Monday, October 12, 2020

The Test

How do you know if a person/people is/are following the Torah? 

One of the tests:

If people act in a way that doesn't reflect the pasuk "דרכיה דרכי נועם" [it's ways are ways of pleasantness] then he is acting against the Torah. The Gemara says that if אחות אשתו [his wife's sister] falls before a man for יבום [he is forbidden to her] and his wife then dies, it CAN'T BE that now his sister in law is required to perform יבום. That wouldn't be "דרכי נועם". 

A fortiori [קל וחומר] that when people act like vilde chayos, especially in front of cameras that broadcast their behavior to the world, it isn't דרכי נועם.