Shalom Chaim,
Rabbi Kahane, ZT"L HY"D, in one of his speeches stated that:
"In Sukkor, we find that there are 4 things that God is sorry that He made, Yishmael, Kassdim, Yetza Harra, and Galut."
Later, while reading HaRav's Kahane book "Never Again", I've came across description of the Kishinev's pogrom by poet named Chaim Bialik. Bialik published his epic masterwork, "The City of Slaughter," a searing condemnation of Jewish passivity, from which the following is taken:
"Descend then, to the cellars of the town,
There where the virginal daughters of thy folk were fouled,
Where seven heathen flung a woman down,
The daughter in the presence of her mother,
The mother in the presence of her daughter,
Before slaughter, during slaughter, and after slaughter!
Touch with thy hand the cushion stained; touch
The pillow incarnadined:
This is the place the wild ones of the wood, the beasts of the field
With bloody axes in their paws compelled thy daughters yield:
Beasted and swined!
Note also, do not fail to note,
In that dark corner, and behind that cask
Crouched husbands, bridegrooms, brothers, peering from the cracks,
Watching the sacred bodies struggling underneath
The bestial breath,
Stifled in filth, and swallowing their blood!
Watching from the darkness and its mesh
The lecherous rabble portioning for booty
Their kindred and their flesh!
Crushed in their shame, they saw it all;
They did not stir nor move;
They did not pluck their eyes out; they
Beat not their brains against the wall!
Perhaps, perhaps each watcher had it in his heart to pray:
A miracle, O Lord — and spare my skin this day!
About a year ago I finished reading another book: Wars of Ancient Israel that provided countless examples and stories of fearsome Jewish fighters and brilliant commanders, who, always outnumbered, demonstrated miracles of heroism. My question is following:
Clearly, based on rabbi Kahane's statement, the Galut is a punishment that not only perverted the essence of Judaism but also contorted the nature of a Jew who, from a fearless warrior, merciless to evil fighter became a caricature.
How do we know the G-d is really sorry about creating something? For a being who is above Time Dimension, it simply not possible to do something and to regret it, afterward. Please helps me to understand the this - how G-d can be sorry?
perverted the
He regrets having made the Galut. This is a bit difficult to understand. There is a reason for the Galut. The Galut is punishment for the Jew who sinned, but the worst of all possible things happened because of the Galut and the Galut itself.