JEWISH BLOOD IS NOT CHEAP

The tears of our hearts continue to flow unabaitantly for the victims of the modern day Holocaust that took place in a synagogue in Har Nof.

 

    I searched for words of consolation and for Chizuk in this most devastating and demonizing hour for our brethren in Israel, but, I am sorry to say, the words were not forthcoming. Then I searched and found in this weeks Parsha, the words that Yitzchak said to Yaakov when Yaakov came to be blessed  הקול קול יעקב והידים ידי עשו. Yitzchak did not realize that he was foretelling the future, that at the moment when “Our Jacobs” were davening and uttering the words of Shemone Esray, the beast Esauv/Moslem murderers would come with their evil hands and murder innocent, pure and righteous Jews in a most demonic way.

 

   One of the murdered victims was Rabbi Moshe Twersky, the grandson of our Rebbe, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. A colleague reminded me of a statement the Rav wrote in the year 1960 in  “Kol Dodi Dofek”, which best sums up my feelings at this hour and needs to be read by world Jewry.

 "the fifth knock of the Beloved is perhaps the most important. For the first time in the annals of exile, Divine Providence has amazed our enemies with the astounding discovery that Jewish blood is not cheap. G-D did not seek honor and recognition. He wanted Pharoah, Moshe’s contemporary, to know that he must pay a high price for his edict that "Every male child born shall be cast into the river". His present desire is that the blood of the Jewish children who were slain, as they recited the

eighteen benedictions of the daily Amidah prayer, shall also be avenged. When G-D smote the Egyptians, He sought to demonstrate that there will always be accountability for the spilling of Jewish blood. At present, it is necessary not only to convince the dictator of Egypt, Nasser, but the self righteous Nehru, the Foreign Office in London, and the sanctimonious members of the United Nations that Jewish blood is not cheap. A people that cannot defend its freedom and tranquility is neither free nor independent".

 

It is frightening that the Rav said this many years ago and here we are today experiencing those self same feelings.

I will let the words of the Rav speak for themselves.

I pray that the injured should have a Refuah Sh’leymah.

May our Kedoshim find repose in Gan Eden.

May we herald the coming of the Meshiach, who will bring Peace and Tranqulity to the Jewish People and to the State of Israel.