Why Do They Want to Kill Us?
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Question:
Why has there arisen in every generation those who wanted to annihilate the Jewish population? Every year, I read this in the Hagadah, but now I am wondering why this animosity?
Answer:
There are many explanations given, but they seem to overlook an obvious fact of history: Conquerors generally work towards creating a homogenous society where all will follow the same authority and live a similar lifestyle.
The Catholic Church wiped out any vestige of paganism, shamanism, pantheism, etc. in Europe. As soon as any heresy arose, it was brutally crushed--often with no survivors. Islam acted similarly, at times marginally tolerating Christians and Jews, but reacting ruthlessly to whatever was considered a heresy to Islam. Before them, the Hellenist spirit of the Macedonian and Roman empires worked in like manner to create a homogenous culture that would be easier to dominate and control. The story of Purim tells us that Haman had a similar plan in mind.
Given these facts of history, the question is really the opposite: How could we possibly have survived, while every other "heresy" was destroyed? In fact, the Church consistently blamed every heresy upon the Jews--yet while they systematically wiped out every vestige of those heresies, they somehow let the Jews survive.
Historians will give their many explanations. A historian is someone who can give a natural explanation for anything. As for the Hagadah, it clearly tells us that the only explanation is a purely supernatural one:
Blessed is He who keeps His promise to Israel, blessed be He. For the Holy One, blessed be He, calculated the end of the bondage, in order to do as He had said to our father Abraham at the Covenant between the Portions, as it is said: "And He said to Abraham, `You shall know that your seed will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will enslave them and make them suffer, for four hundred years. But I shall also judge the nation whom they shall serve, and after that they will come out with great wealth.'"
...and then we say:
This is what has stood by our fathers and us. For not just one alone has risen against us to destroy us, but in every generation they rise against us to destroy us; and the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hand.
Let me know if this helps.
Rabbi Tzvi Freeman for Chabad.org
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To God's Chosen People, the Jews---
"The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make his face shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
The Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace."
No, not all of us Gentiles are idiots, there are those of us who know how special you are to G-d. And know it well.
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Karan, how many times do people have to say this: The Jewish PEOPLE are a people, NOT a race. We include ALL RACES in our people.
Lon, I fully understand, but Jew-hate is filled with EXCUSES. There is no REASON for Jew-hate except that people LIKE hate us.
Recently, a friend of mine got a bargain on some landscaping material. "Yeah, I Jewed him down." He hadn't the foggiest idea of how offensive that way until I said, "Why didn't you try to Gentile him down? You might have got a better deal." I know that guy has zero hate in his heart toward us, but he didn't know that phrase is not a harmless by word. He apologized and will tell his friends how offensive it is. Isn't it strange that the Scots are called thrifty but we are called cheap.
There is no REAL REASON for Jew-hate except that it exists. When I'm the target of Jew-hate, I calmly ask why they said or did what the did. Usually, it is mindless.
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Hate is a act of sin, Hate and jealousy go hand and hand. Sin is not prejudice! We are all subject to it.
For everyone whom is blessed and chosen there is another whom is jealous and hates. What part do you not understand?
I can explain why people hate in one word, "insecurity."
Why would we need the command to "not" covet, or kill or steal? because we do..
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The thing that has me concerned is all the talk lately in the new age spiritual movements of the NEW WORLD. They talk of a spiritual awakening and encourage everyone to unite and form this new world. will this allow them to stand by and watch as Israel is once again attacked? Because we Jews will not be uniting with any new world. we already have our religion.
We should all pray earnestly for the Holy Land Israel, and for all the nation of Israel.
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The reason the Jewish are battled to each generation is a spiritual one. You see if the destroyer (Satan) can wipe the Jews completely off the face of the earth, he would make G-d a liar. We know that the Jewish were chosen by G-d to bring the light of the Most High to the inhabitants of the earth. The Jew has already done that. The Gentiles of the earth have hope only because the Jewish G-d. Even if many Jewish do not understand, their linage brought hope to all mankind. Now, the destroyer being who he is, is very angry, and that anger is aimed at the Jew. The Most High promised he would return and rule over Jerusalem and there would be peace forever more and the Jewish would fear no one. If not one Jew existed on the earth, how would this be fulfilled. G-d gave no promise to any other people, though ther will be others. If any other race perishes, G-d has not broke his promise, If the Jew as a race perishes, the Most High cannot reign over him and his prophecy is dead.
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Please, Lori, gimme a break. Jews don't particularly hate any other group. Jew-hate is not something that can be explained. There is NO REASON for Jew-hate, so explaining our point of view to knuckle draggers will do not do a single thing. Please read my previous two replies above.
People WANT to hate us; they WANT to exterminate us. WHY? Nobody knows, but if they got their way, who would be the next group they would hate and wish to exterminate.
I read about a columnist who had the "nerve" to disagree with one of the far right religious people. Although the discussion had zilch to do with Jews, one man went off on a diatribe that ended with "we need to exterminate all Jews." HUH? Where did that come from? It makes no sense...therein lays the problem.
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What has kept us Jews together for so long? Why have all the people who persecuted and tried to kill us disappeared--poof--right off the face of the earth: Antisemitism!
Diamonds are created by incredible pressure; we have been kept together the same way! Ask a Jew-hater WHY he or she hates us and they will come up with all sorts of "reasons" that are mere excuses. They have no personal relationship with a Jew, many have never even MET a Jew. Yet, the hatred is there and no amount of reasoning with any of them. If the accusation is said to be one thing, and that thing is proven to be wrong, they will invariably fall back on yet another worn out canard. There is no way to win, but we have ALREADY won: We were chosen by G-d and remain his unique people and there is nothing that anyone can do about it! It is too delicious an irony and from this day out I will celebrate the Antisemites of the world because it is THEY who keep us together!
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Ben Franklin said "A man convinced his will is of the same opinion still." Joseph Goebbels said, "Repeat a BIG lie often enough and it will become the truth."
Most people I have dealt with in my nearly 70 years have been AFRAID of us. People hate what they are afraid of and often attack it.
"Reporters" in the Mideast know that if they say anything TRUE about the Arabs they do so at the risk of forfeiting their lives. Lying about Jews and Israel...well, that''s safe ground partly because Israel feels for some reason or another that it is above explaining itself. Or, perhaps it is because trying to counter BIG lies is neigh unto impossible.
When I do something for someone and they didn't expect it they usually say, "Oh, you're such a nice Christian lady." INSTANTLY I reply (with a smile) "No, I'm a nice JEWISH lady; it is part of our religion to be kind to all. Here is some information about who and what we really are."
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A dog who has been hurt and mistreated by owner cowers, but is the first to bite someone else. Both actions is sign of insecurity. We can only own our own actions. If one segregates themself it causes a barrier between them, then therefore never heals. Hate is a wall built one brick at a time, it also must be broken down, one brick at a time. I once heard a handicapped girl's story, she got sick of people staring and laughing treating her like she was contagious. She said, people just really want to know.So she started reaching out and telling them one person at a time. This helped me see my complaints aren't so bad, and taught me tolerance of others insecurity. How many people could the Jews reach? If one is insecure, secure them with your actions according to the Word. Be the light unto thier path which they can see their own feet.
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We brought law and order to the world. The world hates us because we gave them a conscious and the knowledge of right from wrong. Aish.com has a great seminar on the excuses given for Jew-hate. Everything you have heard or read are EXCUSES, not reasons. The ONLY reason I've heard of is that we prevented the world from living as they want to: As pagans. They want to kill whoever they want to kill, take whatever they want, etc. Because of the light that we have spread, THEY CAN'T DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. Because WE, who were chosen to bless the entire world, gave them a morality they don't want. Take a look at what Hitler said about us and you'll understand.
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