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Q&A: Do the inhabitants of the world hate Haredim?

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Do the inhabitants of the world hate Haredim?

Question

Hello Rabbi,
In recent days I’ve been looking for a parallel phenomenon to the Haredi feeling of “everyone hates us” among various tribes and minority populations around the world, and I haven’t found one. Is it possible that this feeling is merely a product of wild imagination and has nothing to rest on?
With love, Benjamin Goralin

Answer

I think there is something to it, but it is inflated far beyond its real proportions. Beyond that, there are also not-so-bad reasons for this hatred.

Discussion on Answer

Michi (2020-07-08)

Beyond that, you simply didn’t look very well. It exists in many other places too.

The other tribes didn’t have the privilege of a Benjamin Geyorlin to slander them (2020-07-08)

The Haredim have Benjamin Goyerlin taking care to spread slander about them. The other minority tribes haven’t merited that kind of ‘rating’ 🙂

Regards, Live Niger

A. (2020-07-08)

The Haredim? Their bones should be broken, as Leibowitz said. I’m easier on them: either mix in with everyone else or we’ll break your bones. By mind or by force. They also have the option of leaving the country and being like ‘Lev Tahor’ 2. This accursed public has brought down many victims, and I am among them.

Benjamin Goralin (2020-07-08)

Rabbi Michi, perhaps Your Honor could provide examples of “Haredi-like corresponding societies” where this exists?

Michi (2020-07-08)

I don’t know about “Your Honor,” but almost every minority suffers from similar feelings. Protestants against Catholics in Ireland, Sunnis against Shiites, Gypsies, Native Americans, and more. But I have no interest in engaging here in sociological and anthropological research.

And over there in Goralingen (2020-07-08)

To Goralin, man of Goralingen —

And in your village of Goralingen on the German-French border, you can see the hostility between Germans and Frenchmen, and the hostility of both of them toward Jews and Muslim immigrants.

Regards, Sami L’Vangeh

Or maybe it’s ‘Stockholm syndrome’ (2020-07-08)

Since the name ‘Gorlin’ is common in Sweden—for example the skier Karina Gorlin, the opera singer Helga Gorlin, and the physicist Dr. Mikaela Gorlin—it may be that you too developed ‘Stockholm syndrome,’ leading you to identify with all those who reject Haredi society, of which until a few short years ago you were flesh of its flesh. Were you yourself, in your previous incarnation, such a terrible monster?

Regards, Levingriven in the sense of graven

Benjamin Goralin (2020-07-08)

The main thing is that the Rabbi agrees that there really is a need for sociological-anthropological research in order to understand the Haredim.

gil (2020-07-08)

Within the Haredi minority there is also another fateful minority that thinks everyone hates it, identifies with that, and transforms the hatred through a psychological mechanism of “projection”—and therefore it is the one that hates everyone, and especially the Haredim who remind it of itself.

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