Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi and Rabbi Yaron Reuven have both issued apologies! Well, sort of. First, a recap of the back story: For years, Mizrachi was publicizing statements about various suffering being due to specific sins (Downs Syndrome children are being punished for their sins in a previous life, blind people are being punished for watching pornography in previous lives, people contract cancer as a result of sexual licentiousness and "dirty thoughts," etc.) As a result, sixteen rabbis, from a broad spectrum of Orthodoxy,
Extraodinary Apologies
Extraodinary Apologies
Extraodinary Apologies
Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi and Rabbi Yaron Reuven have both issued apologies! Well, sort of. First, a recap of the back story: For years, Mizrachi was publicizing statements about various suffering being due to specific sins (Downs Syndrome children are being punished for their sins in a previous life, blind people are being punished for watching pornography in previous lives, people contract cancer as a result of sexual licentiousness and "dirty thoughts," etc.) As a result, sixteen rabbis, from a broad spectrum of Orthodoxy,