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BANdana's avatar

Slifkin, you clearly didn't understand what was taught about hishtadlus, which is why you are having difficulty understanding concepts that are pashut to five year olds. But that's ok, you will surely convince many chareidim that they are hypocrites for voting! I would go further and convince them they are hypocrites for going grocery shopping and using the bathroom!

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Jerry Steinfeld's avatar

My my, I'm so ashamed. You've really got us in a pickle here. I just wonder what exactly was it about these elections specifically that opened your eyes to our stupidity? I mean, we go the store to buy groceries and don't expect it to magically appear on our doorsteps. We lift up our hands and manually place morsels of food in our mouths. But that's all par for the course here; you don't understand our position, urgo it makes no sense.

For the adults in the room, our position is not that complex. You see, we have a mission in life, a kind of "deal" with God, where we do what He wants, and in turn, and He takes care of us. That's what bitachon is about. We follow Him even when it seems difficult. We'd follow Him into a desert even though that isn't exactly the best idea food wise, and he sends us Manna. Anything that is part of His service, we do with zerizus!

As it turns out, eating is important and we do that to sustain ourselves to maximize avodas Hashem. If we are weak and for there will be *less* avoda. Going to the army, otoh, will reduce our avoda and connection with God. So that's out until further notice. And watch this: the elections - which are serving to enable our mission - fit right in to this paradigm! Your can almost have guessed that this is something Chareidim *would* do! Not much of contradiction when phrased properly, eh?

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