Notes and Reflections on Chabad Chasidus -- Dedicated to the members of Congregation Anshe Libowitz of Brownsville, Brooklyn
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esav is here
Israel has instituted one of the most draconian policies in the world, yet they say the infection rate is the highest. You'd think the Jewish brain would get to work and wonder why? Maybe the policies don't work. Maybe they make things worse. Maybe the infection rate data is wrong. Maybe it's because they test so many people at a high rate of magnification. Maybe they aren't infected really but are just exposed to the virus. That is after all what the PCR test measures - exposure to the virus, not infection. There's no denying few people have symptoms and around 500 only are seriously ill. What's the response of the Israeli leaders? Intensify the policies. That, I am learning, is the Israeli mentality. Just brute force on everything. This is the same mentality that causes bus drivers to shout at you if you don't insert your Rav Kav perfectly. It's just this brutish, thuggish, mindless aggressiveness, always backed up by police and military. That is the real Israel. And we are seeing it here in spades. It's pretty much the opposite of what people in the shtetl were like. And wasn't that the whole goal - to rebel against the shtetl? Well this is the result. 1 million people in bidud and now the world's first 2nd national lockdown. (How many countries had even 1 national lockdown?) And need I mention, a lockdown on the Holiest Days of the year. Why did I move here, to a so-called Jewish state that is the opposite in character from the Jews I descend from? Answer, because I was lied to by Zionists.