Me neither. The attack in France created one of the most widely shared icons on the internet: Je suis Charlie. ""Me too, Charlie""- they all roared through their keyboards, attaching the protest symbol to their Facebook pictures, their wallets, and even the salt shakers on their desks.
And in the midst of this night of Charlierism, which, to my surprise, also included my brother and some of my family members who live in France, I would like to vote and say in a weak but clear voice: I am not Charlie.
Not interested. Never have been.
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Charlie Hebdo, for those who don't know, is a radical left-wing satirical magazine published in France, and as such, mocks everything related to nationalism, imperialism, capitalism, mysticism, and religion.
In other words, every religion, including the Jewish religion, does not escape the wrath of the holy newspaper.
Everyone made fun of the embarrassing pictures of Muhammad, and even the Steimatzky network tried to sell the beloved issue in Israel, but everyone forgot, or preferred not to remember, that instead of Muhammad, he could have appeared in a ridiculous light on the issue, in contrast to Moses, or any of the great men of the Jewish nation, who declares, "And you were a charm to me," or quotes the saying: "You are called Adam, and none of the nations of the world are called Adam.".
The 'Charlie' does not distinguish between religions. For him, they are all a kind of primitive joke that provides psychological and economic services to their believers, as stated by their 'great' Jewish teacher and rabbi, Karl Marx.
Want to laugh at Muhammad? At the Islamic burqa? Please. Just don't forget to also chuckle at the picture of the Rebbe forcing Jewish women to wear headscarves. Don't forget to also stop the crazy Haredi who sees the picture of his beloved rabbi depicted in an embarrassing picture and goes out to judge the cartoonist.
Or you can vote for Lieberman, who promised to distribute the magazine for free.
Only then, don't forget to quarantine the mad Arab who sees his prophet presented in a ridiculous light, and he will rush to stab several passersby to calm down.
So what is faith?? The days of dealing with this existential issue are as old as humanity, of course, and countless texts have been written about it, but here is an excerpt from a letter that has just been published [the book 'Ish Ha'Amunah'], from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l to the great poet Uri Zvi Greenberg regarding his book 'The Catrog and the Faith'.
""There is room to say that the name of Mr.'s most famous book, The Book of the Catrog and the Faith, should have been The Book of the Faith and the Catrog, and if you find it to be so, this is not an 'excuse', but rather a main point: Man in general, and the Israelites in particular, believe in nature, and only after a while does a problem arise, etc., which also leads to the Catrog.
In other words, faith is a fundamental, natural matter, and self, and the catrog is the creation of the mind in conjunction with events outside of man. And this is also the main thing, that the very reality of the catrog is possible only in a believing person, for then there is room for doubt and catrog, until, according to the first believer, there was one Abraham, 'The judge of all the earth will not do justice.'".
How simple.
Greenberg, by the way, opens his letter of reply to the Rebbe with these words: "Peace to the one who bears the heavy burden of his calling, Rabban to all the oppressed... My meeting in his house of study both times was a great revelation for me. I looked at his open contempt, and I also saw what was hidden. I understood the suffering of finding his honorable calling.".
