For The Hill on 1/18/13
"It makes no difference who is sitting on the throne," Moshe Feiglin writes from Jerusalem this week in his commentary on Torah. “What really matters is where the heart of the nation resides." Feiglin is writing about how Pharaoh sees the great power he is, a power which tell him he is god the river, and god the creator of all that is, as it disintegrates around him and the world awaken again from the wreckage with Aaron and Moses. It is a fully appropriate reading for this week as Israelis prepare to go to the polls. The creations of Pharaoh appear on the verge of falling into the river, and Israel on the verge of finding its heart.
The questions we have asked here since Sandy, the storm and Sandy Hook - guns, federal aid, psychotic movies passing as high culture, fascist computer games – suggest symptoms. Mentioned here recently, China has stepped away. Germany recalls its gold from the world. And on January 22, Israel steps away from America.
"It makes no difference who is sitting on the throne," Moshe Feiglin writes from Jerusalem this week in his commentary on Torah. “What really matters is where the heart of the nation resides." Feiglin is writing about how Pharaoh sees the great power he is, a power which tell him he is god the river, and god the creator of all that is, as it disintegrates around him and the world awaken again from the wreckage with Aaron and Moses. It is a fully appropriate reading for this week as Israelis prepare to go to the polls. The creations of Pharaoh appear on the verge of falling into the river, and Israel on the verge of finding its heart.
The questions we have asked here since Sandy, the storm and Sandy Hook - guns, federal aid, psychotic movies passing as high culture, fascist computer games – suggest symptoms. Mentioned here recently, China has stepped away. Germany recalls its gold from the world. And on January 22, Israel steps away from America.
Two men, Moshe Feiglin and Naftali Bennett, enter the
Knesset this week and their rise has already changed the trajectory of Israel. The
influential Israeli columnist Caroline Glick reports:
“Next week we're going to vote and it is already clear that
Israel is in the midst of the Second Zionist Revolution. The first Zionist
revolution was a socialist revolution. The second Zionist revolution is Jewish.
Israel is coming into its own. Judaism is flourishing, changing, living and
breathing here like it never has anywhere since the destruction of the Second
Commonwealth. The secular Left has been eclipsed by the Jewish Right. I don't
call it the religious Right because that is too limiting. What's happening
isn't just about religion, it's about everything and that is why non-observant
hipsters in Tel Aviv are voting for the Jewish Home party. Non-observant and
observant Jews are joining forces and the anti-religious are being left
behind.”
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