tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post4397229809824868976..comments2024-03-28T21:21:02.777-04:00Comments on Divrei Chaim: Lot: can't you live in beautiful pastures without giving up G-d?Chaim B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-91305077799784330002017-11-02T19:25:34.229-04:002017-11-02T19:25:34.229-04:00Funny because I have an almost 20 year old daughte...Funny because I have an almost 20 year old daughter who shares your views. <br /><br />The osher we daven for is to be mesameiach b'chelko. Isn't that how Chazal define osher?<br /> <br />Ad she'adam mispalel she'yikanes Torah l'toch gufo yispalel she'ko yikansu ma'adanim l'toch gufo -- Tosfos Kes 104a.<br /><br />I can give you a pile of other quotes and references to the value of prishus, but you can probably find them yourself if you look a bit.<br /><br />The "kinderlach" you are so concerned for are pampered these days with every luxury and as a result they are more shallow and know less. <br /><br />I don't know how you took anything about fitness away from what I wrote? <br />Chaim B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-55683037926105138322017-11-02T19:04:12.572-04:002017-11-02T19:04:12.572-04:00I don't agree. Judaism does not demand of us t...I don't agree. Judaism does not demand of us to abstain from enjoying the pleasures of this world. We are not ascetics. Hashem gave us a roadmap as to how to channel our yetzer harah positvely ot live productive mitvah and torah oriented lives while still allowing us and ecouraging us to enjoy an imporessive world he laid out for us. To promote a judaism that despises any pleasure will turn off many aspiring kinderluch from the simchas hachayim that will help propel them to great heights in yidishkeit. Maybe you should stop asking for a life of chayim shel oosher vichovod in your rosh chodesh benching. I will continue. And if someone has the means to go to a pesach program I don't see anyting wrong with that. We dont live in a communistic society. Even more so, Im not sure why you cast a negative light on fitness which is actually oneof th emost basic levels of responisbility and hakaras hatov not only to our children to maintain our longeivty but to hashem to take care of the bodies he has loaned us. Its much easier to lie on the couch reading mishpacha magazine than it is to steadily hit the treadmill, bike or bench press. Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07204135651439557453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-36410278850778457012017-10-27T00:43:08.047-04:002017-10-27T00:43:08.047-04:00"walk the walk"
well, not exactly: Lot..."walk the walk"<br /><br />well, not exactly: Lot raises his possessive eyes at will, 13:10, while Avraham lifts his eyes only at Hashem's bidding, 13:14; this difference plays out down to their very feet, with Avraham acquiring the land upon Divine direction, 13:17, by walking, while Lot replaces netilas yadayim with netilas raglayim!he invites the malachim to follow his own procedure at waking, 19:2, a slumber followed by podiatric rinse, because he dreams each night only of running after more wealth, but never of grabbing it by hand--he who has one hundred wants two hundred, or if two hundred, four hundred (Koh. Rab. 1:34)-- the doubling amount is ever beyond grasp ...Alonzo Nakatomihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13218406401602847328noreply@blogger.com