Ugh, I wrote a lengthy post pointing out all the problems (well, maybe just most) in Avi’s post, only to get an error message. No way I’m doing that all again. But, it does remind me of a maaseh with R Elya ztl. Supposedly, he was shtark being loichem feminists, specifically one awful woman in particular who was promoting beliefs antithetical to Torah values. One erev y”k or erev r”h (don’t recall) he dialed someone’s number with whom he wished to speak. Well hashgacha P kicked in, and he misdialed, reaching the very woman whose behavior he had so vigorously attacked. Now, most people would take this as providence, with the hidden message that they were to make peace with the other party. Not so R Elya; he understood that this was the yetzer hara’s plan, and resolved to strengthen his efforts, and drive this machsheifa away once and for all. The end. So while I’m certain the error message was certainly the yetzer hara trying my patience, I am so super lazy, there’s no way I’m retyping the whole long rebuttal I had attempted to post before.
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