HERE I WILL NOT GIVE YOU PROFESSOR CHERRY'S WORD FOR WORD LECTURE ON ZIONISM, BUT THE MAIN POINTS FOR ANYONE TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY AND ATTITUDE OF "ZIONISM."
WE WILL START WITH A QUOTE FROM CHERRY:
"THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL LECTURE IN THIS SERIES ON THE INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM. I HAVE NO DOUBTS, THAT AN ENGLISHMAN, OR AN ARAB, OR AN AMERICAN, WOULD TELL THIS STORY DIFFERENTLY, ABOUT THE CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. I AM TELLING THE STORY AS A COMMITTED AMERICAN, COMMITTED JEW, AND COMMITTED ZIONIST...... THIS IS MY PRESENTATION IN THIS COURSE AS AN INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM."
HERE ARE SOME OF THE POINTS GIVEN BY PROFESSOR CHERRY:
1. THE THRUST OF THE BIBLE, THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES, IS GETTING THE ISRAELITES INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL - THE PROMISED LAND.
2. THE ISRAELITES ARE THEN EXILED FROM THE LAND - THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL DEPORTED BY 718 B.C. TO ASSYRIA - THE HOUSE OF JUDAH FROM 604 TO 586 B.C. TO BABYLON.
3. JEWS IN BABYLON CRY AND PINE ABOUT GETTING BACK. PSALM 137:5-6 PART OF THEIR CONSTANT MIND-SET.
4. JEREMIAH GIVES THE PROPHECY OF 70 YEARS IN CAPTIVITY. THEN JEWS WILL RETURN TO THEIR HOME LAND, PART OF THE JEWS, CERTAINLY NOT ALL OF THEM.
5. RABBINIC PERIOD. JERUSALEM IS EXALTED - THEY TEACH TO NEVER FORGET JERUSALEM AND THEIR HOMELAND. RETURNING IS MENTIONED IN PRAYERS, GRACE AFTER MEALS, TORAH SERVICE ON SABBATH, PASSOVER SEDER CONCLUDES WITH "NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM." OVER AND OVER A "MOTIF" ON RETURNING TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
6. JERUSALEM BELONGS TO ISRAEL AS A BRIDE TO THEW GROOM.
7. FROM THE TALMUD: "TEN MEASURES OF BEAUTY WERE BROUGHT DOWN TO THE WORLD - NINE GIVEN TO JERUSALEM, AND ONE TO THE REST OF THE WORLD.
8. MISHNA SAYS: "DON'T DESPAIR GETTING BACK WHAT YOU ONCE HAD."
9. MIDDLE AGES (12TH CENTURY) - CHRISTIAN CRUSADERS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM. IN SPAIN YEHUDAH HALEVI WRITES A POEM: "MY HEART IS IN THE EAST AND I IN THE UTTERMOST WEST. HOW CAN I FIND SAVOR IN FOOD? HOW SHALL IT BE SWEET TO ME? HOW SHALL I RENDER MY VOWS IN MY BONDS? WHILE ZION LIES BENATH THE FEDDER OF ADOME [CHRISTIANITY] AND I IN ARAB CHAINS. A LIGHT THING IT WOULD SEEM TO ME TO LEAVE ALL THE GOOD THINGS OF SPAIN, SING HOW PRECIOUS IN MY EYES TO BEHOLD THE DUST OF THE DESOLATE SANCTUARY."
10. DEUTERONOMY 33:53 - THIS IS STILL IN FORCE - SETTLING THE LAND. "ALIYAH" [ASCEND] TO ISRAEL. JEWISH RABBI IN MIDDLE AGES TAUGHT: IF THE MAN WANTS TO ALIYAH WIFE IS COMPELLED TO GO. FURTHER, AND TO THE SHOCK OF SOME, IF THE WOMAN WAS TO ALIYAH THE HUSBAND IS COMPELLED TO GO ALSO.
11. LITURGICALLY, POETICALLY, MOTIF, TEACHING, TO RETURN TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS CLASSICAL JUDAISM.
12. MODERN PERIOD. HARBINGERS OF POLITICAL ZIONISM. IN EAST EUROPE BECAUSE OF NATIONALISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM, A SMALL NUMBER OF JEWS WERE MOTIVATED TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY OF RE-ESTABLISHING A JEWISH PRESENCE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL. NO LONGER A DREAM.
13. IN 1843 - RABBI YEHUDAH ALKALAI [1798-1878] CALLED FOR A COLLECTIVE RETURN - THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE 3RD COMMONWEALTH.
14. ALKALAI RAISED FUNDS TO BUY PARCELS OF LAND FROM THE TURKISH SULTAN [CONTROLLING LAND OF ISRAEL] AND BEGAN THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A JEWISH SOCIETY.
15. ALKALAI ALSO RE-ESTABLISHED AND PROMOTED THE GROWTH OF THE HEBREW - MODERN HEBREW. UP UNTIL THE 19TH CENTURY HEBREW WAS ONLY USED LITURGICALLY - IT WAS NOT A LIVING LANGUAGE. HEBREW WAS RESURRECTED TO A LIVING LANGUAGE WITH SLANG, CUSE WORDS ETC. THE LANGUAGE USED ON THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM TODAY.
16. BY 1890 THE CALL TO BUILD HAD SPREAD FROM EAST EUROPE TO WEST EUROPE. THE PLAN WAS A JEWISH STATE.
17. VIENNA - THEODOR HERZL (1860-1904). AN EMANCIPATED JEW - AN ACCULTURATED JEW - A JOURNALIST. HE UNDERSTOOD ANTI-SEMITISM COULD ONLY BE CURED BY THE JEWS HAVING A STATE OF THEIR OWN. IT WAS IN THE WORLD'S BEST INTEREST TO HAVE A STATE OF THEIR OWN IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL. IN 1895 HE OUTLINED HIS IDEAS, HE BEGAN MEETING WITH JEWS AND EUROPEAN STATESMEN TO FURTHER HIS PROGRAM, OF A SECULAR JEWISH STATE.
MANY ZIONISTS THEN AS NOW WERE CHRISTIANS - JEWS SHOULD BE IN ISRAEL TO HASTEN THE 2ND COMING OF CHRIST.
SOME WERE ANTI-SEMITES ZIONISTS. YES GET THEM OUT OF OUR LAND - PUT THEM BACK IN PALESTINE LAND, LET'S GET RID IF THEM. BY 1897 IT WAS EVIDENT A JEWISH STATE COULD NOT BE ESTABLISHED ANYWHERE BUT THE LAND OF ISRAEL AREA.
1897 THE SHIELD OF DAVID WAS ADOPTED - RELATIVELY RECENT - 17TH CENTURY THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A SYMBOL FOR THE JEWS AS THE CROSS WAS CHOSEN FOR CHRISTIANS.
18. ZIONISTS CONFERENCE. 1897 TO ESTABLISH A STATE OF FOR JEWS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
19. AGRICULTURE ETC. SHOULD BE USED TO GIVE LARGE SPECTRUM OF JEWISH STATEHOOD.
20. 1517-1917 TURKS RULED THE LAND. BRITISH COME IN, IN 1917 TO CONTROL PALESTINE. THE BALFOUR DECLARATION IS DRAWN UP IN 1917.
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TO BE CONTINUED
NOW WHAT JEWS LIKE PROFESSOR CHERRY AND OTHERS MISS, IS THE PROPHETIC EVENT OF 1917, AND THE OFFICIAL BRITISH UNDERTAKING, THAT THE JEWS COULD NOW RETURN EN-MASS TO THE PROMISED LAND.
GOD HAD SAID IN THE BOOKS OF MOSES THAT IF ISRAEL WOULD NOT STOP REPEATING THEIR BREAKING OF THE COVENANT WITH GOD, THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE, THEY WOULD BE PUNISHED "SEVEN TIMES" [LEV.26:28]. NOW A TIME IS ONE YEAR WITH GOD, WHICH IS 360 DAYS; TRANSLATED IN PROPHECY TO A YEAR FOR A DAY, 360 DAYS =360 YEARS, TIMES 7 = 2520 YEARS.
JUDAH WENT INTO CAPTIVITY BY THE BABYLON ARMIES IN 604 B.C. SO MOVE FORWARD 2520 YEARS, ADDING ONE YEARS FOR THERE IS NO "0" YEARS; YOU COME OUT EXACTLY TO 1917 A.D.
NO NOT JUST A COINCIDENCE, NOT AT ALL. WE HAVE SEEN HOW GOD PUT IN IN THE MINDS OF SOME JEWS IN THE 1800s TO BEGIN THE SERIOUS IDEA OF HAVING A JEWISH HOME LAND, A JEWISH STATE. IT OFFICIALLY CAME TO BE IN 1917, AT THE END OF 2520 YEARS OF PUNISHMENT.
Keith Hunt
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