The Writings of Rav Binyamin
Ze'ev Kahane HY”D-
Parashat Dvarim
This Is Judaism, And Stop
Apologizing!
By western standards, the book of “Dvarim” would have to be
defined as an ultra-nationalistic doctrine. Its concepts are the very opposite
of liberal western concepts. Its laws are illegal by western standards. The
book is based on conquest. Stressed over and over again is the uncompromising
commandment to conquer the land of “Canaan” from the gentile nations who have
lived there for thousands of years, and to change the name to “Eretz Yisrael”.
If this isn't enough, we are even commanded to disinherit (to expel),
and if necessary to annihilate the inhabitants of the land. This is an
inseparable component of the positive commandment of “settling the land”.
The Book of “Dvarim” also centers around the choseness of the
Jewish Nation. The concept appears most prominently in Parashat Vaetchanan (7:
6-8), in Parashat Eikev (10:15), Parashat Re'eh (14:1-2) and almost all other
parshiot of the book. This “ultra-nationalism” continues right on through to
the book of Joshua and beyond.
Judaism is not a Supermarket!
We want to now delve into the “morality” of all this. We do not
do so in order to make the Torah more palatable for all the non-believers and
Hellenists around who simply reject the book of “Dvarim” as they do the rest of
the Torah, considering it primitive and racist. Rather we direct our words to
G-d fearing Jews who understand that the Jewish Nation is dependent on the
Torah, want to fulfill it, and ask all the same: These are the enlightened
traditional Jewish ethics and values that everyone speaks about? This is the
Jewish morality we so often hear about: Conquering, expelling, chosen people?
The answer is yes. What can one do when the “traditional Jewish
values” that so many Jews speak of simply do not exist! Do not exist? There is
no such thing as traditional Jewish ethics and values? Of course there is! But
they are something entirely different. At the core of Jewish ethics and
morality setting in apart from the ethics of mortal man is the concept of the
acceptance of the yoke of heaven. That is, we DO NOT pick and choose the
“merchandise”. First and foremost, we accept upon ourselves the values of
Hashem WITHOUT ASKING QUESTIONS. Only then do we “check the goods”. While it is
true that in the world of business one does not buy until he examines the product,
the mitzvot and concepts of Hashem are not a business negotiation. They must be
accepted unconditionally. Thus it is written, “It is better than all other
goods” - for it is a product that one does not “check” before “buying”.
Book of National Policy
The Book of “Dvarim” is the national policy guideline for the
Jewish Nation. It is the morality that G-d conveys to us on subjects connected
to Israeli nationalism. If someone wants to call it “ultra-nationalism”, so be
it, for it is true Jewish ethics. It is not a system of values that is subject
to change according to the whims of one generation or another as another
passing fad, but rather it is an eternal morality that we, our fathers and our
forefathers clinged to for thousands of years. This value system withstood all
the passing tides of the past thousands of years, while modern western culture
which evolved during the last one hundred (100) years will melt away as did its
“enlightened” predecessors: Greek, Rome, Assyria, Babylon, east and west, of one
generation or another...
No Guilt!
Precisely today when the
sabotaging of all Jewish concepts are intensifying; at a time when the
so-called “national” camp is non-existent, it is an obligation to read the
parshiot in the Book of “Dvarim”, and in particular “Ekev”, to strengthen our
“emunah” in these authentic Jewish concepts. We must do so in order that we,
the spiritual right side of the spectrum, can speak our piece clearly,
unequivocally, and without guilt: The Almighty is stronger than all the nations,
and if we believe in Him and fulfill His difficult “immoral” mitzvot, so to
speak, we shall overcome our enemies (both political and cultural), and
re-establish the Torah Republic that we have dreamed of for 2,000 years!
Please continue your prayers for
Rivka bat Talya the 20-year old daughter of Binyamin and Talya Kahane, may G-d avenge
their blood.
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