Month: October 2017 – ד׳ במרחשוון תשע״ח

Here’s a story by “Myrtle Rising” illustrating what wonderful Eretz Yisra’el is really like most of the time.

Highly recommended for content and style.

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Enjoy!

If you are a bilingual speaking with a Hebrew-speaker in their language, and you notice their attention waning during a monologue, drop in a foreign word. If you don’t know which words have entered their vocabulary yet, just pop in any English word with a Hebrewish accent and ending, and hope they catch your drift.

This goes for the more modern, intellectual types (and virtually all seculars). They pride themselves on their cosmopolitanism.

I don’t want to go into the topic as a whole here, but to refute one common claim thereof.

In reference to the recent nationwide protests against Charedi conscription, which involved blocking traffic, I have heard it said that even if this was effective and/or likely to be so, and was the only way to be effective (as opposed to, say, protesting by the PM’s house, etc.) and even if the goal was a worthy one (and feel free to add a few more conditionals), the protests constitute a “Mitzvah by way of an Aveirah”: Why should anyone have to wait six hours in traffic because of the “Cause”?

Arguendo, etc., I disagree. If something makes Hashem smile, His creations should bear the discomfort willingly, and smile, too, at the opportunity.

If you pay for someone else’s Mitzvah, even unknowingly, by Oness, you receive a Divine reward, as with any Mitzvah done by several partners. If, however, knowing what’s going on, you regret the Mitzvah, you forfeit the reward.

I think my point is clear, even without fleshing it out.