KEY DOCUMENT
Forty-Three Questions
It
is imperative to understand that the higher up one is
in history, the greater the ramifications of a “mistake.”
If we make a mistake, how many suffer? If we make a
mistake, it doesn’t set precedent, it doesn’t
change things on a far-reaching scale. When King
Solomon made his mistake, it wasn’t a question
as to whether he was a little excessive in his
self-serving decision by taking wives prohibited by
Divine decree (we trust he had a grand time, because
we and our families have all paid dearly for it).
Idolatry was introduced and equally egregious was
that it gave tacit approval to others violating
Divine decree, under the logic that if it's OK with
the King of Israel, who’s going to argue with me
about it? King Solomon, from the House of Judah,
thereby fomented idolatry and assimilation into the
lives and lifestyles of the Jewish people in the Holy
Land (absent Heavenly intervention due to the taint
of the blessings received by Jacob).
Thus,
for major Jewish bible figures, even small errors can
have, absent G-d’s intervention, perpetual
ramifications. That is why G-d made Himself known
directly to the forefathers. You can’t judge
the “mistake” by contemporary terms or
standards. Jacob’s “small mistake”
proved costly. How costly? Millions upon millions of
lives over time, a history turned upside down from
what G-d intended and had planned. Do you think
G-d planned centuries of persecutions and
victimizations for His chosen people?
Thus,
if King Solomon misdirected the future in a major
way, without question, when one is speaking about
Yakov, Jacob, you are not speaking ground level of
the structure of Judaism and its future, but you are
speaking about the underpinning to the entire
foundation of the structure. Any mistake on Jacob’s
part is monumental. You cannot talk about it as
though he’s one of us, another human, tending to
slip, fall and stumble.
His
mistake was that he inter alia laid a
foundation in Torah that others have used to justify
manipulation and deceit, heightening his mistake to
an incredible degree in the heavenly scheme. To allow
others to look at Torah and argue support for their
use of manipulation and deceit is unspeakable to G-d
(literally and figuratively). That is why G-d
expected Jacob himself to recognize his mistake and
apologize (thereby correcting the condition in
Torah). When G-d saw that Jacob was in denial, He
peppered Jacob’s life with inescapable links to
his mistake and his need to repent (which would have
been recorded in Torah by a changed subsequent
history). This is not a movie scenario where love
means never having to say you’re sorry. This is
the foundation for the future, the foundation for
Torah, now standing absent Jacob’s apologizing
for his “mistake,” and thereby imbedding
flawed underpinnings to the foundation, resulting in
the realities of yesterday and today. G-d, in His
mercy, did not shut the door, cementing the future,
without any chance or opportunity for us to foreclose
the monumental consequences deriving therefrom. He
obfuscated Jacob’s mistake in the Torah He
subsequently gave at Sinai, expecting, as set forth
in Missed Message of Torah, that we see it. When we,
as Israel in lieu of Jacob, see it, we can free
ourselves from the taint of the recognized
wrongdoing.
Rather
than see it, however, we confront subsequent
generations of those G-d expected to see it, who,
instead of correcting the mistake, compounded it,
with their own “small mistakes,” such as
the ones misquoting Torah, permitting them, with
legerdemain, to remove G-d from His central role in
the lives of men, allowing them to selectively
extract segments of man-created Talmud, imbued by
man in the Name of G-d with holiness, to build
idolatrous trees in further contravention to Divine
decree, to mislead and misdirect the Jewish
people, which operated to embellish Jacob’s own
“mistake,” resulting in today’s need
to face an Israel distant from G-d and an emerging
China out to destroy it.
The
collapse of the World Trade Center towers attests to
the reality that everything can change in a moment.
That is why each moment counts. G-d sent Jacob away
to give him plenty of time to recognize his need to
repent. We have been given, via our exile, equal, if
not greater, time. Torah provided for a second giving
of Israel. We have it. G-d permitted Jacob a second
chance, through Israel, the Jewish people, to
recognize his mistake and the need to repent. This
logically ends with the second loss of Israel. There
is no provision in Torah for a third giving of
Israel. It means that Israel’s time to recognize
Jacob’s “small mistake” and repent
therefor may end if we lose Israel again. Thereafter,
we face the specter of Parashas Ki Savo. So
again, do you think it was G-d’s design to have
the Jewish people live a history of perpetual
persecutions and victimizations? Do you think
Parashas Ki Savo is in Torah to fill up a couple of
more pages of Torah?
“You
shall be to Me a Kingdom of ministers and a holy
nation.”
Exodus 19:6
This
was G-d’s design for us. Whatever remnant again
remains of the Jewish people will look back at the
beautiful environment we were given, yet again, with
unlimited opportunities to recognize the truth of
Torah, to lead us to love G-d, have faith in Him, and
find His original design for us, all which we refuse
to do, because we stand in denial, as did Jacob,
refusing to challenge or change the status quo; to
release the taint over the blessings received by
Jacob, which is what permits what is perceived as
evil to prevail in our lives and for our future.
- Do
you now understand the difference between the
birthright and the blessings?
- Do
you now understand that Jacob interfered with
G-d’s original design?
- Do
you now understand that Jacob enmeshed unholy
means to pursue G-d’s holy ends?
- Do
you now understand that Jacob was given
numerous signs and opportunities to recognize
this “small mistake” and apologize
for it?
- Do
you now understand that a history of
perpetual persecution was not part and parcel
of
G-d’s original design for the Jewish
people?
- Do
you now understand that a history of
perpetual victimization was not part and
parcel of
G-d’s original design for the Jewish
people?
- Do
you now understand that the Jewish people
have been victimized all throughout their own
history by their own leaderships?
- Do
you now understand that manipulation and
deceit are unholy means?
- Do
you now understand the many ways G-d peppered
Jacob’s life with manipulation, deceit,
and victimization to help him recognize the
“small mistake” made when, in the
presence of
G-d, he knowingly and willfully manipulated
and deceived his holy father to receive the
blessings, and enmeshed (thus defiling
eternally in Torah) G-d’s Name in his
scheme without any need to do so?
- Do
you now understand that Esau would not have
received the blessings regardless of whether
or not Jacob interfered with manipulation and
deception?
- Do
you now understand the birthright was
obtained properly by Jacob?
- Do
you now understand why Esau was not
interested at all in the birthright?
- Do
you now understand that the birthright
represents the future Kingdom of Israel?
- Do
you now understand that the blessings
represent the leadership and power over the
Jewish people?
- Do
you now understand the blessings received by
Jacob were tainted because of the
introduction of unholy means into G-d’s
holy ends and design?
- Do
you now understand why his father-in-law
victimized Jacob repeatedly, including
victimizations of Jacob by his own sons by
Leah?
- Do
you now understand what Jacob meant when he
said to Pharaoh: “Few and bad have
been the years of my life?”
- Do
you now understand why Jacob was also given
the name Israel?
- Do
you now understand why the leaderships of
Israel passed into the hands of the House of
Judah from the House of Joseph (otherwise
there was no reason for it, and the Messianic
Era suggests the return of the leaderships to
its original design; putatively, to the House
of Joseph, where it may have always remained
absent Jacob’s “mistake,”
explaining the reason there is no reference
at all to the Messianic Era in Torah until
after Torah obfuscates Jacob’s “mistake”
and Jacob fails to recognize it and repent
therefor)?
- Do
you now understand that King Solomon
represented the tainted leadership of the
House of Judah?
- Do
you now understand why G-d awaits a signal to
intervene against the historical
victimizations by the leaderships from the
House of Judah?
- Do
you now understand that King Solomon was the
nexus to the massive death and destruction
that Israel subsequently faced?
- Do
you now understand that the Sanhedrin,
representing the religious leadership, also
was the nexus to the massive death and
destruction that Israel subsequently faced,
in that it failed to honor G-d by challenging
and rebuking King Solomon, thereby putting
the King (man) before G-d?
- Do
you now understand that G-d in initially
giving the Jewish people the beautiful
environment of a blessed Eretz Yisroel –
prosperity and happiness, freedom from
enemies, from persecutions, from threats,
from fear and intimidation; the opportunity
to thank G-d for all He had given Israel --
did not receive any sign that the Jewish
people recognized any need to identify and
repent for Jacob’s “small mistake,”
or why Jacob was also named Israel, or that
when He thereafter peppered them, like Jacob,
with signs and opportunities, that they never
bothered to come to any thought or
understanding of the reasons for the harsh
realities unraveling before them (and if they
did they certainly were not inclined to do
anything at all about it – and not only
failed to thank G-d but publicly before the
world turned their backs on Him)?
- Do
you now understand that when the Jewish
people were sent into Exile, they were sent
to study Torah in a new environment, to
reassess and review what just transpired,
having already lost the beauty of the
Messianic Era, given to them by G-d, for a
willingness to stand blind and stubborn as it
evaporated before their very eyes, while
witnessing, without sufficient guilt or
remorse, idolatry, greed, corruption,
lewdness, arrogance, and forgetfulness of G-d
and Torah?
- Do
you now understand that the Jewish
leaderships of that period were not ones to
admire but to rebuke?
- Do
you now understand that the Talmud is the
work of man, while only the Torah is the work
of G-d?
- Do
you now understand how the Talmud, imbued
with holiness by man not G-d, was used as
a device to usurp G-d’s role and place
over the Jewish people, putting such usurped
power into the hands of the rabbinate, who
were unwilling to self-regulate over the
centuries to rebuke sinful precedent which
still exists and operates to desecrate G-d’s
Name?
- Do
you now understand why Rabbi Eliezer ben
Hyrcanus is a Jewish hero?
- Do
you now understand why Rabbi Akiva, like King
Solomon, is not the Jewish heroic figure
history professes?
- Do
you now understand why we now again face the
loss of Eretz Yisroel?
- Do
you now understand why G-d still protects the
Kingdom of Israel?
- Do
you now understand that Israel has no
enemies?
- Do
you now understand that Israel’s enemies
are its own creation?
- Do
you now understand however why G-d does not
intervene to help eliminate the victimizing
leaderships creating Israel’s enemies,
leading today the Jewish people and the world
into a new dark abyss?
- Do
you now understand why G-d has never and
would not intervene to help Israel prevail in
a military conflict to further an agenda that
would move the Jewish people away from Him
rather than to Him?
- Do
you now understand why Arafat did reject
Barak’s incredible offer?
- Do
you now understand that the collapse of the
World Trade Center towers represents that
time is running out to recognize Jacob’s
“small mistake.”
- Do
you now understand that Torah has not been
properly taught?
- Do
you now understand why China emerges as a
countervailing superpower to the U.S.?
- Do
you now understand why China will enmesh
itself into the Mid-East and the future of
Israel and the Jewish people?
- Do
you now understand why there is unraveling
yet again a new wave of anti-Semitism, with
emerging threats against freedom of religion
and speech?
- Do
you now understand why there is a need to
spread the missed message of Torah
(for there is a need to publicly repent in
Jacob’s name before the other nations of
the world to stave off what history attests
is the consequence to Israel’s
continuing failure to recognize and repent
for Jacob’s truly egregious sins, where
he deliberately enmeshed G-d’s Name in a
scheme to manipulate and deceive his holy
father and his brother, collaterally
committing a slander against his brother
Esau, all to which Jacob and Israel refuse to
recognize, admit, apologize, but rather
compound it by standing silent to what an
educated Jewish intelligentsia should
immediately recognize as decisions and
behavior in derision to G-d and His Torah,
all resulting in a past and a future of
putative death, destruction, Exile from
Israel, and a resumption of perpetual
persecutions and victimizations)?
If
you can say you understand eighty percent or more of
the above, then you have blessed me with the
knowledge that this treatise has served a purpose in
service to G-d, Torah, and the Jewish people.
The
Jewish people accepted Torah, acknowledging G-d’s
covenant with Abraham, which saved the Jewish people
from death as a people and as a nation (via G-d’s
intervening through Joseph). We didn’t do G-d
any favors by accepting His Torah, as some dare
profess. G-d rather favored us – by giving us
life not death. What G-d giveth He can taketh away, by
letting darkness rule, denying us His light.
In
view of the historical failings of the Jewish people
and its leaderships to recognize and repent for Jacob’s,
Israel’s, their, failings to G-d, think
of it, sardonically put, if it comes to seeing the
specter of Ki Savo, as something G-d in fact did
learn from the sages at the Sanhedrin and ACADEMY:
sitting on His hands with tape over His mouth as
darkness (death) prevails over light (life).
Jacob’s
“mistake” altered Torah and thereby Jacob’s
sin was egregious in the deepest meaning of the word.
Jacob was more than another man, he was a holy
forefather, whose mistake altered history to what it
has become today. If we continue to stand stubborn,
G-d will surely turn His back, and not intervene for
us, and we will lose Israel, again, and we will, at
minimum, be found odious and face persecutions,
again.
Solution
to the Mid-East Conflict
Can
peace in the Middle East be as simple as recognizing
and following up on the missed message of Torah? If
the Jewish people publicly
ask G-d to forgive Jacob for his egregious sins, and
ask the Arab/Islamic people for their help in moving
the Jewish people and State back to G-d,
then the Arab/Islamic people, per the Qu’ran,
will and must help, as requested (or else they will
be turning their back on G-d and their holy book),
and, if the Jewish people turn their faces and hearts
again to Him, G-d may then intervene, under both the
birthright and
blessings, to provide the Jewish people a peace in
line with the Messianic Era and His original design
for us. [1]
end
of treatise
Joseph B. Ehrlich
Hewlett Harbor, New York
February 3, 2002