It’s just incredible. Even from Donald Trump from whom we’ve learned to expect the unexpected we didn’t expect this. From our perches in Jerusalem or New York we’ve followed this man’s movements since he first entered the presidential race and we know he’s not simple to fathom. We’ve looked on for the past few weeks as he launched a rather unorthodox administration and all these observations have taught us to be ready for anything because there’s no telling what tomorrow will bring. So at this point nothing Donald Trump says should be surprising.
And yet he still managed to surprise me. Donald Trump talking like a mashgiach ruchani? Donald Trump teaching us about emunah?
I rubbed my eyes; perhaps I was dozing and hadn’t read the words correctly. Surely Donald Trump couldn’t possibly have said the following words at the National Prayer Breakfast held in Washington two weeks ago:
“The quality of our lives is not defined by our material success but by our spiritual success. I tell you that from somebody that has had material success and knows tremendous numbers of people with great material success the most material success. Many of those people are very very miserable unhappy people.
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