Many articles rightfully highlight the achievements and exponential growth of today’s generation of Torah-observant Jewry. Some of today’s yeshivos boast more students than the combined student body of all of the great yeshivos in prewar Europe.
Our meticulous observance of mitzvos both as a klal and as individuals is constantly improving as well. Who today doesn’t have his own mehudar esrog beautiful beyond the esrogim anyone ever saw in Europe?
On a communal level there are myriad chesed social and educational organizations dealing with every type of need.
Of course the affluence of our times is equally unmatched. And clearly this money is being used to produce and maintain a Torah lifestyle undreamed of ever before. But herein lies the danger: the achievement may have engendered a stagnation-inducing complacency with our accomplishments and high standards.
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