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How Should I Respond? - Part II: Email from Agudah

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 05:48 PM PDT
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I received the following in my email box. I am heartened to see that we as  
a community are seeking constructive response.

I am writing to friends and supporters of Agudath Israel to call your  
attention to an important gathering for the men of our community tomorrow  
night, Tuesday, 7 Menachem Av/July 28, in the Ohr Hachayim Viznitz Hall,  
1824 53rd Street, in Brooklyn.

The asifa, which is being sponsored by community askonim, will be focusing  
on the timeless (but also all too timely) theme of Viasisa hayashar  
vihatov.  It will feature two distinguished rabbonim  Harav Avrohom Schorr,  
shlita, and Harav Dovid Ozieri, shlita; as well as two respected legal  
experts  Benjamin Brafman, Esq. and Jacob Laufer, Esq.  I will be serving  
as the evenings chairman.  We will start with Mincha at 7:15 and then  
proceed with the program.

Introspection about how to better live our lives in consonance with Torah  
ideals is always timely.  It is particularly timely during the days leading  
up to Tisha BAv, when we mourn the fact that we remain in Golus, and the  
reasons why.

And in the wake of recent headlines and front-page photographs that made  
every feeling Jewish heart ache, it is even more timely for us to take a  
good, hard look at our obligations to our fellows, to our society, to our  
government.

I dont think I can adequately convey how compelling this gathering should  
be to us all.  But I am confident that you realize how vital it is that we  
hear words of mussar and chizuk, and that we learn to distinguish between  
conduct that conforms with dina dmalchusa and conduct that does not.  I am  
also confident that you understand how important it is to demonstrate to  
the wider world how heartfelt and determined Jews respond to news like the  
tragic tidings of recent days.  Tomorrow nights symposium and our  
attendance are an important part of that response.

Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel

Executive Vice President

Agudath Israel of America



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