I recently saw a video of a member of the House Of Representatives who gave an impassioned speech against anti-semitism. Very impressive!!
I googled him to see who this guy is. I never heard of him [and he probably never heard of me either so we're even!!]. It turns out that he is a Jew ben Jew ben bno shel Jew all the way back 3,300 years! But the chain has been broken as he has a wife of the Mormon faith.
He doesn't know any better. He is proud to be a Jew and probably sees no contradiction between his Jewishness and marrying a woman he loves. But the reality he fails to understand is that the anti-semites in the US are doing more to perpetuate Judaism than he is. And he is actively destroying Judaism far more than they are. When an anti-semite says something hateful, millions tweet, blog, podcast, comment, listen etc. etc. to how horrible that is and the Jewish spark is kindled in people's souls. Thank you anti-semites ימח שמכם!!😊😊
When he has these non-Jewish children with his non-Jewish wife, he is breaking a chain of Jews thousands of years old. Spiritual Genocide. Period. His wife will teach his little girls the Mormon belief that that God created multiple worlds and each world has people living on it. They also believe that multiple Gods exist but each has their own universe. We are only subject to our God and if we obtain the highest level of heaven we can become gods ourselves. So that is big time Avoda Zara. His relationship with this non-Jewish woman is Gilui Arayos. So he has two of the three cardinal sins for which we must die right in his house. A tragedy!!
But the anti-semites? Let us learn a shtikel Gemara [Megilla 14a]:
ויסר המלך את טבעתו אמר רבי אבא בר כהנא גדולה הסרת טבעת יותר מארבעים ושמונה נביאים ושבע נביאות שנתנבאו להן לישראל שכולן לא החזירום למוטב ואילו הסרת טבעת החזירתן למוטב
§ The verse states: “And the king removed his ring from his hand” (Esther 3:10). Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said: The removal of Ahasuerus’s ring for the sealing of Haman’s decree was more effective than the forty-eight prophets and the seven prophetesses who prophesied on behalf of the Jewish people. As, they were all unable to return the Jewish people to the right way, but the removal of Ahasuerus’s ring returned them to the right way, since it brought them to repentance.
Reminding people that they are Jewish and enhancing Jewish pride is also a form of teshuva. So thank you Faarakhan, Sharpton, Cortez, Tlaib and the rest of them - ימח שמם!!!
