Health
In case you forgot, i will paste one of your comments from page 1
YY -“just because someone smokes doesnt mean they are otd!”
Sure they are! As a matter of fact, some Yeshivas will throw out a smoker!
Now
If you are telling me that you are retracting your position, or didn’t mean what you wrote, then I am Ok with that
that said
you didn’t answer my question
do you watch TV?
and if you do, how do you not see the hypocrisy between calling smokers OTD but not TV watchers?
In case you are curious
As I have posted before, I am a health care professional, not a yeshiva bachur. (The Israel trip was vacation). I do not smoke. I happen to have a TV in my waiting room and since I occasionally watch I do feel bad about myself in light of the poskim who deem that pritzus. I didn’t call you a parutz, they did.
If you and Sparkly want, In light of the upcoming yomim noraim, I am willing to quit TV with you guys.
When people quit smoking they often find it easier to do with a buddy. So buddy up with me on quitting TV
At the very least it might give us all a little more empathy with what smokers go through when they try to quit (and that sounds like something that is achdus-dik for the nine days and certainly more productive then calling almost half the frum velt in Israel OTD)