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THE PROPHETIC WORDS OF ISIAH
"HEAR 0 HEAVENS AND GIVE EAR
0 EARTH
FOR THE LORD HATH SPOKEN
I HAVE NOURISHED AND BROUGHT
UP MY CHILDREN
AND THEY HAVE REBELLED AGAINST ME.
THE OX KNOWETH HIS OWNER
AND THE ASS HIS MASTER'S CRIB
BUT ISRAEL DOTH NOT KNOW
MY PEOPLE DOTH NOT CONSIDER"
ISIAH STILL CONTINUED SOMEWHAT
LATER
"COME LET US REASON TOGETHER"
BY HIS PROPHETIC DECLARATION
ISIAH STILL LEFT THE DOOR
SLIGHTLY AJAR
FOR ISRAEL TO HAVE RETAINED
A SMALL MEASURE
OF THEIR RESURGENCE TO COMPLETE
OBEDIENCE TO THEIR ONE AND
ONLY GOD
IN HEBREW HIS WORDS SO APPLICABLE
TODAY HERE AND MORE SO
IN ISRAEL
CARRY A MORE PROFOUND AND MORE
POWERFUL MEANING
TO THOSE WHO ARE WELL VERSED
IN THE TORAH.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN ISRAEL?
THAT HAS LITERALLY THREATENED
THE INTERNATIONAL STRENGTH AND FORTIFIED
THE DOUBT THAT ISRAEL IS A
SINGLE, STRONGLY UNITED
COUNTRY
IN SPITE OF THE DIVIDED, DESTRUCTIVE
FORCES (AT PRESENT) BETWEEN THE
ORTHODOX FUNDAMENTALISTS AND THE
SECULARISTS.
WE HERE IN THE SAFE U.SA.
THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY FROM
THIS SHAMEFUL SCENE
ARE IN NO POSITION TO BE CRITICAL
OF EITHER SIDE
WE DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG THIS
HAS BEEN GOING ON
AND EXACTLY WHAT WERE AND
ARE THE CAUSES OF THIS
VOLCANIC OPEN RIFT BETWEEN
THE 2 DIFFERENT THINKING ISRAELITE GROUPS
RESULTING IN
ACTUAL VANDALISM OF TEL AVIV
SYNAGOGUES
AND THE HATEFUL, DREADED SWASTIKA
PAINTED ON THE WALLS OF THE
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE
THE POLICE STOOD BY, LOOKED ON
AND RAISED NOT A FINGER
JEWS (ISRAELIS) FIGHTING JEWS.
AND OF ALL THINGS, IN THE SYNAGOGUE
THE SUPERFICIAL CAUSE THAT BROUGHT
THE DEEP SEATED EMNITY TO THE SURFACE
WAS THE POSTER OF A BEAUTIFULLY
SHAPED FEMALE IN A REVEALING BATHING
SUIT.
TO ME WHO HAS BEEN ON BOTH SIDES
OF THE PROBLEM IT WAS A MOST
DELIGHTFUL SIGHT
BUT
TO THE EXTREME ORTHODOX (FUNDAMENTALISTS)
IT WAS A DIRECT AFFRONT TO THEIR
RITUAL BELIEFS AND PROFOUND ASPECTS.
AS FOR EXAMPLE, CUTTING OFF THE HAIR
OF THEIR BRIDE AFTER MARRIAGE.
THE NEWSPAPERS HAD A HEY DAY
JOYOUSLY BLARED FORTH THE MOST
HIDEOUS BITING WORDS THAT A DIASPORA
Maurice Croll, M.D.
JEW COULD BE DEVASTATED WITH.
AND SAD TO SAY - THIS TIME THEY
WERE RIGHT!
ALTHOUGH WE HERE HAVE NO RIGHT
TO HEAP CRITICISM ON THESE
ADAMANT, FRIGHTFUL, OPPOSING
FORCES,
THAT DOES NOT KEEP US FROM
BEING DEEPLY AND PROFOUNDLY
WOUNDED.
I WENT INTO A DEPRESSIVE
STATE
THAT SO FAR I HAVE BEEN UNABLE
TO SHAKE FREE OF.
AS I STUDIED THE PROBLEM, I
WHISPERED SOFTLY TO MYSELF,
THANK G-D - IT WASN'T A BIKINI.
I DARED NOT THINK OF THE EXPLOSION
THAT MIGHT HAVE ENSUED.
I WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE MOST
STRICTEST ORTHODOX (FUNDAMENTALIST)
RELIGION.
EVERY MORNING I HAD TO "DAVEN"
HAVE A HEBREW LESSON BY MY UNCLE -
WHO WAS A HEBREW TEACHER.
THEN I WAS ENTITLED TO BREAKFAST.
NO PHONE WAS ANSWERED IN OUR HOUSE
ON SHABBOS
AFTER MY BELOVED FATHER,
REB HILLEL, PASSED ON,
THE RABBI CAME TO OUR HOUSE AND
GAVE MOTHER SPECIAL PERMISSION
TO RIDE TO "SHUL" ON SATURDAY_
MOTHER THANKED THE RABBI AND WALKED
TO SHUL ON SHABBOS UNTIL HER STRENGTH
COULD NO LONGER ACCOMPLISH THE
FIVE BLOCKS.
THEN SHE SAT HOME AND PRAYED.
WE ALL (6) PLEADED WITH HER
BUT I KNEW IT WAS USELESS.
WE RESPECTED HER STRONG AND BASIC
BELIEFS.
WE DO NOT NEED AN INTERNAL
HOLOCAUST.
THERE IS A DEEP CHIASM GROWING
WIDER
BETWEEN THE 2 OPPOSING MILITANT
GROUPS.
IT WILL NOT BE SETTLED OVER NIGHT.
NOR IN MY LIFETIME.
JUST WHEN WE HAD ALMOST PAID FOR
THE SINS OF THE GOLDEN CALF THIS
NEW, VIOLENT DISEASE
ERUPTED.
LAST WEEK WHILE LISTENING TO
A ROUND TABLE OF RELIGIOUS DISCUSSION
ON TV,
A RATHER YOUNGISH ORTHODOX RABBI
SPOKE EXTREMELY DISPARINGLY OF THE
REFORM CONGREGATIONS
HE JUST DISMISSED THEM BLATANTLY
IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS -
BRUSHING THEM ASIDE VIVIDLY WITH
HIS HANDS.
I BECAME LIVID AND ALMOST EXPLODED.
THIS SAME DISEASE LIVES AND APPARENTLY
THRIVES HERE ALSO, NOT EXCLUSIVELY
AMONG THE JEWS
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A MELTING POT
IN ISRAEL.
SINCE ITS FIRST INCEPTION AS A
RECOGNIZED STATE BY THE
UNITED NATIONS
AND IS NOT LIKELY TO DEVELOP INTO
ONE IN THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS.
IN ISRAEL, WE HAVE JEWS ARRIVING
FROM 103 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
WOULD YOU EXPECT THESE SEPARATE
GROUPS
TO BE FUSED OR RATHER MOULDED
TOGETHER
INTO ONE HOMOGENEOUS WORKING AND
PRAYING TOGETHER GROUP?
IT MAY NEVER COME TO PASS.
THERE IS NO REASON WHY ISRAEL
CANNOT BE UNITED AS A NATION.
THEY ACTUALLY HAVE NO CHOICE.
THERE ARE 100,000,000 GUNS POINTED
AT THEIR THROATS SURROUNDING
THEM ON ALL SIDES.
WHEN I VISITED ISRAEL AND SAW
A WHOLE LINE OF VERY PIOUS JEWS
(MOSTLY CHASIDIM) STANDING AT THE
WAILING (WESTERN) WALL AND PRAYING
FOR HOURS ON END, MY HEART WENT
INTO FULL BLOWN JOYOUSNESS.
I HAD A WARM, PROUD
INNER FEELING.
BUT AS I FOUND OUT LATER
TO INSIST THAT ALL ISRAELIS MUST
ALSO DO EVERYTHING (PRAYERS)
THEIR WAY.
THEIR'S IS THE ONLY RIGHT WAY.
I PRAY TO THE SAME G-D, THE G-D
OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
IT IS SHEER ARROGANCE AND INTOLERANCE
OF THE FUNDAMENTALISTS TO THINK IN
THIS NARROW-MINDED MANNER.
LET THEM PRAY AS THEY WISH, UNDISTURBED.
I NOW ATTEND A REFORM TEMPLE AND
MY HEART AND MIND ARE QUITE AT EASE
I AM SURE OUR G-D HEARS MY PRAYERS
AS SURELY AS HE HEARS THEIRS,
BUT
TO INSULT THE SACRED TEMPLE OF G-D BY
SHEER VIOLENCE
DESTROYING THE VERY BASIS OF OUR
EXISTENCE IS A SIN - SO COLOSSAL
THAT I KNOW OF NO FULL MEASURE OF
FORGIVENESS.
A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF
CANNOT STAND.
BUT IN SPITE OF THESE MOST GRIEVOUS
(CHURBANS)
ISRAEL WILL STAND AND WILL HAVE TO
SETTLE THEIR INTERNAL PROBLEM
AS THEY SEE FIT.
THEY CAN START BY RE-READING THE
WORDS OF OUR PROPHET ISIAH.
"COME LET US REASON TOGETHER"
ALTHOUGH MY HEART NOW BEARS
ANOTHER MAJOR WIDENING SCAR -
I CONTINUE TO PRAY IN EARNEST
IN MY OWN WAY IN MY REFORM
TEMPLE.
HOW MANY MORE SCARS OF THIS TYPE
MY HEART CAN BEAR I DO NOT KNOW.
I HAVE A FEELING I HAVE ALMOST
REACHED MY LIMIT.
IT NEED NOT HAVE HAPPENED IF THEY
HAD PAID ANY ATTENTION TO THE
GOLDEN WORDS OF OUR BELOVED
PROPHET, ISIAH.
ADDENDUM:
BOTH OF MY GIRLS WERE CONFIRMED AT TEMPLE
ISRAEL. BOTH MY WIFE EVA AND I ARE QUITE HAPPY
TO ATTEND THE TEMPLE AFTER BEING A MEMBER OF
CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK. WE TRANSFERED
BECAUSE WE FELT IT WAS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF
OUR CHILDREN. RABBI ADLER, THE GREAT HEBREW
SCHOLAR, MARRIED US AND ADDED SOME GOODLY
AND GODLY ADVICE WHICH I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN.
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