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- Sep 5, 2019
These people turning to JACK SCALFANI for religious guidance are fucking hopeless. But nice of Jack to confirm he is completely ignorant of literally millennia of theological debate about the extent to which dina d'malchuta dina applies.
The Aramaic phrase means “the law of the land is the law.” It is widely held to specifically regard taxes, and includes not e.g. patronizing businesses whose owners you know do not pay their taxes, as you would be assisting him in both breaking the law of the land and transgressing Torah law. The debates are extremely interesting because of questions pertaining to how far they extend when living under e.g. totalitarian rule.
Of course Jack just declares there is no room for discussion or debate because he is completely ignorant of his own religion and its foundations. So we can be sure he’s never gone even one mile over the speed limit, right?
The Aramaic phrase means “the law of the land is the law.” It is widely held to specifically regard taxes, and includes not e.g. patronizing businesses whose owners you know do not pay their taxes, as you would be assisting him in both breaking the law of the land and transgressing Torah law. The debates are extremely interesting because of questions pertaining to how far they extend when living under e.g. totalitarian rule.
Of course Jack just declares there is no room for discussion or debate because he is completely ignorant of his own religion and its foundations. So we can be sure he’s never gone even one mile over the speed limit, right?