Fw: A Moment with Rabbi Avigdor Miller Z"L # 65 (Television & The Aged)

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From: "Avrohom Tikotzky" <tikotzky@gmail.com>

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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:10:13 -0500

To: Rabbi Goldberger<rabbig@sakar.com>

ReplyTo: "Avrohom Tikotzky" <tikotzky@gmail.com>

Subject: A Moment with Rabbi Avigdor Miller Z"L # 65 (Television & The Aged)

Tape 485 @ 1:25:04             Parshas Vayigash 5771

This email is transcribed from questions that were posed to Harav Miller by the audience at the Thursday night lectures. To listen to the audio of this Q & A please dial: 201-676-3210

QUESTION:   Would watching television be permitted for old women in nursing homes who have no other interests?

ANSWER: And the answer is, old women in nursing homes, would it be right for them to drink poison if they have nothing else to do? You have to realize that drinking poison is much more beneficial than watching television, especially for old people. A young person who watches television ruins his mind, it ruins his Neshama, but still there’s some hope left, maybe before he dies he'll repent and maybe he'll learn a lot of Mesilas Yeshorim and erase from his mind part of what he listened to, what he saw.     But old people just before they die, they have to purify themselves most, and when they pollute their minds in their last days, that's what they take with them to the Next World. They take all the Arayos, all the wickedness with them in the Next World. Not because they'll practice it, they’re too old to practice immorality, but they have it in their heads. Immorality in the head of an old man is the very worst thing.     Here's an old man, he can't go out in the street, you go to visit him in his house, he's sitting and looking at the television. Gevald! Gevald! His children are murdering him. He should say Tehillim in his last days, he should speak to Hashem in his last days, he should prepare himself. He's reading something that's dirty, or looking at dirty magazines, that the children brought up for the old folks to enjoy before they die. He's taking all that garbage with him in the Next World.      Old people especially have to prepare, and that's why television for old women in the nursing homes, is the very worst thing you can do to them. Good Shabbos To All

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