These are just some thoughts I've been having on this Sunday afternoon...
A friend of mine once told me in a context completely unrelated to this one, that the best thing you can do when you feel like you are banging your head is to stop. Sometimes I feel like we are banging our heads, to save a people who does not want to be saved. We are trying to do everything we can to do what must be done for Israel, for the Jewish people, for America, for the Western way of life. But we are met with resistance every step of the way. Israel keeps on releasing arab murderers from their prisons, and continues to give land away for an insane gamble on peace. America voted in a black socialist with ties to terrorists and America haters. Western society in general continues to be anti-Semitic and pushes for the rights of arabs who call themselves by a fictional name. And every effort we make, every attempt to make the situation better, whether it is supporting Jewish families in Judea and Samaria, or pushing for a republican president, is met with hostility. They call us "fascists" or "racists". We are banging our heads against a wall. It is tempting to stop doing this.
Rabbi Kahane (of blessed memory) told a story (and I wish I could remember all of the details) about how he sat in prison. And he thought to himself (and I'm paraphrasing) "who needs this? If my efforts to save the Jewish people from themselves are in vain, why bother?" And he sat in his prison cell and thrust open a Torah that he had kept with him. And it opened to a chapter (and I wish I could remember the passage, but in a sense it doesn't matter) and the words inspired him and affirmed to him that his struggle was not his own, but G-d's.
Remember, please, all of us should remember this: That our struggle is not our own. We are fighting for something much bigger than ourselves, bigger even than the lifes of the Jews in Israel. When you get right down to it, we are fighting to keep our obligation of Abraham's covenant with G-d. What does this covenant mean to most Jews today? Very little, I think, tragically. It is up to us to be G-d's chosen, to be a light unto the nations, to preserve the land that He gave to us. We have no choice about this. There is no greater cause than this one.
Do not be discouraged when you feel like you are banging your head against the wall. G-d hears us, and He will bless us. I believe that He will never turn His back against our people so long as there is even one Jew who sanctifies G-d's name.
May G-d bless us all, and may He give us the strength we need to persever righteously in His cause.
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