King Mashiach and the Talmudic Three Oaths (Creator, Torah, Deuteronomy)

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King Mashiach and the Talmudic Three Oaths

Over the past century there has been much turmoil, political discourse and debate regarding the political concept of Zionism, and the political formation of a man-made nation called "Yisrael," situated on the ancestral Holy Land of the B'nei Yisrael. To be sure this issue is not one of "good" versus "evil" where one side is entirely good and the other entirely bad. In reality while the Palestinians have given the world suicide bombers and often callous massacres that we cannot seem to comprehend, the Political "Israeli" state has given the world the Irgun and Stern Gang as well as the notorious Sabra and Shatila massacre.

If you have two entities, both political in nature and both with their hands covered to the elbows in blood, would you even begin to confuse this bloodshed with the cause of the One True God? Certainly our Creator wants all Jews to live free from Anti-Semitism and in security that nothing like Ha'Shoah would ever occur again. And yet no truly objective individual could imagine for a second that this same Creator would not wish for Palestinians to live securely in their homes without being forcibly removed or pushed to the side. This is not acceptable in any context, whether here or in the context of the European colonization of the Americas and subsequent crimes against the indigenous peoples there. This is simply not the way of those who follow the Mitzvot and yearn for the rise of Mashiach.

Both sides of this political distraction have sinned against the other. We could spend hours, days, weeks, months, years and even decades analysing, discussing and debating the things that each side did wrong to the other. As well, Palestinians will blame Jews for migrating to the Holy Land and forcing them off their land, and Jews will justify this with European Anti-Semitism, Theodor Hertzel's original motivating in creating the political ideology of Zionism in the first place. But this is neither here nor there. It is not that neither side is right at all, nor is it that there is not in any situation one side that has likely been antagonized. The point is that this does not change the reality of the situation that we face now, nor does it change how this relates to those who anticipate the rise of King Mashiach ben David in accordance with Jewish, Christian and Muslim sources of prophecy.

The Scriptures are clear on the root of this political distraction. The Holy Land is King Mashiach's dominion alone; endowed to him by Ha'Shem, as the righteous ruler of this land steeped in ages of bloodshed and turmoil. It is not the domain of King Herod. It is not the domain of Ariel Sharon. It is not the domain of Rome, nor America, nor the body of global Jewry. The land does not belong to the children of Yisrael by genetic right, as we know that the promise to our father Avraham was made before our father Yitzaq was even conceived. Similarly, we know that it is written in the Torah that: "If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love. He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father's strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him." Deuteronomy 21:15-17

כִּי-תִהְיֶיןָ לְאִישׁ שְׁתֵּי נָשִׁים, הָאַחַת אֲהוּבָה וְהָאַחַת שְׂנוּאָה, וְיָלְדוּ-לוֹ בָנִים, הָאֲהוּבָה וְהַשְּׂנוּאָה; וְהָיָה הַבֵּן הַבְּכֹר, לַשְּׂנִיאָה. וְהָיָה, בְּיוֹם הַנְחִילוֹ אֶת-בָּנָיו, אֵת אֲשֶׁר-יִהְיֶה, לוֹ--לֹא יוּכַל, לְבַכֵּר אֶת-בֶּן-הָאֲהוּבָה, עַל-פְּנֵי בֶן-הַשְּׂנוּאָה, הַבְּכֹר. כִּי אֶת-הַבְּכֹר בֶּן-הַשְּׂנוּאָה יַכִּיר, לָתֶת לוֹ פִּי שְׁנַיִם, בְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר-יִמָּצֵא, לוֹ: כִּי-הוּא רֵאשִׁית אֹנוֹ, לוֹ מִשְׁפַּט הַבְּכֹרָה.

O Children of Adam, the Path of all Prophets, was not a path of politics, of military aggression, of conquest, or land seizure or implementation of the man-made governments of the Nations, of the Goyyim. This is not the way that we are commanded to follow. For the B'nei Yisrael will ONLY be restored to the Holy Land by the just reign of King Mashiach. Restoration in any other manner is a usurpation of King Mashiach's Divine right to rule this Land, his domain.

Rebbi Elazar states that one who lives in Eretz Yisrael "dwells without sin" ("Nesu Avon"), as the verse says, "One who lives there will not say, 'I am sick;' the people that dwells there will be forgiven of sin" Yeshayahu 33:24

וּבַל יֹאמַר שָׁכֵן, חָלִיתִי; הָעָם הַיֹּשֵׁב בָּהּ, נְשֻׂא עָוֹן

This passage of the Talmud, from Mesechet Ketuvot 111a, explains this "forgiveness of sin" by saying that "sins committed in Eretz Yisrael are punished much more severely than sins committed in Chutz la'Aretz!" (Pnei Yehoshuah) So thus, it is only a people "who are not sick" - as Yeshayahu explains - that will be able to enter into Eretz Yisrael when King Mashiach reigns. The people would would enter the Holy Land by force prior to that Messianic Era would in fact still "be sick" with their character flaws, covetiveness, envy and greed that would cause them to take the land by force, band together and "go up in a wall."

The Gemara (end of 110b until the beginning of 111a) records the view of Rav Yehudah, who says that anyone who goes from Bavel to Eretz Yisrael transgresses an Isur Aseh, because the verse says, "To Bavel they will be brought, and there they will stay until the day that I remember them, says YHWH, when I shall bring them up and return them to this place" - Yirmeyahu 27:22

בָּבֶלָה יוּבָאוּ, וְשָׁמָּה יִהְיוּ--עַד יוֹם פָּקְדִי אֹתָם, נְאֻם יְהוָה, וְהַעֲלִיתִים וַהֲשִׁיבֹתִים, אֶל הַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה

This verse commands us not to return from Diaspora until Ha'Shem redeems us.

To ensure that such a sinless state can be attained in Eretz Yisrael, and to ensure that the exponential debt of committing sin in Eretz Yisrael is not incurred, Ha'Shem has made the B'nei Yizrael swear to three oaths:

1. She'lo ya'alu Yisrael B'Chomah (שעלו יעלו ישראל בחומה) - YHWH made B'nei Yisrael swear that Yisrael would not band together and "go up like a wall"

This first oath clearly prohibits the conquering of Eretz Yisrael by massive force. As well, it more literally means that Yisrael - when instituted by Mashiach - would not be built by "walling" itself off from the indigenous society or from the surrounding societies. Not without irony, there has been much talk of erecting a Berlinesque wall by members of the extremist so-called "Likud" party that calls for the virtual genocide of the indigenous Palestinian people, as well as extending "Israel" "from the Nile to the Euphrates"

2. YHWH made Y'hudim swear that they would not rebel against the nations of the world.

This has clearly not been fulfilled. So-called "Israel" exists and expands its "settlements" through the daily violation of the Geneva Convention and dozens of declarations by the United Nations.

3. YHWH made the nations swear not to oppress Yisrael "yoter midai" (יותר מדי) meaning "more than too much."

This is the only leg that Zionist Jews attempt to stand on. It is strange because clearly they do not deny the existence of the Talmudic Three Oaths, and clearly they do not, and cannot, pretend that they are not acting in violation of the first one. History bears witness that they stand in constant violation of the second. Yet they expect that the Nazi Holocaust has absolved them from fulfilling these oaths.

Interestingly though, Y'hudim have been oppressed long before the Nazi Holocaust. The Roman persecution, the Spanish Inquisition and the like are all prominent examples. As terrible as these historical persecutions were, the Talmud records Ha'Shem as having said: "Ani matir es besarkhem" (אני מתיר יש בשרכם) - I will make your flesh permissible (to be taken), meaning that Ha'Shem has allowed there to be a certain degree of oppression of Y'hudim. This oppression itself was to teach us never to be the oppressor. This is why Pesach is so important and why we have always been instructed to pay so much attention to our roots as slaves in Mitzrayim. Ha'Shem knows all, and certainly Hu had full knowledge of what path the majority of Y'hudim would take in this age of global oppression and tyranny. Thus, Ha'Shem permitted oppression to come down upon us so that a remnant among us might remember that oppression is never the answer. This is why orthodox Judaism has always maintained that the Diaspora is a metaphysical state, that should not be hastened by "worldly means," and will only be ended through the creation of the True Nation of Yisrael by Mashiach alone!

According to the Talmud itself, this is the meaning of the verse: "I adjure you, O daughters of Yerushalayim, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field, should you wake or rouse the love until it pleases." Shir Ha'Shirim 2:7

הִשְׁבַּעְתִּי אֶתְכֶם בְּנוֹת יְרוּשָׁלִַם, בִּצְבָאוֹת, אוֹ, בְּאַיְלוֹת הַשָּׂדֶה: אִם תָּעִירוּ וְאִם תְּעוֹרְרוּ אֶת הָאַהֲבָה, עַד שֶׁתֶּחְפָּץ

This verse is so important that it is repeated again in Shir Ha'Shirim 3:5 word for word: "I adjure you, O daughters of Yerushalayim, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field, should you wake or rouse the love until it pleases."

הִשְׁבַּעְתִּי אֶתְכֶם בְּנוֹת יְרוּשָׁלִַם, בִּצְבָאוֹת, אוֹ, בְּאַיְלוֹת הַשָּׂדֶה: אִם תָּעִירוּ וְאִם תְּעוֹרְרוּ אֶת הָאַהֲבָה, עַד שֶׁתֶּחְפָּץ



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An over-zealous youth who pursues infatuation with one that they have set their eyes upon - while the one whom they admire is not yet ready to accept their advances - is called a "stalker" when they pursue one who repeatedly fights off their advances. In a similar manner the B'nei Yisrael have forsaken this Talmud and taken the Holy Land by force. Taking this analogy of Shir Ha'Shirim to its logical conclusion, the colonization of Palestine can be likened to a rape of the land and its inhabitants.

If the Talmudic "Three Oaths" would have been followed, then the process of love would have naturally matured. Mashiach would have Risen and led the pure among the B'nei Yisrael to the Holy Land. Thus the True Nation of Yisrael would have been created by Mashiach in the perfect manner - in accordance with the Divine Will and Knowledge of how to deal with Justice and maintain Peace.

This is still the option that Ha'Shem has offered us for peace. Admit where errors were made, and where we as a people have violated our oaths. Seek reconciliation. Seek Hashlamah. View our brothers and sisters in Palestine as the brothers and sisters that they are. Seek to resolve conflict in areas where we have wronged others, and just as we seek for others to look past our wrongs and resolve conflict with us, we should be willing to forgive a people for the wrongs of a tiny few and not be heavy handed or oppressive with them. For the time has come that the B'nei Yisrael withdraw from the ways of the nations and their political systems. It is not for us to adopt their politricks and systems so that we can face the turmoil, strife and terrorism that they have faced through their centuries of colonialism. Only then can we expect for King Mashiach to rise, and to look upon us favorably as his people when that time comes.