HaShem, the King of the Universe
The Orthodox Jew has for centuries, since the Fall of Jerusalem and the loss of the Holy Temple, has tried zealously to remain in covenant with HaShem, the G-d of Israel. This is the covenant; the revelation of G-d Himself, and the revelation of man (Adam) who was made in the image of G-d.
The Jews gathered together their TaNaKh, their Sacred and Holy Scriptures called the Old Testament and preserved these Oracles of G-d as commanded in their covenant. They preserved the writings and commentaries of their rabbis and sages of Judah, that were written for their edification on how to keep the ‘commands’ and the ‘ordinances’ of the Torah law to preserve them for all generations.
The Jewish Orthodoxy also sought to codify their legal struggles of preserving how they could keep G-d’s Torah, as given on the mount called Sinai. Their struggles continued through the rise and fall of the domination of six empires that affected their people; from Egypt to Rome. This today stands as a blueprint of how we should live our lives through the last imperial system, Bavel the Great, before the revealing of YHVH’s Messiah at the end of days.
This struggle took the Jewish people through 1260 years, a “time, times and a half of time” during the rise of the Islamic imperial Caliphates, the Jews seventh imperial system, when they were cast into the wilderness in the year of 657/658 CE. In that year, the Islamic Caliph Ali (‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib), the son-in-law to the Prophet Muhammad when he married the Prophet’s daughter, Fatima Zahra, proclaimed the Islamic ruling to free the Jewish academies of any political control within the Islamic world. This ruling came from the only Caliph or Imam that was accepted by both the Sunnis and the Shi’as.
What it did was to remove the Jewish people from obtaining any political power that would become a rivalry to the Muslims. As such the Jewish people were no longer a political threat to the Islamic people and allowed them to live in relative peace with the Islamic people for 1260 years.
In this Islamic pact with the Muslim political leaders, the historical facts suggest that the Jewish people were protected and preserved from the factions, battles and power struggles between the Sunnis and the Shi’as for over one thousand years. From that date on 657/8 CE until the modern age, the Jewish people were preserved within the Islamic culture until the imperial quests of the British and the French in 1917 CE began to politicize the condition of the Jews.
This made the Jewish people the focal point of the relationship between the western occidental powers and the Islamic power elite in the Middle East clash when the British Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour created the “Balfour Declaration” in 1917. At the bequest of Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild Rothschild, Lord Balfour declared an international declaration to pave a pathway for the freedom of the Jewish people to live in the homeland of their ancestral people in the Land of Israel. Forty years later, the realization of that dream came with Israel's declaration of independence on May 15, 1947.
On the other hand, the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, were cast out of their homeland in Shomron and the Galilee region of Israel to the land of Media, where a remnant of the Lost Tribes live today as the Pashtun Bani-Israel Tribes in eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. The rest of the Lost Tribers wandered for centuries, “lost” until they arrived as great waves of Asiatics into the region of Northern Gaul and settled there as the Celtic, the Cymrics, the Germanic Ostrogoths, Visigoths, and the Vandals, plus the ancient Saki, the Cimmerians, and the Scythians of the North.
Here were raised the peoples of Northern Europe, who with the rise of Charlemagne the Great, the Holy Roman Empire, who allied themselves with the Popes of Rome, these Lost Tribers carried the mantle of the apostate Roman Christian Church throughout Medieval Rome and the Dark Ages.
The atrocities of the Roman Catholic Christians to the Jewish people were legendary that included; genocide, holocausts, and numerous pogroms. They lasted for centuries beyond the Great Roman Christian Crusades in an era of infamy and darkness. Many of the European Lost Israelites carried a natural affinity towards their cousins the Jews and shared death and torture with them by the Roman Catholic Inquisitions; the Albigensians (Cathars), the Hussites, the Huguenots, and the Waldensians.
Yet, many of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, many whom continue to desecrate G-d’s name even to this day with overt anti-Semitism towards the Jews. They try to force a Palestinian State upon the Jewish State of Israel with a people who have a genetic hatred to the Jews and have stated a thousand times, that given the proper time, they will exterminate every Jew in the Land of Israel. Yet, millions of Lost Tribers, today as Evangelical Christians and Pro-Israel Christians show great affinity to the Jewish people whom most still do not know are their tribal cousins of the House of Jacob (Israel).
The opinion of the prophets of Israel is clear, the G-d of Israel has promised that He will also restore the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, clean them of their filthiness, and restore them back into a brotherhood and relationship with their cousins the Jews at the end of the age (Ezekiel 36-27). As we read the following Parshat Ki Tisa, Christians must ponder the dark history to their legacy, and ponder our future relationships with humiliation and sorrow.
Today, the G-d of Israel is casting his judgments upon the nations in Europe and America telling us; “Come out of Her My People”, leave your apostate Christian roots and return in emuna (faith) to HaShem, the G-d of Israel and to His Messiah, the Maschiah ben Dovid. Did not YHVH’s Messiah live His life on earth as a Hasidic Orthodox Jews, above and beyond the letter of the Law? Did He not command His disciples, “Follow Me”? Soon He will return with great power and glory in restoration and reconciliation for All Israel and for the redemption for all peoples.
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Here is the Torah Portion of Parshat Ki Tisa as given by HaRav Nir Ben Artzi, shlita:
HaRav Nir Ben Artzi, shlita - The King of all kings, HaKadosh Baruch Hu (HKB"H) runs the world from Aleph to Tav. For thousands of years the world ran as He desired with man's free will, but today it has come to an end. That's finished.
It is the hand of Hashem in everything that is happening all over the world. There is a severe "earthquake" in all the Arab lands. The earthquake is under their feet. HKB"H (“The Holy One, Blessed is He”) has entangled and embroiled nations, between them and among themselves. How precisely and surely HKB"H works; all this without harm to Am Yisrael in anything.
There is not a government in the world that is able to operate, do or decide for itself. All the governments of the world are entangled, as are many members of government among themselves. Inside every government in every land, members of government hit one another. When HKB"H injured Egypt severely (at the exodus from Egypt) it injured their Heavenly Malach (angelic messenger) and their idol in the land (the Nile River). Thus does HKB"H now and for this there is no solution, not even for flesh and blood. Stage by stage, HKB"H is cleaning up the world beginning in Arab countries so that it doesn't disturb Am Yisrael. The clowns and those of little faith think it's the end of the world. It's the end of the world of evil.
The State of Israel - Holy Eretz Yisrael and the Jewish people - will be for glory forever and ever. Will there be wise ones who will operate intelligently and will understand what's happening? Why HKB"H is doing this now? Why not ten years ago? 20 years? In Egypt, there will not be peace for the world, because she is the power that influences the whole world. Egypt is the idol of the world and HKB"H has begun to collapse and destroy it. Thus will fall every country in the world; Arab countries and after them the rest of the countries. In beautiful stages and according to the instruction of HKB"H. All this without injury to Am Yisrael in anything.
Every earthquake that passed over us was only preparation and introduction to open the big one - for the severe quake and great shaking in the world. The floods will be in places where man doesn't believe that there will be floods. Volcanic eruptions will be very severe. People will see in the media hard things that the eye of man will not be able to tolerate. Snows, rains, severe winds; the tsunami in readiness for many places; everything in stages and in its proper time. All this HKB"H is doing for the sake of the Jews. The hatred for Jews all over the world strengthens from day to day. They won't be allowed to earn a living with honor. They will be injured in their stores, in restaurants, in coffee shops so that the Jews will come to Eretz Yisrael. The worldwide economy will go and die out in every place and Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) will flourish and develop without end. All of this is happening because of the redemption and revelation of Melech HaMashiach (King Messiah) in our days.
The Mashiach (Messiah) is here among us. He is the final designated one from the beginning of the world and is here, existing and operating. There is no other time period that he will come, this is the period and this is the time to reveal Melech HaMashiach. HKB"H is shaking the whole world; shaking every one; shaking every Jew and Jewess in Am Yisrael (all the Peoples of Israel) and in the whole world so that everyone will declare: "His Name is One and He is One and there is nothing except for Him. He is the King of all kings, HaKadosh Baruch Hu (HKB"H."
The Haftarah for Parshat Ki Tisa
Because in a non-leap year, Parshat Ki Tisa is also Parshat Parah, we do not usually read the haftarah designated for Ki Tisa. But, this year, we do. And what is the subject? Eliyahu HaNavi (Elijah the Prophet) and the incident with the prophets of Ba'al on Mt Carmel.
Interesting that this came up at the holiday of Hanukah because of the Carmel fire and now at Purim Katan which according to Rabbi Sitorsky: "Purim Katan has within it the kedusha (holiness) and aura of Purim. ...Whatever Purim stands for, so does Purim Katan."
Among other things, this parshah deals with The Golden Calf Affair. What is the connection between all these things? Teshuvah (Repentance with a change of Heart)! Rabbi Sitorsky says that this is the parshah of teshuvah (repentance), when "teshuvah becomes a reality." He says that Adar and Elul are sister months. Adar is to Nisan what Elul is to Tishrei and Yom HaKippurim is the day that is k'purim---like Purim.
“The Children of Israel and the Golden Calf” – Watercolor by James Tissot (c. 1903)
After the cheit ha'eigel we see Moshe Rabeinu (Moses the Lawgiver) adjuring the Children of Israel: "Mi l'Hashem elai! " Whoever is for Hashem, come to me! Upon Mt Carmel, Eliyahu HaNavi (Elijah the Prophet) adjures the Children of Israel to stop hopping between two opposing ideas, "If Hashem is G-d, go after Him, if Ba'al is god, then go after him." But, basically, make up your minds already!
The crux of the matter is this: YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE! Hashem told us He is a jealous G-d. He will not share our loyalty with any other. The Jews attending Achashverosh's banquet was a supreme act of disloyalty to Hashem, just like the cheit ha'eigel (the sin of the calf) was. In the midbar, Hashem was ready to wipe out Bnei Yisrael (Children of Israel) ---men, women and children---and start over again with Moshe Rabbeinu's progeny, but Moshe Rabeinu stood in the gap for us. In Shushan, Hashem allowed Haman, y"sh to issue a decree to wipe out Bnei Yisrael---men women and children---until Esther HaMalka (Esther the Queen) stood in the gap for us.
In all cases, it was our teshuvah (repentance with a new beginning) which saved us in the end and it's no different today. The same choice stands before us. Each of us must examine himself honestly and truthfully to ascertain whether there is anything---anything at all---that comes first in our lives before Hashem Yitbarach (G-d of Trust and Righteousness).
There is still time to do teshuvah (turn to G-d), but nobody knows when he will breathe his last breath in this world and then it will be too late.
Credit to Palm Tree of Deborah - “Message to the People of Israel in the Land across the World” from the mouth of HaRav Nir Ben Artzi on Parchat Ki Tisa, 5771, 9 Adar – 15 Adar 5771 (February 13-19, 2011)
The Torah Parshas by HaRav Nir Ben Artzi, shlita
You might want to Read – “Jews, the World is Shaking and in Chaos, It’s time to Come Home! – Parshat Yitro as the Message from Sinai – HaRav Nir Ben Artzi, shlita on Parshat Yitro 5771
You might want to Read – “Jews! The World is Collapsing and the Master of the World is calling you Home!” - HaRav Nir Ben Artzi, shlita on Parshat Mishpatim 5771
You might want to Read – “The Shechinah has abandoned the Land outside Israel” - HaRav Nir Ben Artzi, shlita on Parshat Teruma 5771
You might want to Read – “The King of all kings, HaKadosh Baruch Hu, runs the world from Aleph to Tav” - HaRav Nir Ben Artzi, shlita on Parshat Ki Tisa 5771
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