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And Rabbi Eleazar ben Hurkanus says,
"Le'olam yehei adam borach min hakiyor
umin kidomeh lakiyor."
A person must always run away
from something that's against Hashem, in
essence, and something that even looks
like it's against Hashem.
From the missionary and from one that
maybe means a missionary.
Maybe. Maybe.
Still not allowed to be next to him.
Run. Run away. Not allowed to hang out
with him. Not allowed to listen to his
seminar. Not allowed to watch his
videos.
The Yad Rama
commentary on the same verse
also on Maseches Sanhedrin, page 100b,
says, "One is not allowed to learn
anything
from the Minim, even if it doesn't
contradict the Torah."
Even if he's just talking to you about
time management.
Even if he's just talking to you about
shalom bayit. Be nice to your wife.
Raise your kids with good manners.
Even that, you're not allowed to learn
from him.
As a side note, there's a very famous
story about one of the
Rishonim Letzion,
Rav Mordechai Eliyahu,
who one time was asked to have a meeting
with the Pope.
And he said, "There's one condition.
Don't have crosses
in the place that you want to meet me.
I don't want to see any crosses."
That's all. I'll meet you. I'll talk to
you. Whatever you want to talk about.
But make sure that wherever I go,
there's no crosses.
I'm not going to start bringing Sefer
Torah with me to show you. Don't show me
your crosses.
It's fair to you.
So,
they went to a house and immediately
they saw crosses. They were fooled into
going into the house and they saw
crosses. They ran out,
got in the car and left.
And then Rav Mordechai Eliyahu,
this is an accident. It's not on
purpose.
He started praying to Hashem. Hashem, if
there's even a small punishment that
will be given to me for walking into
this house on
accident,
please give me the punishment here in
this world
and not even a moment to suffer for it
in the next world. As soon as he
finished the prayer, the car rolled over
the road and off the mountain on snow.
Baruch Hashem, he lived, but when
everyone got out of the car all banged
up, they're all looking at the Rav
Mordechai Eliyahu all injured but
laughing and happy.
Laughing and happy, AT LEAST I SUFFERED
in this world for an accidental sin of
walking into a house that had a cross on
it.
>> Chazak u'varuchim.
Let's all thank Hashem for more Torah. 1
2 3
Chazak u'varuchim. 1 2 3
>> [screaming]
>> B' H Shem.
>> [music]
