“As important as it is for teenagers to be protected in our sheltered world, they should be told of the nature of addiction”
I was reading your magazine over Shabbat when I turned to the article “When G-d Says No.” It took me back to when I was about nine or ten, and I read a similar headline in the Jewish Press when the news broke of Nachshon Wachsman’s murder.
I remember my emotions back then so clearly because I look at it as one of the most transformative moments in my relationship with Hashem.
We had all been following the story and saying Tehillim in school for Nachshon’’s safe return. At the same time I was having a hard time accepting the fact that my older brother and sister were mentally retarded.
I don’t recall why only then it bothered me — it was all I had known since I was a baby — but for whatever reason, I was having a lot of questions why Hashem made them that way and why they couldn’t get better and be normal.
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