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Outline of the opinions expressed in the Torah for political and social processes of modernity. It was written in Yiddish in 1937 and published in early 1939. He was immediately translated into Hebrew, and later - and many other languages.
A fragment from the book:
Introduction
The era in which we live, is unique, and in particular it concerns the life of the Jewish people. We - the witnesses of unexpected events. Events burst into our lives with lightning speed, leaving us amazed and uncomprehending. "And you will go mad from what opens your eyes" (Deuteronomy 28:34). What does this say? On the situation when our approach is based on the events of the human mind. But as soon as we delve into the Torah, all will become clear and obvious. All events in Jewish history - as has already occurred, and those that have yet to happen - the Written Torah and the Oral Torah was originally anticipated. Every word of the Torah is the reality, the true reality, the like of which is not in the world. Thousands of years ago we had prophesied, "And Hashem will scatter you among all peoples of the ends of the earth and to the ends of the earth" {Deuteronomy 28:64), and this prophecy became a reality. If still remained on some remote corners of the earth, where there was a Jewish population, now and for the refugees got there. Inevitably have to completely fulfilled the words of Scripture - "among all peoples." If we want to understand the essence of the event with us, contact the Scripture and the sayings of the wise, describing the period immediately before the coming of the Messiah, that is, the transition from the Exile to the disposal. And if we compare with what is happening written, we find in the Torah, as in a magic mirror, befall us all the events and their causes. Everything said in these verses, was carried out, and all that was carried out, was foreseen by the prophets. So, start reading the Torah!
Before the arrival of the Messiah
1. In the history of the people of Israel can mention a few special periods: Tanaev Amoraic, savoraev, Gaon, commentators, etc. The last period is known in the holy books like the "end of days"; Gemara also calls him a "gait Messiah" or "pangs of Moshiach." The notion of the "end of days" includes the time immediately preceding the redemption, and self deliverance. While the concept of "Stomp the Messiah" or "flour Messiah" refer only to the final days of Israel's subjugation by other nations. Rambam writes about this period that "all the words of the prophets are full of references to it." And in fact, as in the Pentateuch and the books of the prophets described the spiritual and material situation of Israel these days. In the book of Daniel (Chapter 12) states that the oppression of those days will surpass everything that has happened to Israel in its history, ie surpass even the destruction of the Temple period woes. And the same is said in the book Irmeyau (gl.30). Our Sages of blessed memory, who foresaw the terrible nature of the advance of the period, put it on this way: "Let him come, and I do not see him" {Sanhedrin 98 and the end of the treatise Sotah) - let the Messiah comes, but so will we witness his appearance. Wee-Lena Gaon says that childbirth is called Deliverance, "is sick and that's even given birth to Zion" {Yeshaya 66:29). The Jewish people will be born again then, and as well as pain - maternity flour - announces the beginning of the birth, and it increases as we approach the moment of birth, so flour will precede the Messiah and the deliverance will grow day by day as we approach his arrival. The same situation was in Egypt. In the last period of slavery in Egypt Pharaoh "weighted job": "Straw is not given, bricks, tell us: do" (Exodus 5:16). And today there are countries that deny Jews living in them all the sources of income and, at the same time, tax them exorbitant tax burden.
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