Watch how members the Jersey City Hasidic Jewish community and the African-American community came together last night to bring a little bit of light and lots of holiday cheer to the grief-stricken neighborhood of Greenville in Jersey City.
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so nice!!
The Chasidic community has always been very tolerant of other religions, other groups of Jews and other sects of Chasidism.
We would want to live with a mindset of, “Halacha Byidua Sh’eisov Soneh L’Yakov, or “Am Hadomeh Lachamor” or “Oif Alle Goyim Gezogt” or “Goy Sheshovas Chyov Miso”, or “Der Goy der Urrel”, or with the song “Amol bin Ich Gegangen Oif di Gaass Hob Ich Gezen..”.
But HKB”H always brings on these episodes that make us be nice to other ethnicities.
“Goy Sheshovas Chyov Miso” has no negative implications about goyim.
“Oif Alle Goyim Gezogt,” “Der Goy der Urrel,” etc., are reflective of their
user’s attitudes, not the Torah’s.
Neither “Halacha Byidua Sh’eisov Soneh L’Yakov” or “Am Hadomeh Lachamor” instructs
us not to be nice to other ethnicities. A relevant phrase might be “mi’pnei darkei shalom.”
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December 26, 2019 9:12 am at 9:12 am]
Seriously, YWN moderators? Do you not think non-Jewish people read your comments? They might not know exactly what his quotations mean, and might well assume the worst based on context.
The English language frum news magazines devoted extensive coverage to the Jersey City murders. No one seemed to comment on it, but the photographs illustrating the articles showed many bunches of flowers laid outside the boarded up window of JC Kosher. Floral tributes are not our custom, making it very likely that these were spontaneous expressions of solidarity by non-Jewish (most likely black) neighbors.
KShomron, unfortunately certain chasidic sects are like the tribe of Binyamin at the time of the Maaseh Pilegesh b’Givah in that when the crooked ghetto builders of their sect afflict people and drive elderly widows from their homes they come to Public Hearings to clap and cheer. I’ve seen it several times in the Town of Ramapo zoning and planning hearings. So when you claim they are tolerant of other groups of Jews you obviously are not talking about those in Monsey. Maybe that’s why Hashem sent the Chaya Ra’ah to Ramapo on Chanukkah? חַיָּה רָעָה בָאָה לָעוֹלָם עַל שְׁבוּעַת שָׁוְא, וְעַל חִלּוּל הַשֵּׁם.