The truth, nothing but the truth, so help me God
By zevi770 · July 24, 2014
The truth is that the notion of liberalism is evil – for it was a liberal country Germany that created the holocaust.
There is an objective standard of right and wrong.
That’s why God revealed Himself at Mount Sinai and set into motion the notion that God commands us to be good and not be evil; and the definition of good and evil is Biblical, which is why societies that follow the Biblical notion of good and evil are in general infinitely better – i.e. more humane societies – heck, the entire notion of humanness we have, is all from the Bible.
So yes there is right and wrong.
However, as there is right and wrong, the greatest source of evil is our own ego – our ego is the notion of our greatness – so one of the biggest problems and we have seen this in jihad, holy-wars, which we will focus on; namely Christians who truly did believe in God and at the same time conducted barbaric holy wars, extermination campaigns.
The reason for this is that within right and wrong, there is the right approach and the wrong approach.
No one epitomizes the right approach to right and wrong, better than the Rebbe.
I am sad to admit it, but admit shall I, the levels of arrogance within the so called Charriedi (ultra-orthodox, not Chabad) are repulsive.
Suffice it to say, it was Charreidim who were responsible for the destruction of the second temple as our sages said, in the times of the second temple, the Jews were pious and had good deeds, but they failed in the ability to respect one another.
No one was more religious than the Rebbe who dedicated all of his time literally to both the study and the promotion of Judaism and world peace.
But how he did it is the key.
He did not stand on a pedestal, if anything he stood as a friend – a brother – this towering figure whose genius was unparalleled in the annals of Jewish history (and that’s comparing him to geniuses of epic proportions) would make you feel when you spoke to him – as he himself genuinely felt this way – you were simply speaking to a good friend – someone who only had your interest at heart!
So the right approach to right and wrong can be summarized: our job is to, as the prophet Michah (one of the best summaries of Judaism) said, “Don’t be evil, be compassionate and follow God humbly” (and if I may humbly add, anything else is to go against the very goodness we seek.)