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So Who Is To Blame?

It's not the Israelis, ie the chilonim. The Israeli government doesn't paint exaggerated pictures of life in Israel. They don't romanticize the place. They don't minimize the struggles or glamorize them. They don't promise that you'll just 'pick up' the Hebrew.

It is, I'm so sorry to say, frum people who are the culprits. It is they who live in a dream. It is they who push you and guilt you and make wild promises about all the help you'll get when you come here. I could call them liars but I think mostly they are just plain delusional. Torah observance need not be fantastical. One can observe the Torah while being practical and rational. However, many observant people do not practice it that way. They live in fantasy. They live in delusion. They are delusional about the world and about themselves. It is sad to watch. But to be the victim of it is much worse than sad. It can be tragic.

I'm not talking about all religious people. Indeed, many American rabbis will tell you not to come here, not with older kids. But heaven help you if you latch on to the loonies who don't think much about the welfare of children, they care much more about their ideologies. Children are fed to the ideologies as in an Aztec ritual.

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