Those who have money and yichus are treated with respect.
But what about: Baalei Teshuvah, gairim,
Sephardim, Russian Jews, and the poor?
What about those Jews who observe mitzvot,
but do not wear The Uniform (white shirt &
black hat & all other clothes black)?
One older bachur I know lives in an apartment building in one of NYC’s most Orthodox neighborhoods.
None of the Orthodox Jews who live in his apartment building are interested in learning Torah with him, nor are they interested in inviting him for Shabbat, nor are they interested in befriending him or even talking with him for more than a few minutes. Not even those who live on the same floor as him; not even those who live next-door to him; not even those who go to the same shul as him.
It is “every man for himself” – there is zero friendship and zero unity among Jewish neighbors, even though they have been living in the same apartment building for more than 25 years.
Is that normal? Is that what G_D wants from His people?