Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz
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Rav Palm said, nope, you don't talk about that in public.
Because it just gets people too obsessed on the topic.
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.
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.
And as the two monks are walking, the other monk said to him,
Don't you know that we're not supposed to touch women?
How can you carry that woman?
And this was like an hour later when they finally spoke up.
So the first monk said, Oh, I see.
When I carried the woman across the puddle, after I got across the puddle, I put her down.
but you are still carrying her.
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.
You could walk down the street and, okay, you accidentally saw something, just keep going and forget about it.
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.
So he said once that someone dropped off a bunch of pamphlets in, or a farm or something, in Camp Aguda.
about Shemira Sayin Ayim, and Rabbi Reisman said that he took the whole box and put them by the dumpster.
We don't obsess about these things.
So secure your stuff as much as you possibly can.
Try to avoid as much as you possibly can.