Messages from God

The charedi world tends to be passionate about proclaiming that disastrous events are messages from God. Fortuitously, these just so happen to always be messages supporting the charedi worldview.

There were many who made such declarations after October 7th. Rabbi Moshe Meiselman, rosh yeshiva of Toras Moshe, declared that since only secular towns were attacked, it was clearly a punishment for secularism and a demonstration of how it’s Torah that protects (see my post Theodicy or Idiocy). Another...