P'shutim.....Missing The Boat
I find it very hard to digest today's Jewish world. Yes we have more 'learning' now and more chesed organizations but I firmly believe many people are missing the boat. There was a tragic story recently in the news about a young Jewish boy who was killed by a LIRR train. I read this story on a popular Jewish news blog and was appalled by the comments left by seemingly 'frum' Jews. All they could say was , 'he wasn't frum' ,why did he frequent a non kosher pizza place', 'He should not have been spray painting' etc... Now all these statements might be 'true' but HELLO !!!!!!! A Jewish family is mourning the lose of their young son and all the pain you can come up with is 'well he wasn't frum'. What happened to ahavas yisroel ! Who cares whether the boy was frum or not he was a Jew !! Kol Yisroel Araveim Zeh Lazeh - we must feel for all Jews not just the ones that wear the same color shirt as us.
Another example on the same blog - they ran a story about the latest case of children being molested in a 'prominent' Brooklyn yeshiva . The people commenting again have missed the boat. "who gave them a right to go to secular court" etc. (Now without getting into do you believe the rebbi or the child etc). Forget about what court they went to, we have a serious problem in our schools !! molested children, Kids going off the derach , these issues must be dealt with. Stop with your "frumkeit" - "you can't go to court", it's KRUM. There are bigger issues that have to be dealt with. If the fact that they 'might' have done something wrong by going to court is more important to you then why they are in court then you my friend are far far away from true "frumkeit". Yes there are many blogs that discus this issue in the right way and kudos to them but many people seem lost and oblivious to true Derech Hatorah ......