Jewish Odysseus: A BEAUTIFUL IDEA FROM BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

Thursday, February 25, 2010

A BEAUTIFUL IDEA FROM BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

The visionary Rabbi Chaim Richman.

As the years passed, it slowly dawned on me how simultaneously provocative and humiliating Israel's historical policy towards Jerusalem's Temple Mount has been, going way back to 1967. Provocative, because by extending the hand of tolerance to Muslim religious "authorities," Israel encourages them to believe that they still really control Jerusalem, and will someday be able to destroy Israel. And humiliating, because the policy has explicitly and deliberately turned Jews into 3d-class citizens once they walk upon the holiest site in Judaism--inside Israel!

But thank God, there is a dedicated group of Jerusalemites determined to rectify this absurd situation. Led by the great folks at the Temple Institute, an impressive coalition of Israelis, Jews and Gentiles has declared this upcoming March 16 (Rosh Chodesh Nisan in the ancient Jewish calendar) to be "International Temple Mount Awareness Day." THIS is the kind of principled, morality-based activism that will pay great dividends in our future battles with satanic jihadism.

Please join the fight this tuesday, which will be a key step in restoring the Third Temple. And somehow I sense that, once that is accomplished, all of our fears and responses to satanic jihadism will no longer be needed. May it come to pass speedily and in our days, amen.

"My house shall be a house of prayer for all nations..."--Isaiah 56:7

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The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.