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Days of Awe
Freedom's Cost ^ | 00/22//2009 | Chaim

Posted on 09/22/2009 9:23:16 AM PDT by chaimke

Jews intone theses words: …mi yichie umi yamut (who will live and who will die)… mi bamayim umi ba’esh (who by water and who by fire)…

As we look around the world, between the current economic meltdown and the forces that wish to destroy the West… the horizon looks rather bleak. Evil seems to be ascendant, the western nations are plagued by the cancer within, wittingly or unwittingly, working for their destruction. Western politicians of every political stripe, are guilty of the current situation whether for personal gain, for personal glory or merely because of absolutely naive misguidance. The world, as we know it, is marked for a major conflagration, but we may not despair, we can not relax our stand against those who would destroy us.

Will the west continue to move in its present direction, rushing headlong to its demise, or will it wake up and reverse course? Mi yishafel umi ye’arum? Who will be degraded and who will be exhalted?

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TOPICS: Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: judaism; politics; roshhashana; yomkippur

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