Rabbi Rael Blumenthal

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This week we have all been scolded.

Fights about masks, vaccines, inside versus outside? It all seems so trivial when Hamas is firing rockets at our parents, children, brothers and sisters. When rioters are looting Shul in Israel. It feels silly. We feel silly.

And of course it's silly in comparison. When faced with the ancient question of Jewish survival or even existence, everything else is trivial.

In the eery calm before the storm, or perhaps it's the quiet in the center of the hurricane, Hashem gave us the the great blessing and curse of living with cognitive dissonance.

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