It’s one of those more in sorrow than in anger pieces, but let’s concentrate on the anger.
The ultra-Orthodox are the victims of their own sociology. Many of the massive [coronavirus] deaths in the ultra-Orthodox community are, in large measure, self-inflicted. Many of them have no internet. They only listen to their rabbis. Their knowledge of what is going on beyond the pages of the Talmud is seriously limited…
This is what I want to say to them.
How dare you?
How dare you, my brothers and sisters, sacrifice your communal gains on the altars of your own stubbornness and/or lethal lack of knowledge and/or your cultic overdependence on your rabbis?
How dare you squander Torah this way? How dare you willingly let more Jews die?
How dare you endanger the lives of your fellow citizens — yes, rebbes, civic responsibility is a traditional Jewish value.
Far vus, I say in their native Yiddish: For what?