Sunday, December 10, 2006

It's a Mad Mad Mad world

Ok so everyone has heard so far that a certain cheder rebbe who has been involved in chinuch for so many years has been arrested for child endangerment. ok and he was home for shabbos after posting $10,000 bail and surrendering his passport. Oh and the esteemed Yeshiva where he used to teach has been hit with another multi-million dollar lawsuit for failure to protect the child in the case.
I want to know the answer to one question, Now what? Are the "Gedolim" going to wake up and realize something that even Ohel has been trying to raise awareness since it's inception. Unfortunately our generation has very few real outside predators like our grandparents did, we abuse ourselves, our children, our spouses, our money, everything.
We have become a disposable society that if you do not like something, throw it away and get a new one. Married? Hate your spouse? get a divorce! costs a bit of money but so easily done.
Don't like your kids anymore, too difficult for you to handle them? put them up for adoption or give them to Hamaspik or Ohel to send to foster homes.
We are always so busy with the newest fad, clothing styles, latest Fried, Chevra or Shweky CD or concert, that we forget what and who we are.
We are an Am Kadosh. We must take a look at ourselves, why was an entire community like Monsey (Formerly known as Monsey Ir Hakodesh), a place where the Chofetz Chaim Foundation is located, and so many other Mosdos Chesed, was nichshal in this past summer's fiasco with the treife meat?
We are all so ready to rip down an Eruv and burn Sheitels and kasher our kitchens and claim it's leshaim Shemayim but how many of us have sat down and asked ourselves, how have I improved my relationship with my Creator, my spouse, my children, my neighbor, my parents, my siblings ect...
Yes it is almost Chanukah and watching how the goyim are going crazy buying things for their Chugah, where in Shulchan Aruch does it say we are to give gifts on chanukah? By continuously bringing into our communities their culture and custums? what makes our communities a community? do we all follow the same rabonim? follow the same minhagim? you are lucky to find 3 families in the same apartment building that buy food with the same hechsherim. maybe it is time we revert back to the time when you had maybe 100 families in a community with one rov and maybe 2 shuls?

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