QUESTION:
There is so much lack of clarity and difference of opinion about what we need to do in America (and the question probably also applies to Jews living in Eretz Yisrael), and according to what I understand from the words of the Rav, all of the issues today that we are facing are from the mixture of influences in our world [which are coming from the dominance of “Erev Rav”], which causes even Torah observant people to commit acts of chilul Hashem, inciting anti-semitism from the goyim, and thereby causing damage to their fellow Jewish brethren. What can we do about this? Do we need to fight this? Or should we just go inward into ourselves and not care at all about what’s going on around us, and we should just strengthen ourselves in Torah study and davening, and to focus more on personal growth and becoming closer to Hashem?
ANSWER:
To our great pain, the generation today is full of a vast array of severe issues. The problems you are mentioning are just a few of them. But they are not even the main issue of today. And because we don’t have the capacity or energy to deal with every single issue taking place today in our generation, each person as an individual needs to focus on either fixing his worst personal weaknesses, or at least with the primary issue that we are facing collectively.
The primary issue which Jews are facing collectively in this generation is that we are too close to the non-Jewish lifestyle, and especially the media, which is the Shaar HaNun d’tumah, the worst level of impurity itself – and that includes everything else involved with media influence. The tumah of the media is exactly what blocks the light of Mashiach from being revealed upon the world, and it has already brought down tens of thousands of neshamos into the tehom (spiritual oblivion). It has had a devastating effect even on the most Torah observant people, on almost everyone without exception, causing everyone to take a downhill slide in their general level ruchniyus – for some the fall was less, and for some the fall was more.
The primary issue which Jews are facing collectively in this generation is that we are too close to the non-Jewish lifestyle, and especially the media, which is the Shaar HaNun d’tumah, the worst level of impurity itself – and that includes everything else involved with media influence. The tumah of the media is exactly what blocks the light of Mashiach from being revealed upon the world, and it has already brought down tens of thousands of neshamos into the tehom (spiritual oblivion). It has had a devastating effect even on the most Torah observant people, on almost everyone without exception, causing everyone to take a downhill slide in their general level ruchniyus – for some the fall was less, and for some the fall was more.
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