[Avodah] who avoids whom?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:12:26PM -0800, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
: http://choppingwood.blogspot.com/2012/01/healthy-man.html  on women's job 
: in preventing men from sinning 

Kol Yisrael areivim plus ein apitropos la'arayos places a large obligation
on all of us to avoid lifnei iveir and mesayeiah lidevar aveirah in
these areas.

But it's still a problem "owned" by the potential avaryan, first and
foremost.

That said, tzeni'us is a middah to be developed, and not entirely (and
perhaps even not primarily) about preventing hirhurim. Otherwise,
why was Kimchis rewarded by having all 7 sons merit becoming kohanim
gedolim for ensuring that "the rafters of my home have never 'seen'
the plaits of my hair" (Yuma 47a)?


On a tangent, I don't understand one element of that story... He son R'
Yishmael was metamei through the roq of a nakhri, and so the backup
had to serve on YK. (Although R' Yishmael did serve in the past, the
gemara says he held 4 qav of qetores.) This is how his brother Yeshvav
served as KG. I find it odd, because this seems like an odd part of a
reward -- one of her sons got to be KG through the other's mishap?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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