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From: Ilana & Bezalel Edwards <edw@internet-zahav.net>

Subject: the whole world

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     In the words of reb Shlomo zts'l, "there two kinds of Jews, those who

love the world, and those who love Yiddishkeit.  Our job is to bring the

two together." 

     And regarding Shlomo and the nations of the world, here are some

stories.  Some of you may even have been there.  Back in San Francisco, the

Jewish community would make a march each Israeli independence day, and each

year, the Black Muslims would show up for and a protest rally.  Somehow

Shlomo was invited to speak at the black muslim school. "They were all

sitting at their desks, in a kind of millitary way, not speaking unless

called upon.  And when I come to a new place I like to take my time and

meet everyone before I start.  But it was like a brick wall. To tell you

the truth, I dont know what I said, but it must have done something,

because the next Shabbos there were ten kids from the Black Muslim school

dancing with us at the House of love and prayer, and the next Israeli

Independence day, they were mammash marching with us."

     One of the Hevre in New York had the the privelidge of being mugged

one evening on 125th st.  As the brothers were going through his wallet

infront of him, they saw Shlomo's buisness card. On seing this, they handed

him back his wallet, saying, "Sorry, we didn't know you were one of us."      

While performing at an Israeli prison, Reb Shlomo somehow mannaged to

create a circle dance including Jews, Arabs, and prison guards.

This brings to mind the words of the Prophet Zechariah (8:23), "Thus spoke

Hashem Tsvakot, in those days, ten people from all the languages of the

nations will grasp the corner of a Jewish man and say, "we will go with

them, for we have heard that G-d is with them." (Rashi notes, ten from each

of the seventy nation on each of the four corners of the talit- one

thousand eight hundred) (and noteworthy, the metsudas David says, "we will

go with them - to the land of their inheritence.") 

     So clearly the Idea of the whole world davening together and

proclaiming that G-d is One is the essence of the Messianic era.  And once

every several generations we may be blessed with a Shlomo who can give us a

taste of that.  And personally, if he were doing it, I would be there.  But

until then, whose to say ten simple Jews getting together to say mincha

won't break the heart of Heaven any more than a massive interfaith world

peace prayer session.  Who knows G-d's accounts?

      Three times a day when we finnish the prayer with Aleynu we are

pleading for the whole world "to fix the world with the kingdom of the

Almighty, and all flesh will all in Your name, for to you every knee must

bend, etc."  And Rosh Hashanna, "rule, You, G-d alone, on all that you have

made,"   So I see no reason to add to or change the words of the anshei

knesset hagedola, who received Ruah haKodesh from the last of the prophets, 

which we are so far away from comprehending, saying,"al col yoshevei tevel

(over the whole world)" after "al col Yisrael" when similar ideas appear

elsewhere.  Furthermore, implicit within the desire for peace for am

Yisrael is the peace of our neighbors, for, as we see, with violent

erruptions from our neighbors going on just a half a mile away from where I

am writing you, if they don't have peace, neither do we. 



May we all live to see the Geulah Shelima, the Complete Redemption of the

whole world, "lo be'heil, velo be'coah, ci im be'ruchi, amar Hashem," "not

with force, not with power, but with my spirit, saith Hashem." (Zecharia4:6)



               Betsalel Edwards

               Old City, Jerusalem

       

  



