We, as a Torah community, who learn Torah and are committed to it, know and recognize the power of the written and spoken word. In our circles, not only can actions build up or destroy, but words, too, are imbued with the creative force. Via the spoken word we open our hearts in prayer before the Creator, with the word we vow to improve, and using words we study Torah. And the opposite can also be true. We can use spoken words to spill blood, by embarrassing another or speaking ill of him.
Words have weight and power, firstly for the speaker, and secondly for the one who hears.
Words of Torah, with which we so strongly identify, have become words that comprise a threat - a threat to the future of the society in Israel. We must restore trust to the words of Torah. The statements that have been heard, supposedly in the name of the Torah, bring about an alienation from Torah, and diminish the status of man. The voice that is heard is not humane, not understood. We must sound the true voice of Torah, the voice that raises up the station of man.