I don't get it. What happened to just helping without being asked? THIS is the epitome of Torah learning?! Of learning Mussar, a course of study that is SUPPOSED to teach people to be kind to other people? What happened to this Meforash Mitzvah in the Torah:
If you see the donkey of someone you hate crouching under its burden, would you refrain from helping him? - You shall help repeatedly... (Exodus 23:5)Kal Va'Chomer if it's someone you don't hate! If the Torah tells you to help someone you hate, obviously the Torah need NOT tell you you MUST help someone you don't hate!
Now, it may not have been my donkey. It was my car. And it's not like the car was suffering, but what difference DOES that make?!
Conclusion: Being frum does not make someone a good person. It's innate, and if one does not have the middah of desiring to help someone, one must, especially one who supposedly learns Torah and is SUPPOSED to be the epitome of how a person should act, then one must work on that and set an example..
When they don't, and 99% Yeshivish/Chareidi people CERTAINLY don't, and they do act like the, pardon my French, A-Holes they are, they just prove yet again and more and more that they are, in fact, not in ANY way frum OR Torah observant, since they obviously simply ignore explicit Mitzvahs from the Torah.
Just yet further proof of the fact that these people simply are NOT Torah observant or Torah "True" Jews in any way, which I guess explains how people like that vote for the non-Chesed, antithesis to Yiddishkeit, Republican Party...
No if I could only understand why some of my friends who AREN'T Yeshivish/Chareidi RWNJs vote Republican...
. There they went, walkin' by, lookin' at us trying to move my car
ReplyDeleteWhy would they help? The Torah only says donkey, not automobile. In my neighborhood, "yeshiva" people are the only ones who don't shovel their sidewalks. After all, they deduce with minds well-honed by Gemara learning that mere mortals like us can't possibly fathom, that the Torah says to remove "dam" from your house. Clearly, the sidewalk, is outside of the house. And again, the Torah says nothing about shoveling snow.
'Course not!
ReplyDeleteAnd regarding the subject of Yeshivish people thinking DEEP thoughts us mortals can't possibly understand, see here.