Kahane on the Parsha
Rav Binyamin Ze’ev Kahane
Parsahat Devarim
This Is Judaism, And Stop
Apologizing!
By western standards, the book of
“Devarim” 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 “Devarim” also
centers around the choosiness of the Jewish Nation. The concept appears most
prominently in Parsahat Vaetchanan (7: 6-8), in Parshat Eikev (10:15), Parshat
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 “Devarim” 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 “Devarim” 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 “Devarim”, 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!
Shabbat Shalom-Chodesh tov
Barbara
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