The Stoic Jew Shiur #06: How Stoics and Jews React to the Deaths of the Wicked (Meditations 2.1)

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Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (7/31/24), in our Stoic Jew Shiur, we deviated from our sequential learn-through of Meditations and took up a timely question: What do Stoicism and Judaism have to say about the double-assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr? The specific questions we examined were: (1) What should or shouldn't we feel about the deaths of evildoers in general? (2) What should or shouldn't we feel in this case, given the uncertainty of the ramifications? It ended up being an enjoyable and insightful analysis which (I hope) yielded some practical clarity on these current events.
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מקורות:
Rabbi Scott Khan - Death of a Moderate
Aurelius - Meditations 2:3 (trans. Long, Farquharson, Waterfield)
Tefilas Neilah
Mishlei 11:10; 24:17-18
Rabbeinu Yonah - Avos 4:19
Rabbeinu Yonah - Mishlei 11:10
Mishnah Berachos 9:2,3,5
Rambam - Commentary on the Mishnah Berachos 9:3,5
Moed Kattan 16b
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