OTD Then and Now - What Changed?

Mishpacha editor, Rabbi Moshe Grylak

When a child is rejected by parents and community for whatever reason, that will be devastating to them. They feel a tremendous amount of pain and guilt. What kind of rejection? The kind where a parent actually asks a rabbinic leader to pray for their child’s death. Lest anyone think this is extreme and doesn’t happen, here is the pertinent quote from Rabbi Grylak’s 2nd Mishpacha editorial:  

Rav Steinman (was) asked… if anyone had come to him yet to ask him to daven that their son should die. The rav was taken aback by the question, naturally, and then Rav Steinman told him, ‘This week, 15 fathers came to me with this request regarding their sons who had gone completely off the derech.’