Mean eyes fear Goyim

from A simple Jew

Yossele Kvetch comenting on RNachman and Don Ross

“It is a mean eye that causes one to see only ugliness and impurity in everything beyond the bounds of Israel, the unique nation. This is one of the most awful, debased forms of darkness. It damages the entire edifice of spiritual virtue, the light of which every spiritual soul seeks.”

Says Rav Kook [Mishnato shel HaRav Kook]:”

This piece is followed by comments, pilpuling about the mystery of when a voice in music is safe, differentianting between “vulgar” lyricked music and ye olde classickal music of yore, and the divine right of Rebbes to steal particular songs from the gentiles for purposes of defeating them, an old chassidic trick. Missing the point? It’s a good question: What’s safe and good to inhale from the host culture, and what’s not? Should we buy the kids I-pods? Cable? Pornography? What’s a wise filter? Because I meet modern Orthodox kids from all around, who have been lameified by their host neighborhoods and medias into shallow, petty standards of cool. Is this prevenatable? How can we filter a culture to get only the good?

—Yo