This Unorthodox story has been weighing heavily on my mind since I read about it this week.
The more I think about it, the more I realize:
Hitler, y"s's goal was to destroy Jews physically.
Her goal is to destroy Orthodox Judaism and to blacken the reputations of and humiliate Torah observant Jews spiritually and thereby increase anti-semitism.
There have always been Jew and Judaism haters.
Jew and Judaism haters exist presently.
Jew and Judaism haters will always exist.
The most virulent of them are often Jews themselves.
So she gets to wear flashy clothing and has a more varied menu than most of us do, and has lots of publicity in her life right now, with everyone famous calling to interview her. But, she is using her overabundant energy to blacken and humiliate her ancestors and make them all out to be foolish robotic dodos. Even the ones, and especially the ones, who throughout the ages, perished for their religion.
Had she abandoned religious practices and been using her overabundant energy to be a doctor or inventor of some kind to make lives easier, or even to encourage secular education, or had she taken on some other noble cause, without the negativity and ridicule she employs, I might have been able to understand her, and find some redeeming qualities. But no, all she wants to do is defame the religious practices of her forefathers, instead of just living a normal, less religious or even totally irreligious life, privately without negative fanfare.
Had she attempted to fairly point to some of the many clear virtues and benefits existing in our lifestyle and admit that even though she doesnt believe or doesnt have innate discipline, theres beauty in our lifestyle and it has many gainful attributes, she might have deserved some respect. After all even a broken clock is right twice a day, Orthodoxy has to be beneficial in some ways, even to those who choose not to practice it. No such thing. In her eyes, our lifestyle is all ridiculous and shes the brilliant enlightened one who can transform the lives of everyone who is religious and naive. She has the key to the door of true happiness. While feasting on crab sandwiches and sending her child to a Modern Orthodox school, she feels she has the recipe for happiness and freedom. It’s not, it’s a recipe for confusion. I pity her for her pain and confusion and the hatred she lives with thats seething from within, but I pity her son more for having to live with and learn life’s lessons from a hateful, vengeful person, with the confidence and guiltlessness to do harm, as she pleases.
She's on a mission and shes having fun and enjoying popularity with her mission now. What will she do for excitement next when this wears down?
Her mission is to mock and defame innocent Jews and paint them all with one broad ugly stroke, the darkest black, without the slightest shades of white or gray, and with all this, overfilled with hate and mockery expects to come out looking like a heroine and saviour for her efforts.
The actress who she speaks of admiringly, she's not. No beauty. Not her fault, not her choice.
Einstein she's not. No genius. Not her fault, not her choice.
Jackie Mason she's not. No comedienne. Not her fault, not her choice. Not gifted in any of those ways.
Just a babbling buffoon, a very hateful seething anti-semite not worth anyone's time.
And that IS her choice.
She is an example of what not to become, what not to aspire to be, capitalizing on hate, mockery, meanness and exaggeration. The OTD part is the least of it.
Shame on her.
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