24 Tevet 5781
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Parashat Shemot - Mevorchim
Modern and enlightened people simply do not believe in conspiracies. Suggest that a group of people got together to plot and plan an evil act against an unknowing and defenseless group of people and they will laugh in your face and label you a nut-case with the words "conspiracy theory."
But, as I've pointed out here many times before, history is full of conspiracies which took root and produced a fruit so rotten that it killed millions. This week's parashah (Shemot 1:8-22) describes a case in point.
A new king arose over Egypt, who did not know about Joseph.He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we are.Get ready, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they increase, and a war befall us, and they join our enemies and wage war against us and depart from the land."So they appointed over them tax collectors to afflict them with their burdens, and they built store cities for Pharaoh, namely Pithom and Ra'amses.But as much as they would afflict them, so did they multiply and so did they gain strength, and they were disgusted because of the children of Israel.So the Egyptians enslaved the children of Israel with back breaking labor.And they embittered their lives with hard labor, with clay and with bricks and with all kinds of labor in the fields, all their work that they worked with them with back breaking labor.Now the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one who was named Shifrah, and the second, who was named Puah.And he said, "When you deliver the Hebrew women, and you see on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall put him to death, but if it is a daughter, she may live."The midwives, however, feared God; so they did not do as the king of Egypt had spoken to them, but they enabled the boys to live.So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, that you have enabled the boys to live?"And the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are skilled as midwives; when the midwife has not yet come to them, they have [already] given birth."God benefited the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very strong.Now it took place when the midwives feared God, that He made houses for them.And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you shall cast into the Nile, and every daughter you shall allow to live."
"THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN."
~ SHABBAT SHALOM ~
Have there been no conspiracies in history? Communism started as a conspiracy. Actually, it started with a pamphlet called the Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx in 1848. Later came the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883) which Marx started and his colleague Friedrich Engels completed. The entire communist empire started with two conspirators. Those works inspired various Russian revolutionary organizations that united in 1898 as the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. In 1903, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov who we know by his pseudonym Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov split off from the party, and in 1912 formed their own party called the Bolshevists. Future Soviet dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin joined them. Years earlier, in 1897, Lenin had been arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years. “Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organisation, that tends toward rebellion against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent toward, or rebellion against, established authority.” (Wikipedia) In other words, Lenin was a conspirator. The Bolsheviks took power during the October Revolution in November 1917 and became the only ruling party in the subsequent Soviet Russia and its successor state, the Soviet Union, which was established in 1922.
ReplyDeleteAt the time of the revolution, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party had 21 members and 10 candidate members. They constituted the cabal that started the real trouble that became the USSR. It grew from there. At its peak, the Soviet Union consisted of the countries of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. That area covered a large part of the Eastern European Jewish world. Soviet supported communist parties took control of Poland in 1945, Albania and Bulgaria in 1946, Romania in 1947, Czechoslovakia in 1948, East Germany and Hungary in 1949. Communism also spread to East Asia, largely through the influence of China, which became a communist country in 1949. Communism spread to North Korea in 1948, to North Vietnam in 1945, and to Cambodia and Laos in 1975. All of Vietnam became communist in 1976 after a bloody war between the north and south. In East Asia, Mongolia became communist in 1924 and maintained close ties to the Soviet Union. In Africa, South Yemen, Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, and Mozambique became communist in the 1960s and 70s.[1] Cuba became communist in 1959.
How many people died throughout this process? Historian Scott Manning collected sources which put the mid-estimate at 149,469,610.
Shall we talk about Nazi Germany now?
Governments are full of conspiracies and that's a fact. Things are kept secret and quiet, and because the public is not aware of them, they call it conspiracy. There is a great difference between conspiracy and conspiracy 'theory'. The ones who are actually making conspiracies happen (powers) are the ones who attach the word 'theory', so as to make those who are aware of the truth of conspiracies look like nut cases, as if these people are dreaming them up. The public has no inkling of what's going on behind the scenes, but now the public is becoming aware of the corruption which has been going on for quite a while in the halls of the world powers. We now know that's no secret.
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