{"id":98005,"date":"2022-11-19T21:56:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98005"},"modified":"2022-11-19T21:56:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T19:56:28","slug":"torah-the-real-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/torah-the-real-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Torah \u2013 The Real Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Torah \u2013 The Real Goal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was the time of the World Cup football competition, and France sent their best players to participate. A Jewish man approached me and asked if he was permitted to watch the game on television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich country will you be rooting for?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrance, of course. Only France deserves the World Cup!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow will you react each time the French representatives hit a goal?\u201d I continued.<\/p>\n<p>He thought for a moment, but I answered for him. \u201cI can picture you sitting in front of the screen of that defiled device called a television, at the edge of your seat. Your entire body is tense and taught. Your face is swathed in sweat. Your lips murmur a prayer that France should win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man smiled in response to my accurate description. I took the liberty to continue. \u201cWhen the French football players hit a goal, you will jump out of your seat in exultation, shouting, \u2018A goal! A goal!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I right?\u201d I concluded.<\/p>\n<p>His smile broadened, and he said, \u201cExactly right. That is how it will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is self-understood that if France wins the World Cup, your joy will know no bounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the truth,\u201d he agreed.<\/p>\n<p>I looked him straight in the eye, and said, \u201cIf you truly love Hashem, keep away from the television! Hashem is scrupulous regarding His close ones. Your open display of ecstasy with France\u2019s victory in comparison to your lackluster attitude toward Torah will ultimately incriminate you in Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, all those hours sitting in front of the screen will be hours wasted from Torah study.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYour best recourse would be to switch channels. Instead of desecrating your time in front of the television, you would be wise to sanctify it by studying Torah with a joyous heart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torah \u2013 The Real Goal It was the time of the World Cup football competition, and France sent their best players to participate. A Jewish man approached me and asked if he was permitted to watch the game on television. \u201cWhich country will you be rooting for?\u201d I asked. \u201cFrance, of course. Only France deserves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitul-torah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}