Tzvi Freeman offers an Orthodox Jewish take on the question, "Is it okay to celebrate bin Laden's death?":
If we celebrate that Bin Laden was shot and killed, we are stooping to his realm of depravation. Yet if we don’t celebrate the elimination of evil, we demonstrate that we simply don’t care.
We are not angels. An angel, when it sings, is filled with nothing but song. An angel, when it cries, is drowned in its own tears. We are human beings. We can sing joyfully and mourn both at once. We can hate the evil of a person, while appreciating that he is still the work of G d’s hands. In this way, the human being, not the angel, is the perfect vessel for the wisdom of Torah.
(Photo: A sculpture by graffiti artist Typoe entitled "Confetti Death". More images here.)
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