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Check Reason at the Door

Holding onto your brain is one of the hardest tasks in the world today, including the Jewish world. Actually it's particularly difficult in the Jewish world because one's voice gets drowned in the shouts of opinionated people everywhere.

In the frum world, there's the additional challenge of dealing with all the traits of cults, which include a ban on independent thought.

So not only does none of that go away in frum Israel, but it gets a lot of worse. Olim are not the sanest of people and certainly they tend towards magical thinking and fanaticism.

As we know, one is not allowed to leave a cult. That's one of the rules of cults. They need that rule because how else are they going to keep you while they ruin your life?

Once you come to Israel you are not allowed to leave. You are not even allowed to think clearly or factually about the place or your life here. Any "negative thoughts" as they call them are the product of your yetzer hara. That's the way most people look at it here, certainly the one's with the big mouths.

Goody for them but not so their children. I have been watching the children of the olim and I'd say that generally they are a mess. They look so shattered and bruised and confused. The mothers are mostly clueless about this because the mothers live in a bubble. Their life is fine so doesn't that mean it's the same for everyone else?

Their life is fine because they don't commute to Tel Aviv to work with Israelis who can't speak English and they don't go to school all day with teachers who can't speak English.

Many people here will tell you how their children are fluent in Hebrew. This is more of that magical thinking that characterizes frum people. Their kids are mostly sublingual. They speak street Hebrew but can't read books. The mothers don't know this because they are rather uneducated themselves. Anglos in general, not just Americans, are clueless about language. They don't know what fluency means.

So none of what I am saying here is permissible thought to the thought police of frum Anglo Olim, who are a group so repressive and mind-controlling that they could give Stalin a run for his money.

What winds up happening is that you have nobody to talk to about the massive challenges of your life. The first step to dealing with challenges is to admit their existence. You can't do that here because you are talking about Eretz Yisroel and it's so holy and perfect. How they confuse Eretz Yisroel with Israeli society is a mystery to me. When the prophets complained about "Israeli" society during the Second Temple was that their yetzer hara talking? Were they being negative?

So don't expect to use logic or reason once you come  to frum Anglo Israel. Leave it on the plane.

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