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The following is from <b>Rav Schwab on Chumash</b> pages 191 to 193. Note his message to the embezzler!<br>
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Living in Caius America, the malchus shel chessed, only strengthens
<div>the Jew's obligation to create a kiddush Hashem. The Rav taught that</div>
every form of chillul Hashem decreases awareness of the Divine presence</div>
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in this world. If the perpetrator is supposedly an observant Jew or, worse,
<div>a so-called Torah scholar, then the offense is that much greater.</div>
<div>He would ask: "How can a person who has cheated his neighbor or</div>
<div>defrauded the government have the audacity to stand in front of the</div>
<div>congregation and recite Kaddish, a prayer for sanctifying G-d's Name in</div>
<div>the world?"</div>
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<div>The Rav's greatest fear was of a chillul Hashem. On his checks, he</div>
<div>never used the title "Rabbi." He told me that he was always concerned</div>
<div>that if, G-d forbid, a check were to bounce, "Rabbi" would add to the</div>
<div>chillul Hashem.</div>
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<div>Many years ago, a shameful scandal erupted around a Jewish</div>
<div>businessman who was tried for embezzlement. Influential members of</div>
<div>the embezzler's community approached Rav Schwab with a plea that</div>
<div>he do what he could to save the man from prison. Rav Schwab became</div>
<div>extremely agitated. He pointed out that the man's behavior, widely</div>
<div>publicized in the media through the printed word and the television</div>
<div>screen, had caused a tremendous chillul Hashem; the man had become</div>
<div>.a virtual rodef of Kial Yisrael, because Jews everywhere would suffer</div>
<div>aniti-Semitism due to his actions. He forthrightly told the visitors that the</div>
<div>embezzler deserved to sit in prison for a long time.</div>
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<div>But he pleaded with them to give the embezzler a message: The m;111</div>
<div>should shave off his beard and take off his yarmulke when appearing i11</div>
<div>court or on television, because by wearing these religious accoutremenh,</div>
<div>he would be creating a new chilluf Hashem every day and would be a<br>
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<div>living disgrace for the Jewish People.</div>
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In <b> Selected Writings,</b> Rav Schwab wrote extensively on the topic of</div>
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<i>chilul Hashem</i>: "If one steals from a non-Jew, swears falsely and dies, his death does not
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atone for his sin because of <i>chillul Hashem</i> (<i>Tosefta Bava Kamma</i> 10). Let us repeat.</div>
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The profaners and desecrators give us all a rotten name, aiding and abetting our</div>
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many adversaries and antagonizing our few friends. Therefore, no white-washing,</div>
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no condoning, no apologizing on behalf of the desecrators. Let us make it clear that</div>
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anyone who besmirches the sacred Name ceases to be our friend. He has unwittingly
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defected from our ranks and has joined our antagonists, to make us suffer in his wake.
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And -noblesse oblige- the more prominent a man in Orthodox Jewish circles, the more</div>
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obligated he must feel to observe the most painstaking scrupulousness in</div>
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his dealings with the outside world."<br>
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