I have always felt more in touch with Democrats than Republicans, generally voting that way as well, but this great quote comes to mind...
“I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.”
― Aaron Sorkin via his character Will McAvoy
Rav Yaakov Addas has come up with the reason for the great storm of 2013 that shut down Jerusalem and many other parts of the country... and that is, the recent arrests of 3 yeshiva bochurim for not appearing to the IDF draft board when required.
Rav Addas qualified his statement saying on a private level every person must make his own accounting for his or her suffering and what he or she must improve. However as a general decree on the world, it is coming to wake us up on some communal level. and the timing works out very well for this to be the communal message.
Some other options, crowd-sourced on Twitter (some are funny, some could be serious):
- to help those who are noheg to roll naked in the snow during Shovavim
- ppl making ice cubes on shabbos
- For every centimeter skirt is too short, you get 10 cm of snow
- it was Friday the 13th + Asara Be-Tevet.
- the Rabbanut told us to pray for rain. Like Choni Hameagel
- because of the Jewish Home
- chilul shabbos. Could be yair Lapids. Maybe the Chillul Shabbos allowed by Nir Barkat in JM
- t's all the soy products they serve in yeshivas
- Or shaking hands
- bochrim using others' wifi on their secret smart phones.
- people who voted bnei torah
- tzniyus
- talking in shul
- haredim not saying prayer for State
- haredi infighting
- cutting funding from yeshivas and kollels
come up with more or take your pick on what you want to work on being metakein..
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