Q&A: Is Orthodoxy Preferable? Or Is It Better to Hold That Moses Is True and His Torah Is True?
Is Orthodoxy Preferable? Or Is It Better to Hold That Moses Is True and His Torah Is True?
Question
There were elections now among the people chosen by God. And the side that thinks in terms of Orthodoxy, for the most part [religious people of all kinds, Haredim of all kinds, traditional Jews of all kinds, and plain assorted riffraff of all kinds who generally identify themselves as Orthodox], chose the side of the person accused of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, together with the gang around him, Deri, etc.
Doesn’t this, at this time, have to awaken in someone who serves God honestly a logical and almost necessary feeling that it is better to cling to the will of God and what was given at Sinai than to what Orthodoxy has deteriorated into?
At the end of the day, it seems once again that these two things do not go together. It feels more like falseness/error than “upright, pure, gladdening the heart, enlightening the eyes.”
I would appreciate an honest answer.
With great respect,
Your student.
Answer
If you are my student, then you surely know what I would answer.
Discussion on Answer
What difference does it make whether I eat shrimp or am a liar? Does the other option eat only glatt kosher meat?
A student who has still not yet become qualified to issue rulings…
Please, if possible, in a few words, what is your opinion about these thoughts? [I spoke with several people, one of them a rabbi in a yeshiva and another also someone in an educational role in the Haredi world, and this is the feeling: that the truth is no longer in the Orthodox camp.]
Of course, there are elements within Orthodoxy that are not part of this corruption.
And likewise in other streams, which may also have corruption.
But the question is about the majority. And the majority—clearly—where is it in repairing the world, and where is it in corrupting the world?