Q&A: Current Matters
Current Matters
Question
1. What does the Rabbi think about religious homosexuals who organize as a group in order to gain legitimacy within the community? Is that different from religious Sabbath violators organizing in the same way?
2. It seems to me that the Rabbi wrote that nowadays a son and a daughter are enough to fulfill the commandment of being fruitful and multiplying. Assuming I remember correctly, how does that fit with the saying that the son of David will not come until all the souls have been exhausted from the body, and therefore according to this there is an idea of bringing as many souls into the world as possible in order to hasten the redemption?
Answer
- In principle it is no different, except that homosexuals suffer from improper treatment, whereas Sabbath violators do not.
- First, that saying can be interpreted in other ways as well. Second, I do not determine a worldview based on aggadic sayings. Third, and this follows from the second point, there is currently a problem in the world that the Sages were apparently not aware of. Fourth, I do not understand why you bring an aggadic saying when there is a clear Jewish law: "He created it to be inhabited," and regarding that too I said that nowadays it seems that a son and a daughter are enough. Fifth, at most we will wait a bit longer for the son of David. It will take a little more time until the souls are exhausted. (By the way, it seems to me that the Ari wrote that in his own time almost everyone was already reincarnations, because the souls had already been used up.)
Discussion on Answer
Yes, but there is a problem with the concept of "religious Sabbath violators." If there is one thing that defines religiosity, it is Sabbath observance…
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