https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412254
Aryeh Ehrlich, editor of Mishpacha magazine, harshly condemned MK Yitzhak Goldknopf’s statement distancing himself from the grief of bereaved religious-Zionist families amid the war with Hamas. Calling the remarks 'un-Jewish' and 'callous.'
In an interview published over the weekend in the Makor Rishon newspaper, Goldknopf said:
“Their pain should remain with them, and our pain should remain with us. Don’t bring me your pain and pass it onto me. Let’s decide that everyone deals with their own package.”
In response, Ehrlich posted a scathing comment on Twitter, opening with:
"I am ashamed and humiliated by the words spoken by my representative in the Knesset. I literally bury my head in shame at such callous and un-Jewish quotes like ‘Don’t dump your pain on us’ or ‘Everyone with their own package’—such alienating remarks that go against everything our Sages taught us about the suffering of Israel, and about how when a Jew is in pain, the Divine Presence cries and says, ‘It is too heavy for My head, too heavy for My arm.’”
Ehrlich then referenced the example of Moses as the opposite model: “Even though Moses was exempt from the burden of slavery in Egypt because he was from the tribe of Levi, he still came down to witness his brothers’ suffering and to truly feel their pain.”
Is this a surprise?
ReplyDeleteMultiple Gedolim(tm) have forbidden praying for the soldiers or visiting them in hospital. Shortly after the war started, Aryeh Deri made it clear that he and the Chareidi parties would oppose any diversion of their funding to the war effort. Then there are the endless statements that these parasites are the real soldiers because of their Torah learning. So why shouldn't Goldknopf say something like this?
The poor Mishpacha crowd is like the guy who visited an abattoir for the first time and fainted when he realized where his cholent meat came from.