The Jews And The Torah-The Reason The World Survives
“To be a Jew is to have all the reasons in the world to destroy, and not to destroy. To be a Jew is to have all the reasons in the world to hate the executioners and not to hate them. To be a Jew is to have all the resons in the world to mistrust prayer and faith and humanity and power and beauty and truth and language—and yet not to do so. To be a Jew is to continue using words when they heal, and silence when it redeems mankind.”
This quote is taken from “Sages and Dreamers” written by Elie Wiesel.
When I read that quote, it shook my whole being. So much of what this Jewish author writes does, but this really stood out. The world, as a whole, hates the Jew. There really is no way to explain this. There really is no way to UNDERSTAND this. And so, down through the ages, the Jews have suffered the worse pograms, the inquistion, the holocaust, expulsion, and the worse possible persecution that any people in history have ever endured. It defies logic. It defies the conscience. There are no words to describe.
And yet the world, should they ever succeed in destroying the entire Jewish people, would succeed in destroying themselves. At that point, the world would cease to exist. It would be thrown into chaos and no person could exist. The world, working diligently for the destruction of the Jews, are actually working to destory themselves.
It’s so simple. It’s so easy to see. It makes so much sense……when you begin to see and understand that the world exists solely because they do. It makes so much sense when you begin to understand even a little about how this world which we now occupy was created. G-d created this world with a “blueprint.” A “plan”, if you will. That blueprint was and is called the Torah. It’s the “instruction” manual for how this world is to exist and to work. The Children of Israel, as a whole, accepted this “manual” and said that they would obey. No other nation on this earth accepted G-d’s word for this world. No other nation accepted the the words of the Creator. Had the Children of Israel also chosen NOT to accept this Instruction Manual that G-d had given, the WHOLE world, NOT just the Children of Israel, would have been destroyed at that moment. And even now, WE would not be here. Maybe someone would. Another world maybe…that G-d had created….that had a people who had the wisdom to accept and obey the Words that G-d had spoken. Maybe they would be here. But we would not. Because a world withOUT Torah cannot exist. Cannot work. A world without Torah is a world that self-destructs. As long as there is someone, somewhere, studying Torah, the world will continue to exist. If it ever stopped, the world would cease to exist.
We owe our very existence to a people who chose to follow the One true G-d, the Creator of Heaven and Earth. His name is NOT Allah. His name is NOT Jesus. His name, as told to Moshe is, “Ehyeh asher ehyeh (I will be what I will be).”
The Jews study Torah, NOT only out of love for G-d, but also out of love for the world He created. And the world, UNable to be grateful, can only hate the reason it exists. Thank G-d we don’t get what we REALLY deserve. Thank G-d that He judges THROUGH mercy. And thank G-d that there is a people who chose to “hear and obey.”
Remember to pray for the peace and safety of Israel, and for the peace of an UNdivided Jerusalem, capital of Israel.
