REMBRANDT, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

There is one thing I can�t forgive Dovid Karpov. It is his luxury of illusions. Why did I have to endure the bitter poison of truth while he was able to float for 20 years in a protected cocoon? Who allowed him that luxury? In 1988 just at the onset of Russian reforms and before the invasion of the lizards I told him during my trip that the realities of Lubavitch are despondent and disappointing compared to the idealized version they sustained in Moscow. He was not prepared to absorb my message. Now the roman barbarians have violated his holy of holies. His awakening and his sure exile is to follow. He will morn his inner Jerusalem smashed by the invaders and he will grieve for what could or should have been just like the rest of us.

As for the lizard face and his spiritual brothers in Boston, LA, Melbourne, Philadelphia and Eastern Parkway we should find it in our hearts to forgive them and offer them our brotherly love. Because at the end the day all the tonnages of matzo balls and photo ops with Kyrgyz ministers is just to soothe the pain of confusion. We are all junkies of our disappointments and some crave one more condolences letter to the Vatican, on more lunch with a murderous dictator and then to top it off a drunken out of control binge letting it all out, breaking the windows in a shule. Let us all embrace and forgive our own and our brothers confusions.