Kahane on the Parsha
Parshat BeShalach
"DON'T CRY TO ME, GO FORWARD!!!"
When the Gulf war broke out and Scud missiles started landing in Israel- the week of Parshat Beshalach- it became quite popular to quote the verse "The L-rd will fight for you and you shall remain silent" (Exodus 14:14). Many religious Jews found this verse symbolic of the Gulf War. After all, here were Israeli cities getting bombarded by Iraqi missiles and the official government policy was one of "self-restraint," or "havlaga." "Everything will be okay," people proclaimed, "G-d will fight for us." (That is, America and its president, George Bush, will take out those Scud launchers and all will be fine.)
However, a closer look at this verse reveals that those who interpreted it in the aforementioned manner took it entirely out of context and, by so doing, completely distorted the awesome lesson to be learned from the splitting of the Red Sea.
First, let us see what the Torah says. Immediately following the verse "The L-rd will fight for you and you shall remain silent," the Torah states, "And the L-rd said unto Moses. Why do you cry unto Me? Speak to the Children of Israel that they should go forward!" (ibid. 14:15). Already- without even consulting any of the classic commentators- we see that the Torah's message is not one of passivity. Moses does NOT say that G-d will fight for the people while they relax and take it easy. What he says is that the L-rd will fight for them IF they prove that they truly believe in His omnipotence. Therefore, instead of crying to G-d, the Jews should simply obey His command and "go forward" into the stormy sea.
The Ibn Ezra writes that "you shall remain silent" corresponds to "and the Children of Israel cried to G-d." The Be'er Yitzchak explains the Ibn Ezra's words: "'You shall remain silent' does NOT correspond to 'the L-rd will fight for you,' which would imply that the Jews shouldn't fight, but rather to 'and the Children of Israel cried to G-d.'" In other words, the exact opposite of the oft-repeated, distorted interpretation that "you shall remain silent" means self-restraint and inaction. The Ibn Ezra teaches us that "you shall remain silent" means "stop crying to G-d." What should the people do instead? Act!- with trust in G-d.
This, in essence, is what Rashi writes: "This teaches us that Moses was standing and praying. Hashem said, 'Now, when Israel is in distress, it is not the time to prolong in prayer'." The same message is found in the Talmud as well (Sotah 37a): "Moses was praying at length, so Hashem said, 'My beloved ones are drowning in the sea, and you're praying at length?' Moses said to G-d, 'L-rd of the Universe, what can I do?' He replied, 'Speak unto the Children of Israel that they should go forward. And you raise your rod and stretch out your hand...'"
The Rabbis tell us that the Children of Israel stood trembling by the shores of the Red Sea until G-d commanded them to "go forward." They remained paralyzed with fear and did not move. Only Nachshon did not hesitate to carry out G-d's command. He sprang forward into the raging waters. Nothing happened, but Nachshon was not concerned. He descended deeper into the water--up to his ankles, knees, stomach--and still nothing happened. Nachshon continued until the water reached his neck, and then cried to G-d, "Oh G-d, save me because the water has come unto my soul. I sink deep in mire where there is no standing..."--whereupon the miracle of the splitting of the Red Sea occurred (ibid.).
The lesson is CRYSTAL CLEAR. When one's faith is tested, G-d demands, together with prayer, maximal effort through actual deeds. Was Nachshon's faith put to the test when he recited Psalms on the seashore? No. Even jumping into the stormy waters was not sufficient since he could still back out. Only by fulfilling G-d's will to the point of no return did he prove his faith. Nachshon understood that saying "I believe" and then waiting for salvation is NOT AUTHENTIC FAITH. G-d demands that we prove our faith with action, not just words. Only by being willing to fulfill difficult, even seemingly "dangerous," mitzvot do we prove that our faith is genuine.
Israel's policy of self-restraint during the Gulf crisis was the antithesis of the true meaning of "you shall remain silent." He who saw the chosen people scurrying like roaches into their sealed-off closets while the modern day Goliath blasphemed G-d and His people for 40 days (with 40-1 missiles) and viewed it as a positive thing, self-righteously proclaiming that "G-d will help", does not even begin to grasp the Jewish meaning of faith.
Not only did we lost our dignity and deterrence factor during the Gulf War, but we also demonstrated lack of faith. It is this same lack of faith that has prevented us from expelling the Arabs and annexing the territories. And it is only lack of faith that has brought us to the pathetic and desperate situation we find ourselves in today, in 2016.
Rabbi Binyamin Kahane
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Thursday, January 17, 2019
Islam Cometh 1979
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BEYOND
WORDS – VOLUME 3
ISLAM
COMETH
Written: March 9,
1979
It
comes as a shock only to the little people, blinded by their materialism and
wallowing in their Western fleshpots.
Like some awesome spectre, the shadow of the black-shrouded imams and
kadis and ayatollahs of Islam sweep across the world scene in an awesome display
of magnetism and hypnotism that sweeps up tens of millions of people in its
hysterical grip. How is it possible for
an old man living thousands of miles away to exercise such a power over
millions? More to the point, how is it
conceivable that this mob was able to drive out a Shah and paralyze a country
without any serious challenge from one of the most powerful armies in the
world, equipped with billions of dollar worth of the most modern, sophisticated
weapons available?
And
now, from all over the Middle East and beyond, come the militant cries of a
militant Islam. In Pakistan, the
military government decrees Islamic law to be the law of the land. In the Sudan, students march and call out
cries of “Allah” is great!” All over
Africa and Asia, Islam is on the march and the pathetic Polish adviser to
Carter calls on his sophisticated Columbia University and State Department
“experts” to make yet another study – this time of an Islam that cometh.
It
is, again, a shock only to the ignorant, the blind, the ones who removed G-d
and religion from any relevance to modem life.
It is an ignorance shared by gentile and Jew alike, and too many
“religious” Jews are partners to it.
What is happening MUST BE and it is part of an era of the beginning of
the redemption, with all the needless and unnecessary tragedies that accompany
it, and that we bring upon ourselves.
The final chapter is being written not only in Jewish history but in that
of the world, and the “measure of sin is full” (Yalkut, Bamidbar, 743; Rashi,
Genesis 19:20).
A world that refused to recognize the L-rd or to “know” Him is facing the
proof of His existence and Omnipotence. A world that arrogantly thought that
G-d was dead, impotent, irrelevant, in His “proper” place, is on the verge of
being shaken and smelted in the Divine furnace.
For all the sins, there is now the time of payment.
“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre . . . because your heart has
grown proud and you have said, ‘I am a god! I sit in the seat of G-d, in
the heart of the seas’; yet you are man and not G-d, though you have set your
heart as the heart of G-d . . . Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon
you, the most terrible of the nations, and they will draw their swords against
the beauty of your wisdom, and they will defile your brightness. They will bring you down to the pit, and you
will die the deaths of them that are slain in the heart of the seas. Will you yet say before him that slays you,
‘I am G-d’? But you are a man, and not
G-d, in the hand of him that slays you.” (Ezekiel 28:2, 7-10)
The arrogance of a world that saw in itself the master of
its own fate, blessed with the ability to create and produce and determine its
own future. That declared: “G-d did not
create me, I conceived Him!” That joined
in the cry of an arrogant Pharaoh: “Who
is the L-rd? I know not the L-rd!” For
this world that found Him irrelevant and scorned His majesty and kinship, there
is now a time of payment.
For the unbridled materialism!
“And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your
merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy the houses of
your delight . . . . I will put an end to the multitude of your songs, and the
sound of your lyres shall be heard no more . . . Then all the princes of the
sea will descend from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their
richly
woven garments; they shall clothe themselves with trembling . . . and they shall take up a lamentation for you,
and say of you: ‘How are you destroyed . . . the renowned city . . . she and
her inhabitants, who had set their terror upon all those round about.’”
(Ezekiel 26:12,13,16,17)
The throwing off of the yoke of Heaven, the refusal to rise
above the animal and to attain the holiness that was the purpose of the
creation of man. The wallowing in desire
and pleasure and self-indulgence, to the exclusion of spirit. The turning of man into animal and the
negation of Creation’s destiny – all part of the arrogant refusal to “know” the
L-rd.
For all their evil, their murder, cruelty and oppression; for their
torture and persecution of the people of Israel! “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir . .
. . I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know
that I am the L-rd. because you have had
a perpetual hatred and have hurled the children of Israel to the power of the
sword in the time of their calamity; therefore as I live, says the L-rd G-d, I
will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you” (ibid,35:3-6).
“Because you have clapped your hands and stamped with your
feet and rejoiced with all the disdain of your soul against the Land of Israel
. . . I will destroy you, and you shall
know that I am the L-rd.” (ibid.,25:6,7)
The culmination of the uprising against the L-rd and His people Israel is,
too, the culmination of G-d’s fury and vengeance as He makes His name known so
that He shall stand alone on that final day.
The hatred of the L-rd and of Israel MUST find the nations raging and
coming together in an alliance, no matter what their differences are. From one
end shall come forth those nations that scorn and deny any G-d.
From the other end shall come the hordes of those who proclaim the power
of a G-d that is not the L-rd of Israel.
Both shall join together, an Ishmael and Islam linking hands with a
Jew-hating Christianity of the West, an both marching against the ALL Mighty
with a Red atheism that is Communism.
Whatever their differences are, they are joined by hatred of the ALL
Mighty and His people.
“For behold, Your enemies make a tumult and they who hate You have lifted
up their head. They plot deviously
against Your nation . . . . They have said: ‘Come, and let us cut them off from
being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no longer remembered.’ For they have consulted together with one
consent: they are united against You: THE TENTS OF EDOM AND THE ISHMAELITIES .
. . “
The day of desecration of the L-rd is coming to an end and His humiliation
will be no more. Precisely the obsessive hatred of the nations that unifies
them will be their downfall. For the ALL
Mighty opens the way for them, seduces them to put into practice that hatred which
is in their hearts:
“And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say . .
. behold I am against you, Gog, the
prince, leader of Meslech and Tuval; and I will lead you astray, and seduce you
. . . and will bring you against the
mountains of Israel . . . . YOU WILL FALL UPON THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL, you and
all your cohorts and the peoples that are with you . . . . And I will dispatch a fire against Magog and
against those who dwell confidently in
the islands, and they shall know that I am the L-rd. So will I make My holy name known that I am
the L-rd. So will I make Mu holy name
known in the midst of My people Israel.” (Ezekiel 39: 1-7)
The measure of sin is full and the fire and Holocaust approaches for the
earth. The rise of Islam and of militant
Christianity and arrogant Marxism is the way of the ALL Mighty in this final
chapter, as he gives them the height of power so that they may fall to the
depths of destruction. Their cup of
poison overflows so that they may drink all the more deeply of it. Khomeini and the Nazis and Moscow ill swell
with pride and power so that the sounds of their bursting into destruction will
be heard by an entire world that cowers in fear as it finally “
knows” that “I am the L-rd, the Holy One in Israel” (ibid., 39:7).
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Kahane, may G-d avenge their blood.
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Thursday, January 10, 2019
MOSES: FANATIC AND EXTREMIST - 1988
Kahane
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Rabbi Meir Kahane- Parshat Bo
MOSES: FANATIC AND EXTREMIST
Nine plagues have descended upon
Egypt. Pharaoh, reeling under pressure from his noblemen and servants,
capitulates. He tells Moses: "Go, worship the L-rd; only let your flocks
and your herds stay behind" (Exodus 10:24).
Consider, dear Jew. After 210
years of slavery, the Hebrews have been told that they can leave! FREEDOM, AT
LAST! Pharaoh has capitulated! All he gives is one small condition, so unimportant
in view of the fact that he has agreed to Jewish freedom. Go, he has told the
Hebrews; all I ask is that you leave your flocks and your herds.
The Hebrew, bursting with joy and
anticipation, wait for the "official" acceptance by Moses, the sage and
stable leader, his agreement that will open the door to freedom. And Moses? He
replies: "You must also give into our hands sacrifices and burnt offerings
that we may offer them to the L-rd, our G-d. And our livestock, as well, will
go with us; there shall not be a hoof left behind" (Exodus 10:25-26).
Picture the Hebrews! Picture the
Jewish leaders of TODAY, had they been there! "Moses! Have you LOST YOUR
MIND??? We have been slaves for 210 years and now we can go free! Give him the
animals! Agree to his unimportant condition. Make the insignificant compromise
so that we can enjoy freedom and peace. Moses, what is this extremism and
fanaticism? Freedom now, peace now! Give him the flocks!"
But, no. Moses, the greatest of
Jewish leaders, refuses. There will be no compromise. There cannot be a
compromise, for we are not speaking here about mere "freedom." The
Jewish people is not a nation like all others with nationalistic strivings for
independence and freedom. The liberation of the Jew was not a nationalist
struggle for secular freedom. The entire breaking of the Egyptian yoke of
bondage was a RELIGIOUS struggle, the war of the L-rd, G-d of Israel, against
Pharaoh who mocked Him and refused to recognize Him as the one and only G-d.
From the first moment that Moses
came into the palace and told the Egyptian emperor, ruler over the mightiest of
all the empires of his time, "Thus says the L-rd, G-d of Israel: Let My
people go..." and Pharaoh replied, "Who is the L-rd that I should
obey His voice...? I know not the L-rd, and I will not let Israel go!"
(Exodus 5:2), the battle was joined. The battle against Chillul Hashem; the
battle against the arrogance of the nations who dare to proclaim, "I know
not the L-rd"; the battle for Kiddush Hashem, the recognition and acceptance
of the L-rd, G-d of Israel, as the one G-d, as the G-d of the universe.
Kiddush Hashem! That is what the
story of the Exodus is about! And Kiddush Hashem brooks NO COMPROMISE, NOT THE
SLIGHTEST!!! There MUST BE TOTAL SURRENDER, TOTAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE L-RD AND
HIS PEOPLE'S SOVEREIGNTY AND POWER.
There is more.
The tenth and final plague now
strikes Egypt. In every home, the firstborn dies; there is not a house in which
there is no dead. It is midnight but Pharaoh rushes through the streets and cries
out to Moses: "Rise up and leave from the midst of my people, both you and
the Children of Israel, and go serve the L-rd as you have said. Also take your
flocks and your herds, as you have said, AND BE GONE!" (Exodus 12:31-32).
AT LAST, TOTAL CAPITULATION! Unconditional surrender! But leave NOW,
immediately, in the middle of the night!
Dear Jew, surely the moment has
come. What could even the worst fanatic and extremist want after this
surrender?
Listen:
Moses says to Pharaoh: "Are
we then thieves that we should leave in the night? We will not leave except
with a mighty arm before the eyes of all of Egypt!" (Tanchuma, Bo 7).
Ah, the fanatic and
extremist...He lays down yet another rule of Kiddush Hashem. Sanctification and
the proclamation of G-d's omnipotence and sovereignty CANNOT BE A HIDDEN,
SILENT, DISCREET THING. It MUST be done OPENLY, with a proclamation before the
nations, with trumpets and drums. NO FEAR, NO ATTEMPT TO KEEP A LOW PROFILE, NO
EFFORT TO "AVOID ANTAGONIZING THE NATIONS." Openly, loudly, with a
public majesty that proclaims the majesty and kingship of the L-rd, G-d of
Israel, who is one!
If Moses were alive today and
were he to lay down these iron rules of Kiddush Hashem, what would the
gentilized Hebrews of Israel and the Hellenists of the Establishment in the
Exile say?
The lesson is clear: Their
gentilized thoughts are not those of the G-d of Israel. What to them is a
"fanatic" and "extremist," in Torah eyes and to authentic
Judaism is principle and the iron rule of Judaism. Those who believe in nothing
but themselves will always be "flexible"- except when their own
interests are threatened. Those who believe in nothing will always be ready to
"compromise," since they stand on no principle that is stable and untouchable.
Parshat Bo teaches us about the greatest of all Jewish concepts, Kiddush
Hashem, and the greatest of Jewish leaders, Moses- the fanatic and extremist.
The Jewish Press, 1988
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Thursday, January 3, 2019
The Fire Of Jealousy - 1983
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THE FIRE OF JEALOUSY
“O that my people would hearken unto me and Israel would
walk in my ways!
I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hands
against their adversaries.”
(Psalms 81:14-15)
The great day of the L-rd is near… a day of wrath, a day
of trouble and distress… a day of the horn and alarm… and I will bring distress
upon men… because they have sinned against the L-rd… neither their silver nor
gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the L-rd’s wrath, but the
whole earth shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy…” (Zephaniah 1)
One walks among the revelers and cries out in dismay: But
can you not see the cloud? One watches
as the people swims in gluttony and splashes about in the cool waters of
self-indulgence and laughter and self-assurance and confident plans for
tomorrow. And the seer shouts to them:
“But do you not see the fire of His jealousy?”
And they see it not and hear him not and go about their lives of merry
heedlessness. Who wishes to hear the
sound of terror in the midst of the summer of content? Why this discordant note to disturb our
melodious symphony of mental sloth? And
so the joyous revelers skip mindlessly through life, the joyous city that dwelt
without care, that said in her heart: “I am there is none else beside me…”
But the signs are all about us, the signs that a jealous and
angry G-d – whose mercy still overtakes His wrath – sends us, beseeching us to
notice and to act. The signs are all
about us, who can ignore them? The signs
are upon us, how much time is there?
The Israeli planes that went out into the night to demolish
the atomic reactor outside of Baghdad, brought joy and pride into the hearts of
Jews throughout the world. Joy and
pride, but not careful and deep thought.
The destruction of the Iraqi atomic facility prevented the creation of a
nuclear weapon. But for how long?
How much more time will it take for the Iraqis to rebuild the
facility? And what of Pakistan that
stands today on the very verge of exploding its Moslem bomb? How does Israel bomb Islamabad?
The truth is that the bomb that Iraq and Pakistan and
Libya and, only G-d knows how many others, are building is a thing that no one
will prevent. And it is part of a
worldwide fact of horror. Within a few
years, tens of countries, including those cursed with mad and unstable regimes,
will have flood of fire that will consume themselves and a world that said: “I
am, and there is none else besides me.”
The fire is theirs; but it is the fire of His jealousy.
As some Adam, drunk with the wine of the Tree of Knowledge,
man revels is his own intellect and progress.
He throws off the chain of the Maker and convinces himself that He,
the created, conceived Him, the Creator
“Because thy heart is lifted up and thou hast said: I am a god… yet thou
art man and not G-d.” (Ezekiel 28). For
his arrogance and for his pride, the L-rd who brought upon a generation of Noah
a flood of water that consumed an earth, will this time decimate the arrogant
with the flood of fire. A flood that is
measure for measure, irony of ironies: the fire of man’s own making, the fruit
of his own prideful intellect, the fire of the brilliance and ingenuity of the
King of the Dust.
The gentile is doomed because of his prideful arrogance and
judgment is upon him for his persecution of the Jews. “Because thou has a hatred of old and hast
hurled the Children of Israel unto the power of the sword in the time of their
calamity… I will prepare thee unto blood and blood shall pursue thee… I will make thee perpetual desolations… And
you shall know that I am the L-rd.” (Ezekiel 35).
The end is upon a world that knew not the L-rd, and His
jealousy for His name that was mocked, humiliated and defiled is come. For a world that humiliated the people of G-d
and thus showed their contempt for the G-d of Israel. “For the day of vengeance
that was in My heart and My year of redemption will come… And I trod down the
peoples in Mine anger… And I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.” (Isaiah
63).
The cloud of atoms and their nuclear crash and the hydrogen explosion
will shatter a world that attempted to cast G-d out of the Garden of Eden of
fools. There is nothing that will
prevent that and it only remains for the Jew to understand that his fate, too,
lies in the balance. The Jew can be part
of a world that turns into ashes or he can find redemption. He can choose to remain with the revelers,
with the self-deceivers, with those who suck in slothful contentment, or he can
shake off the chains of self-indulgence and stop the race for mindless
pleasure. He can cut the chains that tie
him to the gentile and the gentilization and flee to the chambers: “Come my
people, enter thou into thy chambers.. until the rage passeth; for, behold, the
L-rd cometh forth out of His place to visit upon the inhabitants of the earth
their iniquity,” (Isaiah 26)
Those that daily defile the name of the L-rd and choose the
Exile as their home, in contemptuous contentment and rebellious revelry – will
share the fate of their fellow gentiles.
Those who scorn the desirable Land of Holiness will fall in flames and
ashes with the gentiles they preferred to worship. The Jew who refuses to
climb Mount Zion and set there his home will be twice cursed: He will fall
victim to the plague of hideous Jew-hatred that will send him reeling in Holocaust
II; and he will share the fate of the gentile-who ironically will fall because
of his treatment of the Jew. For the
Jew, the punishment for refusing to flee the impurity and desecration of the
Exile will be double fire: That of the gentile and that of the jealousy of the
L-rd.
The bitter-joke is the Jew who wraps himself about in his
mantle of religion, even as he treads daily in the dung of the Exile. The one who, despite his study and because of
a corruption of G-d’s Law and Commandments, speaks precisely as the
irreligious, the atheist. All share the
same blindness: All look at the Jewish State and see there the danger. None understand the salvation and safety the only
in the Land of Israel. The
irreligious without the rituals and skullcap may be excused – they know nothing
and understand exactly that. But the
irreligious with the kattans and heavily embroidered prayer shawls; the
practitioners of ritual – what can we say about these?
“For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those
that escape…” (Joel 3) How is it possible that the students of the law shall be
so ignorant? Ah, possible it is; and
there were such times, in the past. The
priests said not: “Where is the L-rd? And they that handle the Law knew me
not.” (Jeremiah 2)). And the great
Biblical commentator, Rashi, explains: “They that handles the Law: The
Sanhedrin…”
The two millennia of the
Exile have twisted and corrupted us. It
is not possible to remain a normal people without a normal existence of 2,000
years. Being without a state and
government and army, makes one a people that cannot understand such
things. Having no land for twenty
centuries makes one forget how sweet and dear it is. The religious atheist becomes one who
believes in the general power of the Almighty
to do anything but flees to the gentile’s right arm in every particular case.
The wearer of the Kaftan
and layer of tefillin becomes a practical man; he seeks logical answers. He will find them with his gentile fellow
citizen. He who lacks faith and trust in
the logic of the G-d of Israel, will fall beneath the double fury of the
jealousy of the L-rd. But on Mount Zion
and in Jerusalem, in the Land of Israel, there will be redemption. No, not for all – “And it shall come to pass
that whoever calls on the name of the L-rd shall be delivered.” (Joel, ibid)
But for those who contemptuously scorn the Land because of fear of G-d’s
impotence – there will be no redemption.
Together they will fall, the ritualists and the non, for both share the
ultimate sin, an ultimate belief in the logic of man rather than faith in the
Almighty. For the Jew, there IS a choice: Zion and salvation or the fire of His
jealousy.
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their blood.
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