If someone suffers or if someone does not suffer, it is not according to our decisions, much less according to the arabs decision. For unfathomable reasons suffering exists, even though we also have a few very understandable reasons that are enumerated and we should try to improve. It is written on Rosh Hashana and sealed on Yom Kippur. What we can decide is whether our suffering will come at the hands of the antisemites or if R”L it will come to happen at the hands of (misguided, sick, evil) fellow Jews. We can also decide if we should be pushed to do aveirot by a fellow Jew and push them to do aveirot, or if we should run away from such situations. I try my hardest to help if I can and if I can’t help I am at least careful not to damage, and I try my hardest not to put stumbling blocks. In the Medinat this is not always easy to achieve.
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