Shavuot: Receiving The Whole Torah

We are about to celebrate the festival of Shavuot, which marks an unprecedented event in world history. The entire Jewish nation witnessed the mass revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai, a claim that no other religion would dare to make. This revelation was passed down for thousands of years with the conviction that only a truly historical event could generate.  With the Torah comes awesome responsibility to follow it in entirety.

All of it. 

The laws of erev, Shabbat, brit milah, mikvah, lulav and etrog, along with the the provocative mitzvot that make many Jews uncomfortable. Such as the commandment to burn down an Ir Hanidachat (idolatrous town), and the obligation to carry out the brutal laws of Jewish warfare (during an obligatory war) which leave no citizens alive. The obligation to tear down houses of idol-worship and false faiths upon entering the Holy Land. The mitzvah to annihilate Amalek in total. 


The Torah doesn't come in slices. You need to take the whole pie. On the day that the Jewish nation accepts the entire Torah without distorting or corrupting it, we will ensure the coming of the true Messiah in our times. Following the manifestation of The Almighty's ultimate vengeance against the evil nations of the world, the Jewish nation (and truly righteous gentiles) will know true Torah peace.  The erev rav will be gone.


Chag Sameach.

Shavuot: Recieving The Whole Torah

We are about to celebrate the festival of Shavuot, which marks an unprecedented event in world history. The entire Jewish nation witnessed the mass revelation of the divine Torah on Mount Sinai, a claim that no other religion would dare to make. This revelation was passed down for thousands of years with the conviction that only a truly historical event could generate.  With the Torah comes the awesome responsibility to follow it in entirety.


All of it. 


The laws of erev, Shabbat, brit milah, mikvah, lulav and etrog, along with the the provocative mitzvot that make certain Jews uncomfortable. Such as the commandment to burn down an Ir Hanidachat (idolatrous town), and the obligation to carry out the brutal laws of Jewish warfare (during an obligatory war) which leave no citizens alive. Torah doesn't come in slices. You need the take the whole pie. On the day that the Jewish nation accepts the entire Torah without distorting or corrupting it, we will ensure the coming of the true Messiah in our times. 


Chag Sameach.

Mubarak Steps Down

With the sudden news that Mubarak (may his name and memory be blotted out!) is stepping down, I can only reiterate what I stated a week ago. Let them kill each other. I hope that reports of an impending revolution are correct. The Egyptian "citizens" hate Israel. Listen to the interviews with these savages. They are honest about their desire to butcher Jews. They adore the Muslim Brotherhood. So naturally, I look forward to seeing images and reading accounts of the military gunning them down in the streets. And then of course, I hope to receive additional nachas when the people respond with guerrilla warfare against the Egyptian military, which slaughtered so many Jews during its previous efforts to annihilate Israel.

Stupid Jews. This is what you get for ceding land to the enemy. Sadat and Mubarak were frauds. Agreeing in principle to the goals of the Brotherhood, they were more committed to political pragmatism and survival. Sadat brokered a false peace to accomplish what he couldn't on the battlefield. He weakened Israel and got back the Sinai. Billions of dollars in American aid, and modern American weapons. Mubarak continued the back-door war with Israel behind the veneer of "peace", which he also never subscribed to. In the early 1980's, he candidly admitted to King Hassan of Morocco that, "for us the peace treaty is dead." At least the Brotherhood is honest. When they come to power (and they eventually will), Israel will have no choice but to face the enemy.

Obama is pleased. This was part of his plan to punish Israel for not committing suicide as fast as he would have liked. A way to show Israel that he can change the dynamics of the Arab/Islamic world with a snap of his hand. Of course, one can't discount the fact that he is driven by other factors. An adoration of Islam along with an undying commitment to both appease and empower the tyrants who represent the faith. A hatred of America. (Plus he's an idiot.) Intelligent Jews should open their eyes and acknowledge the painful lesson. All Israeli peace treaties are brokered by anti-Semites in U.S. government who wish to weaken Israel and keep her on a leash. The tragedy is that Israel's moronic leaders continue to follow along like obedient dumb dogs.

And what about the big, bad, Mubarak? It looks like his willingness to die in Egypt was a lie. I guess at his advanced age, the prospect of having his diseased body torn apart by  a mob and burned on national television didn't seem so glorious after all. After all, he he has no personal belief in any fiction about 70 virgins awaiting his arrival. Among other things, Mubarak is a coward without his iron glove and truncheon.

I want to see Egypt drown itself in blood until the Nile runs red. Secular. Religious. It makes no difference. They both have a shared affinity for "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", and a desire to hang Jews from lampposts. Burn, baby, burn! With G-d's help, we will soon have the Sinai back.

L'Chaim.


Addendum- Friday, February 11, 2011: Now Mubarak is maintaining that he's not stepping down. More instability and uncertainty will hopefully lead to chaos and mass riots. Hopefully, soldiers in the military are affixing bayonets to their rifles. It will be an interesting dynamic if and when the "people's army" turns it's weapons on the people. All of this can be really good for Israel, if the brain-dead leaders only knew how to play the game now. Let the Egyptian savages eat each other alive. 

Moderate Egyptians? (video)

I am so sick and tired of hearing liberal Jews moan about the threatened "peace treaty." The ugly ghouls in this video represent the position of the average Egyptian citizen who wants to see Jews annihilated. I welcome civil unrest in Egypt. Let them kill each other. Burn and dismember each other. Set fire to the capital. Tear Mubarak limb from limb. Gunned down by the thousands in return. All of it is good for Israel, and its also enjoyable to watch. These Egyptian dogs need to be bombed back to the Stone Age. And one final warning to the Muslim Brotherhood. One day soon, (G-d willing) we will annihilate you and take back the Sinai

Death to Egypt! Death to the Egyptians!
Shabbat Shalom!.

Bibi the Traitor (audio)

The clever Sadat in the process of fooling an old Menachem Begin.

A close-up of Sadat's curious tie.
This from a man who wrote a
fawning "letter to Hitler" in 1953.

Prior to his insane trip to the U.S. to meet with Obama and the head butcher of the PLO (may their names and memories be erased!), Benjamin Netanyahu referred to the late Anwar Sadat (a vicious anti-Semite whose hands were drenched in Jewish blood) as a man of peace. The fact that he could make such an obscene statement exposes his sheet ignorance of Sadat and the real intentions of the Camp David tragedy. Furthermore, it explains why Netanyahu has become such a willing pawn of the left.

In the following audio post, I reference Dr. Paul Eidelberg's classic work, "Sadat's Strategy", in which he dissects Sadat's clever ruse to destroy Israel with a false peace. For a synopsis of the work, read Dr. Eidleberg's comment at danielpipes.org.


MP3 File

Israel Or Chelm?- You Decide (audio post)

Reflections on some recent examples of lunacy in the Holy Land, where the "mixed multitude" is doing everything in its power to get us all killed. Rabbi Meir Kahane (may G-d avenge his blood!) often noted that Jews should stop telling Polish jokes and start telling Jewish ones. After all, we Jews are the real fools.

Female Rabbis? "Open-Modern Orthodoxy" Officially Closes The Door On Torah

Orthodox woman to get title of ‘rabbah’ | JTA - Jewish & Israel News (click link)

A tragic day for the Jewish people. I predicted this many years ago about Avi Weiss, The Hebrew Institute, and more recently "Yeshivat Chovevei Torah." (What a sick joke. If this is a yeshiva, then JTS is one as well.) Common sense and logic indicated that this was where this "open-modern-orthodoxy" (or whatever the hell they call it) was heading. After many years of absorbing and perpetuating the Hellenistic notions of feminism, pluralism, and progressive values, Avi Weiss has finally stepped off the cliff. By officially recognizing Sara Hurwitz as a "Rabbah", he and his followers, as well as all the institutions affiliated with him, have officially severed themselves from the camp of those who believe in the revelation at Mount Sinai. What can I say? Ordaining women as "rabbis" has always been a basic indicator in the Torah world. It indicates a clear break-off from Halachah.

"This will make it clear to everyone that Sara Hurwitz is a full member of our rabbinic staff, a rabbi with the additional quality of a distinct woman’s voice," said the statement issued by Weiss' office.

I was wrong about one thing. I never thought that he would have the courage to take the final leap himself. At least not until he was very old and out of the public eye. I guess by giving him the benefit of the doubt, I misjudged his "courage" to follow the distorted logic of his arguments and carry it through to it's conclusion.

There are those who will find my words troubling based upon feelings they have for Avi Weiss. They will cite his many actions on behalf of Jews over the years, and question our right to attack the man. As if the one justifies the other. Let me just say that as opposed as I am to many of Avi Weiss's beliefs and actions, I respect his past activism on behalf of Jews (not Arabs!), despite the fact that his efforts were guided (or misguided) by such un-Jewish principles as pacifism and pluralism. Unfortunately, all too often he was a vehicle for perpetuating these foreign ideas on the world stage and presenting them as Jewish. Furthermore, each time gentiles harassed him during the course of his activism, and he responded like the accursed decrepit idolater Gandhi, G-d's name was disgraced by the image of weakling Jewish pacifists being knocked around by anti-semites. Nevertheless, I will not deny his intrinsic Ahavat Yisroel (love of fellow Jews), even if it was and is terribly distorted and misunderstood. I can't dismiss the fact that too many Jews, (religious and otherwise) ignored and continue to ignore their brothers and sisters. Obviously, this is a far cry from Rav Kahane's authentic Torah -based love of Jews and his mind-boggling mesirat nefesh (self-sacrifice), but nevertheless, it is one which we are forbidden to deny.

Of course this is completely irrelevant to the issue I am addressing. The other side of Avi Weiss can also not be ignored. The side of the public distorter of yahadut, who engages in the most repugnant forms of interfaith-dialogue, and dare I say it, worship. The corrupter of basic Jewish ideas who strays from the Halachic path and goes the way of the feminist who thinks the Torah is some outdated chauvinistic manual. The side of a man who has essentially created another Jewish sect, that just snapped off the healthy Jewish body and went it's own way into the abyss. In this sense, Avi Weiss has gone the way of "rabbis" Yitz Greenberg and David Hartman who made careers out of distorting Rav Soloveitchik's words. Way off the deep end.

I will never apologize for my zealous indignation when The Almighty's name is disgraced. As a general rule, I hate to bash Rabbis who have undergone Rabbinical ordination from "orthodox institutions". Even if I vehemently disagree with them, if the contrary position is grounded in Halachah and the Rav is committed to Yahadut, I will stick to the issue and not condemn the man. But there is a point when one goes to far. At this stage, the gloves come off. Some real life examples of the kinds of actions I am talking about. When an "orthodox Rabbi" 1) enters a church, 2) calls Jesus (may his name and memory be erased!) a "Rabbi", or ordains a woman as a "Rabbah."

Today's prominent poskim (Halachic decisors) must not let this unprecedented desecration of The Almighty's name go unanswered. Now is the time for a loud and unanimous declaration that this and similar actions are against the Torah. The first institutions to condemn this should be the Orthodox Union and the RCA. The Hebrew Institute should be bounced out of the OU. I'm waiting with bated breath.

Thanks to "The World's Biggest Houston Rockets Fan" (I don't know if he wants me using his real name) for forwarding me this article. It's not a happy article. But evading the issue (as well as other "uncomfortable issues" (as Rav Kahane referred to them), is the essence of Jewish cowardice and intellectual dishonesty. It's a sad day for those who care about Am Yisroel.

On Feiglinites: Part II

Say what you will, those Feiglinites sure are a sensitive bunch. My last post, "On Feiglinites", agitated some of the die-hards. Several posted their comments (always appreciated, even when we disagree), many more sent emails. Apparently, they weren't so happy with what I wrote about them. What was meant as satire (stereotyping them as asthmatic pencil-necked "nebs" and blind followers) bothered them. I'd like to apologize for the generalization, which I only meant in jest. Some of my best friends are asthmatic pencil-necked nebbish Feiglinites. (Sorry. I couldn't help myself.)

Allow me to be serious. In truth, I assume that most of Feiglin's supporters are intelligent people. Stop being so sensitive. My problem with Feiglin isn't personal. He's committed, he's G-d fearing, and he makes a lot of sense. True, being a "respectable" person, his platform neglects to mention the the halachic obligation to throw the Arabs out of the country. But his general platform is sound. My problem is that I disagree with his tactic of trying to rehabilitate the Likud Party. I don't see it working for him. I also think that it's dangerous.

I added a gadget at the bottom of my blog that posts reader's comments. Read some of them. It's like I've been saying. The same platitudes about Feiglin being the savior. The same talking points. I'm accused of "kvetching", "being irrelevant", and "sitting on the sidelines". For once, I'd like to hear a "Feiglinite" respond with a cogent defense of Manhigut Yehudit that addresses the following Likud transgressions:

• Sinai Give-Away: The Likud is a golden calf that isn't fit to be worshipped. Feiglin's premise is that the Likud can be saved. I contest this basic premise by stating that his image of the historical Likud is a myth. At the first opportunity they had to show the integrity of their ideology, the Likud party (under Menachem Begin, of all people) gave away the Sinai to the Egyptian animals.

• Likud & Intifada I: The Likud (along with Labor) failed to crush the first intifada.

• Likud Corruption: The Likud joined hands with Labor in 1988 to ban the Kach party. As Rabbi Kahane predicted, the rejection of Kach was a prelude to embracing Yasser Arafat, y'mach s'hmo v'zichro. Recently, the Likud allowed Bibi to strip Feiglin of a Knesset seat that he earned honestly. To my knowledge, there was no serious grassroots efforts from the "true Likudniks" within the party to fight this injustice. Social Rule #1: When they don't want you at the party, don't go to the party. The hell with them. Have your own party.

• Likud Treason: Likud was complicit in the Madrid Conference which led to Oslo. The Likud kept Oslo going when the treasonous "death treaty" was first signed. Bibi I promised to end it. Then he handed over Hebron to Arafat and his PLO vipers.

• Those who supported Feiglin, empowered the same Likud that expelled 1000 Jews from their homes in Gaza and handed it over to Hamas. What did we get? Kassam rockets. It won't be long before the entire middle and southern part of the country will be as vulnerable as S'derot. (While the North gets bombarded from Hezbollah/Lebanon.)

• Today the Likud continues this insanity under Bibi II, who as it turns out is even worse the second time around. While Bibi speaks of the creation of a Palestinian state and initiates an unprecedented freeze on building and development in the liberated areas, he still retains the support of his loyalists. I know they don't want to hear it, but Manhigut Yehudit has empowered Bibi to carry out his insane policies. All in the name of saving the Likud. The fact of the matter is that the core of the Likud is standing with Bibi as he drags the country to the edge of the cliff.

One reader, Shtuey, posted an excellent comment. One particular point sums up the problem in a nutshell. Shtuey noted the following:

"Bibi is preparing to give up the Golan, and divide Jerusalem. What is Feiglin going to do about this? He's talking about getting more people to join Likud. Is he not paying attention? No one is going to call for new elections. The Likud Central Committee is not going to change this freeze policy, nor is it going to elect a new leader of the party now. By the time there are new elections, the destruction of Israel will be fait accompli."

Here's one guy who gets it.

I present a challenge to any Manhigut Yehudit supporter who would like to explain to me why I am wrong. An intelligent discussion without the talking points and platitudes. I want to hear a logical defense of the movement, not bombastic assertions that Feiglin is going to be the next Prime Minister of Israel. Not references about his detractors (including myself) being "irrelevant."

Pretend that we're at a conference and you're trying to recruit new members. I presented my reservations to you about joining a party that I consider to be as dangerous as Meretz. The ball is now in your court. I'm waiting for a response.

On Feiglinites

I don't know about you, but whenever a supporter of Feiglin, a "Feiglinite" if you will, posts a comment on one of the many news websites, I get a distinct vision in my head that may or may not be accurate. A skinny, nebbish guy, with glasses sliding down his nose, pecking away at his computer in defense of Feiglin. He probably has a Manhigut Yehudit poster hanging on his wall alongside his Lord Of the Rings poster. An asthma inhalor on his bedside. Feiglin's book on his desktop. Manhigut Yehudit pins and pens and stickers. All of the talking points on the edge of his tongue. Probably has an affinity for Barry Chamish, and some elaborate theory about how "the illumanati" and "the Council of Foreign Relations" killed Rabin. Maybe it's not a fair image. Then again, I've met a few of them.

True believers banging on the drum for Feiglin. Usually their comments are limited to one or two lines. All caps, lots of exclamation points!

WHEN WILL PEOPLE WAKE UP AND REALIZE FEIGLIN IS THE ONLY ANSWER! MANHIGUT YEHUDIT NOW!

Or how about this one:

ALL OF THEM ARE LIARS! FEIGLIN IS THE ONLY WAY! HE WARNED US!

FEIGLIN IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE THE COUNTRY! HE FOUGHT OSLO, KATZ AND THE OTHERS ARE LIARS!

Is this what we have to look forward to?

LONG LIVE MOSHE FEIGLIN, KING MOSHIACH....

Ok, that last one is a little unfair. But you get the point. It's a cult. A dangerous cult, because it continuously strengthens the Likud Party which is the most dangerous party in the country. Who ordered the freeze? Who gave away the Sinai and Gaza? What about Hebron? The Likud doesn't deserve anyone's support. Netanyahu benefits and grows stronger from The Moshe Feiglin and Friends Show, whose sole mission is to rehabilitate a party that isn't going to change in their lifetime.

Feiglin's fantasy will never happen. The vast majority of Likudniks think he's an extremist. Hard to imagine, but it's true. Despite his parve personality and "respectable" efforts the stalwarts of Likud brand him a fanatic. He's wasting his time. The back door is padlocked.

Perhaps one day, Moshe Feiglin will wake up. Like when he learned that passive civil disobedience doesn't work in Israel, where the sadistic police, border guards, and even the army, will break your skull open if you try to act like Ghandi. You can't fix something that was always broken.

Shabbat Shalom.