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The Turning Point: When Decadence Becomes a Daily Fact in the West

Since the end of the Great European Civil War, culminating in the rebirth of Israel in 1948, the radical and extreme birth of the future spiritual capital of the West and of the civilized world took place: Jerusalem.

Yes, Jerusalem is the true capital of the West.

It was never Rome, Paris, Moscow, London or Berlin…

Jerusalem is the City of Light and Peace, calling its scattered heirs from every corner of the world. In the European Goshen, the Second World War uprooted European Israel, whose greatest crime was rejecting the face of its neighbor out of hatred for itself.

Many brilliant men of that era attempted to impose order upon their world through ideologies and theories: socialism, fascism, laissez-faire liberalism, anarchisms and countless other “isms” seeking to eclipse Israel’s Tikun in relation to the world.

For it is Israel that forgets the memory of the Covenant, abandons its Divine Father and flirts with other gods, creating generations of Amalekites who remind us through sweat, blood and tears of the grave sins we have committed.

The consequences of our ancestors’ sins weigh heavily upon the present. Our enemies invite us to carry crosses that were never ours, presenting them as our responsibility under the banner of “Tikkun Olam.”

Yet it is Israel itself that has neglected its own responsibility: to illuminate the world by becoming what it was always meant to be, the vanguard of Hashem.

When we witness the face of Israel fading in Europe, we see the result of a vacuum of Tikkun among generations that sold their souls for an apartment, a pension or the promises of politicians masquerading as prophets while manipulating the language of charity and justice.

These modern “little kings” we call presidents are rarely instructed in the deeper wisdom that truly moves the world, a wisdom increasingly sought by those who hunger for the truth of Adonai and the justice that guides righteous action.

And so we become, at times, both advocates and accusers of our neighbors according to the Tikkun assigned to us.

We now live in an age where Europe cannibalizes itself, where Orwellian dreams materialize in proportion to the growth of no-go zones and the gradual erosion of the social order.

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”
Exodus 20:2

For yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is we ourselves who hold the chains of the system that oppresses us.

When we cease demanding even the most basic Noahide principles, we transform our societies into black holes leading toward oblivion.

To remain upright and moral in an increasingly twisted world is not always easy.

And often those who commit terrible acts appear to prosper.

Yet the bill always comes due, even when it remains temporarily out of sight.

“Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”
Exodus 21:24

Here Is the Justice of My Merciful God

These laws are precisely what bind together a people scattered across the world.

The children of Israel, wandering as confused and often ignorant tribes, are called back to the Covenant, to the Temple, and to the dignity of the royal-priesthood they were always meant to embody.

Many speak of a great tribulation to come.

Many feel it.

Others point toward the stars.

Yet nobody knows for certain whether the Russian Empire will march toward Lisbon tomorrow, or whether Morocco will make some reckless move against Spanish territory.

These grandmasters of Risk still believe that land itself creates paradise. But Two thousand years of Palestine versus seventy years of Israel leave little room for debate.

A people without a covenant can inherit Eden and still turn it into Babel.

Blood and Covenant.

That is the equation.

One People.

One Book.

One Capital.

Israel.

Torah.

Jerusalem.