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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Are our children being filled with stories of this Gadol or that Gadol<BR>who never deviated or sacrificed even one iota of their long held beliefs?<BR><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR><BR>Are our children having their impressionable heads filled with anecdotal<BR>evidence of how 'all' of our Gedolim never surrendered even the minutest<BR style="RIGHT: auto">amount of their principles and never ever compromised with anyone when<BR>it came to what they 'knew' to be correct?</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">MJO: As acknowledged in this beautiful vort, the story of RSZA was also a story in which he did not compromise his principles, including regard for the feelings of others, and in order to avoid compromising his principles he was willing to pay the price of compromising his comfort and his time. Compromise of one's self interest often good, but would we say that we must compromise our principles? The story of RSZA suggests otherwise, and emphaisizes that we must often be willing to compromise our "entitlements" in order to do this.</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Following up on RRYE's question about the kind of gadol stories we teach our children, does anyone have a recommendation for books of such stories that emphasize that our frumkeit must be achieved only in a way consistent with derech eretz and erlichkeit?</div>
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