[Avodah] Going beyond the norm for Elul

[T613K at aol.com]

On Areivim (under the subject line "The soldier returns to the TAY BHMD")  
RSBA wrote:

 
>>Subject: Re: [Areivim] The soldier returns to the TAY  BHMD...
>> ...dressed in civilian clothing - and gets an  Aliyah
>> Proving that it was the uniform - and not the person - that  caused the
>>ruckus.
>> _http://www.bhol.co.il/Article.aspx?id=44262_ 
(http://www.bhol.co.il/Article.aspx?id=44262) 

 
(This had to do with a soldier who was asked to leave a shul because he was 
 in uniform, but when he went to the same shul dressed in civilian clothes 
he was  given an aliyah.)




R'n RF wrote:
 
>How impressive. Not.

>In other words, the hooligans who daven  at this shul feel that the
>Arabs have it right. Oh, it's not personal --  we just attack anyone in
>a uniform.

>Maybe not attacking people  who come to daven is a better idea? Radical
>concept, I know. Aren't we in  Elul? I guess some people use a
>different calendar than we  do....

*** Rena
 
To this, RYL responded:
 
>> There is something about statements like this about it being in  Elul
that bothers me. Are we supposed to think that we can "fool"  HaShem
by behaving in a certain way during Elul and then returning to  our
"old" ways? It seems to me that behavior and actions are  either
appropriate and correct from a Torah standpoint the entire year or not  at 
all. <<

YL
 
 
Then RMB moved the thread to Avodah and wrote:
 

>> It's a good question, but since the notion of avoiding pas  palter and
other such chumeros during Aseres Yemei Teshuvah is well  established (SA
OC 603:1 mentions "pas shel kutim"; see also MB s"q 1.) So, I  don't think
your sevara is sufficient to upshlug a notion that is practiced  the next
10 days by a large segment of Kelal Yisrael with the support of  numerous
sefarim. <<
 
>>>>>
 
What I would like to add, along somewhat related lines to what RMB wrote,  
is this:
 
Everyone has heard enough drashos by now to know that this is a common  
theme for about half the Jewish year. How can you behave like that, during  
sefirah? During the Three Weeks? During the Nine Days? In Elul? In  Tishrei?  
Just before Chanukah? So close to Purim? With Pesach right around  the 
corner? We lurch from guilt day to guilt day, with an eye on the calendar to  keep 
the yetzer hara at bay....
 



--Toby  Katz
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