Nothing prepared me, neither mentally nor physically, for the embarrassing moments that overtook me after morning prayers on Tuesday of this week.<\/p>\r\n
I still shoulder the tefillin bag, in a two-thousand-year-old Jewish art, under my armpits, trying to straighten and be precise, to stick my thumb under the tallit with amazing precision - and before my eyes is an old acquaintance, not the kind that says 'Shalom Shalom' with the eyes fluttering, and not the kind that is known between blue and white. Something in between, a shalom with a weak mouth, and maybe a pat on the back here and there. Nothing more.<\/p>\r\n
But still an old acquaintance.<\/p>\r\n
He didn't speak, the acquaintance, perhaps because he was between chapters and I wasn't in the 'out of awe' category, and perhaps he was maintaining the effect of surprise. He just handed me a group of folded pages, and signaled to me with his eyes by raising his right eyebrow and nodding his head forward, saying: Read.<\/p>\r\n
\u00a0I read it. I was scared and stunned. I didn't know how to react, whether to react.<\/p>\r\n
The main page bore the logo of a well-known hospital, and the title was 'Psychiatric Emergency Diagnosis'.<\/p>\r\n
Is this how you announce temporary insanity? I wondered. And why me? What did I do?<\/p>\r\n
I waited patiently. Time in the morning, as we know, is three times more valuable than the afternoon and ten times more valuable than the evening. But the bewilderment was so great that I preferred to forgo the first-class cup of coffee, as long as I remained sane.<\/p>\r\n
At least I am.<\/p>\r\n
He saw my reaction, the acquaintance. He didn't panic, he just signaled me to continue reading. I don't remember the exact movement. I continued. Slowly, springs opened in my mind and the picture began to become clearer.<\/p>\r\n
The day before, it turns out, he was waiting at the right station and at the right time. Yes, he and his wife stood together at the Line 1 station to the Western Wall, to pray on the sublime and holy day of "This is Hanukkah," in the holiest place of all.<\/p>\r\n
Around 3:00 PM, a suicide bomber charged towards them, his bones gnawing, and hit them hard. Although not in their bodies, he hit them hard in their souls. Both were described as victims of anxiety.<\/p>\r\n
''Nothing' in Hebrew, and 'very serious' in reality.<\/p>\r\n
The written description suggests that they may go through a difficult period in the next two months, and it will still be called "okay" and "reasonable" for their condition in medical terminology. And of course, if, God forbid, other feelings appear that were not reported on this form, they must immediately report to the emergency room to rule out irreversible mental damage.<\/p>\r\n
He had already finished his prayer, or perhaps he was in between chapters, and I was in the rank of 'peacemaker' and he was just responding, and he began to tell and describe horrifying descriptions of chaos and screams, of a water pipe that exploded and an axe that was found.<\/p>\r\n
And I stood in front of him, my mouth open, in anxiety, fear, and terror.<\/p>\r\n
\u2022<\/p>\r\n
Something frightening happened here.<\/p>\r\n
Suddenly he stopped, looked with genuine astonishment at the gaping mouth, focused his gaze on my face and asked: "Are you serious?"\"<\/p>\r\n
I closed my mouth. I opened it again, and still didn't understand what he meant.<\/p>\r\n
\"Serious about what?\" I asked back.<\/p>\r\n
\"Didn't you see the footage of the burst pipe? Didn't you see the horrific image of the axe?\" he wondered, and now his mouth was left open.<\/p>\r\n
And I, ignorant as I am, neither saw nor heard. May God forgive me, but I barely heard about the attack itself. It was only at night, when I learned about the horrific stampede, that I understood where the ambulances were racing to at noon.<\/p>\r\n
But I understood something else, not on that horrible Monday. Tuesday morning, with a tallit and tefillin in one hand, and a discharge form from the psychiatric emergency room in the other.<\/p>\r\n
Tens of thousands of 'psychos' without a psychiatric release form walk among us. They too are present at every attack, every horrific event, exposed to the bodies, the fragments, the axes, and the bloodstains spread on the road.<\/p>\r\n
They, the 'WhatsApp psychos', who are connected online to the 'most' considered and 'most' credible groups, are knowingly and intentionally exposed to the most horrific atrocities taking place everywhere in the world, even in the finest studios of ISIS's branches.<\/p>\r\n
Those suffering from anxiety are unaware of their condition, mainly because they do not want to be aware of it.<\/p>\r\n
Those small people, the smallest in the world, who are addicted to a bitter drop even if it is presented in the form of a 'daily proverb,' are the most vile people in the world.<\/p>\r\n
Everyone, without exception, sincerely and sincerely wishes to be present 'for real' at a murderous attack with lots of blood and action, just so that their support will be half-hearted, when they will be the ones to bring the initial images exclusively, and the more shocking and horrifying, the better.<\/p>\r\n
Ugh.<\/p>\r\n
WhatsApp boys and teenagers, you have destroyed the world. You have turned it into one big crime scene.<\/p>\r\n
Go into your den and stay there. It is better to live in your filth and not spread it abroad.<\/p>\r\n
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