Something Else

One of my readers replied to my recent article about “Losing.”  I thought it was insightful enough to be widely published.  Here it is:

All the goings-on in the States reduces the society to the non-society of suspicion, slavery, spies, and policing, as you so well said.  It is a repetition of pre-war and WWII conditions, as my parents and others with those experiences will testify.  It isn’t new, but something else is new.  What’s new is that this will be the first time that the USA will be formally and noticeably joining the experiences of the common folk all over the world.

It is a fact that in no other country have the commoners experienced the level of trust and freedom that folks in the USA have had until now.  We, in Israel, have struggled to create a ‘normal’ society under quite adverse conditions, never reaching the level of the ease that would permit the free and confident growth and personal movement enjoyed by American citizens.  Things here are much as they have always been in other countries: always on guard, always on the defensive, always working to create normalcy within abnormal conditions.  Having lived most of my life in the USA, I can certainly testify to these differences.  It is an huge and angry loss to a very evil plan, and difficult to watch!

And… you are so right again: in the end it won’t matter who will win the election – almost.  The rabbis here, looking on in dismay at the mocking effort to bring down Israel’s best friend, President Trump, fairly unanimously sense the beginning of the end.  They understand, though, that if by Hashem’s Will Trump is given another 4 years of divine work to do, it will mean only a softer landing to the end.  A Biden term will mean a threatening and demeaning end.

Reference is often made, here, to the pattern of initial reversal to evil that prefaces redemption, as was seen when Moshe and Aaron showed up to speak to Pharoah, and the unspeakably horrible mass murders that drove the Jews to flee to the Land to rebuild it.  In any case, all agree that Moshiach is working, moving, and will soon reveal himself—may his name be for a blessing, and may Hashem be blessed.