Practicing With a Maamar Chazal
Now, why do we have to know that fact? It’s true but what is it to us? When it happens it will happen, very good, but why do we need to know this information?
The answer is that it’s the way to practice up, the way to sharpen your senses. I’ll explain that. Let’s say a man is riding in his car past the Mirrer Yeshiva, for example, and he sees the bnei yeshivah come out. Now he knows that these youths are not bums. They don’t run around with females. They are decent boys who spend their day in the yeshivah. And he appreciates that.
But that’s nothing yet! He doesn’t begin to see! He’s still walking in darkness because the truth is that a clean-cut college boy also appeals to him. Even if he prefers yeshivah men – at least I hope that’s the case – but if the college boy happens to be the kind who puts rum on his underwear, who perfumes his handkerchief, so that makes a favorable impression on him too.
