Erubin 21b. Whosoever disobeys the rabbis deserves death and will be punished by being boiled in hot excrement in hell. Read the rest of this entry »
“When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.” (1 Kings 12:21 RSV)
Today, to trace anyone’s descent to ancient Palestine would be a genealogical impossibility; and to presume, axiomatically, such a descent for Jews, alone among all human groups, is an assumption of purely fictional significance. Most everybody in the Western world could stake out some claim of Palestinian descent if genealogical records could be established for two-thousand years. And there are, indeed, people who, though not by the widest stretch of imagination Jewish, proudly make that very claim: some of the oldest of the South’s aristocratic families play a game of comparing whose lineage goes farther back into ‘Israel’. No one knows what happened to the Ten Lost Tribes of ‘Israel’, but to speculate on who might be who is a favored Anglo-Saxon pastime, and Queen Victoria belonged to an ‘Israelite’ Society that traced the ancestry of its membership back to those lost tribes.
1) There are wild and savage animals who are the scholars of the natural sciences who want to show with their knowledge that everything is according to laws of nature, and they ruin many of our people; many Jews have fallen into these ideas. THESE SOULS ARE LIKE TRAPPED BIRDS. THEREFORE, ANYONE WHO CARES ABOUT HIS SOUL MUST ESCAPE FROM THEM, AND NOT ALLOW HIS SOUL TO BE RUINED BY THESE IDEAS THAT ARE VERY POWERFUL.
The following is a letter written by the great Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, known as the Ohr Somayach:
May G-d cry out from from His holy habitation and give forth his voice for there have arisen NEW REBELS AND TRAITORS, thinking to establish a State… and have promised to deliver Israel from all its troubles in the Exile.