Blessed be the Creator who entrusted His world to the guardians.
We have been blessed and we are in a generation where the eyes of the community watch over and observe almost every aspect of our lives. We have been blessed with a Rabbinical Committee for Communications, a Rabbinical Committee for Transportation, a Rabbinical Committee for Resorts and Hotels, and more. And I am sure that there are several other committees for important matters, without cynicism, that I have forgotten for now, and with the honor of the important rabbis, my apologies.
And yet, I would like to contribute my humble part and suggest that the time has come to establish a new committee – the Rabbinical Committee on Murder Matters.
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Yes, yes - the Rabbinical Committee for Murder.
The Haredi public boasts to the secular street, and even to itself when it feels attacked by the media: "We don't have crime and murder like they do.".
Well, it turns out there is.
Worse still, it is being carried out by the last people we would expect it from.
It is performed by the great rabbis and yeshiva heads.
Every yeshiva head whose students drive a car and does not do everything to ensure that they drive carefully and return safely – the blood of his students who are injured in traffic accidents is on his hands.
Any educator who does not teach his students about the many dangers that exist in the dangerous places where his students travel - the blood of his students who are injured during a trip to the desert/river/some dangerous place is on his hands.
My words may sound harsh at first reading, but I did not renew them from my heart. The Holy Torah, which guides us, is the one that places the responsibility on the shoulders of spiritual leadership.
Here is the Mishnah:
""The elders of that city wash their hands in water at the place where a bullock was slaughtered, and say, Our hands did not shed this blood, and our eyes did not see it. And it occurred to us that the elders of the court were bloodsuckers, but he did not come to us and we dismissed him (without food), and we did not see him and we buried him (without a funeral).
And the seal of the Mishnah is, "And the priests shall say, Make atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, O Lord, and do not let innocent blood be shed among your people Israel. They did not need to say, "Let us make atonement for them," but the Holy Spirit informs them that when you do this, the blood is made atonement for them.".
And you generally hear nothing.
