Chemed: Ask The Rav (2024) | Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a

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Good everyone. Good evening to this is the highlight of the evening, the highlight of the Shabas. We have an opportunity to pose questions to the RV, opportunity to have questions and answers. Please be aware this is not a time to make political statements. If you have any a a sensive a question sensitive nature, also this isn't a proper forum. certainly speak to the Rev afterwards, but this will be an opportunity to ask questions. The questions that you feel will be to Ellis for those sitting here as well. I'm going to start with the first question and then from there we'll pass the mic around. Someone just put their hand up and we'll try to get to you to ask a question. First and foremost, is it appropriate to bring a gun into shul? Two questions in shul and inshul on shabas. So we are living in a period primarily in Israel but not only in Israel in which there are real security concerns. uh in the entire world there's a spike in anti-semitism and many shooles in America and even more so in Europe people feel somewhat un insecure and even though the governments and municipalities many places supply uh security but not everywhere and uh people will feel more security with members of the community participating in in providing security for the community. But this is much more uh prevalent in Israel in which we actually are suffering terror attacks and just that of Chabis in any other terror attack. Two young people were killed and some others severely injured. And I do encourage people to carry arms. And I

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