| The Current Negative Aliyah Is A Blessing In Disguise |
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| Written by David J. Heimowitz | |
| Apr 22, 2007 at 05:32 AM | |
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I read in the
weekend newspaper this Shabbat, that for the first time since the early
1980’s this year we will be experiencing a negative aliyah, that is,
more people will be leaving Israel than will be moving here. It seems
that most of those leaving are new immigrants from the former Soviet
Union. At first this item upset me very much because I grieve for every
Jew who leaves Israel, just as I grieve for every Jew in the exile who
chooses to remain there. Both of these Jews have rejected G-d’s miraculous
gift to His people. After 2,000 terrible years of exile, He has restored
our homeland to us. I call this a miraculous gift because anyone who
will allow himself to see will realize that the return of our homeland
to us is not a natural event. No similar phenomenon has happened in
the history of the world, nor will ever happen again, thus making the
restoration of our homeland a supernatural event, a miraculous gift
that G-d has given to His chosen ones, the people of Israel.
How then can
I say that “at first this item upset me”? The answer of course is
that Jews are not leaving Israel, the goyim who came here to better
their financial situations are leaving. Well, we didn’t want them
in the first place, but in order to get as many Jews out of Russia as
quickly as possible, we had no alternative but to accept goyim who claimed
to be Jews. When I would see Russians walking around Tel-Aviv with crosses
around their necks, or when I would see Christmas trees in store windows
along side pig meat I would ask myself if perhaps we had been too hasty
in not checking the genealogy of the new immigrants more carefully,
because our goal is to have a strong Jewish State. The answer
clearly is no, we did the right thing under the circumstances and now,
because we did the right thing, G-d is taking care of this demographic
problem for us. The time has
come for Jews from all over the world to realize that their place is
not in the exile, it is, rather, here in Israel. The time has come for
Jews from all over the world to do the right thing and to embrace G-d’s
miraculous gift to His people and to make aliyah en masse. When that
will be done, G-d, in His infinite wisdom, will solve our demographic
problem once and for all. The writer is an attorney from New York City who made aliyah 29 years ago as a result of the teachings of Rabbi Meir Kahane. |
