Monday, September 24, 2007
Righteous Violence, Righteous Killing
The Torah tells us what is righteous and what is unrighteous. The Torah is eternal, never to pass away, l'olam vaed. We are commanded to keep every word of the Torah, learn the ways of Torah, and do them. Think about them as we walk along the way, when we rise up and when we lie down. We are to bind them on our forehead, put them on our doorposts, talk of them, have the mitzvot on our lips and in our mind, obsess ourselves with the Torah...
Today, we have a major western, Greek culture which dominates many minds and shapes the way people think. In this mindset, which is also majorly carried on majorly in Christianity, a pacifist idea is set into people's minds. Violence of all kinds is looked down upon and condemned. Heaven forbid someone get angry or violent over anything - we must always pursue peaceful, rational, civilized communication to solve our problems, right?
The Torah says something, very, very different for the Israelite. The Torah, given to Moshe from HaShem on Mt. Sinai, is the sole guideline for what is righteous and unrighteous, it tells us nothing but truth. "Your righteousness is eternal righteousness, and your Torah is truth." -Tehilla (Psalm) 119:142.
What does the Torah tells us about violence? What does it tell us about what is the proper behavior of an Israelite in the Land of Israel? It tells us a lot, and it tells us that which is condemned, looked down upon, and labeled as "Jewish terrorism" by the world today.
D'varim (Dt.) 20:10-18
"When you advance on a town to attack it, first offer it terms for peace. If it accepts the terms for peace, open its gates to you, then all the people there are to be put to forced labor and work for you. However, if they refuse to make peace with you, but prefer to make war against you, you are to put it under seige. When HaShem your God hands it over to you, you are to put every male to the sword. However, you are to take as booty for yourselves the women, the little ones, the livestock, and everything in the city, all of it as spoil. Yes, you will feed on your enemies' spoil, which HaShem your God has given you. This is what you are to do to all the towns which are at a great distance from you which are not the towns of these nations.
As for the towns of these peoples, which HaShem your God is giving you as your inheritance, you are not to allow anything that breathes to live. Rather you must completely destroy them - the Hitti, Emori, Kena'ani, P'rizi, the Hivi and the Y'vusi - as HaShem your God has ordered you, so that they won't teach you to follow their abominable practices, which they do for their gods, thus causing you to sin against HaShem your God."
D'varim 7:5-6
"No, treat them like this [speaking of the inhabitants of the Land, read in context of 7:1-4]: break down their altars, smash their standing-stones to pieces, cut down their sacred poles and burn up their carved images completely. For you are a people set apart as holy for HaShem your God. HaShem your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his own unique treasure."
It is clear what should be done to the pagan inhabitants of the Land who claim it as their own (the "Palestinian"), and what should be done to their abominable high places, such as the pimple on Jerusalem (dome of the rock). The "Palestinian" people in the early stages of should be warred with and destroyed, because they are claiming as their own the Mountain of Israel (Judea and Samaria, AKA "West Bank"). See Ezekiel 35&36.
This is the passion of THIS Jew, myself:
"I am extremely zealous on behalf of Yerushalayim and Tzion... I will return to Yerushalayim with merciful deeds. My house will be rebuilt there." -HaShem. Zecharyah 1:14,16.
Shalom,
Chassidishe Yid
Today, we have a major western, Greek culture which dominates many minds and shapes the way people think. In this mindset, which is also majorly carried on majorly in Christianity, a pacifist idea is set into people's minds. Violence of all kinds is looked down upon and condemned. Heaven forbid someone get angry or violent over anything - we must always pursue peaceful, rational, civilized communication to solve our problems, right?
The Torah says something, very, very different for the Israelite. The Torah, given to Moshe from HaShem on Mt. Sinai, is the sole guideline for what is righteous and unrighteous, it tells us nothing but truth. "Your righteousness is eternal righteousness, and your Torah is truth." -Tehilla (Psalm) 119:142.
What does the Torah tells us about violence? What does it tell us about what is the proper behavior of an Israelite in the Land of Israel? It tells us a lot, and it tells us that which is condemned, looked down upon, and labeled as "Jewish terrorism" by the world today.
D'varim (Dt.) 20:10-18
"When you advance on a town to attack it, first offer it terms for peace. If it accepts the terms for peace, open its gates to you, then all the people there are to be put to forced labor and work for you. However, if they refuse to make peace with you, but prefer to make war against you, you are to put it under seige. When HaShem your God hands it over to you, you are to put every male to the sword. However, you are to take as booty for yourselves the women, the little ones, the livestock, and everything in the city, all of it as spoil. Yes, you will feed on your enemies' spoil, which HaShem your God has given you. This is what you are to do to all the towns which are at a great distance from you which are not the towns of these nations.
As for the towns of these peoples, which HaShem your God is giving you as your inheritance, you are not to allow anything that breathes to live. Rather you must completely destroy them - the Hitti, Emori, Kena'ani, P'rizi, the Hivi and the Y'vusi - as HaShem your God has ordered you, so that they won't teach you to follow their abominable practices, which they do for their gods, thus causing you to sin against HaShem your God."
D'varim 7:5-6
"No, treat them like this [speaking of the inhabitants of the Land, read in context of 7:1-4]: break down their altars, smash their standing-stones to pieces, cut down their sacred poles and burn up their carved images completely. For you are a people set apart as holy for HaShem your God. HaShem your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his own unique treasure."
It is clear what should be done to the pagan inhabitants of the Land who claim it as their own (the "Palestinian"), and what should be done to their abominable high places, such as the pimple on Jerusalem (dome of the rock). The "Palestinian" people in the early stages of should be warred with and destroyed, because they are claiming as their own the Mountain of Israel (Judea and Samaria, AKA "West Bank"). See Ezekiel 35&36.
This is the passion of THIS Jew, myself:
"I am extremely zealous on behalf of Yerushalayim and Tzion... I will return to Yerushalayim with merciful deeds. My house will be rebuilt there." -HaShem. Zecharyah 1:14,16.
Shalom,
Chassidishe Yid
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