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Rav Yehuda says that Rav says: With regard to anyone who separates himself from matters of Torah, a fire consumes him, as it is stated:
“And I will set My face against them; out of the fire they come forth, and the fire shall devour them” (Ezekiel 15:7).
This verse kept me up as we all agonize over the impossible moral decisions to be made between rescue of hostages and anti terror policies.
Although we visited the notion of Tikkun Olam in Daf Ditty Bava Metzia 90 and Bava Basra 8,
We revisit these quandaries again today on the Yarhzeit of Rav Kook OBM.