When the Needs of the Many are the Needs of the Few

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February 24 2010
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Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

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Bein Adam L'Chaveiro 

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Tzibburology, Week 7: A look at the halachic issue of ransoming hostages, and how its logic demonstrates the idea that community is a super-entity rather than a set of individuals, and how the community is, at times, expected to see the individual's need as its own need. Ties into evolutionary biology and the persistence of altruism among individuals in a community.

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