Authored by: העורך Editor
Find the original on JDN. Translation on Matzav here.
Let’s hope (mitigated institutional dis-)honesty becomes the new norm!
And if already wishing for the moon, I wish famous Jews would cease self-representing as effective mediators of Hashem and/or His plenitude, when in honest moments they know their puny worth and negligible credit line in Hashem’s eyes, the source of uncompromising Truth. A lot more of this: “ואיני ראוי והגון לכך, לא מיניה ולא מקצתיה”, yes. But conveyed often enough and in such a way the readers believe the truth (i.e., not undermining these phrases with constant, unnatural false pretensions: ‘rebbishe zachen’ and its equivalents in all communities), instead of labeling those rare reveals as saintly “humility”.