Reply To: Ahavas Yisrael for those in YU/the MO community (Ask me anything)

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Avi K
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Avirah, Hashem runs the world according to Nature. Moreover, there is free choice and there is personal responsibility. We are not fatalists like another religious group that says that all “is written”.

Rabbenu Chananel says (Chagiga 5a)
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The Or haChaimhaKadosh says on Parashat Vayeshev
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I really wonder what is the purpose of your libelous screeds. Chazal say (Kiddushin 70b) that one who constantly disqualifies does so with his own blemish. Could it be that these are things you hate about yourself?

As for the Holocaust specifically, Rav Soloveichik said that we cannot know why it happened but we can learn a lesson – that all Jews are in the same boat.

As for learning, the Netziv (He’emek Devar on Devarim 19,12) says
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I can tell you that many MO shuls do have Torah learning. There are also many MOs who learn in battei midrash – together with black hatters. In fact, originally there was a sharp distinction between shuls, which were only for prayers, and battei midrash, which were only for learning.