Part III. The Close Ones of Today
Saints, Shmaints
Now the truth is I have to apologize that I already took up so much of your time and I didn’t even begin yet. Because I didn’t intend to talk about their saints; saints, shmaints. We know it’s nothing.
But it’s an example of this principle that Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants us to use when we contend with the darkness of the world. After all, do we have time to study all of their lies, to read their books and disprove them one at a time? We’re a busy nation! We’re busy raising the next generation! We’re learning Torah! We’re doing mitzvos. We’re busy with chessed and maasim tovim! We have time to read papal bulls and to study the lives of their saints?
And so Hashem gives us this rule of ‘From the ones you know about you can learn about the ones you don’t know’. And He tells us it’s reliable. That’s why He wrote those extra words in our parshah; to encourage us to see through the darkness of this world.
