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Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4128 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Rav Palm said, nope, you don't talk about that in public.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Because it just gets people too obsessed on the topic.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

And Rabbi Reisman quoted a Chinese proverb, I think it was, of two monks that are walking down the street and there's a giant puddle and a woman needed to get from one side of the puddle to the other.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

So one of the monks lifted her up and carried her to the other side of the puddle and he placed her down and continued on his way.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

And as the two monks are walking, the other monk said to him,

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Don't you know that we're not supposed to touch women?

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

How can you carry that woman?

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

And this was like an hour later when they finally spoke up.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

So the first monk said, Oh, I see.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

When I carried the woman across the puddle, after I got across the puddle, I put her down.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

but you are still carrying her.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

And his point was that when you make too big a deal out of these things, when you obsess over it, when you're always talking about it, you have a hard time letting it go.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

You could walk down the street and, okay, you accidentally saw something, just keep going and forget about it.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Or you can rehash, oh, I did this terrible aver, I did this terrible aver, and then you're seeing it over and over and over again in your mind's eye.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

So he said once that someone dropped off a bunch of pamphlets in, or a farm or something, in Camp Aguda.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

about Shemira Sayin Ayim, and Rabbi Reisman said that he took the whole box and put them by the dumpster.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

We don't obsess about these things.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

So secure your stuff as much as you possibly can.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Try to avoid as much as you possibly can.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Don't obsess about it.