✡️ A post about justice, not vengeance
People love to weaponize the phrase “an eye for an eye” without understanding it. They throw it around as if it’s some barbaric call for revenge. It isn’t. And anyone who has even the faintest connection to Jewish tradition knows that.
Retribution is not retaliation.
Retaliation is emotional. It’s impulsive. It’s lashing out to hurt someone the way they hurt you.
If I were driven by retaliation, trust me: the people who made my life hell would feel every ounce of the pain they inflicted on me – the humiliation, the anxiety, the sleepless nights, the financial burden, the fear for my safety, the psychological harm. That’s what retaliation looks like.
But that’s not what I’m doing.
📌 Retribution = Accountability
“An eye for an eye” in Jewish law was never about gouging out actual eyes.
It was about proportionate justice, ensuring that wrongdoing has consequences – fair, measured, lawful consequences.
Not mob justice.
Not vigilante theatrics.
Not revenge fantasies.
Consequences.
And that is exactly what these court cases are.
🏛️ THE COURTS ARE THE MODERN EXPRESSION OF ‘AN EYE FOR AN EYE’
I’m not hiding behind anonymous notes.
I’m not gossiping in hallways.
I’m not smearing people in videos.
I’m not inventing stories about dogs, disabilities, or anything else.
I am doing the most civilized, structured, democratically sanctioned thing a person can do when wronged:
I am taking it to the court of law.
If I didn’t believe in justice, I’d stay silent.
If I believed in retaliation, I wouldn’t be filing applications – I’d be inflicting the same personal torment that was inflicted on me. And I’m not doing that.
✡️ My Jewish blood tells me something very simple:
Justice isn’t optional.
Justice isn’t negotiable.
Justice isn’t a popularity contest.
You don’t get to mistreat someone and then whine when they choose the legal avenue to hold you accountable. That’s not retaliation – that’s the rule of law doing exactly what it was designed to do.
🔥 You caused the harm. The consequences follow. That’s it.
If you don’t want accountability, don’t commit the actions that attract it.
If you don’t want court cases, don’t create the situations that require them.
Call it “retaliation” if it helps you sleep at night.
But reality is simpler:
This is retribution — the lawful, proportionate response to wrongdoing.
It’s justice. And I’m not apologizing for it.
