THE PERILS OF PROGRESSIVE MERCY
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We live in an age where “compassion” and “tolerance” are paraded as the highest virtues. But when mercy is divorced from truth, it becomes cruelty in disguise. Rabbi Dunner takes us on a journey from Rousseau to Parshas Re’eh, and from woke politics to Rambam, to discover why the Torah warns us: “lo tachmol velo techaseh alav” — that false compassion destroys.
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) There is a particular quality to the voice of a man who has been trampled but refuses to be broken. I heard it this... Read More