Partisan Bickering
Where's a Jew Safest in This Darkening Hour...?
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There's a lot of talk in religious circles regarding the next phase of the war and how to prepare for it. And the answers range broadly, from taking a purely ruchani course of action, including prayer, fasting, teshuva, Tehillim, tikkun hamiddot, etc. — to the outright gashmi: get your guns, ammo and bugout bags and head for the hills!
And there's what to be said for both viewpoints, in our opinion. In fact, out here in our little, hilltop hideaway, we're doing our best to employ both approaches.
Anyway, there's also a third group, that appears to take a more fatalistic approach to the issue.
They claim — absolutely in line with Torah and authentic Jewish belief — that in the end, Hashem decides who lives and who dies, so it matters little whether you're holed up in your 3.5 room Rechavia flat, your bungalow in Alonei HaBashan, or some pitched tent on a hillside in Binyamin with a carload of canned tuna and ammunition.
If Hashem wants you or your offspring to bear witness to His great day of glory, take comfort: He'll arrange for it.
And whaddaya know, they even offer a historical precedent for it.
Holocaust Choices
During the Shoa (the previous one, c/o Nazi Germany, y"sh) there were Jews who witnessed open miracles in the death camps and who came out alive, against all the odds.
There were also partisans who, b’chasdei Hashem, weathered Hitler’s gehinnom (yimach shemo vzichro) in the fields and forests of Northern Europe and, similarly, emerged after the war in tact.
So who's to say...?
And yet, there's still one, nagging question for those who adhere to this third approach...
And it won't go away.
And it's this —
If you had to pick the lesser of those two damnable evils, G-d forbid — knowing full well, of course, that in the final tally only Hashem decides your fate — which would it be…?
The forest or the camps?
There's lots of room up here in the hills, friends.
Along with a good-sized smattering of hospitable, like minded Jews.
We hope to see you soon.
Dean Maughvet
A time honored example, of History Repeating Itself. No matter the education level of out time.
Allan Weiss
There's no question in my mind the third option is completely wrong and non-Jewish. We do not turn the other cheek. We learn from our forefathers the proper way. Dovid Hamelech was commanded by H' to wipe away our enemies. Then there is the law of someone comes to kill you, you have to kill him first. Torah is common sense. Those who think that being sheep to the slaughter is correct really have no faith (emunah/bitachon) in H' and are quite fatalistic, like some of the religions believe (which are all avodah zorah). This present milchamah should be a one, two, three operation and done as fast as possible trying to save every Yehudi life which will also give chizuk to our people, besides davening, Tehilim, Tzedakah, Teshuva. This shows proper E,munah & Bitachon in H' and never to rely on anyone or any nation. This is something that H' abhors and which nevery works.
We know that H' wants us to do hishtadlut and then He takes over. That is showing our emunah, our love and bitachon in Hakodesh Baruch Hu, and which guarantees lessening the loss of life and victory.
There's one hitch to this whole scenario and that is the Erev Rav is running the show and are in cahoots with sonim; otherwise, there wouldn't even be these questions.
Also, those 'Jews' who believe we wait for Moshiach to protect ourselves and act as slaves of our mortal enemies are most likely of the erev rav. We know the outcome of the then rabbis in Europe who
told the people to wait it out and all will be well. That worked, didn't it?
The only thing at the moment is that there must not be a letup until the soneh is completely wiped out.
I believe these are the chevlai Moshiach and praying that we soon see the arrival of MBY to fulfill his mission.