Page 4 - The Jewish Voice - November '19

Page 4, The Jewish Voice

From the Rabbis from page 3

God, especially when he doesn’t agree with what’s being roots. But this can happen in one of two ways: Either we will would be more like doves flying to their nests, we wouldn’t
said, to get him going. Did he convince her of the error of be pushed back to our roots by others, or we can do so on need the winds to push the clouds around in the sky.
her ways? Not a chance. Did she convince my friend? Not our own terms. For generations, Jews have struggled to find a cure for
in the slightest. I think they both went away more solid in If we have the wisdom to embrace the richness and anti-Semitism. Once they believed it was assimilation. If they
their views than before. majesty of our Jewish heritage on our own, we are flying could only be like the gentiles and disavow their differences,
Let’s tally up the score at the end of the evening: One free like doves. But if we don’t, the prophet assures us that gentiles would learn to love us and coexist in peace.
annoyed mother in-law — no change in belief; one annoyed others will force us to face our Jewish identity, hence the need But history has shown us what a bubbe maaseh that is.
friend — no change in belief. And of course I, as the guest, for anti-Semites. Today in America, Jews have become so Zyklon B gas, the weapon of choice used by the Nazis in
had simply been there for an awkward, somewhat ruined well integrated that we can easily forget our Jewish identity. the gas chambers, was invented by Fritz Haber, a Jew who
Shabbat meal. For the first time in history, an NBA team officially cut ties converted to Christianity in order to win their graces!
Not every argument is worth having — something the with Israel. Old news for college campus and academic Instead of panicking about anti-Semitism, let us meditate
Talmud itself recognizes when it teaches: “Just as one is institutions. Elected officials are publicly speaking out against upon its root cause and neutralize it from there.
commanded to say something that will be listened to, so Jews and Israel. And we are being attacked in our shuls like May we fly like doves and not like the wind.
too is one commanded not to say something that won’t be never before. Rabbi Dovid Vigler is spiritual leader at Chabad of Palm
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Anti-Semites

By Rabbi Dovid Vigler
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Germany. Thankfully, the
attacker was unable to enter
due to elevated security
protocols and Hashem’s
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