The
dire straits Israel finds itself should encourage Israel
to reassess its history and the manner it has been
taught. Without question, after
Israel was returned to the Jewish people, as a given
whole, in 1967, the religious leadership were in the
ideal position to indoctrinate love for G-d into the
Jewish children and nation. However, several decades
later, we find that many Israelis profess no belief at
all in G-d and furthermore is not seen by the rest of a
world as a nation that honor’s G-d’s name
before the nations of the world, but rather is a nation
that the world sees seeks to become a nation among
nations. Therefore, this irrefutable
reality suggests a review of history that may lend an
explanation as to why Israel has returned to a status
where many find its future, if not its existence, in
jeopardy, yet again. This explanation also serves to
explain why Israel faces the situation it finds itself
and moreover and most importantly offers a solution. When Israel was divided
after the death of King Solomon, with the ten tribes in
the North separating themselves from the nation’s
seat, Jerusalem, they had to formulate a course where
their citizens had no need to obey the command of Torah,
where they were mandated to journey thrice yearly to
Jerusalem. Thus, the ten tribes
collectively initiated the course of man-centered
theocracy, where a majority of leaders took center
stage and defined a new set of laws and commands to
satisfy the religious requirements upon which the nation
of Israel was founded. Such machination resulted
in dramatic changes to the laws given by G-d to Israel,
and thereby opened the portal to ultimate forgetfulness
between those in the ten tribes and their covenant with
G-d. The ten tribes enjoyed tremendous secular success;
they became a nation among nations, intermarried,
accepted the ways of surrounding nations and wound up
worshipping their idols. G-d's punishment resulted
in their total evisceration by the hands of the
Assyrians. They were resident in the Land of Israel with
protection by G-d against all enemies, but they
themselves created the enemy, served by the Assyrians, to
expunge them from the land, since their occupation of
the land was repugnant to the honor and name of G-d,
thus precluding G-d's protection. Thus, they were themselves
the enemy. The Assyrians were merely the agents to the
mandated course. Thereafter, we had the
remaining two tribes and those returning from Babylonia
when the Roman occupation there forced them to flee back
to Israel. A group who were the
forerunners to the rabbinical leadership today espoused,
quite similarly to the leadership of the ten tribes, an
argument that the majority of those in the Sanhedrin
would govern religious interpretation and take control of
the remaining Jewish people to coerce them into being a
unified whole. However, Exodus 23:2 states: "Do
not be a follower of the majority for evil; and do not
respond to a grievance by yielding to the majority to
pervert." To obtain total dictatorial
control over the conflicted, argumentative, divided
remnants, this mandate of Torah was distorted to support
the interpretation that bar anything, including G-d's
appearance in contravention thereof, the rule of the
majority of the Sanhedrin prevails; the success of this
historic distortion and power play seen by the reality
that still to this very day Exodus 23:2 is publicly
altered by the religious leadership to proffer: “After
the majority must one incline.” Thus, on this basis,
corruption took hold of the ruling religious body, and,
as we saw under Barak, those openly committed to G-d in
the Shas political religious party, abstained from
voting, de facto undermining G-d's gift, by allowing
Barak to give back or divide the Old City of Jerusalem.
See www.senderberl.com/jewish/shasstory.htm. Succinctly, the issue is
raised by what has become to be known as the trial of
Rabbi Eliezer ben Hycranus. If we did not verily
believe that this single incident represents the gateway
to resolving Israel’s problems today, we wouldn't
tell you to take the time to read it: www.senderberl.com/jewish/trial.htm.
The operative and controlling dynamic is that
Rabbi Eliezer was against the degree of absolute central
control taken by a group headed by his brother in law,
Rabban Gamliel, head of the Sanhendrin, and his student,
Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Eliezer’s
efforts to oppose their course resulted in his total
excommunication from the Jewish community. Thereafter,
when both his brother in law and Rabbi Akiva faced
untimely deaths, those following the course set by his
brother in law and Rabbi Akiva, forged an explanation,
for all history, that they were punished because of their
cruel treatment of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hycranus. However,
this rationalization does not hold, because the death of
his brother in law, Rabban Gamliel, and Rabbi Akiva,
immediately foreran massive death and the Exile of the
Jewish people from Israel. The Jewish people did not
receive this punishment because of their adherence to the
order of excommunication but because the course again
was set to pull the Jewish people away from G-d,
showing that nothing was learned from the destruction of
the two temples and that a new platform again was put in
operation that would interfere with the ability to keep
the State of Israel, when again given by G-d as promised.
The evidence of it? The State of
Israel today. After G-d met His
promises with Abraham and Moses, in returning ultimately,
in 1967, the whole of Israel, a miracle of our time, did
the Jewish leadership, including the religious
leadership, instill a love for G-d in the children in
Israel? No. The course they took leaves us today with the
reality that a vast number of children, now adults, have
no belief, yet to say commitment or nexus, to G-d. G-d
has been made a stranger in the Land of Israel.
The very same faulty teachings institutionalized by Rabbi
Eliezer's brother in law are operative today, allowing
this pathetic reality, the cause of Israel's woes, in
that after some 2000 years, no one has had the courage to
tell the Jewish people that this format was in
contradiction to Devarim 16:21: " You shall
not plant for yourselves an idolatrous tree -- any tree
--- near the Altar of G-d, your L-rd, that you shall make
for yourself." Any attempt by man to place
himself on any plane equal to if not greater than G-d is
sinful and represents an idolatrous tree. Thereby, fail to
defend G-d, and one fails to stop evil from entering a
nation's midst. The Exile was to give
man sufficient time, including ultimately wealth,
education, opportunity, joy, happiness, beauty, so
that man would have no excuse not to finally figure it
out. Thus, the common element between the death and
destruction of the ten tribes, the Exile from Israel, and
today's putative loss of Israel is that G-d is
not made central to the State of Israel and the world
does not see that the Jewish people properly bow, bend
and honor His name and thus His teachings to the world. Thus, the solution to the
secular problems today, for those under monotheism, is
found only on the religious plane. The words of
Isaiah clearly define them: Isaiah
44:21: Remember
these things, O Jacob, For
you, O Israel, are My servant I
fashioned you, you are My servant – O
Israel, never forget Me. I
wipe away your sins like a cloud, Your
transgressions like mist – Come
back to Me, for I redeem you. Isaiah
54:16: So it is I who create The
instruments of havoc. No
weapon formed against you Shall
succeed, And
every tongue that contends with you at law You
shall defeat. Such
is the lot of the servants of the Lord, Such
their triumph through Me – declares the Lord. Ariel Sharon: You
were always willing to die with courage to defend the
Land of Israel and serve its founding secular aims and
purposes. Is it so far afield to expect you to
show the same willingness to defend G-d? The
Arab/Islamic nations are not the enemies. G-d and
Torah stand for the proposition of faith to wit: reality
changes once you take the nation on the right course. President
Bush will turn from the anti-religious course and design
of the New World Order. China's putative biblical purpose
of punishment will abate and disappear. Israel and its
Arab/Islamic neighbors will find a harmonious accord and
solution to what appears to be perpetual conflict. The
only thing Israel needs to do is what it was supposed to
exist to do: honor G-d's name before the other nations of
the world. Move affirmatively back to G-d while G-d still
has the door open for you to do so. This is how we summarized
the dynamics that are in play today regarding the
Arab/Islamic nations: First, can the
Jewish people ever dare to think for a moment that G-d
would tolerate an attack by them on the Arab people on
the basis that the Arabs are evil when they are the
descendants of Abraham and Hagar and prostrate themselves
before G-d and honor His name before the other nations of
the world? Second, can the
Jewish people ever dare to think for a moment that G-d
would tolerate nations, who are moving their nations away
from G-d, seizing and confiscating oil given to the Arab
nations by G-d, to finance an agenda that will further
alienate people and nations from G-d? Third, can the
Jewish people ever dare to think for a moment that after
spending two thousand years in exile that G-d would hand
them a victory on the basis that they have nothing at all
to do what is before them today, and that they represent
good and the Arab's evil, failing to accept the
historical evidence that the people in Israel have no
enemies other than by G-d's will and design, to preclude
the State of Israel becoming an abomination to His name? We all have to move back to
G-d. If Israel does, then the current course can be
changed. Everyone should want, in our respectful opinion,
to change the current course. It is time to identify
mistakes of the past because further mistakes only attest
to a future that none of us want to really think about or
harp about, as current events and circumstances evidence.
Things will continue to
deteriorate and one day these truths will become evident
to everyone, it is just a question of how many will be
around when G-d accepts our repentance, for the coming of
the Messiah has its nexus to the reality that we failed
G-d yet again and endured a severe punishment therefor,
and the grand experiment, where man was given free will,
to show, that with G-d's teachings, man could exercise
that free will to serve Planet Earth, will have failed. Joseph Ehrlich Sender, Berl & Sons
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