POTUS Needs to Listen to Torah |
This coming shabbat, in synagogues worldwide, the Torah portion of Balak will be read which includes (Numbers 24:8-9) Bilaam’s blessing to the Jewish people as it is written: “God, who has taken you out of Egypt with the strength of His loftiness, will consume the nations that are your adversaries, skin their bones, and dye His arrows in their blood. You will settle and dwell like a lion, like a fearsome lion that no one would dare rouse. Those who bless you will be blessed, and those who curse you will be cursed.”
Perhaps, the US needs to internalize the last line of the blessing, whose words originally appear in Genesis 12:3 where God says to Abraham: “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
To bring that into current perspective, for months now the weather in the US has been a topic of concern every single day. To date this year, for example, there have been 723 tornados in America causing catastrophic damage but amazingly just 12 fatalities. Could there perhaps be a connection between the biblical injunction not to curse Israel lest the person or country doing so be cursed as well and this spate of catastrophic weather?
It is worth looking at the last three tornado spikes since the year 2000 (in 2008, 2011 and 2024) vs. the state of the relationship between Israel and the US at the time to see if there is a correlation.
1011 Tornados in the US from January-May, 2008
It is interesting to note that there was a US-Israel crisis that year primarily centered on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s requests for an American “green light” and specialized military hardware to launch a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities (sounds familiar, does it not?). The administration of US President........