THE CABALA OF HATRED

In a shooting at a school in a residential neighborhood of Toulouse, in the worst attack on a Jewish target in France in 30 years, a teacher and his two children, aged three and six, and the eight-year-old daughter of the school’s director were killed.

The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says, When the Torah was given to the Jewish People 3500 years ago, God asked for reassurance the Torah would be kept; the people offered their word but God said, You are going to die – then they offered their fathers who were already dead.

Finally, the people offered their children and God accepted because children are the future. A person who deliberately attacks children, attacks the future; the ancient tradition of war spared women and children because women give birth to the yet undetermined future.

The Torah is clear, Children do not bear responsibility for the sins of their parents. The worst kind of hatred is called Sinut Chinom/Free Hatred, meaning there is no reason for the hatred; but, in our times the Jewish People are reviled for political and religious reasons.

The Talmud-Book of Law says, When Moshiach comes the world will love the Jewish People; perhaps what the Talmud means is, Moshiach will come when the world loves the Jewish People for performing 613 Commandments bringing spiritual light, benefiting the whole earth.