Q&A: Frenks?
Frenks?
Question
Hello Rabbi,
I’d be glad to hear your take on this issue. “Tzarikh Iyyun” is a Haredi journal (modern, one might say, but it also reflects the conservative Haredi mindset) that recently became a bit more widely known because of the article—controversial would be a serious understatement—about relations between Sephardim and Ashkenazim. But one has to understand that the point it raises is not the view of a few isolated, extreme, fringe individuals; rather, it reflects a very broad part of the Haredi public (the Ashkenazi one, it should be said; the Sephardi one is beginning to believe this too, in my humble opinion) that truly and sincerely believes it, almost as an inviolable law, and with no pangs of conscience at all, offering what they see as rational arguments. I won’t elaborate beyond that. Enjoy.
https://iyun.org.il/article/haredi-discrimination/ashkenazi-superiority/?fbclid=IwAR3dcSge0uatO6UBkfmlFLWvFaF5mbIit3h-GCpcJObsvJGyJ6YEfCKJRvw
Answer
Many thanks. I know this journal (and I also wrote for it once). The article raises a lot of thoughts, and I want to write something more detailed about it (a column).
Discussion on Answer
We’re waiting for the column on the matter.
For some reason, among Religious Zionists there aren’t mental gaps of the kind he describes (beyond folklore); which makes me think that even among Haredim there really aren’t mental differences, and it just stems from a desire for self-definition.
I’ve now posted a column on the matter (206):
https://mikyab.net/%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%92%D7%96%D7%A2%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%97%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A8-206/
I didn’t know that—interesting. Waiting eagerly.
Thanks.