21 Nov THE JEW’S ETERNAL WEAPON

This is the time for
courage, resolve,
and to embrace
your Jewish
identity.
The Jewish world is

on fire.
The bloodbath orchestrated by Hamas
and Iran on Saturday, October 7, 2023, in
Southern Israel has woken up a part in
Jews that laid dormant. 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.
Jews feel 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 duty of eliminating every vestige
of bloodthirsty evil. 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 Jews today, all 16 million of us, can
embrace—and it will change everything.
The Weapon of Eternity
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.
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, yet they are gone.
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 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 weapon that
has been with us forever, in every milieu,
in every location, under all circumstances:
The Torah that our people studies and the
commandments that Jews have
observed and celebrated with
unwavering commitment on a daily
basis, and bequeathed to their
children and grandchildren.
Judaism 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
and it has outlived our enemies for
over four millennia.
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!
Hamas and its supporters didn’t
target just a piece of land, but an
entire people. We are being
confronted once again by a force of
evil and diabolical hatred that craves
to destroy God’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!
Let us become the greatest Jews ever,
by studying what it means to be a Jew
and living it. Whether it’s putting a
mezuzah on your door, wrapping
tefillin each morning, studying Torah

on a daily or weekly basis or engaging in
prayer and spiritual meditation…
Whether it’s making your home kosher,
lighting Shabbos candles and celebrating
the holy Sabbath, giving charity every
day, or giving your children an education
filled with Jewish love and wisdom,
becoming a passionate ambassador of
love and unity among our people,
imbuing your marriage with purity, love,
and holiness, or going to synagogue and
getting involved with a community –
choose a 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 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 to live in fear and
paralysis; we have a mission: to draw
down infinite love into our hearts, our
homes, our communities, our people, our
homeland, and the entire world. We need
God, 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
nor shirk our calling. Some of our
brethren 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.