Keeping Kosher in a non-Kosher World

BZ: It's not about your conclusions,العاب طبخ but how you present them. If you're not telling people that they have to come to minyan, then how important is it that women are count to make one? That comment عالم حواءcan be interpreted in two ways. One way is of saying "If there isn't anyone at minyan who cares that it's thoroughly egalitarian?" That's not what I'm saying. I'm sayingالعاب بنات that your conclusions l'kula only appear to have integrity if العاب بنات sometimes your conclusions are annoying and if you sacrifice العابa little bit for them.

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Floods & Earthquakes can happen.

Sometimes seeing really is believing - so please don't be blind. Will you help?

Please Help the adolecents!
http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/

The action taken to local and national disasters is great but it's a real shame that so many people take advantage of the sad situations.

I mean everytime there is an earthquake, a flood, an oil spill - there's always a group of heartless people who rip off tax payers.

This is in response to reading that 4 of Oprah Winfreys "angels" got busted ripping off the system. Shame on them!
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/19/crimesider/entry5251471.shtml

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For David S.:

The water filters being used are not for microscopic animals but for ones that are easily visible with the naked eye. Maybe they're not so extreme after all?

shows how much I pay attention, a year ago J Heller posted it..

An interesting tshuvah from a Conservative rabbi;

http://www.tek-law.com/neshamah/dairyteshuva%20v3.htm

An interesting perspective comes from Rabbi Barry Leff, who has since made Aliyah from Toledo to Jerusalem
http://www.tek-law.com/neshamah/dairyteshuva%20v3.htm

An interesting shiur from Machon Meir:

Eating in non-kosher restaurants (1):
http://www.machonmeir.org.il/english/archive_id.asp?language=English&id=381

Eating in non-kosher restaurants (2):
http://www.machonmeir.org.il/english/archive_id.asp?language=English&id=380

I have always felt that the tendency towards extreme stringency among certain groups has had the effect of making Kashrut non-observable in its deepest sense. If there is not a simple bar to follow, then Kashrut is another example of the tyranny of the minority in Jewish practice. After all, installing filters to keep out microscopic animals implies that Chazal could not have kept kashrut at all!

That said, the real problem from my perspective is the idea that keeping the mitzvot have some kind of physical effect upon the world rather than just character development or being part of the community. If one believes that their actions have a physical effect at a distance it is hard to part with even the greatest stringency. If however, one takes the Maimonidean view and ascribes mitzvot like Kashrut to a type of character development then it is possible to deal with Kashrut in a non-kosher world.