Q&A: Concerned About Our Future
Concerned About Our Future
Question
Friends kept recommending, again and again, that I read Professor Yizhar Oplatka’s book The Last Six Days.
Fine, with so many people recommending it, I bought it and read it cover to cover.
It turns out that although I’m not a professor, what I’ve been claiming all along about our approaching end is exactly what the distinguished professor is claiming.
The only difference is that he phrased it in clear, flowing, vivid language that’s accessible to everyone. On every page of the book you either laugh or cry, or both together. He basically did a copy-paste, using straight thinking and common sense, of what’s happening today and of real events that happened to our people, adapted to our times, and presents it to the reader.
A. He describes well what is happening and what is going to happen. Is there anything to do in order to be saved from the bitter end (and certain one?)
B. What should I do with my abilities, given that for about a decade now I’ve been arguing exactly what the distinguished professor argues?
Answer
Simple. Submit your candidacy for a Nobel Prize (or an Oscar). Also, it would be worth petitioning the High Court of Justice to abolish academia. It has no added value if one can arrive at everything without it.
Go forth with this your strength and save Israel.
Discussion on Answer
Are you serious? Where is a logical process presented? Do you expect me to go run and read the book now in order to write a few sentences of an opinion?
Whoever wants to ask something should make the effort and present a concrete question here, instead of sending me off to do homework and read books.
Sorry, I thought the Rabbi knew it; it’s simply very famous.
In short, there is a growing public that believes in holy sites, rabbis and magicians, charms, exorcisms, prayers and ritual “fixes,” and repentance tours, instead of effort, wisdom, inquiry, sweat, and education.
People are also getting used to not thinking, but relying on all kinds of wonder-rabbis, rebbes, kabbalists, etc.
They are the majority, but there are a few secular people, remnants of the Zionists, who live within the boundaries of a settlement that only they are allowed to enter because everything else is impure; and together with gentiles from around the world and converts, they maintain something that looks like an army and somehow also a poor, violent, filthy, crowded state.
Corruption becomes “acceptable” and bribery the normal way.
Infrastructure is defective, health services function at a quarter-capacity and mainly for the rich and well-connected, government appointments belong to privileged families, to the wealthy; the operators and fixers control literally everything (not only in Haredi municipalities and other backward places) — every deal wins.
The operators and the great men interfere in every professional matter, like medicine and security, despite having no basic understanding of those fields.
The heads of the “professional” bureaucracy are also appointments from certain communities and circles and “belong” to this rebbe or that magician. Of course poverty is a recipe for violence on every corner, but the wealthy layer of rebbes, criminals, and operators is doing just fine.
The public believes everything the establishment media says, takes part in rallies for “strengthening,” etc., and of course it is forbidden to speak against the “great men.”
There is also censorship in every direction.
A generation is growing up that does not know how to think.
Only begging, poverty, graves, amulets, Torah study, and commandments according to a stringent interpretation.
A lot of sectarianism and mutual hatred among communities and Hasidic groups.
And it’s not 64 seats in parliament, but 118…
Bottom line: an enemy power comes to the gate, and despite the enormous effort of the secular people and the converts and a small part of the nation who come to help,
the warehouses are empty, the ammunition is defective because operators bought cheaply and skimmed off the top.
They broadcast to the people that salvation, the messiah, and Gog and Magog are just around the corner; all the rabbis promise it; the people do not enlist because that’s only for secular people and converts.
There was no proper training. The few soldiers from the nation who come to help have poor military abilities, and their ability to think is nonexistent. As expected, the front collapses, and the people are slaughtered, raped, and plundered. Meanwhile, the great men, the rich, and the operators, with European passports already prepared in advance, flee to the port, to ships that rescue them so they can lead the surviving remnant in exile…
Bottom line: the end has come for the Jews in the Land of Israel.
An astonishingly ridiculous description. It points to a tendentious approach that begs the question (trying with all its might to prove that our future is to die soon). There are indeed worrying and problematic phenomena, but they are light-years away from this exaggerated description. Not to mention the predictions about the rich fleeing, etc. In short: breathe and relax. There are things to improve, but the situation is not nearly that bleak, and I don’t think we are standing on the edge of an abyss. Absolutely not.
Regarding A.
The Rabbi didn’t answer.
He presents there a logical process, part of which is already happening, leading to the bitter end.
What can be done?