Reply To: What's going on in Emmanuel?

It’s very easy to blame the government for everything they do wrong, and anything that they do right (like support Torah), to brush it away with claims of “they have to do it, they shouldn’t recieve credit.” We learn from Moshe Rabeinu that we show hakaras hatov even when it was a result of natural course (a river is supposed to cause things to float and yet Mosheh Rabeinu showed it hakaras hatov… kal vachomer for peope with bechira chofshis). So the fact that the chareidim are “entitled” to funding for the government is not a reason not to show due hakaras hatov. I’m not saying ignore what they do wrong and what they do that’s anti-Torah, but charedim have a serious lack of hakaras hatov when they are learning because of government stipends.