The above letter to
Klall Yisrael from the
Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah is proof-positive that the Chareidie World with their Rabbinic Leaders are disconnected from the vast majority of the Jewish people, especially with other frum
Shomrei Torah Umitvois! The letter does include the Hostages, but not a word for those sacrificing their lives for the Jewish people.
Let that sink in!
Is it any wonder that most Jews, I repeat, MOST JEWS cannot understand why the Chareidim have absolutely no empathy for those who were murdered on October 7.
Is it any wonder that the vast majority of the Jewish people living in Israel resent the Chareidim!
Is it any wonder why Chilonim who must send their children, and husbands to the front resent Yeshiva Students?
האחיכם יבאו למלחמה ואתם תשבו פה "Shall your brothers go out to war while you just sit here" cried Moshe Rabbeinu!
In that question is also " Don't you care? Don't you have any empathy?"
And even if you are not sending your children to war, where is the respect for those who do?
Recently I heard that the Girl Seminaries in Israel have asked their students not to say Tehillim for any specific soldier! I want to know which Rabbi gave that idiotic psak?
I want to know which Rav sat in his study in leather chair holding a hot herbal tea munching on a few dietic crackers and came up with this perverted idea?
Are they worried that the girl saying Tehillim for a specific soldier will get feelings for him? Is that it?
How sick and perverted?
By extension every single man should refrain from saying Thillim for any lady not his wife or daughter, every lady should refrain from saying Tehillim for any man even a Gadol if she is not married to him!
And let's just say that she would develop feeling for that soldier, chas Ve'shaom, that she is davening for, is that an "aveirah?" Isn't that the purpose of saying tehillim for a specific person to feel his or her pain, to connect with that neshama? How low have we sunk, when a Rabbi is afraid that a Jewish Heimishe girl saying tehillim is developing romantic feelings for that soldier? Is that what he thinks of his girl students? What is in that perverted head of that rabbi? What does he think about all day?
This week, I had the opportunity to join a group to visit NOVA, the site where Hamas raped, murdered and mutilated hundreds of Jews. I managed to gather 10 Jews to say a kaddish for these "kedoshim." When I finished I proceeded to make a "Keil Molah Rachmim" becoming very emotional. The commander of the IDF forces that was assigned to NOVA came over to me and asked me if I lost anyone here, I answered in the affirmative "Yes, all those murdered were my family." He looked at me with tears in his eyes visibly touched, and said "I didn't think that Chareidim really cared"
As I was about to leave I noticed a Chareidie dressed like the Arelich with the striped bekesha and I asked him in Yiddish what he was doing there? He pointed to his wife a few meters away all bent over a memorial for a murdered girl, sobbing, and she looked as if she was inconsolable. He said that she is crying over their daughter murdered and probably raped on October 7, and that his wife insists that they come there three times a week, she has 12 other children. I asked him if she cries like this every time she visits, and he answered yes, but understand, he said, that in our community she couldn't and can't get any comfort from anyone, as the neighbors didn't even come to be "menacheim aval" they would come if someone ,G-d forbid, takes their own life but not if Hamas murdered her.
We spoke about the disconnect that the Chareidie World has to October 7, and he admitted that if it wasn't for his own daughter murdered, he probably would have never even given a thought to coming, and he added that this has to change. He made an interesting observation, he said that this push to connect, cannot come from the top, from the leaders, it has to be grass roots as the rabbis will never understand.
Let me finish with a word from the megilla. The very last pasuk states:
כי מרדכי היהודי משנה למלך אחשורוש וגדול ליהודים ורצוי לרוב אחיו דרש טוב לעמו ודבר שלום לכל-זרעו
"Mordechai the Jew, was viceroy to King Ahasuerus; he was a great man among the Jews, and found favor with the multitude of his brethren; he sought the good of his people and was able to speak in peace with all his children"
Commentaries say that the very last verse talks about Mordechai's accomplishments and his virtues.
He managed becoming the second in command in charge of the entire Persian Empire, no small feat. He was also held in high esteem amongst his own people, and was able to be liked by the majority of his brethren, also no small feat, and in fact it is usually an impossible task and situation, in a addition, he made an effort to find the best in everyone, and finally, he spoke in peace with his very own children.
Commentaries say, that as the list of his accomplishment and virtues progresses in the verse, the virtue mentioned next, is far more important.
In other words, though being a viceroy to the King was a huge accomplishment, the fact that he was held in high esteem by the Jews was a greater virtue and so on and so on. The last accomplishment was that he "spoke to his children in peace" that according to commentaries was his greatest accomplishment.
Why?
I am sure that Mordecahi may have not approved of everything his children were doing or how they were leading their lives,(this is actually hinted in the Even Ezra.) But nevertheless he was able to speak in peace with them. That in fact is a great accomplishment and shows what kind of person Mordechai really was.
We say everyday:
ובא לציון גואל ולשבי פשע ביעקב
We pray that Moshiach comes, but when he does come he is coming to the פשע ביעקב as well!
Moshiach will come to those who are not Shomrei Torah Umitzvois as well. They will be included.
If you don't agree, cut this verse out of your prayers ...
Aguda Shame On You!
