What I am hearing, and what really disturbs me a great deal, is that it sounds like there are those who will glom onto any spark of a halacha as they understand it, in order to find a way to NOT be chvalrous. I cannot believe that Hashem intended for men to shove women aside. TO the contrary, a man is to be mechabeid his wife more than himself. That idea does not “shtim” with what I am reading here. IF an elderly man is drowning, and his youner granddaughter is with him and ONLY one can be saved (maybe she is in her 20s), you would go to save the grandfather and let the girl drown???? THe Zaydie himself would demand that you save his granddaughter. BUT HALACHA says to save the man??? There are mitigating circumstances for every halacha (and don’t go out and ask your LOR when you see two people drowning, because by the time you get a p’sak, they will both be dead).
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