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Should a Jew care so much about material possessions? Ethical discourses generally emphasize the significance of money, but many halachic sources point to the importance of respecting one's property. R. Yitzchok Oratz focuses on a remarkable responsum of the Binyan Tzion (1:167) to infer how a Jew should think about protests that turn violent.
See also, his article in the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society (Issue: LXXVI, p. 165), "Property Values: Rabbinic Ruminations on Property and Protest, Racism and Riots."
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Should a Jew care so much about material possessions? Ethical discourses generally emphasize the significance of money, but many halachic sources point to the importance of respecting one's property. R. Yitzchok Oratz focuses on a remarkable responsum of the Binyan Tzion (1:167) to infer how a Jew should think about protests that turn violent.
See also, his article in the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society (Issue: LXXVI, p. 165), "Property Values: Rabbinic Ruminations on Property and Protest, Racism and Riots."

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