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From: berger@aecom.UUCP (Mitchell Berger)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Lo Tigra
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 11:47:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 25 11:47:02 1985
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>                              ...And since the majority of the poor
> today live far from cultivated fields, even those Orthodox who observe
> the original instructional example literally are in effect discarding
> this mitzva, since they are not making the food available to those in
> actual danger of starving.
> 
> Humanistic Jews, unlike the Orthodox, do not discard a mitzva when the
> original instructional example has been vitiated by social or
> technological chage, but instead find and carry out equivalent
> contemporary ways to carry out as many of the Mitzvot as possible....
> 
> 						Adam

	Who ever said that we (orthodox) jews throw away a commandment
because it is outdated? Do you think that it is in keeping with Orthodox
Jewish principles to let people starve? Or to smoke oneself to death?
Orthodox Jews don't (shouldn't) throw away the spirit of the mitzva
in favor of the "letter of the law", but then neither is it in our
beleif to throw away the literal commandment either. You are making
an assumption, that you know the full spirit of the law. Perhaps
G-d (Orthodox Jews work with the assumption that He exists) is commanding
it for reasons beyond the obvious.
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