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Zionism As Messianic Judaism
Satanic Nihilism And The Jewish Heretics Of B'nai B'rith
2/12/02 10:47:30 AM
Jack Ross For The Barnes Review
Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine -- "If the state of Israel should ever
become a vehicle for Messianism, and should
it ever come to be regarded as the fulfillment of divine prophecy, it
would be
totally stripped of what was envisioned by our fathers, and that would
ultimately lead to Israel’s downfall.” These chillingly prophetic words
were
spoken by Gershom Scholem, the late world renowned scholar of Jewish
mysticism. Probably no one had more authority than Scholem to speak these
words, for it was he who made the first serious study of the messianic
advent
that dominated the study and practice of Kabbalah from the 17th through
the
19th century, the knowledge of which up to that time had been considered
cursed. Today, this knowledge is most illuminating in explaining the
theological basis for Zionism and its place among Jewish heresies,
especially
as it deals with the mindset of the current leadership of Israel.
The story of this advent begins with the Sabbatian advent which reached
its
climax in September 1666. This advent revolves around the figure of
Sabbatai
Zevi, a Turkish kabbalist rabbi who, after having traveled the entire
Mediterranean and making his teachings and eccentricities known wherever
he
went, declared himself the messiah in May 1665. A precarious combination
of
circumstances made it so that news of his revelation traveled the entire
Jewish
world and that before all was said and done nearly half the Jewish world
believed that he was indeed the Messiah. In February 1666, Sabbatai set
sail
to claim the throne of the Ottoman Empire, at which time he was arrested,
but
his life was spared for fear he would be made a martyr and cause unrest
among
the Jews. He was imprisoned in Gallipoli, although in royal style, and
held
court there for seven months. In September of that year, Sabbatai was
given
the choice of death or conversion to Islam. He chose Islam, and died in
1676.
This was far from the end of the Sabbatian advent. The movement’s
propagandists
came up with a doctrine that was able to rationalize the apostasy of the
messiah: that the messiah had to descend into the Gentile world to
retrieve
those sparks of holiness that existed there before he could return and
reveal
himself in his full glory. The doctrine that arose from this assertion,
which
still maintains a following to this day, had many positive aspects, that
it drew
the people closer to God and further away from organized religion, a
doctrine
which was finally expounded upon in anti-millenialist form in the early
18th
century and laid the basis for the Hasidic movement. But there also arose
from
the Sabbatian advent many tendencies of perverse, almost Satanic nihilism.
This tendency reached its peak in the Sabbatian movement and in turn in
the
larger Jewish world in the middle of the 18th century through the
teachings and leadership of Jacob Frank.
Jacob Frank (1726 - 1791) is, by all reasonable historical deductions, the
father of the advent of what has been called “Semitic nihilism”, that is,
the
basis in Jewish thought of highly destructive philosophies ranging from
Marxist
Statism to Frankfurt School anthropology to neo-conservatism. Frank
taught
that all existing human institutions were works of the devil meant to
foster
the mortality of man, and that God had sent many incarnations of “he who
stands
before the Lord” to come and free mankind - Moses, Jesus, Sabbatai Zevi,
and
finally, Frank himself. He taught that the overthrow and destruction of
society
was the only thing that could save mankind, and that hence man would enter
the
abyss, the deepest realms of evil from which it was said that Sabbatai
Zevi had
to go before he could redeem the world.
Frank made the most radical, and, historically significant (greatly so, as
we
shall see) pronouncements in regard to what was the main theological basis
of
Sabbatian practice, that of redemption through sin, that is, the
fulfillment of
the commandments by violating them - Frank taught that many of Judaism’s
most
egregious sins were not only now permitted, as all Sabbatians believed,
but
actually commanded, most notably various forms of incest. After his
death, his
followers mostly assimilated into Moses Mendelson’s Haskalah movement, and
had
a great and profound effect on its political maneuvering. Throughout the
19th
century at least there was a secret cult of Frankists at the vanguard of
the
Haskalah, indeed, it was the Frankist affinity for illuminated freemasonry
that
gave rise to the secret society of B’nai Brith. As it was that Zionism
was
largely a creation of the B’nai Brith, it can easily be deduced that
Zionism is
therefore a bastardization of Sabbatianism in which the redemption through
sin
is achieved through the fulfillment of old anti-Semitic myths and legends.
We
need only look at the history of Israel, particularly of the fascist Likud
movement which has now decisively won the battle for Israel’s soul, to see
the
proof that this messianic mystical nihilism is indeed the theological
basis of
Zionism.
The Likud movement used traditional Jewish teachings on the advent of the
messiah as the justifying myth of its fascism, that they were rebuilding
Israel
so that they could bring on the messianic age. There is no greater proof
that
they were indeed going after redemption through sin by fulfilling old
anti-
Semitic myths and legends than the well documented military relationship
between Nazi Germany and the Irgun. As this insane Likudnik fascism
marches
forth today under Ariel Sharon, there have been very recent revelations of
the
extent of the Zionist affinity for Hitler, including the recent revelation
in
The Jerusalem Post that the IDF is studying how the Nazis smashed the
Warsaw
ghetto uprising in devising its strategy to smash the Palestinian
resistance,
and in the American Free Press that the Lebanese Phalangist leader
recently
assassinated by Muslim extremists was to be the prime witness against
Sharon in
the Hague, giving new life to the long held belief by many that Muslim
Extremists are Zionist agents meant to destroy legitimate government in
the
Arab world, which would mean that Israel is “suicide bombing” its way out
of
existence, a classic trait of Frankist nihilism.
Probably most notable among prominent individuals directly influenced by
the
Frankist doctrine was Louis Brandeis. Brandeis’ maternal grandmother was
one of
the daughters of Aaron Beer Wehle, the leader of the Frankist sect in
Offenbach
in the early 19th century. She married a young medical student who was
attracted to the sect, and so their children were raised as Frankists,
including Brandeis’ mother, whose maiden name Dembitz was his middle name.
Since Judaism is passed down through the mother, at the very least
Brandeis
must have had a Frankist consciousness. There is evidence that this
consciousness was in Brandeis’ family well into the 20th century: Gershom
Scholem published in his book The Messianic Idea In Judaism a family
history
written by Brandeis’ great uncle Gottlieb Wehle, and in his commentary on
it
Scholem speaks of his encounter with cousins of Brandeis in 1938 who still
prayed to a portrait of Jacob Frank’s daughter. Brandeis himself was
known to
be a secular Zionist, fully in accord with the Haskalah.
The Brandeis connection is significant, first of all because he is a hero
to “progressive” Jewish America - the largest Jewish university in the
United
States is named after him. He is often attacked for having been largely
responsible for the creation of the Federal Reserve and for having been
most
responsible for turning American Jewish opinion in favor of Zionism, but
both
of these things were merely signs of a larger phenomenon historians have
ignored: Brandeis pioneered the political strategy that has since him been
the
central tactic of the Democratic Party, and is reported to be ruthlessly
pursued in the coming election cycle: that of being progressive while
simultaneously doing away with those things that are already progressive.
Such
is what comes of this bizarre heresy, both messianic and nihilist, that is
the basis of Semitic nihilism.
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