Dear Arutz 7 (Israel National News) Broadcaster,
Recently, I heard a broadcast of yours. It included an excellent interview, in which you were able to keep your guest focused and have him share a great deal of information in a relatively short period of time.
In the second segment of your show, there was another interesting interview. Yet, something odd caught my attention. You used the expression “Judeo-Christian values,” even though such values do not exist. Jewish values are based on Torah (that includes Oral Torah) and halachah (Jewish Law), items which Christians do not possess. Certainly I would agree that Jews and Christians share a few similarities. But, I could also say the same, if not more so, about Muslims. So, why not talk about Judeo-Islamic values?
No, the concept to which you were referring is an illusion, one which has developed over time during our in exile in the West, due to our vulnerability and desperately trying to survive both physically and spiritually in Galuth (diasporah) coupled with the poisonous influence of the Christians surrounding us.
So, why is it that you were using such an oxymoron of a term?
Well, I have come up with a few possible answers:
1. You really do believe in the existence of this concept, and have yet to discard this particular qelipah (counter-spiritual shell).
2. You have a very short memory, and have forgotten the Christian-based, anti-Semitism which encouraged Jews to seek out our own Homeland and culture, in the first place, OR has forced them further into the deep trenches of assimilation and sniveling co-dependence on the goyim.
3. Even though you are religious, and working for the sake of many important Torah-based endeavors, you have still fallen into the trap of today's version of Hellenism, the belief that some or all Western sensibilities are inherently compatible with Torah. (I recommend you take a serious look at this during this holiday of Hanukkah.)
4. You have received a directive from your management that you use this expression in your broadcasts in order toexploitattract Christian dollars to your radio station.
Considering the introduction to your show, which included instructions to listeners as to how to “support” the station financially, I would say it is the last of the four. (Although I would not rule out option number three so quickly either.)
In line with said instructions, when potential contributers are contacted, some of their background information is, no doubt, revealed. You are able to get a general idea as to whom your listeners are, from where they hail, and which deities they worship, thus providing your station with sufficient feedback as how best to
Certainly, you must also be able to obtain relatively precise information as to how much of Arutz 7's funding comes from Christians (...and thus how much of a conflict of interest Arutz 7 may appear to have).
I would guess that your managers have actually rationalized that it is better to take money from ovdei avodah zarah (practicioners of foreign worship; Mishnah Torah, Hil. Avodah Zarah 9:4 ), for the greater good of continuing your broadcasts to, as well as on behalf of, Religious Zionists and residents of Yehudah and Shomron (Judea and Samaria).
Now that we Jews are able to resettle our promised Homeland, we have no excuse but let go of our co-dependence on the goyim, and change strategies.
The doors to Eretz Yisra'el have been opened for Jews, but seeing the miracles done for us, and the prophesies being fulfilled, the Christians are also knocking on the door, begging, borrowing, and stealing their ways in.
They are developing their own strategies to obtain residency and even citizenship. Some send their children to “volunteer” in the IDF. Some set up “charitable” foundations, with the intention of "helping" us. Some even do so with the heksher of rabbis. There are Christians "helping" us in Ari'el, Itamar, Har Brachah, and Qedumim, among others. "Helping" us do what, I would like to know. And why do we need their help? I would like to know that as well.
How are any of these sneaky strategies to steal our inheritence, to get a foothold on our Holy Land, to pollute our Holy Land by spreading the worship of their false deity, and stealing our children's souls, in the least bit related to “Jewish values?”
So-called Christian Zionist, or Christian "Friends of Israel" are, at the very least, passive missionaries, and the very worst, better liars than active missionaries.
How will Arutz 7 report the sneaky, yet not so secret plans, of the Likud Party, and possibly some within the Jewish Agency (confirmation needed) itself to bring Christians to settle in Israel.
How will your station's acceptance of Christian funds influence your reporting? Will you just ignore it?
And just two more questions, please:
1. How much [or how little] does Rabbi Zalman Melamed know of your station's use
of the term "Judeo-Christian Values?"
2. How much [or how little] does
Rabbi Zalman Melamed know of your station's acceptance of Christian money?
They, too, believe they are doing this for the greater good,...even though we Jews “do not yet realize it.”
But, what's the harm in taking their money?
Simple. You're letting them get a foot in the door, you are taking their "we're your friends" bait, hook, line, and sinker, and thus you are aiding and abetting Esau (Christians/U. S./UN/EU/the West - who truly hates Ya'aqov). These liars may lie differently than Yishma'el (Arabs/Muslims) but they still lie. And, you are truly a co-dependent freier (sucker), if you think Esau will ever really be our friend. He wants his birthright back; he wants his b'rachoth back (See B'reishith 25 & 27).
It is forbidden to allow them to gain any foothold on our Land (Mishnah Torah, Hil. Avodah Zarah 10).
Esau is the pig, throwing out its forelegs to show you its split hooves; he is the pig moving its jaw up and down, pretending to chew his cud. He cries out, "Look at me! I'm kosher!" Yet, he's as treif as they come!
Since 1400's Spain (at least), we have attempted to pacify, reach out to, and assimilate amongst Christians to some degree or another, in order to reassure them that we are no threat to them, and even “just like them,” believing this to be our only strategy for survival while in Western Galuth. Aligning ourselves with them against Yishma'el is just today's version of this.
This strategy has never worked.
“Insanity is repeating the same thing over again, expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein
May your managers receive a complete speedy recovery from this insanity.
There are no such things as "Judeo-Christian Values."
I would disagree with Esser Agaroth and assert that there are indeed, Judeo-Christian values. Certainly the 10 Commandments given to Moses are believed by both religions to have been given by G-d. All of the writings of the Jewish prophets are also seen by true Christians as teachings of g-d that must be obeyed.
ReplyDeleteThere has been much anti- semitism that has been promoted by Christians that were ignorant of the Christian Scriptians. There are some sentences in the Christian Gospels that say some negative things about "the Jews", but the writer was not using the term "Jews" as it is often used today.
The writer was not saying anything negative about the Jewish Religion or anyone that practiced the Jewish religion. The writer was an Orthodox Jew himself.
The writer was referring to those people who lived in Judea as opposed to Samaria, or the Galilee.
Thank you for writing.
ReplyDelete1. Anything you quote from the Torah as related to Christianity is incomplete, if not distorted (Christians distorted it, not you.), as they do not have the entire Torah, which, of course includes the Oral Torah, which is not for them.
2. Christian gospels? Christian texts are nothing but lies and distortions, and thus irrelevant when it comes to proving anything one way or another.
3. To which writer are you referring? You mean broadcaster?