Is Your Crusade Just Critique?
A thought for Parashas Tazria - Metzora and the times we live in.
This may sound like a rant, but hear me out.
The obsessive focus on division in the country really bothers me. It’s like the only reason there is a divide is because people keep insisting there is one. If you keep shouting that everyone's fighting, then yeah, you're creating the fight. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This isn’t referring to any one person or platform in particular and without going into specifics, it’s seemingly everywhere. There are some people who just can’t stop proving their point, arguing, critiquing. Either you're traumatized by one system or by the other. Trauma is real and should be treated with professional help, but don’t drag an entire society down with your pain.
Yes, some people might be wrong, while others might be right. However the way it’s being handled is so obsessive, so public and it’s just… odd, and feels unhealthy.
Which brings me to this week’s Parsha which reflects and diagnoses this very dynamic. Tzaraas is a spiritual echo of the same soci…
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