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January 13, 2021

A Lack of Appreciation for the Jewish Virtues of Civility and Rationality Has Sowed Political Chaos in America

An Orthodox rabbi on the recent disturbances, and his own community.

Writing for a ḥaredi audience, Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky considers what lessons pious Jews should draw from the attack on the Capitol last week. To Lopiansky, the rioters’ actions “should have been unthinkable,” and thus the relevant question is not what motivated them, but what made them thinkable. He blames a lack of two cardinal Jewish virtues: da’at (wisdom or “cerebral and calm deliberation”) and civility, or being a mensch:

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