Rabbis tell Time that the Talmud would have spared us from this ecnomic mess

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By Jacob Berkman · October 13, 2008

A rabbi from Yeshiva University and a rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary – the flagship institutions of modern Orthodoxy and Conservative Judaism, respectively, told Time magazine that if bankers and Wall Streeters had held by the rules of the Talmud, none of this economic jibber-jabber would have happened.

Rabbi Aaron Levine, chair of the economics department at Y.U., and Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, a professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS, assert that rabbinical law would have prevented many of the shenanigans that got us into this mess.

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Jerry Blaz

10/13/08 07:36 PM

What are the sources?
JB

Syed Shahid Ali

10/14/08 02:22 AM

If there is problem with finances, check out the month of Iyar/Taurus or decisions taken during the month of Iyar/Taurus; i-e scrutinizing the actions during period between 1-8-5768 to 29-8-5768 = May 6th, 2008 to June 3rd, 2008; outcome or the real picture of finances, of these aforementioned dates, will be seen during the dates between 1-2-5769 to 29-2-5769 = October 30th, 2008 to November 27, 2008 during the month of Marchesvan/Scorpio.

Always try to make well-researched and long-term financial decision during the month of Iyar/Taurus for financial prosperity.

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