People like to apologize.
Sometimes it seems that all the uproar created by various provocateurs is just for moments of apology.
The explanation is simple: in the moments after asking for forgiveness, the apologizer is surrounded by an aura of kindness and mercy, and he earns himself the name of a hero, no less.
The power of Jewish forgiveness places the one who retracts outrageous statements in a compassionate and caressing light of double love, both for these moments and for the previous moments of anger, so it is definitely worth standing in the stage after the apology.
What if in order to apologize you have to hurt someone first?
This week, it seems, we celebrate the Great Apologists' Week.
It began with the statements of a left-wing 'spiritual man' that drew angry reactions from all sides of the political spectrum, and of course led the unfortunate speaker to retract his words.
Going through a certain rabbinical attorney who recklessly chattered nonsense on his keyboard on the anniversary of the kidnapping of the three boys, and was forced to publish an apologetic and condescending post (blessed are you scholars who were not exposed to the filth of the serpent).
And ending with the 'apology of the year' from a certain "rabbi" who did more than apologize - spoil it.
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They listened and listened: In the midst of the storm of the leftist intellectual's garrulous statements, when reactions of shock and astonishment were also heard from the opposition benches, the clean-shaven rabbi felt that his time had come, sat down comfortably in front of his personal computer, surfed here and there, dredging up pearls from the depths of the sea until he built a model equation.
And so that your soul is not defiled, and so that your spirit is not corrupted, we will of course refrain from quoting the words "Blessed are the talents of the man." We will only say that without shame, the learned doctor compared the garish statements of the intellectual man on the left to the Holy of Holies. Dirt on his lips.
The truth? Shame will cover our faces, and dryness will grip our fingers at the mere thought of engaging in word-crunching and rhythmic keyboard tapping uttered by the enlightened synagogue rabbi.
What should we do to mourn and what should we do to rebel against the words of someone who departed from the public consensus years ago, when he called on the people of Israel to "pray that Rabbi Elyashiv will find peace and rest and be free from all bodily suffering" (the quote is accurate, may God forgive us) according to the Talmud.
What do we have to do but look at the statements of someone who came out against "the Catholic position of the Efrat Association," and in favor of women covering themselves with tallit and tefillin in the Western Wall plaza. Again, Afal.
But all this and more does not diminish our human and moral duty to protest the honor of the Torah, a sharp and vigorous protest.
Indeed, the great anger that spread through the crowd like wildfire led the rabbi to take a break from all his busy activities, return to his personal computer, and mumble words that could be interpreted as an apology.
Here you go: "I went back to watching Kotler's speech and was pained to see that he read the words from the script. Which means that the swearing and insult did not come from some outburst of rising emotion but was carefully planned. Therefore, there is no room for the comparison I made and I apologize for that.".
What the hell? Did you understand that?
Let me try to explain to you: The left-wing intellectual read his words from the script, he didn't "spontaneously curse." When you slander from the script, it means you sat on these statements, built them, engineered them rhetorically. -And that's serious.
Much more serious than just swearing in Yiddish.
If it weren't sad, it would be funny.
The problem is that it's not sad, it's outrageous!
The rabbi, the doctor, the nephew, who built his world and owed his doctorate to the great teacher of the generation and his glory, dares to stumble with his tongue time and time again and to be rude in his comparison, without fear of the sanctuary, without fear, and most seriously – from the script, because what can you do, on Facebook you write and only then click "send".
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Wait, that's not all.
At the beginning of the "Apology" his honor explains his warm and deep connection to the Holy of Holies, a connection for which he is allowed the right to criticize the rabbi, otherwise what is the point of shmita to the Ramban synagogue?
Here it is: "Anyone who knows me knows the great closeness I had to Rabbi Ovadia and his family. The book I wrote about the rabbi, 'From Maran to Maran,' is considered a document that places Rabbi Ovadia at the eastern wall of the great men of Israel of all generations.".
Explain to you?
The book that the doctor wrote is the one that placed the Holy of Holies in the eastern wall of the great men of Israel, so what are you even talking about? After all, the mouth that forbade is the mouth that permitted!
If I told you that it is at the Eastern Wall, then I can tell you other things as well.
Enough. I can't take it anymore.
I prayed and hoped that I had fulfilled my duty to protest by actually addressing this great depravity.
And He is merciful and will forgive.
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