How Black Is This Guy?

"I think there are two features which together explain why I did in the contradiction," he says. "Did you ever hear of conscious money? Conscious money means I'm doing X is wrong. X is illegal, but I know where I can pay to get off." There was such a thing in the medieval church where you could pay for your transgressions,. You're free to commit to your transgression next month because you paid for it already. That's not mistaken. So now let's imagine a Jew whose observance of Jewish law is very sloppy. He doesn't try to achieve Jewish ideals, Jewish priorities. But he gives money to a tatik, to a pious person.