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From: buchbind@agrigene.UUCP
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Subject: Re: A query to "Dvar Torah"
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 11:45:36 EST
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> 
> Many of us take secular law seriously, whether we agree with it or not,
> because there are policemen and sheriffs waiting behind the billboards
> to run us in if we don't.  

And the Talmudic dictum "The law of the land is law".  (Practices
permitted by Jewish law may be prohibited by secular law;  we only
have problems when required rituals are prohibited by secular law
or prohibited actions are required.)
-- 
    Barry Buchbinder			    (608)221-5000
Agrigenetics Corp.; 5649 E. Buckeye Rd.; Madison WI 53716 USA
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