Relentless Hate, No Security, the Task…
Another American President has descended upon the Land and People of Israel to dictate peace terms to them. A client government, “scoffing men” and women, different faces with similar roles long has been in place to execute the will of the great eagle from across the sea [1]. We near checkmate in the long descent at the end of which the re-born Jewish state becomes effectively borderless and dependent, a slave fed with slogans blurring the extent of its subjugation. At the limit of contraction comes the day…
As America and the West disappear down a digitalized maze of pagan power lust, broken families, impoverished and stupefied citizen-serfs, human capital ready to be liquidated it reverts to the original sin at its flawed origins: it commits suicide by hacking and seeking to pull up its Jewish root, the Compassionate Father it never could comprehend or accept in favor of its Egyptian-Greco-Roman and Mesopotamian model of barbaric and incestuous theogeny.
We introduce this short essay on our momentous time, its import all-but buried by the noisy glare of the Presidential “debates” and campaign in America, once a blessed nation, with a quote from Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato (Ramchal). What he writes about the reign of evil in Derekh Hashem (“the Way of the Eternal One” c.1735) fits our days and echoes many verses in the Hebrew Scriptures, Tanach, Mishna, Talmud and commentaries. For we live in a world in which
Truth is ignored, wickedness prevails, and deception and error increase. It is a world of false values where good qualities are eclipsed…as a result, tranquility ceases to exist and there is no security while there is much suffering and injury (2.8.2).
In such a world, “there is no security.” This is the ultimate irony and the judgment, measure for measure upon the nations promoting “security” by fomenting and cooking crises in order to strip ordered liberty, true freedom and property as modeled in Torah from the peoples of the earth above all the Jewish people gathered back miraculously into their land precisely as promised by the Almighty and His prophets.
In a world of mass-produced, intensively marketed filth, of lies masquerading as “social science” with “new relationships” for “new families” and “counter-factual history” in the education industry which really is the conditioning and degrading of youth industry; in a world where mass communications become essential for livelihood while damaging one’s health in myriad ways; where the images and “ideas” carried by the media corrupt the humanity in man as well as the ability or inclination to remember what it was; in a world where language becomes lumps of leaden cliches clogging and dropping on the heads of those who use it; in a world where lies, “false values” — Darwinism, global warming, androgyny, socialist globalism, same-sex ‘marriage’ parade aggressively as truth – “God neither rejoices in His handiwork nor does mankind rejoice in Him.” And in these effectively pagan times which are the logical and inevitable result of the lies about the Holy One of Israel, His holy Name (Exodus 3:15-16) and His infinite Essence
Man neither realizes nor recognizes even what it means for creation to rejoice before its Creator. In such a world, the wicked become strong and the good are deprived of all status (ibid).
In re-forming their ancient covenant against Israel, the powers of Edom and Ishmael have decreed that the Temple Mount remain off limits for Jewish prayer let alone its rebuilding while Edom pays Ishmael to eviscerate and scar it. This holy site, the Temple which the Children of Israel in their generosity and love, the very qualities of the Creator as they alone knew and were known by Him made a house of prayer for all peoples is severed from the servants who bring blessing to everyone. This is the end of a world that not only empowers the wicked, cynical, Machiavellian spin-masters, fraud of every kind parading as new “truths,” this has become a world, as Ramchal write where there is no security and in which “man neither realizes nor recognizes what it means for creation to rejoice before its Creator” as modeled in psalms 67 (the song of the Menorah that symbolizes God and the creation), 96-8, 104 and 150. The last verse of tehillim, “let all souls praise God, Hallelujah” requires that the Eternal One be praised, as it states in that psalm’s first verse from “His sanctuary” the Temple. America, Europe, Russia, Mecca the world says ‘No.’ Thus the very ground brings forth under coercion, as it were in a degenerative path scored more deeply by those whose power games include wrecking the food, water and minerals that earth yearns to give with joyous song.
But we live in the time of the last checkmate, the end of the end game when “there is no security”; this word is endlessly and dishonestly invoked and sold while the reality recedes ever further from our lives. Freedom flees while tyranny and brutality, raw or suave fills the world in these very days that Jews study and read of the arrogance of Pharaoh who would never relent from his desire to crush and humiliate God’s “first born son,” the Children of Israel (Exodus 4:22). Never, until the end…
Therefore the words of Ramchal stretch back to the attempts of Balak to have Balaam curse Israel (Numbers 22-24), beyond that, to the obsessive and supreme hostility of Amalek, scion of Edom. Even as it is today: “Amalek is the first among nations, but it too will be forever destroyed” (24:24): as the Eternal One wrote into the creation regarding the entire house of Israel: “those who bless you I will bless, and those who curse you I will curse.” And so it comes to pass as America’s ruling elites, drunk and not with wine prepare to collapse their own nation and rule the world in concert with a congeries of despots. It is tarted-up as “Humanitarianism” and called “peace.” These times and schemes were identified long ago by Ezekiel and other prophets. “They call out ‘peace, peace’ but there is no peace” except for the wicked (Ezekiel 13:1-16; psalm 73); and the wall they have built at the behest of the Euro-American masters, plastered with lies bankrupting the people with promises of peace that bring hailstones of wrath; its builders will not be inscribed in the book of life. But the game continues; creation is perverted as a thick crud of willful evil occludes the loving life of the Divine Presence in a time such as recounted in the Book of Esther. And indeed, Purim is the next main holiday of the year… If we are to live as a people who know how to proclaim and achieve true freedom, it must, as at Purim “be turned about” from darkness to “light, gladness, joy and honor” for Israel. This is the process of history sung by Moshe on the last full day of his life, and he concluded: “O nations sing the praises of His people. For He will avenge the blood of His servants; He will bring retribution upon His foes [psalm 83] and appease His Land and His people” whom the nations prefer to scatter and divide, again (Deuteronomy 32:43 cf. Joel 3:15-4).
As the land of Israel is taken from the people of Israel making a shadow of the Torah of Israel which encodes the structure of existence and, all three together, balance it, just so the madness that is virtual reality and State Security covers the earth like a plague of darkness whose produce is death. Apparently this again must be the path to sanctified freedom.
The words of Ramchal are encoded in the Mishna and Talmud: “in the generation when the son of David will come the meeting place will be used for licentiousness, the Galilee will lie waste…the people of the border [Gush Katif still homeless] will wander from town to town and not be granted favor. The wisdom of scholars will decay” as many of them justify or turn away from this assault on the Eternal One and the covenant “and those who fear sin will be despised” [2]. There will be “prayers…and a march to open gates and hearts” but in these days, only the gates of heaven will open and, because of the dominance of the wicked only to institute the pangs of redemption “in its time” [3].
Noted above are the Jews expelled from Gush Katif or northern Shomron. They were not on the agenda of the Annapolis conference nor its follow up in Jerusalem January 8-10. Rather, influential toadies, gazirpatai and amgushai, media sorcerers and idolatrous judges will urge the envoys of Amalek to commit sexual assault – translated as military assault via jihadist and anarchist gangs – upon the nation and children and State of Israel.
And so strongly and happily sit these puppets on the fingers of the hands of Amalek that they retain their places of prestige and power as the day draws toward twilight.
A week before the American President, the elected leader that draws the world arrived upon Israel one of his chief officials decreed that Jews were forbidden to build and to live in neighborhoods of Jerusalem. These State Department decrees against Atarot and Har Homa are important because they are differences in degree but not in kind from the entire land for peace process stretching back to the British Mandate, effective de facto by 1918 [4]. This entire process has seen the Anglo-American elites, backed by Europe, Russia, and their clients in the Jew-hating Islamic world seek every way to limit the return of the children to their borders, again defying the promise of the Creator (Jeremiah 31:11-16). And yet, “they will return from the enemy’s land” “and I will set them on their soil…”
The British who kept the Jews out of the Promised Land and the American elites that kept them out of North America during the holocaust were accomplices to that slaughter that at the last moment sought to nullify Eternal Providence. And now they again increase their efforts to drown “the firebrand plucked from the fire” (Zechariah 3:2).
And now, in the face of the nations, the leaders of America take the place of Satan. The creation of a “Palestinian” State, a fake state of Jew-killing gangs for a “non-nation and loathsome people” (Deuteronomy 32:21) is scarcely a topic in the presidential debates. The supposed great supporter of Israel, Rudolph Giuliani on January 10 accepted it as a given. No candidates present cared to differ. Only Ron Paul, stating that America gives three times as much assistance to the Arab States (he didn’t include Fatah-Hamas or other Islamic states like Turkey or Pakistan) argued that Israel and its neighbors could better settle their differences on their own, noting that when Israel was threatened by a nuclear Iraq in 1981 it knew what to do. America should stop treating Israel like a “spoiled child” he said. If he had said a spoiled “perennial client regime” it would have been better but, in fact it is the American imperial presence that enables this regime of sorcerers and Jew-haters to keep its death-grip on the Children of Israel in their land.
Mr. Bush noted that “Palestinians” are frustrated by Israeli checkpoints; he didn’t add that they are frustrated in their ability to murder Jews. None of the main participants, including media were cared to mention the three Jews, two hikers and a Torah student driving home who in the previous weeks were murdered by Fatah “police” armed and trained by America and paid for by the taxes of both Americans and Israelis. Why do American officers and troops continue training these police? The plan America’s governing class has been pushing for half a century leads to war: an Islamic state of any kind west of the Jordan River means mass murder and regional apocalypse that can be managed and milked for profit and influence. Despite the ruin of the land it also serves “ecologists” funded by the eugenicists who want less people and hate those who live simply and rejoice in many children like the Jews in Judea and Samaria, “the attraction of the nations” which now must be emptied of Jews by the new Assyrians (Sanhedrin 94b2 on Isaiah 8:7-8).
At my right is a flier from thirty months ago, August 05, 2005 calling for “three days of fast and prayer to annul the evil decree” against Gush Katif. But the series of evil decrees against the land and people of Israel, decrees that define Amalek have not ceased. The sages teach that Israel has three means of preparing to defend itself and thus to defend God’s portion on earth (Deuteronomy 32:8): gifts, prayer and then battle. Gifts and prayer there have been a-plenty. Prayer is always needed; the Rambam explains in detail what remains to defend the honor of Hashem is war. It is only a leader in war who is committed to destroying Amalek, building the Temple and ingathering the exiles that can save Israel from the relentless hatred of the nations gathered against her and in so doing, so the entire blind and world dying in the grasp of Edom [5]. This is our service assignment, — to reveal the Countenance and Providence of the Creator of all worlds. It is the work above all of the resilient, brave, “humble and forbearing people in the midst of the land,” as told, “one nation, upon the mountains of Israel,” Judea and Samaria whose steadfast settlement is taking “refuge in the Name of the Eternal One”[6]. Their service will clean away the dross of arrogance, hypocrisy and idolatry through which the nations now rule Israel and defy the Creator. [7]
So despite the events of the times, be of good cheer: “evil cannot last forever in this world…with every human act against evil the kingdom of God and hence human salvation on earth is brought one step nearer [8]. “Every individual has his own service assignment though the manner in which [salvation] is accomplished” and good brought out of evil by individual heroism “is beyond our intellect’s ability to grasp” [9]. And we will know it is here when “God’s sovereignty becomes so shiningly evident through Israel’s restoration…mankind will acquire a better knowledge of God…and the teaching Israel can give the entire world” [10]. And the stream of healing light will bear us up to the mountain of the Eternal One’s House, to the House of the God of Jacob…” Thanks to forbearing Israel, above all the forbearance of the Jewish people, out of evil will come good, out of hatred will shine loving kindness like a “a sun of righteousness with healing in its wings” and “the earth will yield its produce” [11]. Without coercion and without invasion or wa, simply by examples of joy “the peoples will acknowledge” the God of Jacob, the Creator and sustainer of humankind [12]. And humankind will learn what it means to rejoice in the Creator and abundance.
1. On the imperial eagle among the stars, Ovadiah 1:4; “O scoffing men, O rulers of this people who are in Jerusalem. You say, ‘we have sealed a covenant with Death and make a compact with the grave…” Isaiah 28:14-20; Ezekiel 13:1-16
2. Talmud Bavli Sanhedrin III (NY Mesorah 2002), eds. Dicker, Elias and Katz, 97a2-3; see also the azlat yad l’goyim, in effect, those who go up with a high hand and inform against Jews to foreign powers as the Israeli oligarchs do; ibid. 97a4;
3. Isaiah 60:22, Zechariah 9:9 and commentaries; leaflet of activities for Gush Katif, August 5, 2005
4. Without the military assistance of the Jewish Legion and the invaluable help of the Nili intelligence services, most of whom lost their lives, the British never would have driven the far larger Turkish and German forces from the Promised Land and Britain would have had no Mandate, no chance to define itself by its free will choices before God Almighty. The painful ironies of this striving by Israel and betrayal by British and now American elites illustrate what Ramchal teaches about the great effects that human choice has on creation and how they shape the rewards and sorrows of this world. In a similar vein Rambam notes that the messiah “will be a man like any other” [i.e. Mortal] and the era initiated by his rein will not fundamentally alter the laws of nature, at least at first but are a metaphor for the nations learning to honor and live at peace with Israel rather than relentlessly attack it (Hilchot Melachim 11-12). His relation to the Jewish people is a reciprocal one: the individuals and entire community must recognize each other and their destiny and act on it. Earth recites songs of praise, yearning for this redemption, Sanhedrin 94a2
5. Hilchot Melachim 1:1a-c-2; 5:1, 4-5, 7; 11:1, 3; 12:1-4. A true king will annihilate Amalek and seek to rebuild the Temple; a king that proves himself to be the Messiah also will go on to “compel all Israel to walk in the ways of Torah, build the Temple in its place and gather the dispersed of Israel. He will then improve the entire world [so] all the nations serve the Eternal One with a pure heart and in the holy language” (Zephaniah 3:9). “Then no form of idolatry, even physical or ideological shall ever again have a hold on the human heart,” Rav Shimson Rafael Hirsch on psalm 97:5, The Hirsch Psalms (NY Feldheim 1960; 1997); Zechariah 12:6-8, 14:2;
6. Rav Zeiri in the name of Rav Chanina, Sanhedrin 98a2 identifying the situation of the redemption by quoting Zephaniah, the verses following that cited by Rambam, supra., 3:10-11; the removal of “the arrogant,” the “informers to the nations,” the idolatrous judges and sorcerers is the flip side of the inheritance of the kingdom forever by the forbearing, humble and brave as stated also by Daniel 7:27; Ezekiel 37:21-8
7. Rashi on Isaiah 1:25 and Sanhedrin 98a3; cf. psalm 12:7-9 all commenting on Israel’s journey through the wilderness of history from Sinai to kingdom, invasion, exile and redemption
8. Rav Hirsch commenting on Psalm 97:10-11.
9. Ramchal, Derekh Hashem 2.3.1
10. Hirsch on psalm 98, prefatory remarks
11. Isaiah 2:2-5; 55:1-5; Zechariah 13:1; the waters of Torah of the constellation of Shevat, the new year of trees “for all the trees of the forest will sing with joy before the Eternal One when He will arrive to judge the world with justice” and take up the cause of His people and portion, Jacob; Malachi 3:22-3; psalm 67 whose opening verse Hirsch renders, “to Him Who grants victory through the power of music, a song.”
12. Hilchot Melachim 12:4-5