its 2023 but feels like 1933
Feels like 1973….but it’s 2023 Feeling impending doom, but trying to stay optimistic and hopeful that the mad state of the world won't crash down on our society. Laws keep the people from giving in to the evil part of their nature. In Jewish teaching we are half good and half bad, and must use the fear of God to control the impulses that cause the world to dive into chaos. On October 7th the worst massacre of Jews happened since the Holocaust. When I read, Night by Elie Wiesel, I learned how Jews in Europe had been gassed to death. I tried to imagine the inhumanity a person needed to be reduced to so that they could be exterminated like bugs. We had an exterminator hired because my parents didn't want crickets or ants coming into our house. I felt sorry for the bugs and wouldn't ever harm them myself. I felt the pain of the lives lost like they were just vermin to my core. Even as a child I thought adults were naive to think that the level of evil that was needed...