“Wat do you say about Amona?” my friend asked me as we were walking home from Maariv last week.
“Well it’s a tragedy it hurts but it’s also sobering ” I told him. “It’s an eye-opener if you’re willing to learn from it.”
“How about explaining that?”
“Look first of all I have to say I’m beyond impressed by those young people who are willing to suffer and fight for Eretz Yisrael.”
“Even the ones who holed themselves up in the shul?”
“Never mind them. Every community has its wild ones. They were screaming at the police to disobey orders while they themselves were disobeying the instructions of their rabbanim. Don’t let them spoil the amazing impression that all the others left me with the ones who listened to their rabbanim and kept it non-violent….”
