CTR, and others who think like this, how does it make you a better person to begrudge someone else his innocent pleasures? If someone has been given enough money, why shouldn’t he enjoy it? Why shouldn’t he have the things that he can afford? What else is money for? What I’m hearing is a very bad midah, sour grapes, and the inability to be happy for someone else. Worrying about how to get closer to Hashem is for each individual about himself, not about someone else. It is not your business how or whether someone else is getting closer to Hashem. On that you are not an oreiv. I forget who said it, but yenem’s gashmius should be your ruchniyus. Veyam’it hano’osov, not yenem’s hano’os.
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