Can you explain the criticism of the “hallucination”? A song spread in an unusual way among the God-fearing public, and its central message contradicts basic ideas, and many, many children and yeshiva boys and girls and elderly people sing it innocently and the message seeps in. The song says that God will make sure that things are always good for me, and even better, and only good and good and good. That is, a person can do whatever he does, yet he is God’s child and so God will surely shower him with abundant blessing. There is here a nullification of all aspiration, contentment with mediocrity, almost an uprooting of fear of Heaven, a baseless conception of divine providence, and the cultivation of fantasies. In practice, it very likely affects the singers, who innocently think that if it’s this widespread then it must be a reasonable and correct worldview. Does a collection of words with a few rhymes and a melody get exempted from all criticism?

It’s not exempt from criticism at all. I also have criticism of the song. But hanging it on the Chafetz Chaim and turning it into a prohibition because one must not go against his words as though they came from the mouth of the Almighty, and the rest of that nonsense—that’s the hallucination. There is no halakhic question here, nor any binding instructions from the Chafetz Chaim. There are simple arguments here, and they should have been stated. The style of reasoning and the discourse here are no less stupid than the song.

I also agree with the criticism of the reasoning.
Could you write a bit about what your criticism of the song is? Does it stem from your unique view about God’s involvement in the world, or even without that?

Absolutely not. Even without my approach about divine involvement, this is a stupid and stupefying song. Unfortunately, embarrassing as it is for me, I’m planning to write about it in the next column, and it will become clear there.

I always thought Haredi rabbis don’t deal with morality beyond what is written in the Torah because they don’t have the time, since Torah study and commandment observance require a huge amount of time.
Now that I see what they do deal with, I understand that time is not what they’re lacking.

A column about “Even Better”?!
It can’t get better than that.