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OPINION & COMMENT Government Scandals with Regard to Chareidim The scandal that we reported last week, about a study of the Ministry of Education that showed that chareidi schools received two or three times the government support that regular schools received, is the result of a mistake that should never have happened. How to Deal With Eisov: The Eternal Lessons of
Parshas Vayishlach
Subjugating Nature for Avodas Hashem In the first part, HaRav Meiseles first noted that one of the Greek decrees at the time of Chanukah was that the Jews had to carve on his ox's horn that he has no part in Hashem the Elokim of Yisroel and afterwards plow with that ox. He also catalogued the differences between an ox and a donkey, noting that the ox symbolizes high spiritual levels while the donkey symbolizes matter: chomer. Also the ox is kosher while the donkey is not. Iyov argued that just as the ox and the donkey did nothing to deserve being kosher and not, respectively, and were merely created as they were, so it is with people: some are created evil and some good. There is no basis for reward or punishment.
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