On Bondi Beach

Today’s thought to someone else I share with you:
the prompt:
Thank you, David, for all of that, as I wasn’t aware of any of that.
And my heart and soul are shaken by what happened in Australia. When will the world wake up to Islam???
About Australia, I am not surprised, but then maybe I’ve seen much of this already:
I have a neighbor in Israel who lost his sister’s family to a stabbing attack.
I have a teacher who lost a son to an attack at a synagogue in Israel.
I have a friend whose son has permanent brain damage from another attack.
I have another in a wheelchair, another without half a leg below the knee.
There have been 48,616 deadly terror attacks since 9/11: https://thereligionofpeace.com/
I have been training myself to not see crisis in the world. Calling a circumstance a crisis is just an excuse for the imposition of interventions that are not properly thought through, only to take a little more freedom, until the next crisis.
I was in Israel October 7. One of my sons was a soldier in the heat of those battles. Many of the kids I saw grow up are also soldiers. Many of my neighbors spent much of the last few years in reserve duty.
I see people who hurt, but I don’t like the narrative that “the world is on fire.” No one has a big enough extinguisher for that. Rather, the world has shown its hidden face.
This too is the hand of G-d. Maybe he is giving us a gift, a path to prevent the next “Never Again.”
And I get that heart and soul can shake from this. Thank you for the thought. And let us hope that the gift is a little more clarity and motivation moving forward.
All my Best,
David R. Herz