Part of the series: Divrei Hashkafa by Rav Mayer Twersky
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There's a, I guess one would have said at a different time, one would have translated this as there's a pandemic of that even, even forums and venues that belong to Mekomos Torah, unfortunately, produce Divrei Chutzpah and Divrei K'fira.
ובנו להגיב על כל אלה אין אנו מספיקים ואין אנו מפסיקים.
We couldn't do enough and we would never, it would be a full-time occupation.
וידוע מאמר חכמים שבא לקיים היום חובת קריעת בגדים אחרי גידוף,
if a person hears Chiruph U'giduf, Rachmana Litzlan, so Me'ikar Hadin he's really Chayav to do a Kriyah. And that Bazman Hazeh we don't do that, כי אז נשאר לו בגד כולו קרוע, a person would not be left with anything in his wardrobe. Here too, obviously this principle needs to be applied, again as everything in life, with common sense, with Seichel. Both because it's untenable and unrealistic to just constantly respond Bazman Hazeh to everything that's wrong, as well as the fact that even if one tries to do it, it ends up creating a distortion of Yahadus. What one would be intending to do to preserve the correct Demus and presentation of Yahadus, inevitably if one were to try to track and react to every Bilbul, every possible Divrei Chutzpah U'kfira, it would end up being counterproductive and achieving the opposite effect. Why? Because Yahadus is something which is a positive force. We have תרי"ג מצוות לא תעשה, but the Mitzvos Lo Sa'aseh are to help us accomplish and grow. They're intended and designed for positivity, for positive results. משל למה הדבר דומה, let's say on a diet. On a diet, a person has all kinds of restrictions: don't eat this, don't eat that, etc. So it's true that there are restrictions, there are Lo Sa'asehs as it were, quote unquote, but it's quite clear that the emphasis is not on the negativity, the emphasis is on generating and yielding positive health, that the person should feel good, he should be healthier, that his energy level should be higher. It needs to be in our presentation of Torah, of Yahadus, that positive emphasis needs to come across. That positive emphasis cannot come across if we're too often, ועל אחת כמה וכמה, always in a reactive mode. Again, here too, every rule has its exceptions. There are some things which are so egregious and so major and so fundamental, and depending upon where they come from, there are some things which even Bazman Hazeh, of course, of course, require a reaction and of course require a Macha. But the point is, that can't be the standard modus operandi. That can't be the default setting, as it were. It has to be the exceptional one because what needs to be conveyed in order to project Yahadus and Torah accurately and faithfully is the positive. And all the Lo Sa'asehs are part of the positive. Okay Rabbosai, have a productive day, be well, be safe, Kol Tuv.