1.
Litzman's associates appeared to me in a dream and told me that he was so angry at the sight of the 'blood wedding' that he decided to resign.
But then he remembered that he had already resigned [about two or three times], and resigning from the Knesset is already excessive. So what do we do?
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At that moment, he read on news sites that he wanted to return to being a deputy minister with the status of minister, and he decided that from that point on he would resign.
Only then did he remember that he did want to be deputy minister, and besides, if he resigned now, what would he be able to resign from later?
He thought, thought, and thought, and finally decided that he would resign from his desire to be deputy minister, and he would be appointed deputy minister without wanting to.
Only because he owes it to the people of Israel, who need him so much.
2.
Quite a few Haredim are standing these days tearing their hair out [I have no better image]. They encounter the harsh images of Haredi groups that disregard the guidelines, hear harsh statements from rabbis that I am unable to repeat out of respect for them, and ask themselves: Why do we deserve this?
Why do we who encounter non-religious people who accuse us of the injustices of the sector even need to defend ourselves? What is in it for us and them? The feeling that grips my friends and I is one of helplessness, despair, frustration, and genuine anger.
And then we pull out the hairs. We don't stop pulling out.
Because no one distinguishes between us and them. The Haredim are perceived – sometimes rightly – as a large, uniform bloc with a homogeneous color and mutual responsibility, and we are part of them. It is a fact that we live with them in the same city, in the same neighborhood and in the same building. Sometimes we even resemble them externally.
But we don't.
And no one has the strength, desire, or willingness to hear this in these turbulent and nervous days.
3.
Rabbi Dr. Meir Grozman [the wonderful one] told in a short lecture that I watched that when he was a student at the Hebron Yeshiva in 1952, they would go dance in second laps at Moshe Shapira's, the Mizrahi leader: "Today, it would be unheard of for us to go to Bennett's house to dance," he said, half humorously, half seriously.
Rabbi Dr. Grozman, may he be healthy, did not explain what he meant [and I do not pretend to know this], but there is a great truth in his words: there is no, and cannot be, comparison between the Mizrahi leader at the time, Rabbi Moshe Shapira, a role model, and the worst man, half-religious, third-and-quarter-religious Bennett, the extremist and Smotrich's friend.
Is it conceivable that yeshiva boys would go dancing with this man today? Of course not.
But on the other hand, 23 seats, according to the polls at least, believe that this unimpressive man deserves to be prime minister, and that this could even happen. They are not afraid that the man who just a few months ago failed to pass the electoral threshold (!) and was thrown out of political life, might serve as prime minister on a rotating basis.
disbelieve.
