Goldberg and Davidiy.
Basic Facts and Main Text Supplied by Amnon Goldberg.
Some Background and supplementary information by Yair Davidiy.
See Also:
Holocaust - Foreseen? Why Did It Happen?
Continued from: Rabbis Predicted. Part 1.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/guest/goldberg1/predicted.html
Part 2.
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1938 - "Sword and Slaughter are coming to the world because men fail to study the Zohar Hakodosh" (R.Yehudah Ashlag).
Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (1885-1954) also known as the Baal Ha-Sulam was an orthodox rabbi and kabbalist born in Congress Poland, Russian Empire, to a family of scholars connected to the Hasidic courts of Porisov and Belz. Rabbi Ashlag lived in the Holy Land from 1922 until his death in 1954 (except for two years in England). In addition to his Sulam commentary on the Zohar, his other primary work, Talmud Eser Sefirot is regarded (by some) as the central textbook for students of Kabbalah. Ashlag systematically interpreted the wisdom and promoted its wide dissemination. In line with his directives, many contemporary adherents of Ashlag's teachings strive to spread Kabbalah to the masses (source. Wikipedia).
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1939 - "The Heavenly Decree against Europe's Jews cannot be reversed and will be worse than that of the destruction of the Second Temple. Its like has not been seen since the world was created!" (Rebbe of Karlin).
The key to all the events of history is:
"Disaster does not come intot he world unless Israel deserves (Talmud Yebamot 63a).
Many sources, the Zohar, Vilna Gaon, Toldos Yaakov Yosef, R.Ibn Yachya etc. pinpointed 5698 - 5708 (1937- 1948) as being years of portent ("L'chol Eis," R. M.Glazerson 1987).
"And the L-rd will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth. And among those nations shall you have no repose and there shall be no repose for the sole of your foot but the L-rd shall give you a trembling heart and failing eyes and languishing of soul. And your life shall hang in doubt before you and you shall fear night and day and shall have no reassurance of your life. In the morning you shall say would it were evening, and in the evening you shall say would it were morning. For the fear of your heart which you shall fear and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. And I will scatter you among the nations and I will draw out the sword after you and you will perish among the nations and the land of your enemies will eat you up and you shall have no stand before your enemies and they that are left of you shall languish away in their iniquity in your enemies lands" (Leviticus Vayikra 26 and Deuteronomy Devarim 28).
"They will be sucked empty by hunger, consumed by fever, and cut down by bitter plague" (Deuteronomy Dvarim 32:24) - ketev meriri (tyranslated here as "bitter plagues" - or "poisonous pestilence" (ESV) is elswhere translated as poison gas (Targum Onkelos, Aramaic Translation 100 CE)!
And today the Arabs are calling the Jews "apes", just as the Nazis once called them "untermenschen": "When the Jew loses his Judaism, which is his very essence, he actually becomes inferior to others, like an imitative ape. And the nations then actually start to look upon him as being less than human!" (Natziv, - She'ar Yisroel).
Up until 150 years ago, the Jewish Nation was not numbered among the nations of the earth: "Behold, a nation that will dwell alone and will not be numbered among the nations" (Numbers Bamidbar 23). Assisted by their different language and clothing, and the ambient hostility, the People of Israel (Am Yisroel) had remained largely intact for 1700 years: :
"the L-rd has sorely afflicted me, but he has not given me over to death!" (Tehillim - Psalms) 118). Jews had no inclination whatsoever to mingle with the nations.
However, in accordance with the ancient prediction of the Zohar, the year 1840 saw the Industrial Revolution really take off, and a huge elevation in the material status of the nations, no-where more so than in Germany. And it was there for the first time that Jews started to look up to the nations.
Moses Mendelssohn (1729 1786, the following notes are mostly adapted from Wikipedia) was a Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah, or 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the 1700s and 1800s.
He was born in Central Germany. Through his writings on philosophy and religion he came to be regarded as a leading cultural figure of his time by both Christian and Jewish inhabitants of German-speaking Europe and beyond. His involvement in the Berlin textile industry formed the foundation of his family's wealth.
He was befriended by the German philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in 1754. In October 1763 the King of Prussia granted Mendelssohn, but not his wife or children, the privilege of Protected Jew (Schutzjude), which assured his right to undisturbed residence in Berlin.
He translated the Pentateuch and other Biblical books into German. This included a commentary that was thoroughly rabbinic, quoting mainly from medieval exegetes but also from Talmud-era midrashim. It was written in elegant High German and thus facilitated Yiddish speaking Jews in mastering the German tongue.
in 1775 Mendelsson asked an acquaintance, the Christian Theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater, to intervene on behalf of the Jews in German parts of Switzerland and thus saved them from expulsion. He helped create the first public school for Jewish boys in Berlin in 1778.
Mendelsson was acquainted with all kinds of Gentile VIPs and intellectual big-wigs and did much to further Jewish rights and basic interests. This came at a price. Out of his 6 children only one was to remain Jewish. Mendelssohn tried to better the Jews' situation in general by furthering their rights and acceptance.
He encouraged Jews to take a lovey-dovey attitude towards Christianity which under the conditions of that time led to many of them becoming Christians with others joining the Reform Movement.
Moses Mendelssohn himself may have meant well, but the message of the his disciples, the first Maskilim (Worldy-wise Intellectuals), was "forget the Torah, and anti-semitism will disappear". Within one generation half of German Jewry had apostasised to Christianity! But the vast majority of Jews lived in The Pale (in the Russian Empire). In 1863 Russia lost the Crimean War. Until then, there had been no changes in the agrarian system of that country for over 1000 years. In the cause of modernisation, the defeated Tsars built railroads that connected them to Germany. And along those railroads came the first Hebrew newspapers: Hamagid, Hakarmel, Hashachar, Hameilitz, Hatzefirah etc., printed in the Prussian presses of the Maskilim, and which railed vociferously against the Torah and its living expositors. Amongst the Jewish masses they caused a sensation, and were avidly absorbed. In addition, many Jews had been contracted by the Tsars to build these railroads, and a new class of wealthy poretz had arisen, whose allegiance was neither to God nor to the Rabbis: a classic case of
"Yeshurun waxed fat and kicked" (Dvarim-Deuteronomy 32).
In accordance with the warnings of Dvarim-Deuteronomy 28, Heaven sent warnings that things were going awry, with the commencement of numerous pogroms and blood-libels, such as the Dreyfuss and Beyliss trials, and the Kishinev pogrom. These events caused the Maskilim to become profoundly disillusioned with the concept of assimilation, which even they realised would not work:
Moses had warned of the rise of "new gods whom your fathers did not know" (Dvarim-Deuteronomy 32:17).
In order to provide a severe test of virtue, the Yetzer Hara (Evil Impulse) promoted, under the guise of "Jewish self-pride", the creation of even worse banes than the empty shell of Maskillus viz. atheistic Zionism, Bundism, Yiddishism and Reform. Led by such men and women as Graetz, Shalom Aleichem, Gordon, Smolenskin, Lilienblum, Ginzberg, Sokolov, Emman Goldman, Homberg, Wessley, Weiss etc., these "leaders" now took over the papers of the Maskilim. The Orthodox tried to stem the tide valiantly with under-funded papers such as Halevanon and the Varshever Tageblat.
The scene was set for the greatest Torah defection in history. As with Titus who was sent by Heaven to destroy the disloyal elements of the Second Temple, it was a case of ... "pulverising flour that had already been pulverised" (Sanhedrin 96): so it was with the sending of Hitler and the destruction of The Pale. It was classic midah k'neged midah (measure for measure): from Berlin the rot had started, so from Berlin the destruction came; as the Jews tried to get lost among the Gentiles, so there were they tracked down by the researchers of the Zentralstelle (Central office of Nazi Racial Research) even back to the third or fourth generation; because married Jewesses exposed their hair for the first time in history, so was their hair shorn off; because they so revered the German doctors, so did the German doctors experimented on them to death; because they were so enamored with German gemutlichkeit (Gentlemanliness), so were the Germans permitted to show their other side, the dreaded Furor Teutonicus (Teutonic Terror), already famous in the days of the Talmud (Megillah 6).
Because they trusted in the secular Jewish leaders, so those very leaders betrayed them in their hour of need: Wise, Sharret, Ben Gurion, Henrietta Szold, Golda Meir, Ehrenpreis etc. Their motto was: "One cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Europe!" (Y.Greenbaum, Chairman, Jewish Agency). "Palestine cannot be allowed to be flooded with undesirables (i.e.Orthodox Jews)" (Henry Montor, Director UJA).
"For the leaders of this people cause them to err and they that are led by them are destroyed" (Yeshaya-Isaiah 9). The whole sordid scandal came out in the 1954 Kastner Trial.:
"Why do You continue to gaze upon the traitors?" (Chavakuk- Habakuk 1).
"You eyes are as beautiful as doves - those eyes are the Torah leaders of each generation" (Midrash Shir Hashirim R.4). Today, as in the past, when the masses in Israel foresake the leadership of the Gedolim (Great Rabbis) and put their trust in the enemies of the Torah, then when their hour of need comes, then they too will taste the bitterness of non-Torah leadership, and they will not be favoured with God's approval.
"Awake O sword against the shepherd....smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered" (Zechariya 13).
It must not be forgotten that that the perpetration of the Holocaust required the full cooperation, einer in eiener, of the German scientists, doctors, judiciary, financiers, press, railwaymen, Red Cross, church, and diplomats, in addition to efficient assistance from very many Poles, Slovaks, Croats, Romanians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Belgians, Dutchmen, Ukranians, Bosnians and Frenchmen. But not to forget that there were also some truly humanitarian non-Jews who assisted in hatzolah: Raoul Wallenberg, Paul Grueninger, Oskar Schindler, Alexander Lados, Guelfo Zamboni, Fillipe Bernardini, Nicholas Winton, Sempo Sugihara, and even the fascist leader General Franco of Spain and Hitler's ally Carl Gustav Mannerheim of Finland!
Despite her present prosperity, Germany has yet to be payed in full for her horrendous crimes: - "a litlle longer, and the wicked will be no more" (Tehillim-Psalms 37). Her role in our nation's history may not yet be over, in the future war of Gog and Magog: "Gomer and all her armies" (Yechezkel- Ezekiel 38) - "Gomer is Germania" (Yoma 10)! Some speculate that just as Nebuchadnezar's punishment for destroying the first Temple was delayed because he gave charity to the Jewish poor, so similarily has the punishment due to Germany been temporarily postponed because of their viedergutmachung, their Holocaust `Reparations', but,
"the Days of Recompense are coming" (Hoshea 9)! - "Germania of Edom: should they ever burst out from their borders, they will destroy the entire world" warned the Talmud Megilla 6: "The Germans started WW1, the Germans started WW2, mark my words: the Germans are going to start WW3!" (British astronomer Patrick Moore recently).
When the Belzer Rebbe heard that his son had been done to death by the Nazis wrapped in a burning Torah scroll, he exclaimed "The Creator in his mercy has accepted my son as a korbon!".
The very fact that Auschwitz still exists, that it was not bulldozed to the ground in 1945, that all its gas chambers are fully intact and functional just waiting to be reconnected to the Zyklon B is ominous. Jewish history has shown repeatedly that it would be premature to discount their dastardly designed use yet again, (God forbid) the March of the Living rite of passage for Jewish youth today could yet become The March of the Dying" And even elsewhere: "The Americans are capable of one day building better gas chambers than the Germans!" (Rabbi Avigdor Miller, 1980).
For the Jew whose destiny is the Afterlife, assimilation and rejection of the Torah are worse than death, and it was a great chesed (kindness) of Hashem that the Jews of Europe were taken out of this world before they spoiled entirely. As to the question why Orthodox also perished, one must unfortunately apply the principle: "Once the Angel of Death has been given permission to be unleashed, he does not distinguish between the righteous or the wicked". (Talmud Bava Kama 60).
Could the Orthodox have done more to bring the masses back to Judaism? "The Torah world will one day have to account for why it did not establish a yeshiva in the birthplace of Leon Trotsky. Had there been a yeshiva there, he might have attended it, and Communism would never have gotten off the ground!" (Alter of Navardhok).
Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horowitz (also known as the "Alter (Elder) of Novardok" 1847-1919. He was a student of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, the founder of the Musar movement (Learning and practical application of Jewish Ethics). He established the Novardok yeshiva and a network of other yeshivas in eastern Europe. The most basic and important theme in his main book is Trust in God.
. There were cases when communist pamphlets were left in yeshivos at maariv (the evening prayer), and the rosh yeshiva would wake up for shacharis (morning prayer) to find the yeshiva totally empty: the entire yeshiva had defected to atheistic communism overnight, with many of them joining the Yevsektzia!
The Yevsektsiya was a Jewish section of the Soviet Communist Party. These sections were established in 1918 with the consent of Vladimir Lenin to carry the communist revolution to the Jewish masses.
The sections were staffed mostly by Jewish ex-members of the Bund, i.e. the Jewish Socialist party. They were hostile to the Jewish Religion and to Zionism. Many leading members of the Yevsektsiya were murdered by Stalin during the Great Purge of the late 1930s.
The main torturers of the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe and who demanded his execution even more than the Soviet gentile prosecutors were...... his formally Orthodox Jewish friends and chevrusos (learning parners) from cheder (relgious primary schools) and yeshiva! The Jews of England and America were spared visitation, because unlike the Jews of mainland Europe, the majority did not actively rebel against the Torah, but had lapsed into a torpor of ignorance.
Never say that it could not happen again:
"Because the sentence is not immediately executed, men's hearts are encouraged to do evil" (Koheles - Ecclesiastes 8). It is remarkable that atheists and anti-Torah elements are once again at the helm of the Medina (state of Israel), particularly ominously of education: "The Jewish nation without Torah can only survive for four generations" (Rabbi Chaim Brisker).
"Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your children" (Hoshea 4).
"A day of wrath will be that day, a day of trouble and distress, a day of holocaust and desolation" (Tzefaniya - Zephaniah 1). "In the last three hours before the Redemption, it will be as difficult to cling to one's Judaism as it is to climb a vertical wall of ice" (Rabbi Yisroel of Rizhyn). The tribulations wrought on us by the nations throughout the 4000 years of our history have been terrible: their crime has been in preventing us from being able to fully fulfil the will of the Creator. But the nations do not make history: it is the behavior of the Am Yisroel to the Torah that is the main determinant!
For more on this subject it is recommended to read Rabbi Avigdor Miller's outstanding book, "A Divine Madness: a defense of Hashem in the matter of Holocaust".
Rabbi Avigdor Miller.
Avigdor HaKohen Miller (1908 - 2001) was an American Haredi rabbi, author, and lecturer, born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He served as Rabbi of various congregations. Miller authored several books about Jewish history, Jewish thought and other subjects. He wrote important works against the Theory of Evolution which he considered a serious threat to Judaism and belief in God.
Over a span of 50 years, more than 2,500 lectures by Miller in English were published as cassette tapes. While also covering Torah-oriented concepts that might have been heard in more typical Orthodox lectures, Miller regularly delivered his own unique take on political and societal themes. Miller was a supporter of police brutality against criminals. Before the 1976 elections he said, "We need more police brutality. And although innocent people might suffer sometimes, it pays." Miller was outspoken in his belief that the Holocaust was a Divine response to Jewish cultural assimilation in Europe. Miller was a staunch opponent of Zionism to an exaggerated degree. Despite its numerous faults Zionism has established a settlement of Jews in the Land of Israel. This now includes what may be the largest concentration of Torah-true Jews ever known! It has also helped resist assimilation.