In recent weeks, we have witnessed terror attacks conducted by teenagers. A fifteen-year-old stabbed a mother walking with her children. Another from Nablus stole a car and attempted to run the security guard over. A sixteen-year-old attacked and wounded border police with a knife. The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” If teenagers know how to take a knife and kill a person, then that law also applies to them. There is seemingly a wave of terror on the way.
We can change negative attitudes on the condition that we take strict measures with those who raise their hand to harm others and give them access to the proper education. As a Jew, if you can have the correct attitude toward other Jews, first and foremost, to the point where, as is written, “all of Israel are friends,” i.e. to connect above differences, then by doing so, all the other nations will also tend toward correct connection.
If the children growing up today would embrace the correct connection, then they too would desire to become a part of a society that connects toward working for the benefit of all. We certainly cannot blame these children that have come to show us otherwise, with killings as well as other heinous acts.
The nation of Israel is to blame, and no one else. Jews need to come down from the tree they climbed on and stop with their pride and understand their historical and eternal role. They must do this, and we need to start with ourselves, the Jewish people.