24 August 2008

On "Powerlessness"

In the natural realm it would appear that we common people at the bottom of the pyramid are powerless to combat the forces of evil that rules at the top. Of course, there are plenty of deceived people who continue to believe that they have some power through the political process. Those who feel powerless are at least ahead of these. But they still haven't grasped the true reality which exists above this physical realm. In response to the following blogger comment, I wrote:

COMMENT: "The bottom line is that the gov't is controlled by the shadow gov't of Shimon Peres and Aharon Baraq, and the people are powerless to do anything about it."
RESPONSE: The bottom line is...Hashem is in control of everything. We hold in our hands the greatest power of all...teshuva. If we would just use it!

The main trouble with us is everyone thinks he's a tzadik. No one has anything from which to repent.

Yirmiyahu, chapter 8

"...why is this rebellious people of Jerusalem eternally rebellious? They hold fast to guile; they refuse to repent. I have listened and heard. They speak untruth; no man relents of his evil, saying 'What have I done?' They all follow their course like a horse racing headlong in war...."

Yirmiyahu 25

"...'Repent now each man from his evil way and from the wickedness of your deeds, so that you may remain on the land that Hashem gave you and your fathers forever and ever....' "

I have yet to hear one person from Gush Katif take any responsibility for their present condition. Do they bear no blame at all? If so, then Hashem is just cruel to His children, chas v'shalom!

In fact, we brought it upon ourselves.

For forty years Hashem waited for us to fulfill the other half of the mitzva of yishuv ha'aretz...that of driving out the former inhabitants. Instead we brought them into our homes and insured them parnasa to remain.

Bamidbar 33

"...But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the Land before you...it shall be that what I had meant to do to them, I shall do to you."
The Erev Rav government did not dictate who we must employ or from whom we must buy or whom we can visit and have coffee with. It doesn't prevent us shunning fellow Jews who insist on consorting with the enemy. No! There was plenty we could do, but we are so blase and uncaring about Hashem's desires, only concerned with our own.

The insistence on conforming to "democratic" means and norms is another example. Rav Binyamin Kahane,z"l Hy"d, already told us nearly ten years ago to stop supporting elections. Along comes Moshe Feiglin and once again, right-wing religious Jews are off on a wild goose chase wasting precious time and energy on a DISTRACTION from doing anything real and meaningful like making mass teshuva.

Before we set the world right, we have to first set our minds aright.
Some spiritual truths are in order.

The Erev Rav are klipot. They are parasitic in nature. They cannot exist without an attachment to kedusha from which they get the energy to survive. As long as Jews are mixed among them, they survive. When the Jews separate from them (and from their system) then that system will collapse and die. This is why we must abandon the system and separate from them. If we don't do it voluntarily then Hashem will bring it about and it won't be pleasant.

Just look at what has had to happen in order to distance good Jews from the government, the police, the courts---to disabuse us of the notion that we can bring the Erev Rav to the side of kedusha. It's not going to happen. It's not in their nature. They are not fitting vessels to contain it. (Another meaning to the phrase from Yirmiyahu---"my people has fashioned for themselves broken vessels which cannot contain water.")

The Torah is our instruction book for Life. It has everything we need and it tells us exactly what we need to do and how the world is run. Why do we not do more than pay lip service to it???

We should stop already with the schemes and keep repeating this simple message---Repent and Separate.

Cleanse your hearts and minds of foreign ideas. Cease the rebellion against the will of the Creator. Stop with the pragmatic cheshbonot and simply submit to the Torah's instructions. Separate from everyone and everything which contradicts it.

In the end, there is no other choice. At Sinai, we sold our souls back to the One who gave them. From that point on, our free will no longer included whether we would fulfill our destiny or not. Our free will only extends as far as deciding whether we will reach it by the long, hard road, or the short, easy one.

Haven't we suffered enough already? Let's just put down the toys and go in to supper. It really could be that simple, if we are willing.

No more games.

7 comments:

  1. Hey Devash,

    You are WAY off base. "Right wing religious Jews" do not follow Feiglin. Certainly not to any large extent. If they did, he would certainly be head of the Likud by now.

    He will, unfortunately, have to win without your help. And he will win.

    And by the way, since you are quoting from the Kahane family, why don't you mention that Rabbi Nachman Kahane (Rabbi Kahane's brother) and Rabbi Baruch Kahane (Rabbi Kahane's son) BOTH are active members of Manhigut Yehudit and support Feiglin. They say he is the person most closely carrying on Rabbi Meir Kahane's legacy.

    But maybe YOU know more than they do.

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  2. You have not proved from your comments that I am "way off base." Feiglin's power base is almost exclusively kippa seruga, settler-types. Call them what you will. I stood on the same street corner with Rav Baruch handing out Feiglin literature years ago even after Moshe Feiglin told me to my face that if Jews in Yehuda and Shomron tried to break away and create a separate State of Judea (a project I was heavily involved with at the time) he would fight against it. He said that were he the Prime Minister, he would fight against it with force. A few years after that I saw that Medinat Yehuda was never going to succeed anyway and thinking that Feiglin's way was the last hope, I finally signed on. I even voted for him, one of the 4% who did in 2002, I think it was. Anyway, I'll tell you something funny. Something that finally woke me up to Rav Binyamin's truth. Moshe kept saying that he could never win by starting a new party because only someone from Labor or Likud had any chance of becoming Prime Minister. Then what happens, Sharon comes along, takes half the Likud with him, starts an entirely new, unheard of entity--Kadima--and takes the Premiership anyway. That was a slap at Moshe Feiglin of little faith. If Hashem intends him to lead Am Israel, all he has to do is make himself available and let Hashem work out how he will get elected. But by connecting himself to such impurity and thinking that he would bring purity from it, he made himself like Bar Kochba, in my honest opinion. He gives G-d too little credit and thinks too much depends upon him. The whole national religious philosophy is like that. That's why they think the state is holy and the IDF is holy and that by mixing the holy and the profane they can make everything holy. The world that Hashem created doesn't work like that. We separate the holy from the profane and each serves its purpose in this world but in the world to come the holy will continue while the unholy will not. It won't become holy. It will cease to exist. About Rav Nachman and Feiglin, I'll ask him what he meant and if he till feels that way. Even he can make a mistake. Moshe Rabeinu did.

    Care to try again?

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  3. Kadimah seems to be a spark of Korach and his faction. Instead of Am Yisrael having to follow the command of "separate yourself from amongst Korach and his faction", Kadimah has done it for us.

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  4. Hello,

    You sound very angry. And I would just encourage you to step back and observe how that may be affecting your avodat Hashem, your blog, your tefillah, or anything really.


    p.s. Your blog's comment preferences are set so that a reader has to log in with a Google/Blogger account OR with an OpenID account. If you adjust the preferences to allow posts from people without either of those accounts, perhaps more people would be able to participate in discussions.

    Kol tuv and looking forward to more posts,


    Daniel

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  5. B"H

    The main issue for the Jewish People I think is emunah.

    You and I know the solution, but do we know anyone willing to carry it out?

    I am critical of myself on this, too.

    IMHO we are in a rut of "learned helplessness." This no excuse, just a description of what I see around me.

    Of course, the emunah factor is only relevant to those of us with a clue.

    The mamlachtim and the so called "right-wing" fooled into thinking that Xians are our friends, or at least thinking that they can exploit Xians are pretty misguided, if not clueless.


    You're right. HaShem is in control. The "shadow gov't" mentioned above is in control (on one level) because we let them be in control.

    Locke sounds like he's doing your heshbon nefesh for you. I'd ignore him.

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  6. Mr. Locke---I'm told that what we see in others is a reflection of ourselves. If you're reading "anger" into my comments, perhaps you should check yourself.

    I have simply set out facts in a succinct manner. If you want to know what I'm feeling, it's the weight of a lifetime of waiting for the rest of the class to catch up.

    To borrow a phrase from Ben Yehudah... sigh

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