Reply To: Where are the Manhigim?

DY, if you haven’t figured out by now, I most often write about concepts and movements, about zeitgeist and weltanschauung, not about this or that individual’s responsibility for act a or challenge b. In this case I am drawing attention to the inherent contradiction of that community’s action or inaction.

Perhaps the real problem is that no one takes responsibility. The average Joes expect the Rabbis to exert some control as they do over most everything else in the community, but they dont. The Rabbis, I am told by several posters here, are too scared to do anything. (which I find hard to believe, but…) The perpetrators feel the overwhelming sentiment in their community if not outright guidance is compelling them to act in this way, so they do.

In any case it is a truly broken dynamic.