A Handicap - So What?

 

The concept of a master-race nation didn't start with Hitler; it goes back to ancient Sparta.

Sparta used to weed out the sickly and handicapped babies. They only let the strong survive. Guess what - neither Sparta, nor any other of those who aspired to be a master race, are around anymore. The joke's on them - they've disappeared into oblivion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was a cripple and Mickey Mantle had severe osteomyelitis. Would anyone say that they didn't deserve to live? What about Helen Keller, Stevie Wonder, and Ray Charles? They were all blind! I don't think the USA would be the USA without any of these personalities. So who says that the pregnancy of a child with a birth defect should be terminated? Most of the time, the doctors are mistaken and there's no birth defect at all. And even if there is, with emuna, you know that if Hashem wants your child to be the future President of the United States, he or she will be, with or without a birth defect.

With emuna, a handicapped person realizes that he or she can't attain their soul correction in a healthy body. A handicapped person with emuna lives a happy and productive life. Oftentimes, the physically handicapped have fewer emotional hang-ups than so many emotionally handicapped people. So who's to decide that a person with two healthy legs is better than a person with crippled legs? Where do all these doctors get the right to send unborn babies into the white-collar gas chambers of abortion?

Continue reading A Handicap - So What? in this week's stimulating issue of Breslev Israel web magazine.

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