Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Duty Is Joy

What did the Jewish people bring to the world?? Rights? License to do whatever you want? Sexual "liberation"? "Hefkeirus" [a term created for Yeshiva Rabbeim meaning "doing whatever you want with no accountability"]. 

None of the sort. We taught the world about OBLIGATIONS. [The word for "obligation" is חובה which also means "hidden". Hidden inside of every person is a sense of obligation. We know viscerally that we can't just do whatever we feel like and when we do, we don't feel good about it]. In addition - we brought ethics, morals and social justice [in the truest and non-wokest sense of the term]. The world doesn't like that, to say the least. People want to HAVE A GOOD TIME [one of the basic credos of Western Civilization]. It is the source of no little bit of anti-semitism. In the words of the Satan himself ימ"ש “Conscience is a Jewish invention; it is a blemish like circumcision.” This sense of conscience restrains man from carrying out his barbaric instincts. סיני is called that b/c is brought שנאה" לעולם"!!

However, when the time for the Geulah will come, the world will realize that we brought to the world TRUE PLEASURE without which life would lack all meaning and purpose. That is why about the end of days it says

זכריה ח':כ"ג
כֹּֽה⁠־אָמַר֮ יְהֹוָ֣ה צְבָאוֹת֒ בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔מָּה אֲשֶׁ֤ר יַחֲזִ֙יקוּ֙ עֲשָׂרָ֣ה אֲנָשִׁ֔ים מִכֹּ֖ל לְשֹׁנ֣וֹת הַגּוֹיִ֑ם וְֽהֶחֱזִ֡יקוּ בִּכְנַף֩ אִ֨ישׁ יְהוּדִ֜י לֵאמֹ֗ר נֵֽלְכָה֙ עִמָּכֶ֔ם כִּ֥י שָׁמַ֖עְנוּ אֱלֹהִ֥ים עִמָּכֶֽם׃

Thus says Hashem of Hosts, "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the end of the garment of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"

The כנף on to which they will grab is referring to Tzitzis, which symbolize all 613 mitzvos!! They will hold on to that for dear life!!! 

What makes us hated now is the very same thing that will make us desired and beloved in the future.


עד תור הגאולה העתידה השפענו על העולם רק לימודי חובות, מוסר וצדק היוצא מדעת אלהים אמת. וחובות אין העולם חפץ לקבל, ואם הוא מקבל נשאר בלב טינא על המעורר הראשי לידיעת החובה, שאינה ניתנת להנפש הברברית להתפשט מכל מאוייה. אבל בבא התור של אור העולם להגלות, יודע לעולם שדרכי החיים של העונג האמיתי אנחנו משפיעים בעולם, את אושר החיים הנותן לו את ערכו, אשר מבלעדו הוא שלול כל ערך. ועונג ואושר זהו דבר השוה לכל, על כל פנים לחשוק בו, ואת המקור המשפיע אושר ועונג מכבדים ומחבבים. ועל כן יחזיקו עשרה אנשים בכל לשונות הגויים בכנף איש יהודי. [ג' שנ"ו]

“Hitler ימ"ש was not wrong when he called conscience a Jewish invention. That is one reason why I am a Jew. A world, a nation, a religion that does not have room for Judaism or Jews is a world, a nation, a religion that does not have room for humanity.”


Selma Mayer (3 February 1884 – 5 February 1984) known as Schwester Selma (German: Sister Selma or Nurse Selma) was an Israeli nurse who was the head nurse at the original Shaare Zedek Hospital on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem for nearly 50 years. For many years she was the right-hand assistant of the hospital's founding director, Dr. Moshe Wallach. Working long hours and with limited infrastructure, she trained and supervised all personnel at the hospital from 1916 to the 1930s, and founded the Shaare Zedek School of Nursing in 1934. She never married, and resided in a room in the hospital until her last day. In her later years she became known as the "Jewish Florence Nightingale" for her decades of selfless devotion to patient welfare. Schwester Selma was known for her kindness and her scrupulousness. She adopted as her personal motto a poem by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, which she kept on the wall in her room:

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was duty.
I acted and behold, 
duty was joy.