Rav Pinto: "Why Are You Involving Yourself in the Dispute Between Moshe and

The Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto shlit"a, head of the "Shuva Israel" institutions, warns to stay away from dispute. With a pleading voice, Rabbi Pinto asks what a person gains from participating in a dispute, while noting that great evil will grow from it for him. These are his holy words:

"Stop being in disputes, stop being in evil, stop judging people. Two people are fighting—why are you getting involved? What will it give you? What will it give you and what will it add to you?"

"On ben Pelet's wife saved him; she said to him: 'Why are you getting involved in the dispute of Moses and Korach, what will you get out of it? If Moses succeeds, they won't give you anything; if Korach succeeds, they won't give you anything! Why are you involving yourself in this?'"

"People get dragged in, people enter, people don't know, they lose their lives. People don't know and don't understand; they are playing with fire and don't know what fire is, they are playing with dangerous fire and don't understand what they are playing with."

"People need to be responsible for their lives and wise about their lives. Do not touch things when you don't know what you are touching."

"Sometimes there is a smallness of mind and a person gets dragged, gets pulled; be careful where you are being dragged and pulled. It is not everything that looks nice to you that you do just to look like a hero in front of your friends. 'You do me a favor and I'll do you a favor'—no, these things are dangerous!"

"You are playing with fire; you don't know which match will catch fire, which will then go into a field of thorns—and who knows where you will end up."

"Because there is always the straw that breaks the camel's back, and it is only one straw, but it breaks the camel's back."

"And sometimes things are delicate and a person does not know where he can end up, therefore a person needs to be wise and look at things with understanding."

"Increase your prayers; the more a person prays, the more he strengthens his roots, and the more a person does mitzvot and doesn't spoil them afterwards with speech and actions—did you do a mitzvah? Rejoice, it will stand by you."

"Do not spoil what you have done; it is a pity to spoil what you have done."