Post by kriss on Oct 20, 2023 11:54:20 GMT -5
"Ketz kol basar ba lefanai ki mal'ah ha'aretz hamas." This is the Hebrew transliteration for Gen 6:13 The end of all flesh has come before Me"
This is the transliterated Hebrew source of Genesis 6:13: "And G-d said to Noah, 'The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth has become full of treachery...'" Yes, the Hebrew word used by the 4,000 year old Torah to define why "HaShem regretted that He had made man" is Hamas!
It is an ancient word that our sages have sought to understand for thousands of years.
Often it is translated as "robbery." As offensive as robbery is, would a world wide wave of robbery truly cause HaShem to regret that He created man?
Other times Hamas is translated as "violence." A global outbreak of violence would certainly cause G-d great consternation.
But would that alone convince G-d that man was an unfixable mistake in creation that must be eliminated once and for all?
Neither of these translations, neither robbery, nor violence alone would seem to justify so radical a decision by G-d.
But two weeks ago, on October 7th, a Shabbat and the holiday known as Simchat Torah - the Joy of Torah, the world finally learned the true meaning of the word Hamas.
Israel was awakened that morning by the sound of sirens, something that we have grown all too accustomed to, signaling that the Hamas terror organization and its Islamic Jihad offshoot have launched a massive missile attack on Israel. But within moments it became clear that the missiles were a cover for acts of evil of a far greater magnitude.
As many as 3,000 Hamas terrorists and a mixed multitude of Gazan civilians who simply couldn't resist the temptation, broke through Israel's security fence and launched a rampage of unprecedented violence and cruelty. They attacked a music festival, gunning down more than 260 young people as they fled for their lives. Young people, both Israelis and visitors from around the world, who only wanted to share a day of music and peace and fraternity. The men were killed. The women were raped and killed.
Simultaneously, the Hamas terrorists invaded nearby towns and farming communities, killing every living thing they saw. They shot infants in their cribs at point blank range. They shot children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children.
They bound together and burned people alive. They tortured the wounded and mutilated the bodies of the dead.
They cut off the heads of babies.
They kidnapped upwards of 200 men, women, toddlers, and the elderly and brought them into captivity in Gaza, after torturing, raping and parading them through cheering and jeering and adoring Gazan crowds. Since that day their fate is unknown.
On October 7th, 2023, the Hamas terror organization finally revealed to the entire world the meaning of the ancient word Hamas.
Is it any wonder G-d had had His fill of mankind? Could you disagree with G-d? And so here we are again.
Some four millennia after the time of the great flood, and once again man has sunk to unimaginable depths of depravity and inhumanity.
On the morning of October 7th, more than 1,400 Israelis, Jews, but not just Jews, Christians and Muslims and foreign workers and tourists from overseas as well, did not have an ark to run to. They were simply slaughtered.
The waters around us are already increasing. Is mankind set to drown in a flood let loose by the evils of Hamas?
So many people around the world seem to be ready, willing and anxious to do just that.
This is the transliterated Hebrew source of Genesis 6:13: "And G-d said to Noah, 'The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth has become full of treachery...'" Yes, the Hebrew word used by the 4,000 year old Torah to define why "HaShem regretted that He had made man" is Hamas!
It is an ancient word that our sages have sought to understand for thousands of years.
Often it is translated as "robbery." As offensive as robbery is, would a world wide wave of robbery truly cause HaShem to regret that He created man?
Other times Hamas is translated as "violence." A global outbreak of violence would certainly cause G-d great consternation.
But would that alone convince G-d that man was an unfixable mistake in creation that must be eliminated once and for all?
Neither of these translations, neither robbery, nor violence alone would seem to justify so radical a decision by G-d.
But two weeks ago, on October 7th, a Shabbat and the holiday known as Simchat Torah - the Joy of Torah, the world finally learned the true meaning of the word Hamas.
Israel was awakened that morning by the sound of sirens, something that we have grown all too accustomed to, signaling that the Hamas terror organization and its Islamic Jihad offshoot have launched a massive missile attack on Israel. But within moments it became clear that the missiles were a cover for acts of evil of a far greater magnitude.
As many as 3,000 Hamas terrorists and a mixed multitude of Gazan civilians who simply couldn't resist the temptation, broke through Israel's security fence and launched a rampage of unprecedented violence and cruelty. They attacked a music festival, gunning down more than 260 young people as they fled for their lives. Young people, both Israelis and visitors from around the world, who only wanted to share a day of music and peace and fraternity. The men were killed. The women were raped and killed.
Simultaneously, the Hamas terrorists invaded nearby towns and farming communities, killing every living thing they saw. They shot infants in their cribs at point blank range. They shot children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children.
They bound together and burned people alive. They tortured the wounded and mutilated the bodies of the dead.
They cut off the heads of babies.
They kidnapped upwards of 200 men, women, toddlers, and the elderly and brought them into captivity in Gaza, after torturing, raping and parading them through cheering and jeering and adoring Gazan crowds. Since that day their fate is unknown.
On October 7th, 2023, the Hamas terror organization finally revealed to the entire world the meaning of the ancient word Hamas.
Is it any wonder G-d had had His fill of mankind? Could you disagree with G-d? And so here we are again.
Some four millennia after the time of the great flood, and once again man has sunk to unimaginable depths of depravity and inhumanity.
On the morning of October 7th, more than 1,400 Israelis, Jews, but not just Jews, Christians and Muslims and foreign workers and tourists from overseas as well, did not have an ark to run to. They were simply slaughtered.
The waters around us are already increasing. Is mankind set to drown in a flood let loose by the evils of Hamas?
So many people around the world seem to be ready, willing and anxious to do just that.