21st Century Jews

"Jews in America have no idea, you have no idea how much the rest of the world hates Jews. In America too, but it's not so obvious because in America is a country of many different people, anybody could be next, today its the Jews tomorrow it'll be the Italians. You have no idea how much the rest of the world hates Jews!" These are the words that were spoken to me and a couple of relatives by a Romanian Jewish doctor on a residential street one night. In the tones of an intellect exasperated he says: "Why do they hate us so much? The Talmud says "We shall never know."

It is only tonight that it dawned on me, that the Talmud's conclusion on anti-semitism was not that this problem is too mysterious to figure out and we will never know the answer, the Talmud's conclusion of We shall never know is the answer!

In my previous post I explained that the Jew by existing and being Jewish (fulfilling the mitzvot), the Jew is a connection made in an obvious way to the what's hidden in the world. This is very deep and explains a lot of things. One of which is a fundamental explanation of anti-semitism which I shall elaborate in this posting.

First, anti-semitism has some features which make it quite a phenemona compared to other forms of hate. It's been around for a very very long time, even when Jews assimilate totally into societies, they will still be victims of anti-semitism, anti-semites will do self-destructive things if they think it will aid in eradicating Jews. In the litany of complaints an anti-semite has against a Jew, often included are things which are downright compliments. Put simple the hate that involves hating Jews is the most irrational and inextricable hate of them all.

The key to figuing out where anti-semitism is coming from, is to understand that only a Jew can be the target of anti-semitism. Bear with me if that sounds like circular logic, it's only because once one gets an intuitive grasp of anti-semitism, it's definition becomes it's explanation in the shortest most obvious terms.

First, there are two kinds of effects something can have on a person's mind: conscious and sub-concscious. A person can know why he's doing something, he can be doing something and does not know why, he can even be doing something and thinks he knows why but unknown to him he's doing it for completely different reasons. Furthermore, the person also has , for lack of a better term, receptors that are receptors for conscious influences and sub-conscious influences. Do not under-estimate what subconscious things can do, I read a book that pin pointed the sub-conscious reason why punk rockers wore long hair and painted their fingernails and were skinny, even though they werent aware that's why they were doing it. That's a light example of course, I like rock n roll.

The Jewish nation because of the way it was created carries out in an obvious manner something that's part of something else that's concealed from the rest of the world. To see the derivation of this, please read my previous post. Therfore, Jews first by their very existence and again by performing commandments, create consciouss and subconscious effects on people. Perhaps mystical may be a better word functionally speaking than sub-consciouss. Because Jews affect the world in a mystical way, they create sub-consciouss effects on people.

Therfore what an anti-semtism rages against is a sub-consciouss effect from a Jew. Jewish people are not even explicitly aware that they have this mystical effect on the world, but because of the circumstances of their creation they do. Non-Jews being part of the world are aware of this effect. And in the case of the anti-semites they hate the Jew and want to destroy him for it. The reason the anti-semite wants to destroy the Jew even if he is just standing there doing nothing is because he is not really doing nothing. It just seems that way. Due to the circumstances that created the Jewish nation, a Jew just by existing is focal point between what's obvious and whats concealed. Due to the conditions of the Jewish people's creation, the Jew cannot exist and does not exist without making obvious what's concealed. Therefore, the anti-semite still gets angry from continuing to feel those subsconscious influences even when a Jew simply exists. The question now is why does he get angry whereas another gentile won't?
That's because of the anti-semites hyper-sensitivity to a jews subsonsciouss effects, backwards as that hyper-sensitivty may be, he sub-consouly realizes where the cause of the Jewish nation's effects. And it is this subconsciouss knowledge that makes the anti-semite.


The anti-semite feels that for a Jew to connect obviousness and concealment he must do it all the time and when he does it even once he is bringing a change on the world. And that is the cause of hatred. Basically, people resist change not because they say change is bad, even though they may say this change is bad; people resist change when they had nothing to do with creating the change. That's why the anti-semite gets so upset because he is upset there is a non-physical change continually occuring in this world, he is always sensitive to it and of all things it's being caused by a flesh and blood human being, and nobody asked him about the change, got his opinion or anythign like that. For example, the rabid anti-semitism of Islam includes a denial that the Jews are the Chosen people. This is because they sub-concious minds hyoer sensitive to the spritual realm realize that a Jew has this effect on the world because his nation was Chosen by God, so the sub-concious mind of the anti-semtic muslim make him deny the choseness of the Jewish ppl.

This is why anti-semtism exists, because a the Jew unwitingly creates mystical changes in the world of the non-Jew and some of those non-jews senstive to sub conscious effect hate it because they weren't asked for input on the matter. This is also why the Sages of the Talmud said the reason they hate us is that we will never know. Because for Jews to become the chosen people there had to be something concealed and hidden.

We cannot prevent anti-semitism because of the way the world is made, but we can prevent incitement of anti-semitism amongst innocent bystanders. Even though the fact that Jewish people are the chosen people is a done deal already for thousands of years, if there was a way to recreate a scenario where there is some plan of action to be determined and an anti-semite concludes let's make these Jews the Chosen people. That can be some sort of therapy perhaps.
It doesn't really matter. The point is that this is why assimilation never works, and for a Jew the most important thing he can do is be a Jew.