Many readers have shared feedback to Rabbi Moshe Grylak’s series on young girls who no longer feel welcome in their own homes. The following is a sampling of the responses to this painful, confusing scenario, offered from four different perspectives.
Dear Rabbi Grylak… In your recent column your conclusions made no sense to me. No sense at all. Forget about the fact that they made my bile rise so that I felt nauseous to the pit of my stomach. They were simply wrong. forward and tars us with the brush of assumptions. We have been judged in so many ways and found lacking. It is astonishing how in this generation of diminished prophecy people have the confidence to state without doubt exactly where and when we went wrong. As if we don’t judge ourselves enough without their kindly assistance. As if we don’t ask our own questions.
Still I did not expect to read more of the same in a column of yours.
You cannot fathom how a girl finds herself on the streets ostensibly abandoned by her parents… well I can’t either. All I can state in our defense is that life is not sketched in black and white. And even though we often wish we had our answers all neatly wrapped up — sometimes we get handed a mess. A riddle so confoundingly complicated that we cannot begin to unravel the wrapping and get to the heart of the matter. We do the best we can.
One thing I declare with resounding clarity and I say this on behalf of all those parents out there who are suffering a million torments most probably lying awake like I do while the rest of the world slumbers: Revenge was never a motivating factor. Never!
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