Doofus Of The Day: Pat Robertson Says Jews Are Too Busy Polishing Diamonds to Fix Their Cars
Lapin also repeated his claim that God doesn’t want people to retire, and commended Robertson for still hosting the 700 Club.
“There’s no Hebrew word for retirement; the general rule is when there’s no Hebrew word for something, it’s a bad idea. For instance, there’s no Hebrew word for adolescent, because when you think about it an adolescent is just somebody who wants all the privileges of adulthood with none of the responsibilities,” Lapin told Robertson. “No word for adolescent, no word for retire and I’m very happy that you’ve taken that lesson to heart.”
Robertson agreed that retirement is a violation of God’s law. Lapin added that there is also no Hebrew word for “fair.”
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Daniel Lapin is wrong. There is a Hebrew word for “adolescent,” it is naar. Coincidentally that also happens to be the Yiddish word for silly fool.
The Hebrew word for “fair” is yashar. Also tzedek.
As for “retirement,” there is a commandment in the Scriptures to care for the infirm and elderly, and that it is disrespectful and cruel to force them to work at the same rate as younger, stronger people. We can even see an example of this in the Book of Ruth: Ruth went out to the fields to glean, and did not expect the elderly Naomi to work along with her.
