THE AFTERTHOUGHT TO THE ABOVE WAS EVEN BETTER:
“……an allegory for the yetzer hara and unhealthy behaviors, but in writing it, it reminds me of the Gazans.
I can't help it. It's just too similar.
The secular Leftist kibbutzim surrounding Gaza continually gifted the Gazans with a wide array of benefits, sometimes investing huge amounts of time, energy, and money into satisfying their needs.
And some Gazans seemed so weak and injured...they seemed so friendly too...sure, they wreaked havoc on the "neighbors" – eg., other Jews living in Eretz Yisrael – but for those kibbutznikim, the Gazans seemed so cute and personable.
And then they started catering to the Gazans more intimately, inviting them into their homes and offering them pleasant employment.
Their victimized "neighbors" begged them to stop, providing them with well-reasoned warnings, but the kibbutznikim just couldn't stop...
Additionally, there was a fence to protect the kibbutznikim from any "overenthusiastic" predators...so what could go wrong?
And so things continued pleasantly, albeit with increasing danger and intensity, until that fateful day when their recipients insisted on "feasting" on the very people that fed them...
When predatory animals develop a taste for human flesh, they must be killed.
The Moral to the “stories”
“And these are real-life mussar lessons to demonstrate how the yetzer hara (and Gazans) operate, and how, even in the middle of indulging the behavior, we still have the opportunity to turn it all around through admitting the wrong-doing and committing to never doing it again.”
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