Say the G-word, Mr. Netanyahu!

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-19 17:12:22 | Updated at 2024-11-24 01:37:32 4 days ago

Say the G-word, Mr. Netanyahu!
Antisemitism Answers ^ | 11/18/'24 | Amanda Chaitt

Posted on 11/19/2024 8:31:17 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator

The reason the world refuses to acknowledge the rights of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel is because they have no vocabulary for a people returning to its land after 2000 years according to divine prophecy. They’ve been bamboozled into believing there is no God and the Hebrew Bible is man-made. And that is partly our fault because, beginning a few centuries ago, we cooperated with the West’s agenda to wish away God and our obligations to Him, as the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions appeared to supplant faith in explaining human origins and providing felicity. (They haven’t! Do you think the secular West is happy?!)

Let’s fix what we helped break!

This error will not be rectified and the void in the world—subsequently filled with so much evil—will not be replaced with goodness and holiness until Israeli leaders begin speaking again about God, which is precisely the Jewish people’s vocation. Of course, our leaders cannot speak about God and the mandate for His chosen people to settle this land with authenticity and integrity while personally transgressing His precepts, can they?

Match the medium to the message

How can it be that a non-Jew, the inestimable and gracious Mike Huckabee, declares the spiritual Jewish right to this land more eloquently than our political leaders, who barely mention Him, do?

The North of Israel burns and we are hemorrhaging beloved soldier-sons, while our leaders fitfully try to solve a spiritual problem with physical means. And no one tells our people the truth. That this is a divinely caused war which will only end for good in teshuvah. The amount of suffering we experience as a nation depends on how quickly we accept the message.

Observant Jews preach to our own self-selected audiences, remaining in our echo chambers. (And yes, we aren’t perfect and need improvement, too!) My own personal thoughts about the meaning of the October 7 massacre and the resultant war erupting on the joyous holiday of Simchat Torah are rather vulgar. It was as if God was saying to us, “The party is over. I am done waiting. Now, the reckoning is beginning, and it will require the participation of everyone.”

We all count!

We are one nation and responsible for one another. Live and let live is not a Jewish concept. Kol Yisrael arevim zeh bazeh (All Israel is responsible for one another) is a Jewish concept [Babylonian Talmud Shevuot 39a]. Rather than the national religious and Haredim turning on one another over the legitimate issue of the military draft, the faithful among our leaders need to find a way to speak to the rest of the nation and to its secular leaders together—with heart, with courtesy, with kindness, and with respect:

“We don’t want any more precious Jewish children to die in battle. None of us wants the tragic loss of husbands and the fathers of our nation’s children. We love you as fellow Jews and we want to welcome you into the mishpocha (family) of mitzvot-keepers. We will help show you how and we will rejoice with you as you discover the glory and joy of being a Jew who upholds the tradition of Moshe from Sinai.”

“It is not a prison to live as a Jew, it is the utmost privilege. All your yearnings for a world of peace—brotherhood and sisterhood—will be fulfilled in it. Come and join us. Open your Bibles with a believing friend who can show you where all this suffering is prophesied, if we fail to fulfill the covenant we struck at Sinai, as well as the thrilling blessings promised us all when we return as a nation.”

“Please, please, come to terms with the truth, for your own and your children’s sake as well as ours. Please participate with us and lend us your talents, your courage, your goodness, and your ingenuity for the journey that will take Israel and the Jewish people from the most internationally despised to the most revered…”

TOPICS: Apologetics; Judaism; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: gd; israel; jews; secularism

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I don't agree 100% with everything Ms. Chaitt says on her web site, but she appears to be the only one announcing to the world that most Jews are secular rather than observant, and that they must return to G-d or things are only going to get worse and worse. She's certainly just about the only one appealing to non-Jews for help in disseminating this message, and she used to be a stereotypical liberal Jew herself.

This article is reminiscent of one written many years ago by the late Rabbi Me'ir Kahana' (zt"l, Hy"d) entitled "The One Little Word." That "one little word" the Rabbi begged Jewish leaders to invoke was "G-d."

To: hlmencken3; rmlew; Nachum; dervish; Yehuda; Ancesthntr; TorahTrueJew; Yomin Postelnik; ...

2 posted on 11/19/2024 8:32:35 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)

To: Zionist Conspirator

Thanks for posting.

I don't know much about contemporary Jewish culture. IMHO, American culture took a step back when the Christians allowed the secularists to win the argument with "science" beginning in 1959. While the church was pushing the civil rights movement (a lot of folks forget it was going pretty strong in the 1950's), the secularists decided to push their 100th anniversary of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1959.

From there we did a poor handling of their argument against God (it's pretty much when some churches became adamantly young earth), thus we couldn't make a strong argument in the trials regarding school prayer and creation vs Darwinism in schools. And the civil rights movement was put on hold until the late 1960's. Meanwhile, the sexual revolution was going full swing. And we're still following the path of Romans 1:16-32.

Beginning in the late 1950's and early 1960's our culture made it cool, or "enlightened" to say that God doesn't exist. (v 21-22)

So God let us be tempted further in sexual desires with the sexual revolution, thinking it would learn us, dern us. (v. 24-25)

Instead of it being a wake up call (How did we get so depraved and vulgar?), we reviled in it. So God let us be tempted to making homosexuality a thing. (v. 26-27)

And since even that hasn't been a wake-up call for many (How did we get so depraved that we think the best sex is the kind that tears up a man's butt?), God lets us be tempted with even worse sinful acts (v. 28-32).

IMHO, us conservatives should try to win the political and cultural battles against homosexuality and such. But even more important is to win the battle in verses 21-22 about the existence of God. To do that, we have to take on the attitude of verse 16 and be unashamed of the Gospel. If we do that, the rest of the stuff is won automatically.

Hopefully, I didn't end any of these sentences with a preposition. 😁

3 posted on 11/19/2024 8:55:12 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)

To: Zionist Conspirator

I’ll invoke it as well and I’m like Huckabee...not Jewish. When it comes to the plans God has nothing we humans can do can thwart them. Just like when Trump almost died God had a plan for him as well and dying on that stage in Pennsylvania wasn’t part of it. It turns out he was destined to win the election on Nov. 5. Israel now has a strong ally in Trump. Abrahamic blessings and curses in action.

4 posted on 11/19/2024 9:00:45 AM PST by xp38

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