Reply To: Going off the Derech

a mamin-I didn’t say anything negative about the Satmar community, nor any other community. I don’t have any personal connection to them, so I’m not familiar with them too much. It could be that this man just had exposure to the wrong types of people within the Satmar community. My son will tell you the same thing about the Haredim. Instead of focusing on the various individuals who hurt him, he generalizes his hatred to the Haredi world. And I think, as you mentioned, it also has to do with the various weaknesses and personality of the person who was hurt. For some it may feel like a scratch, and for others it feels like major surgery…