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I am a survivor of abuse

I tried to type up a longer, more detailed post but it got too hard. The bottom line is the following

There's no such thing as universal feelings, reactions, desires, needs that all victims share. Each one is an individual who suffered alone and carries the unique scars that stay with them and each one will react to future situations in life in their own way.

Therefore, there is no single response to abuse that will leave all victims feeling safe, secure, validated, supported, closure and everything else all the well meaning people here want to give them.

However, I think there is a single response that would leave all victims feeling further pain and trauma and that is "It can't be."

Rabbi Shimon Russell - How to Safeguard and Protect our Children

https://youtu.be/fefqSvXf0JI


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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1300 on: January 25, 2022, 07:08:44 PM »
https://www.inn.co.il/news/539049

Burning of his books next to his kever.
I've been waiting over 5 years with bated breath for someone to say that!
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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1301 on: January 25, 2022, 09:30:28 PM »
https://www.inn.co.il/news/539049

Burning of his books next to his kever.
It won’t be the victims who deface his grave, it'll be social justice warriors.

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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1303 on: January 30, 2022, 07:07:28 PM »

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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1304 on: January 30, 2022, 07:53:24 PM »
I've been waiting over 5 years with bated breath for someone to say that!
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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1305 on: January 30, 2022, 08:26:28 PM »
https://haemtza.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-role-of-rabbinic-authority-in.html

Wow
Very sad and painful. And to think this is just one of dozens....

And I continue to get flack for disparaging the unhealthy attitude of "Daas Torah".

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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1306 on: January 30, 2022, 08:29:14 PM »
Truly a wow letter.

However I don't get the daas Torah aspect. CW was not a rav at all, perhaps not even a Talmid chacham. Why does this particular case cast doubt on daas Torah?

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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1307 on: January 30, 2022, 08:33:40 PM »
« Last Edit: January 30, 2022, 08:57:52 PM by Mordyk »
#TYH

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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1308 on: January 30, 2022, 09:10:54 PM »
https://haemtza.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-role-of-rabbinic-authority-in.html

Wow
Just wow.. opened me up to a horrible world :'(.  At least I got some understanding of which I was lacking before.

That's likely the core issue why there isn't enough sympathy and support for these victims. The average person (me included) cannot imagine what happened, what sexual abuse is all about, and frankly don't even want to picturize anything of the disgusting actions associated with it. They have no idea what urges sick people to behave sickly and maybe even have some pity on these people for being sick. It's very hard trying to put yourself in a situation you know nothing about and unfortunately what you get is that people don't understand the victims fully.

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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1310 on: January 30, 2022, 09:27:45 PM »
blocked....can someone post
Probably exceeds the max amount of characters a post on this website can handle....
It's written from emotion but not well edited and is very very very repetitive.

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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1311 on: January 30, 2022, 09:46:59 PM »
Probably exceeds the max amount of characters a post on this website can handle....
It's written from emotion but not well edited and is very very very repetitive.
Because it's not a well written story with editors reviewing.  It's written from the heart of a broken soul

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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1312 on: January 30, 2022, 11:13:22 PM »

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Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1313 on: January 31, 2022, 01:16:40 AM »
Indeed WOW.

Is the letter available in the original Hebrew?
Doesn't seem like it. Though he says it was translated in conjunction with her, so very likely it remains true to the original (she lives in the US, assuming she knows English).

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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1314 on: January 31, 2022, 10:15:53 AM »

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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1315 on: January 31, 2022, 01:16:17 PM »
https://haemtza.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-role-of-rabbinic-authority-in.html

Wow

I am thinking that I should show this to my kids, not sure from what age. What are others thinking about this?
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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1316 on: January 31, 2022, 01:18:52 PM »
I am thinking that I should show this to my kids, not sure from what age. What are others thinking about this?

I have mixed feelings about this. It certainly drives the point home, but since it’s written from a deeply emotional and painful place it might be too much.
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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1317 on: January 31, 2022, 01:34:59 PM »
I have mixed feelings about this. It certainly drives the point home, but since it’s written from a deeply emotional and painful place it might be too much.

My thoughts are that in today's day and age they will find out more and more sooner or later, I am thinking that it's safer to introduce this myself so that they feel comfortable talking about it, asking questions of me, rather than keeping doubts inside or going elsewhere. I was thinking 15 and over (the younger ones might also have a language barrier), my wife was thinking that our 10 year old daughter might also be a candidate for reading this.
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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1318 on: January 31, 2022, 01:40:37 PM »
My thoughts are that in today's day and age they will find out more and more sooner or later, I am thinking that it's safer to introduce this myself so that they feel comfortable talking about it, asking questions of me, rather than keeping doubts inside or going elsewhere. I was thinking 15 and over (the younger ones might also have a language barrier), my wife was thinking that our 10 year old daughter might also be a candidate for reading this.

Some of it is pretty graphic, I don’t have any daughters or 10y/os, but it sounds like a lot to me. They will find out more, but do you think they would find something of this degree of intensity before adulthood?
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Re: Chaim Walder dies
« Reply #1319 on: January 31, 2022, 01:43:06 PM »
Some of it is pretty graphic, I don’t have any daughters or 10y/os, but it sounds like a lot to me. They will find out more, but do you think they would find something of this degree of intensity before adulthood?

Talk to educators. Kids know a lot. I agree it is graphic, which is why I thought 15 and older (and was excluding my soon to be 14 y/o son.
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