re: #54 Obdicut

That’s a reason for all humans to be interconnected. Not a subset.

Ultimately we are all interconnected. But I feel more of a connection to my family members than I do to people whose name I don’t even know.

The entire discovery of indirect cause and effect, such as Bell’s Theorem, is phrased as an external phenomenon, but what it really means is that we never fully understood the primary connections in the first place. So, if you are religious, then the Torah will tell you that the Jewish people are connected, and if you are not religious, then Jewish history will tell you that others and other nations certainly feel that we are connected by the simple fact of being Jewish.

No. It’s not a feeling. I feel embarrassed because a Jew should know better, because we share a culture. We don’t have a connection beyond that.

That counts.

And I fail to see what that has to do with what we were talking about, at all.

Go back to 43. In 44 you asked me if I felt connected to other Jews. I answered.

Ah geeze. It would also be bad for the the Chief Rabbi to bless a meeting of Fatah, okay?

I agree. That would be like the fire, jumping into the fire.

You can make treaties with them, deal with them, engage in diplomacy with them, but not make nice with them.

I agree. The rabbi appeared to be keeping a cautious distance from Beck.