The letter, which was published here last week, drew many comments.
Honestly, I wasn't surprised. When you scratch someone's wound, sometimes it's nice and sometimes it's annoying, but when you touch someone's bare nerve, it's just annoying.
The letter apparently not only touched, but also strongly scratched the most exposed nerves of the responders. Most of them, of course, belong to that breed, who sits safely on a dark leather sofa in his spacious apartment he received from the Shevar Shlita, and eats chullant on Friday nights.
A well-known saying says that the page can tolerate anything, and I would add that the email box can tolerate anything, in any container.
The main sufferer, by the way, is the one who has to read all the text and also respond to it, as gently as possible.
The reactions ranged from a uniform platform of indifference to naivety and disbelief. There were a few nice people who admitted that the situation was problematic and all, but most of them were filled with great and bitter bewilderment at this terrible invention that had come from under my hands.
To that extent.
Some have called on me to leave this dry field of shallow writing and engage in the field of literature, in the science fiction category.
""You're good at this," they complimented. They're not wrong, by the way, I have some successful stories about a good and clean society, where there is no racism and no discrimination. About a life where an ordinary Sephardi child can study in the same class as an ordinary Ashkenazi child.
I have a few stories like that, I've always been ashamed to publish them. You know, even imagination has its limits.
There was someone who spoke on the matter, he provided data, made comparisons, and checked and found something to do. The Spanish guys come from a low socioeconomic class, and this sad thing affects the life of the extended family and therefore the life of the child.
""You agree with me," he concluded, "that there is no justification for placing a standard Ashkenazi child with a child from a disadvantaged background. There is no justification for making the child miserable, neither the Sephardi nor the Ashkenazi.".
I agreed. Not with him, with his doctors.
Another anonymous commenter decided to make it funny, and tried to explain the need for discrimination with an interesting story. His good friend, he said, sends his son to "those institutions" that accept all "those Spanish people," and every single day he almost faints.
According to the authentic description, every afternoon, when the cattle are collected, his soul is consumed with worry. In Haydar Square, there are often 'rescue' motorcycles, and the sounds of beepers and sirens are drowned out by the noise of the crowd. Anyone who approaches the area is convinced that a state of emergency has been declared and that he is right in the middle of a nationalist attack, not you. Even veteran parents fall for this trick. Only after one long minute do everyone remember that the motorcycles and rescue vehicles belong to fathers who came to take their children out.
It made him laugh. It didn't make me laugh. For two reasons: One - there is no connection between the parable and the simile. The second - I don't tolerate racist jokes.
I am not a page or an email box.
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Now, after the artistic part, let's move on to the facts.
Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of Beit Yaakov kindergartens and schools have survived for years in a bizarre, and very interesting, format.
Thousands of pure and holy Israeli girls are 'forced', not by you, to go through this terrible "suffering" of being mixed day after day. Ashkenazi girls, holy from the womb, spend the long school day, in the company of those terrible girls from a low and problematic socio-economic stratum. And look what a miracle, all of them remain intact in their minds, in their finances and in their outlook.
I lived literally among the white people and kept 313 commandments. Unbelievable!
The rescue vehicles and ambulances do not deter anyone, and no deterioration in the mental or physical condition of any parent or companion has been noted. The sturdy guards sitting in a large crown-shaped cabinet, which has somehow become a guard and security booth, testify to the smiles on the faces of the fathers and mothers as they leave the institution with their little treasure in their hands, both dark and light.
When there is no choice, it turns out, all the 'pure views' and the doctrine of separation disappear, and the days of the Messiah are before us. "And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the Ashkenazi will lie down with the Sephardi.".
There is, and never has been, any reason or justification for segregation on ethnic grounds. It simply doesn't make sense.
This sick theory was already proven ineffective in Germany, when experiments on humans became widespread.
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