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Mount Meron and Metaphysics
Metaphysics are an easy way for the Haredi world to avoid coming to terms with its own shortcomings.
Avigdor Hayut, who was hurt in the deadly stampede at Mount Meron sits in a wheel chair near his son Shmuel Hayut, who was also hurt at the stampede and his wife as his father is speaking at the funeral of his son Yedidia Hayut. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
Metaphysics, or abstract theory beyond human rationality, is the last refuge for religious reactionaries. It is, by definition, impossible to argue with them on a rational basis. That is why no argument can convince the vast majority of Haredim, and most certainly their leaders, that the tragedy that led to the death of 45 people and the injuries of hundreds at Mt. Meron was entirely avoidable.
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Three thousand four hundred years ago, in the year 1412 BCE, we received the Torah and its commandments at Sinai (the year 2,448 in the Hebrew calendar). Of all those many years, over just one hundred years, the mitzvah of counting the Omer has been radically altered twice. This altering has been so serious; we often forget what the original form of the Omer days looked like and why they have changed. Many of these changes have remained a secret for generations, often to be discovered centuries later.