Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

For Ashkenazim, you have to actually turn your body away so that you don't see it or create some sort of barrier.

Let's say you're on the Long Island Railroad, so you have the tall chairs of the Long Island Railroad.

That could create a barrier between you and the Erevah that's there.

There's a famous story of Shach Deleksa telling Barav Salvechik that he was Masar Kedushin and he noticed...

that the mother of the kala was not dressed appropriately, that there was a tefech b'isha that was exposed, and he asked for a sitter so that he could create a barrier between his face and the erva when reciting the bracha.

Okay, question number six.

What should our attitude be toward non-form Jews and communities?

If the gula depends on klal Yisrael doing tshuva, are these communities slowing the gula?

How should we understand the messages of Tanakh that attribute negative outcomes to a lack of mitzvah observance?

How should we understand those?

Let's start with the alachron rishon.

We should understand those literally, that lack of mitzvah observance brings with it a certain onesh.

There are negative outcomes that come about from lack of mitzvah observance.

This is not me.

This is one of the Ikari Hamuna.

The Rambam says this very, very clearly.

If you say the animamins, even if you don't say it on a daily basis, we certainly believe

It's one of the animamins.

Where is it?

The Rambam writes, or the animamin, as it's recorded in our Siddur, is that, number 11, animamin be'amunash le'mash ha'bor yispar k'shmo gomel tov l'shomrei mitzvot sav, u'ma'anish lo'ovrei mitzvot sav.