What guarantees us that the state of Israel will survive
and is it not possible that, G-d forbid, it will be destroyed?
The Prophet Zechariah (13:8) states: “And it shall come to
pass, that in all the land, saith the L-rd, two parts therein shall be cut off
and die, but the third shall be left therein.”
And our Rabbis declare (Tanchuma, Shoftim 9): “They (Israel) shall not be settled in their
land until the third redemption. The
first redemption is the redemption from Egypt.
The second is redemption of Ezra (from Babylon). The third will never end.”
And the Rabbis say, again (Psikta Zutrata): “To give (the
land) unto them and their seed after them…’Rebbe says: ‘Unto them’ – those are
the ones who came into the land from the desert (from Egypt); ‘and their seed’
– those are the ones who came up from Babylon; ‘after them’ – those are the
times of the Messiah.”
From both of these one can see that the third coming up
to the land, coming back to the land from the Exile, is the one that is of the
times of the Messiah and which “will never end.”
And concerning the verse in Hosea (6), “After two days He
shall revive us, in the third day He will raise us up and we shall live in His
sight” the classical Biblical commentator, the Radak, writes:
“This speaks of the future.
And ‘after two days’, refers to the two exiles, the Egyptian exile and
the Babylonian exile. ‘On the third
day,’ refers to this, the third exile, from which He will raise us up ‘and we
shall live in His sight,’ and we shall never again be exiled.”
And concerning the same verse, the commentator Metzudat
David writes: “In the third period, the future redemption, He will raise us up
from our fall and we will live before Him forever for we will not go into exile
again.”
One brings down the clear words of our Rabbis and gedolim
of past and greater times because one is appalled at some of the statements
that come out of the mouths of various students and circles in the yeshiva
world. Rather than worry and fear the
clear warnings of the Torah and Rabbis of the Talmud concerning the ultimate
and inescapable horrors that I will afflict the Jew in the exile (and of which
I have written again and again in a vain attempt to get Jews to understand the
tragedy that hovers over the heads of the Jews of that exile), they utter all
manner of incredible arguments that both humiliate Eretz Yisrael and the
Almighty, may we be forgiven.
The incredible rise of the State of Israel and all the
miraculous events that surround it become things of little consequence for the
overwhelming numbers of Orthodox denizens of the exile. Not only does Eretz Yisrael become “galus”
in the perverted concepts that have caused them to twist Torah truth, but
Israel becomes a possibly temporary thing that could be destroyed, G-d
forbid. Do these people not realize what
they do? They do nothing less than mock
the Almighty!
The State of Israel as a temporary thing that could be
destroyed? Do we then mock the Almighty
and make from Him and His events a joke?
Do we take the stupendous miracles that we have seen in our days and
make of them meaningless things? Does
the Almighty then bring back a huge part of the Jewish people to its land from
the four corners of the earth after 2,000 years and give them an independent
state, and give us breath-taking wars of liberation and survival, only to then
plunge us back into destruction after 40 or 50 years? Does the prophecy of Zechariah (8) mean
nothing when he says: “Old men and women will yet sit in the streets of
Jerusalem… and the streets will be filled with boys and girls playing
there?” Does all that we have seen and
realized in our times become a game, a meaningless thing that can disappear
tomorrow because the denizens of the glatt kosher fleshpots of exile must find
yet another rationalization for not coming back and fulfilling their religious obligation
to live in the land?
The State of Israel is G-d’s hand and the fact that its
leaders and governments are the worst of the scoffers and deniers and
corrupters of Judaism has no relevance vis-à-vis the meaning of the state in
the prophetic vision of the era of the redemption.
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