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<span>Posted:</span> 27 Jul 2009 05:48 PM PDT</p>
<div style="margin:0;font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;"><p>I received the following in my email box. I am heartened to see that we as a community are seeking constructive response.</p>
<blockquote><p>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 53<sup>rd</sup> Street, in Brooklyn.</p>
<p>The <em>asifa</em>, which is being sponsored by community askonim, will be focusing on the timeless (but also all too timely) theme of “<em>Vi’asisa hayashar vi’hatov</em>.” 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 evening’s chairman. We will start with Mincha at 7:15 and then proceed with the program.</p>
<p>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 B’Av, when we mourn the fact that we remain in Golus, and the reasons why.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I don’t 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 <em>mussar </em>and <em>chizuk</em>, and that we learn to distinguish between conduct that conforms with <em>dina d’malchusa</em> 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 night’s symposium and our attendance are an important part of that response.</p>
<p>Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel<br />
Executive Vice President<br />
Agudath Israel of America</p></blockquote><div class="feedflare">
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