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was listening to KRLD radio and they had an interesting segment about women and
guns. There has been a large increase in the number of women who are taking
concealed weapons training classes. The person being interviewed was an
ex-military gun instructor who made some very important points. He said that he
felt, from what he's heard from many of the women he teaches, that the increase
in those who are getting training and gun licenses is a reaction to the
violence perpetrated against women today! Read Rabbi Leynor’s complete blog at
-- http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-is-real-man.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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