Since Hashem is in charge of everything, and if a Jew is a victim of crime, is it proper to say that it is Hashem's will?
ANSWER:
It's proper to say everything is Hashem's will, but it doesn't mean you have to take it lying down. Like a person that gets a headache, it's Hashem's will, but it's Hashem's will also he should get up and take an aspirin. Certainly he has to heal himself, vrapei yerapei.
And the aspirin to criminals is, to kick out all the liberal judges and put in tough judges. To reinstate capital punishment, and to make youthful felons responsible as if they were adult criminals: that's aspirin.
Certainly everything happens by Hashem's decree, anybody that's a victim, it's done by Hashem. So what about it? We shouldn't take it supinely, lying down and yielding, we have to fight back, because that's also what Hashem wants us to do.
Good Shabbos To All
This is transcribed from questions that were posed to Harav Miller by the audience at the Thursday night lectures. To listen to the audio of this Q & A please dial: 201-676-3210
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