Love Thy Enemy

TELEGRAPH.CO.UK: The ethnic group at the heart of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan may have descended from their Jewish enemy according to researchers in India who believe Pashtuns could be one of the ten "Lost Tribes of Israel" descended 3000 years ago.

The Talmud-Book of Law explains the Second Temple was destroyed because there was hatred amid the last two tribes of the Jewish People against one another–hatred for no reason. The destruction of the the Temple precipitated the historical time called the Dark Ages. Rome had invaded the Middle East. There was no animosity between Arab and Jewish.

This calamity, the destruction of the Temple, would be paid out over the next 2000 years through what is known as Ahavat Kinom/Free Love to make up for the Sinut Kinom/Free Hatred practiced during the time of the Temple. Love in Hebrew Ahava is made from the root Hav/Give; free love is giving without reason.

It is hard to be contrary without hating–the guard against hatred is respect. Dovid King of Israel 3000 years ago was famous for saying, hate the action but not the person–the same goes for love.

In the end we are one human being–the best of us and the worse of us. Each of us needs to spend our time fixing what is wrong in ourselves because of the repercussion throughout creation.