Remember the 'Emanuel Affair'? Remember how many explanations and articles were published so that we would understand why those families should not be given a foothold in the public school?
No one listened at the time to the arguments about the obligation to come near and care for every Jew, even if he had not sinned.
After you remember, close your eyes for a moment, enter the sights and sounds of those days and imagine the following event: In the midst of the public debate on the affair, it turns out that one of those families took a family trip to Eilat, during which one of the family members and several of his friends took a taxi to a questionable district and argued with the taxi driver over five shekels...
What happened next is easy to describe. The detractors would have taken this affair and demanded to denounce it from every possible angle; extolling the taxi driver's description and the police report, in detail, and explaining with self-righteousness that it would be better for a family like that to join the army than to hang around among us...
Between Emanuel and Eilat
And now you can open your eyes.
Here it was, except for one detail, and that was that the 'Yerushalmi faction', one of the leaders of the exclusionist supporters in Emanuel, had their reasons for appropriating the young man from Eilat for their needs, finding an excuse to go out to demonstrations and protests, while using the arguments that were heard against them in the Emanuel affair: against exclusion and in favor of the obligation to care for every Jew, even if he and his family do not reach even ten percent of your dignity.
They, whose mouths are full of jesting about all the efforts to bring people closer together, who explain the dangers of exposing themselves to others, now firmly hold fast to the commandment "Let not one who is alienated be alienated from him.".
There is no common denominator between the city of Emmanuel and the city of Eilat. Not only are many kilometers separating the two, and their essence is opposite, but the logic that governs each city is also different, completely different.
In Emmanuel, the command was to whitewash, humiliate, and insult, as they have always done to this day.
But today the commandment is to understand and bring the lost young man closer.
For some reason, this commandment does not include those who have missed their own common sense. It turns out that these, including the great Torah scholars, are commanded to be despised and their honor belittled. They are the judges of the judges.
Even after being pushed to the margins, more isolated than ever, they insist on asserting that they are the mainstream, the axis around which everything logically revolves.
Everything according to needs
The Eilat affair revealed the face of the Jerusalem faction, which since its founding has used a different logic from time to time, circling the circle around the arrow.
Sometimes the greatest generation is determined by majority, and sometimes the majority will not determine for an individual who is the greatest generation. Sometimes following the majority, it is necessary to be careful, and sometimes it is necessary to be careful and to be careful. Sometimes according to "majority and building" and sometimes only "one person from the mouth of one person." Sometimes it is better to build young people, and sometimes to contradict old people.
In every matter, whether principled or personal, according to needs and circumstances, the arguments and directions change, including in personal and practical matters. Whoever is on their side, a saint will be called him, and the moment he leaves them, it is known that he has been a sinner and a transgressor since ancient times. The persecuted become persecutors, the righteous become criminals, commandments become transgressions, obligations become prohibitions. They have the exclusive right to decide: Who are the great men of Israel who say about the left that it is right - their word is holy; and who are the great men of Israel who even say about the right that it is right, they should be mocked.
Every act can be both wrong and right and righteous.
What then, is forbidden and what is permitted? What to demand praise for and what to condemn? It all depends on and is structured according to the level of politics.
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