I have a lot to say on the subject, but for some reason, my post wasn’t posted.
Mesira is being used as an excuse by abusers to get away with abusing their victims. I was a victim of abuse and take this subject quite personally, as I see how many years of therapy it took to overcome the childhood trauma caused to me. I was spanked at 3 years old. I hadn’t even gone to school, mimicking my own parents to learn and got spanked for learning to be like them. Makes absolutely no sense at all. I was taught to harm myself and commanded to do so by my own parents. A cycle of hatred that took over 10 years of therapy to break. It’s anti Torah as the foundation of Torah is to love oneself so that they can love others like they love themselves. There is no excuse for spanking, there is absolute necessity to do “Mesira” to prevent abuses from continuing.
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