People from shuls I attend have been coming into my chat room. They know me but I don’t know them.<\/p>\n
"Doesn’t that drive you crazy?" asked one. "I know who you are but you don’t know who I am."<\/p>\n
"That’s the life I chose," I responded.<\/p>\n
"Most people at shul like and respect you," said one chatter.<\/p>\n
That’s good. I often feel like a nuclear bomb could land on me in shul and nobody else would be effected — such is the distance between me and others.<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s just the psychic distance I feel. After all, as Rabbi Joseph Telushkin said, when you gossip about people, it increases your psychic distance from others.<\/p>\n
But I don’t gossip about people I daven with. I don’t like tension in my own home. I’m all for shalom bayit. And when I do gossip, it is all publicly on my blog and for the sake of Heaven and I’m always in my chat room to discuss it.<\/p>\n
Says a chatter: "Well, obviously those people who "hate" you, haven’t had to privilege to have the fascinating conversations I’ve had with you."<\/p>\n
Don’t let them know about my soft sensitive side!<\/p>\n
"I’ve got your back."<\/p>\n
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People from shuls I attend have been coming into my chat room. They know me but I don’t know them. "Doesn’t that drive you crazy?" asked one. "I know who you are but you don’t know who I am." "That’s … Continue reading