[Avodah] support?

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 09:59:23AM +0000, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
: Not a maaseh shehaya but I'd appreciate your thoughts: Reuvain is a
: Modern Orthodox senior citizen. In his community, presumed social negiah
: restrictions are generally not observed...

A real maaseh shahayah, which would liely garner the same thoughts.

One day, around 10am, the woman sitting in the cubicle next to mine
gets a call on her cell, and after a few moments had her screaming
and crying. It was the Salvation Army, where her son volunteered and
lived. He didn't wake up that morning.

Another co worker of ours, a yehivish guy who grew up in Israel but lives
in Lakewood, got us a conference room, dialed some phone calls for her --
the coronor's office and the like. He was clearly cfrom communities in
which persumed social negi'ah restrictions are fully observed.

But when our co worker broke down in a fresh round of crying, he put
his arm around her.

I think to do anything else is to be a tzadiq shoteh. But I never asked
a she'eilah; that was just my gut reaction at the time.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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