Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Sinas Chinam and the Matzav in Eretz Yisroel

I spent last Shabbos at a Satmar summer resort where one of the speakers spoke about Sinas Chinam and the Matzav in Eretz Yisroel. In the course of his talk he quoted Yeshayahu 27 and Yirmiyahu 1, which follow below. The main point was that the time for sinas chinam is over. Finding fault with each other is not the way. It is time for rapprochement amongst Klal Yisrael. In the end, despite our faults, there is a geulah. Hashem has had enough of the criticism of Yisrael. Yisrael is atoned. May the geulah come soon.

In days to come Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Did he strike him, as he struck those who struck him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of those who are slain by him?
By measure, by exile, you contended with them; he removed her by his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be atoned; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones crushed to pieces, the Asherim and the sun images shall not remain standing…
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat out his harvest from the strongly flowing river to the brook of Egypt, and you shall be gathered one by one, O you people of Israel.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great shofar shall be blown, and those shall come who were lost in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
--Yeshayahu 27

Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land…
And they shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you, said the Lord, to save you.
--Yirmiyahu 1

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