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I heard the following:

If you use Rimon as your internet filtering service, give them a quick call. Part of the bill comprises “Tizmuneto”, a service to raise and lower the standard of filtering during various hours. If you don’t need that, cancel it, and you save 10 Shekels. Then there’s “Haneto Sheli”, which enables you to request whitelisting of certain websites (the team checks them first). If you don’t need that either, cancel it, and you save another 6 Shekels.

There may be additional cost-cutting options, as well.

אמר רבי יהודה, שם עבדו ישראל את אלקיהם ושכן בתוכם.

(בלשון המשנה: מערבית דרומית, אמר רבי אליעזר בן יעקב, שכחתי מה היתה משמשת…, לשכת העץ, אמר רבי אליעזר בן יעקב, שכחתי מה היתה משמשת…)

Sometimes people commit a crime, then, out of guilt, get themselves into jail for atonement. Atonement is good, but jails are not. There are ways to atone outside of jail. Jail is very bad for those who hate it, but it’s also bad for the “noble”.

One simple example: Charles Colson, Nixon’s trickster.

Colson was a thief and a libeler. Then his conscience awoke in trial, and he plead guilty to something he didn’t need to, so the taxpayer could fund his “redemption”. He wished to pay a price, although not to the victims themselves (as he later realized).

But was he the only one to pay a price?!

1. His father had a heart attack.
2. His mother fell ill.
3. His son fell off the wagon.

Learn from his mistake: Do the Tikkunim. Don’t go to jail willingly!