Every house in our world is more or less closed to invaders from the outside: one can't suddenly enter our houses, one can't suddenly look into our houses, one can't suddenly talk to us. Everything requires our permission: if the home owner agrees, he will allow others to come into contact with him. If he doesn't agree, he can protect himself: he closes his doors and windows and doesn't answer his phone or cellphone. And then who can penetrate his world?
One single place is different: a small and unimpressive box which we place outside and through which we invite friends and acquaintances to contact us via letters. Sometimes the box really does contain good things: questions about the Torah, letters of greeting, even just a notice from the bank that our account has a positive balance...(sometimes). This box does have some purpose. On the other hand, evil, anonymous people take advantage of our private boxes and leave droppings in it. The poor box can't object. We, the home owners, are forced by the incivility of the senders to be dirtied until we can properly dispose of the materials -- in the trash.
What are we talking about? Of the Lemaan Emet pamphlets. These are a series of pamphlets containing concentrated swill, including nonsense against Chazal and the holy arbiters written by inferior human beings who left religion and count themselves scholars.
This is nothing new: there were always Jews who sought attention through apostasy, and Judaism has always rejected them. What is new is that this blasphemy appears in the form of an ordinary letter, right onto our property and into our private mailboxes, with no chance for us to defend ourselves. Sometimes they hide their true intention with no return address.
Why don't the authorities stop the lowlifes who use our mailboxes without our permission?
From: M'Yom L'Yom Thursday 4 Cheshvan 5760 15.10.99