Moshiach
Now,
after centuries of true suffering and persecution,
the Jewish people have a homeland, the State of
Israel. Since the Jewish condition in America and
other parts of the world has changed for the good,
Jews becoming quite popular and accepted, graced by
their promised wealth and bounty, as provided by
Torah, the very need of a Jewish State has become a
less important thought than it had been for the
centuries our forefathers prayed and enlisted G-d for
it.
Thus,
those who oppose G-d, since the day they crafted and
danced about the golden calf, have re-emerged and
spun their webs to distance Jews from G-d and His
central role for Eretz Yisroel. In caring for
themselves, not their country, nor their G-d, their
ancestors, forefathers and heritage, they have
inflamed hatred for the religious Jew and in so doing
diminished G-d further by associating this developed
dislike for the religious Jew, to G-d. This
transference of feeling against the pious Jew to G-d
provides fertile soil and opportunity for a new
generation in Israel to question G-d, Torah, and all
of Judaic history and heritage. In other words, they
are told that being a Jew is irrelevant, being an
Israeli citizen is everything.
Israel
has sunk into a state without a dominant connection
to G-d. In fact, G-d is not mentioned favorably at
all, and as said is questioned, ridiculed, demeaned,
defamed and defiled. In Peres Personified it
is proffered that Peres can prove to be the best
spokesman for G-d, since people will quickly listen
and heed the word of a man with a golden tongue
serving evil. A good man like Rehavim Ze’evi has
to strain and sweat to have Sharon and others in
government give him what amounts to a fleeting
thought. The public sees his words in the same vein
as Moses words during Korach’s time, which fell
by the wayside side and required G-d’s
intervention.
I
wrack my mind often why people who would defend G-d
and Torah, and would have been there for Moses
against Korach, are taken from us when such people
would have played an important role. Should they not
have been protected against a premature and unjust
death? With Rabbi Kahane and his son, the only reason
I can think why they were not protected is because
they espoused violence and G-d seemingly does not
want those defending His Name, His gift of Torah, or
even the correct course to resort to unauthorized
violence. Then if this avenue is foreclosed, and evil
has so many resources and assets to accomplish its
end, and good people yearn and search for a leader
who can offset the Dathans and Korachs of today, do
we have a right to ask G-d why we should not expect
an intervention for such a leader or leadership? I
think so. While I can configure a possible reason for
Rabbi Kahane and his son not receiving G-d’s
protection, I cannot for the Ben-Elissars and Rehavim
Ze’evis and the other good people whom could
have served G-d and the interests of the good people
of Israel.
I
cannot answer what can be done now with good people
and leaders murdered by the forces of evil, opening
the door to a retribution and punishment more dire
than the ones the Jewish people have suffered in the
past. This has only left me with the singular
conclusion that those who should have done something
immediately post 1967 did nothing but serve
themselves to allow the Dathans and Korachs of today
to emerge, to successfully eviscerate the heart and
essence of Israel, allowing a path and course which
has taken the people away from G-d and driven them
back to the Golden Calf. To see the leaderships, on
the secular and religious levels, fail time and time
again to do what they should have done with courage
and conviction, act primarily to serve themselves and
their cronies, above G-d, Torah and the people of the
Land, does not answer the issue of what can be done
and by whom now to stem the death and destruction
which will result when Peres, the Dathan and Korach
of today, combined into one man, takes, as expected,
Israel on the wrong course and down the darkest abyss
imaginable.
Where
has all this lead me? Until now, I have been angry at
the Jewish failures paralleling the failures of the
previous time. I have admitted that I could not reach
the plateau of Abraham and Moses, pleading with G-d
for the Jewish people, since, despite and Diaspora
and the wealth and education in hand today, we have
learned nothing from history and carry the same
disdain and arrogance which generated Hashem’s
anger and retribution in the past. However, since
September 11th, facing the specter of
major destruction for the world, I have shifted my
disappointment to the issue of the disadvantage
inherent in good people, the consequent need for
heavenly intervention, and the fact that the Jewish
people would respond if they had a correct
leadership, focusing upon the fact that the people of
Israel, whatever the underlying dynamic, in each
vote, rejected Barak and Oslo and called in the
Sharon of old, and not to their fault, but to
their amazement, received the false Sharon of today.
Americans
also have historically held themselves to tenets of
religion but due to the forces of evil have seen
their own country, including its religious tenets,
wrestled away from them in another display of the
advantages of evil over good, the proof of which
parades itself in the obscene content available to
children from television, a reality which would prove
repugnant and a repulsion to previous generations of
Americans.
Thus
I openly admit that due to the above, I find myself
now joining Abraham and Moses pleading and praying
for life not death for the peoples of the world but
this time also adding the element which Abraham and
Moses did not address to G-d: for His intervention
not only for life over death for the people, but
also for His intervention to neutralize the advantage
of evil over good, and for a perpetual
correct leadership, recognizing the frailties and
failures of man toward G-d, after the period of
intervention, to assure that evil does not intertwine
itself into the deeds of good men and people to
wrestle control as it has in both the United States
and Israel today.
Thus,
I pray and plead to G-d today and in the days to
come.
- For
life not death
- For
a correct leadership
- To
neutralize the advantages of evil men over
good men, to provide new resources and assets
to good men who wish to honor His Name and
serve Him for all the time He will allow us
to continue on this planet.
Thus,
if there was a time for the coming of the Moshiach,
the time must be now or near. Good cannot prevail
over evil without G-d’s permanent
intervention.
Joseph Ehrlich
Hewlett Harbor, New York
November 2, 2001