An internal unrest arises within us, and we rebel, become angry, grumble, and are overcome with shame when ten soldiers are killed in battle, and in our own home, in Beit Shemesh, soldiers are attacked again.
We were embarrassed, angry, and even grumbled, but silently. In our hearts. We are still afraid to raise our voices.
None of us stand up to defend our gods, and we continue to suffer in silence. Do we support them or value them on any level, is that why? Of course not. The proof: We do not match with them, and they marry among themselves or buy poor girls, as we all know.
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So why are we afraid? How long will we remain silent, and what more needs to happen for us to defend ourselves, our rights to live, to breathe, to go to the bank, to pray in whatever synagogue our heart desires, to arrive for evening prayer in Stieblach at midnight without encountering those who spend their nights on the steps of the synagogue.
This week's attack on soldiers joins a chain of recent events. Here are some of them:
They openly humiliated the great Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, the Rabbi of the Haredi community, in the Golovnetsitz affair.
Shut up!
Rabbi Sternbuch's son, who had come to a family celebration at a hall in the neighborhood, was beaten and managed to escape from the neighborhood only with the help of a security company.
Shut up!
They beat and insulted Rabbi Rabinowitz, a member of the city committee of the Haredi Eda, due to his supervision of the Golovanczitz site.
Shut up!
They humiliated in every way the great rebbes of the Haredi community due to their failure to intervene in the Golovnetsitz affair.
Shut up!
They expelled the chairman of the Haredi Eda Kashrut Committee and the director of the maternity hospital, Rabbi Gabriel Pappenheim, from the synagogue.
Shut up!
Collaborated with anti-Haredi elements on election day in Beit Shemesh to defeat Moshe Aboutbol.
Shut up!
They vandalized the lock on the only bank in the neighborhood on Independence Day for the terrible crime of hanging the Israeli flag. By the way, following the event, the bank is closing its doors for another month, and we will all have to move far away. And yet
Shut up!
They blocked the lock of the Chabad synagogue in the neighborhood and sprayed the door. And we
Shut up!
They sprayed slurs against the halls in the neighborhood.
Shut up!
They uprooted all the benches in the neighborhood and burned the children's slides.
Shut up!
They constantly threatened the "charity fund" before the holidays not to bring coupons to a certain clothing store until it gave in. We were all hurt by this, but
Shut up!
Just a few days ago, graffiti was sprayed on the door of the "Ezrat Achim" organization, which dedicatedly serves the residents of the so-called area.
Shut up!
The Haredi society knows how to fight well against everything that stands in its way. Almost every day the rabbis issue a new "call to arms," we established a "Hever" program and we all signed on.
But against the greatest educational damage of all, we are silent. Against the education for physical and verbal violence, education for disrespect for the greatness of Israel, education for theft and robbery, which occurs every day in the neighborhood in full view and our children are exposed to, by people dressed as Haredim and defining themselves as "jealous of the jealousy of God," no rabbis stand up, no "call to arms" is printed, and the activists remain silent as if nothing has happened.
How long will we remain silent?
