Monday, March 14, 2011

Jewish Revenge

In our zemiros we say: Mishoch chasdicha li'yodecha kel kano vi'noikaim - Draw chesed unto those who know You, zealous and vengeful G-d.

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Chesed - because you are a vengeful and zealous G-d?

An insight into Jewish revenge.

Revenge is to pay back the evildoers by filling the earth with goodness.

They hate.

We love.

They kill.

We bring new life.

They destroy.

We build.

My answer to Hitler yimach shmo - my children. Five daggers in his heart. He tried to obliterate. but he lost. He is gone and we are here going strong bez"H.

An Arab mercilessly slaughters a beautiful innocent family. A three month old baby. In cold blood. Unimaginable evil.

Are we going to "get them back" and do the same thing?

Yes and No.

We are going to get them back. But not by being beasts. By bringing more goodness and kedusha into the world. By not "spacing" our children [which is generally against halacha] but by building more large, holy Jewish families. By becoming more Jewish and less Goyish. A Jew is a person of morals and purity. If he is not it is because of negative external influences.

We will continue to live in Eretz Yisrael because being killed for who we are never stopped us in the past. We will stop putting our faith in the Army [EVEN THOUGH WE LOVE OUR ARMY AND APPRECIATE ALL THEY DO FOR US INCLUDING PUTTING THEIR LIFE ON THE LINE - AND OFTEN DYING - TO PROTECT US] and smooth talking politicians. We will remember that only the One Above can protect us if He chooses.

May we see no more tragedies and may Hashem give comfort to the Fogel's and to the countless other families who have been victimizied by the personification of evil on earth.