Liora Ziv-Ami

The Jews have become confused. The situation has become so dire that the Jews themselves have begun to doubt. “Is it realistic to suggest that we will still exist in 2030? That was the topic of one of the discussions the Jews have already had. .

 

However, the main problem remains that thousands of years ago the Jews said “yes” to G-d at Mount Sinai. By saying yes they not only transformed the destiny of all nations but also took upon themselves a heavy burden, one of which they still cannot rid themselves. They have to carry it, and move forward with it.  

As a consequence the Jews are so active, they are sticking their noses everywhere, and that is so only because they want to avoid the common destiny and get rid of this common burden.

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Unfortunately, it is impossible to get rid of this burden.

 

I believe that a moment will come when the Jews will finally understand: they can make their ideals into reality only within themselves. Only within themselves will the Jewish people be able to find answers to all their questions. And only in the land of Zion and Jerusalem, not somewhere else, can they create something valuable and meaningful for the entirety of mankind.

 

The Jews are always good when it comes to regeneration and reorganization. All the major cataclysms they have gone through just increased their potential, creativity and strength.  That is why I believe in the ability of the Israeli nation to reorganize again in order to establish a state “Diaspora-Metropolis”.

 

I live among the Israeli people in the state of Israel, and I can smell the powerful potential of my people. 

I look in the eyes of each and every Israeli, trying to figure out what kind of journey his or her ancestors had to undertake for this individual to be born, to return to the Land, where the Temples of Jerusalem had been built and where David, the psalmist, found words in his soul, and these are the words people say to G-d everywhere in the world.

I see the frustration of the people who apparently do not understand any longer why they returned to the land of their ancestors, why they established a state of their own. But the moment of truth will eventually come, and they will understand. They will instantly understand everything. One of the wise men said about these people: If they are not the prophets themselves, they must be children of prophets.

For being devoted to their destiny the Jews will bring blessing to all the nations, because it was promised to the forefathers of the people of Israel: “And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed”.

Полным ходом она идет и в среде тех русских евреев, которые остались на территории бывшего СССР. Правда, возникшие на этой территории еврейские центры создают видимость поддержания и даже расцвета еврейской жизни, как и бесчисленные еврейские организации. Однако кроме возвращения в разрушенное большевиками еврейское прошлое им нечего предложить народу. Поэтому они и не могут определиться с содержанием своей деятельности, которая, кроме "профессиональных евреев", мало кого, похоже, волнует.

И тем не менее я верю в то, что русское еврейство еще не сказало своего главного слова потому, что не осознало свой опыт за железным занавесом как опыт диалога с Б-гом, когда Б-г...молчит.

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Общеизвестно, что "железный занавес" отрезал русское еврейство от национального опыта, который определял самосознание еврея и формы коллективной самоорганизации народа на протяжении 3000 лет.

Вопрос, однако, в самом опыте: что он собой представляет?

Основы этого опыта были заложены еще тогда, когда формой самоорганизации народа Израиля был союз племен. Этот опыт удовлетворял потребностям народа не только в первое тысячелетие его существования на собственной территории, но на протяжении 2000-летнего рассеяния, когда союз племен трансформировался в союз рассеянных по всему миру общин.

Межобщинный союз был крепок, пока народы, в среде которых пребывали еврейские общины, находились примерно на одном и том же уровне цивилизационного развития. При том, что каждая община вынуждена была решать специфические проблемы, порождаемые нееврейским окружением, внутри замкнутой общинной организации опыт был неизменен.

Ситуация принципиально изменилась, когда народы, в среде которых пребывали еврейские общины, оказались на разном уровне цивилизационного развития. Тогда и выяснилось, что цивилизация ставит перед евреями новые вопросы, ответы на которые невозможно найти в племенном опыте предков.

Разумеется, эти вопросы возникли у евреев Европы. Поэтому именно европейские евреи начали обогащать 3000-летний опыт всякого рода новшествами вроде просвещения (гаскалы), реформ иудаизма, эмансипации. Многих европейских евреев поиски ответов на возникшие вопросы привели к прямому разрыву с еврейским опытом, в котором они более не видели смысла.

Принято считать, что, отказываясь от традиционного 3000-летнего опыта, евреи ушли от Б-га. Но Писание дает основание для иного вывода, подтверждаемого опытом: именно эти "ушедшие", а не "оставшиеся" евреи воссоздали государство народа Израиля.

Почему это произошло, можно понять из Писания, которое устами пророка Ирмиягу повествует о двух Исходах, противопоставляя один другому: Исход из Египта, в ходе которого Б-г заключил с народом Израиля союз, условия которого, как предсказано, народ не выполнит, и Исход из Земли Северной и всех земель, после которого Б-г заключит с народом Израиля новый союз.

Возвращение на Землю Обетованную для воссоздания государства и есть начало нового Исхода - Исхода из Земли Северной и всех земель. И, прорываясь через границы ставшей невыносимо тесной традиционной общины, евреи стремились обрести необходимый народу новый опыт, так как 3000-летний опыт Исхода египетских рабов оказался полностью исчерпанным.

Не от Б-га евреи бежали, а, напротив, к Б-гу для заключения нового союза вместо того, который был заключен во время Исхода египетских рабов.

Достаточно сравнить два Исхода, чтобы понять, насколько этот вывод соответствует реальности.

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Прежде всего обращают на себя внимание масштабы двух Исходов: общечеловеческий Исход (Исход из всех земель) явно противопоставлен племенному Исходу (Исход рабов одного государства).

Опыт демонстрирует это различие наглядно.

При Исходе египетских рабов Б-г передал человечеству Свой Закон через выбранное Им племя, что привело к изоляции этого племени среди народов. Приняв этот Закон от народа Израиля, все аврамические народы интерпретировали Закон по-своему. Тем самым, с одной стороны создавалось разнообразие культурного опыта, а с другой стороны порождалась конфронтация и непримиримые межконфессиональные войны.

У воссоединения народа Израиля при Исходе из Земли Северной и всех земель иная цель ― консолидация и культурный взаимообмен. Такова же цель и у народов мира. Как именно она достигается, народ продемонстрировал, воссоздав государство Израиль посредством национальной консолидации и объединения культурного опыта, накопленного евреями в среде других народов и прежде всего народов Европы.

Тем самым народ Израиля собственным примером продемонстрировал народам мира возможности взаимодействия диаспоры с метрополией. Теперь эти возможности появились и у представителей разных народов, расселившихся в ареале европейской культуры и получивших доступ к европейскому культурному опыту. Необходимо лишь создать модель, позволяющую использовать этот опыт на благо собственной метрополии.

Создание такой модели ― а ею является государство "Диаспора - Метрополия" ― действительно задача глобального масштаба. И создать эту модель могут только евреи.

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Вторым отличием является мотивация Исхода.

В случае египетских рабов мотивация пришла извне. Рабы не хотели Свободы. Их приходилось уводить из рабства силой, посредством убеждения и чудес. Но даже при этом условии, как повествует Предание, большинство народа предпочло остаться в рабстве, а вышедшие из Египта постоянно капризничали и угрожали вернуться.

Мотивацию Исхода из Земли Северной и всех земель связывают с европейским антисемитизмом, сменившим свою откраску с конфессиональной на расовую. Однако, это огромная ошибка, так как от антисемитизма евреи по привычке бежали в "благополучные" страны, прежде всего в США.

Первопроходцы-халуцим, те, кто пришли возрождать Землю Обетованную, искали не лучшую жизнь, а жизнь достойную, искали Свободу - без рабской зависимости от хозяев, их чувств, их политики, их аппетитов и проч. Только такая мотивация позволила свершиться чуду возрождения. И хотя первопроходцы-халуцим были в подавляющем меньшинстве среди всех вернувшихся, именно они определили путь, по которому пошел весь народ.

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Третьим отличием является мотивация деятельности.

И в тексте Писания, и в еврейских молитвах, постоянно подчеркивается связь между богоугодной деятельностью еврея и тем материальным вознаграждением, которое он получит от Б-га. Во время странствий по пустыне с неба падал ман, вода текла из камней и проч. Но и по пришествии на Землю связь между деятельностью и материальным вознаграждением за нее подчеркивается постоянно в обещаниях дождя, плодов земли, приплода скота и проч..

Б-гу фактически пришлось "покупать" рабов Египетского Исхода, способных служить только за плату.

Первопроходцы-халуцим видели в трудовой деятельности человека не только средство добывания хлеба, но творчество, и считали трудовую деятельность необходимым условием формирования личности как отдельного человека, так и народа вцелом. Это уже была установка на культурное самосозидание человека, результат несомненного влияния нееврейского опыта, без которого невозможно существование в условиях цивилизации эпохи Третьего Храма.

Потребность в новом опыте и готовность использовать его для воссоздания государства свидетельствует о том, что в народе за 2000 лет рассеяния произошло некое качественное изменение, ощутив которое, народ ощутил и свою готовность к новому Исходу - Исходу из Земли Северной и всех земель.

И результат налицо: народ Израиля смог воссоздать государство исключительно благодаря культурному опыту, обретенному в среде народов.

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Однако в воссозданном государстве выяснилось, что из узких рамок опыта Исхода египетских рабов не так легко вырваться.

В матрице этого ограниченного племенного опыта весь культурный капитал, веками копившийся народом Израиля в среде народов, не мог обрести того освящения, которое необходимо для строительства Третьего Храма. Поэтому соблюдение традиционных религиозных предписаний так и остались для народа единственным способом служения Б-гу, а наука и созданные на ее базе технологии, педагогика, политические идеи и проч.. в этом качестве принципиально отрицались как "чуждые" опыту.

Причина очевидна: деятельность в этих областях является общечеловеческой и в этом качестве создает базу для осознания людьми своего единства. Тем самым эта деятельность объективно разрушает рамки племени, в результате чего традиционные руководители теряют власть над своей паствой.

Это и в самом деле чуждый рабам опыт. Стоило воссоздать государство, объединившее народ, как это стало очевидным: среди еврейского населения Израиля ни в одном секторе общества нет такого раскола, как в секторах, так или иначе связанных с раввинизмом - хранителем опыта Исхода египетских рабов.

Не осознавая несовместимость опыта Исхода египетских рабов с воссозданием государства, народ Израиля возвел раввинизм в ранг государственной религии. Сделал это народ потому, что в этом опыте хранилась сама идея возвращения народа в Сион, из-за чего аппеляция к этому опыту являлась единственным обоснованием возвращения на Землю Обетованную.

Тем самым народ совершил судьбоносную ошибку, последствия которой не замедлили сказаться. Начался процесс утраты и даже умышленного истребления накопленного в среде народов культурного капитала, что прежде всего сказалось на системе образования. Форма скопированного у европейских народов государства сохранилась, однако начала заполняться людьми, ментально подготовлеными к жизни в условиях традиционной общины, но не государства.

Воссоздали себя характерные для безгосударственного существования взаимооношения труда и капитала. Воссоздала себя рабская зависимость от народов (характерно в этом отношении, что смена ориентира с Советской России на США не изменила самой потребности в таком ориентире).

Самым же главным является то, что опыт Исхода египетских рабов не позволил народу Израиля поставить перед собой какие-либо значимые для народов мира цели. Поэтому колоссальный всплеск энергии народа, который в самом начале Исхода из Земли Северной и всех земель замахнулся на строительство образцово-показательного общества всеобщей справедливости, основанного на идеалах пророков Израиля, очень быстро пошел на убыль. Возвращение начало терять смысл не только для народов мира, но и для самого народа Израиля.

Именно это обстроятельство позволило превратить малочисленную популяцию, обитавшую на Земле Обетованной до начала Исхода из Земли Северной и всех земель, в никогда не существовавший и лишенный какого-либо смысла существования "палестинский народ".

Значимость, которую "палестинский народ" народ обрел в глазах народов мира, свидетельствует прежде всего о той значимости, какую с наступлением эпохи Третьего Храма обретает возвращения народа Израиля на Землю Обетованную. Это возвращение не может не преследовать общечеловеческую цель. Но осознать это народ Израиля не в состоянии из-за того, что он находится в плену опыта Исхода египетских рабов.

Таким образом метафизическая и ментальная зависимость народа от опыта Исхода египетских рабов породила характерные для этого опыта проблемы, которые и стали проблемами государства Израиль.

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Необходимость в разрыве народа с опытом Исхода египетских рабов была очевидна еще отцам-основателям государства Израиль. И они надеялись добиться этого путем обновления всей жизни народа в воссозданном государстве. Однако реальность доказала, что само по себе воссоздание государства разрыв с опытом Исхода египетских рабов не обеспечивает. Требуется средство более радикальное.

Этим средством и явился "железный занавес, отсекший часть народа Израиля от остального народа и его 3000-летнего опыта.

Естественно, что это произошло в Земле Северной, в России, где за "железным занавесом" русскому еврейству предстояло оказаться в совершенно новых, не имеющих прецедента в еврейской истории условиях - в условиях "Красного Вавилона". Естественно и то, что событие это произошло на стыке эпох Второго и Третьего Храмов.

Как и 2500 лет назад народ Израиля, вернее часть народа, вновь оказался в "вавилонском плену", чтобы выйти из этого плена с новым опытом.

Оба "вавилонских плена" обрамляют собой эпоху Второго Храма. Оба продолжались 70 лет и проходили в условиях империй - Персидской империи в середине I века до н. э. и Советской сверхдержавы в XX веке н. э.. Оба привели к качественному изменению народа. Однако, если первый "вавилонский плен" закрепил изоляцию народа Израиля среди народов мира, то второй "вавилонский плен" эту изоляцию разрушил, тем самым окончательно утвердив глобалистский характер Исхода из Земли Северной и всех земель.

"Красный Вавилон" - это вершина 2000-летнего рассеяния, завершающий его этап, этап полного распада племенной консолидации. На протяжении жизни трех поколений советская власть посредством террора и всевозможных запретов искореняла 3000-летний опыт Исхода египетских рабов не только в жизненной практике советских евреев.

Искоренялась даже память о нем.

Б-г замолчал. Вернее, замолчали люди, на которых 3000 лет была возложена миссия озвучивать Волю Б-га. И в наступившей тишине атеистического государства начался процесс формирования нового еврейского опыта, неизвестного той части народа Израиля, которая не прошла через "Красный Вавилон".

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В "Красном Вавилоне" еврей впервые остался один на один с самим собой, лишившись даже традиционной общины, веками заменявшей евреям утраченное государство, лишившись каких-либо форм и содержания традиционной деятельности, какой-либо основы для взаимодействия с собственными соплеменниками.

В этих условиях необходимо было искать новую основу взаимодействия с другими людьми. И эта основа была найдена. Ею оказалась цивилизация, создаваемая совместным творчеством людей, независимо от национальной и конфессиональной принадлежности.

Это не могло не сказаться на самосознании еврея "Красного Вавилона". Отныне основой этого самосознания стало общее для всех советских граждан национальное происхождение. Однако в многонациональной империи у всех прочих граждан национальное происхождение базировалось на исторической памяти, общности языка и территории. И только у еврея не было даже этого. Он был один, один, как перст - "лицо еврейской национальности".

Соответственно и созидательная его энергия могла быть отныне направлена только на себя, на культурное самосозидание. Он был тем, что представлял собой лично, обладал лишь тем, что накопил сам. Лишь в мировой культуре он мог найти источник знаний и умений, из которых отныне состоял весь его еврейский капитал.

В этих новых условиях еврей начал созидать себя как личность, питаясь идеалами греческой пайдейи, которые он бессознательно впитывал из русской православной культуры. "Настоящими евреями" отныне представлялись те из евреев, кто наиболее преуспели в качестве творцов цивилизации – не просто ученые, инженеры, деятели искусства, организаторы производства, преподаватели и проч. – а все, кто представлялись высокоразвитыми людьми, умели добиваться целей самостоятельно и полагаться только на себя.

Так в "Красном Вавилоне", в условиях молчания Б-га, еврей пришел к тому уровню индивидуализма, что и европеец-христианин в результате Реформации. Но сделал он это не через конфессию, а через цивилизацию.

Свою принадлежность к отвергавшему евреев обществу евреи строили на своей полезности этому обществу, которое нуждалось в еврейских талантах и целеустремленности. Это вполне соответствовало амбициозным планам Советской сверхдержавы, которая использовала еврейские таланты в собственных интересах - для создания науки, промышленности и всего того, что должно было укреплять государство. Но эти планы невольно совпадали и с еврейским интересом, так как породили в еврее "Красного Вавилона" ощущение человека государства, способного мыслить и действовать на глобальном уровне развития цивилизации, достижение которого является условием наступления эпохи Третьего Храма.

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Если бы не было воссоздано государство Израиль и Советская сверхдержава не пошла с этим государством на конфронтацию, которая носила ярко выраженный юдофобский характер, возможно, этим бы и закончилось формирование опыта русского еврейства в условиях "Красного Вавилона".

Но случилось то, что случилось. И это лишь дало толчок развитию опыта.

Советская юдофобия, официально легализованная антисионизмом, развеяла интернационалистские иллюзии евреев "Красного Вавилона". Началась реакция в виде отторжения советского государства и солидарности с государством Израиль, национального возрождения, наконец, борьбы за Исход. И что самое удивительное, началось возвращение к Б-гу, но уже по собственной воле, а не по воле, навязанной извне.

К евреям возвращалась коллективная самоидентификация. Только теперь она рождалась из нового опыта - опыта "Красного Вавилона". Поэтому и базировалась эта новая самоидентификация на том, чего в принципе не могло быть прежде: на цивилизации, государственности и индивидуализме.

Разрушение "Красного Вавилона" вызвало настоящий еврейский Исход, Исход не одиночек, а народа, расселившегося по все миру. Эта массовость была необходима, чтобы проявилось принципиальное отличие еврейства "Красного Вавилона" от мирового еврейства, не прошедшего через этот опыт.

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На сегодняшний день только русское еврейство имеет многочисленные личные и даже родственные связи во многих государствах мира. Оно связано со множеством народов не только общим русским языком и общим прошлым, но и выношенными в условиях "Красного Вавилона" общими идеалами, общим пониманием современных проблем. Утратившее все стереотипы Исхода египетских рабов, в плену которых находится не прошедшее через "Красный Вавилон" мировой еврейство, русское еврейство открыто инновациям более, чем какая-либо иная группа.

То есть современное русское еврейство обладает набором качеств, которым не обладает какая-либо иная группа в мировом сообществе. Вопрос лишь в том, сможет ли оно использовать эти качества или лишится их, не обнаружив в них никакой пользы?

Я верю в то, что сможет. И у меня есть основания для этой веры.

Я верю в русское еврейство потому, что его судьба однозначно доказывает: союз народа Израиля с Б-гом нерасторжим. Б-г ведет разговор со Своим народом даже в Своем молчании и даже тогда, когда Б-г молчит, еврей, известным лишь ему способом, слышит своего Б-га.

Никогда не прерывается и не прервется этот диалог, потому что диалог этот вечен.

А вот Исход египетских рабов с его опытом конечен.

Я верю в русское еврейство еще и потому, что оно интуитивно сопротивляется любой попытке впихнуть его в убогие рамки расплодившихся организаций, в которых вольготно чувствует себя та часть мирового еврейства, которая не прошла через "Красный Вавилон" и не имеет понятия о его опыте.

Не для создания организаций прошло русское еврейство через новый "вавилонский плен". Его миссия ― создание государства нового типа - "Диаспора - Метрополия".

И я верю в то, что русское еврейство с этой миссией справится.

Not a single nation has felt this influence the way the people of Israel did.

Theodore Hertzl borrowed the idea of a nation state fro the West European culture. However, the people who voluntarily applied his idea to the destiny of their lives, mostly came from Russia.

Everything creative in Zionism is influenced by the Russian Spirit. The ideals of universal justice, altruism, religious reverence before the Word, readiness to sacrifice your life for the well-being of mankind – this is the spiritual wealth of Russia, which the oppressed Jews from the Pale carried with them in their souls. These oppressed Jews have become the powerful founders of their own state.

 

It is G-d’s plan for Russia. The role Russia played in the modern history of Israel proves something that many have already conjectured Russia is the very Northern Land, from which according to the Prophet Jeremiah G-d will salvage His people and lead it to Zion where he will make a new Covenant with the people of Israel.

Zion is revived by the Russian Spirit. That is why the glory and prosperity of Russia is Israeli people’s responsibility to G-d. That is why I believe in Russia, and I believe that the people of Israel fully understand what they owe to this country.

When it comes to the USA, this Super-Idea represents the Protestant Idea of Man’s Freedom in Name of G-d. From the religious point of view, it ended the subordination of one Man to another. Instead, Man became a subordinate of G-d, directly, without any intermediary. Man has been transformed by becoming accountable only to G-d. Great qualities such as independence, law obedience, hard work and honesty have developed in the process, but that is not all; it also led to new forms of societal self-development, i.e. to such a state where Law rules, not Man.

By doing that Christian Protestants implemented ideals, which were, unfortunately rejected by the nation of Israel when they demanded Prophet Samuel to give them a king in their drive to be like “any other nation”.

Ironically, Christian Protestants went far from being like “any other nations”. As a result, all these other nations, including the nation of Israel, started copying their experience.

 

In Europe the very Idea of Man’s freedom in Name of G-d could be materialized only when applied to concrete nation states. It could reach the level of universal value only in the USA where people of different origins and faiths enjoyed the opportunity to adopt this Idea as common for the entirety of mankind.  

For that reason, any alien who comes to Europe – for instance, to Germany, Britain, France or Sweden – becomes German, British, French or Swedish very relatively – while in the United States becoming an American is a natural process.

 

The problem is that while becoming Americans, people of various descents stopped perceiving the Protestant Idea of Freedom as a religious postulate.  On the contrary, its Christian Protestant essence started hindering their attempts to think of themselves as true Americans. That is why the new Americans started doing their best in order to erase any religious associations with the origin of the American Super-Idea.

That inevitably leads to an undermining of the grounds of American statehood, because as soon as people lose the perception of the sacred values uniting them, they become disoriented in all the fields of human activity. That is exactly what happened: the Protestant cult of productive work transformed itself into cult of consumption of merchandise produced. It also resulted in a sharp increase of demand for this merchandise. What were initially strict moral standards that each individual would set for himself, would eventually be transformed into demands towards the state and ultimately into mass dependence. Freedom has been replaced by lawlessness, and the belief in the universal value of the American Super-Idea ended in arrogant and eager desire to forcefully impose this Super-Idea on other nations.  

This degradation is so obvious that one can quite seriously project the end of the USA, i.e  American Super-Power collapsing and falling apart.

 

But this is impossible precisely because the world cannot afford another global cataclysm similar to the one that took place when the Soviet Union collapsed. Besides, disintegration of the USA would be even more disastrous than that one of the Soviet Union because the USA does not have a title nation controlling all other nations as was in the case of Soviet empire. What this means is that there are no borders within which this disintegration may occur painlessly.

 

Only Russia, the adversary of Cold War times, can save this situation. Russia has become an alternative super-power because it carries a totally opposite universal Idea, and that is the Greek idea of pandeja, i.e. the cultural self-creation of Man.

Alexander the Great was the first one who tried to unite people on the basis of the Greek Idea of the universal world order. That was an idea of Hellenistic essence. Though Alexander the Great failed politically, the process of Hellenization of conquered nations set a basis for building two great Empires – Rome (the First Empire) and Byzantium (the Second Empire)

Russia adopted this Idea from Byzantium via the Orthodox Christian faith. On a personal level, this idea was transformed into adoration. On a universal level, it has been transformed into the Idea of a Third Rome. Politically this Idea of the Third Rome was implemented in the Russian Empire, which despite all its problems, claimed the right to something more significant than imperial glory. Russia claimed the right to the universal spiritual truth. Given that, there is no surprise that the “Ghost of Communism”, (the Marxist Idea of world order according to which every individual will have unlimited access to all the material and spiritual wealth of mankind) found heaven in Russia where the Idea of the Third Rome transformed into an idea of the Third International.  

Only by taking into account this spiritual succession can one understand how the totalitarian Soviet regime produced such an enormous number of individuals with a thirst for knowledge because they were convinced that knowledge is at the heart of personal formation. No wonder that after the Iron Curtain fell, all these individuals easily integrated themselves into the world community thanks to their excellent personal credentials.  

               Rightfully claiming to be the carrier of the Super-Idea, each one of the super-powers runs into trouble while trying to implement this Idea, because they compete with each other. The paradox is that both the USA and Russia can obtain Super-Ideas of their own only when they form an alliance. But this alliance requires a new political form, and a “Diaspora-Metropolis” type of state proves to be this perfect form.

               The USA is the only nation, in which the ideals of a civic society are still deeply connected to the religious principles of the Founding Fathers. Freedom in Name of G-d, which has politically manifested itself by means of separation of church and state, has made it possible to unite people of different origins and faiths. Therefore, while interacting with each other as Americans, they are able to deliver to their metropolises the cultural capital, which is essential for building a civil society there. Thus, every nation will be able to implement the American Super-Idea of Freedom without any intervention from outside.  

              The process of establishing a civil society requires rethinking the whole concept of national culture, which is always sacred by its nature. This is precisely the reason why it is so difficult to impose upon nations the American Super-Idea because initially this Idea was the product of Christian Protestant religious experience.

              What this means is that people should have a different motif of getting freedom in Name of G-d from Christian Protestants.

              Only Russia, being a carrier of the Idea of Man’s cultural self-creation, can offer such a motif. Naturally, this idea cannot be implemented without revolutionary changes in the entire system of education. However, the educational system by itself, does not offer solutions to the problem. What matters is the culture of the family within which Man himself is created.

              The culture of the family has become a major problem since we entered the Third Temple era because family fails to meet the challenges of modern civilization and fails to prepare Man for those challenges. The only ones who can transform the culture of the family, which is the most conservative nucleus of each nation, are, first of all, those who belong to this particular nation and understand people, and then those who extended the limits of an established culture with all its stereotypes. We are talking about people in the Diaspora.

              That is why it is so important to unite all the dispersed people in the name of one common goal.  

              The “Diaspora-Metropolis” type of state is a model of such a societal order, which makes such unity quite feasible.

              Only such a state gives an opportunity to implement the Russian Super-Idea of a Universal Man and universal unity.

              Only such a state gives an opportunity to implement the American Super-Idea of Freedom because the culture of the family is the only means of protecting individual Freedom from those who are so eager to replace G-d in ruling this world. Having set these ambitious goals such people manipulate others’ minds, impose upon them false values, false sciences, false ideologies, and false religions. They try to use G-d, as well as ignorance, in order to enslave people.  

              Russian Jewry... 

              Well, it seems that Russian Jews do not have any future.

              After the Iron Curtain fell Russian Jews fled the country. Some went to Israel, others to America, Germany, Australia, etc. In each of these countries they had to adjust to reality; and again, for the most part, they went through this adjustment very successfully. The younger generation practically does not speak any Russian, they are not interested in what their fathers and grandfathers had to endure behind the Iron Curtain. Assimilation is on the rise...

              It is equally on the rise among those Jews who chose to stay in what has been left after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is true, that the newly organized Jewish cultural centers might produce an impression of a revival and even blossoming of Jewish life, Numerous Jewish organizations contribute to this impression as well. However, they do not have much to offer but just another return to their Jewish past, which had been destroyed by Bolsheviks. That is why they cannot decide for themselves what kind of Jewish life they want to live. For the most part, the majority of Jews there do not even care, with the exception of those who became “professional” Jews.

And yet, I do not completely give up on Russian Jewry. I believe that eventually they will realize that their life experience behind the Iron Curtain was part of the experience of talking to G-d when G-d is silent.

 

It is well known that the Iron Curtain deprived the Russian Jews of the national experience, which during 3000 years had defined the self-identification of Jews as well as the shape of a collective self-organization of the Jewish nation.

The question, however, is: what kind of experience are we talking about?

The principles of this experience were laid out at the early stages when tribal union was the main form of self-organization of the Jewish people. This experience satisfied the basic necessities of the nation not only in the first millennium of its life in their own land but further on during their 2000-year life in dispersion, when this tribal union transformed into a union of communities dispersed all over the world. 

This inter-communal union was strong enough, while the nations, among which the Jewish communities existed, were basically on the same level of civilizational development as Jews themselves. And while each given community had to deal with its own specific problems, mainly caused by life in non-Jewish environment, the common experience within a secluded community organization remained unchanged.

 

But this situation changed dramatically, when the nations, among which the Jewish communities found themselves, reached a different level of civilizational development. It became obvious, that this situation sets new challenges for the Jews, and it was extremely difficult to meet these challenges looking for answers in the tribal experience of ancestors.  

Naturally, European Jews had to answer these questions. That explains why the European Jews began to enrich the 3000-year experience with all kinds of innovations, like for instance, Haskalah, reformed Judaism and emancipation. While looking for the answers to questions, many European Jews broke with their Jewish experience, since they could no longer perceive its utility.

 

It is a common understanding, that by rejecting their traditional 3000-year experience, the Jews turned away from G-d. However, the Scriptures lead to a totally different conclusion proved by experience: the Jews, who “turned away”, not the ones who “stayed”, have re-created the State of Israel.

Again, the Scriptures give an explanation for how this happened, when Prophet Jeremiah talks about two Exoduses opposing each other. The first one is the Exodus from the Egypt land, when G-d made a Covenant with the Jewish people, and according to the prophecy, the terms of that covenant would never be fulfilled. The second Exodus is the one from the Northern land and any other lands, after which G-d will make another covenant with the nation of Israel.

Coming back to the Promised Land, in order to re-create their state, is in fact the beginning of this new Exodus, which is the Exodus from the Northern Land and all other lands. By breaking through the boundaries of a narrow-minded traditional community, the Jews aimed at getting new necessary experience, since the 3000-year experience of Exodus from Egypt by that time had been already completely exhausted. 

No, the Jews did not turn away from G-d; on the contrary, they turned to G-d, precisely for the sake of replacing the covenant, made during the exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt, by a new one.  

 

If we compare these two Exoduses, we will see that we have arrived at the right conclusion.

First of all, it is worth paying attention to the scales of these two Exoduses: this general Exodus from all the lands clearly overpowers the tribal one, i.e. the Exodus of slaves from one particular land.

This difference is proved by experience.

In times of the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt G-d gave His Law to mankind. He did it by choosing a certain tribe, which resulted in this tribe becoming isolated from the rest of the world. While adopting this Law from the nation of Israel, all the nations, comprised of Abraham’s descendants, had interpreted this Law differently. Thus, on the one hand, diverse cultural experience was created; on the other hand, it led to confrontation and irreconcilable religious wars.

The unification of the Israeli nation during Exodus from Northern Land and all other lands set a different goal – consolidation and exchange of cultural experience. Other world nations have the same goal. The Jewish people demonstrated how this goal can be achieved when they re-created the state of Israel by means of national consolidation and summing up the cultural experience, which the Jews had accumulated while they lived among other nations, primarily, in Europe.

By doing that the Jewish people set an example to world nations how Diaspora can interconnect with the Metropolis. Now, other nations, which have settled in the environment of the European culture, have equal possibilities, since they have access to European cultural experience.

The only thing left to do, is to come up with a model, which allows people to use this experience in such way that the Metropolis can benefit from it.

Creating such a model (as we already said, “Diaspora-Metropolis” is an example of such model) is indeed a goal of global significance. And only the Jews are capable of doing that.

 

Second difference roots from the motivation of Exodus.

In the case of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt, the motivation came from outside. The slaves did not seek Freedom. In fact, they were driven out from slavery forcefully, by means of persuasion and all kind of miracles. But even then, according to the Legend, the majority of Hebrews preferred to remain in slavery, while those who agreed to leave Egypt, were constantly whining and even threaten to go back.

The reason for the Exodus from the Northern Land and other lands is commonly explained by anti-Semitism, which by that time had changed its religious essence for a racial one. In fact, this reasoning is erroneous, since it appears that the Jews fled from anti-Semitism to “more or less save countries”, first of all to the USA.

The pioneers, Halutsim, who came to re-create the Promised Land, did so not because they were looking for a better life, but because they wanted to live a descent life. They wanted Freedom; they did not want anymore to depend slavishly on the masters and on their masters’ feelings, politics, tastes, etc… Only this kind of motivation allowed the miracle to take place. And though there were not that many of these pioneers, Halutsim, among those who returned, they were the ones who defined the path for the entire nation.

 

The third reason is the motivation of activity.

Both Scriptures and Jewish prayers constantly emphasize the connection between the actions of a Jew in the service of G-d and the material reward he received from G-d for this service. When Hebrews were wandering in the desert, the manna was falling from the skies; water was running from the rocks, etc… But even after they finally got to the Promised Land, this connection between service to G-d and getting rewards for that service was constantly emphasized when people were asking for rain, harvest, husbandry breeding, etc. 

Practically speaking, G-d had to “bribe” the Hebrew slaves of the Exodus from Egypt because they were able to serve only when they were paid.

The pioneers Halutsim perceived Man’s activity not only as means of making a living but also as creative work. They viewed work as a necessary condition for shaping a person, individually and as part of the entire nation. This was already a principle aimed at the cultural self-creation of Man, an obvious result of the influence of non-Jewish experience. The absence of such an experience makes it impossible to live in the conditions of the Third Temple era civilization.

 

The demand for new experience, the readiness to use it for the sake of recreating the Jewish state, proves that during this 2000-year period the Jews went through some qualitative changes. When they made this discovery, they realized that they were ready for a new Exodus, i.e. Exodus from the Northern Land and all other lands.

The result is clear: the people of Israel demonstrated the ability to re-create their own state, solely because of the cultural experience they obtained while they lived among other nations.

 

But it appeared, that even in the re-created state of their own, it was very difficult to get rid of the narrow boundaries set by the experience of the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt.

In the matrix of this limited tribal experience the cultural capital, which had been accumulated by the Jewish people throughout centuries of life among other nations, could not be sanctified in the way necessary for building the Third Temple. For that reason, observance of traditional religious rituals was the only way the Jews could continue serving G-d. As for science, education, political ideas, etc., they were entirely rejected as “foreign” to the traditional Jewish experience.

The reason for such rejection is obvious: Man’s activities in these fields are common for mankind, and they set grounds for people to realize how they can be united. In the process of such activities, the tribal boundaries are crushed. As a result, the traditional leaders lose their control of the flock.

Well, indeed, this kind of experience is foreign to slaves. As soon as the Jewish state, which united the nation, was established, it became obvious: there is not a single segment of the society in the Jewish population of Israel, where division is as bitter as it is as in Rabbinical structures. These Rabbinical leaders represent the Guardians of the experience of the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt.

Because they failed to understand how incompatible the experience of the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt is with the idea of re-creation of the Jewish State, the Israeli nation has elevated Rabbinism to the level of state religion. It was done because this experience contained the very idea of returning to Zion. That is why addressing this experience was the only reason for coming back to the Promised Land.

By doing that, the Jews have made a fatal mistake, the consequences of which began to be felt very rapidly. The process of losing as well as the intentional destruction of experience, which had been accumulated during life among culturally developed nations began. The educational system fell as one of the first victims of this process.

The form of a state borrowed from the European nations has been kept. But the contents were provided by people, who were mentally prepared to live only in the conditions of a traditional community, not those ones of a modern state.  

The interrelations between labor and capital, typical for a non-state existence, have also been re-created. Unfortunately, the notorious slavish dependence on other nations was recreated by same token. Ironically, the replacement of such a dependence on Soviet Russia by dependence on the USA has not changed the very necessity in such dependence.

Most importantly, the experience of Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt prevented the nation of Israel from setting goals that could be significant for world nations. That is why this initial enthusiasm, the level of energy of the Jews that they revealed in the beginning of their Exodus from the Northern Land and all other lands, the ambitious plans and eagerness to build a model perfect society of justice, based on the ideals of Prophets of Israel – all that vanished very soon. The return began to lose its significance not only for world nations but for the Jewish people themselves.

That is what actually allowed upgrading a small minority that lived in the Promised Land before the Exodus from the Northern Land and other lands began, into a nation that never existed before and was never meant to exist. Here we are talking about the “Palestinian people”. 

The legitimacy, which the “Palestinian people” have managed to obtain in the eyes of the world community, manifests, primarily, through he significance of the Israeli nation’s return to the Promised Land in the Third Temple era. This return sets a goal of universal significance. But the Jews themselves fail to realize that because they are still imprisoned by the experience of the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt.

Thus, the metaphoric and mental dependence of the Jews on the experience of Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt, caused problems inherited by the state of Israel that are typical for this experience.

 

The necessity for the Jewish nation to break up with the experience of the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt was already clear to the founding fathers of Israel. And they hoped to achieve that by means of renovation of the entire life of people in the re-created state. However, the reality showed that just re-creating a national state is not enough to break completely with the experience of Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt. Something more radical than that is required.

The Iron Curtain that separated part of the Jewish people from the rest of the nation with its 3000-year experience was exactly this “something else”.

It is natural that it happened in the Northern Land, in Russia, where the Russian Jewry was doomed to face totally new conditions, unprecedented in Jewish history, which we call “the Red Babylon”. It is natural that it happened on the edge of two eras – those of the Second and the Third Temples.

As it was 2500 years ago, the Israeli nation, rather its part, found itself in the “Babylonian captivity” for a certain reason – to get out from it, empowered with new experience.  

Both “Babylonian captivities” bookend the Second Temple era. Both lasted 70 years and took place in two different empires – the Persian Empire of the 1st century B.C. and in the Soviet Empire of the 20th century A.D. Both led to great qualitative changes in the Jewish people. But while the first “Babylonian captivity” sealed the isolation of Jewish people among world nations, the second one destroyed this isolation, making the global nature of Exodus from the Northern Land and other lands final and irreversible.

 

“The Red Babylon” is the peak of the 2000-year dispersion, its ending stage when the tribal consolidation completely fell apart. During the life span of three generations, the Soviet regime, using terror and all kind of restrictions, did everything to root out the 3000-year experience of the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt. Not only was this experience rooted out in practical life, the communists did everything possible to erase any memory of it as well.

 

G-d was silent. Of course, not G-d Himself, but the people who had the mission through the 3000-year period to vocalize G-d’s will. But in this silence, within a Godless state, a new process had already begun. That was the process of the formation of a new Jewish experience, which was not known to those Jews who did not go through “The Red Babylon”.

In “The Red Babylon” the Jews, for the first time, were left to themselves, deprived even of their traditional community, which for centuries was viewed by them as a replacement for the lost statehood. They were deprived of any forms and essence of their traditional activities. They were deprived of any basis for communicating with each other.

Under these circumstances it was necessary to find a new basis for interacting with other people. And such basis was found. It was civilization, the product of collective creative work of people, regardless of their ethnic roots or religious persuasion.

This inevitably influenced the self-identification of Jews in “The Red Babylon”. Since then, nationality has become the common basis for all Soviet citizens in their self-identification. But even then, all the citizens of this multi-ethnic empire, when it came to nationality, had many things in common - heritage, language, territory. The Jews were the only ones who did not have any of that. A Jew was just alone, by himself, identified as “an individual of Jewish nationality”.

Thus, the creative energy of the Jewish people could be only of an introverted character, directed towards cultural self-creation. Every Jew was only what he was and possessed only something he managed to save or preserve. World culture became the source of knowledge and skills, and that was the only capital the Jewish people possessed.

Under these new conditions a Jew began to think of himself as a person of some meaning, thanks to the influence of the Greek pandeja, which he was taking unconsciously from the Russian Orthodox culture. So, only those were given credit as “true Jews” who were successful in their creative work of civilization, not just professionally being scientists, engineers, entertainers, teachers, managers but those who were clearly highly intellectual, able to achieve their goals always relying solely upon themselves.

 Thus, in “The Red Babylon, when G-d was silent, Jews achieved the same level of individualism, as Europeans did. But they achieved that level differently – not via religion but via civilization.

 

In a hostile environment the Jews built the concept of belonging to society on being useful to the society, which actually needed Jews because of their talents and perseverance. This fully corresponded to the ambitious plans of the Soviet Super-power, which exploited the talents of Jews in its own interests. Jews were actively involved in science, industry, in other words, in everything that could strengthen the country. These plans of the state, though, did not contradict the interests of the Jews themselves, since “The Red Babylon” developed in them a perception of being a such a member of this state who is capable of thinking and acting according to the global level of civilizational development. To achieve such a level of civilizational development is the necessary condition for the start of the Third Temple era.  

 

If the Sate of Israel was never established, if the Soviet Union would not choose the politics of hostility against Israel, which was clearly anti-Semitic, that would probably be the end of the Jewish experience in “The Red Babylon”.

But something different happened, which gave an additional boost to the Jewish experience.

Soviet anti-Semitism, officially legitimized by anti-Zionism, put an end to the Internationalist illusions of the Jews in “The Red Babylon”. The Jews reacted to it by starting to resent the Soviet state and instead expressing their solidarity with the state of Israel. That was a moment of national revival, their struggle for a new Exodus. The most surprising thing is, that at this moment the Soviet Jews started to return to G-d, this time voluntarily, without somebody’s will imposed on them.

The sense of collective self-identification started to come back to Jews. But now it originated from the new experience – the experience of “The Red Babylon”. That is why this new self-identification was based on something, hardly to be expected: on civilization, statehood, and individualism.

The destruction of “The Red Babylon” gave a boost to the real Exodus of the Jews. Yet, it was not an Exodus of several individuals, it was an Exodus of a nation dispersed throughout the world. The great numbers of participants in this Exodus was necessary to show how the Jews in “The Red Babylon” were different from the rest of the Jewish people, who did not go through such an experience.

Today, only the Russian Jews have multiple personal connections and relationships with Jews in many countries of the world. They are connected with other Jews not only by a common language, which is Russian, not only by a common past. What is even more important, they are connected with common ideals they developed in “The Red Babylon”. They have also developed a similar understanding of today’s problems.

By losing all the stereotypes of the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt, so typical for the rest of the world Jewry, which did not go through the experience of “the Red Babylon”, the Russian Jews proved to be more open to progress than any other group.

 

In other words, the Russian Jews possess a certain set of qualities, which no other group in the world community has. The question is, whether the Jews would be able to benefit from these qualities or just lose them, by writing them off as totally useless.

 

I believe they will be able to use these qualities. And I have certain grounds for this belief.

I believe in the Russian Jews because its destiny unquestionably proves: the covenant of G-d with the nation of Israel is so stable that nobody can destroy it. G-d talks to the chosen people even when He is silent. In his turn, a Jew, by means known only to him, knows when G-d speaks, and he hears what G-d is saying.

This dialogue goes on, and it will never stop because it is eternal.

As for the Exodus of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt, this experience is over.

 

Besides, I believe in the Russian Jews because they always subconsciously resent any attempt to “squeeze” them into any of the numerous narrow-minded organizational structures, in which the rest of world Jewry, who did not go through “The Red Babylon” and knew nothing about its experience, feel so comfortable.

It was not for the sake of establishing new organizations that the Russian Jews went through the new “Babylonian captivity”. They have a different mission: to establish a state of a new type – “Diaspora-Metropolis”.

And I believe that the Russian Jews are fully capable of fulfilling this mission.

 

Do I know?    

  After I shared my thoughts with a close friend he asked:

- Are you sure that this world of ours is wide enough to accommodate your ideas? Don’t you think that you need a Galaxy?

I understand, all this sounds like mere fantasy, another attempt to rebuild the world.

   Rebuilding the world was not something I had in mind. While looking attentively at concrete people, I try to understand what causes all their problems, which when combined with the problems of other people, become a problem of the entire society on every level of it – urban, national, human. That means that their problems are my personal problems as well. I was trying to sum up the concrete experience of real people. That what shaped up my vision, brought to life ideas, in which I strongly believe.  

This is a totally new approach, and I am sure, I know how I came up with it.  

    

First of all, my approach is determined by the fact that I am a woman.  

The Jewish tradition states that a woman is closer to G-d than a man. This is obvious: The woman gives birth to another human being, with whom she is connected directly, while the man is connected indirectly. For that reason the male approach is to generate abstract ideas and then to impose them on mankind. A female approach originates from a subconscious perception of a human being, which later can be rationalized.

The necessity to think rationally about what is going on in reality is natural for me, since I am not just a woman, I am a former Soviet woman. This past of mine vanished along with the Soviet state itself.

 But in this state, which does not exist anymore, we were taught that we were distinguished as boys and girls only in the structure of a family. Beyond that, we were all just humans. That is why we all got equal upbringing under the Soviet system of general education.

  We were all taught the principles of sciences, based on respect for scientific facts. We were taught to think logically and to express our thoughts clearly. True, we were forced to the study philosophy of Marx and Lenin but in the process it helped us to understand how important political thought is and what comes out of its implementation. 

Actually, this sort of training became handy when it was time to resolutely oppose this very regime that gave us such good education. And that was a miracle, which proved once and again: Man proposes but G-d disposes. G-d is the only One who knows how to turn Evil into Good.

   We were all united by Russian culture; it influenced my self-identification immensely. The Russian Spirit, which transforms people, has penetrated deeply into my soul. One who is blessed with this Spirit perceives the surrounding world very differently, because at the heart of this Spirit there is belonging, unity, common human ideals. This powerful Spirit finds its way to human blood, to each cell of the brain, it empowers and enhances the bravest fantasies.

    These fantasies do not have any boundaries, the same way as there are no boundaries to Grace sent to this world.

    Only the Land of Zion returns us to realistic perception.

    Only here, in the Land of Zion, I started to realize that everything that I dreamt about while being there, in Russia, here in the Promised Land is materialized practically. Belonging, unity, human ideals are materialized in the process of Exodus from the Northern Land and other lands because only here, in the Promised Land, there is an opportunity to unite something that cannot be united anywhere else on this planet. Here the sacred Spirit of all cultures is united with the Sinai Revelation, family tradition is united with “the global village”, an individual is united with all mankind.  

I am a participant in this Exodus. I am proud to say that I am an active participant. Not much to add.      

    

- How did you come up with all these ideas? – A Rabbi asked me after I explained to him my concept, which I laid out in the book “The Paradox of the Fifth Commandment”.– Do you have a religious background?

    - No, I don’t, – I answered emphatically. – I come from a totally assimilated family. My father was a Soviet officer. A substantial part of my childhood I spent living at a military garrison. There were practically no Jews there… But answering your question…

    I paused and then went on:    

    - I just analyzed some phenomena, which one inevitably comes across while living in our Israeli society. That led me to conclusions, which are in full agreement with the Sinai Revelation. This is, if you will, the same thing as in science. The rules of science exist independently, regardless of whether somebody discovers them or not. But if a scientist understands a certain phenomenon correctly, he will discover the right rule, although it already exists independently.  The same is true with the Sinai Revelation. I believe that G-d has given His Law in the Revelation and it was given to the entirety of mankind. This Law exists independently, regardless of whether people are familiar with it or not. I did something similar to what a scientist does: I carefully examined life’s realities, gave thorough thought to the facts at hand, and ultimately discovered a certain order in the process of their formation. I came to the conclusion that History should be based on logic, which reveals G-d’s will. Actually, History is an example of a certain logical order. And the fact that my conclusions coincide with the basic ideas of Revelation, which is conveyed to Jews via traditional religious upbringing, gives me hope that my analysis is correct.

 

    After another pause I went on because I thought it would be right to spell out, what I had in mind.

    - You know, I think my approach offers a certain advantage. If I base my conclusions on the facts, which have already taken place in reality, it means that I can go on like that, i.e. to continue examining the dawning of something that in the future can become another fact. Well, not necessarily. But this allows Man to be an active part of the historical process. That gives a Man the very Freedom of choice, which distinguishes Man from all other creatures. And I cannot ignore the fact that those people, who got the Revelation ready-made through the system of education and upbringing, actually do not have such an opportunity. They perceive the traditional understanding of Revelation as self-sufficient and for that reason they just eliminate the facts that do not fit into their interpretation of Revelation. But the fact still remains. The Jewish nation returned from exile in a new capacity. It was different from those sent to exile centuries ago. But the traditionalists do not see it this way. They are stuck in the middle of the road because they lost any real connection with real life of the Jewish people. And the nation started wandering because it does not have the clear path. Well, what is new? Remember, the Prophet warned about shepherds shepherding themselves.

     (Frankly, I did not say what I wanted to say: They are sitting on the Revelation like a dog in the manger. They do not know what to do but they prevent others from doing anything.)

 

What can be done in this situation? And what can those “other people” do? And who are they anyway?

Is it me? Do I actually know what to do??    

Somebody who claims to know everything is immediately reminded of the quotation from the late poet Alexander Galich.

    - Aren’t you afraid? – I am frequently asked this question. – Don’t you remember Galich’s words: “Be afraid of anyone who says, he knows the answer!”

 

    I understand why our people are so obsessed with this particular quotation from Galich. We are all traumatized by the experiment we were dragged into by those who “knew the answers”, knew how to build a model, a perfect society based on principles of Marxism-Leninism.

 

But our “experts” were not the only ones.    

The sense of arrogant self-importance presented the 20th century with quite a number of such “experts” besides Lenin and Stalin. Here they are: Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong. By the end of the former century ayatollah Khomeini was added to this list. Sadly, the new, 21st century has already proven that in this respect, it matches its predecessor. Again, there are people who cry out loud: “I know!” They are hundred percent sure, they are the only ones who know what kind of “human rights” should mankind have.

But mankind is not so homogeneous. It is not comprised of abstract people capable of obeying one Charter, created by some crazy lunatics.  

 And yet, if not for those people, who dare to say “yes, I know. Follow me!” it is quite possible that mankind would still live in caves.

Mankind progressed, step by step, precisely because such people always appeared. They already saw in the fog the tempting future shaping up, and by exclaiming “I know. Follow me” they would make the first step, inviting the rest to follow them.

 They were undertaking these first and further steps in order to make sure: it was a wrong path, they oversaw something, they made a mistake, while looking for an easy solution. And again the whole picture of world order would lose its clarity, again fog would cover everything. But again somebody would resurface, somebody who already saw the tempting shape of the future, would carry the rest along with him by saying: “I know.  Follow me.”    

Yes, I can say “I know” because I clearly see the shape of this bright future. I see this whole picture but not only of the future but that one of the past. And I refuse to believe that all the steps had been made in the past only for the sake of reaching the edge of abyss and fall into it.  

    However, I cannot say “I know” because I am afraid of sinning. I am not talking about ordinary sins. I am afraid of the Original Sin. Everything started from it.

 

- Do you want to be like G-d? Do you want to know Good and Evil? – The Creator

asked Adam.

- Yes, I do. – The First Man answered.

From that very moment Man was predestined to mix up imaginary Good with true Good. Man is fascinated and tempted by this mirage. He gathers all his strength, works hard, and he is ready to sacrifice his life in order to achieve Good. But the closer he comes to his goal, the more evident it becomes that what he thinks to be Good is actually Evil.   

 

    It will go on like that until the moment of redemption comes when man will repent and he will renounce his claims for Knowledge of Good and Evil.

    We call this moment “The Coming of Mashiah”

    But since Mashiah has not come yet, there is nothing we can do but to accept that this is our destiny – to be balancing on a thin rope over the abyss. This thin rope actually separates the slogan “I know. Follow me” from the slogan “I don’t know anything because G-d is the only One who knows Good and Evil”.

The first problem is one of world order.

“Palestine” is only a tool meant for achieving a certain goal. This goal is to rule the world.

Imperial Britain, the Marxist Soviet Union, Khomeini’s Iran… No matter how different those defenders of Palestine might seem they have something in common – they wanted and still want to define the world order.

 

Even President Bush, who is undoubtedly a friend of Israel, became obsessed with Palestine as soon as he imagined himself being a Master of the Unipolar world.

Which brings us to the conclusion that Palestine is needed for those who want to rule the world.

Assuming G-d’s place.

That brings us to the second problem related to “Palestine” – relations between Man and G-d.

Palestine, which was invented by the Roman pagans in order to erase the memory of the people of Israel, has suddenly grown to a problem of world magnitude, when civilization reached the level necessary for the era of the Third Temple to come.

The higher this level rose – and that process was taking place in Europe – the faster the de-Christianization of Europe took place, which ultimately lead to genocide of the Jews. After the Jews were accused by the church of “killing G-d”, the Europeans accused them of imposing “the Jewish G-d” upon them.

The Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg was precise while expressing this European point of view: “we are killing the Jews not because they crucified Christ but rather for the fact that they gave Him to us”.

Auschwitz was the European revenge for the “Yes” that Jews said to G-d at the Mount Sinai. But the revenge has not been achieved. Now this revenge takes the shape of defending “Palestine”.

Europe invented “Palestine”, Europe elevated it to the level of highest urgency, the Europeans persuaded the world community to provide for the Palestinians in order to demographically replace the Witnesses of the Covenant with the artificial “Palestinian nation”.

All this is quite simple. There is no G-d without Jews. The Europeans are finally free.

Now the revolutionaries from Tehran are dragging the whole Muslim world into the struggle for “Palestine”. However, the very idea of the “Islamic revolution” ayatollah Khomeini brought from Europe, thus contaminating the Iranians with European-style hatred toward Jews. This kind of hatred was absolutely foreign to Iranians but somehow they adopted the European belief that the annihilation of Jews would create the necessary conditions for the coming of the Messiah.

By adopting the very idea of “Palestine” the Arabs have allowed the haters of Abraham’s G-d to complete what Europeans failed to do in Hitler’s time – to finish off the Jews.

 

Thus, the very idea of Palestine carries the hatred toward the G-d of Abraham.

And that means that “Palestine” cannot be perceived solely as an enemy of the Jews. It can equally be perceived as an enemy of the other group of Abraham’s descendants – the Arabs.

This concept becomes obvious as soon as we answer the question: What has “Palestine” done to the Arabs?

First of all, “Palestine” has shaped a particular self-identification for the Arabs and a certain image of an Arab. As a result it is impossible to distinguish between a fighter for the freedom of “Palestine” and just a murderer.

Pagan “Palestine” is a bloody idol created by the European pagan imagination. This idol constantly demands human sacrifices. Though it has claimed many innocent Jewish lives, the number of Arabs killed – both Muslim and Christian – is considerably larger. That is why there is no surprise that, with the encouragement of the world community, the “Palestinian people” teach the young generation to love Death. In order to achieve this goal anything at hand is used – education, media, etc.

Secondly, “Palestine” has forced the Arabs to set the wrong objectives.

In fact, the Arabs face a major problem – civilizational underdevelopment. This is their main problem, not the problem of “Palestine”. They desperately need fresh ideas that would be able to drag Islam out of their current state of stagnation. Meanwhile, the fight for “Palestine” binds them to traditional ideas, which cause them to fall behind other peoples. The Arabs waste their resources chasing the wrong objectives and, as a result, achieve not self-betterment but self-destruction.

Thirdly, “Palestine” has become the symbol of destructive forces, which associate themselves with “Palestine” and threaten the existence of other states, primarily in the Arab world.

They lack any constructive ideas but they use the obvious vulnerabilities of these states by channeling their “revolutionary” energy only for destructive purposes.

 

 

The main problem, however, is that “Palestine” is preparing for the Arabs a Holocaust, comparable to the Holocaust endured by the Jewish people.

As new nations have emerged in the Muslim world, a completely new situation has been created: the biggest priority is the ability of any particular nation to exist in the environment of modern civilization. This has to do equally with the requirements of any given individual in terms of his or her abilities to absorb contemporary knowledge and utilize them, as well as the requirements of a collective group of people, of their ability to self-organize on the basis of uniting ideas.

The Iranians – the Aryans of Asia, ancient and gifted people – have demonstrated such capabilities. Unfortunately, the Arabs have not. Not only have the Iranians managed to create their own sophisticated educational system, industry and so forth, but they have also succeeded in uniting under a common cause the Shiites of Hezbollah and the Sunnis of Hamas, thus proving that they still possess the imperial gift of their ancient ancestors.

All this ultimately leads to the inevitable replacement of the Sunni elite by the Shiite one. But this is not the most important point. What is important is that the fight of Tehran’s “revolutionaries” for world Islam – supposedly -- triggers the ancient claims of this Aryan tribe to be masters of the universe.

In other words, Iran goes through a process similar to that experienced by Nazi Germany. They are eager to reclaim the status of a super-power by means of going back to pre-Monotheistic ideals.

 

This means that sooner or later there will be a need for a new theology, not Shiite but racial. It will be needed to allow Tehran’s “revolutionaries” to position themselves as rulers anointed by G-d’s mercy. Naturally, they will do everything in their power to take away from the Arabs the status of Islam’s forefathers.

The blow will come from three directions.

The economic direction.

While pretending that they care about the needy (and the Shiites would obviously be relegated to) they will take away from the Arabs their natural resources. They will justify their action by accusing the Arabs of spending their vast amounts of wealth in the pursuit of luxury.

The Islamic direction.

In order to vindicate Islam they will put all the blame for terror in name of Allah on the Arabs. They will portray the Arabs as bloodthirsty Semitic savages, who bring destruction and backwardness to this world, in contrast to the highly civilized Aryans who offer to the world creativity and civilization. As a result, the Arabs will be persecuted all over the world.

The globalist direction.

Capturing Jerusalem is the true cause of Tehran’s “revolutionaries’” fight for “Palestine”, which in reality does not have anything to do with them. Jerusalem is the sacred center of The Monotheistic idea; it symbolizes ruling the world. Since, the idea of two sacred centers is rejected,  the Arabs can expect the elimination of Mecca, first theologically and then, physically.

 

It is very important to understand that Abraham’s descendants have common problems which they can solve only by joining their efforts.

Problem one – “G-d and civilization”.

Both the Arab and the Jewish perception of serving G-d block the civilizational development of Abraham’s descendants. For that reason the Muslims have been forced to rethink their approach to classical Islam as it happened, though in different ways, in Turkey and Iran. Similarly, the Jews have had to abandon Judaism in order to get access to modern civilization – science, technology, education and politics. Precisely because of that the Jewish people have been rebuilding their state contrary to the Rabbinical vision.

Under the conditions inherent in the era of the Third Temple, the problem “G-d and civilization” can be solved only by bringing civilization to the family. The descendants of Abraham are the only ones capable of solving a problem of this magnitude, since their understanding of serving G-d is based on the importance of family.

Problem two – the problem of self-organization. Both Jews and Arabs are people of the tribe and the family. The Arabs would have never been able to create a Caliphate if they were not helped by the Hellenistic nations of the Middle East as well as of the Persians, who adopted Islam. Equally, the Jews would not have been able to build a modern state if they had not copied its design from the Europeans.

In the era of the Third Temple, when the family and family-based traditional societies and existing state forms are collapsing, it is necessary to come up with a totally new form, which has never existed before. Not only will this form enable the family to survive but it will also develop further, since its members will benefit from the opportunities created by globalization.

The “Diaspora-Metropolis” state is the form we are talking about, but it requires the cooperation of Abraham’s descendants. 

 

G-d’s Book instructs on how this type of cooperation should be accomplished. It says that when promising to Abraham ““And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed”, G-d actually blessed the descendants of Abraham in different ways. 

G-d gave the Promised Land to Isaac and Jacob. As for Ishmael’s descendants, G-d gave them the earth to roam without limitations. The proof for this is obvious: there is no logical explanation for why a tribe from Arabia, which brought the Monotheistic Idea into the world of ancient civilized nations, settled in their lands, eventually becoming the Arab people. 

Only G-d’s promise to Abraham explains this miracle.

 

Having said that, here is a program of next steps:

1. The Arabs have to respect the right of the descendants of Isaac and Jacob to return to the Promised Land. (Contrary to Christianity, which based its service to G-d on the idea of the “New Israel” while denying the “Old Israel”, Islam accepts the ideas of the Jews coming back. Thus, there are no problems from the point of view of theology).

2. The Jews have to understand why the Arabs protest against the “Jewish” state. The “Jewish” state as copied from Europe is an absurdity, one that renders nonsensical making 2000 years of life in the Diaspora, which has transformed the people of Israel into a unique collective, the “family that is all humanity”. The state of Israel is failing precisely because the Jews cannot afford to have a state “like everybody else”, according to Hertzl’s dream. The Jews are destined to establish a new type of state, in which all the non-Jewish citizens of Israel, and especially the descendants of Abraham, will have a certain role to play.

The “Diaspora-Metropolis” is this kind of state.

3. The Arabs have to abandon the label of Abraham’s G-d haters. They have to put an end to the very idea of pagan “Palestine”. They have to use all sources at hand in order to disband the “Palestinian people”.

So far, enormous amounts of money have been invested to teach the Arabs to feel that they are themselves “Palestinians”, and to kill the Jews. It is time to invest money into each “Palestinian” family so it can dissociate from “Palestine” and the cult of Death created by it.  They have to disband because as long as they have stayed together they have been blessing Death. 

4. It is necessary to formulate a common goal for Abraham’s descendants. As for the Jews, they have to adopt the cultural experience of nations in the Promised Land. As for the Arabs, they have to spread it among people so they can learn to bless Life, the way G-d blessed Abraham. To bless Life, not Death, because it was blessed by the haters of the G-d of Abraham.

Only when the descendants of Abraham see the commonality of their destiny, when they understand the common goal, will it become very clear that they can serve G-d only in alliance with each other.

 

And I believe this time will come.