Today, when so many parts of our machaneh in Klal Yisrael are causing a chillul Hashem, we must stand up and say “ad kan, enough”
I would like to salute Yonoson Rosenblum for his amazing column on kiddush Hashem. I am sure there were naysayers who said not to print his column since it may be controversial.
May I suggest that there is nothing controversial about kiddush kavod Shamayim. The baalei mussar expound on the pasuk in Vayikra 22:32, where the Torah says we should not desecrate Hashem’s name and Hashem will become kadosh. They ask, isn’t there something between chillul Hashem and kiddush Hashem? The response they give is that there is not, because if we are not mekadesh Hashem, then we are automatically mechallel Hashem.
Today, when so many parts of our machaneh in Klal Yisrael are causing a chillul Hashem, we must stand up and say “ad kan, enough.” I was always deeply troubled by the minyanim on airplanes, even before the pandemic. I could not fathom how people would stand in front of the restrooms, blocking people from using the facilities, because they wanted to daven with a minyan. But the Jewish guilt also bothered me: How can I miss a minyan?
So I spoke to Maran Hagaon Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky shlita, who immediately paskened, “Daven in your seat, and don’t even stand for Shemoneh Esreh.”
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