Reply To: Getting closer to Hashem

To be: agreed. I told someone the following regarding the girls putting on tefillin:

Imagine that your birthday is coming up. Your wife tells you, “For your birthday, I want to make you a special supper. Is there something specific you’d like?”

You reply,”Sure, I’d like a nice, big steak. But please, no fish! I don’t like fish!”

On your birthday, you come home. You’ve been waiting all day for the delicious steak you know is waiting for you. You walk in the door to find the table set. And there, in the middle on a serving platter, is…. a FISH!

You look at your wife and say, “What is this? Where’s my steak?”

Your wife replies, “I know you don’t like fish, but this is a new recipe! I really think this is something you’ll love! Enjoy it!”

How would you feel in such a situation? Probably not too happy. Well, people often do that! Hashem told us exactly what He wants us to do. Sometimes people feel that they have an idea to bring them closer to Hashem. In the case of girls and tefillin, it says straight in the Rema, “Don’t do it!” Yet some people feel they know better. They’re like the wife cooking the fish.