{"id":98770,"date":"2022-11-20T03:41:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98770"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:41:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:41:19","slug":"the-decision-to-disregard-directives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/the-decision-to-disregard-directives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decision to Disregard Directives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Decision to Disregard Directives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A disciple of mine informed me that he wished to visit his family who lived far away. Knowing the neighborhood where his family lived, I warned him numerous times to keep away from questionable places where he might be drawn into sin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes the Rav suspect me of transgressing?\u201d he asked, incredulously. \u201cI am certain that I will never commit any sins there.\u201d He was full of self-certainty and pride.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, pride goes before a fall. He traveled to his parents\u2019 home and fell into the snare of sin.<\/p>\n<p><em>He was not careful enough regarding the protection of his spiritual level. Our Sages exhort us (Avot 2:4), \u201cDo not believe in yourself until the day you die.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Decision to Disregard Directives A disciple of mine informed me that he wished to visit his family who lived far away. Knowing the neighborhood where his family lived, I warned him numerous times to keep away from questionable places where he might be drawn into sin. \u201cDoes the Rav suspect me of transgressing?\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":26126,"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":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98770","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=98770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}