In less than two weeks, you will find yourself debating behind the curtain: which note will you put inside the envelope that will be placed in the ballot box.
And perhaps resentful sentences will creep into your hearts like: What do I have from the party? They didn't help me, they didn't remember me. They only remember me during elections.
There is no shortage of complaints, if you just want to look.
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I came here to make a personal statement. But I will precede it with a passage from the Gemara:
Our Rabbis gave: The poor and the rich and the wicked are not subject to judgment. To the poor they say to him: Why did you not engage in Torah? If he says: I was poor and worried about my sustenance, they say to him: Were you poorer than Hallel? To the rich they say to him: Why did you not engage in Torah? If he says: I was rich and worried about my possessions, they say to him: Were you richer than Rabbi Elazar? To the wicked they say to him: Why did you not engage in Torah? If he says: I was handsome and worried about my possessions, they say to him: Were you handsomer than Joseph?
It is found that Hillel obligates the poor, Rabbi Elazar ben Harsum obligates the rich, and Yosef obligates the wicked (Yoma 35:2).
And on that same note, I came to tell you that we (my husband, I, and our household) obligate all those who hesitate, those who rebel, and those who doubt.
Because we too could claim that the party did not stand by us during a very difficult time, when we suffered from the harassment of 'independent education' and our livelihood was stolen - and no one, but no one, was there for us.
There was great anger and frustration in our hearts. But in the elections that took place quite close to the event, we rose above ourselves and went to do as the great Torah scholars commanded, without making personal calculations.
Because the fate of the entire community depends on it, and there is no room for petty calculations here.
And so did all our children – despite the sorrow and pain, they too voted according to what the elders of the generation taught them.
So when you stand with yourself behind the curtain, just you and the Creator who watches over everything, think about what your answer will be when the day comes, when you are asked: Why did you withdraw from the community and not sanctify the name of God? Why didn't you choose G?
What will you answer?
