Letter to China
To our Chinese
friends,
Chinese people may
not be aware of the Divinely revealed
precept in the Bible’s Book of Genesis (and
elsewhere in the Bible) that God,
the Maker of all things, the Ultimate
Reality of this and every universe,
“blesses those who bless Israel.” (Genesis 12:3, 27:29; Numbers 24:9)
This is reality’s
true “prosperity gospel,” especially if
you look at the corollary, that God
“curses those who curse
Israel” (Id.)
Plainly, if you or anyone wants blessing
from God Himself, the Source of all
blessing, you want to bless Israel.
We submit that
insincere blessing is worthless. Sincere
blessing means, at least, respecting the
object of the blessing.
The Chinese people
have heard of the Jews. Some Chinese know,
for instance, that Marx was a Jew, and
Freud, Einstein, the Holy Family and
apostles of Christianity (and vastly
disproportionate numbers, generally, of
inventors, money-makers, Nobel
Prize-winners, etc.). Most
Chinese don’t realize how few the Jews
are – that the Jews remain “one of the
fewest of peoples” (Deuteronomy
7:7) But most educated
Chinese know something of the World War II
Germans’, and today’s Arab world’s,
fierce “cursing” of Jews and Israel.
HaShem, the God of
Israel, works in nature, through nature,
to accomplish His purposes; we submit that,
by making Jews and
Israel so prominent in the world,
God grants all the people of the world the
opportunity to bring blessing on
themselves. Besides not automatically
accepting foul accusations against Israel
made by those who curse Israel, people can,
if they wish, positively bless
Israel even beyond vaguely wishing the
Jewish people well.
We submit that
blessing Israel means respecting Israel and
the Jewish people enough to grant them, at
least, the benefit of the doubt; to
treat the Jewish people’s story seriously;
to give Israel with its Torah
tradition the chance to speak for itself.
The Jews are all
about God-consciousness, about working
with, instead of against, the dynamic forces
that underlie the spiritual
universe, that help make up the Rule of God,
HaShem. “Those who bless Israel
are blessed” is one of higher-consciousness
precepts of Revelation. So, for
instance, is “love your neighbor," (Leviticus
19:18) and the stranger (Leviticus 19:33). But
the God of Israel is
not some notional “Goodness” or “Love” or
any mere ethical value, or unthinking
force; the God of Israel is HaShem, a vital,
supernal living Being.
God created Israel to
help bring the Chinese and every
nation true knowledge of Reality, of God
Himself, by His Name as He really is,
together with the higher-consciousness
principles of God’s Torah and His
covenants.
