Daylight

By Gabriel Boxer

It was a much anticipated Shalosh Seudos at Congregation Anshei Chesed in Hewlett, New York. Steve Savitsky, president of the Orthodox Union, had met with President Barak Hussein Obama earlier in the week, with a select few leaders of major Jewish organizations. How and whom the President determined had represented American Jewry is not important at this time, although in my humble opinion, the majority of representatives in attendance certainly did not represent Torah true values.

The one phrase that stuck in my mind that evening was the term “Daylight,” coined by Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

“Daylight” was intended to explain to President Obama how the world should view the relationship between the United States and Israel. The countries should always be joined at the hip to show the world the strong and true friendship, so as not to allow any “Daylight” come between them.

As politically correct as that sounds, is this the path that Hashem wants of his chosen children? The U.S. wants Israel to relinquish its inheritance from Hashem and hand it over to barbaric Arab terrorist thugs for a bowl of cold lentil soup. After countless broken promises, the U.S. and other western nations do not recognize and acknowledge Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel.

Jewish people are not allowed to own land in Jordan. It is a capital offense in that country to sell land to a Jewish person. Our “friends” in the White House do not want us to settle parts of Jerusalem our capital and other parts of the Land of Israel. According to the Palestinian Authority, it is a capital offense for Arabs to sell land in Jerusalem our capital to Jewish people.

Listen to the current weekly Torah reading, and be guided to settle every inch of our Gd-given inheritance. I am astounded that in the year 5769/2009 Jews are not allowed to own land in other countries—a basic right for all people of the land—and our “friends” want the same idea in our homeland.

I didn’t hear Prime Minister Netanyahu pushing the case for the Jewish homeland. What most people don’t realize is that we need to be led by the words of Hashem, not people furthering their own political agenda. It is very simple: Hashem gave us the written and oral law to guide us. The left or right political arena will not guide us to salvation. If you continue to sit on the sidelines you will only be a spectator. You must get involved and be a team player in restoring the Jewish character to the Jewish people.

As I listened to Mr. Savitsky I recalled the Torah reading that day Masaei, 33: 51-56: “When you cross the Jordan to the Land of Canaan, you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you; you shall destroy all their Temples; all their molten images shall you destroy; and all their high places shall you demolish. You shall rid the land and you shall settle in it, for to you have I given the land to possess it…But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those of them whom you leave shall be pins in your eyes and as thorn-hedges at your sides, and they will harass you upon the land in which you dwell. And it shall be that I had meant to do to them, I shall do to you.”

Rashi expounds a very interesting point to Pasuk 53: “You shall rid the land, you shall rid it of its inhabitants and then you shall settle in it; that is, you shall be able to last in it.”)

The Jewish nation—whether they call themselves right, left, liberal or conservative—should live in peace in OUR inheritance. Hashem has given us the best recipe for the best dish possible: PEACE.

We must stay close to Hashem’s words. The “Daylight” between the Jewish nation and Hashem must not appear. At the same time we must strive not to be joined at the hip to a nation that will cast us aside at a moment’s notice to be closer to their oil rich friends in the Middle East.

Now is the time for our Torah true leaders to come out and lead our Nation back to the true words of Hashem and make the State of the Jews into a Jewish State!