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The two Orthodox baseball players drafted last week, Elie Kligman (pictured) and Jacob Steinmetz, will inspire our children to love davening, kashrut, tefillin, etc.
I donât usually write about pop culture or sports. I tend to focus on Torah, Israel issues and Jewish values. Yet this week I had to change topics. Iâve been disturbed by some of the discussions surrounding two Orthodox Jewish baseball stars drafted to the Major Leagues and the infamous Netflix show âMy Unorthodox Life.â
Jews have just finished commemorating the three weeks of mourning over our 2,000-year-old state of exile. The exile was largely brought on by divisions among our people. Not long ago we commemorated the mourning of Rebbe Akivaâs students who died for not showing each other respect. This is to add to our recent catastrophes of Covid, Meron, Surfside and a war with Hamas.
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As news began to filter through that a stampede occurred and there were dozens of injuries, none of us could ever have imagined what we were about to wake up to last Friday morning – Lag B’Omer – the worst civilian disaster in Israeli history.
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We live in a world polluted with conflict, anger, and hatred. While these are not the only features of our reality, they have persevered throughout history and are even present today. It leaves us to wonder:
What would the world look like if it was built on love? What would our lives be like? Could we ever attain that? While such an idea may at first seem surreal and naively idealistic, Hashem actually entrusts us to build such a world, as seen in Parshiyot Acharei Mot-Kedoshim.
Ask the Rabbi
Relying on Miracles
With the ongoing problems in Israel, do you believe that God will intercede on the Jews’ behalf? And if He has done so many times in the past, why are the Jews not relying on that level of faith?
The Aish Rabbi Replies:
This is great question that I, living in Israel, think about every day.
Indeed, God has made consistent miracles for the Jews in Israel - the sandstorm that ruined the Nazi plan for Rommel s troops to invade from Egypt and wipe out Israeli Jewry in the 1940s; the five invading Arab armies repelled trying to exterminate Israel in May 1948, another four Arab armies decimated while trying to annihilate Israel in 1967, and the scud missiles that Saddam Hussein rained on Israel in 1991 with virtually no loss of life.