From the Desk of Rabbi Shlomo Rizel Parshas Beshalach

Pearls of Life

The Pearls of Life asks the following question of Rav Avigdor Miller: May a yeshiva bochur listen to sports on the radio? Rabbi Miller answers with a different question: May a yeshiva bochur stand on his head? Yes, if he wants to. But he's a meshugenah if he does it. What is sports? It's so silly! The Yanks hitting the baseball, the Kansas City Chiefs throwing a football. It's so meshugah. It's an American meshugenah [craziness] velt [world]. It's the headlines – Superbowl, world series.  It's so silly. What sports does is the following. The headlines show us how empty the non-jewish world is. And therefore, we take a lesson from that. These foolish people who can make headlines from the most silly things - we have to say, "Can they be an example for us at all?! In anything?!"  Boruch Hashem that He has separated us from these lost neshomos [souls], adapted from TAPE # E-210 (December 1999) For more Pearls of Life click here!