The Sound of Silence
Silence can be the most devastating sound possible; yet at times also the most rewarding. How is your silence?
Chaya Chitrik is a Chabad shlucha in Istanbul, Turkey.
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I didn’t know the part about the Rabbis being silent in the story of embarrassment. It is so hard to have the “stinky cheese touch,” when you are at the bottom of the totem pole and no one will speak to you or speak up for you for fear of their own social ostracism. Having been on both sides of that fence, my greatest regret was when I was silent and therefore complicit in another person’s suffering. I love your statement about choosing silence well.