hubiera gustado. En tu memoria, t&#237;a Elizabeth.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg" width="750" height="1170" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1170,&quot;width&quot;:750,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:97690,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/i/166604879?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p5TH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F610150f7-43f2-4449-827b-2d621e74a6af_750x1170.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>Gracias a Warren Wacholder por la imagen, que est&#225; recortada del original. Fue tomada el 3 de junio de 2003 con el amigo de Warren, Brian, mientras visitaba Cincinnati para ver un partido de los Rojos.</em></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>De la Universidad de Miami:</p><p>https://miamioh.edu/regionals/news/2017/04/holocaust-remembrance-day.html</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>TICK TOCK/AL TOMAR- Pa&#237;s Yossi</p><p>Letras completas</p><p>Tick tock, tick tock, el tiempo pasa,/Ayer dijimos hola, y pronto nos despediremos./Tick tock, tick tock, la vida pronto se desvanece,/Y todo lo que queda son recuerdos, y luego el D&#237;a del Juicio.</p><p>As&#237; que abraza a tu mam&#225;, dile que te importa, dile que la amas, por estar siempre ah&#237;. Y abraza a tu pap&#225;, m&#237;ralo a los ojos, dile que lo amas, podr&#237;a hacerlo llorar.</p><p>CHORUS:</p><p>Al tomr lichishefaneh eshneh, shema, shema, lo tipaneh,/Oy, no digas, no digas,/Cuando tenga tiempo,/ Porque tal vez, solo tal vez/Nunca tendr&#225;s tiempo.</p><p>As&#237; que abraza a tu Bobby (abuela), b&#233;sala en la mejilla,/ dile que la amas, aunque sea vieja y d&#233;bil./Y abraza a tu Zaidy (abuelo) cuando llore Rachem Na/ Al Tashlicheini l&#8217;eis zikna.</p><p>(Por favor, ten piedad de m&#237;, Di-s, no me dejes solo en mi vejez)</p><p>As&#237; que aprende la Tor&#225;, y sigue sus caminos. Te guiar&#225; con seguridad, hasta el final de los d&#237;as./ Ayuda a tu hermano, en su hora de necesidad,/ Porque hay un Ojo que ve, una Mano que escribe todo.</p><p>Disfruta de tus hijos, ay&#250;dalos a aprender y jugar,/ Encuentra el tiempo para pasar con ellos,/ te lo devolver&#225;n un d&#237;a./ Trata a tu esposa, con un tierno y amoroso cuidado,/ Porque est&#225; escrito, Hashem cuenta cada una de las l&#225;grimas de una mujer.</p><p>Tick tock, tick tock, el tiempo pasa,</p><p>Ayer saludamos y pronto nos despediremos.</p><p>Tick tock, tick tock, la vida pronto se desvanece,</p><p>Y todo lo que queda son recuerdos, y luego el D&#237;a del Juicio.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>As&#237; que, en el primer d&#237;a de noveno grado, me encontr&#233; incapaz de soportar la idea de sentarme en una clase llamada "Literatura Inglesa". No entend&#237;a por qu&#233;. El tema deber&#237;a haber sido mi favorito.</p><p>En cambio, trat&#233; de salir de ella. Hab&#237;a dos chicas israel&#237;es que no hablaban ingl&#233;s en mi clase, e inform&#233; a todos que les ense&#241;aba ingl&#233;s durante la literatura inglesa. Sin darse cuenta de que esto era idea m&#237;a, el secretario nos asign&#243; un aula.</p><p>Aunque pensaba que estaba siendo muy virtuosa y eficiente, en verdad, estaba tratando fren&#233;ticamente de no sentarme en el espacio vac&#237;o de mi coraz&#243;n llamado "Literatura Inglesa", que ella hab&#237;a dejado atr&#225;s.</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States of Kindness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving season is a good time to celebrate a government of kindness.]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-kindness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-kindness</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:56:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Pzr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbbc4c46-7d9d-4381-aa1f-29d40765fab2_1080x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;80cfca2f-9101-4bdf-882f-f2ca5627addb&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;La temporada de Acci&#243;n de Gracias es un buen momento para celebrar un gobierno de bondad. Tengo la suerte de vivir en los Estados Unidos de Am&#233;rica, el sistema de caridad m&#225;s grande y mejor de la historia mundial.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Estados Unidos de la Bondad&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:90196335,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot; IshaYirasHashem@Gmail.com spiritual/ humor risas/espiritual English/Espa&#241;ol &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WOYC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdedadf61-122d-41ad-bd09-c4921cd3e391_1080x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-01T19:54:18.092Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BGxI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23b50a8c-4f6e-46f6-8e2e-e392f3ea86c3_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/8charuty8charity&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem en Espa&#241;ol &quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:180120928,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:0,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:997685,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem at Substack &quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oDFS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68f6200c-44a2-4168-8254-5cbbbd9800b4_1200x1200.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>Thanksgiving season is a good time to celebrate a government of kindness.  I am blessed to live in the United States of America, the biggest and best charity system in world history. </p><p>The famous<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> Maimonides describes eight levels of charity, and to properly give thanks, we should take a moment to see  how American policy and culture map onto Maimonides&#8217; 8 levels of giving. <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a> </p><p>Remember,  level 1 is the best level of charity!</p><p></p><h2><em>Level 1: </em><strong>Helping Someone Not Need Charity In The Future </strong></h2><div class="pullquote"><p> The greatest level, above which there is no greater, is to endow him with a gift or loan, or entering into a partnership with him, or finding employment for him, in order to strengthen his hand so that he will not need to be dependent upon others . . .</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Pzr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbbc4c46-7d9d-4381-aa1f-29d40765fab2_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Pzr!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbbc4c46-7d9d-4381-aa1f-29d40765fab2_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Pzr!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbbc4c46-7d9d-4381-aa1f-29d40765fab2_1080x1080.png 848w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The opportunities afforded by Pell grants and many scholarships are absolutely level-one charity disguised as &#8220;education funding.&#8221; So are small business microloans. These enable people to be financially independent,  so Maimonides puts them at the highest level of charity.  </p><p>Union apprenticeships, trade school vouchers, the GI Bill, and job placement programs are incredible gifts not to be taken for granted.  Maimonides&#8217; top level of charity is found all over American bureaucracy. </p><h2><em>Level 2: </em>Giving When Neither Donor Nor Recipient Knows Each Other</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>A lesser level of charity than this is to give to the poor without knowing to whom one gives, and without the recipient knowing from who he received. </p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZhYk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d77a9e0-226a-450f-9ceb-e96728a7cef8_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZhYk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d77a9e0-226a-450f-9ceb-e96728a7cef8_1080x1080.png 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>American culture is full of examples of Level 2 giving. These are the federal safety-net programs, like  SNAP, WIC, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance. When you pay taxes, you don't know who the recipient will  be, and they do not know which taxpayers  helped them. They are equal citizens, and this anonymity protects their dignity.</p><h2><em>Level 3: </em>Donor Knows Recipient; But Recipient Does Not Know The Donor</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>A lesser level of charity than this is when one knows to whom one gives, but the recipient does not know his benefactor. &#8230; It is worthy and truly good to do this, if those who are responsible for distributing charity are not trustworthy.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nAT7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c5c5399-0749-4033-b154-ad3f6b7fbcf4_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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The top donor, ironically the most generous person, is nearly always anonymous to the public. (If they  are known to the recipient, it is the lower level 4).</p><p>  Think of a  landlord not raising rent. Or a philanthropist who funds a specific family through a spiritual leader. </p><p>As Maimonides points out, this is the only workable system when there is rampant corruption, such as in third world countries. Levels 1 and 2 rely on well functioning institutions, but if these do not exist, it is best to bypass them and give directly, but anonymously, to preserve dignity.  </p><h2><em>Level 4</em>: Recipient Knows Donor; Donor Does Not Know Recipient </h2><div class="pullquote"><p>A lesser level of charity than this is when one does not know to whom one gives, but the poor person does know his benefactor. </p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cUTI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ee80070-31b9-43ff-a747-019e8e1feeec_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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These programs includes rental assistance, which can change from month to month, Section 8 vouchers, and SSI disability, which are administered at such a large scale that there is little shame. The recipient knows they are getting it from the program, but the individual donor does not see the recipient. All the people involved have jobs distributing this fairly. </p><p>Think of food pantries, where people come at scheduled  hours, when donors are absent. Holiday gift drives, school supply drives. If you qualify,  you get, no shame, no awkwardness.</p><p></p><h2><em>Level 5:</em> Helping BEFORE  Being Asked</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>A lesser level than this is when one gives to the poor person directly into his hand, but gives before being asked.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2B51!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd5c50d7b-d9cf-4d48-889b-82f4216c3163_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2B51!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd5c50d7b-d9cf-4d48-889b-82f4216c3163_1080x1080.png 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Every year, there are blood drives which many people donate blood to - literally arm to arm,  so the people who need it have it before they could ever ask. Neighbors who take out garbage cans or prepare shelters for their neighbors. People who pay off their friend's credit at the local grocery, or distribute meals following illness or childbirth also qualify for this level.</p><h2><em>Level 6</em>: Helping  AFTER Being Asked</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>A lesser level than this is when one gives to the poor person after being asked.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rg7W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e68a008-b577-4bf6-b740-6b9ecc6ccded_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rg7W!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e68a008-b577-4bf6-b740-6b9ecc6ccded_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rg7W!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e68a008-b577-4bf6-b740-6b9ecc6ccded_1080x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rg7W!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e68a008-b577-4bf6-b740-6b9ecc6ccded_1080x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rg7W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e68a008-b577-4bf6-b740-6b9ecc6ccded_1080x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rg7W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e68a008-b577-4bf6-b740-6b9ecc6ccded_1080x1080.png" width="1080" height="1080" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Panhandling is the obvious example, and GoFundMe is its digital equivalent. Sometimes it is more direct,  asking friends for help covering expenses, or for childcare so they can work. These come with an enormous dignity cost, but it is still holy to do it. </p><h2><em>Level 7:</em> Giving Less Than Is Needed But With Kindness</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>A lesser level than this is when one gives inadequately, but gives gladly and with a smile.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vw5r!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43f21f8d-bf52-4283-9626-cc8076463297_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vw5r!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43f21f8d-bf52-4283-9626-cc8076463297_1080x1080.png 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The seventh level of charity is something along the lines of a random kind comment on the GoFundMe with a  10 dollar donation. Maimonides considers partial help, done with sincerity superior to full help while making the person feel bad. It is more important to show we care than to solve every problem in the world. </p><p></p><h2><em>Level 8:</em> Resentful, Begrudged Giving </h2><div class="pullquote"><p>A lesser level than this is when one gives unwillingly.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oiVb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43ac5533-39f3-42c8-83f9-c10b6de929c1_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oiVb!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43ac5533-39f3-42c8-83f9-c10b6de929c1_1080x1080.png 424w, 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The same act can qualify as a higher or lower level of charity, depending on the attitude of the donor. </p><p>  Think of  charity done for social pressure by corporations and people complaining (not venting) about helping a relative. It is good! It is giving. It is just  the lowest level. </p><h1>Conclusion: </h1><p>Goodness belongs to all humans; it is not the property of any one religion or country. And a country of kindness does not mean that all individuals are kind. However, its structure is founded on kindness to  people in trouble or needing support. This is one of America's quiet glories.</p><p>Home and job placement, medical care, food, and public education are all examples of how this country really does that. This is supported by both sides of the aisle.  </p><p>Maimonides gave us a list of levels of giving. And every one of them is represented in the United States of America.  I thank G-d for being born in and living  in a country where kindness is part of the system. May we be blessed to live in, and contribute to, a kinder world. May our level of charity always be rising. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon is an authority on Jewish law to this day. His philosophical works were greatly admired in the Muslim golden age. See the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for a more sophisticated description: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimonides/</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/45907/jewish/Eight-Levels-of-Charity.htm</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estados Unidos de la Bondad]]></title><description><![CDATA[La temporada de Acci&#243;n de Gracias es un buen momento para celebrar un gobierno de bondad.]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/8charuty8charity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/8charuty8charity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Isha Yiras Hashem]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:54:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BGxI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23b50a8c-4f6e-46f6-8e2e-e392f3ea86c3_1080x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>La temporada de Acci&#243;n de Gracias es un buen momento para celebrar un gobierno de bondad. Tengo la suerte de vivir en los Estados Unidos de Am&#233;rica, el sistema de caridad m&#225;s grande y mejor de la historia mundial.</p><p>El famoso1 Maim&#243;nides describe ocho niveles de caridad, y para dar las gracias adecuadamente, deber&#237;amos tomarnos un momento para ver c&#243;mo la pol&#237;tica y la cultura estadounidenses se adaptan a los 8 niveles de donaci&#243;n de Maim&#243;nides.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>  </p><p>&#161;Recuerden, el nivel 1 es el mejor nivel de caridad!</p><p></p><h2><em>Nivel 1: </em><strong>Ayudar a alguien que no necesita caridad en el futuro </strong></h2><div class="pullquote"><p>El nivel m&#225;s alto, por encima del cual no hay mayor, es dotarlo de un regalo o pr&#233;stamo, o establecer una asociaci&#243;n con &#233;l, o encontrar empleo para &#233;l, con el fin de fortalecer su mano para que no tenga que depender de otros. . .</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BGxI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23b50a8c-4f6e-46f6-8e2e-e392f3ea86c3_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BGxI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23b50a8c-4f6e-46f6-8e2e-e392f3ea86c3_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BGxI!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23b50a8c-4f6e-46f6-8e2e-e392f3ea86c3_1080x1080.png 848w, 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Tambi&#233;n lo son los microcr&#233;ditos para peque&#241;as empresas. Estos permiten a las personas ser financieramente independientes, por lo que Maim&#243;nides las sit&#250;a en el m&#225;s alto nivel de caridad.</p><p>Los aprendizajes sindicales, los vales de escuela de oficios, el proyecto de ley GI y los programas de inserci&#243;n laboral son regalos incre&#237;bles que no deben darse por sentados. El nivel superior de caridad de Maim&#243;nides se encuentra en toda la burocracia estadounidense.</p><h2><em>Nivel 2: </em>Dar cuando ni el donante ni el receptor se conocen.</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>Un menor nivel de caridad que este es dar a los pobres sin saber a qui&#233;n se da, y sin que el receptor sepa de qui&#233;n recibi&#243;.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-wh3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe28c16c-e93d-4fb9-b14a-f11a8b9782fd_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>La cultura estadounidense est&#225; llena de ejemplos de dar Nivel 2. Estos son los programas federales de protecci&#243;n a la seguridad, como SNAP, WIC, Medicaid y el seguro de desempleo. Cuando pagas impuestos, no sabes qui&#233;n ser&#225; el destinatario, y ellos no saben qu&#233; contribuyentes les ayudaron. Son ciudadanos iguales, y este anonimato protege su dignidad.</p><h2><em>Nivel 3: </em>El donante conoce al receptor; pero el receptor no conoce al donante</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>Un nivel de caridad menor que este es cuando uno sabe a qui&#233;n da, pero el receptor no conoce a su benefactor. Es digno y verdaderamente bueno hacerlo, si los responsables de distribuir la caridad no son dignos de confianza.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9RI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b3e4cc8-6d24-4e51-b911-7b4613661a4c_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9RI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b3e4cc8-6d24-4e51-b911-7b4613661a4c_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9RI!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b3e4cc8-6d24-4e51-b911-7b4613661a4c_1080x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9RI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b3e4cc8-6d24-4e51-b911-7b4613661a4c_1080x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9RI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b3e4cc8-6d24-4e51-b911-7b4613661a4c_1080x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9RI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b3e4cc8-6d24-4e51-b911-7b4613661a4c_1080x1080.png" width="1080" height="1080" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1b3e4cc8-6d24-4e51-b911-7b4613661a4c_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1080,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:110379,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/i/180120928?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b3e4cc8-6d24-4e51-b911-7b4613661a4c_1080x1080.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9RI!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b3e4cc8-6d24-4e51-b911-7b4613661a4c_1080x1080.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9RI!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b3e4cc8-6d24-4e51-b911-7b4613661a4c_1080x1080.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9RI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b3e4cc8-6d24-4e51-b911-7b4613661a4c_1080x1080.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9RI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b3e4cc8-6d24-4e51-b911-7b4613661a4c_1080x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Esto se ve en casi todas las listas p&#250;blicas de donantes caritativos en los Estados Unidos. El donante principal, ir&#243;nicamente la persona m&#225;s generosa, es casi siempre an&#243;nimo para el p&#250;blico. (Si son conocidos por el receptor, es el nivel inferior 4).</p><p>Piensen en un propietario que no aumenta el alquiler. O un fil&#225;ntropo que financia una familia espec&#237;fica a trav&#233;s de un l&#237;der espiritual.</p><p>Como se&#241;ala Maim&#243;nides, este es el &#250;nico sistema viable cuando hay una corrupci&#243;n desenfrenada, como en los pa&#237;ses del tercer mundo. Los niveles 1 y 2 dependen de instituciones que funcionan bien, pero si &#233;stas no existen, lo mejor es eludirlas y dar directamente, pero de forma an&#243;nima, para preservar la dignidad.</p><h2><em>Nivel 4</em>: El receptor conoce al donante; el donante no conoce al receptor.</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>Un nivel de caridad menor que este es cuando uno no sabe a qui&#233;n da, pero el pobre conoce a su benefactor.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_rTf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7bcb363-2265-43a9-8980-4846691d3594_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Estos programas incluyen asistencia de alquiler, que puede cambiar de un mes a otro, vales de la Secci&#243;n 8 y discapacidad SSI, que se administran a una escala tan grande que hay poca verg&#252;enza. El receptor sabe que lo est&#225; obteniendo del programa, pero el donante individual no ve al receptor. Todas las personas involucradas tienen trabajos que distribuyen esto de manera justa.</p><p>Piensen en las despensas de alimentos, donde las personas acuden a las horas programadas, cuando los donantes est&#225;n ausentes. Donaciones navide&#241;as para regalos, unidades para material escolar. Si calificas, obtienes sin verg&#252;enza, ni torpeza.</p><p></p><h2><em>Nivel 5:</em> Ayudar ANTES de que te pregunten</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>Un nivel menor que este es cuando uno da a la persona pobre directamente en su mano, pero da antes de que se le pregunte.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N0ev!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F875107d1-daf7-4743-baf9-d7b35caa0c56_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N0ev!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F875107d1-daf7-4743-baf9-d7b35caa0c56_1080x1080.png 424w, 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Vecinos que sacan cubos de basura o preparan refugios para sus vecinos. Las personas que pagan el cr&#233;dito de sus amigos en el supermercado local, o distribuyen comidas despu&#233;s de una enfermedad o un parto tambi&#233;n califican para este nivel.  </p><h2><em>Nivel 6</em>: Ayudar despu&#233;s de que se le preguntara</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>Un nivel menor que este es cuando uno da a la persona pobre despu&#233;s de que le pregunten.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OXKa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad1c81ad-6611-459c-835c-e7bf0c50b46c_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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A veces es m&#225;s directo, pidiendo ayuda a sus amigos para cubrir los gastos, o para el cuidado de los ni&#241;os para que puedan trabajar. Estos tienen un enorme costo digno, pero a&#250;n as&#237; es sagrado hacerlo.</p><h2><em>Nivel 7:</em> Dar menos de lo necesario, pero con amabilidad.</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>Un nivel menor que este es cuando uno da inadecuadamente, pero da con alegr&#237;a y con una sonrisa.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yaic!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f78be2b-ac04-400d-96f4-0b4705c354dc_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yaic!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f78be2b-ac04-400d-96f4-0b4705c354dc_1080x1080.png 424w, 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Maim&#243;nides considera que la ayuda parcial, hecha con sinceridad es superior a la ayuda total, mientras que la persona se siente mal. Es m&#225;s importante demostrar que nos importa que resolver todos los problemas del mundo.</p><p></p><p></p><h2><em>Nivel 8:</em> Resentido, envidiado dando </h2><div class="pullquote"><p>Un nivel menor que este es cuando uno da de mala gana.</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8e6U!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77d4670c-01e4-4da7-b4e3-5ca95bb3f4c1_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8e6U!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77d4670c-01e4-4da7-b4e3-5ca95bb3f4c1_1080x1080.png 424w, 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El mismo acto puede calificarse como un nivel de caridad superior o inferior, dependiendo de la actitud del donante.</p><p>Piensen en la caridad hecha por la presi&#243;n social de las corporaciones y las personas que se quejan (no se desahogan) de ayudar a un familiar. &#161;Es bueno! Es dar. Es el nivel m&#225;s bajo.</p><h1>Conclusi&#243;n: </h1><p>La bondad pertenece a todos los seres humanos; no es propiedad de ninguna religi&#243;n o pa&#237;s. Y un pa&#237;s de bondad no significa que todos los individuos sean amables. Sin embargo, su estructura se basa en la amabilidad hacia las personas en problemas o que necesitan apoyo. Esta es una de las glorias silenciosas de Estados Unidos.</p><p>La colocaci&#243;n en el hogar y en el trabajo, la atenci&#243;n m&#233;dica, la alimentaci&#243;n y la educaci&#243;n p&#250;blica son ejemplos de c&#243;mo este pa&#237;s realmente lo hace. Esto est&#225; soportado por ambos lados del legislativo.</p><p>Maim&#243;nides nos dio una lista de niveles de dar. Y cada uno de ellos est&#225; representado en los Estados Unidos de Am&#233;rica. Doy las gracias a Di-s por haber nacido y vivir en un pa&#237;s donde la amabilidad es parte del sistema. Que tengamos la suerte de vivir y contribuir a un mundo m&#225;s amable. Que nuestro nivel de caridad aumente siempre.</p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>El rabino Moshe ben Maimon es una autoridad en la ley jud&#237;a hasta el d&#237;a de hoy. Sus obras filos&#243;ficas fueron muy admiradas en la &#233;poca dorada musulmana. V&#233;ase la Enciclopedia de Filosof&#237;a de Stanford para una descripci&#243;n m&#225;s sofisticada:-Charity.htm</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[2/4: Choosing Life, For The Mother]]></title><description><![CDATA[Personal Announcements:]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/24-choosing-life-for-the-mother</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/24-choosing-life-for-the-mother</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:59:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eX8V!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;af958c43-3e5f-42cf-abfa-b4a3ec31671f&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Anuncios personales: Felicidades a mi esposo al completar todo el Talmud. Un agradecimiento especial a mi padre, el rabino David Wacholder, por las analog&#237;as del &#225;rbol frutal y del esclavo, y al rabino Micha Berger y a su grupo Zelmele&#8217;s Kloiz por su paciencia. Gracias a SS, TMK, MSH, BM, TK, MD, TGW, YA, BS, DR, y SL por sus &#250;tiles comentarios. Gracias&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;2/4: Eligiendo la vida para la madre&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-11T20:56:24.236Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Akk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/24-eligiendo-la-vida-para-la-madre&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem en Espa&#241;ol &quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:178605847,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:0,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:997685,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem at Substack &quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oDFS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68f6200c-44a2-4168-8254-5cbbbd9800b4_1200x1200.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div class="pullquote"><h6><em>Personal Announcements: </em></h6><h6><em><strong>Mazel tov to my husband upon his completion of the entire Talmud! A special thank you to my father, Rabbi David Wacholder, for the fruit tree and slave analogies, and to Rabbi Micha Berger and his group Zelmele's Kloiz for their patience. Thanks to SS, TMK, MSH, BM, TK, MD, TGW, YA, BS, and SL for helpful comments. Thanks to my mother for being my mother.</strong></em></h6><h6><strong>  Correction: The day after I published </strong><em><strong>the Choosing Life via Genetic Testing</strong></em><strong> - </strong><em><strong>Dor Yeshorim </strong></em>post, a bill from Natera arrived in the mail&#8230;apparently, I did use the company at some point. The post has been updated accordingly.</h6></div><p>Series: Choosing life, not genetics,  contra polygenic selection. </p><h6>1. <em>Dor Yeshorim: Choosing life, with genetic testing</em>. <a href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/14-choosing-life-with-genetic-testing?r=1hp7xr">(Link)</a></h6><h5>2. <em>Abortion: Choosing life, for the mother</em> --This post (YOU  ARE  HERE)</h5><h6>3. <em>IVF: choosing life, in a lab</em> (TBD)</h6><h6>4. <em>Polygenic selection: choosing life, not embryos</em> (TBD)</h6><p></p><h3>What is the value of life before birth?</h3><p>The previous post,  about <em>Dor Yeshorim</em>, resulted in some heated discussion in the comments. Now we turn to abortion, which you definitely won&#8217;t have anything to say about. </p><p>But before we discuss abortion, we must talk about life before birth. When does life begin?  Is all life equal? And the most   provocative question: What is the value of life before birth? </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eX8V!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eX8V!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eX8V!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eX8V!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eX8V!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eX8V!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg" width="768" height="722" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:722,&quot;width&quot;:768,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:55187,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/i/172036763?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eX8V!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eX8V!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eX8V!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eX8V!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc546e66-50d7-4d03-a0f1-27f6bcfb4cba_768x722.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h6>(In this image,  an ultrasound technician solemnly tells the mother that it's a boy, and a very smart one - he is already  arguing, in sign language,  that he doesn't believe in life after birth)</h6><p>Today we know that physical life is based on proteins,  and instructions for replication via these proteins  are biologically encoded in genes. Are genes life? If scientists can alter or  manipulate these genes, does  human life as we know it become adjustable, maybe even  disposable at some points?<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>  What does it really mean to choose life?</p><h3>Human Life &gt;=&lt; Other Life</h3><p>Think about it.  If you rank species by practical skills,  humans are pretty low functioning - we can't even fly or breathe underwater!  What makes our human DNA matter more than the DNA of the tiny mosquitoes who far outnumber us, or the enormous blue whales who sing  across the oceans?  </p><p>Some say  it is the ability to use speech. Compare a grown chimpanzee with sign language<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a> to a tiny newborn human baby, looking like a very cute but slightly froggy potato. 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Then G-d commands humanity to <em>be fruitful, multiply, fill and conquer</em> the world.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a> This soul is what makes us human,  and what we are responsible to  perpetuate,  the human body as a vessel of the soul. And indeed, most debates about abortion end up being about whether you believe in a soul - or any spiritual dimension, at all. </p><p> But not <em>everyone</em> who thinks abortion is wrong because it is murder believes this for spiritual or religious reasons. A rule consequentialist  who is an atheist may simply believe that there must be a line somewhere, for the good of society; the question is only  where to draw it, and why. </p><p>Yet even those who are not rule consequentialists, don't consider souls or a spiritual dimension relevant, or are in any way religious, will sometimes feel qualms about destroying unborn life. They apply concepts like sentience, pain, and autonomy even to newborns.  Many are uneasy about polygenic testing, even without a religious framing.  For them, it is a theoretical philosophical  question. In Judaism, the sanctity of life is a spiritual question, because life itself is seen as a divine trust, breathed into us by G-d.</p><h3>The Potential for Life: Er, Onan, and the Heavenly Court</h3><p>The story of Er and Onan, in  the book of Genesis shows that even potential life can be considered life.  Er and Onan were struck down by G-d for  the sin of wasting seed.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a> <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a>  An embryo certainly has more potential than seed,  and a pregnancy even more so. </p><p>The severity, in this story, is treated as spiritually similar to destroying a life&#8217;s potential. Therefore,  it was  &#8220;<em>wicked in the eyes of the Lord</em>&#8221; and they died for it - even though it is not categorized as murder in human courts. </p><h3>Fruit Trees,  Kabbalistic Sparks, and the Sanctity of Creation</h3><p>All life is the eternal spiritual dimension  G-d breathed into living things. Humans have a human soul,  and other things, like trees, have a spiritual life force as well.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="#footnote-7" target="_self">7</a> We all have this spiritual dimension,  and it is not subject to physical rules.  Aggadic sources say that, when you cut down a  fruit-bearing tree,  their cry of pain echoes from one end of the world to the other.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-8" href="#footnote-8" target="_self">8</a></p><p>According to this, fruit tree huggers,  at least,  are preventing  cries of pain! Spiritually speaking.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-9" href="#footnote-9" target="_self">9</a>  Fruit-bearing trees are actually protected by Jewish law, and they may not be destroyed in wartime, even in a religiously mandated war, even though you may destroy other crops.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-10" href="#footnote-10" target="_self">10</a></p><p>Commentators give several reasons. Some focus on the inherent value of the trees themselves, since they sustain life and bear fruit. Others emphasize their utility to humankind, or see it as a moral discipline; or as a warning against wanton destruction born of anger or victory. Maimonides codifies this under the general law of &#8220;<em>do not wastefully destroy</em>&#8221;, which extends far beyond trees. <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-11" href="#footnote-11" target="_self">11</a> In short, life itself,  components of life,  and life-giving things are not ours to waste.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-12" href="#footnote-12" target="_self">12</a></p><h3>Trees for People</h3><p>The same principle applies to all humans. One desecrates Shabbat to save even a very early pregnancy, according to many opinions, because it already counts as established life in some measure.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-13" href="#footnote-13" target="_self">13</a> On the other hand, if the pregnancy threatens the mother's life, the pregnancy must be ended. </p><p>Is it a life, or half a life, or what? </p><p>Reflecting ancient times and politics, the Mishna proposes a unique case: a man half-enslaved and half-free. He was jointly owned by two masters, each with a 50% share, but only one freed him. Who can he marry? </p><p> The freed half made him a Jew, forbidding him to live with a maidservant. Yet the enslaved half barred him from marrying a Jewish woman. Jewish law says  he cannot be left  in such a  limbo, as it violates his human  dignity to have  no legal way to start a family.  </p><p>The Sages concluded that the  remaining master is compelled to release him, invoking the verse &#8220;<em>God did not create the world for chaos, but to be settled.</em>&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-14" href="#footnote-14" target="_self">14</a></p><p> This shows that just as we protect potential life in the womb, we also protect the potential for life in society. Human dignity, and the ability to form a family, is itself part of sustaining life. The Jewish attitude is to support the continuation of life, of living families, of our humble daily human life. This is why,  as we will discuss in the next section on IVF, couples who cannot have children naturally are helped in whatever ways are permissible in Jewish law. </p><h3>In which 1 mother, 2 mothers in law, 3 rabbis, 4 doctors, 5 lawyers, and 6 embryos walk into a pear tree, but do NOT cut it down</h3><p>Is my view authoritative? Well, it depends who you ask, and there are a lot of people to ask. 1 mother, 2 mothers in law, 3 rabbis, 4 doctors, 5 lawyers, and 6 embryos walk into a pear tree, but do NOT cut it down, but their arguing definitely makes a sound.  </p><p>Here is a useful snapshot of the complexity. In <em> Planned Parenthood v. Casey</em>, Agudath Israel of America, an organization  which represents Orthodox Jews  in the United States,  summarizes their view.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-15" href="#footnote-15" target="_self">15</a> </p><ul><li><p>The first principle is <strong>sanctity of life</strong>. Laws that cheapen life endanger society. Thus, they opposed Roe&#8217;s framing of abortion as a &#8220;fundamental&#8221; liberty. </p><p><em>&#8212; Note: This does <strong>not</strong> correspond to the &#8220;pro-life&#8221; position in American politics!</em></p></li><li><p>The second principle is <strong>religious liberty</strong>. Because there exist cases where Jewish law  may permit or even  require an abortion,  Jews must be free to follow Jewish law.</p><p><em>&#8212; Note: This does <strong>not</strong> correspond to the &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; position in American politics!</em></p><p></p></li></ul><h3>Until 40 days: Mere Water?</h3><p>The Talmud describes the earliest stage of pregnancy, prior to 40 days as &#8220;<em>mere water.</em>&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-16" href="#footnote-16" target="_self">16</a> This phrase reflects how, at that point, the embryo has no discernible form of its own. At least without a microscope. </p><p>But now, scientifically speaking, you can already see the blueprint of the genes at conception. After all, polygenic selection occurs at this time. Could that mean it is fine to throw away embryos, as the embryo are like mere water unless you have modern technology? </p><p> Perhaps &#8220;<em>mere water</em>&#8221; means that, at this stage, the embryo appears to have no independent form of its own. Like a liquid, it takes the shape of whatever vessel you put it in. Right now it is inside its mother, and it therefore takes the form of its mother.  As it is bound to its mother&#8217;s form, it has the same status of its mother regarding Temple-era rules what the mother is permitted to eat according to Jewish law (although it is a separate spiritual being.)<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-17" href="#footnote-17" target="_self">17</a> </p><p>The Talmud says that one is permitted to pray to change the gender of the fetus during these 40 days, but not after that.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-18" href="#footnote-18" target="_self">18</a> After 40 days, the gender is set. </p><p>What does this mean for the soul of the fetus? The Vilna Gaon teaches, and kabbalistic sources affirm, that there are holy sparks from the very beginning. It almost seems dehumanizing to describe   a potential human made in the image of G-d as &#8220;<em>mere water</em>&#8221;, so why does the Talmud say that?<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-19" href="#footnote-19" target="_self">19</a></p><p>This is because we need a way to distinguish what is visible and counts for action in this world, as opposed to the spiritual dimension  reality  of souls and sparks. In the <em>physical</em> dimension, before forty days it is water and thus  there may be leniencies. In the <em>spiritual</em> dimension, a &#8216;soul&#8217; is already present from conception, from the existence of seed, and any unjustified destruction of life at this stage touches a branch of blood-guilt in Heaven, even if is not judged as murder in human courts.</p><h3>Pursuing the life of the mother</h3><p>If  any stage of pregnancy and labor turns possibly lethal for the mother, the fetus is labeled a &#8220;<em>pursuer</em>&#8221;, which may (inadvertently, but the result is the same) murder the mother. Until birth, Jewish law prioritizes the mother&#8217;s life. Once the head or most of the body has emerged, both lives are considered equal and one may not be set aside for the other.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-20" href="#footnote-20" target="_self">20</a> </p><p>From a halachic perspective, before forty days a fetus is &#8220;<em>mere water</em>&#8221;, but f from a spiritual perspective, life potential is present even before conception, and certainly after. This is why life is sacred even in its earliest, most hidden forms, while practically,  Jewish law <em>does</em> distinguish between the different stages for practical applications.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-21" href="#footnote-21" target="_self">21</a></p><p>Of course, none of this is simple or unanimous. The specifics of desecrating Shabbat to save even an early pregnancy are debated, and later authorities differ on how far that principle extends. </p><p>There are many nuances that tragically occur in real life, such as severe fetal abnormality, where life after birth would be painfully brief. These are addressed differently by various authorities, and are beyond my scope. I provide sources in the next section about IVF.</p><p>What all these debates share is their underlying seriousness: that life, even in its earliest and most hidden forms, demands moral and spiritual attention. Judaism&#8217;s consistency lies in its refusal to treat any life casually.</p><h3>Christian vs. Jewish views</h3><p>The United States is  shaped by Christian ideological influences. While the majority of the US are Protestant, their denominations have widely varying views on life before birth. In contrast, the Catholic Church has a simple solution: life begins at conception.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-22" href="#footnote-22" target="_self">22</a> In American culture, this view dominates when speaking about the value of life. </p><p> Judaism&#8217;s view is both stricter about the sanctity of life, and looser about the metaphysics as applied to the biology. We don&#8217;t say &#8220;life begins&#8221;, but rather, &#8220;all life is sacred at every stage.&#8221; The one thing all the Jews agree on is that this life at conception is <em>not</em>  the Jewish view.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-23" href="#footnote-23" target="_self">23</a> However, feticide <em>without</em> medical or halachic cause is completely forbidden.  It is important to emphasize  that ending any pregnancy is a serious decision and requires an expert in Jewish law  to decide on each individual situation. </p><p>The early Christian opposition to abortion may reflect Judaism&#8217;s moral influence on the Greco-Roman world. Greek sources already remark on the Jewish reverence for life, distinguishing it from their own more permissive customs.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-24" href="#footnote-24" target="_self">24</a> </p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>Disclaimer: Reproductive decisions often involve complicated issues in Jewish law, and rulings  vary  greatly depending on the situation and the rabbinic authority. <strong>I am not an authority! </strong>Follow each link to see sources for yourself.  In terms of asking a Rabbi, it&#8217;s important to clarify the exact medical procedure being asked about.  This article cannot be used to come to any religious conclusions!</em></p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nbzl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97dd63e2-93d8-4367-bff4-9d0726f4ac9c_579x762.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nbzl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97dd63e2-93d8-4367-bff4-9d0726f4ac9c_579x762.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nbzl!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97dd63e2-93d8-4367-bff4-9d0726f4ac9c_579x762.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nbzl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97dd63e2-93d8-4367-bff4-9d0726f4ac9c_579x762.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nbzl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97dd63e2-93d8-4367-bff4-9d0726f4ac9c_579x762.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nbzl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97dd63e2-93d8-4367-bff4-9d0726f4ac9c_579x762.jpeg" width="579" height="762" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97dd63e2-93d8-4367-bff4-9d0726f4ac9c_579x762.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:762,&quot;width&quot;:579,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:45177,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/i/172036763?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97dd63e2-93d8-4367-bff4-9d0726f4ac9c_579x762.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nbzl!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97dd63e2-93d8-4367-bff4-9d0726f4ac9c_579x762.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nbzl!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97dd63e2-93d8-4367-bff4-9d0726f4ac9c_579x762.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nbzl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97dd63e2-93d8-4367-bff4-9d0726f4ac9c_579x762.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nbzl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97dd63e2-93d8-4367-bff4-9d0726f4ac9c_579x762.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>Let us continue to discuss this in the next section, about IVF. No timeline, but it is in the works. </em></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>For recyclable, I refer you to  Rebbetzin Fastag's excellent article on reincarnation. https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/unsongreview</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>This might not be the best example, because chimpanzee communication is controversial,  but regardless the point is that Judaism defines life by soul, not intelligence or ability. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Number 22:28 and 30</p><p><em>The Lord opened the mouth of the she-donkey, and she said to Balaam, &#8220;What have I done to you that you have struck me these three times?&#8221;</em></p><p><em>The she-donkey said to Balaam, &#8220;Am I not your she-donkey on which you have ridden since you first started until now? Have I been accustomed to do this to you?&#8221; He said, &#8220;No.&#8221;</em></p><p>https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/9950/showrashi/true/jewish/Chapter-22.htm</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Genesis 1:28 &#8220;<em>be fruitful and multiply and fill up the earth and conquer it&#8221;</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/379781/jewish/Redeeming-the-Widow-in-Exile.htm</p><p><em>Tamar was Judah&#8217;s daughter-in-law, married to his son Er. Er did not want pregnancy to damage Tamar&#8217;s beauty, so he withdrew before completing intercourse and wasted his seed on the ground. After G&#8209;d punished Er for this by killing him, Judah had his second son, Onan, marry Tamar in order to perpetuate Er&#8217;s name, fulfilling the commandment of levirate marriage. Onan, knowing that the child of their union would not be considered his, also withdrew before completing intercourse, and G&#8209;d punished him also by killing him.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="#footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8233/showrashi/true/jewish/Chapter-38.htm#lt=both See verses 7-10.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="#footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>A tree symbolizes eternity, like Adam before the sin, like the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-8" href="#footnote-anchor-8" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">8</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_DeRabbi_Eliezer.34.4?lang=bi</p><p><em>The voices of five (objects of creation) go from one end of the world to the other, and their voices are inaudible. When people cut down the wood of the tree which yields fruit, its cry goes from one end of the world to the other, and the voice is inaudible. When the serpent sloughs off its skin, its cry goes from one end of the world to the other and its voice is not heard. When a woman is divorced from her husband, her voice goeth forth from one end of the world to the other, but the voice is inaudible. When the infant || comes forth from its mother&#8217;s womb. When the soul departs from the body, the cry goes forth from one end of the world to the other, and the voice is not heard. The soul does not go out of the body until it beholds the Shekhinah, as it is said, &#8220;For man shall not see me and live&#8221; (Ex. 33:20).</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-9" href="#footnote-anchor-9" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">9</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>While they are huggable, trees are not anthropomorphic. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-10" href="#footnote-anchor-10" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">10</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Deuteronomy 20:19</p><p><em>When you besiege a city&#8230; you must not destroy its fruit trees by wielding an axe against them.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-11" href="#footnote-anchor-11" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">11</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>See Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Hilchos Melachim uMilchamos 6:8&#8211;10. Stripes of rebellious conduct (makkas mardud) are rabbinic disciplinary measures distinct from Torah lashes. https://www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Torah%2C_Kings_and_Wars.6.10?lang=bi</p><p>(See also: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/105897/how-similar-were-rabbinic-mandated-lashes-to-torah-mandated-lashes)</p><div class="pullquote"><p>This prohibition does not apply to trees alone. Rather, anyone who breaks utensils, tears garments, destroys buildings, stops up a spring, or ruins food with a destructive intent transgresses the command &#8216;Do not destroy.&#8217; However, he is not lashed. Instead, he receives stripes for rebellious conducts instituted by the Sages.</p></div><h6></h6></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-12" href="#footnote-anchor-12" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">12</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>This addresses Scott Alexander's ridiculous claim that even pizza eaten by pregnant women  can support life. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-13" href="#footnote-anchor-13" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">13</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Tractate  Yuma 82b (thanks <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;DYK Torah Journal&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:103372033,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6b969ad5-67c2-41a4-8003-3b4ccf483aa6_1024x1024.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;7e9204ca-e569-4653-b4f3-01a724454d67&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> for the correction)</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-14" href="#footnote-anchor-14" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">14</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/379781/jewish/Redeeming-the-Widow-in-Exile.htm</p><p><em>Tamar was Judah&#8217;s daughter-in-law, married to his son Er. Er did not want pregnancy to damage Tamar&#8217;s beauty, so he withdrew before completing intercourse and wasted his seed on the ground. After G&#8209;d punished Er for this by killing him, Judah had his second son, Onan, marry Tamar in order to perpetuate Er&#8217;s name, fulfilling the commandment of levirate marriage. Onan, knowing that the child of their union would not be considered his, also withdrew before completing intercourse, and <a href="https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/433240/jewish/God.htm">G&#8209;d</a> punished him also by killing him.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-15" href="#footnote-anchor-15" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">15</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><em>Informed by classical Jewish tradition which teaches that all human life is sacred, and possessed of the firm view that laws which undermine the sanctity of human life send a message that is profoundly dangerous for all of society, Agudath Israel speaks out frequently on a broad panoply of public policy issues that arise at the outset and conclusion of the human life cycle. Consistent with this approach, Agudath Israel has long opposed the central holding of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), that the right to abortion protected under the Fourteenth Amendment&#8217;s personal liberty/due process clause is uniformly &#8220;fundamental,&#8221; and thereby protected against governmental abridgment absent a compelling state interest.</em></p><p><em>At the same time, as a representative of a religious minority community whose constituents rely heavily on the religious freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment, Agudath Israel is a staunch advocate of religious liberty for all Americans. Here again, the issue of abortion figures prominently on Agudath Israel&#8217;s agenda. Jewish tradition accords fetal life significant protection. As a general rule, Judaism rejects the notion that termination of pregnancy, even prior to fetal viability, is properly a matter of free maternal choice. Nonetheless, in certain exceptional cases, Jewish law may authorize abortion -- indeed, may require abortion as a matter of religious obligation. Accordingly, in conjunction with its opposition to legalized abortion on demand, Agudath Israel has supported a woman&#8217;s legal right to abortion where she seeks the abortion as an expression of her religious faith.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-16" href="#footnote-anchor-16" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">16</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Yevamos 69b, Niddah 30a &#8220;Maya be-alma&#8221;, which is usually translated as &#8220;mere water&#8221;. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-17" href="#footnote-anchor-17" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">17</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>For example, the Talmud explains that the embryo of a daughter of a priest may, through her, eat food that only the priestly paternal descendants may eat, even if the embryo&#8217;s father is not. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-18" href="#footnote-anchor-18" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">18</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.chabad.org/torah-texts/5299939/The-Talmud/Berachot/Chapter-9/60a</p><p><em>The Gemara introduces an alternative explanation: <strong>And if you wish, say</strong> instead that the <strong>story of Leah</strong> and her prayer with regard to the fetus <strong>was within forty days</strong> of conception. <strong>As it was taught</strong> in a baraita: During <strong>the first three days</strong> after intercourse, <strong>one should pray that</strong> the seed <strong>not putrefy,</strong> that it will fertilize the egg and develop into a fetus. <strong>From the third</strong> day <strong>until the fortieth, one should pray that it will be male. From the fortieth</strong> day <strong>until three months, one should pray that it will not be</strong> deformed, in the shape of a <strong>flat fish,</strong> as when the fetus does not develop it assumes a shape somewhat similar to a flat sandal fish. <strong>From the third month until the sixth, one should pray that it will not be stillborn.</strong> And <strong>from the sixth</strong> month <strong>until the ninth, one should pray that it will be emerge safely.</strong> Therefore, during the first forty days from conception, one may still pray to affect the gender of the fetus.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-19" href="#footnote-anchor-19" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">19</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>One simple explanation is that &#8220;Maya&#8221; describes the products of miscarriage at these points in the pregnancy. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-20" href="#footnote-anchor-20" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">20</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.mishnah.org/learn/oholos/7/6/</p><p>Mishna Ohalos 7:6 </p><p>Note this is speaking about a time before there were C sections and other modern blessings!</p><p><em>If a woman is having trouble giving birth, they cut up the child in her womb and brings it forth limb by limb, because her life comes before the life of [the child]. But if the greater part has come out, one may not touch it, for one may not set aside one person&#8217;s life for that of another.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-21" href="#footnote-anchor-21" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">21</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/abortion-in-jewish-thought/">https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/abortion-in-jewish-thought/</a></p><p><em>While Judaism takes a far less stringent approach to abortion than do many pro-life denominations of Christianity, providing explicit exceptions for threats to a mother&#8217;s life and rabbinic support for terminating a pregnancy in a host of other situations, there is nonetheless broad objection to abortion in cases without serious cause. In addition, despite the consensus that abortion is permitted in cases where continuing the pregnancy poses a threat to the life of the mother, there is disagreement over just what constitutes a threat.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-22" href="#footnote-anchor-22" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">22</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://naapc.org/when-does-a-human-being-begin/why-life-begins-at-conception/</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-23" href="#footnote-anchor-23" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">23</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Please tell me if there's a source I missed that disagrees.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-24" href="#footnote-anchor-24" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">24</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38064554_From_Imago_Dei_in_the_Jewish-Christian_Traditions_to_Human_Dignity_in_Contemporary_Jewish_Law</p><p><em>Hellenic Judaism has disappeared from history, leaving indirect traces in the thought of the Greek Christian Fathers. Hence, the contemporary per-ception of &#8220;Judaism&#8221; is colored by the non-Hellenized and non-Latinized schools of the Talmud, which spoke Hebrew and Aramaic (Grafton and Williams 2006). So what is seen today as &#8220;Jewish&#8221; might re&#64258;ect only one surviving stream of Judaism in antiquity, and what is considered today as &#8220;Christian&#8221; actually articulates, at least partially, lost Jewish traditions.In the New Testament, creation in the Image of God is mentioned in relation to the &#8220;new man,&#8221; who was renewed in knowledge (Col. 3:10), so imago Dei was associated with a speci&#64257;c and non-material trait.</em></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[2/4: Eligiendo la vida para la madre]]></title><description><![CDATA[https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/24-choosing-life-for-the-mother]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/24-eligiendo-la-vida-para-la-madre</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/24-eligiendo-la-vida-para-la-madre</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:56:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Akk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h6>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/24-choosing-life-for-the-mother</h6><h6><em><strong>Anuncios personales: Felicidades a mi esposo al completar todo el Talmud. Un agradecimiento especial a mi padre, el rabino David Wacholder, por las analog&#237;as del &#225;rbol frutal y del esclavo, y al rabino Micha Berger y a su grupo Zelmele&#8217;s Kloiz por su paciencia. Gracias a SS, TMK, MSH, BM, TK, MD, TGW, YA, BS, DR, y SL por sus &#250;tiles comentarios. Gracias a mi madre por ser mi madre.</strong></em></h6><div class="pullquote"><h6><em><strong>Correcci&#243;n: El d&#237;a despu&#233;s de publicar el post de Choosing Life via Genetic Testing - Dor Yeshorim, una factura de Natera lleg&#243; por correo... aparentemente, us&#233; la compa&#241;&#237;a en alg&#250;n momento. El post ha sido actualizado en consecuencia.</strong></em></h6></div><p>Serie: Elegir la vida, no la gen&#233;tica, contra la selecci&#243;n polig&#233;nica.</p><h6>1. Dor Yeshorim: Elegir la vida, con pruebas gen&#233;ticas<em>. <a href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/14-choosing-life-with-genetic-testing?r=1hp7xr">(Enlace)</a></em></h6><h6><em>2. Aborto: Elegir la vida, para la madre. -Este post (Ustedes est&#225;n aqu&#237;)</em></h6><h6><em>3. FIV: elegir la vida en un laboratorio (TBD)</em></h6><h6><em>4. Selecci&#243;n polig&#233;nica: elegir la vida, no los embriones (TBD)</em></h6><p></p><h3>&#191;Cu&#225;l es el valor de la vida antes del nacimiento?</h3><p>En mi &#250;ltimo post, escrib&#237; sobre <em>Dor Yeshorim</em>. Eso dio lugar a una acalorada discusi&#243;n en los comentarios. Ahora pasamos al aborto, del que definitivamente no tendr&#225;n nada que decir.</p><p>Pero antes de hablar sobre el aborto, debemos hablar de la vida antes del nacimiento. &#191;Cu&#225;ndo comienza la vida? &#191;Toda la vida es igual? Y la pregunta m&#225;s provocativa: &#191;Cu&#225;l es el valor de la vida antes del nacimiento?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Akk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Akk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Akk!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Akk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Akk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Akk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg" width="788" height="799" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:799,&quot;width&quot;:788,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:59984,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/i/178605847?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Akk!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Akk!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Akk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Akk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59e7853b-e1f5-4cdc-a056-1e8b58e6b3fe_788x799.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h6>(En esta imagen, una t&#233;cnica de ultrasonido le dice solemnemente a la madre que es un ni&#241;o, y uno muy inteligente - ya est&#225; discutiendo, en lenguaje de se&#241;as, que no cree en la vida despu&#233;s del nacimiento)</h6><p>Tal como la conocemos, la vida f&#237;sica se basa en prote&#237;nas, y las instrucciones para la replicaci&#243;n a trav&#233;s de estas prote&#237;nas est&#225;n codificadas biol&#243;gicamente en genes. &#191;Son los genes vida? Si los cient&#237;ficos pueden alterar o manipular estos genes, &#191;la vida humana tal como la conocemos se vuelve ajustable, tal vez incluso desechable en algunos momentos? &#191;Qu&#233; significa realmente elegir la vida?<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>  </p><h3>Vida Humana &gt;=&lt; Otra Vida</h3><p>Pi&#233;nsenlo. Si clasificas las especies por sus habilidades pr&#225;cticas, los humanos funcionan con bastante bajo rendimiento; &#161;ni siquiera podemos volar ni respirar bajo el agua! &#191;Qu&#233; hace que nuestro ADN humano importe m&#225;s que el ADN de los diminutos mosquitos que nos superan con creces, o las enormes ballenas azules que cantan en los oc&#233;anos?</p><p>Algunos dicen que es la capacidad de usar el habla. Compare un chimpanc&#233; adulto con el lenguaje de se&#241;as con un peque&#241;o beb&#233; humano reci&#233;n nacido, que parece una papa muy linda pero ligeramente rana. Y la Biblia habla de un burra con sensibilidad y la capacidad de usar con fluidez el habla humana.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a> </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJgi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F182908b5-2bdb-4201-8df6-f836ba44a510_874x989.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJgi!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F182908b5-2bdb-4201-8df6-f836ba44a510_874x989.jpeg 424w, 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Entonces Di-s ordena a la humanidad que sea fruct&#237;fera, se multiplique, llene y conquiste el mundo. Esta alma es lo que nos hace humanos, y lo que somos responsables de perpetuar, el cuerpo humano como un conteneder del alma. Y, de hecho, la mayor&#237;a de los debates sobre el aborto terminan siendo sobre si crees en un alma, o en cualquier dimensi&#243;n espiritual.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a> </p><p>Pero no <em>todos</em> los que piensan que el aborto est&#225; equivocado porque es un asesinato creen esto por razones espirituales o religiosas. Un consecuencialista de reglas que es ateo puede simplemente creer que debe haber una l&#237;nea en alguna parte, por el bien de la sociedad; la cuesti&#243;n es solo d&#243;nde trazarla y por qu&#233;.</p><p>Sin embargo, incluso aquellos que no son consecuencialistas de la regla, no consideran relevantes las almas o una dimensi&#243;n espiritual, o que son de alguna manera religiosos, a veces sentir&#225;n reparos en destruir la vida no nacida. Aplican conceptos como sensibilidad, dolor y autonom&#237;a incluso a los reci&#233;n nacidos. Muchos se sienten inc&#243;modos con las pruebas polig&#233;nicas, incluso sin un encuadre religioso. Para ellos, es una cuesti&#243;n filos&#243;fica te&#243;rica. En el juda&#237;smo, la santidad de la vida es una cuesti&#243;n espiritual, porque la vida misma es vista como una confianza divina, otorgada a nosotros por Di-s.</p><h3>El potencial para la vida: Er, Onan y la corte celestial</h3><p>La historia de Er y On&#225;n, en el libro del G&#233;nesis, muestra que incluso la vida potencial puede considerarse vida. Er y Onan fueron golpeados por Di-s por el pecado de desperdiciar semilla. Un embri&#243;n ciertamente tiene m&#225;s potencial que la semilla, y un embarazo a&#250;n m&#225;s.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a> <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a>  </p><p>La severidad, en esta historia, es tratada como espiritualmente similar a la destrucci&#243;n del potencial de una vida. Por lo tanto fueron considerados estaba &#8220;<em>malvados a los ojos del Se&#241;or</em>&#8221; y murieron por ello, a pesar de que no se clasifica como asesinato en tribunales humanos.</p><h3>&#193;rboles frutales, chispas cabal&#237;sticas y la santidad de la creaci&#243;n</h3><p>Toda la vida es la dimensi&#243;n espiritual eterna que Di-s insufla en los seres vivos. Los humanos tienen un alma humana, y otras cosas, como los &#225;rboles, tambi&#233;n tienen una fuerza vital espiritual. Todos tenemos esta dimensi&#243;n espiritual, y no est&#225; sujeta a reglas f&#237;sicas. Fuentes ag&#225;dicas dicen que, cuando se corta un &#225;rbol frutal, su grito de dolor resuena de un extremo del mundo al otro.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="#footnote-7" target="_self">7</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-8" href="#footnote-8" target="_self">8</a></p><p>Seg&#250;n esto, los que abrazan &#225;rboles frutales, al menos, previenen los gritos de dolor. Espiritualmente hablando. Los &#225;rboles frutales est&#225;n protegidos por la ley jud&#237;a, y no pueden ser destruidos en tiempos de guerra, incluso en una guerra religiosamente obligatoria, aunque se destruyan otros cultivos.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-9" href="#footnote-9" target="_self">9</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-10" href="#footnote-10" target="_self">10</a></p><p>Los comentaristas dan varias razones. Algunos se centran en el valor inherente de los &#225;rboles mismos, ya que sustentan la vida y dan fruto. Otros enfatizan su utilidad para la humanidad, o la ven como una disciplina moral; o como una advertencia contra la destrucci&#243;n sin sentido nacida de la ira o la victoria. Maim&#243;nides codifica esto bajo la ley general de &#8220;<em>no destruir despilfarradoramente</em>&#8221;, que se extiende mucho m&#225;s all&#225; de los &#225;rboles. 11 En resumen, la vida misma, los componentes de la vida y las cosas que dan vida no son nuestros para desperdiciar.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-11" href="#footnote-11" target="_self">11</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-12" href="#footnote-12" target="_self">12</a></p><h3>&#193;rboles para las personas</h3><p>El mismo principio se aplica a todos los seres humanos. Uno profana Shabat para salvar incluso un embarazo muy temprano, seg&#250;n muchas opiniones, porque ya cuenta como vida establecida en cierta medida. Por otro lado, si el embarazo amenaza la vida de la madre, el embarazo debe terminar.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-13" href="#footnote-13" target="_self">13</a> </p><p>&#191;Es una vida, o la mitad de una vida, o qu&#233;?</p><p>Reflejando los tiempos antiguos y la pol&#237;tica, la Mishn&#225; propone un caso &#250;nico: un hombre medio esclavizado y medio libre. Era propiedad conjunta de dos maestros, cada uno con una participaci&#243;n del 50%, pero solo uno lo liber&#243;. &#191;Con qui&#233;n puede casarse?</p><p>La mitad liberada lo convirti&#243; en jud&#237;o, prohibi&#233;ndole vivir con una sirvienta. Sin embargo, la mitad esclavizada le prohibi&#243; casarse con una mujer jud&#237;a. La ley jud&#237;a dice que no puede ser dejado en un limbo as&#237;, ya que viola su dignidad humana no tener una forma legal de formar una familia.</p><p>Los sabios concluyeron que el maestro restante se ve obligado a liberarlo, invocando el verso &#8220;<em>Di-s no cre&#243; el mundo para el caos, sino para ser resuelto</em>&#8221;.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-14" href="#footnote-14" target="_self">14</a></p><p>Esto demuestra que, al igual que protegemos la vida potencial en el &#250;tero, tambi&#233;n protegemos el potencial para la vida en sociedad. La dignidad humana, y la capacidad de formar una familia, forman parte del sostenimiento de la vida. La actitud jud&#237;a es apoyar la continuaci&#243;n de la vida, de las familias vivas, de nuestra humilde vida humana cotidiana. Por eso, como discutiremos en la siguiente secci&#243;n sobre FIV, las parejas que no pueden tener hijos son ayudadas naturalmente de cualquier manera que est&#233; permitida en la ley jud&#237;a.</p><h3>En el que una madre, dos suegras, 3 rabinos, 4 doctores, 5 abogados y 6 embriones entran en un peral, pero NO lo cortan.</h3><p>&#191;Mi opini&#243;n es autoritaria? Bueno, depende de a qui&#233;n le preguntes, y hay mucha gente a quien preguntar. Una madre, dos suegras, 3 rabinos, 4 doctores, 5 abogados y 6 embriones entran en un peral, pero NO lo cortan, pero su discusi&#243;n definitivamente hace sonar.</p><p>Aqu&#237; hay una instant&#225;nea &#250;til de la complejidad. Casey, Agudath Israel of America, una organizaci&#243;n que representa a los jud&#237;os ortodoxos en los Estados Unidos, resume su punto de vista.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-15" href="#footnote-15" target="_self">15</a> </p><ul><li><p>El primer principio es la <strong>santidad de la vida</strong>. Las leyes que abaratan la vida ponen en peligro a la sociedad. Por lo tanto, se opusieron a que Roe enmarcara el aborto como una libertad &#8220;fundamental&#8221;.</p><p><em>&#8212; Nota: &#161;Esto no corresponde a la posici&#243;n &#8220;pro-vida&#8221; en la pol&#237;tica estadounidense!</em></p></li><li><p>El segundo principio es la <strong>libertad religiosa</strong>. Debido a que existen casos en los que la ley jud&#237;a puede permitir o incluso requerir un aborto, los jud&#237;os deben ser libres de seguir la ley jud&#237;a.</p><p><em>&#8212; Nota: &#161;Esto no corresponde a la posici&#243;n &#8220;pro-elecci&#243;n&#8221; en la pol&#237;tica estadounidense!</em></p></li></ul><h3>Hasta 40 d&#237;as: &#191;Mera agua?</h3><p>El Talmud describe la etapa m&#225;s temprana del embarazo, antes de los 40 d&#237;as, como &#8220;<em>mera agua</em>&#8221;. Esta frase refleja c&#243;mo, en ese momento, el embri&#243;n no tiene una forma discernible propia. Al menos sin microscopio.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-16" href="#footnote-16" target="_self">16</a>  </p><p>Pero ahora, cient&#237;ficamente hablando, ya se puede ver el modelo de los genes en la concepci&#243;n. Despu&#233;s de todo, la selecci&#243;n polig&#233;nica ocurre en este momento. &#191;Significa eso que est&#225; bien tirar embriones, ya que el embri&#243;n es como un <em>mera agua</em> a menos que tengas tecnolog&#237;a moderna?</p><p> Quiz&#225;s &#8220;<em>mera agua&#8221;</em> signifique que, en esta etapa, el embri&#243;n parece no tener una forma independiente propia. Como un l&#237;quido, toma la forma de cualquier recipiente en el que lo pongas. Ahora mismo est&#225; dentro de su madre, y por lo tanto toma la forma de su madre. Como est&#225; ligada a la forma de su madre, tiene el mismo estatus que su madre con respecto a las reglas de la era del Templo que a la madre se le permite comer de acuerdo con la ley jud&#237;a (aunque es un ser espiritual separado.) <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-17" href="#footnote-17" target="_self">17</a> </p><p>El Talmud dice que a uno se le permite orar para cambiar el g&#233;nero del feto durante estos 40 d&#237;as, pero no despu&#233;s de eso. Despu&#233;s de 40 d&#237;as, el g&#233;nero est&#225; establecido.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-18" href="#footnote-18" target="_self">18</a> </p><p>&#191;Qu&#233; significa esto para el alma del feto? El Ga&#243;n de Vilna ense&#241;a, y las fuentes cabal&#237;sticas afirman, que hay chispas sagradas desde el principio. Casi parece deshumanizante describir a un humano potencial hecho a imagen de Di-s como &#8220;<em>mera agua</em>&#8221;, as&#237; que &#191;por qu&#233; el Talmud dice eso?<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-19" href="#footnote-19" target="_self">19</a></p><p>Esto se debe a que necesitamos una forma de distinguir lo que es visible y cuenta para la acci&#243;n en este mundo, a diferencia de la dimensi&#243;n <em>espiritual</em> de las almas y las chispas. En la dimensi&#243;n <em>f&#237;sica</em>, antes de cuarenta d&#237;as es agua y, por lo tanto, puede haber indulgencias. En la dimensi&#243;n espiritual, un &#8220;<em>alma</em>&#8221; ya est&#225; presente desde la concepci&#243;n, desde la existencia de la semilla, y cualquier destrucci&#243;n injustificada de la vida en esta etapa toca una rama de culpa de sangre en el Cielo, incluso si no se juzga como asesinato en tribunales humanos.</p><h3>Persiguiendo la vida de la madre</h3><p>Si cualquier etapa del embarazo y del parto se vuelve posiblemente letal para la madre, el feto es etiquetado como un &#8220;persecutor&#8221;, que puede (inadvertidamente, pero el resultado es el mismo) asesinar a la madre. Hasta el nacimiento, la ley jud&#237;a prioriza la vida de la madre. Una vez que la cabeza o la mayor parte del cuerpo han emergido, ambas vidas se consideran iguales y una no puede dejarse de lado para la otra.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-20" href="#footnote-20" target="_self">20</a> </p><p>Desde una perspectiva hal&#225;jica (ley jud&#237;a), antes de los cuarenta d&#237;as un feto es &#8220;mera agua&#8221;, pero desde una perspectiva espiritual, el potencial de vida est&#225; presente incluso antes de la concepci&#243;n, y ciertamente despu&#233;s. Esta es la raz&#243;n por la que la vida es sagrada incluso en sus formas m&#225;s tempranas y ocultas, mientras que, en la pr&#225;ctica, la ley jud&#237;a distingue entre las diferentes etapas para aplicaciones pr&#225;cticas.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-21" href="#footnote-21" target="_self">21</a></p><p>Por supuesto, nada de esto es simple o un&#225;nime. Se debaten los detalles de profanar el Shabat para salvar incluso un embarazo precoz, y las autoridades posteriores difieren en cuanto a hasta qu&#233; punto se extiende ese principio.</p><p>Hay muchos matices que ocurren tr&#225;gicamente en la vida real, como la anormalidad fetal severa, donde la vida despu&#233;s del nacimiento ser&#237;a dolorosamente breve. Varias autoridades las abordan de manera diferente y est&#225;n fuera de mi alcance. Proporciono fuentes en la siguiente secci&#243;n sobre la FIV.</p><p>Lo que comparten todos estos debates es su seriedad subyacente: que la vida, incluso en sus formas m&#225;s tempranas y ocultas, exige atenci&#243;n moral y espiritual. La consistencia del juda&#237;smo radica en su negativa a tratar cualquier vida de manera casual.</p><h3> Puntos de vista cristianos vs. jud&#237;os</h3><p>Los Estados Unidos est&#225;n formados por influencias ideol&#243;gicas cristianas. Si bien la mayor&#237;a de los Estados Unidos son protestantes, sus denominaciones tienen puntos de vista muy variados sobre la vida antes del nacimiento. En contraste, la Iglesia Cat&#243;lica tiene una soluci&#243;n simple: la vida comienza en la concepci&#243;n. En la cultura estadounidense, esta visi&#243;n domina cuando se habla del valor de la vida.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-22" href="#footnote-22" target="_self">22</a>  </p><p>La visi&#243;n del juda&#237;smo es m&#225;s estricta sobre la santidad de la vida y m&#225;s flexible sobre la metaf&#237;sica aplicada a la biolog&#237;a. No decimos &#8220;la vida comienza&#8221;, sino que &#8220;toda vida es sagrada en cada etapa&#8221;. Lo &#250;nico en lo que todos los jud&#237;os est&#225;n de acuerdo es en que esta vida en la concepci&#243;n no es la visi&#243;n jud&#237;a. Sin embargo, el feticidio sin causa m&#233;dica o hal&#225;jica est&#225; completamente prohibido. Es importante enfatizar que interrumpir cualquier embarazo es una decisi&#243;n seria y requiere que un experto en la ley jud&#237;a decida sobre cada situaci&#243;n individual.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-23" href="#footnote-23" target="_self">23</a> </p><p>La temprana oposici&#243;n cristiana al aborto puede reflejar la influencia moral del juda&#237;smo en el mundo grecorromano. Las fuentes griegas ya comentan sobre la reverencia jud&#237;a por la vida, distingui&#233;ndola de sus propias costumbres m&#225;s permisivas.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-24" href="#footnote-24" target="_self">24</a> </p><div class="pullquote"><p><em>Descargo de responsabilidad: Las decisiones reproductivas a menudo implican cuestiones complicadas en la ley jud&#237;a, y las sentencias var&#237;an mucho dependiendo de la situaci&#243;n y de la autoridad rab&#237;nica. &#161;No soy una autoridad! Sigue cada enlace para ver las fuentes por ti mismo. En cuanto a preguntar a un rabino, es importante aclarar el procedimiento m&#233;dico exacto que se le pregunta. &#161;Este art&#237;culo no puede utilizarse para llegar a conclusiones religiosas!</em></p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9QvV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22cf5ce6-a783-427e-aaae-774d1d8c3e8a_584x736.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9QvV!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22cf5ce6-a783-427e-aaae-774d1d8c3e8a_584x736.jpeg 424w, 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No hay una l&#237;nea de tiempo, pero est&#225; en proceso.</em></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Para reflexionar m&#225;s, les remito al excelente art&#237;culo de Rebbetzin Fastag sobre la reencarnaci&#243;n. https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/unsongreview</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Este podr&#237;a no ser el mejor ejemplo, porque la comunicaci&#243;n con los chimpanc&#233;s es controvertida, pero independientemente del punto es que el juda&#237;smo define la vida por el alma, no por la inteligencia o la habilidad.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>N&#250;meros 22:28 y 30</p><p><em>El Se&#241;or abri&#243; la boca del burra, y ella le dijo a Balaam: &#8220;&#191;Qu&#233; te he hecho que me hayas golpeado estas tres veces?</em></p><p><em>La burra le dijo a Balaam: &#8220;&#191;No soy yo tu burra en la que has montado desde que empezaste hasta ahora? &#191;He estado acostumbrada a hacerte esto? </em></p><p><em>&#201;l dijo: &#8220;No&#8221;.</em></p><p>https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/9950/showrashi/true/jewish/Chapter-22.htm</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>G&#233;nesis 1:28  &#8220;<em>Sed fruct&#237;feros y multiplicaos y llenad la tierra y conquistenla&#8221;</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/379781/jewish/Redeeming-the-Widow-in-Exile.htm</p><p><em>Tamar era la nuera de Jud&#225;, casada con su hijo Er. Er no quer&#237;a que el embarazo da&#241;ara la belleza de Tamar, as&#237; que se retir&#243; antes de completar el coito y desperdici&#243; su semilla en el suelo. Despu&#233;s de que Di-s castigara a Er por esto mat&#225;ndolo, Jud&#225; hizo que su segundo hijo, On&#225;n, se casara con Tamar para perpetuar el nombre de Er, cumpliendo el mandamiento del matrimonio levirato. Onan, sabiendo que el hijo de su uni&#243;n no ser&#237;a considerado suyo, tambi&#233;n se retir&#243; antes de completar el coito, y Di-s lo castig&#243; tambi&#233;n mat&#225;ndolo.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="#footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8233/showrashi/true/jewish/Chapter-38.htm#lt=both </p><p>Ver vers&#237;culos 7-10.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="#footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Un &#225;rbol simboliza la eternidad, como Ad&#225;n antes del pecado, como el &#193;rbol de la Vida en el Jard&#237;n del Ed&#233;n.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-8" href="#footnote-anchor-8" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">8</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_DeRabbi_Eliezer.34.4?lang=bi</p><p><em>Las voces de cinco (objetos de la creaci&#243;n) van de un extremo del mundo al otro, y sus voces son inaudibles. Cuando la gente tala la madera del &#225;rbol que da fruto, su grito va de un extremo al otro del mundo, y la voz es inaudible. Cuando la serpiente se desprende de su piel, su grito va de un extremo al otro del mundo y su voz no se escucha. Cuando una mujer est&#225; divorciada de su marido, su voz sale de un extremo del mundo al otro, pero la voz es inaudible. Cuando el beb&#233; || sale del vientre de su madre. Cuando el alma se aparta del cuerpo, el grito sale de un extremo del mundo al otro, y la voz no se escucha. El alma no sale del cuerpo hasta que contempla la Shejin&#225;, como se dice: &#8220;Porque el hombre no me ver&#225; ni vivir&#225;&#8221; (Ex. 33:20).</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-9" href="#footnote-anchor-9" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">9</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Aunque son abrazables, los &#225;rboles no son antropom&#243;rficos.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-10" href="#footnote-anchor-10" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">10</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Deuteronomio 20:19</p><p><em>Cuando sitias una ciudad... no debes destruir sus &#225;rboles frutales empu&#241;ando un hacha contra ellos.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-11" href="#footnote-anchor-11" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">11</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>V&#233;ase Rambam, Mishn&#233; Tor&#225;, Hilchos Melachim uMilchamos 6:8-10. Las rayas de conducta rebelde (makkas mardud) son medidas disciplinarias rab&#237;nicas distintas de los latigazos de la Tor&#225;. https://www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Torah%2C_Kings_and_Wars.6.10?lang=bi</p><p>(V&#233;ase tambi&#233;n: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/105897/how-similar-were-rabbinic-mandated-lashes-to-torah-mandated-lashes)</p><p><em>Esta prohibici&#243;n no se aplica &#250;nicamente a los &#225;rboles. M&#225;s bien, cualquiera que rompa utensilios, rompa prendas de vestir, destruya edificios, detenga un resorte o arruine la comida con una intenci&#243;n destructiva transgrede el comando &#8216;No destruyas.&#8217; Sin embargo, no est&#225; azotado. En cambio, recibe azotes por conductas rebeldes instituidas por los sabios.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-12" href="#footnote-anchor-12" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">12</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Esto aborda la rid&#237;cula afirmaci&#243;n de Scott Alexander de que incluso la pizza consumida por mujeres embarazadas puede sustentar la vida.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-13" href="#footnote-anchor-13" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">13</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8233/showrashi/true/jewish/Chapter-38.htm#lt=both</p><p>Ver vers&#237;culos 7-10.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-14" href="#footnote-anchor-14" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">14</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/379781/jewish/Redeeming-the-Widow-in-Exile.htm</p><p><em>Tamar was Judah&#8217;s daughter-in-law, married to his son Er. Er did not want pregnancy to damage Tamar&#8217;s beauty, so he withdrew before completing intercourse and wasted his seed on the ground. After G&#8209;d punished Er for this by killing him, Judah had his second son, Onan, marry Tamar in order to perpetuate Er&#8217;s name, fulfilling the commandment of levirate marriage. Onan, knowing that the child of their union would not be considered his, also withdrew before completing intercourse, and <a href="https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/433240/jewish/God.htm">G&#8209;d</a> punished him also by killing him.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-15" href="#footnote-anchor-15" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">15</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><em>Informado por la tradici&#243;n jud&#237;a cl&#225;sica que ense&#241;a que toda vida humana es sagrada, y poseedor de la firme visi&#243;n de que las leyes que socavan la santidad de la vida humana env&#237;an un mensaje que es profundamente peligroso para toda la sociedad, Agudath Israel habla con frecuencia sobre una amplia panoplia de cuestiones de pol&#237;tica p&#250;blica que surgen al comienzo y al final del ciclo de vida humano. De acuerdo con este enfoque, Agudath Israel se ha opuesto durante mucho tiempo a la afirmaci&#243;n central de Roe contra Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), de que el derecho al aborto protegido por la cl&#225;usula de libertad personal/proceso debido de la Decimocuarta Enmienda es uniformemente &#8220;fundamental&#8221; y, por lo tanto, protegido contra el compendio gubernamental sin un inter&#233;s estatal apremiante.</em></p><p><em>Al mismo tiempo, como representante de una comunidad minoritaria religiosa cuyos electores dependen en gran medida de las libertades religiosas garantizadas por la Primera Enmienda, Agudath Israel es un firme defensor de la libertad religiosa para todos los estadounidenses. Una vez m&#225;s, el tema del aborto ocupa un lugar destacado en la agenda de Agudath Israel. La tradici&#243;n jud&#237;a otorga a la vida fetal una protecci&#243;n significativa. Como regla general, el juda&#237;smo rechaza la idea de que la interrupci&#243;n del embarazo, incluso antes de la viabilidad fetal, es propiamente una cuesti&#243;n de libre elecci&#243;n materna. No obstante, en ciertos casos excepcionales, la ley jud&#237;a puede autorizar el aborto; de hecho, puede requerir el aborto como una cuesti&#243;n de obligaci&#243;n religiosa. En consecuencia, junto con su oposici&#243;n al aborto legalizado bajo demanda, Agudath Israel ha apoyado el derecho legal de una mujer al aborto donde busca el aborto como una expresi&#243;n de su fe religiosa.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-16" href="#footnote-anchor-16" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">16</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Yevamos 69b, Niddah 30a &#8220;Maya be-alma&#8221;, que generalmente se traduce como &#8220;agua pura&#8221;.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-17" href="#footnote-anchor-17" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">17</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Por ejemplo, el Talmud explica que el embri&#243;n de una hija de un sacerdote puede, a trav&#233;s de ella, comer alimentos que solo los descendientes paternos sacerdotales pueden comer, incluso si el padre del embri&#243;n no lo es.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-18" href="#footnote-anchor-18" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">18</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.chabad.org/torah-texts/5299939/The-Talmud/Berachot/Chapter-9/60a</p><p><em>La Guemar&#225; introduce una explicaci&#243;n alternativa: Y si lo desea, digan en cambio que la historia de Lea y su oraci&#243;n con respecto al feto fue dentro de los cuarenta d&#237;as posteriores a la concepci&#243;n. Como se ense&#241;aba en un baraita: Durante los primeros tres d&#237;as despu&#233;s del coito, uno debe rezar para que la semilla no se pudra, para que fertilice el &#243;vulo y se convierta en un feto. Desde el tercer d&#237;a hasta el cuadrag&#233;simo, uno debe rezar para que sea masculino. Desde el cuadrag&#233;simo d&#237;a hasta los tres meses, se debe rezar para que no se deforme, con la forma de un pez plano, ya que cuando el feto no se desarrolla, asume una forma algo similar a la de un pez sandalia plana. Desde el tercer mes hasta el sexto, uno debe rezar para que no nazca muerto. Y desde el sexto mes hasta el noveno, uno debe rezar para que emerja con seguridad. Por lo tanto, durante los primeros cuarenta d&#237;as desde la concepci&#243;n, uno todav&#237;a puede orar para afectar el g&#233;nero del feto.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-19" href="#footnote-anchor-19" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">19</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Una explicaci&#243;n simple es que &#8220;Maya&#8221; describe los productos del aborto espont&#225;neo en estos momentos del embarazo.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-20" href="#footnote-anchor-20" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">20</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.mishnah.org/learn/oholos/7/6/</p><p>Mishn&#225; Ohalos 7:6 </p><p>&#161;Tengan en cuenta que esto est&#225; hablando de un tiempo antes de que hubiera ces&#225;reas y otras bendiciones modernas!</p><p><em>Si una mujer tiene problemas para dar a luz, cortan al ni&#241;o en su vientre y lo sacan a luz miembro por miembro, porque su vida precede a la vida del ni&#241;o. Pero si la mayor parte ha salido, uno no puede tocarla, porque uno no puede dejar de lado la vida de una persona por la de otra.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-21" href="#footnote-anchor-21" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">21</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/abortion-in-jewish-thought/">https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/abortion-in-jewish-thought/</a></p><p><em>Si bien el juda&#237;smo adopta un enfoque mucho menos estricto del aborto que muchas denominaciones pro-vida del cristianismo, proporcionando excepciones expl&#237;citas para las amenazas a la vida de una madre y el apoyo rab&#237;nico para interrumpir un embarazo en una serie de otras situaciones, existe, sin embargo, una amplia objeci&#243;n al aborto en casos sin causa grave. Adem&#225;s, a pesar del consenso de que el aborto est&#225; permitido en los casos en que continuar el embarazo representa una amenaza para la vida de la madre, existe desacuerdo sobre lo que constituye una amenaza.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-22" href="#footnote-anchor-22" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">22</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://naapc.org/when-does-a-human-being-begin/why-life-begins-at-conception/</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-23" href="#footnote-anchor-23" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">23</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Por favor, dime si hay una fuente que ech&#233; de menos que no est&#233; de acuerdo.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-24" href="#footnote-anchor-24" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">24</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38064554_From_Imago_Dei_in_the_Jewish-Christian_Traditions_to_Human_Dignity_in_Contemporary_Jewish_Law</p><p><em>El juda&#237;smo hel&#233;nico ha desaparecido de la historia, dejando huellas indirectas en el pensamiento de los Padres cristianos griegos. Por lo tanto, la percepci&#243;n contempor&#225;nea del &#8220;juda&#237;smo&#8221; est&#225; coloreada por las escuelas no helenizadas y no latinizadas del Talmud, que hablaban hebreo y arameo (Grafton y Williams 2006). As&#237; que lo que hoy se considera &#8220;jud&#237;o&#8221; podr&#237;a reflejar solo una corriente sobreviviente del juda&#237;smo en la antig&#252;edad, y lo que hoy se considera &#8220;cristiano&#8221; en realidad articula, al menos parcialmente, tradiciones jud&#237;as perdidas. En el Nuevo Testamento, la creaci&#243;n a imagen de Di-s se menciona en relaci&#243;n con el &#8220;hombre nuevo&#8221;, que fue renovado en conocimiento (Colosenses 3:10), por lo que imago Dei se asoci&#243; con un rasgo espec&#237;fico e inmaterial.</em></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mamdani Plans, G-d Laughs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rejected title: York al-jadeeda]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/mamdanienglish</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/mamdanienglish</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Isha Yiras Hashem]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:49:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y97e!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e2a817b-d810-4e71-a226-0f18796d038b_1024x768.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;4bf1961e-c4ea-47ea-970b-b5026b1399eb&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;La reciente elecci&#243;n de Mamdani preocup&#243; a casi todos los jud&#237;os que conozco. La preocupaci&#243;n por la pol&#237;tica es muy v&#225;lida y atrae la atenci&#243;n de muchas personas muy inteligentes que no son lo suficientemente inteligentes como para temer a Di-s.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Planes Mamdani, Di-s se r&#237;e.&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:90196335,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot; IshaYirasHashem@Gmail.com spiritual/ humor risas/espiritual English/Espa&#241;ol &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WOYC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdedadf61-122d-41ad-bd09-c4921cd3e391_1080x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-05T23:48:25.010Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XjWS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a87e2dc-ab19-483d-b1d3-76b105098a1b_1024x768.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/mamdaniespanol&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem en Espa&#241;ol &quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:178103135,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:0,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:997685,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Isha Yiras Hashem at Substack &quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oDFS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68f6200c-44a2-4168-8254-5cbbbd9800b4_1200x1200.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>The recent election of Zohran K. Mamdani to mayor of New York City worried nearly all the Jewish people I know.  Concern about politics is very valid and a huge attention draw to many highly intelligent people, who are not quite wise enough to fear G-d. </p><p>To be fair, every election in living memory has caused the intelligentsia to be concerned about the election results, no matter what they are. Good citizens do not generally like the people in power, because they are all politicians, and even if  they do, by a stroke of luck, happen to like an elected official, they look at the voting patterns and worry about what that means for the United States democracy, foreign policy, economy, and their dating prospects. </p><p>It goes without saying  that I, personally, prefer that every time someone is elected, it is someone who gets along with me so well that I don&#8217;t even have to ask them to subscribe to my substack.  It would be great if every person in a leadership position only ever used their power in ways that I personally approve of. For example, everything I want my husband to do should absolutely be legally mandated, and everything that even slightly annoys me, like putting chocolate chips into oatmeal cookies, should be forbidden by law. And everyone should vote for this, in my opinion. </p><p>Unfortunately,  my husband is unlikely to vote for this, and what makes this even less likely is that, nowadays, he is mostly the one who votes. At this point, please note that I am a registered democrat and minored in Political Science and believe that  that voting is your civic obligation  and really really important. </p><p>Unlike everyone else who didn&#8217;t  vote, I  have really  outstanding excuses. I was literally  giving birth during  the 2020 presidential election. Right now I am recovering  from pneumonia and struggle to breathe outside the house, so I limit my travels outside to doctor visits and picking up medicine from pharmacies, and I have Paperwork Processing Pathology that is so bad that I have gone years without figuring out how to  correct two of my children&#8217;s birth certificates. One has the name misspelled,  and the other claims I am ten years older than I am, and if I can&#8217;t get that fixed, you definitely shouldn&#8217;t expect me to figure out how to vote. </p><p>I thought of a religious justification, too. In Jewish law, women are not obligated in time-bound commandments. Voting is a time-bound civic obligation.  Therefore, according to my religion, I should not be obligated to vote. Also, I haven&#8217;t been able to anyway, and it is always nice to have religious justification after the fact when I don&#8217;t feel like doing something. </p><p>This really annoys my husband, because he wants me to be the one who cares about voting. He used to claim  he only voted because I made him do it, but he can no longer get away with that excuse. He will just have to own that he cares about elections. I care about them too, really I do, or I wouldn&#8217;t be writing this.  </p><p>Back to Zohran K Mamdani, everyone is very upset about it, as far as I know. Now he is pretty bad, as politicians go. On the scale I just invented, of Churchill to Hitler, he&#8217;s  probably  closer to ... Hitler. He hates Israel, loves communism, and ran Yiddish-language ads, providing money to newspapers in insulated communities. These are facts.  But facts are not enough to explain how serious the situation is in New York. </p><p>We may guess at some of the more obnoxious possibilities. He might change the name of New York to &#8220;York al-jadeeda&#8221; and declare it Muslim. The reason I think he would keep the York part  is to honor York, England for expelling Jews in the 1200s. He won&#8217;t really mind if Muslims attack Jews on the streets of New York City. He already believe that Abraham almost sacrificed Ishmael and not Isaac. And worse. </p><p>As Jews, this should not  surprise us. G-d has put us  in exile for our sins, and no election result will affect that  in any way. Only repentance, prayer, and charity can overcome a bad decree. </p><p>For the real leftists, I suggest praying to Allah if that&#8217;s more comfortable. Nothing will ever be comfortable about repentance, and charity is likewise an extremely difficult activity to engage in. </p><p>In conclusion,  turning to a Higher Power is what will change your life, not an election. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y97e!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e2a817b-d810-4e71-a226-0f18796d038b_1024x768.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y97e!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e2a817b-d810-4e71-a226-0f18796d038b_1024x768.png 424w, 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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XjWS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a87e2dc-ab19-483d-b1d3-76b105098a1b_1024x768.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>La reciente elecci&#243;n de Mamdani preocup&#243; a casi todos los jud&#237;os que conozco. La preocupaci&#243;n por la pol&#237;tica es muy v&#225;lida y atrae la atenci&#243;n de muchas personas muy inteligentes que no son lo suficientemente inteligentes como para temer a Di-s.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;922c75ac-347a-406b-a2d9-de9e78576b4e&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The recent election of Zohran K. Mamdani to mayor of New York City worried nearly all the Jewish people I know. 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No les gustan las personas en el poder, porque todos son pol&#237;ticos, e incluso si, por casualidad, les cae bien alg&#250;n funcionario electo, analizan los patrones de votaci&#243;n y se preocupan por lo que eso significa para la democracia estadounidense, la pol&#237;tica exterior, la econom&#237;a y sus perspectivas de citas.</p><p>Personalmente, por supuesto, prefiero que cada vez que alguien sea elegido, sea alguien que se lleve tan bien conmigo que ni siquiera tenga que pedirle que se suscriba a mi Substack. Ser&#237;a genial si todas las personas en puestos de liderazgo solo usaran su poder de forma que yo apruebe personalmente. Por ejemplo, todo lo que quiero que haga mi marido deber&#237;a ser legalmente obligatorio, y todo lo que me molesta un poco, como poner pepitas de chocolate en las galletas de avena, deber&#237;a estar prohibido por ley. Y, en mi opini&#243;n, todos deber&#237;an votar por esto.</p><p>Desafortunadamente, es poco probable que mi marido vote por esto, y lo que lo hace a&#250;n menos probable es que, hoy en d&#237;a, &#233;l es el que vota principalmente. En este punto, cabe se&#241;alar que estoy registrada como dem&#243;crata, estudi&#233; Ciencias Pol&#237;ticas y creo que votar es una obligaci&#243;n c&#237;vica y realmente muy importante.</p><p>A diferencia de todos los dem&#225;s que no votaron, yo tengo excusas realmente excepcionales. Literalmente estaba dando a luz durante las elecciones presidenciales de 2020. Ahora mismo me estoy recuperando de una neumon&#237;a y me cuesta respirar fuera de casa, as&#237; que limito mis salidas a las visitas al m&#233;dico y a recoger medicamentos en las farmacias, y tengo un problema con el papeleo tan grave que he pasado a&#241;os sin saber c&#243;mo corregir los certificados de nacimiento de dos de mis hijos.  Uno tiene mi nombre mal escrito, y el otro afirma que tengo diez a&#241;os m&#225;s de los que tengo, y si no puedo solucionar eso, definitivamente no deber&#237;an esperar que sepa c&#243;mo votar.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n pens&#233; en una justificaci&#243;n religiosa. Seg&#250;n la ley jud&#237;a, las mujeres no est&#225;n obligadas a cumplir con los mandamientos que dependen del tiempo. Votar es una obligaci&#243;n c&#237;vica que depende del tiempo. Por lo tanto, seg&#250;n mi religi&#243;n, no deber&#237;a estar obligada a votar. Adem&#225;s, de todos modos no he podido hacerlo, y siempre es bueno tener una justificaci&#243;n religiosa a posteriori cuando no tengo ganas de hacer algo.</p><p>Esto molesta mucho a mi marido, porque quiere que sea yo quien se preocupe por votar. Sol&#237;a &#8203;&#8203;decir que solo votaba porque yo lo obligaba, pero ya no puede usar esa excusa. Tendr&#225; que admitir que le importan las elecciones. A m&#237; tambi&#233;n me importan, de verdad, o no estar&#237;a escribiendo esto.</p><p>Volviendo a Zohran K Mamdani, que yo sepa, todo el mundo est&#225; muy molesto con &#233;l. Ahora mismo es bastante malo, para ser pol&#237;tico. En la escala que acabo de inventar, de Churchill a Hitler, probablemente est&#233; m&#225;s cerca de... Hitler. Odia a Israel, ama el comunismo y public&#243; anuncios en yiddish, proporcionando dinero a peri&#243;dicos en comunidades aisladas. Estos son hechos. Pero los hechos no son suficientes para explicar la gravedad de la situaci&#243;n en Nueva York.</p><p>Podemos imaginar algunas de las posibilidades m&#225;s desagradables. Podr&#237;a cambiar el nombre de Nueva York a &#8220;York al-jadeeda&#8221; y declararla musulmana. La raz&#243;n por la que creo que mantendr&#237;a la parte de York es para honrar a York, Inglaterra, por expulsar a los jud&#237;os en el siglo XIII. No le importar&#225; mucho si los musulmanes atacan a los jud&#237;os en las calles de la ciudad de Nueva York. Ya cree que Abraham casi sacrific&#243; a Ismael y no a Isaac. Y peor a&#250;n.</p><p>Como jud&#237;os, esto no deber&#237;a sorprendernos. Di-s nos ha puesto en el exilio por nuestros pecados, y ning&#250;n resultado electoral afectar&#225; eso de ninguna manera. Solo el arrepentimiento, la oraci&#243;n y la caridad pueden superar un mal decreto.  Para los verdaderos izquierdistas, sugiero orar a Al&#225; si les resulta m&#225;s c&#243;modo que a Di-s o Hashem. El arrepentimiento nunca ser&#225; f&#225;cil, y la caridad es igualmente una actividad extremadamente dif&#237;cil. En conclusi&#243;n, lo que cambiar&#225; sus vidas es recurrir a un Poder Superior, no unas elecciones.</p><p>Isha &#8203;&#8203;Yiras Hashem</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[1/4: Choosing Life, With Genetic Testing ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Espanol]]></description><link>https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/14-choosing-life-with-genetic-testing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/14-choosing-life-with-genetic-testing</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:19:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nriw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f1bef02-e19d-488d-b3aa-2dabae046578_894x1073.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/14-elegir-la-vida-con-pruebas-geneticas"> </a><em><a href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/14-elegir-la-vida-con-pruebas-geneticas">Espanol</a></em></p><p>I disagree with  Scott Alexander's recent article saying polygenic selection is obviously a good idea for those who can do it. In his view,  doing IVF and choosing the best embryo from a petri dish could be viewed as a normal parental investment, like yearly doctor visits, tutoring, or bicycle helmets. <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>  This is wrong.</p><h5><strong>I respond in 4 parts. </strong></h5><h5>1. <em>Dor Yeshorim</em>: decades before anyone thought of polygenic selection, Jewish communities had already found a way to make <em>Dor Yeshorim</em>, literally &#8220;straight generations&#8221; in Hebrew,  without costly measures, without embryo destruction, and without status games. </h5><h5>2. The Jewish perspective on life before birth (and before death and after death) </h5><h5>3. IVF&#8217;s ethical, cultural, physical, and religious baggage, with emphasis on the unique burdens it places on women.</h5><h5>4. Framing a.  response to polygenic selection: bringing it all together.</h5><h6><em>This is part 1, and while 2-4 are already 90% written, I cannot  give a timeline for when they will be posted. All this involved consulting many people - any mistakes that remain are my own, and please point them out so I may correct them. I love criticism. See numbered footnotes for sources.  Thanks to CW, TMK, JP, MSH, SL, VW, BS, SS, BM, NSB, RM, TGW, and CSW for their input. For sources, see numbered footnotes or ask.  </em></h6><h6><em>Special thanks to Rabbi Micha Berger of Avodah and Areivim listservs and Aspaqlaria blog. He now has a <a href="https://michaberger.substack.com/">substack</a>, subscribe for a real Jewish scholar who is wise and widely accepted!</em></h6><div class="embedded-publication-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:5312027,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Aspaqlaria&quot;,&quot;logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4J66!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F47ba8bc5-3034-4cf9-bafd-274c1f4220b4_373x373.png&quot;,&quot;base_url&quot;:&quot;https://michaberger.substack.com&quot;,&quot;hero_text&quot;:&quot;Keeping Torah and Values in Focus&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;Micha Berger&quot;,&quot;show_subscribe&quot;:true,&quot;logo_bg_color&quot;:&quot;#fafafa&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPublicationToDOMWithSubscribe"><div class="embedded-publication show-subscribe"><a class="embedded-publication-link-part" native="true" href="https://michaberger.substack.com?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=publication_embed&amp;utm_medium=web"><img class="embedded-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4J66!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F47ba8bc5-3034-4cf9-bafd-274c1f4220b4_373x373.png" width="56" height="56" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><span class="embedded-publication-name">Aspaqlaria</span><div class="embedded-publication-hero-text">Keeping Torah and Values in Focus</div><div class="embedded-publication-author-name">By Micha Berger</div></a><form class="embedded-publication-subscribe" method="GET" action="https://michaberger.substack.com/subscribe?"><input type="hidden" name="source" value="publication-embed"><input type="hidden" name="autoSubmit" value="true"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email..."><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"></form></div></div><h2>Why I Chose Genetic  Testing</h2><p>Long before I met my husband, was interested in dating, or had even graduated high school,  my genetic results were waiting for me, but I did not know what they were. I still do not know what they are, but I know my husband and I are safe from the worst genetic diseases.  This was thanks to an organization called  <em>Dor Yeshorim.</em><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a><em> </em></p><p><em>Dor Yeshorim </em>visits  Jewish high schools and takes a blood sample from every single student - mine was taken in 12th grade. At the time your blood is drawn,  you are given a card with a number. Do not lose this card!<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a>  </p><p> One day, when you want to date someone, you will be able to exchange numbers and check for &#8216;compatibility&#8217;.  Ideally, you exchange numbers before ever meeting. There are two possible responses: compatible,  or incompatible. If they say you are incompatible, you find someone else to date. This works because most couples are introduced only after doing some research on each other. </p><p><em>Dor Yeshorim</em> has been extremely successful in its stated purpose: to avoid creating  couples who share the genetic time bomb of  fatal recessive genes common among Ashkenazi Jews, such as Tay-Sachs. They also tests for serious diseases like Fanconi anemia,  Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and others, see their website for a full list. <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a> </p><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>About Tay-Sachs </strong></p><p>Tay&#8211;Sachs babies are born healthy and perfect, and for the first few months, everything seems fine.  After a few months of normal development, babies with Tay-Sachs  start regressing.  The smiles  and   milestones fade away as their nervous system slowly shuts down. There&#8217;s no cure. Most die before kindergarten. </p><p><em>Dor Yeshorim</em>  was founded by a father who had lost four children to Tay-Sachs. 1 out of 27 Ashkenazi Jews are carriers. </p></div><p> In my community, no couple meets until they exchange <em>Dor Yeshorim</em> numbers. I didn't date much before my husband, but none of the few I submitted came back as incompatible. I think the matchmaker did the actual number checking. </p><p>Just like in &#8220;<em>The Fiddler On The Roof</em>&#8221;!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nriw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f1bef02-e19d-488d-b3aa-2dabae046578_894x1073.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nriw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f1bef02-e19d-488d-b3aa-2dabae046578_894x1073.jpeg 424w, 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They say that they receive 49,000 requests to check compatibility each year. <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="#footnote-7" target="_self">7</a> You will never find out your own complete results  - to recieve those, you must do your own separate screening. There are many choices for this, but none have achieved  the widespread acceptance that <em>Dor Yeshorim</em> has.</p><p> Their philosophy section states<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-8" href="#footnote-8" target="_self">8</a>: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;We believe, and the system&#8217;s resounding global success supports, that in keeping all testing results confidential we eliminate any potential stigmatization of individuals and families. Furthermore, statistics show that the knowledge that one is carrying a deleterious gene can be psychologically difficult. In the case of genetic carrier status, the freedom to not know can be more liberating than the right to know.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>On a close-knit community level, this is a very clever way to  ensure that  nobody can easily figure out where they stand relative to others genetically, if everyone uses the same program.    There are, of course, many other companies that do genetic screening, such as Natera<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-9" href="#footnote-9" target="_self">9</a>, Jscreen<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-10" href="#footnote-10" target="_self">10</a>, and others. <s>I have never used them and</s> (<em>Correction: the day after posting this, I was surprised by a bill from Natera in the mail. My memory may be imperfect.)</em> I do not know anything about their systems, but they tell you all of your results, including what genes you are a carrier for. There is a lot of controversy on exactly what to test for and whom to tell. Additionally, some diseases are no longer as fatal as they were in the past.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-11" href="#footnote-11" target="_self">11</a> </p><p>I think it is important to mention here that many of us are carriers; being a carrier is usually not relevant to daily life. If you aren't a carrier, you might have your own new mutations to worry about. None of us are safe. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3dk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded92f97-d075-4240-94ae-9b1906212ba4_1545x2000.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3dk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded92f97-d075-4240-94ae-9b1906212ba4_1545x2000.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3dk!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded92f97-d075-4240-94ae-9b1906212ba4_1545x2000.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3dk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded92f97-d075-4240-94ae-9b1906212ba4_1545x2000.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3dk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded92f97-d075-4240-94ae-9b1906212ba4_1545x2000.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3dk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded92f97-d075-4240-94ae-9b1906212ba4_1545x2000.png" width="1456" height="1885" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ded92f97-d075-4240-94ae-9b1906212ba4_1545x2000.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1885,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:723979,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/i/172036492?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded92f97-d075-4240-94ae-9b1906212ba4_1545x2000.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3dk!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded92f97-d075-4240-94ae-9b1906212ba4_1545x2000.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3dk!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded92f97-d075-4240-94ae-9b1906212ba4_1545x2000.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3dk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded92f97-d075-4240-94ae-9b1906212ba4_1545x2000.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3dk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded92f97-d075-4240-94ae-9b1906212ba4_1545x2000.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>There are conditions where finding out that you are a carrier is useful information. This is because a few conditions, like Duchenne<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-12" href="#footnote-12" target="_self">12</a> or PKU<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-13" href="#footnote-13" target="_self">13</a> have &#8216;carrier effects,&#8217; and in these cases, a carrier (who has only one copy of the recessive  gene) may experience mild or even partial symptoms of the full disease. </p><p>This is not always a bad thing! Sometimes, having one copy of the recessive  gene may impart  a &#8216;carrier benefit&#8217;.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-14" href="#footnote-14" target="_self">14</a> For example,  there is a lot of evidence that protection from malaria can be conferred by being a carrier of sickle cell anemia or &#945;+thalassemia.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-15" href="#footnote-15" target="_self">15</a> </p><p>On the other hand, if someone inherits both the recessive gene for sickle cell anemia AND the gene for &#945;+thalassemia, they have no protection against malaria at all!<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-16" href="#footnote-16" target="_self">16</a> It is difficult to decide which genes you want to choose when they might cancel each other out like that. The Tay-Sachs trait might provide protection against tuberculosis, but at the price of 25% of the children having a terrible and fatal disease.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-17" href="#footnote-17" target="_self">17</a> </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!97Xp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1006f65a-4248-4254-9b57-6c505f02eb2c_1545x2000.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!97Xp!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1006f65a-4248-4254-9b57-6c505f02eb2c_1545x2000.png 424w, 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This is how they explain their philosophy: </p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;We believe in solving problems, not creating new ones. For that reason, we painstakingly examine the ramifications of each disease and, based on the genetic findings of our expert researchers and scientists, and in conjunction with rabbinical council, screen only for those diseases which fit the criteria and serve the needs of communities worldwide.&#8221;</p></div><p> <em>Dor Yeshorim</em> has a clear goal, which is to protect children from dying from lethal recessive genetic diseases. Preventing genetic diseases sounds a bit like eugenics, doesn't  it?  Jewish law may, however, permit abortion in some of these cases. </p><p>Meanwhile,  it does not promise &#8220;better&#8221; children - only selects those who are going to live anyway. The system prevents anyone trying to rank potential matches by what they are carriers of, so the carrier genes are still in the population, which must continue to use <em>Dor Yeshorim </em>until gene therapies to eradicate the gene can be used.  </p><p>Some will say, aren't you still influencing the gene pool? Well, by that definition, I think that vaccines can also be seen as &#8220;eugenics.&#8221; They permit people who lack sufficient  natural immunity to certain diseases to stay in the gene pool. That&#8217;s not how I am  using the term. </p><p><em>Dor Yeshorim</em> deals only with fatal recessive genes where, without modern medicine,  the alternative has been a short and tragic life ending in childhood.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-18" href="#footnote-18" target="_self">18</a></p><p>It does not promote traits like height, intelligence, or beauty. To the contrary, <em>Dor Yeshorim</em> has allowed an entire community for decades to use genetic screening for life-saving purposes without letting it become a status game.</p><h3><em>Dor Yeshorim</em> solved one kind of problem without dealing with the issue of when life before birth begins at all. But what happens if an embryo has already been created? At what point is destroying it considered murder? </h3><p> To answer that, we need to look at the Jewish view of life before birth in part 2, understand some more of the context around IVF in part 3, which obviously is going to impact our view on polygenic selection in the direct  response to Scott Alexander in part 4. </p><p>See you in part 2: Life before Birth!</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><div class="embedded-post-wrap" 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class="embedded-post-title">Suddenly, Trait-Based Embryo Selection</div></div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">9 months ago &#183; 367 likes &#183; 816 comments &#183; Scott Alexander</div></a></div></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Eg, this quote from Trait-Based Embryo Selection, by Scott Alexander:</p><p><em>&#8220;Is it worth it?<br>If:</em></p><ul><li><p><em>The claimed risk reductions are accurate</em></p></li><li><p><em>You value your kids&#8217; health about as much as your own</em></p></li><li><p><em>You have a low time discount rate.</em></p></li><li><p><em>You&#8217;re well-off enough that these aren&#8217;t impossible sums of money for you</em></p></li><li><p><em>You&#8217;re okay using expected utility calculations where a 50% chance of preventing X is half as good as fully preventing X.</em></p></li></ul><p><em>&#8230;then I&#8217;ll go out on a limb and say yeah, obviously it&#8217;s worth it.&#8221;</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://doryeshorim.org/</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>But if you do, you can get tested again.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>See https://doryeshorim.org/tests/ for the complete list.  </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="#footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://arupconsult.com/content/ashkenazi-jewish-genetic-diseases</p><p><em>It is estimated that one in every four or five individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish descent is a carrier for one of these conditions</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="#footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://doryeshorim.org/</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-8" href="#footnote-anchor-8" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">8</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://doryeshorim.org/our-philosophy/</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-9" href="#footnote-anchor-9" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">9</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.natera.com/womens-health/horizon-advanced-carrier-screening/what-it-screens/</p><p><em>For a list of detection rates and carrier rates, please call Natera at 650-249-9090 and ask to speak to one of our board-certified genetic counselors.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-10" href="#footnote-anchor-10" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">10</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.jscreen.org/hereditary-diseases</p><p><em>Explore our collection of informative articles on various diseases</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-11" href="#footnote-anchor-11" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">11</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.cff.org/managing-cf/understanding-changes-life-expectancy</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-12" href="#footnote-anchor-12" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">12</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>(Duchenne) https://www.rch.org.au/kidsinfo/fact_sheets/DMD_information_for_carriers/</p><p>https://www.musculardystrophyuk.org/conditions/a-z/manifesting-carriers-of-duchenne-and-becker-muscular-dystrophy/</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-13" href="#footnote-anchor-13" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">13</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>(Pku) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37775265/</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-14" href="#footnote-anchor-14" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">14</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352304215000239</p><p>A number of examples of this effect are discussed in this paper about recessive traits conferring protection from various infectious diseases.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-15" href="#footnote-anchor-15" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">15</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>See next footnote. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-16" href="#footnote-anchor-16" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">16</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Malaria, thalassemia, sickle cell trait: </p><p>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396414000085</p><p>(My paraphrase) </p><p>This study tried to figure out how, if the red <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/hemocyte">blood cell</a> (RBC) polymorphisms <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/sickle-cell-trait">sickle cell trait</a> (HbAS) and &#945;<sup>+</sup>thalassemia protect against severe <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/plasmodium-falciparum">Plasmodium falciparum</a> malaria, the co-inheritance of both conditions results in a loss of the protection afforded by each one individually.</p><p>Their data suggests that this might be explained by host genotype-specific changes discussed in the linked article. They still don't know how alpha thalassemia trait works against malaria. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-17" href="#footnote-anchor-17" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">17</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352304215000239</p><p><em>The third selection pressure-associated pair involves Tay-Sachs disease, a lysosomal storage disease characterized by deficiency of hexosaminidase A. Historically, Ashkenazi Jews had a high prevalence of the Tay-Sachs allele and a low prevalence of tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a relationship that may be related to crowded environments associated with this ethnic population and concentration of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.</em></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-18" href="#footnote-anchor-18" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">18</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>They test for deafness as well, but this is for information only. If a couple is &#8220;incompatible&#8221;, they are told what they share the genetic issue of. </p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>