5 Av 5783
(h/t Hava)
The following are excerpts from a summons issued by The Sovereignty Movement along with my comments:
Dear Friends, we must all attend the demonstration in Tel Aviv this Sunday!It is not enough to go to the polls once every four years; we must constantly battle to ensure that the victory at the ballot box is also realized on the ground, as well.
Me: Even when the "other side" wins? Because if this situation continues, they are sure to be back in power at some point.
Unfortunately, the Right always capitulates. Some right-wing elements in our camp undermine the struggle. Shikma Bressler, the instigator of the coup d’etat, manages to draw after her right-wing individuals whose intentions are good, but their naiveté splits the camp and prevents the right-wing government, a democratically elected government, from ruling.
Me: So far, the greatest threat to right-wing rule is the vacillation and procrastination of the heads of the right-wing, democratically-elected government. In the many months since the government was formed, it has accomplished exactly zero as it has delayed and delayed and delayed taking firm action, allowing this anarchy in the streets to go on and on with no real repercussions or consequences.
...Sunday's Vigil of the Million in Tel Aviv is a test for the Right; to what extent are we willing to support Yariv Levin, Simcha Rothman, Religious Zionism, Otzma Yehudit, the Likud, Sovereignty over the Land of Israel, Jewish tradition, and Jewish identity.
Me: Support for Likud? The party that banned Rabbi Kahane as a racist? Because they are right-wing?
They are right that this is a test. How much longer are real Jews with a real Jewish identity going to stop playing this unwinnable game of This or That? Democrat or Republican, Labour or Conservative, Communist or Fascist, democratic or totalitarian? Left wing or right-wing?
This is the game the nations play, but we, as Torah Jews, have no part in it. Yishmael (Islam) comes from Avraham Avinu who is rooted in Chesed on the right of the sefirot. Eisav (Christianity) comes from Yitzchak who is rooted in Gevurah (Din) on the left of the sefirot.
So, what then? We have no identity of our own that we must choose between left and right? As President George W. Bush famously said, "You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists." Uh, no! I don't have to take either side, because I'm not for either one of them. The same goes for Russia and Ukraine. They can destroy each other and the world will be better off.
I am for the JEWISH/TORAH side - Ya'aqov is Tiferet (Beauty) the middle balance of Chesed and Gevurah. We are Bnei Yisrael - the offspring of Ya'aqov/Yisrael. And we, as well as those righteous among the nations who attach themselves to HKB"H, are the only ones on this side.
We are the majority. This time, let us truly realize the victory at the polls. This is true democracy!
Even the United States is not a "true democracy." It was established as a republic. But, again, what happens when the left takes power back through a democratic vote? What happens when the Arabs take over through a democratic vote? Why are these Jews being so shortsighted? Democracy is not our savior, it's not even our friend. It keeps us under control of the exile and prevents us from realizing our Divine destiny.
I know immediately that people with little faith will say, "I agree with you on an ideological level, but we have to be realistic." What they really mean is that they are comfortable with things the way they are. They are afraid of being truly independent of the nations and totally dependent on HKB"H because they aren't certain that He really exists or is really actively involved in our lives and what happens here in His own chosen Land; the same reasons why many Jews fail to make aliyah.
No, you won't find me at a demonstration in favor of Democracy - one of the false gods of our age. I'll be home praying that HKB"H will deliver us from this attachment to Edom and the regime of the Erev Rav and restore our nation to its own Torah laws and the Torah way of governance.
I hope my readers will join me.
I would stay far away from these kind of actions. They are all traps, no different than January 6th in America. Look what Trump, who called for supporters to show up, did when those same supporters got the harsh and cruel spotlight of government trained on them simply for being there. Nothing! He pardoned plenty of dirty people on his last day and did zip for his unconnected supporters who were snared. Instead he coldly promises to help them after winning the next staged election. These things are thick with undercover agents looking for marks.
ReplyDeleteIf the gedolim call for a gathering, that is different. They have done so in the past, but only once or twice that I remember. And we don't have gedolim like that today.
What does this remind you of within this context?
ReplyDelete"For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the spring of living waters, to dig for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that do not hold water." (Yirmiyahu 2.13)
Why no takers?
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ReplyDeleteI also will stay far away from such demonstrations, which accomplish nothing other to place a target on your back. It is said that "men go mad in crowds." Large crowds are the last place I want to be, for any reason.
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The only remotely positive takeaway from this needless and tedious situation is it ultimately disabusing those of us who still stubbornly subscribe to the idea that salvation can be found in existing institutions, when in fact we are witnessing how openly corrupt everything is both within Israel and the world over (e.g. US, Brazil, etc).
ReplyDeleteAm also davening we see HKB"H deliver us and initiate the true unscripted pushback that is beyond the control of the Nations ongoing theatre and pantomime they are weaving. In the manner of the Makot that the Magicians were unable to emulate.
The United States is actually a constitutional republic…which means the government ideally is representing the rights of all citizens. Democracy is actually the antithesis of what we should want and the current modus operandi of western globalist governments. Democracy was founded in the Greek city state of Athens. It was a shared rule of the male elite class of that city….so essentially the shared rule of an elite few. We don’t not want a democracy…..men are corrupt. We are waiting for Malchut Yehuda and Melech Hamoshiach. However in the meantime we should prefer a republic versus a democracy. Devorah I hear what you’re saying, but Hashem works bederech tevah…..is it not possible that otzma yehudit with ben Gvir a follower of Rav Meir is the mechanism for Moshiachs arrival?
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is it not possible that otzma yehudit with ben Gvir a follower of Rav Meir is the mechanism for Moshiachs arrival?
DeleteNo. And the current crisis is the proof of it. What's not "b'derech teva" about an overthrow of an existing regime and its replacement with something different? It's been going on since the beginning of time.
It seems to me that since the system here is one whole piece, either way we vote, or the sides fight each other, the system wins, and has been winning for the last 75 years. Not the "right" and not the "left." Most Israelis wouldn't know democracy if it knocked on their door and introduced itself.
ReplyDeleteThe constant refrain of "this will never be a state of Torah law" is also without basis: None of us know what a Torah state would be like, fleshed out. A lot of people are frightened of it because of what some say in exaggeration to scare us.
One thing it would do is encourage us to live higher-level lives morally and spiritually. The governments that govern us now do the opposite, as we see in recent events playing out now.