Comments on: Madoff Says He Feels Happier Now Than He’s Felt In 20 Years http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/106913/madoff-says-he-feels-happier-now-than-hes-felt-in-20-years.html Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:49:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.9 By: aries2756 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/106913/madoff-says-he-feels-happier-now-than-hes-felt-in-20-years.html#comment-236928 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:51:51 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=106913#comment-236928 Yes he is crooked and yes he is a thief. But let us NOT forget that people were chasing him and throwing money at him. It is NOT as if he were holding a gun to anyone’s head. People of their own free will chose to risk their money gambling with him. They made a terrible choice and they lost. They bet on him, they trusted him, they counted on him and they put their faith in him and they lost. They were greedy and wanted to make millions off of him and they wanted to do it quickly without any effort on their part. They took their hard earned money at risked it.

He has remorse. Do they? Do they have remorse that they risked what they should not have risked and that they should NOT have been greedy but played it safer or are they just still blaming him and not themselves. Greed is a terrible thing. It got to him and it got to them and he is being punished big time. There is no excuse for his aveiros, but he has remorse and he is paying his dues to society. Everyone has blame here, those that perpetrated the fraud and those who trusted them.

]]> By: YonasonW http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/106913/madoff-says-he-feels-happier-now-than-hes-felt-in-20-years.html#comment-236903 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:48:36 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=106913#comment-236903 Remorse is a good thing, no? At least the Torah says so! It would be a wonderful thing if other Yidden caught up in well publicized white collar criminal cases showed a little bit of it themselves…and played just a wee bit less the part of the victim.

]]> By: cherrybim http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/106913/madoff-says-he-feels-happier-now-than-hes-felt-in-20-years.html#comment-236873 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:25:03 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=106913#comment-236873 “Madoff says he has terrible remorse”

What a Tzadik!

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