The whole Jewish world watched our precious hostages come home and now are waiting for more news. But the price was dear.
The perfect message from Rav Perez whose son, a soldier was killed Oct 7 and his body is still in Gaza. All those who hate and wish to destroy the Jews never end up destroying them, but rather only destroy themselves.
There is something about hatred in general, and Jew-hatred in particular, which is self-destructive. Where do we see this? In this week’s parasha, Pharaoh is prepared to watch his entire country be destroyed in his mad hatred of the Jews. Moshe comes to him and gives him a chance, saying he should let the Jewish people go or there will be plagues, and Pharaoh isn’t moved.
The plagues destroy their water source, agriculture, the entire economic infrastructure, cause diseases to the Egyptian people. Incredibly, in his blind hatred of the Jewish people, Pharaoh continues until in every Egyptian household the firstborn will die. He later, in Parashat Beshalach, foolishly sends the entire Egyptian army to chase after the Jewish people in the desert, and the war ends when every single Egyptian soldier is drowned in the sea.
Hitler came to rid the world, especially Germany, of the Jews, and he committed such horrific acts killing six million – a third – of our people. He destroyed the entire continent, 40 million Europeans died including 8 million Germans. Hitler cowardly took his life when the Russian army was approaching from the east and the Allies approaching from the west, pulverizing Germany until there was nothing left. Because he came to destroy – he himself was destroyed.
H@mas are making the same mistake – they are an apartheid society, a Judenrein society, built on Jew-hatred. When will it end? Will it only end when the last Ham@s member is killed? When there is nothing left of Gaza? The choice is theirs.
Shabbat Shalom
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