Miracles and Their Consequences to the Jewish People in the Land of Israel

From: Dale Baranowski [mailto:rabelad@zahav.net.il]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 10:27 PM
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> As an officer in the IDF, he found himself with a "shadow"

> - an officer from a foreign (friendly) army was attached to

> him, to learn about tactics, equipment, strategy,

> organization, etc. After a few months , the officier said

> to Rabbi M. : " This is impossible. I have been to

> Finland, to other European countries to study their army

> and their military work, and I have learned tremendously.

> But from you Israelis, I cannot learn a single thing.

> Not one thing."

>

> Rabbi M . asked : "How is that? " And the man answered:

> " Each rocket that fell last summer in the north contained

> an average of 100 kilograms of explosives. With over 4000

> such rockets falling on Northern Israel, we could expect

> vast devastation, cities and towns in ruins, thousands of

> casualties. We are talking about 400,000 kilos of

> explosives, over 400 tons !!! But no... and your life goes

> on. We just can't learn from you, because nothing here is

> normal. You guys are living on sheer, huge, obvious

> miracles!!!"



I've been saying this for years.



And I might add that Jews, though brilliant in the sciences, arts, humanities and technology, are complete and blithering idiots when it comes to knowing how to act in order to survive in the real world. We do things that would be regarded as insane by the rest of the world in order to make 'peace' We Jews do wildly irrational things to supposedly enhance our security which only ends up eroding it even more. For instance, no gentile in his right mind would even dream of empowering his enemies by giving them great hunks of land AND providing them with lots of weapons without having made peace first. It’s a fact and I long pondered over why this is so. After reading the accounts of our previous wars and having been in Israel during the Gulf War, the Lebanese war and now seen how this country handled the most recent outbreak of hostilities last summer, I came to the conclusion that this is due to the fact that our people and country have been shielded by miracle after miracle over decades and millennia.



I understand that David ben-Gurion once said something to the effect that if anyone lives in this area and doesn't believe in miracles he simply doesn't have a grasp of reality.



If we were to experience the real consequences of our actions, and live according to the rules as the rest of the world does Israel wouldn’t have survived 6 months. We would have been swiftly slaughtered by our enemies in a killing frenzy when all the surrounding Arab states attacked Israel at once, a day after her creation in 1948. If the Arabs would have known better and would have had a modicum of self-control they would have held off and we would have quickly run ourselves and our state into the ground with our incompetence and corruption within months after it's creation in 1948. The reason our country survives our enemies within, without and the perpetual blundering incompetence is simply miraculous. The thing that makes it even more miraculous is that Israel doesn’t just survive, she flourishes despite being surrounded and vastly outnumbered by Arabs who are hankering for our blood and, quite arguably, have one of the most barbaric cultures on this earth



Miracles have happened to Jews in the Land of Israel to the extent that we have never gotten normal exposure to the way the real world works. We've never had to deal with real life as the rest of humanity experiences it, and this fact profoundly affects our outlook and whole mentality. Miracles are a fundamental part of our lives and, as a result, we take insane risks that we think will enhance our security but they would require even bigger miracles for them to actually succeed.



The truth is that the success of Jews in life is always a gift, and this is especially so here in the Land of Israel as here the gifts are much more open and blatant. Well, it’s because the average Israeli has seen so many miracles and so often that they appear to be "normal" after a while. Many Israelis have developed this annoying assumption that they are natural experts in fields to which they have no knowledge, no education nor experience. This is usually interpreted as arrogance or irrationality by someone who comes from other countries where someone with no education, no experience and no knowledge is quickly snuffed out even the earliest attempt to succeed in an endeavor. Yet here in Israel many Jews have succeeded brilliantly without essential qualifications. Not just once but Israelis have done so often and again, and as a result they think that this sort of thing is normal (!). Truth is that it's NOT normal, it's the result of blatant divine intervention, but we're so much a part of this scene, so used to miracles happening daily, we’re so buried within it, that we don't have the broader perspective and can't see it even when non-Jews come here and see them first-hand.



Dale