Do you ever drive past a car accident and slow down to take a look? You stretch your neck to get a better view and it feels like everything is moving in slow motion? That is my life here on Substack.

Let me explain. Last week I wrote about some of the back and forth I am having from responses to posts I make. It is a great lesson into the window of history as well as the psychology of hatred. I can’t blame it all on the social media idiot-sphere. I would venture to say quite a bit of it is the result of poor education. I used to think it was strictly public school alone which contributed to the growing number of ignoramuses, but I am now convinced private schools have kicked open the door and gotten into the business of creating humans who either cannot or will not engage in critical thinking. I also don’t think it is a new phenomenon of this internet generation, I just think it’s a testament to the power of hatred. Today, more people have access to far more information than ever before and yet it very well could be we are experiencing the most illiterate, ignorant generation since cave men.

I remember someone once quoting the great Jewish thinker and commentator, Ovadiah ben Jacov Sforno, who lived during 15th and 16th century Italy and I am paraphrasing here, “Man’s desires overcome his common sense when there is no fear of G-d in a place.” Social media and the internet is the actual home base for people who have no fear of G-d. People get awful brave when they are not standing in front of you and have the protection of their mom’s basement and a keyboard. It is under these conditions that I have learned a lesson my ancestors repeated to me and all of us since we left our slavery in Egypt and became a people. We will be a nation that dwells alone. History has proven this statement prophetic. Eighty years ago they were burning us alive in ovens. Today they do the same. Eighty years ago children were being executed in front of their parents, today they do the same. Eighty years ago parents were being pulled from the children, today they do the same. What is old is new again and it all targets the same people. The Jews.

Consider for a moment the efforts we have made to run away from this moniker. We were told in Europe we needed to be more like the people we were living with so we abandoned Torah with the stated goal of “fitting in” with our neighbors and giving up our archaic symbols and old fashioned ideas. Houses of prayer became expensive imitations of other religions so we can be more like them. We declared various cities in Europe over the centuries the “New Jerusalem” with some Jews abandoning the actual holy city altogether in favor of the one they designated.........

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