(Rabbi Zecharyah Tzvi Goldman is the founder and rabbinic administrator of<br />
the EarthKosher Kosher Certification Agency. He also is the founder<br />
and educational director of the Institute for Halakhic Conversion. He<br />
lives with his wife and children in Teaneck, New Jersey.)
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook wrote: "The wise do not complain of darkness; rather they increase the light." The Orthodox and greater Jewish community seems racked by scandal after scandal where laymen, political leaders and rabbis are demonstrating what can be termed "ethicopathy"-- extreme disregard for ethical living and consciousness. While it may be instinctive to invoke the aphorism that there is always a bad apple in every bunch, I believe this would not do justice to what I sense is a systemic and communal responsibility in how we are educating our children, adults and our rabbis.
