A Friendly Reminder
Shana Tova to everyone; I would like to use this opportunity to remind everyone that now, especially now no matter how careful we think we are being when we are out in public i.e. the secular world as far as our behavior, what we say, what we have with us and show in public now we have to extra careful. I am writing this because of something that happened on a city bus on my way home from work. We are Jews we give people the benefit of the doubt we try to get along with everyone and think positive even if something doesn't look that way but other people are not always that generous to us to put it mildly. This is what happened on a city bus and I hope it will make everyone think before we act: an obvious looking religious person came on and I just thought the person didn't realize was looking for his metro card and took out something else instead, the something else was a very large sum of money. I have to tell you that the comments of the people around me are not printable and I wouldn't use such language even if I could—I will say that the bus riders around me spoke very freely I don't believe they realized who they were talking to since I work in a neighborhood and field where wearing the typical orthodox women's clothing is not the safest way to go so they did not know they were making these comments to a shomer shabbos person. One person was Jewish but not religious and made a comment to me that this is why he/she is not religious but complained that this gives a bad name to all of us on top of some of the very anti-Semitic comments that made me feel like we were back in the 1930s. So Please when you are out in public and thinking of doing something or saying something or showing you have showing be extra careful and think about how this might look. To secular Jews it really is terrible because maybe if they see us acting the right way maybe it will bring some closer to Torah and for the Goyim its also so bad because it shows just how much they really do hate us and when they see something like this they not only hate us but become extremely jealous and it makes a huge Chillul Hashem. Mr. Iran was just in New York practically talking about wiping us off the map and no one said boo on top of the economic troubles taking place right now.
We have to be so careful that we are not fostering baseless hatred and pushing those Jews who have not yet returned to Torah and we should definitely not be adding to the increasing anti-Semitism because of our own behavior.
I hope that this year all our troubles end and we all gather in Jerusalem with Moshiach.
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