tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7626974447429315601.post6127527694599384226..comments2023-08-16T11:24:07.170+03:00Comments on Chopping Wood: The Rush to JudgmentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7626974447429315601.post-11550966951603093672009-08-13T18:31:22.815+03:002009-08-13T18:31:22.815+03:00B"H
First of all, kudos to you for standing ...B"H<br /><br />First of all, kudos to you for standing up for Torah values, no matter how unpopular they are. <br /><br />I am on the Yeshivat Chovevei Torah mailing list, and I have to take issue with your assertions both that Rabbi Linzer thinks the seeds of this violence lie in Torah values, and that he was assigning blame to the orthodox community alone. In fact, due to a number of people who understood his prayer, chas v'shalom, to be saying these things, the mailing list received a follow-up revision to the prayer, along with a statement clarifying the Rav's thinking on this issue. In the interest of respectful dialogue and also kavod ha rav, I will quote part of that email here. (I was hoping to assign a link to it, but I cannot paste into your blog comment box). First, as for assigning blame:<br /><br />"This...crime is unsolved, and no one knows yet who engaged in this terrible murder. This tfillah was written intially for a cross-demoninational JCC memorial/tehillim event that took place this past Monday night, where I spoke together with Rabbi Yosef Blau and others. The "we" I had in mind throughout was not the Orthodox community, but all of Klal Israel."<br /><br />And also:<br /><br />"No one questions that male homosexual sex is an issur d'oraitta with the severest penalty. So is chillul Shabbat. Our communities - and here I mean our Orthodox communities - have done an excellent job, by and large, in making non-Shabbat observers feel welcome and equal parts of our community. We are a far cry from doing so in the case of gays, and this is true across denominations."<br /><br />I suggest you post some sort of follow up about this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com