A Light Unto The Nations

[expat500]

Yeah, the Stockholm syndrome is not a joke.
Big sage before the Holocaust, taught
about the diaspora as an ideal
state appropriate of the time.

Finkelstein is the Dan tribe
slaughtered by 'Amalek.

I could hardly believe what was coming out of his mouth.

 

[rylah]

The right way to return the captives and international criticism | Rabbi Cherki


The psychology of the conflict

What we need to understand is that from the Islamic view, this supposedly humanitarian ceasefire, is Hudna. According to Islam, Hudna is when you're weaker than the enemy, it is allowed to submit or cease fire for a period of time, until you have force and obligated to renew the war.

What is happening today, with our captives, of course this pains us, no doubt, no one would want to heave their relative or a child, someone dear to be captive. But a state must do collective calculations, not individual.

Moreover, when we're caught at our emotional point - that's the time to show we don't give in to emotional pressure. Which may bring further attacks of this kind, to pressure our point of pain further, therefore the heads of state, who run the policy must make a collective calculation, rather than an individual one.

Indeed, the Shalt deal which You've brought up, is evidence of the immense danger we pay for our great mercy, which is justified, and cannot be used as an element of the international legal system, against any enemy.

I don't know what a 4-year-old child thinks, being in Gaza today. What does he think, what does he want? Can we know what we tell us if we could speak to him? Would he say to submit to these murderers, or say he only wanted to see mom? Or he understands, and it's possible the children of Israel are very wise.

Does the soldier during war think only about his family? W know what Torah says about this weakening of hearts. The least apparent thing is not the reaction of the families, but the reaction of the govt., giving in to agendas which goal is to sabotage the national element and perseverance, Zionism essentially.


This generation is becoming too mature for the leaders

If they want to release our hostages, it has to be with horrifying cruelty that doesn't cease until they return the last of our captives. This is decisively the language our enemy is about to understand.

By the way, when we're getting lectured on morality by the international community, US and others. We must remember, when there were American hostages in Lebanon, then CIA didn't leave any means to make sure, in less than 24 hours their hostages were returned.

And the cruelty of CIA was towards the families of the captors They've killed people who never did anything wrong, but they were the relatives of the captors, who then immediately gave up.

Meaning if we have to further face such emotional extortion, no doubt, the nation of Israel will awaken and rise up demanding a different policy than negotiations - there's a limit to how much we can digest excess of barbarism.

We have responsibility not only towards ourselves, our children, and our nation - we have responsibility before the world. The world expects us to know how to treat this evil. Because it is threatening the entire globe today. Certainly Europe, and then the rest of the continents. Because ignoring evil cause it to spread, and we are the fence, the last dam before the uncontrolled expanse of wickedness towards all humanity.

 

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בס"ד​

Dear Israel, PLEASE don't do this​

On the question of proportionality and peace



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Courage and Strength - The beginning of Prophecy (a)

Holy community, dear family we won't be talking long. We have to touch the essence,
as things are clarified by Rambam in the 'Guide for the Preplexed', 2nd part ch. 45.

Rambam discusses the levels of prophecy, beside the prophecy of Mosheh, there are 11 levels
of prophecy according to Rambam - and he discusses which is the first one, we'll deal only with the first one.

The first degree of prophecy consists in the divine assistance which is given to a person, and induces and encourages him to do something good and grand, e.g., to deliver a congregation of good men from the hands of evildoers; to save one noble person, or to bring happiness to a large number of people; he finds in himself the cause that moves and urges him to this deed.

This degree of divine influence is called “the spirit of the Lord”; and of the person who is under that influence we say that the spirit of the Lord came upon him, clothed him, or rested upon him, or the Lord was with him, and the like. All the judges of Israel possessed this degree, for the following general statement is made concerning them:—“The Lord raised up judges for them; and the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them” (Judges 2:18). Also all the noble chiefs of Israel belonged to this class. The same is distinctly stated concerning some of the judges and the kings:—“The spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah” (ibid. 11:29); of Samson it is said, “The spirit of the Lord came upon him” (ibid. 14:19); “And the spirit of the Lord came upon Saul when he heard those words” (1 Sam. 11:6). When Amasa was moved by the holy spirit to assist David, “A spirit clothed Amasa, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David,” etc.(1 Chron. 12:18).

This faculty was always possessed by Moses from the time he had attained the age of manhood: it moved him to slay the Egyptian, and to prevent evil from the two men that quarrelled; it was so strong that, after he had fled from Egypt out of fear, and arrived in Midian, a trembling stranger, he could not restrain himself from interfering when he saw wrong being done; he could not bear it. Comp. “And Moses rose and saved them” (Exod. 2:17). David likewise was filled with this spirit, when he was anointed with the oil of anointing. Comp. “And the spirit of God came upon David from that day and upward” (1 Sam. 16:13). He thus conquered the lion and the bear and the Philistine, and accomplished similar tasks, by this very spirit.

This faculty did not cause any of the above-named persons to speak on a certain subject,
for it only aims at encouraging the person who possesses it to action;" - Guide for the Perplexed, Part 2 45:4


This is the spirit of HaShem, when we see mighty heroes rising to rescue, we know this is the beginning of the degree of prophecy. And we're in a very unique age, the nation of Israel returns to the land, the nation of Israel becomes the majority of the Jewish people in its land - we're going towards the renewal of prophecy.

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Courage and Strength - The beginning of Prophecy (b)

But to reach that we have to pass through a war that is not another war. We see today that the war we're in today, has very remarkable elements of war on 'Amalek, in which aspect?

"How he pursued you on the way and cut off all the stragglers at your rear"- Devarim 25

The mixture of 2 things - cruelty of savagery and organization.
Organization and savagery together was with the Nazis,
and this resembles war on 'Amalek.

It's very interesting, why Reuven felt connection to the people Pri-Gan, he's from Shlomit, what does he have there? We all know the story, the Holiday of Purim was that which connected them. The holiday of Purim, 1st year he comes sending people entire meals, no one knows what he wants. When he comes the 2nd year, the people already go forth with prepared meals, 3rd year they ask if they can come to the Megilah Scroll reading, 4th years asking to do it at their homes - that was the living connection of the people of Shlomit, woken by Reuven and the people of Pri-Gan.

The war of Purim - is the war on 'Amalek.
It's not coincidence these things are connected.
Now in war on 'Amalek there's vast cruelty, we have to destroy everyone.

And the question - what is this?
You, the Jewish nation, what You do is an cruel deed?
To this, says Rabbi Kook, in the Letters of Ray"ah, 1st part p.100,
when Rabbi Mosheh Zeidel asked Rabbi Kook about the cruel wars in Torah,

Rabbi Kook says - "it was entirely impossible, when the neighbors were essentially night wolves, that only Israel doe't fight. Otherwise they gather, and G-d forbid eliminate their remnant".

Initially, in the time of TaNaCh, the nations around were predatory beasts, in that situation it's apparent You have to fight, otherwise You're done.

"And moreover, it was necessary to instill fear in the savages through wicked ways. Only with expectation to bring humanity to its potential, but not to push away the hour of responsibility. And know, that in public policy, Torah didn't at all push the spirit of the nation to extend mercy".

And I pass several lines, "and it's clear, that it was in the hands of each generation's Halachic Court, to examine the situation of that specific idolatry, not every element was the same".

Meaning each time they went to war, they asked the Court, or the Prophet at the time - how to treat this nation? At what level of cruelty?

As Elish'a the Prophet says, when going to war on Moab - to cut every good tree, different to what is said in Torah, not to cut trees. There are situations, for example, towards Moab to be more cruel, for another nation to have more mercy.

"No every element was the same, and in our many sins, these measures haven't been taught in detail, for lack of practical application, since we've lost our national immunity."

Since we've been exiled, these Halachic measures weren't in use -
"until HaShem return to us the crown of our splendor, quickly in our days".

Therefore, this war, we are the lighthouse for humanity,
that it learns from us, what are the moral values to act according to in war.

And the attempt by the US to dictate to us what is morality, is this standing test, we have to examine what do we accept and what we don't, and the entire humanity is expecting to know this. Especially the European nations facing the threat of Islamization, to them it's very important to know what we are going to do.

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Discussing the radical, visionary thinking that was required to change German and Japanese societies to become pillars of a peaceful world - which was unimaginable during the 30's-40's of the last century.

Very important to hear!

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Full conversation -

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www.ynetnews.com

 

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Courage and Strength - The beginning of Prophecy (b)

But to reach that we have to pass through a war that is not another war. We see today that the war we're in today, has very remarkable elements of war on 'Amalek, in which aspect?

"How he pursued you on the way and cut off all the stragglers at your rear"- Devarim 25

The mixture of 2 things - cruelty of savagery and organization.
Organization and savagery together was with the Nazis,
and this resembles war on 'Amalek.

It's very interesting, why Reuven felt connection to the people Pri-Gan, he's from Shlomit, what does he have there? We all know the story, the Holiday of Purim was that which connected them. The holiday of Purim, 1st year he comes sending people entire meals, no one knows what he wants. When he comes the 2nd year, the people already go forth with prepared meals, 3rd year they ask if they can come to the Megilah Scroll reading, 4th years asking to do it at their homes - that was the living connection of the people of Shlomit, woken by Reuven and the people of Pri-Gan.

The war of Purim - is the war on 'Amalek.
It's not coincidence these things are connected.
Now in war on 'Amalek there's vast cruelty, we have to destroy everyone.

And the question - what is this?
You, the Jewish nation, what You do is an cruel deed?
To this, says Rabbi Kook, in the Letters of Ray"ah, 1st part p.100,
when Rabbi Mosheh Zeidel asked Rabbi Kook about the cruel wars in Torah,

Rabbi Kook says - "it was entirely impossible, when the neighbors were essentially night wolves, that only Israel doe't fight. Otherwise they gather, and G-d forbid eliminate their remnant".

Initially, in the time of TaNaCh, the nations around were predatory beasts, in that situation it's apparent You have to fight, otherwise You're done.

"And moreover, it was necessary to instill fear in the savages through wicked ways. Only with expectation to bring humanity to its potential, but not to push away the hour of responsibility. And know, that in public policy, Torah didn't at all push the spirit of the nation to extend mercy".

And I pass several lines, "and it's clear, that it was in the hands of each generation's Halachic Court, to examine the situation of that specific idolatry, not every element was the same".

Meaning each time they went to war, they asked the Court, or the Prophet at the time - how to treat this nation? At what level of cruelty?

As Elish'a the Prophet says, when going to war on Moab - to cut every good tree, different to what is said in Torah, not to cut trees. There are situations, for example, towards Moab to be more cruel, for another nation to have more mercy.

"No every element was the same, and in our many sins, these measures haven't been taught in detail, for lack of practical application, since we've lost our national immunity."

Since we've been exiled, these Halachic measures weren't in use -
"until HaShem return to us the crown of our splendor, quickly in our days".

Therefore, this war, we are the lighthouse for humanity,
that it learns from us, what are the moral values to act according to in war.

And the attempt by the US to dictate to us what is morality, is this standing test, we have to examine what do we accept and what we don't, and the entire humanity is expecting to know this. Especially the European nations facing the threat of Islamization, to them it's very important to know what we are going to do.

(4:00-8:30)

 

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Jews Are Hated Because They’re Terrible at Failing​

The alarming rise in Jew hatred across the United States, and especially on college campuses, has left many people bewildered. How could this be? After all, Jews have contributed so much to America– why would they attract so much hatred? And why has this hatred risen so sharply in the last few years?

In a recent lecture in Los Angeles, Pulitzer prize-winning columnist Bret Stephens brought up a societal shift that has especially hurt the Jews: the reframing of success as “white privilege.” At a time when the corrosive notion of “systemic racism” has permeated our culture, the new sinners have been dominated by those who are “white” and successful. If you fall into that privileged camp and haven’t learned to virtue signal, watch out.

This notion of connecting success to the bourgeois status of privilege undermines the very American ideal of meritocracy—the idea that those who work hard are more likely to succeed. This is clearly bad news for the Jews. The Jewish ethos since we first arrived in this country has been to work hard and aim for success. Must we now fall and fail in order to be accepted? It’s not a question Jews want to answer.

In this new social landscape, Jews are in a lose-lose position. When the white and successful are stereotyped as the new oppressors, Jews are seen as the most privileged whites, the ultimate oppressors.

That’s why Jew haters tend to get hysterical when something like October 7 disrupts that narrative. They see over 1200 Jews get massacred in Israel, and, instead of showing empathy, they rush madly to the streets to promptly put the Jews back in their place in the forever oppressor club.

It’s not a coincidence that the starkest evidence against that oppressor narrative—posters of Jewish hostages taken captive by Hamas—have been the target of such vitriol. Jews have no right to claim oppressed status. That club has a long waiting list, and Jews are last on the list.

It’s counterproductive to think we can end Jew hatred when so much of that hatred is connected to Jewish success. Even the vaunted elixir of “education” has a limited effect. Education about what? About the long history of Jew hatred and why it’s so unfair? What if fairness has nothing to do with it?

Instead of fighting back by trying to eradicate the hate, it’s more useful to fight, as many are doing, by using the law to defend ourselves against unlawful discrimination and harassment, especially on college campuses. Better to file legal complaints than to simply complain.

Competing in the Victim Olympics is also a losing battle. Regardless of the fact that most hate crimes are against Jews, few people are inclined to buy our claims of victimhood. It doesn’t fit the American Jewish brand, not even when we bring up the six million we lost eighty years ago in the Holocaust. That was then, this is now. In America, the hardwired perception is that Jews are successful and powerful. They have made it.

Of course, even before white privilege became America’s big sin, there was plenty of Jew hatred to go around, as there has been for millennia. The difference now is that the perception of Jews as the ultimate white privilege sinners has opened the floodgates. It’s now open season on the Jews.

Have you noticed the new level of chutzpah among Jew haters? There’s not just hate and ugliness but a frenzied pleasure, a fearlessness. Jew hatred and Israel hatred are now a blur. Among the hundreds of examples we’ve seen, I can’t help thinking about that poor math professor at MIT who had no choice but to allow a student to interrupt his class with anti-Israel venom. The sheer brazenness of the student was stunning.

In a provocative 2013 essay in the British online journal Fathom, philosopher Eve Garrard argued that antisemitism actually brings pleasure to the haters.

To really understand Jew hatred, she wrote, “we have to look outside the cognitive domain to the realm of the emotions, and ask: what are the pleasures, what are the emotional rewards which anti-Semitism has to offer to its adherents?”

She cites three principal sources of pleasure: “first, the pleasure of hatred; second, the pleasure of tradition, and third, the pleasure of displaying moral purity. Each of these is an independent source of satisfaction, but the three interact in various ways, which often strengthens their effects.”

It’s strangely discomfiting to hear from a scholar that “anti-Semitism is fun, there’s no doubt about it. You can’t miss the relish with which some people compare Jews to the Nazis, or the fake sorrow, imperfectly masking deep satisfaction, with which they bemoan the supposed fact that Jews have brought hatred on themselves, especially by the actions of Israel and its Zionist supporters, and that they have inexplicably failed to learn the lessons of the Holocaust.”

The eerie pleasure that Jew hatred provides is not something that can be easily erased or wished away. It’s ingrained and immutable, just like the perception that Jews are successful is ingrained and immutable.

The way forward is not to despair but to recognize and incorporate that reality. Given that it’s no use trying to convince the world that Jews are victims, we might as well own our success and double down on our Jewish identity. Better to walk with the strength of the proud than limp with the fragility of the weak. By all means, let’s continue to stay vigilant, to correct the lies, to fight in the courts and protect the safety of Jews everywhere. But it would behoove us not to lose sight of the long game.

Things may look bleak at the moment, but in the long run, we know we’d rather be punished for succeeding than rewarded for failing.​

Jews Are Hated Because They’re Terrible at Failing

When success becomes “white privilege,” it’s open season on the Jews.

jewishjournal.com

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The right way to return the captives and international criticism | Rabbi Cherki


The psychology of the conflict

What we need to understand is that from the Islamic view, this supposedly humanitarian ceasefire, is Hudna. According to Islam, Hudna is when you're weaker than the enemy, it is allowed to submit or cease fire for a period of time, until you have force and obligated to renew the war.

What is happening today, with our captives, of course this pains us, no doubt, no one would want to heave their relative or a child, someone dear to be captive. But a state must do collective calculations, not individual.

Moreover, when we're caught at our emotional point - that's the time to show we don't give in to emotional pressure. Which may bring further attacks of this kind, to pressure our point of pain further, therefore the heads of state, who run the policy must make a collective calculation, rather than an individual one.

Indeed, the Shalt deal which You've brought up, is evidence of the immense danger we pay for our great mercy, which is justified, and cannot be used as an element of the international legal system, against any enemy.

I don't know what a 4-year-old child thinks, being in Gaza today. What does he think, what does he want? Can we know what we tell us if we could speak to him? Would he say to submit to these murderers, or say he only wanted to see mom? Or he understands, and it's possible the children of Israel are very wise.

Does the soldier during war think only about his family? W know what Torah says about this weakening of hearts. The least apparent thing is not the reaction of the families, but the reaction of the govt., giving in to agendas which goal is to sabotage the national element and perseverance, Zionism essentially.


This generation is becoming too mature for the leaders

If they want to release our hostages, it has to be with horrifying cruelty that doesn't cease until they return the last of our captives. This is decisively the language our enemy is about to understand.

By the way, when we're getting lectured on morality by the international community, US and others. We must remember, when there were American hostages in Lebanon, then CIA didn't leave any means to make sure, in less than 24 hours their hostages were returned.

And the cruelty of CIA was towards the families of the captors They've killed people who never did anything wrong, but they were the relatives of the captors, who then immediately gave up.

Meaning if we have to further face such emotional extortion, no doubt, the nation of Israel will awaken and rise up demanding a different policy than negotiations - there's a limit to how much we can digest excess of barbarism.

We have responsibility not only towards ourselves, our children, and our nation - we have responsibility before the world. The world expects us to know how to treat this evil. Because it is threatening the entire globe today. Certainly Europe, and then the rest of the continents. Because ignoring evil cause it to spread, and we are the fence, the last dam before the uncontrolled expanse of wickedness towards all humanity.

Why Israel has agreed to release far more Palestinian prisoners per hostage release is a mistake.

 

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Two new perspectives on everything going on

How light applies to the curse of those who curse Israel,
and Moshe Rabbenu during the war of 'Amalek.

 

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Javier Millay, elected President of Argentina at the inauguration ceremony -

"It is no coincidence that the inauguration is on the Hanukkah holiday,
the battle of light against darkness and truth against lies"

 

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'I Spoke the Truth & They Tried to Kill Me' Dalia Ziada & Allies in the Israel/Hamas War | The Quad​

 

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The REAL reason they want us DELETED | My Israel Narrative​

 

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The Bible was specifically not used by the Founders as a basis for the Constitution. Nowhere in the body of the text is there a single reference to the Bible.

The Founders were mostly Christians who would have good knowledge of the Bible. America is based in Judeo-Christian morals and values.

 

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בס"ד​

Dear Israel, PLEASE don't do this​

On the question of proportionality and peace



​

Hope Amid Conflict - Israel's Stand Against Evil
| The Honest Critique​

In this insightful interview, join us as Rabbi Oury Cherki, Chairman of Brit Olam - World Noahide Center, a prominent Jewish scholar, shares his perspective on the current situation in Israel, and the ongoing conflict with Hamas.

Rabbi Cherki provides valuable insights into how Judaism views war, the importance of seeking justice, and the hope for a brighter future.

 

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World Noahide Center | Rabbi Cherki in Telugu

 

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Our Māori author give a perspective that compares her people's return to their homeland, with that of the Jewish people in Israel.


9. “If an ethnic group like the Arabs—who colonized Israel in the sixth century and imposed their language and religion on the conquered peoples—can claim indigeneity based on long-standing presence, then so can other colonizing groups. The rights and status of all indigenous peoples would be threatened by such an approach. In New Zealand, a few pākehā (New Zealanders of European descent) have sought to claim indigeneity. This effectively undermines any indigenous rights Māori might have, such as those articulated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

…according to Article 26 of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, “Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.” Preventing an indigenous people group from building in their indigenous homeland is a breach of indigenous rights.”
A Light for the Indigenous Nations

in the 7th century the arabs converted the inhabitants of that region, many of them jews descended from the hebrews of the 1st century, the people living there today have the same genetics as the jews we know and love, and are as indigenous as anyone.

doesn't god love them too?

 

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in the 7th century the arabs converted the inhabitants of that region, many of them jews descended from the hebrews of the 1st century, the people living there today have the same genetics as the jews we know and love, and are as indigenous as anyone.

doesn't god love them too?

If their claim was based on Jewish descent,
why demand exclusive Arab domination
over the entire M. East and N. Africa?

 

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World Noahide Center - Open Letter to Islam [Part 1]​

With English subtitles (cc)