Monday, December 6, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse -a Jewish hero?

 https://mishpacha.com/inbox-issue-888/

 I think most frum Jews can agree about the importance of right to self-defense, and the possible ramifications of this verdict in other scenarios. But there’s a fine line between expressing relief that Rittenhouse was acquitted, and actually glorifying him and everything about him — his behavior, his motives, and the totally bizarre loophole that rendered his gun possession legal to begin with.

Am I the only one who thinks that too many people I know have crossed that fine line? Am I the only one who shrinks to hear fine, frum Jews pontificate in defense of a gun-toting teen for all to hear, including their very impressionable teenage sons, neighbors, and nephews?

 Barring any extreme circumstances — of which there are no indications at the moment — it should be clear to every 17-year-old bochur that Kyle Rittenhouse is no hero, and that our bochurim have the opportunity to be heroes in the eyes of their parents and teachers every day, by staying right where they’re supposed to be: behind the walls of home, yeshivah, school, or whatever safe and supervised framework their parents have entrusted them to, and leaving the cops-and-robbers games to the adults.

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