Little Froggie

Avraham: I’m not being ‘Dan’ at all. A person has ‘nisyonos’ each different than the other,each person custom made to his/her own standing and circumstance. But case at hand – I know who I was looking at. It was no BT in any shape or form.

Part of what I bemoan is the lack of attention afforded by Yeshivos and girl Schools to combat todays’ challenges. There are some, and most mosdos do some, but all in all it’s very lacking. Today’s young are not taught self control, tools to do battle with the very powerful forces of the ever present Yetzer and his newly tactics that pop up anew each day. And if I must be ‘Dan lkaf zchus’ that is the zchus. He wasn’t taught how to control himself properly. How to use the ZeesKite of Torah, of HaShem, of a Jewish lifestyle to combat other gratifications.

Do you really feel the need to mitigate mitzvos bein adam l’makom EVERY TIME? And at every opportunity? Yes, when disturbing someone else’s sleep is is gezel, and aveira (which cannot be repaid). It is wrong, dead wrong. I just wasn’t talking about that this time. Maybe next time I will.

btw, funny thing. On my plane to EY, there were not chareidis (maybe non-Jews) making such a ruckus the WHOLE TIME, I couldn’t fall asleep, and I was so desperate for it!!

DY: Thanks!!

and Squeak: Right on!! – Torah lo bashamayim he, that’s it to a tee. He DEFINITELY had no Torah bashamayim. Question is where he did!

And just for argument’s sake (oh how I love them), I do think it was slightly wrong for a Jewish looking Rav to do so in the open without letting onlookers on to his situation. Gemarah speaks very harshly about Chilul HaShem, and Gemarah states that an Adam Chashov to be openly lax in Mitzvohs would be effecting a Chilul HaShem. Besides the mitzvah to be ‘clean’ from G-d and man – ?????? ?????. So it certainly behooves a Rabbi looking individual to explain his actions when they apparently contradict Halacha.

Now on to my incident, care to elaborate or enlighten us perhaps to a chazal, halacha, passuk or mekor that says “you’ve had enough Yiddishkite, you’ve filled your soul to the brim, now it’s perfectly OK to indulge in <unmentionable>”?

ZD, Again (and again), as I wrote earlier, I truly regret that picture, that idea that you’re getting of me. No – I was not out to get at anyone. Controlling myself is enough a feat. I was just trying to hang on to any thread of normal decency, an echo of Kedusha, mere hours after being on holy soil…

YW won’t allow me to describe what I glanced upon… nor do I or anyone else here have a need or want. I (B”H) have no idea what the rate codes you enumerated were, only that it was pretty not so pretty. As Syag so eloquently wrote – something enough to burn right through the Neshamah. I don’t think HaShem uses any rating system.. And the thing was on THE WHOLE TIME!

No I wasn’t necessarily looking for trouble or ‘someone to step on’. I truly regret any indication of such I expressed.

Flatbusher..

Sometimes, even if one is doing something wrong and one know it, having another talk to him properly, appropriately, graciously will help him in the now and in the future to overcome Nisyonos. I’m not blessed with the power of speech, nor words (nor sechel), I don’t think I would have accomplished much, I only regret I didn’t try.

No, I’m not a tzaddik by any means (putting it mildly), sometime a word even from an anybody would do.

Al Rishon Rishon;

1) How do you SEE I’m a guy? Scary!! My computer screen doesn’t even have a camera, you put in a bug somewhere?!? I’m getting paranoid!

Now, for the umpteenth time, I NEVER claimed otherwise. At once I had a childish, immaturish, blitheful face here (don’t get me wrong, I still am!), I NEVER mingled chas v’sholom, always kept clear of ‘other’ convos. A cursory glance at profile history will suffice. I chose my face for a specific reason, which did in fact serve me.

2) I didn’t write I was saying Tehillim, I wrote that I read (learned) from that wonderful sefer/book. Its easy reading, easy especially on a tired, exhausted, zonked head, and the ideas and lessons stay for a lifetime. And I wrote, if you missed it, that I strategically placed a blanket between us, so that I shouldn’t have any problems. Though I was locked up there for most of that L-O-N-G flight from both sides, I was pretty much OK, with that cute ‘einfal’.

3) My family? Why is that an ha’aroh? Anyways family was on terry firmy. I’m not yet a millionaire, I don’t generally take family on every trip I take. (times are changing… maybe I’m becoming.. I’ll share with my best buddies here!!!)

For those so interested… I’ve officially removed my tichel!!

(hey.. there’s fresh air outside! It’s been weeks..)

WOW!!

Just found a few minutes..

Thanks all!!

And Syag, thanks for asking, it’s really something of you to remember! She went back to her parents after some time.. things are working out B”H.

And Queen, I couldn’t imagine ANY wife working a FULL day’s work to come home to a house and… begin again. No! Actually, as I indicated many times before, my wife does (or did) work, a half day, had little me chauffeur her back and forth.. Can’t imagine one doing it a full day. Unless the husband is a full time home keeper.

There is one more added point to my workload (of love!), it’s that a man has to be out at least thrice daily… every day. And he needs to learn enough to keep his Neshamah alive…

Queen, you’re VERY perceptive..

I have now a couple of minutes.. (my boss is napping).

I actually have it a drop harder.. I have deadlines with clients.. and I use my thinkerator intensely for work, so I can’t allow it and my family responsibilities to conflict. Not an easy feat. But I don’t mind giving to Frogette what she deserves, long overdue. And she’ll have memories that linger long, long afterwards. It’s the first time she’s to the Holy Land for such a long time. In the past she’d indulge in ‘vacation’ only once every birth day (birth of our cuties).

Our family’s chipping in pretty nicely.. no, it’s not falling apart.. and no, they LOVE my cooking.. and I do try to bring in a cheerful atmosphere. It’s only that it all comes crashing at once, from evening on – – till my eyes close from exhaustion.

Oish…

Where was that one about who wears the dress in the house?!?