Is This the End of Zionism?

okay good evening everybody and welcome back hope everybody had a wonderful pesach tonight a subject which is very much in the news Zionism I don't think I can in the 35 plus years that I've been living here now it's Israel I can remember a time where there was so much divisiveness so much polarization between what they call the right wing and the white the right wing and the left wing it could be I'm not a politician I'm not a political analyst but it could be that if you look at the the demographic really this is was a problem waiting to happen from the very beginning or at least from a while ago and it's just manifesting itself now meaning that the way the state was set up was as a left wing very socialist some might even say communist idea arguably the kibbits was probably the only um example of pure practical communism that ever existed for sure the founding fathers of the state of Israel were very left-wing left-leaning and that really that patrimony has been handed down in a succession of families who constitute I would say the core Intelligentsia the upper class what's uh referred to as something of a joke by my children calling it The svonne bonim the people who live in North Tel Aviv there's a whole culture there which has grown up and they were the ones who started the state um really starting with Menachem begin there was another influence that came in which was with the influx of svadi Jews and arguably much more traditional maybe not all completely religious but certainly attuned much more to Traditional Values so things started to change and in fact began was the first one to tap in to that electoral base with some considerable success so if you look at the demographic Graphics of typical left-wing families and typical right-wing families and I'll include the religious community in the right wing side of it for the sake of argument the demographic means that slowly slowly after the over the preceding years what's been happening is the balance has been tipping more and more to the right which means that there's at some point this was I guess in a sense bound to happen that the values the left-wing values which are espoused as being enshrined in the whole way the state was set up at a certain point would become challenged by a larger right-wing majority and of course this is the first government that I can remember that has had anything like a clear majority and that Mandate of that majority was to refurbish to go over the way the the country is really the balance of power in this country which has been as we've seen provoke tremendous um reaction I'm not going to get into the politics of it but we've got real problems I just hope I pray that everything will eventually come to a point of understanding the Jewish people the history of the state at the beginning of the state the incidents of the altelena where there was nearly a Civil War in this country right at the beginning of the state and I don't think we're anywhere near as that they're as bad as that now but there is a tremendous sense of uncertainty and polarization media is very much controlled by the left wing and they very much influence the opinions of people in hutzlarge and Americans and I'm not getting into the rights or wrongs of uh who's right and who's wrong but I think everybody agrees to some degree that they're some kind of overhauling needs to be done the balance of power is very much with the Supreme Court and the established ruling class quote unquote in this country and I thought this would be an a good time to talk about what I believe to be real Zionism which is not political at all we discussed this actually in a couple of months ago I think but I think it's worth reviewing these ideas what is Zionism where does the word Zion comes from Zion so let's go back to the creation of the world tells us that when Hashem created the world he didn't create it as a so to speak one finished existence he fashioned it from a single infinitesimal point where all the worlds Above This World so to speak which are Beyond time and space formed into this one and the Miracles did a rock a stone the Evan shasia the foundation stone and from there was extruded the entire creation started this infinitesimal point where space and time came into existence from the spiritual worlds above this world and the infinite chaining down from Hashem himself to this world as we the physical world that we have at the olamasia excuse me and then the world so to speak creation expanded until Hashem said die sufficient it's enough this is the understanding of one of hashem's name that we which is spelled Shin dala denyud and we said Shah and then die the dashem spoke he's Hashem me who said to the world die that's enough in other words the world would can theoretically gone on expanding and expanding and expanding at a certain point he said Hashem said that said this is sufficient die that's enough the word uh and as I said that the world starts off from that point the evidence the word shasia comes from the connected to the word which means Foundation um when we talk about something being the foundation of something Foundation really has two connotations one is it's the Point of Departure and also it's the summation of all of that and everything that entity is supposed to be something is founded on for example right the Declaration of Independence was the foundation of the United States of America it was the beginning but it also was a Manifesto A summation of everything that that entity was to be so when we talk about the foundation Foundation con carries these two connotations that place the Evan Shazier from where which the world started from that infinitesimal point is on a small Hillside a couple of kilo kilometers down here the Temple mount there's a stone on that mount called the evansia from where the entire existence the entire creation as we know it started that was the not only the place of creation that was the place that that Yitzhak brought up his son excuse me ever brought up his son yet talk as a sacrifice the place of the akedah and that was the place where jakovino had his dream and he saw the connection between Heaven and Earth as a Lada much of artsa stuck into the ground and its head reaching to the heavens again that that idea of of connection between two realities and that was the place where first base amigdush was built the second base of English was built Hashem very soon the third base of English will be built the Bahamian the there's a Psalm to heal him 50 which is called mismo the Assaf it says as follows um a song for Assaf mitsion from Zion mikhlal yofi the essence consummation Cloud Israel everything together mitsion which is the essence the consummation of yofi of beauty eloquim hofia God appeared God appeared which is what we've been talking about from a place called Sion which is the essence of beauty in other words this world was founded on something called Sion now what it's what does CEO mean again francione which is the Khloe we'll come back to that Elohim of fear God Appears in this world that is the point in creation where the spiritual total spiritual Universe becomes something formed uh the universe that we're aware of so what does tion mean from this thing called Sion the word Sion is connected to the in the hagoda if you remember we learn about how the Jewish people were mitsu your name in in mitraim in Egypt it's interesting because I think mitsuyan is probably one of the few words where there's a direct idiomatic translation from the Hebrew straight into the English which is the world word when we talk about somebody who's mutsuyan okay it could be translated it's excellent but a more accurate translation would be outstanding something which is outstanding the Jewish people were outstanding in Egypt we stuck out the word for a grave marker is a Sian if you go up to the north of onto the kivarium up in the Galileo you'll see soon what seon means to indicate meaning this entire world was created as an indicator Zion which means the yes no that's fine thank you okay I appreciate it from this concept called indication which is the miklal yofi Elohim of fear God appeared in this world so let's understand this we said that when something is founded on something that Foundation is it is its beginning but it's also a declaration of its purpose meaning this entire world was founded with the understanding with the purpose that it's supposed to indicate it's supposed to indicate what the connection it's supposed to indicate the connection between this world the world the space and time to a world which is above this world that there is a connection that's the idea of the ladder that is the whole function of this world so to be a Zionist in the strictest definition in the world word means somebody who is involved in this Divine work of showing the entire world that there is a connection that this world is not something by itself this world is only here to indicate that there is a world above this world there's a connection there's a the mnemonic Services which quotes are possum which says the place of your dwelling Hashem you made Hashem which of course is the same place as how to buy it which is the place of Sion your hands prepared you Kona knew they found they found it the two hands so to speak are the hands which meet at that point the two hands so to speak of Hashem meet at the point of that connection plural two hands there's a gemara in Baba bastra several gamoras which describe a certain Tire a certain Arab who used to take rabba Baba Khana to various places and show him geographical um interesting geographical places he showed in the place where korak and his cohorts went down to the ground and they could hear coming up from the depth Moshe Ms sarasa MS moisture is true and the story is true and we're rebellious we are fakers there's another one of these gamoras where this tire this uh this Arab said the rabba Baba come I will show you where Heaven and Earth Kiss and he showed them the same idea the same idea of connection of revealing there's a connection there's a place where Heaven and Earth Kiss in that place is the same as the Evan shasia is the same as the base amigdash is the same as the ladder of jakovino and the place of the Acadia in other words with the destruction of the base I make dodge what happened basically is that the palpable connection between this world and the worlds above it vanished was destroyed the Basa mikdosh many miracles several Miracles happened there first place more than the second but apparently you could perceive this connection there and that was lost everything today seems very remote when we talk about the base amigdash the idea of animal sacrifice baklal is a very difficult concept for the 21st century mind how did that all work and yet we know that was the the holiest place in the world and to us it looks from the outside like a glorified slaughterhouse so clearly something in our sensitivities is gone we cannot we don't see it we've lost that contact we've lost that ability to see it's I guess a bit like trying to describe a beautiful Santa to somebody who's been blind all his life you can talk about it but your frame of reference is so removed from anything that that God forbid that blind from birth person understands that it's impossible really to communicate what that was like and similarly it's impossible for us to really understand in any way what it was like and in the sense Tish above is where we mourn that we mourn the destruction and we mourn the fact that we can't mourn because we really don't know what it is it's just beyond beyond our understanding foreign and Earth as totally separate and never the twain will will meet but maybe just one more idea which we could talk about is that a sentence for him that everything that happened to Yosef happens to seon in the davening in the morning we say to you Hashem is the I'm going to translate these words with English words with a woefully and adequate is the greatness and the strength of uh to Ferris the Splendor and The Eternity another word for like a Shining Light because you include Michael yofi everything within Heaven and Earth you connect heaven on Earth these are the meters by which Hashem runs the world the Meda of Joseph is the connection between Heaven and Earth that's Yosef Joseph the Gematria of Yosef is yud which is 10 660 pairs 80s 156. the Gamache option is which is 10 verb which is six and none which is 50 which is also 156. was the provider he was the one who funneled the energy and the wealth of Egypt out to a starving world he was the provider he was so to speak the cable now it's interesting that amalek and his wisdom was able to grow plants which only normally Grant grow in Africa or far reaches of the world and the reason is very simple because everything in this world nothing physical can exist without some kind of spiritual influx a spiritual core so for anything to exist in this world it has to have this influx of spirituality all spirituality in this world comes down through the miktas the place and so to speak it it fans out and I think they have this concept maybe if you've heard about it in England they talk about these things of Ley lines or power cables spiritual car power cables which really Empower everything which can is going to happen in the world comes from yerushalayim and that's why Shalom was able to grow certain plants that normally would only grow in some Far distant place in the world here in New shalim because he was able through his wisdom to tap into that exact place where that power cable so to speak of spirituality spread out through you shalim and reached out across the world maybe I could ask add a personal note here that my wife and I got engaged my wife's in Argentina and I'm British and we got engaged on the day that the argentinians and the British sound sound signed the peace treaty after the Falcons War so I think not to Schiller should be well pointed out he said you see what happens something happens in the yerushalayim we got engaged and the power spread out too so the I'm not claiming sort of Supernatural I'm just saying that it's a an interesting idea but the the idea is true the idea is that everything in this world comes all spirituality all kiem yeah can I ask you if you sorry I've done the rounds do you know about the tagim on the on the safer on in the safer Torah can we can we can we leave that till absolutely okay foreign okay so no I think we'll okay yeah no okay so far so good so far so good let's have a look at the base of mcdosh the center of the basement where the Aaron hakodesh sat the arunakodesh sat on the Evan shasia the place of connection as we said between this world and the worlds Above This World now there's a very interesting Gamora in Magilla that says which translates as the Aaron takes up no space the iron has no space now that's difficult to understand because we've all learned in the Torah that the iron had very specific dimensions it was two and a half almost by one and a half almond by one half amen so how did how can the gamara say foreign so I did this little drawing here which I think should explain it and if you can see it let's say excuse my drawing but um let's say for the sake of argument this is the kodesh kadoshin okay and this is the iron now if you measure let's say from one side of the of the kodesh condition to the other side you'll get a if you measure from one side of the Kardashian in the place where the iron is to the other side sorry to this side of the iron ill let's say get B1 and if you then take a tape measure and you measure from the other side of the iron to the other wall you'll get B2 what the gamoran in Magilla is basically saying is that B1 and B2 equals a in other words the iron has Dimension two and a half one and a half one half but it takes up no space which if you think about it is exactly what you would expect because that is the Gateway as the yakubavinu said so we would expect that any gateway to exceed to see evidence of both realities the iron is in this world it has Dimension it has size it takes up space or I'm going to take that back it has Dimension but it's in a place which is the gateway to that which is beyond space and time and therefore it takes up no place um the gamara excuse me the gamarin Yuma base this this um describing the destruction of the Besame now maybe I should just preface this by saying the there was a group of people called the unshakedness the men of the great assembly and they were the ones who were basically along with them was uh Ezra there were Prophets why were they called the men of the great assembly laminate they were called that they returned the crown to its former glory I will explain Asa moisha Moshe came along and he says in the Torah and the only reason we can use any kind of adjectives when describing Hashem who clearly is beyond all like active civilization you can't use any adjective to describe Hashem because anything which would an adjective basically defines in every definition limits and Hashem by definition is Limitless the only reason we cannot use those specific epithets those specific adjectives is because the Torah itself uses those Moshe came along and that's the Torah and it says Okay God who is great Mighty awesome awe says liamia yermia Jeremiah came along after the destruction of the base amigdush and said heathens barbarians uh macaron cavorting dancing prancing around partying we would probably say nowadays but hey hello in his sanctuary where is hashem's ore law Alma Nora take out the word no RAF and the davening and they took the word out when they Daven they said and they left out Nora from the doubling year Mia Jeremiah told them take it out you cannot go now this has to be understood because clearly as we said before any adjective any epithet any Meda characteristic that we refer to Hashem as has nothing to do with Hashem in his Essence Hashem is something that we we can't understand in anyone whatsoever when we talk about his midot we are really understanding his interface with his creation we see how Hashem interfaces with the creation sometimes through gudula which is which is quote unquote kindness sometimes we see him interfacing through Gibble givora which is din which is strict Justice what the Irma was basically saying is the Meda of Norah that interface which is called or awe clearly if not remember if these heathens are cavorting or parting in the holiest place in the world the Kurdish kodashim the heavens if they're in there doing that then clearly Hashem so to speak has shut up he has ceased to relate to this world through his Meda of Nora now it's interesting because if you take the letters of Nora noon race and aleph and you spell it from Back to Front you get a aleph race so to speak the Norah from hashem's point of view so to speak the nun verb aleph we perceive in this world as alephresh they're one of the same thing okay that's something else as Jacob avino said when he was the sight of the ladder the communication with the angels going up and down he said Ma Nora how awesome is this place jakovino even though there was no Aaron yet nevertheless he perceived the essence of the place ma Nora that this was a place where Hashem was manifesting his Nora and as we said before Jeremiah came along and he said you have to take out Nora from the darwining and they did take it out but now the unshaken necessary goddola they were the ones who restored the crowned to its former glory by able to being able to find something in the world which was the Nora that the Aaron represented in a different way when Esther came back from Babylon from the exile he saw things from a very different point of view he saw that there was a a kevis a lamb shivim's even between 70 wolves surrounded by 70 wolves 70 is the number of the nations of the world and yet the land was not consumed the unhistorical the anti-historical survival of the Jewish people in Exile in Babylon when Ezra came back he perceived this as the Norah that Hashem had removed from the Aaron and as it was now displaying his Norah through the eternity of the existence of the Jewish people Shivam the shivens are even a chemist being shipping for him and nevertheless the lamb is not consumed 70 wolves and yet the lamb Carries On the fact of the survival of the Jewish people is the Nora that now exists in the world a world which has no iron anymore this is what it meant this is what it means when we say the anshikness Israel was one of those were marxia atarola they returned the crown to its former glory and Jeremiah said take out the word Norah came along Ezra and the answer and they restored that nor in the world in a different way in the miraculous survival of the Jewish people there's a story and it's variously said about Pascal Voltaire or the doctor of Frederick the great it doesn't really matter who said it but let's say for the sake of argument it was Walter ha Louis XIV asked Voltaire for one proof of the existence of God in the world and he replied to him the Jews your majesty Voltaire recognized that the survival of the Jews is mitzayan is an indicator it is indicating that continued connection of Heaven and Earth we don't have an iron anymore it reveals the Norah we don't have an Evidence we don't know where that is anymore where the foundation of the world which was to indicate that saying to indicate that connection we don't have that anymore what we have is the miracle miraculous continuation of the Jewish people Paul Davis in the history of the Jews actually just parenthetically it's an interesting book Paul Davis is a non-jew and he doesn't have acts of most of what he writes about the time of the Torah and Ghazal he doesn't is not privy to the information and the knowledge we have so is someone quite very inaccurate in many things that he says there but what is interesting is first of all his account of the beginnings of Zionism makes very interesting reading he points out something which I would consider to be hash kaha that Heim Weitzman when he came here to try and drum up interest if you think about it for it's kind of a somewhat miraculous in itself that he was able to get so much support from the English government when it was quite obvious to everybody that there were quite a number of Arabs living in this particular part of the world and the British Empire had I don't know many many millions of Muslim sub subjects in India and Pakistan before they were divided who were not going to be at all happy about the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and yet for some reason or rather they managed he managed to get the English government to declare their support for a Homeland for the Jewish people it comes out if you look at the members of the camera cabinet at that time the British cabinet many of them were what we would call low Church Protestants Welsh Lloyd George for example was a low Church Welshman now why what's the difference between that and the Catholics the the Protestants the low church are brought up on a diet of Tanakh they're very strongly into Tanakh in fact you see in America where many of these people to escape persecution went over to the states and that's why you find in the states people call Jedediah and Obadiah and all of these names straight straight out of Tanakh of what's the point the pointy the point that he was making was that these very people who had it within that power the British Empire's power now fighting against the Turks and clearly we're going to win that piece of land they the people in charge of that were exactly the same people who've been brought up fed a diet of this idea that of course the Jewish people the Jews belong in or it's Israel if they hadn't been from that particular religious persuasion maybe hayen Weitzman and the other zionists at the time would not have found such as sympathetic gear in the British government it's an interesting point to ponder okay that's parenthetical but Paul Davis in his history of the Jews he brings out this point says that Davis is like many historians are bothered by this fact in fact when I was growing up as a child this is something that kind of struck me how little we really talked about the Jews in our in our secular I went to a non-jury school secular history classes I mean it seemed to me at the time even as a fairly young young person that this was something which was totally unhistorical where do you find a nation small Exile reviled despised who've managed against as Paul as Mark Twain once pointed out then the Jews saw them all beat them all and they're still now showing no signs of infirmity and his uh was it bright and aggressive mind what is the secret of his eternity said Mark Twain The Babylon raised his hand and filled the world with with them with the forget what he said there fulfilled the world with fuhrer Fury the parthian the Greek they're all sitting in darkness now the Jews saw them all beat them all and shows no sign of infirmity in his bright and aggressive mind I think he says Twain saw it every historian who really looks at history has to deal with us now how do you deal with this so um his name's gone out of my mind now there was a very famous to come back to me very famous English historian who called us the fossils of History I'm not sure exactly how that managed to explain our continued existence but Arnold toynbee Arnold toynbee called us the fossils of History Johnson has a different Theory Johnson says and I quote to explain the the Jews believe for so long and with such tenacity that they were the chosen people that they became the chosen people now I'm a great believer in positive energy and what's it called the positive thought but you know it does have its limits you know I can sit here to the middle of next week and believe with all the positivity and self-commitment that I'm a martian but I very much doubt the little green things are going to Sprite out of my forehead there just is a limit to how much self-confidence and positive thinking can take you now this is from a historian seems to me that Johnson lies so many other historians are faced with something which is anti-historical and historical so I can't if I'm a historian if I'm Paul Johnson I can't look at anything outside of my my discipline so I'm going to come up with some kind of nonsense you'll forgive me like this but of course for us it's a no-brainer it's clearly the anti-historical handwork of the historian with the capital age so let's sum up what we've been talking about the job of the Jewish people to really be a Zionist the whole point of this world which is founded on something called seon which means an indicator is to indicate the connection between this world and the world above it that is the Norah oh we forgot something michelalliophy so he said sums up what beauty is mikhlau what beauty is the idea and we talked about it is Hanukkah briefly I'll go over it the idea of Jewish beauty is totally antithetical to the Greek idea of beauty beauty is only skin deep we hear people saying Beauty can never be Skin Deep the word in Hebrew for face is panim the face is the main place of the residence of the beauty of a human being the word for face in Hebrew is panim the word for inside in Hebrew is panim the same word what makes something beautiful is to reveal its Essence to reveal its to reveal its penim you see the inside of somebody in their panim mitsion yofi the beauty only comes from the revealing of what the purpose is God Appears the beauty of Zion is that it reveals the internal it reveals what this world is all about that no ra which is the same thing that all when one sees that connection [Music] the connection the ladder of Jaco vervino was expressed through the Aaron letters ocos Aaron Nora same thing when the Aron is taken away when now the Jews go into exile and here Mia says take that out you can't refer to Hashem with this epithet of awesome anymore but they were they restored the crown to its former glory because they understood that the continued existence of the Lamb amongst the 70 wolves all through the history of the Jewish people is the revelation of the Noah of Hashem in this world which is if you think about it when you have a movement who is dedicated as unfortunately some not saying all zionists parts of Zionism but many certainly the more extreme left-wing and anti-religious parts of Zionism were dedicated to making the Jewish people like all of the other nations we want to be like everybody else I think one of the Zionist writers said we will not be free until there's a Jewish gangster in a Jewish prison and a Jewish prostitute standing on a Jewish corner of a street in Tel Aviv Rahman al-itzlon that is the antithesis of what we're supposed to be we are supposed to be that agency which says no we are not like everybody else we have a job which is to point out to indicate to be matsayan that there's a world above this world we and our future are continuing continuing continuing continuing excuse me continuing future anti-historical future is the greatest proof the greatest indication that there's a God in this world we should be Joker very soon to see the base of migdash rebuilt and that palpable revelation of the shrina should dwell amongst us amazing