Translated from Hebrew!
A respected Torah scholar, a teacher of Torah, sits in his car and cannot get out. Dozens surround him, shake the vehicle, and physically beat his talmidim, and shout at him.
For long minutes he is trapped — not in a hostile city, not under attack by enemies of religion. It happens in the heart of a Charedie city, at the hands of dozens of yeshiva bochrim.
And this is no isolated incident.
These are the same Charedie hoodlums that attacked Rabbi David Leibel. Those who thought it would end with attacking Rav Leibel, discovered that since then, Rabbi Uriya Einbal, the Rebbe of Karlin, and now the Roshei Yeshiva Rabbi Feivelson have also been attacked.
Respected rabbis, scholars, and Torah students are assaulted by bochrim. And between one attack and another come road blockages, spitting at soldiers, and riots that have almost become routine. Once we called them "asavim shoitim" “wild weeds.”
But a wild weed doesn’t surround a car with hundreds of people.
Unfortunately, for every illness they have ready answers.
It's always someone else's fault!
It's the Attorney General, it's the High Court, it's the media, always being persecuted.
Every criticism is a decree, every critic is an enemy, and every call for introspection is dismissed with contempt.
Everything with us is fine ; the problem is always outside.
So here — an eighteen-year-old boy raises his hand against a Torah scholar in a Chareredi street.
Who is to blame this time? Did the attorney general, or the high court in Yeushlayim shake the car? This time there’s nowhere to point the finger. This time the responsibility is ours.