The Torah’s morality and ethics have infiltrated the lives of the other nations even against their will. Even that demon leader of the Nazis yemach shemo came right out and admitted that the Jewish people must be uprooted from the world because they embody the Jewish conscience the bane of world culture
In Eretz Yisrael this year one of the Shavuos preparations included a special day of tefillah on Thursday the eve of Rosh Chodesh Sivan. At the behest of gedolei Yisrael Torah-faithful Jews gathered to cry out to the Heavens in face of the schemes being hatched against the yeshivah world. Perhaps our readers in chutz laaretz wonder what all the noise is about but our gedolim agree that the current situation calls for intense public prayer.
What I don’t understand though is how so many people seem to think this is a situation that has suddenly cropped up: we were all learning Torah peacefully until these “share the burden” people came on the scene. They’ve started persecuting us and we need to cry out for Heavenly mercy.
But it isn’t true that all was peaceful and serene. Never since the Revelation of the Torah on Har Sinai has undisturbed Torah study been something we could take for granted as if we were living in some nature preserve protected by common agreement. From its inception Torah study has always met with difficulties malicious decrees persecution and plotting.
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