Just When You Thought The Sin Of The Spys Was Just An Old Fairy-Tale
From IsraelNN: German Jewish Leader Threatens to Ask Gov't to Prevent Aliyah
Germany's Jewish establishment has demanded that Israel not advertise the invitation for German Jews to immigrate to the Jewish state.
Stephan J. Kramer, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, sent a letter last week to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert saying he would request the German government’s help in preventing Israel from encouraging Jews to make Aliyah (immigrate to Israel) from Germany, according to Haaretz.
Does this sound familiar?
Numbers 14, this week's Torah portion, the Jewish leaders were against Aliyah as well:
"Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt? So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."
These folks would stay in the desert or in Germany, rather than come to the "exceedingly good land." Moreover, they want to fight those who advocate Aliyah: "But all the congregation said to stone them with stones."
Germany continues to be unhealthy for Jews. But thank you G-d for bringing this story out this week to make it so clear that the Sin of the Spies is alive and well today. Does American Jewry suffer from similar psychosis?
By the way - don't get confused - this is NOT the sin of the spies:
Labels: Aliyah, Exile, Leadership, Yishai
posted by Pinchas @ 12:07 AM
1 Comments:
At June 6, 2007 at 1:55 AM ,
Pinchas said...
Indeed they are modern day spies. We are taught one major reason behind the sin of the spies was pride. They feared they would no long hold high social positions in Eretz Yisrael. Now Kramer is "leader of the German Jewish community." In Israel he's a nobody. So he thinks.
But the notion of Germany being Israel and Berlin being Jerusalem date back since the very beginning of Jewish Diaspora history.
From a post of mine:
"The author of the commentary Sefer Meirat Eynayim (SMA) on the Shulchan Aruch explained why the Jewish community of Worms suffered far more persecution, pogroms and evil decrees than other congregations. That kehillah was founded by Jewish exiles who made their way to Germany following the Destruction of the First Temple. After seventy years of exile, many Jews returned from Babylon to Eretz Yisrael and Jerusalem, but none returned from Worms. The community in Jerusalem wrote to the kehillah in Worms and urged them to join their new settlement in Jerusalem... but the complacent Jews of Worms dismissed this invitation out of hand. Instead, they responded, 'You stay where you are in the great Jerusalem, and we will continue to stay where we are in our little Jerusalem!' This arrogant response was due to the prosperity and prestige the Jews of Worms enjoyed in the eyes of the local gentiles and their princes."
Again in Worms they were "somebodies."
But history has taught all to well time after time after time where this mentality gets us.
From one of Ze'ev's posts:
Rabbi Meir Simcha HaCohen, The Ohr Somayach, in Meschech Chochma, p. 191-192 (The year these words were uttered was 1926). "If a Jew will forget his origin and true identity and consider himself a full-fledged citizen of the country of his exile - If he thinks that Berlin is Jerusalem - then a raging storm will uproot him by his trunk - the tempest will arise and spread it's roaring waves, and swallow, and destroy and spread forth without pity."
May Hashem have mercy on the current Jewish population of Germany along with all his children!
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