Chochmas Nashim: Kedoshim: Itst Ikh Farshteyn

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: KEDOSHIM: ITST IKH FARSHTEYN

By: Suri Davis

 

So much on my mind these days.  As I watch police finally intervening to stop the encampments which were a culmination of years of radicalization by Hamas and Foreign Government “investments” in organizations in America, who use and utilize the freedoms set forth in our constitutions to prey on Jews.

 

As I watch the universities light up ablaze with hatred and I asked myself why any Jew would attend these universities and remain in these universities knowing they are breeding grounds for unrest and hatred, I have to remind myself that I live in America and New York, which is not immune, indeed we have seen scenes of bald hatred seething in our streets, and yet we feel, it will blow over.

 

ITST IKH FARSHTEYN, now I understand how a cultured country like Germany, where Jews were held in great regard for their art and professional pursuits, became a breeding ground of hate.  The answer is that we can read the history of Hitler and Mein Kampf, it still doesn’t explain how the country and its allies got away with their murder.  OTHER than to say that it was clearly G-d’s will.

 

Reading the haftorah for this week’s torah portion, Kedoshim, we read that G-d tells the Jews through the prophet Ezekiel that when they were in Egypt, He raised His hand to save the Jews so that He could bring them “out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had sought out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.”  G-d warned them not to follow their eyes and worship idols, but to follow the laws of the Torah so they could remain on the land.

 

This week’s parshah starts with a commandment that we be holy as G-d is holy, that our reward for following His laws, we get to remain on holy land and be G-d’s chosen people with all the benefits.  When it is Simchat Torah, it is not a time to take the joy of music, and dance around a Budha.  While every person on earth should be treated with respect, the mayor of Jerusalem got the message, it is a holy land, it is not the time for a Gay pride parade in Jerusalem, it is time for a hostage rally.  There is a place and time for almost everything.  Israel is unlike any other country in the world, and the nations of the world understand it.  It is a tiny country, yet all know the sanctity of the land.

 

As to the President Biden cutting off aid to Israel, I wrote about his returning the Gerald R. Ford battleship from Israel.  On January 4^th I wrote the following in TheFiveTowns.com newsletter:

 

The countries of the world who suffer tragedy, can count on Israel to come to their aide. EVEN THE GREAT AMERICA, when the Surfside building collapsed, relied on Israel for recovery. When Israel has now suffered its greatest loss since the Holocaust, those countries remain silent.   All the news casts which reported how United States officials were coming to Israel to show support, was frankly fatuous. The officials came to Israel to handcuff it and warn it to curtail its efforts to route out its bestial enemy. The demented Biden supported Israel for a quick second and a half, and “our friends” in Congress our largely silent.   Biden has pulled the Gerald Ford naval carrier from the Red Sea, which was supposed to have warned Hezbollah not to escalate. FAILURE. The Gerald Ford said goodbye as it knew that Iran was sending its warships to the Red Sea.   Thank you President Biden, Israel needs to learn once and for all, Yisrael b’tach B’Hashem, ezram umaginam hu/the Nation of Israel relies on G-d for He is their aide and shield. Que sera, sera, it is all in G-d’s hands.   Mr. Biden, American presidents have come and gone. German presidents have come and gone. Russian presidents have come and gone. Roman and Babylonian emperors and Greek emperors too, they are gone, but the Jews are here to stay, with your help, or not. We are a small country, we are few in the world at large, but we are important enough to want to be annihilated by great superpowers, G-d had and has other plans.   So Mr. Biden, we don’t need your henchmen coming to Israel to strongarm us, you will see that we will survive and thrive without you, or any other country, for WE ARE THE CHOSEN NATION. You have played your election cards with Pro-Palestinians, how’s that working for you? Chalomot paz.

I received the following response from a prominent Rabbi:

 

Dear Suri 

 

Since I live in Israel and have three grandsons in the IDF including one fighting in Gaza for almost one month, I must say that your description of Biden is shameful. He has been wonderful. As a political conservative aligned with Tikvah, I must that Orthodox Jews choose to be negative on people that they have unfairly put into their narrow minded distorted microscope. 

 

We have no הכרת הטוב. Instead of saying thank you to Biden, we are falsely promoting him as Pharaoh. Such disgraceful calumny

 

I didn’t respond to the Rabbi immediately, I just recently responded with one line, from a recent headline:  “In resonse to the escalating violence in the West Bank, President Joe Biden signs an executive order on Thursday, taking actions against Israeli settlers.”

 

President Biden remained silent while campuses were burning with antisemtic hatred.  He won’t talk about antisemitism without mentioning alleged Islamophobia, and he states through his spokesmen that he has an ironclad support of Israel, but he refuses to provide them with the weapons they need to reclaim hostages and finish off Hamas, because he needs Michigan and Wisconsin, where Arabs reign.

 

Acharei Mot Hakedoshim, after the death of all those who fell in the Holocaust, which we commemorated this week, and Yom Hazikaron, Israel Memorial Day, which is forthcoming, so many holy soldiers fell for our country, the land of Milk and Honey, and which has G-d’s eyes supervising it from the beginning of the year and throughout.

 

ITST IKH FARSHTEYN, I now understand how a society can spiral down, I know how a small country can be born and sustained, I know how we can take a desert and have it prosper, I know how survivors of the Holocaust have survived and thrived and how those who have survived October 7^th survived and will thrive, it makes no sense other than to say Yisrael B’tach BaHashem/Israel believes and trusts in G-d.

 

Have a good Shabbos and gut chodesh.

-Suri