Not long after the shooting stopped in Paris last week, a young pianist somehow
managed to shlep a piano on his bicycle to the street in front of the Bataclan
theatre. He immediately sat down to play
a rendition of John Lennon's Imagine without
the accompanying lyrics. And truth be
told, without the lyrics it was a moving experience even for those of us who are
familiar with Imagine's socialist
utopian psychobabble rant.
Query: If the International
Left can imagine nonsense that makes the Tooth Fairy believable by comparison, why
can't we imagine what should actually be
reality even if it's not currently answering present at roll call?
And what just might that be?
This morning I received an email which reads as follows:
This past
Friday afternoon, Rabbi Yaakov Litman,
44, and his son Netanel, 18 HY"D,
were murdered by Palestinian terrorists who opened fire on their
vehicle as they were traveling near Otniel, south of Hevron .
They were
on the way to a pre-wedding celebration for one of Litman's daughters, Sarah
Techiya. At their funeral on Har Hamenuchot this past Saturday night, Sarah Techiya cried out:
“Abba, where have you gone? Who will give me away? I wanted you to be at
my wedding!!".
Sarah
Techiya and her chatan, Ariel, just announced from her shiva in
Kiryat Arba that their wedding will take place, with Hashem's help, on Thursday, Nov. 26. They are inviting all Klal
Yisrael to attend their wedding at Binyanei Ha"uma (concert hall in Jerusalem) on that
date.
Here is
their invitation:
"Don't make our enemies happy. We fell, we got up, with G-d's help, our wedding will take place next Thursday, 26 November, 14 Kislev, at Binyanei Hauma in Jerusalem. Am Yisrael is invited to get up from the dust and rejoice with us....
Sarah
Techiya and Ariel"
In EmunahSpeak: Nu?, we
said:
In the way we deal with others Hashem
deals with us. When we ask Hashem to send us Moshiach when we don’t
deserve it are we not asking for the ultimate chesed that He could do for
us? And isn’t the ultimate chesed on our part a chesed shel emes?
And yet, when a family of Torah Jews is
slaughtered in their beds or eight Yeshiva bochurim are gunned down in their
Yeshiva we seem to be incapable of stepping outside of our label saturated
existence long enough to attend the funeral. It matters not a whit how
many people show up because it’s not a numbers game.
It’s all about the mosaic of Torah Jewry.
In Shomayim, three hundred of EVERYBODY
at a levayah will trump thirty thousand of only a certain SOMEBODY every
time.
If one looks at
the pictures of the levaya of Rabbi Yaakov and Netanel Littman HY"D, one sees (as can
be expected) only the usual suspects.
Okay, so we blew
another opportunity to morph all the TALK about achdus into the WALK, but this
time those Jews who set the compass of their life by the dictates of the
Torah won't have to wait around for the next tragedy r"l to get it right.
They can show up
at the Chasana!
And what might
that accomplish?
Just imagine.
