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I write a lot about faith and in particular about Jewish faith and as part of the deal I deal with behaviors of strictly religious communities such as the Haredis, personally I can’t say that I understand them.
With my knowledge in Judaism and Kabbalah I’m probably supposed to be able to explain much more than I really can about these unique communities, all I can really say is that they are a mystery to me.
I can understand some part the typical daily schedule, the practice of the Mitzva’s even if I disagree at the close conservative ways they are interpreted most of the time. There are many other things that I don’t get for example denying the children the chance of a real education just so they won’t have to be exposed to what other people know, think or believe it. As I see it there is a lot to gain from a dialogue and seclusion is something you choose when you can’t really defend yourself or when you feel that under open discussion you might realize that stagnation is not really the way to go.
There are many things that I can’t understand such as Haredi’s communities around the world that would shelter criminals that are escaping justice such as in this story.
Why would a community offer shelter to someone that can put it at risk not because they want to judge him themselves but because they want to help him escape the law.
There is nothing in Judaism or in Kabbalah that can justify such behavior, so there must be other explanations.
Sometimes it is really hard to see how people that are supposedly spiritual and in contact with their divine part are acting in ways that would destruct them at the end by taking away their purity and moral justification.
Sure we all do it from time to time doing the wrong things from the wrong reasons but exercising the power of resistance is the way to enable us some growth, development and light all these require us to be fully aware to what we are doing and for the reasons we are doing it for. When we are in full awareness the healing can occur.
I can only hope that people of all convictions would stop running from the simple but important task of looking at themselves and work with what they see instead of saying it is not there and if it is there I better hide it. No gain comes from running away from reality only a spiral of detachment from yourself and the world around you.
