Markaz HaRav

How should one talk about these times?

Truly, the only valid use of Deconstruction is to speak of these times...times of slaughter...times of blood... We deconstruct our thoughts and speak in a "Meta-language" which lifts us out of the level where our hatreds wear rags and uniforms to a higher level where our hatreds wear evening dress.

Here goes: A Palestinian shot 8 students dead in Markaz HaRav.
A week before, more than 100 Palestinians were killed...
or once upon a time, many Palestinians were killed. The next week, a Palestinian entered a yeshiva and killed Jewish students.

Who is to blame? Who put these people in harm's way? Who has conspired to create these unending dioramas of death? No...no....deconstruct...many died, many die, many will die. How can there be cause and effect and reason within a world bereft of reason and science of propriety?

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