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The Cult That Murders Gaza
I have not written much about the war on Gaza. It is so brutal and and the Zionist behavior is so alien to me that I lack words to describe it.
I have difficulties to understand how anyone, any group of people, could set themselves so far outside of the common human realm, as I perceive it, and commit itself to starve and genocide millions of people.
Yasha Levine helped me to get a grip on it:
.. I came across this…a brief statement by a celebrity Chabad rabbi about his thoughts on the proper way to wage a war in the Jewish style. I wanted to share it with you.
I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral.
The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).
The first Israeli prime minister who declares that he will follow the Old Testament will finally bring peace to the Middle East.
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Rabbi Manis Friedman
Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies
St. Paul, MN
It is a cult.
As Levine explains:
Rabbi Manis Friedman is well known in the Jewish world. ..
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[H]is views on the right way to wage a war on Palestinians were published in 2009 in Moment, a mainstream Jewish magazine that was cofounded by Elie Wiesel.
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Now fifteen years later Friedman’s views are basically mainstream in Israel and in Jewish communities around the world. What he described as the only proper, godly way to wage war against the enemies of Israel is in fact what Israel is currently doing in Gaza and beyond…with total support from the United States and the Europeans.
What can one say?
Chabad is a religious sect with 18th century roots in some Belorussian village. Levine has written a number of pieces about it.
This bears the question: How can one 'deprogram' a large people who have fallen for a cult like this?
If someone has a good recommendation to read up on this phenomenon I’d be thankful. There is something fascinating there i bet.
Posted by: Roland | Apr 29 2025 17:31 utc | 22
Roland, and b as well, I would strongly recommend to read Martin Buber’s “Tales of the Hasidim.” Here is a small part of Chaim Potok’s foreward to the tales:
… Buber’s intellectual idols in the University of Vienna, which he entered in the summer of 1896, were not only the philosophers Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, but also the Christian mystics Jakob Bohme, Meister Eckhart, and Nicholas of Cusa … Is there a real unity out there somewhere waiting to be discovered by us? Can we realize it, kindle it into existence, by leading authentic, open, honest lives? Can God be realized, made actual, through man?…
(There is something of Confucian thought there as well.)
And here is a quote Potok presents, from Buber himself, in his book, “My way to Hasidism”:
I opened a little book entitled the ‘Zevat Ribesh’ — that is the testament of Rabbi Israel Baal-Shem — and the words flashed toward me, “He takes unto himself the quality of fervor. He rises from sleep with fervor, for he is hallowed and become another man and is worthy to create and is become like the Holy One, blessed be He, when he created his world.” It was then that, overpowered in an instant, I experienced the Hasidic soul.
Potok’s foreword is helpful, and there follow a preface and an introduction by Buber to follow which are helpful also. Then come all the tales, many difficult to understand, because they are enigmatically thought provoking. My own Russian Orthodox Christian teacher came to Buber late in his life and gave me many of his writings. He felt they bridge a gap between Judaism and Christianity – bridge: not a gateway but a bridge, a softening of the differences between the two faiths. Hasidism, like Orthodoxy, is a very positive, joyful faith.
Finally, (apologies for longevity) here is the first tale:
The Tree of Knowledge
They say that once, when all souls were gathered in Adam’s soul, at the hour he stood by the Tree of Knowledge, the soul of the Baal Shem Tov went away, and did not eat of the fruit of the tree.
Posted by: juliania | Apr 30 2025 13:48 utc | 234
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