Ben Masada
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ANOTHER VIEW OF THE HOLOCAUST
According to Numbers 13 and 14, when the Israelites had arrived at the borders of Canaan, Moses sent a platoon of twelve men to reconnoiter the land before taking possession of it. The report fed back by ten of the spies, after 40 days of reconnotering the land of Canaan, was of such a negative fashion that the whole community cried with threats even to return to Egypt, rather to face the difficulties to have to deal with the hostilities of the natives. (Num. 14:5)
Moses had realized that the People were not ready to enter the Promised Land. So, they became doomed to wander for 40 years in the wilderness till the last one who had left Egypt had died, except for Joshua and Caleb, who had tried to persuade the Community that their fear was rootless.(Num. 14:6-10)
In 1895, our modern Messianic leader Theodor Herzl rose to proclaim to the Jewish People in Europe of the approaching end of the exile, which, IMHO, happened at the end of WW1. His efforts were in vain, as he was discarded just as Moses was 3,450 years before. The People were again not ready to return. They were deluded by their own illusion that, after 1,000 years in Germany, nothing would happen to convince them to replace their comfort of life and return to the strugggles to rebuild themselves from scratch in such a hostile place as was then the Land of Israel by natural and artificial means.
Yes, the People were not ready, and they had no scruples to show it by their willful disgusting attitude at the message and messenger. Then, what, for the Israelites took 40 years to finish with all those who had left Egypt, it took about the same time to finish with six million of them to make the remnant ready to return to the Promised Land. That's one reason for the Holocaust of almost 70 years ago. Had they listened to Herzl, we would be today the triple of what we are.
Ben
According to Numbers 13 and 14, when the Israelites had arrived at the borders of Canaan, Moses sent a platoon of twelve men to reconnoiter the land before taking possession of it. The report fed back by ten of the spies, after 40 days of reconnotering the land of Canaan, was of such a negative fashion that the whole community cried with threats even to return to Egypt, rather to face the difficulties to have to deal with the hostilities of the natives. (Num. 14:5)
Moses had realized that the People were not ready to enter the Promised Land. So, they became doomed to wander for 40 years in the wilderness till the last one who had left Egypt had died, except for Joshua and Caleb, who had tried to persuade the Community that their fear was rootless.(Num. 14:6-10)
In 1895, our modern Messianic leader Theodor Herzl rose to proclaim to the Jewish People in Europe of the approaching end of the exile, which, IMHO, happened at the end of WW1. His efforts were in vain, as he was discarded just as Moses was 3,450 years before. The People were again not ready to return. They were deluded by their own illusion that, after 1,000 years in Germany, nothing would happen to convince them to replace their comfort of life and return to the strugggles to rebuild themselves from scratch in such a hostile place as was then the Land of Israel by natural and artificial means.
Yes, the People were not ready, and they had no scruples to show it by their willful disgusting attitude at the message and messenger. Then, what, for the Israelites took 40 years to finish with all those who had left Egypt, it took about the same time to finish with six million of them to make the remnant ready to return to the Promised Land. That's one reason for the Holocaust of almost 70 years ago. Had they listened to Herzl, we would be today the triple of what we are.
Ben