07 Nov 16 MILLION JEWS WAITING FOR MARCHING ORDERS LET’S NOT FORFEIT A HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY

Touched to the
Core
The Jewish world is
on fire.
The bloodbath
orchestrated by
Hamas and Iran on Shabbos Simchat Torah
(October 7, 2023) in Southern Israel has
woken up a part in every single Jew that
was dormant. Our people have been
touched to the core; Jews are more aware of
their own Jewishness than they have been
in a very long time.
The glee of the enemy in slaughtering
Jewish babies reminded us that this has
nothing to do with occupation, colonization,
apartheid, or any other myth. This was a
manifestation of visceral evil which craves
to destroy every single Jew. Had Hamas
had its way, it would joyfully perform this
mini-Holocaust daily, until all 6.6 million
Jews in Israel lay lifeless.
Every Jew living today feels the need to
respond. Of course, we must defend
ourselves in every possible way; we must
support Israel and our soldiers with every

fiber of our being—encouraging them to
fulfill their moral historic duty of
eliminating every vestige of bloodthirsty
evil. Of course, we must lift the morale of
our brothers and sisters in Israel and the
world over through an unprecedented
outpouring of support, love and oneness,
like never before.
But there is one more critical weapon that
every single Jew living today, all 16 million
of us, can embrace—and it will change
everything.
The Weapon of Eternity
Is there a scientific explanation for our
survival and success, 4000 years later?
Death for the Jews has been plotted by
tyrants of every age. The greatest Empires
of the ancient world—Egypt, Assyria,
Babylonia, Greece, and Rome, all the way
down to Stalin and Hitler—attempted to
annihilate us; yet they have all vanished,
and we survived. Jews have been expelled
from nearly every country in which they
resided, yet we are here to tell the tale.
What did we have that they did not have?
How did a hunted-down nation constituting

less than one-quarter-of-one
percent of humanity survive
and thrive?
All these nations and tyrants
had large territories of land,
mighty military prowess,
culture, language, and
affluence. What is the secret of
our immortality?
There is only one rational way
to answer this—to search for
the one unique and exclusive
weapon that the Jewish people
possessed from the day they became a
people, and it accompanied them through
all their history. Can we identify such a
weapon?
In science, we search for the permanent
trait in an organism to explain its longevity
in difficult circumstances. With the Jewish
people, the search is not difficult. There is
only one single weapon that has been with
us forever, in every milieu, in every
location, under all circumstances: The
Torah and the Mitzvos that our people
studied, observed, and celebrated with
unwavering commitment on a daily basis,
and bequeathed to their children and
grandchildren.
I may logically understand the power of
the Torah and the Mitzvos, or not; but I
can’t argue with the plain facts: This is
the only “weapon” that the Jewish
people had from the day they became a
people till this very day, which no other
army or empire possessed. It is our
mightiest weapon—it has outlived
every single one of our enemies for
over four millennia, and we remain the
energetic people we are today, filled
with passion, love, and creativity.
This, then, is the historic calling of this
time—to encourage and inspire every
single Jew living today, to acquire, or
finetune, this indestructible Jewish
weapon.
What Hamas and its supporters targeted
was not just a piece of land, but an
entire people. We have once again been
confronted by the force of evil and
diabolical hatred that craves to destroy
G-d’s eternal people. At such a time,
our response must be: Let’s be Jewish
like never before in history, and let’s be
united like never before!
My beloved brothers and sisters! Let us
become the greatest Jews ever, by
studying what it means to be a Jew and
living it. Put a Mezuzah on your door;
wrap Tefillin each morning; study Torah
on a daily or weekly basis; engage in

prayer and spiritual meditation; eat kosher
and make your home kosher; light Shabbos
candles and celebrate our day of peace and
rest, the holy Sabbath; give charity every
day; give your children an education filled
with Jewish love and wisdom; become a
passionate ambassador of love and unity
among our people; imbue your marriage
with purity, love, and holiness, or choose
any other mitzvah.
Judaism is about cultivating an ongoing

relationship with your deepest soul-
essence, filling your heart with the love and

peace beating in your soul, and aligning
yourself every moment with the universal
Divine consciousness of oneness. Every
mitzvah, every prayer, and all of Torah, is
about becoming channels for the source of
all love, peace, light, and truth—and
drawing it down into our world. These are
the spiritual weapons of victory and
eternity.
We do not have time now to live in fear and
paralysis; we are the chosen people, we are
a singular spiritual organism, and we have a
mission: to draw down each day, each
moment, infinite love into our hearts, our
homes, our communities, our people, our
homeland, and the entire world. We need
Hashem (G-d, the Creator and source of all
love and peace) in our lives. That’s how we
can grant the most profound power and
courage to our people, our homeland, and
all good people in the world.
The support for Hamas in institutions of
higher education, and the silence of people
so many of us respected, has sickened us.
This is the time for courage, resolve, and
fortitude. Let’s not shrink, and let’s not
shirk our calling. Some of us were drafted
into the front lines of battle with Hamas;
the rest of us can’t afford to remain
spectators. We were all drafted into battle,
on a physical or spiritual level.
You can’t argue with the facts: 4000 years
later, we are here, and it’s because of that
immortal weapon called Torah and Mitzvos.
16 million Jews are waiting for their
marching orders. Will we heed their call?