Friday, March 22, 2024
Hasidim enjoy life – Is that allowed at this time?
Sometimes we see Hasidic Jews doing strange things and wonder about them. They seem to live on another planet, or are stuck in a time long past. However, if you turn your perspective around and look at the modern world with its grinning politicians, teenagers who can't take their eyes off their phones and many other "achievements" of our time, you might understand why these groups choose isolation and concentrate fully on religious life.
At the moment this contrast is particularly clear in Israel, because on the one hand we are in a war that was triggered by a terrible massacre and in which our holy soldiers die almost every day. On the other hand, we are in the Jewish month of Adar, in which the wise men urged us to be especially full of joy. This joy culminates on Purim, which is celebrated on Sunday.
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