PERSPECTIVES → INBOX Issue 849 · February 17, 2021

Inbox Letters: Issue 849

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Inbox Letters: Issue 849

 

 

Let’s Stop Ripping Ourselves Apart [Outlook / Issue 848]

I love reading Family First and all the great articles, but every week Mishpacha magazine depresses me more and more. How many editorials do we need about the hatred of one Jew for the next? How many articles do we need about what every other Jew is doing wrong? Why this need to publicize the ripping apart of our nation?

This week it was about the Jews in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, last week it was the “non maskers.” How will our nation ever heal with these sentiments?

I have absolutely no connection with the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation, but I’m wondering if you are aware of their “shalom challenge.” In the first video they sent out there was a line, “We know so little, yet we shout so loudly.” Those could not be truer words. After watching the first few videos they sent last week, I said, when Mashiach comes, it will be because of this organization.

I’m all for people practicing whatever precautions they feel necessary for their health and wellbeing, but causing machlokes will get us nowhere. Do we really think that a nation being torn apart with machlokes will survive so long as we paste a cloth over our mouth and nose? Do we really think a vaccine will save us when we rip each other apart? No scientific breakthrough will save us from the destruction we bring upon ourselves through hate and fights.

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