Shavuah Tov to all! Wishing you a blessed week.
In this week’s Torah Portion “Ki Savo” (You come), continues with Moses review of Jewish Law, which he delivered to the Jewish People just under a month before his death.
“And the Egyptians wronged us and they afflicted us.” (Devarim 26:6)
This verse is telling us that before the Egyptians afflicted our forefathers they first mounted a slander campaign against them which made them appear evil in the eyes of others. We can see the same method used by the Nazis with their inflammatory propaganda which vilified us as a prelude to their actual oppression and extermination of 6’000.000 .
Slandering others is a strategy used when people want to rationalize their mistreatment of others. The one that vilifies justify their cruelty or apathy.
Today we are being exposed again to this same malady. With the BDS movement, KKK, Neo Natzis, etc… Their tactics are highly dangerous because they make the victim look like the aggressor and it dehumanizes him.
People come to commit atrocities because they don’t see the person or group of people who are being mistreated as human beings, they see them as if they are a pest that needs to be taken care off.
We ourselves also must not fall into this pattern of behavior. In a more subtle way we might do it to coworkers, family members, and other people who are close to us.
I always say: “if you don’t have something nice to say don’t say anything at all.”
The tongue can be a very dangerous weapon that can create so much irreversible damage.
In these weeks that we have left before Rosh Hashanah it is of outmost importance that we refine our speech and what we say of others.
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