If we don't mourn the destruction, are we truly in galus?
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ou know how you occasionally hear or read something and wonder, “Wow, that’s so obvious. How did I miss it?”
I just had one of those moments, and I am asking myself that very question: How did I miss it?
Chareidi media has been all over the new law affecting the real estate market. It is presented as a chareidi news story since, as the headlines declare and the articles explain, many frum people are in the real estate sector, and these laws regulating rental properties stand to impact the frum community on many fronts. I read the articles and the readers’ reactions — some say it’s good for the Jews, most insist it’s bad for the Jews — and shrugged my shoulders and moved on to the next article.
But then a rosh yeshivah called me to point out something that should have been obvious, but I had missed.
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