Toras Emes: Enough With School Shootings, Gender Dysphoria, and Penumbras
We stand before the great holiday of Shavuot – זמן מתו תורתינו – the day we finish preparing to receive the Torah. 1 The Torah is the central repository of our values. כִּי הֵם חַיֵּינוּ וְאֹרֶךְ יָמֵינוּ It is our very life and the length of our days While the Torah is infinite, the most significant characteristic that we use to describe it is Toras Emes , “the Torah of Truth.” Receiving the Torah could not come at a better time, as we live in a world that is dominated by Sheker (falsehood). Of course, the world outside of Torah has always contained elements of Sheker, but I don’t remember a time in my sixty-plus years that we have been bombarded by it on such a constant basis. Here are a few of the more well-known and egregious examples: 1. Violence in Society – There is much handwringing, and many angry accusations were made over the terrible school shooting in Uvalde, TX. Many are convinced that the root of the problem is too much access to guns, others vociferously protest...